Editorials

" The king can do no wrong" reads an axiom of jurisprudence which evolved with the establishment of temporal, sovereign authority. This doctrine of the infallibility of the ruler or the government states but the counterfeit conception of the absolute divine authority which belongs exclusively to God.

When an individual is faced with an intricate problem in arithmetic, he can solve it only by applying his understanding of mathematical truths. He must reason correctly step by step until he arrives at the correct answer.

When Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, discerned the distinction between reality and unreality, she initiated a spiritual revolution in human consciousness. Lying in bed with an injury which neither medicine nor surgery could heal, she read the Bible and gained a spiritual conviction that God, divine Mind, is the cause of all real being and that all that is not of Mind is unreal.

Justin Martyr , who lived in the second century of the Christian era, studied the popular philosophies of his day. Not finding true knowledge in this study, he became a Christian.

Almost two thousand years ago the Virgin Mary heard the voice of an angel telling her that she would give birth to a son. He was to be called Jesus, the Son of the Highest.

Since the time of Christ Jesus, Christianity has come to successive generations, and it is gradually penetrating human consciousness with the living elements of Truth. Justice and mercy, purity, integrity, and love are more and more widely lived.

The peace and welfare of the world depend largely on the degree of understanding and integrity, or spiritual righteousness, which the nations of the world bring to bear on their relationships with each other. Mary Baker Eddy tells us that the people's idea of God has much to do with the health and progress of the world.

One of the most beautiful songs in the Bible is the twenty-third Psalm. It might be called a song of spiritual abundance, for it deals almost exclusively with the subject of supply.

AS the day of the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church approaches, it is well for Christian Scientists to count their blessings and to acknowledge the debt of gratitude which they owe to their beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. Christian Scientists strive daily not to forget their duty to Mrs.

God's self-revelation to Moses at the burning bush indicated that the creator is one Mind. For what can declare itself I AM but that which is consciousness, or Mind? Mary Baker Eddy discusses this momentous occasion in "Miscellaneous Writings" where she says ( p.