Editorials

"FEAR NOT."

In reading the testimonies of healing received at this office for publication, the editors have been greatly impressed with a feeling that, next to the spiritual uplift which the study and practice of Christian Science have given the writers of these testimonies, the most important thing is that a great weight of fear has been lifted from their shoulders and they realize that they are indeed free.

MAN A SPIRITUAL BEING

There are many who criticize what they mistakenly suppose to be the teachings of Christian Science, because they have never thought of man as a spiritual being.

THE LAW OF INCREASE

In any catalogue of the known obstacles to spiritual progress contentment-without-increase would certainly find place well toward the head of the list.
The question of medical legislation in one or another of the various phases it annually assumes, is, as usual at this season, receiving the attention of the unprejudiced newspapers of the country, and we note among them an editorial in the Toledo.

THE HIDDEN LIFE

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"THE MILLS OF GOD."

The familiar statement which has come down from the olden time, "The mills of God grind slowly.
[We have been asked to answer a question which is practically the same in intent as one which was asked and answered in the Sentinel of May 18, 1899.

DIVINE REQUIREMENTS

It is possible that very few persons have the highest motives when they begin to obey God's laws,—they may fear the consequences of wrong-doing; yet even in such cases it might be said that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

CAUSE AND ITS LOCATION

In no one thing, perhaps, has Christian Science more helpfully influenced human thought than in its redirection of the world's attention to the very simple truth that effects are to be adequately dealth with only as we address ourselves to the removal of their final cause.

"NO SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATION."

Probably no phase of Christian Science teaching is so generally misunderstood by those outside its borders as that which exposes and denounces the operations of so-called animal magnetism, and yet the teaching on this subject is so plainly stated by Mrs.
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NOT A SPARROW FALLETH

There are many theological writers these days who undertake to explain the acknowledged injustice of material law, as the expression of a divine order, by dwelling upon the largeness and scope of God's intent.