Editorials

THE search after knowledge, the endeavor to distinguish between the true and false, constitute a large part of mortal existence. A child's primary instinct, by observation and investigation, is to appraise the world about him.

IT is a well-attested fact that the passages concerning man in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, have inspired and richly benefited a multitude of people. What men have longed to hear about themselves— what they are capable of, what is in store for them, what they are in reality—these passages (pages 258:9 to 260:18; 475:5 to 477:18; and 336:9 to 338:32, among others) have told them, scientifically; and both the message and its results have commonly been better than anything they had even hoped for.

CHRIST JESUS is recorded in the Gospel of John as having said to his disciples: "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

THE Christian Scientist understands that the so-called miracles of Scriptural times were not infractions of law but natural demonstrations of spiritual power; and he sees their counterparts in the works of Christian Science today— sees them joyfully, but without wonder. In all these instances, in both ancient and modern times, the same thing essentially occurs.

COUNSEL in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out," we read in Proverbs. Spiritual understanding is not motionless, it is forever active; it is the continuous manifestation of divine power.

IT is highly desirable that students of Christian Science should gain and maintain more correct knowledge of its teachings in some of its important aspects. For example, it is right, first of all, to understand that Christian Science is revealed truth rather than the mere expression of human opinion about the truth.

WE have met here this evening as Christian Scientists to become better acquainted with the vital purpose underlying the world-wide activities of The Mother Church and its branches. We have met also as co-workers in a common cause to dedicate ourselves anew to the promotion of that Cause and to the extension of its healing and redemptive work.

In speaking of Christ Jesus, Mary Baker Eddy has written on page 95 of the Christian Science textbook, "The effect of his Mind was always to heal and to save. " It was because he expressed and invariably identified himself with the one Mind, that Jesus was in fact the Saviour of the world.

The work of Christ Jesus reveals a simple and clearly understandable pattern, in the light of Christian Science. He was consistently teaching and demonstrating the real nature of Life.

Unquestionably , the tendency of the human mind is, in all ways, to impose upon itself a sense of limitation. It moves, so to speak, in an area of restriction.