Editorials

IN all human history, no more poignant cry has reached out to God than mankind's unceasing plea for justice. This unquenchable desire hints the presence of the divine order of being, wherein God, good, reigns supreme and righteousness and equity are the eternal facts of existence.

HE who knows he is a son of God is aware of the evidence that sustains that knowledge. Since spiritual sense alone embraces such knowledge, spiritual sense must be cultivated, or rather revealed, in and by him who would see enduring evidence of what he knows.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE releases humanity from its self-imposed limitations. Science reveals God as one infinite, divine consciousness and man as His idea, not confined in nor hedged about by matter, but dwelling in omnipresent good.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE : defines God by the use of seven synonymous terms— Life, Truth, Love, Soul, Spirit, Mind, Principle. The Christian Science definition of God does not trespass upon the oneness of Deity.

What treasures are to be found in Paul's letters to the early Christians! These pearls of great price are not always easily discernible to the cursory reader of the New Testament; in fact, some who read the Scriptures without pausing to ponder the deeper, hidden meanings may complain that many of the treasures are concealed in an avalanche of words. For example, in the first chapter of his second epistle to Timothy it takes four verses to complete one of his sentences, and unless one continues to read the whole message he may miss a statement in the third verse which contains one of the most precious promises in all Christian lore.

" WHAT brought you into Christian Science?" asked one man of another in the course of a conversation on this all-absorbing subject. "I will tell you," replied his friend.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE discloses God's universal, loving control of His own creation. Every spiritual desire, every right effort to progress, belongs to His jurisdiction and evidences the ever-presence of His infinite self-expression.

" O blessings infinite! O glad New Year! Sweet sign and substance Of God's presence here. "Give us not only angels' songs, But Science vast, to which belongs The tongue of angels And the song of songs.

IN the second chapter of Luke is a meaningful account of great beauty. Here we read that Simeon, a devout man, recognized the infant Jesus as the Messiah when Mary presented him in the temple according to the custom of Jewish law.

TWO events stand out at the dawn of the first Christmas. One is the visit of the Wisemen and the other the adoration of the shepherds.