Editorials

It may be correctly said that "the scientific statement of being," found on page 468 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, epitomizes the fundamental teachings of Christian Science. The declarations of Truth and denials of error included in that statement reveal the basic facts of being as they are set forth in the Christian Science textbook.

In summing up that which had been accomplished by the greatest spiritual reformer the world had ever known, Paul wrote to the Ephesians: "But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one.

It was in the year 1866 that Mary Baker Eddy discovered Christian Science and the art of healing practiced by Christ Jesus. Mrs.

THE first quality of the Christ which John the Baptist heralded as expressing the divine nature, was grace. Because the Light had come into the world, this manifestation of radiance and gentleness was to reveal itself to men as their own true being.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches that the only real universe is spiritual and consists of ideas and not of material things. The belief that the universe is material and that it has been evolved materially is seen, in the light of Christian Science, to be a fallacy.

THE sons of men are constantly contemplating the problem of their salvation from the woes which beset them. Sin, disease, poverty, sorrow, death—evil in its many forms—seem to companion with them; and from their toils they would be freed.

In these days much is being said on subjects which pertain to bodily health, based upon the belief that body is physical and finite. Many current magazine articles and radio broadcasts deal with medication, hygiene, dietetics, and with psychotherapy.

" All suffering," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 198 of "Miscellaneous Writings," "is the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of both good and evil. " And a little later she adds, "Suffering is the supposition of another intelligence than God.

Christian science declares the spiritual fact that creation is perfect, that the real universe—God's universe—is perfect; and it is doing this, in spite of all that the material senses may argue to the contrary. God is infinite Mind, infinite good, and His creation or universe, which consists of spiritual ideas, reflects all the qualities of perfect Mind.

To justify that only which is justifiable, this is the behest of Truth; to seek, without partiality of self-love or self-will, those thoughts and their resultant actions which have intrinsic justification, this is the Christ-standard. Brought before Pilate, upon whose authority his fate appeared to depend, Jesus was concerned only with the justification of his spiritual selfhood.