Editorials

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TRUTH UNBOUND

John B. Willis

It is quite impossible to dissociate Christianity from the thought of sympathetic consideration for the afflicted, and hence it was not at all surprising that a vigorous protest was entered by Christian physicians and ministers throughout the country, when an eminent medical lecturer recently suggested it would be a wise and kind thing to allow the hopelessly incurable "to go the way of nature.
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THE SIMPLE GOSPEL

Archibald McLellan

It sometimes happens that Christian Scientists become so engrossed in the various activities in which their churches are engaged, that they lose the right perspective of these activities, and thus are apt to exaggerate the importance of some and dwarf the importance of others.
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"THIS IS LIFE ETERNAL"

John B. Willis

That fine, high living is impossible to those entertaining a false concept of life is so manifest as to be a truism.
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WHEN GOD SPEAKS

Annie M. Knott

In the 33rd chapter of the book of Job, that wonderful drama of human suffering, hope, and aspiration, we read that "God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.
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"SERVANT OF ALL"

Archibald McLellan

We have recently been asked by a member of a branch church to state whether it is proper and in line with good practice to designate and regard some one member of a branch church as its "head.
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"DESPISE NOT PROPHESYINGS."

Annie M. Knott

In the seventeenth chapter of Acts we read of Paul's visit to Thessalonica, and of the awakening to truth of many "devout Greeks," among them prominent women; as also at Berea.
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"BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, I AM."

John B. Willis

In Christian Science faith grows out of an understood Principle, while the world's philosophies and sciences have all begun with the phenomena of experience and reasoned therefrom.
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"SEEK YE FIRST."

Archibald McLellan

One of the necessary conditions for the success of a Christian Science church is harmony, and in order to bring about this condition or to maintain it, it is important to know what constitutes true harmony.
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THE STATURE OF A MAN

John B. Willis

In the kindly and unselfish "Mr.
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SCIENCE AND PROGRESS

Annie M. Knott

Within the past fifty years the world has undoubtedly made its greatest progress, and this because men have at last come to see that all truth is knowable and that even the quest for truth contributes greatly to the progress of the individual as well as that of the race.
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"EVERY WHIT WHOLE"

Archibald McLellan

A Peculiarity that has long been noticed by Christian Scientists is that those who have criticized their faith from a theological standpoint, frequently have been willing to grant the possibility or even certainty of its value as a healing agency, while many of those who have criticized it from the view-point of a physician have been equally ready to admit that its theology is productive of good results.
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MEN IN OUR RANKS

Mary Baker Eddy

A letter from a student in the field says there is a grave need for more men in Christian Science practice.