Editorials

The life, words, and works of the Founder of Christianity, Christ Jesus, furnish the best possible example of proper propaganda. He realized that, because of its divine source, his message of salvation from material beliefs and from all evil would bless universally.

Jesus demonstrated, as no other has ever done, the healing power of the Christ. Witness his many works referred to in the Gospels of the New Testament! All manner of disease was healed by the Master, and one disease as readily as another.

CHRIST JESUS repeatedly identified his healing works with God, and did this so successfully that those who witnessed his marvelous works "glorified God, which had given such power unto men. " Likewise the Master, knowing that divine Mind is the source of all true ideas, identified his teachings with God.

KALEIDOSCOPIC changes in human governments indicate mankind's search for that which is productive of national stability, amity, and prosperity. Taken as a whole, the human race seems to be in a whirlpool of material thinking leading to dire consequences, and from this plight only spiritual understanding can extricate it.

IN the first chapter of Genesis is the following sentence, conveying a profound spiritual truth: "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him. " Before the discovery of Christian Science these words were accepted in a way more or less vague by Christians who recognized in humanity much that was worthy, but who at the same time were cognizant of a great deal that was unworthy, sinful, unlike God.

HONESTY in Christian Science is not determined merely by one's actions, but primarily by one's entire mental outlook and ingredients of thought. The following statement by Mrs.

DUE to false education human thought has accepted as veritable the testimony of the so-called material senses to the effect that life is mortal, that it has both beginning and end; for to these senses it appears that life is matter-created, matter-sustained, and matter-destroyed. While accepting these beliefs, but still clinging to the hope of immortality, mankind has assumed in a vague and unreasoning way that eternal or unending life begins after the experience called death.

IN spite of all that material sense may seem to argue to the contrary, Christian Science maintains that God is infinite good, and that therefore good alone is real; and, as a corollary, that evil has no real existence. Christian Science thus stands foursquare in its allegiance to God; and Christian Scientists are earnest in their efforts to prove the truth which has been revealed to them.

THE time to check a falsehood from spreading is when it first shows itself, and as a misrepresentation about our Publishing House Building Fund has recently begun to circulate in different parts of the Field, we are taking this means of correcting it. Any story that our Publishing House Building Fund needs no more contributions is a falsity, whether projected with evil intent or merely through misapprehension.

The custom of bestowing gifts upon loved ones at the Christmas season has become so materialized in the thought of many that to them the prompting spiritual significance of Christmas giving has been almost, if not quite, lost sight of. In an article entitled "What Christmas Means to Me," now available in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (pp.