Editorials

RELIGION is a term which covers an immense field, ranging from the most primitive faith to the highest spiritual understanding. But wide as is the scope of religion, it may be defined, simply, as "any system of faith and worship.

FOR the earnest Christian deep significance attaches to every incident in the life of the Master. The yearning for knowledge of his life, especially of his youth and young manhood, about which so little is known, is particularly keen.

WHAT was it that distinguished Christ Jesus from the rest of mankind? The Christian Scientist does not hesitate to answer: he knows that it was the Master's spirituality. Pure, unselfish, loving, compassionate, merciful, spiritually-minded, he stands out after nearly two thousand years as the greatest religious Teacher the world has ever known, and the greatest demonstrator of the healing power of spirituality.

IN proportion as Christian Scientists grasp and demonstrate the teachings of Christian Science, they find themselves escaping from servitude to sickness, sin, limitation, and learning to be governed only by the commands of God, good. They are therefore watchful in protecting themselves from intruding suggestions of error.

THE student of geometry finds at the end of the theorem which in a series of statements is carried from proposition to logical conclusion, the letters "Q. E.

THROUGH Christian Science one gains a demonstrable understanding of man's relationship to God, good, and this understanding, honestly applied, is able to solve all the problems incident to a merely human sense of relationship, or intercourse. Perhaps there is no more appealing need than that of harmony, the removal of friction, between those whom circumstances have thrown together.

IT took long years, long centuries, for men to discover that God is Love. But the discovery was made at last.

IF proof were needed of Mrs. Eddy's desire that students of Christian Science should seek membership in both The Mother Church and a branch church, it is found in the provisions surrounding this privilege as set forth directly or implicitly in the Church Manual.

IN his second epistle to the Corinthians Paul writes, "Our sufficiency is of God; who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth. but the spirit giveth life.

WHEN tempted, Christ Jesus was ready with the rejoinder, "Get thee behind me, Satan. " Thus he proved his sonship; and he was equally ready with "Nay" as with "Yea.