Editorials

King George The Fifth of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, has passed away, greatly beloved of the people of his Empire. When in 1901 our Leader asked the First Members of The Mother Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, to "convene for the sacred purpose of expressing [their] deep sympathy with the bereaved nation, its loss and the world's loss, in the sudden departure of the late lamented Victoria," she spoke of the Queen as "long honored, revered, beloved" ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

THE divine declaration, "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good," is complete and irrevocable. Universal, eternal harmony is the fiat of divine Principle to be accepted without reservation and with great gladness.

THERE are definitions of the word ''enthusiasm, " such as, for example, "ecstasy," "emotion," "frenzy," which might make it seem that this word could not be rightly applied to the activities of Christian Scientists. On the other hand, however, enthusiasm is also defined by Webster as "lively manifestation of joy or zeal," which is quite a different thing.

WHEN Mrs. Eddy wrote the words (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,  p.

THE experience of agriculturists, horticulturists, and gardeners, professional and amateur, would tend to acceptance of the belief that for every plant, shrub, or tree there is some kind of pest, either vegetable or animal, that is capable of injuring or destroying it. For example, there is the dodder, which derives its sustenance from the plant about which it twines itself.

" THE allness of Deity is His one-ness" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 267).

EVERYONE with the good of his fellow men at heart laments the lack of self-government apparent today. It confronts us in many quarters and is the outward manifestation of thinking that is unspiritual, thinking that is material, worldly, selfish.

When , as Christian Scientists, we hold our thought to divine principle and unequivocally reach out for the highest counsel and designation, we cannot fail to apprehend and to heed them. True listening is the prelude to true following.

Some translators of the New Testament render the phrase, "there should be time no longer," "there shall be no further delay," indicating that the conditions named in the prophecy were capable of immediate fulfillment. Whether viewed in the light of this modern rendering or that of the translators of the King James Version, which seems to imply the complete cessation of time, the fact remains that, as Mary Baker Eddy states on page 598 of Science and Health, "Time is a mortal thought, the divisor of which is the solar year.

If Christendom were asked whom it regarded as the greatest man who ever lived on earth, the answer would assuredly be, "Christ Jesus. " And it would be based on a knowledge of the Master's lifework—a knowledge of his teaching and its application to the healing of all manner of error, and of the effects of his teaching on the spiritual progress of the human race.