Editorials

IN the Manual of The Mother Church, by Mary Baker Eddy, is found the following By-Law ( Art. XXIV, Sect.

FEW could have spoken with more profound knowledge than did David of the experiences which come to those who are determined, whatever the seeming difficulties and temptations, to find and establish their true relations with God. With supreme spiritual exaltation, and with dynamic conviction, he set forth where the place of safety, and the power which belongs to it, alone are to be found.

"PROLONG the strain 'Christ risen!' Sad sense, annoy No more the peace of Soul's sweet solitude! Deep loneness, tear-filled tones of distant joy, Depart! Glad Easter glows with gratitude. " Thus does Mary Baker Eddy, in her poem "Easter Morn" (Poems, p.

Christian Science teaches us to look out from God, divine perfection. How else could we obey the lofty injunction of Jesus, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect"? In Christian Science, the distress of human frailty is exchanged for the joy of spiritual individuality.

Job said, "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. " It should not be supposed, however, that Job saw God through the medium of physical sight.

In his epistle to the Galatians (  6:7, 8 ) Paul writes: "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

At the consecration of the temple in Jerusalem, Solomon offered a prayer of exceeding beauty, in which he touched upon the infinite nature of God as follows: "But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?" Nevertheless, this prayer of Solomon's was, in the main, a prayer of supplication to a personal God; and quite naturally so, as this was the concept of prayer which prevailed at that time. Christian Scientists, however, are learning that prayer, in its highest sense, is something more than petition; that it is, in fact, based upon recognition of the divine oneness and allness of being.

Through Isaiah the prophet came the proclamation, "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light. " The spiritualizing influence of God's prophets, century after century, made it possible for one to appear who declared, "I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

The history of the human race is a record of overcoming. Throughout long centuries, mankind has had to battle with all manner of difficulties; wrestle for its existence physically; struggle for its supremacy morally and spiritually.

HUMANLY, supply is thought of in various material ways. Spiritually, supply stands for the infinite impartations of God, divine Love.