Editorials

Plato said, "What thou seest, that thou beest. " True seeing is inseparable from true being, revealing as it does man's spiritual heritage, boundless as divine Love itself.

The term practical idealism may sound to some like a paradox, but that it cannot be, for Christ Jesus, the truest idealist the world has ever known, was of all men most practical and successful. He did not compromise with materialism, nor lower his standard of thought and teaching for the sake of currying favor with men.

With his profound trust in Truth, Christ Jesus had no misgiving as to the effect of an understanding of Truth upon humanity. Speaking in a parable, he said, according to the thirteenth chapter of Matthew, "The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

STUDENTS of Christian Science find encouragement, direction, and inspiration in connection with solving their problems by studying the words and works of the Exemplar, Christ Jesus. It is noteworthy that before he began his public ministry, Jesus went into the wilderness, where, during a forty-day period of fasting or denial of material sense, he gained such a clear, definite sense of God and of His perfect creation and of his relation to the Father that it served to guide and guard him throughout his earthly experiences.

THE purpose of education is to destroy ignorance and establish knowledge; and as ignorance and knowledge are wide terms, so also is education a wide term. In its usually accepted sense, education is confined within the circle of temporal thoughts, human history, material sense phenomena cognizable through instruments or physical research.

WHEN one believes something to be true which is false, he is said to be in error. Whenever he learns the truth, the lie which he had mentally entertained is overcome; or, in other words, he is no longer in error regarding that particular something.

PRIMED by the revelation of Christian Science, the student has no choice but to accept the fact that God, infinite good, is All-in-all, and through his spiritual understanding and growth, to reap the joy of proof. No other choice is possible since, as Mrs.

IN her autobiography, "Retrospection and Introspection," the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science states on page 24 that in February, 1866, she was healed through spiritual power and means of an injury caused by an accident. Continuing the record, she writes that in the latter part of that year she "gained the scientific certainty that all causation was Mind, and every effect a mental phenomenon.

NOTHING is of greater importance to mankind than the knowledge of God as the only creator, and of His creation, man. For this knowledge exposes the false nature of the material sense of creation which is binding men, and thus opens up the way for their liberation from the consequences of materiality.

The study of Christian Science discloses the true, logical, and withal simple answers to the many questions which have long perplexed seekers for Truth. Among the subjects which formerly had bewildered some who are now Christian Scientists, and which had made religion appear saddening and unattractive to them, is that of probation.