Editorials

IN the last hours preceding his betrayal and crucifixion, Christ Jesus comforted his disciples and told them that they should love their fellow men as he had loved them. And then he said to them ( John 15:13 ), "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

GRATITUDE is the keynote of healing in Christian Science. It opens the door to the reception of Love's abundant outpouring of good to patient and practitioner alike.

In "Retrospection and Introspection," Mary Baker Eddy tells of the unfoldment of her ability to express in writing the absolute Science of Mind-healing which God revealed to her. She says of divine Science ( p.

Divine wisdom, Christian Science affirms, is universal and eternal. Infinite wisdom is impartially bestowed by God upon every idea in His creation.

In her book "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mary Baker Eddy writes ( p. 252 ), "The entire purpose of true education is to make one not only know the truth but live it—to make one enjoy doing right, make one not work in the sunshine and run away in the storm, but work midst clouds of wrong, injustice, envy, hate; and wait on God, the strong deliverer, who will reward righteousness and punish iniquity.

We are happy to announce a new full-length motion picture in color entitled "The Mother Church in Action. " The picture shows the expanding scope and progress of the world-wide activities of The Mother Church.

Christ Jesus demanded obedience to the moral as well as to the spiritual law. To the impotent man whom he had healed, the Master said ( John 5:14 ), "Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

Members of branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, have a great opportunity to prove the truths they daily acknowledge in their study of Christian Science. This opportunity is particularly apparent in members' meetings, in which the business of the church is taken care of and human opinions enter discussions.

A Happy New Year ! This is the wish expressed throughout the world by millions who celebrate the first day of January as the beginning of a new year. How to attain an abiding sense of happiness —this is one of the deep desires of mankind.

WHATEVER Christ Jesus said had great metaphysical meaning and deserves our prayerful study. And this is true of his words recorded in Matthew ( 13:33 ), "The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.