Editorials

A Sign found in many business offices reads, "Think. " Mary Baker Eddy tells us that right thinking is the basis for success in the practice of Christian Science.

IN the orderly presentation of evidence and arguments before a court of law, counsel for the parties may, on occasions, be heard to say, when asking for some privilege or concession, "If it please the court. " This sign of respect evidences the acknowledgment of judicial authority which attaches to the office.

PROGRESS looses mankind from localization, because it looses them from localized thinking. This is noted in the ease with which men now move about the earth and above it, eliminating time and space in a certain sense.

THE Annual Meeting of The Mother Church assembles this year at a critical period in the history of the world, yet one filled with unlimited opportunities for blessing mankind. Great is the challenge to every member of the Church to examine himself —his motives and desires—to see whether or not he is practicing his religion consistently.

By her discovery of the Science of Christianity, Mary Baker Eddy brought to mankind true definitions of God, man, law, the universe. To her spiritualized thought, God interpreted Himself as demonstrable Principle, not inaccessible, but ever present.

Christian Science stands in this age as God's law of goodness, perfection, and harmony. It constitutes the complete answer to all that is contrary to God, good, to all that is lawless.

On the night of his betrayal in the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus placed himself completely in God's care; and he was, therefore, prepared to meet the ordeal of the experience on the cross that mankind might profit from his example. Those who passed Jesus by when he was crucified, including the chief priests, scribes, and elders, mocked and reviled him.

Isaiah , foretelling the coming of the Messiah, attributes to him this message ( 61:1, 2 ): "He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. " Today Christian Science presents to humanity the same Christ message thus foretold and is proving its value through the healing of the sick and the sinner.

We are living at a time when material power is increasing as never before. For this reason, it is well to think about power, to consider what it is, whence its source, what it accomplishes, how it acts.

The great poet Shakespeare in one of his plays vividly portrays human existence as consisting of seven ages starting with infancy and ending with old age and helplessness. How different are these concepts of life from those depicted by Christian Science! This Science reveals man as spiritual and perfect, as coexistent and coeternal with his creator.