Editorials

Christian Science has often been beautifully described as the redeemer of human consciousness; and this it truly is, for the mission of Christ is purely redemptive. In human experience the Christ is revealed in spiritual ideas.

In her explanation of real being Mary Baker Eddy uses the Latin Ego, or I, as one of the terms for God. A dictionary definition of "ego" which conforms to her usage is "the conscious and permanent subject of all experience.

All real being is in God, spiritual and perfect. Apart from the divine Mind and its ideas nothing really exists.

Until the patriarch Moses presented to his people the law from Mount Sinai the wisdom and the necessity of right conduct and right living were but dimly appreciated. Men generally knew no moral law and therefore felt no impulsion to obey a code which advocated or compelled a loving consideration one of another.

" All history is a Bible. " These words A of Thomas Carlyle's echo a great truth.

In the allegory of spiritual creation (Genesis 1) we find the third day typifying the period of progress in which the multiplicity of God's ideas is revealed. The symbol of multiplicity is the seed, and its wonderful fitness is seen when we contemplate the possibilities of reproduction contained within a single tiny grain.

The agnostic who has turned from religion, unsatisfied by the many and contradictory conceptions of Deity, finds in Christian Science a completely satisfying understanding of God. He finds a God whom he can intelligently love and worship.

Spring is the season of renewal when earth is awakening from the frigid grip of winter and putting on its gay colorings amid bright skies and bird song. This is the season when nature awakens to praise the creator and mortals look forward with hope and faith to the long, warm days of summer, when the fruits of the earth are coming to fruition and when the harvest hour with rich and plentiful provision is assured.

Christian Science bases its conclusion that human tribulations are unreal upon the revealed truth that God is infinite good and that evil and inharmony cannot derive from a good God. Hence its firm stand that mortal existence is a self-constituted mesmeric dream, which peoples itself with its own misconceptions—a dream which Christian Science dispels.

If Christian Science is to be scientifically demonstrated, every aspect of its teaching should be intelligently considered, for every point clearly understood aids the student in proving by healing that he is dealing solely with divine facts and an invariable spiritual law. Because men and women believe that they live in a world of matter and dwell in material bodies, their so-called scientific study and investigation have led them directly away from the great spiritual fact which, when grasped, gives them the understanding of reality and of their true, perfect being.