Editorials

Of vital significance to the orderly progress and protection of Christian Science is the By-Law contained in the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy, Article XXIII, Section 10 , which reads in part, "In Christian Science each branch church shall be distinctly democratic in its government, and no individual, and no other church shall interfere with its affairs. " Our Leader evidently laid great stress on this provision, for a few years after this By-Law was adopted she asked the then Chairman of The Christian Science Board of Directors and Editor in chief of her periodicals to publish in the Christian Science Sentinel (January 15, 1910) her wish with respect to greater democracy in Christian Science churches.

STOCKPILES of nuclear armaments continue to grow. The number of nations possessing these armaments increases.

THERE is great cause for rejoicing when a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, is built, paid for, and dedicated. Those who have worked and prayed to bring the work to a successful conclusion have felt a power, an energy, that has impelled them many times to surmount obstacles and overcome difficulties.

GENERALLY speaking, ignorance is not a desirable state of mind, for it implies a lack of knowledge of facts. But ignorance of God and His creation and ways is more disastrous than any other kind and has the most negative and far-reaching effect.

Before Mrs. Eddy discovered Christian Science it would have been the height of folly for anyone to question the reality either of sin or disease.

Christ Jesus performed many healings which illustrated the power of Mind to remove diseases from the body. There was, for example, the case of the man with the withered hand.

From a purely human standpoint, the subject of this editorial might excite controversy, since an intellectual may also be a metaphysician. But from the standpoint of Christian Science, the metaphysician should be thought of as one who places God first in his affections, exalts His essences and His attributes, placing them higher than scholarly distinction, and who puts his spiritual understanding to work with healing power.

When the truth of Christian Science is applied at the time of human birth, many medical beliefs concerning the conditions and stages of birth are reversed. The mother finds the process an ascendingly beautiful one culminating in the painless joy of beholding an idea of Life appearing to human view.

Every mode of human effort to bring about good results conforms to certain ethics, certain moral fundamentals that exalt the ideal ends of human action. Christian Science, the system of Mind-healing established by Mrs.

Mary Baker Eddy saw the worldwide effect which the divine Science she discovered has upon mankind. One such effect is that of an increased span of human life.