Editorials

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THE ONWARD MARCH

Annie M. Knott

Christian Scientists often think of their experiences as a repetition of those of the Israelites, in that they, too, have escaped from bondage,—the bondage of material belief, which is no less oppressive than that of Egypt.
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INTERESTING NARRATIVE

Lew Myers

Carroll, Ia.
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THE PLEA FOR JUSTICE

John B. Willis

As one looks out upon earth's millions to-day, he finds nothing in the whole list of wrongs that makes stronger appeal to his sympathy and sense of right than the condition of those who, through no fault of their own, are brought into subjection to ceaseless pain and misery, the vast army of those who are branded, and perchance at their birth, with that blighting word "incurable," and committed by medial authority to the prison-house of disease and despair, surely nothing could be more moving than these pictures of an unjust fate.
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IMMORTALITY

Annie M. Knott

Job's mournful question, "If a man die, shall he live again?
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"COURAGE AND RESOURCES"

Archibald Mclellan

The witty paragrapher of the Boston Herald has paid his respects to The Christian Science Monitor in a characteristic and hearty way which pleases us, notwithstanding the rather gruesome ending of his words of welcome to our newspaper.
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LECTURE IN THE MOTHER CHURCH

Editor

The semiannual lecture on Christian Science in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.
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THE DISPLAY OF DISEASE

JOHN B. WILLIS

THE desire to know about things is a very spontaneous and fundamental impulse of human nature, and when it is educated into a lively interest in everything that is good and beautiful, it becomes a pilot of discovery, a prophet of growth.
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WHICH IS THE REAL?

ANNIE M. KNOTT

A NUMBER of years ago, a distinguished philosopher, Sir William Hamilton, discussed at some length the assertion that pain is possibly the real, and peace and pleasure merely negative, —its absence.
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THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

ARCHIBALD MCLELLAN

WE are pleased to announce that, with the approval of our Leader, Mrs.
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DISCIPLINE

Annie M. Knott

The word discipline is very generally taken to mean punishment, or is at least closely associated with it, though the dictionaries give this word as a secondary definition, the first being "systematic training or subjection to authority; especially the training of the mental, moral, and physical power by instruction and exercise.
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"MAKING MUCH OF MATTER."

John B. Willis

Christian Science is often criticized on the ground that it "makes so much of matter,"—has so much to say about the physical senses, etc.
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CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP

Archibald McLellan

A good many Christian Scientists appear to be at a loss to decide what is their duty in regard to politics,—what they should do and how much they should do as individuals in the way of taking part in national, state, and municipal elections; but it would seem that these questions should not be difficult of answer.