Editorials

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

ARCHIBALD MCLELLAN

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

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.

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ENDURANCE

Annie M. Knott

There is no grander idea than that expressed in the word endurance, which is defined as "the ability to bear and continue under destructive forces; patient fortitude," etc.

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MAKING WAY DESPITE DIFFICULTIES

John B. Willis

The story of the three Hebrews who were cast into the "burning fiery furnace" gives us a tragic picture of the enmity of material sense toward every manifestation of Spirit, its self-disclosing, self-defeating endeavor to destroy all that is not amenable to its attempted rule.

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NO MODIFICATIONS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Archibald McLellan

The wise saying of a century, that "imitation is the sincerest flattery," is often cited, and when the New York Evening Sun says editorially that "indirect testimony to the extraordinary success of Mrs.

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THE NEARER CHRIST

John B. Willis

If one were to ask what is the greatest and most impressive object-lesson of the past, he would elicit but a single answer.

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"BENEFACTORS"

Annie M. Knott

Who is there that does not desire to be rich—rich enough to bestow of his superabundance upon the needy?

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SEPARATE FROM SIN

John B. Willis

There are few mature people of thoughtful temperament and refined moral nature who have not suffered a sense of unspeakable revolt as they recalled the occasions of the past when they said and did ignoble things, when they clung to brooding thoughts which were an offense to their present ideals.

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SEEING

Annie M. Knott

It is said that the sense of sight determines every movement of the body.

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"PERFECT LOVE CASTETH OUT FEAR"

Archibald McLellan

There recently appeared in The Boston Herald, under the caption, "The Enemy—Fear," a somewhat remarkable editorial, from which we quote as follows:—