Editorials

Editorial

THE BAPTISM OF FIRE

Annie M. Knott

AMONG professing Christians there are many different opinions as to baptism,—its value, character, and significance,—and this is not so very surprising since we read that early in Christian history there was some uncertainty among believers concerning its true meaning and place.
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"UNIFIES MEN AND NATIONS."

Archibald McLellan

SOLOMON is commonly accredited as one of the wisest of men, and it was doubtless out of his own experience that he evolved this bit of practical wisdom, "A soft answer turneth away wrath,"—one of the best known, most frequently quoted, and yet least acted upon of his proverbs.
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"BE YE STEADFAST, IMMOVABLE"

John B. Willis

THERE are few virtues that are in greater demand today than that of simple steadfastness.
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"THE FINGER OF GOD"

Annie M. Knott

THERE are a good many devout people who are held down to an anthropomorphic sense of Deity by the literal interpretations of Scripture which have been so largely accepted in the past, and which will doubtless be accepted by many so long as a material concept of God and man prevails in human belief.
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THE UNDIVIDED GARMENT

Archibald McLellan

IT is often asked of Christian Scientists why they make so much of the healing of sickness, and why they give so much time to this work; all of which would indicate that those who make these inquiries have failed to grasp the great truth that the healing of the sick is as much a part of the Christian religion as is the saving of men from sin; that Christian Scientists are but endeavoring to walk in the footsteps—follow the example—of him who "went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
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"NOW IS THE DAY OF SALVATION"

John B. Willis

Mortal belief makes its most confident assertion in the statement that at its best life must speedily yield to death; that "it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
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"THEM THAT BELIEVE"

Archibald McLellan

We often hear people say that they believe implicitly in the Bible, but when we attempt to reconcile their actions with this statement, we find that the point of view of the individual enters largely into the matter, and that their belief in the Bible is simply a belief in their own interpretation of the Scriptures.
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THE REWARD OF PATIENCE

Annie M. Knott

Patience is undoubtedly regarded by many as a rather negative sort of a virtue, though such an opinion has no support in human experience or in the teachings of the Bible.
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THE PROMISE OF THE SPIRIT

Annie M. Knott

All through the Old Testament we find promises of the coming to mankind of better days, when sin and sorrow shall cease and when peace shall everywhere prevail.
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WISDOM'S SINGLE SOURCE

John B. Willis

When Christ Jesus defined evil, the devil, as a lie and liar, he made it clear that escape from evil, from every type of disharmony, is an escape from the rule of falsity, the subjection to some phase of belief in that which is not true.
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"YE SHALL BE AS GODS"

John B. Willis

Had Eve been half awake to Truth, she would have surmised, at least, that the serpent's promise of wisdom was an allurement of error.
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PROTECTION

Annie M. Knott

It is generally admitted that Christian Scientists have a wonderful trust in the power of God to protect them under all circumstances; indeed the complaint is sometimes made that they carry this too far when they cease to rely upon material remedies.