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PRAYER AND LAW

Annie M. Knott

We frequently hear it said that prayer can never change God's laws, which are unalterable.

It was the midnight hour, and to a sense of wakeful weariness there was added the deeper trouble of lone-wrestling with a most perplexing problem, through which human sense had brought about a rehearsal of Job's experience when he said, "I am full of tossings to and from unto the dawning of the day.

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A PHYSICIAN CURED OF LEPROSY

with contributions from Alfred Farlow, G. W. Barrett

At a public hearing held March 3 before the Committee on Public Health of the Massachusetts Legislature, the petitioner for certain proposed restrictive legislation called attention to a statement made by Mr.

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INTOLERANCE REBUKED

Archibald McLellan

An editorial in The Ladies' Home Journal for March discloses the existence of a prejudice which is not creditable to such generally intelligent people as are the millions of readers of this great magazine, and we are not surprised that the editor, in his own "personal page," has felt called upon to rebuke the narrowness and bigotry of his self-appointed critics.

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THE SEQUENCE OF A GREAT CONCESSION

John B. Willis

"We are now compelled to regard our conceptions of matter as symbolic of a Power which is essentially unknowable, and the existence of which we can recognize only in its manifestations.

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"EVERY MAN IN HIS OWN ORDER"

Annie M. Knott

The teaching of Christian Science is clearly distinguished from many of the theories with which it has been mistakenly associated in uninformed opinion, by its steady insistence upon the scientific sense of identity and individuality.

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THE WEDNESDAY EVENING MEETINGS

Archibald McLellan

Some years ago there was published in the Sentinel an editorial which touched upon the form and subject-matter of testimonies given at the Wednesday evening meetings, and subsequently a By-law on the subject was adopted by The Mother Church and published in the Manual.

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AN EXPRESSION OF THANKS

M. B. G. Eddy

To Miss Mary E.

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FUNDAMENTALS

John B. Willis

Pilate not only voiced the profoundest world-question, but he addressed the one person on the planet who could answer it.

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LONGEVITY

Annie M. Knott

It is no means an unusual thing to hear people questioning the correctness of the Biblical statements relative to the great age of those who lived before the deluge and of some who lived after it, and by general consent, the age limit mentioned in one of the Psalms,—"three score years and ten,"—has come to be regarded as the utmost extent of human existence except in rare cases.

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"TRUE HEALING."

Archibald McLellan

It is well known that a great many physicians have turned to Christian Science to be healed of diseases which their own skill could not overcome, also that not a few have sent some of their so-called incurable patients to practitioners of Christian Science, but it is not often that a physician in active practice voluntarily appears as the defender of a system which differs so radically from his own as does the new-old Christianity of which Science and Health is the text-book.

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TRANSFORMATION

Annie M. Knott

In the first chapter of the book of Genesis we read that God made man in His own image and likeness.