Editorials

The foundation of mortal discord is a false sense of man's origin. To begin rightly is to end rightly.

Have you allowed unreasoning bias or some undefined prejudice to keep you from reading and studying, in connection with your Bible, Mary Baker Eddy's great book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"? If so, you are not only excluding yourself from beautiful literature, but shutting the door on vital truth—the truth about God and man which Jesus promised would make make free. One who turns to these inspired pages with open mind will soon be convinced of two facts: first, that the writer of such a book must have been a spiritually-minded, God-fearing, Christloving woman; and secondly, that if her interpretation of the Bible is true, Christian Science is the long-looked-for Comforter, or "Spirit of truth," destined to liberate and save the race.

Twice a year The Mother Church admits new members. They come from many parts of the world, and from varied walks of life.

The generous and steadily increasing contributions of branch churches, societies, and individual Christian Scientists are enabling The Mother Church to maintain and increase its wartime activities. These activities now extend to every part of the world where American or British Empire servicemen and servicewomen are engaged.

The discovery of Christian Science has erased the belief of time as a great gulf separating humanity from the truth as it was taught and demonstrated by Jesus of Nazareth. Christian Science reveals the uninterrupted operation of this truth as the evidence of the ever-present divine Principle that is Life, dynamic Being.

A human philosopher opines that when A meets B there are six concepts of man present. First, there is A's concept of himself; secondly, B's concept of A; thirdly, God's concept of A.

Players in such games as baseball and cricket are familiar with the term "inning" or "innings," when a team or an individual member thereof has a fresh opportunity to score. In baseball, a game of normally nine-innings, there is always hope for a trailing side as long as there is one inning left.

Alertness to reverse and dissipate every false prophecy of mortal mind that suggests future epidemics, pestilence, or affliction is one effective way for Christian Scientists to help protect the health of mankind. Such prophecies, we should see, are but lying prognostications of evil, asserting that devilish material forces have authority over our future.

When men think carelessly, irresponsibly, without recognition of the inherent demand upon them to contribute rather to the order of the world than to its confusion, their words and acts bear them witness. Feebleness of indecision, implacability of human will, biased judgments, and shifting viewpoint are evidenced in ill-considered or deliberately provocative speech, which can be both mischievous and dangerous.

A Lovesome word is "comforter. " Whether it appears in English, Hebrew, or Greek in the Holy Scriptures its presence connotes refreshment, strengthening, holding up.