Editorials

A Man sat down at his desk to write a paper. As is frequent on such occasions, thought fled for a moment.

At this hour of great world need for the things of Spirit, it is important that students of Christian Science should avail themselves of every opportunity for spiritual advancement provided by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. One entire chapter of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," is entitled, "Teaching Christian Science," and Articles XXVI and XXVII of the Manual of The Mother Church pertain to this subject.

Humanity is familiar with the exactions of the material sciences. If their benefits are to be received, certain requirements must be fulfilled.

When it is understood that man, the image and likeness of God, is the expression of all the qualities of Mind, then instead of differentiation there will be union and co-ordination. The traditional habit of looking to men for certain characteristics and to women for others, will cease.

Truth is very old. So old indeed that it always was.

In speaking of the parable given by Christ Jesus of the man who, having found the "pearl of great price," goeth and selleth all and buyeth it, Mary Baker Eddy says on page 253 of "Miscellaneous Writings": "Buyeth it! Note the scope of that saying, even that Christianity is not merely a gift, as St. Paul avers, but is bought with a price, a great price; and what man knoweth as did our Master its value, and the price that he paid for it?" Until men are aware of the value of this greatest of all pearls, they will not be willing to pay for it, and therefore they will not possess it.

When one discerns any quality of God, he discerns a quality of man as God's likeness; and as one scientifically claims the quality as his own, it appears in his thought and life. One who has had such experience, moreover, can help others in developing like qualities.

Life is everywhere. No one can step beyond its boundaries.

In a passage cherished by Christian Scientists, and worthy of the most careful consideration of everyone, Mary Baker Eddy writes ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 210 ), "Beloved Christian Scientists, keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them.

To express certitude in our lives, not with fanaticism or human resolution but with spiritual authority, we must know God, and therefore our relation to Him. ''He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me," said Jesus.