Editorials

Viewed from the standpoint of suppositional mortal existence, there appears to be something called human consciousness which is in need of regeneration, healing, and salvation. Were it not for this, there would have been no need for the Messianic mission of Christ Jesus, and there would have been no basis for his promise that in due time his Father would send another Comforter.

It is significant that in the seventeenth chapter of John, in which is given the prayer of Christ Jesus on the eve of his crucifixion, the Master is represented as praying first for himself. The prayer abounds in the tenderest of petitions and the most exalted realization on behalf of his disciples, those of that period and all who were to follow.

" Let integrity and uprightness preserve me," declared the Psalmist, "for I wait on thee. " From Genesis to Revelation the Bible teaches that defense from danger, moral and physical, is to be found in the individual's conscious reliance upon God.

One of the most important of the many wonderful provisions our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, made for the advancement of the Christian Science movement was her ordination in 1895 of the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" to be the pastor of all Christian Science churches. Writing of this ordination on pages 382 and 383 of "Miscellaneous Writings," Mrs.

In that hour of momentous decision when Jesus knew that Judas was about to betray him, his concern was not for himself, but for the world which he had come to save, and from which he was so soon to be removed. His greatest task, on which tireless patience and devotion had been expended during these brief years of Messiahship, was the training of this little band of followers to carry on his work.

A small boy who had been asked what he would like as a gift decided on a pocket knife, and for some days, while he was waiting for it, delighted himself with the prospect of having a good strong blade that would cut. But when the knife came, it had on it not only the one blade but four, and in addition a variety of useful contrivances which he had not thought of—an awl, a file, scissors, and the like—capable, it seemed to him, of doing about all that could need to be done with tools.

Routine, meaning orderly procedure, or the habitual doing of things in an orderly or systematic way, is a good thing to cultivate. Many who have succeeded in human affairs have done so through acquiring the habit of ordering their daily work in a sustematic manner and adhering more or less rigidly to the prescribed order.

It is well known that in Christian Science churches, and among their members in general, there is no attempt to persuade anyone to become a Christian Scientist; and the reason for this is plain when it is understood that Christian Science is in fact Science, no less than religion. One does not persuade a beginner in mathematics to accept the multiplication table.

To be aware of spiritual things is not necessarily to be identified with them. Something more is demanded of us than that.

For what are mortals expected to be grateful? Certainly not for the belief that they, with no desire or volition of their own, have been placed in a situation from which they need to be saved. It would not be reasonable to expect anyone to rejoice because of the belief that he is mortal, and that he is subject to the sin, sickness, suffering, limitation, and fear that seem to accompany a mortal sense of existence.