Editorials

How often should our Leader's hymns be sung in church services? is a question asked from time to time by Readers, boards, or members of branch churches. In effect, Mrs.

In many places in the Bible the word "light" is used to symbolize the Christ, Truth. For example, Isaiah, in his prophecy of the coming of the Messiah, wrote, "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

The nature of God and man was revealed by Christ Jesus in his uniquely spiritual, practical, and humane ministry among men. In the seventh chapter of John's Gospel it is recorded that the chief priests and Pharisees said to the officers whom they had dispatched to arrest Jesus, "Why have ye not brought him?" and that "the officers answered, Never man spake like this man.

There is no question of greater importance than that which pertains to the Christ, and to him, Christ Jesus, who understood the Christ and demonstrated it so marvelously. Unquestionably, much confusion reigns in the thought of many on the subject.

THE same tendency to localize Deity is in evidence today as it was when the Pharisees inquired of Jesus, "Where is thy Father?" and when from one of his disciples came the request, "Shew us the Father. " The invisible God is held by the materially-minded to be inapprehensible and of little avail to humanity.

THE Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, on page 57 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," writes: "Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

TO those whose thought has been spiritually illumined through Christian Science, few things seem more futile than the bickerings, the disagreements, the willful strivings of men. Sometimes, nursing their grievances, mortals will remain at variance with one another for long periods.

IT is not to be presumed that when Jesus said, "Give, and it shall be given unto you," he referred to the giving of money or of material things. Having just previously admonished his hearers to love their enemies, to be merciful, and to withhold judgment, it is altogether probable that he referred to the giving of kindly, good, and helpful thoughts.

THE way of perfection is the way of conscious spiritual reflection of God, the one infinite Ego. God maintains His image in harmony and completeness; therefore this reflection is eternal and inviolate.

IF one explores the history of the past as it concerns mankind, one finds it disfigured throughout by tragedy. Often it shows class pitted against class, one class ruthlessly oppressing another, which for the time being is powerless to protect itself.