Editorials

All movement is either mortally mental or spiritual. If it proceeds or seems to proceed from mortal mind, it is the former.

Humanity is concerned with time because the lapse of time, according to accepted belief, robs men of much that is good. Time may also claim to bring a certain measure of good, as in the maturing of human consciousness from the infantile state to the age of full mental powers.

If man was not already perfect, we should never be able to demonstrate or attain perfection, for we can never demonstrate or prove anything that is not already a fact. It was from that basis of understanding that Christ Jesus declared ( Matt.

THE shepherds, watching their flock on the night of the Saviour's birth, saw beyond the sights and sounds of mortal sense. Their spiritual sense was attuned to the momentous happenings of their times, and they caught a glimpse of the radiance of universal harmony, heaven's order.

GOD is the source of true hope, for true hope represents a measure of spiritual enlightenment, and all enlightenment has its origin in God. Therefore in entertaining such hope we are in communion with God.

IN defining her concept of the man Jesus, Mary Baker Eddy, the revelator of Christian Science, writes on page 589 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Jesus. The highest human corporeal concept of the divine idea, rebuking and destroying error and bringing to light man's immortality.

WHEN St. Paul stood upon Mars' Hill he opened his sermon with a bold and arresting statement.

" CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is both demonstration and fruition, but how attenuated are our demonstration and realization of this Science!" These words were written by Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science and demonstrated its power over human ills in countless instances of compassionate healing. They are found on page 61 of "Unity of Good" and are followed by this revealing statement: "Truth, in divine Science, is the steppingstone to the understanding of God; but the broken and contrite heart soonest discerns this truth, even as the helpless sick are soonest healed by it.

THE Psalmist declared ( Ps. 130:7, 8 ): "Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

THE Master foretold "upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; .