Editorials

One of the most important steps of spiritual progress taken by the student of Christian Science is that of class instruction, which is provided for by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in Articles XXVI and XXVII of the Manual of The Mother Church. Students will find it helpful to study these By-Laws as well as other references to class teaching and education contained in Mrs.

Words of themselves without the spirit of understanding are inadequate to express the eternal newness and continuity of goodness which pervade all creation. Christian Science affirms that no idea of God is separated from the ceaseless unfoldment of God's infinite mercy, goodness, and love.

The above salutation will be heard many times during the next few days in differing tongues and under varying conditions. The word "happy" came originally from "hap," meaning chance.

Throughout the Bible the serpent typifies evil. In the allegory of Adam and Eve, the woman at first accepts the serpent's lie that man can disobey God, but later admits her error and prophetically bruises the serpent's head (see Gen.

The story of the Christmas season is made more colorful by the appearing of the Wisemen of the East on their camels, seeking to do homage to the Bethlehem babe (see Matt. , second chapter).

Every discordant effect in the body is produced by some mental error entertained, not destroyed. If such an erroneous belief is not taken into account, discerned, and cast out, the body is apt to take on the consequence of evil or fearful thinking.

The Christmas season, rightly interpreted, points human thought to the truths of being which the Saviour received from God and proved in ineffable compassion for mankind. Christ Jesus, whose birth the Christian world celebrates, showed humanity how to break the bonds of mortality and escape from the grasp of material sense in which men's woes and limitations appear.

ON the occasion of the Thanksgiving Day service held in First Church of Christ, Scientist, Concord, New Hampshire, in 1904, Mrs. Eddy wrote to the members of that church as follows (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

THE theory and practice of Christian Science are, of course, inseparable. The theory includes an understanding of the nature of God as primal cause and of the continuing, uninterrupted relationship that exists between God and man.

PERHAPS the human race needs nothing so much as intelligent direction: how to think, what to do, where to go, when to act, which course to pursue. But men need a true sense of direction in more than minute by minute personal decisions; they need it in the full course of their lives.