Editorials

EMERSON once wrote: "Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he do not cheat his neighbor.

WEARY of the cares of the world, heavy-laden with its burdens, sorrowing, sinful, sick humanity, after having exhausted all its socalled material resources, is often driven, literally driven, to God for help. It is pathetic to witness mankind frequently so mesmerized by material sense as apparently to be oblivious to the wealth of spiritual revelation that is available to-day to all with the discernment to recognize it.

MRS. EDDY leaves Christian Scientists in no doubt as to the necessity for metaphysical workers to be ready and instant in meeting the claims of error which so constantly confront them.

EVERY time the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church comes round Christian Scientists are eager to hear of the progress which has been made. A whole year of effort lies behind, patient, loving, consecrated effort—what has it meant for the individual, for the movement, for the world? A very natural question that, and one which every Christian Scientist with his own and his fellowmen's well-being at heart may readily ask.

I HAVE sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. " Thus Isaiah represents God as saying; and the entire Bible emphasizes this statement.

STUDENTS of Mrs. Eddy's writings who follow her instructions most faithfully, in the particular as well as in the general, progress most rapidly and find the way bright and the reward in terms of spiritual blessedness sure.

EVERYONE loves to have his neighbor think well of him. So much is this the mental habit with mortals that their lives are more or less influenced by this desire, which often assumes overweening proportions.

THE Christian Scientist is constantly affirming to his own thought the fact of God's allness. Christian Science has impressed it upon him as nothing else ever did, has taught him its value in the solution of human problems; therefore, silently it may be, yet with persistence, he holds to the basic truth of the Christian religion, that God is infinite—All.

MANKIND believes that experience is the greatest of teachers, and that from it comes wisdom. In Christian Science it is learned that, strictly speaking, divine Mind, through the agency of its Christ, is the only true teacher, and that true wisdom is a quality of divine Mind gained only through spiritual understanding.

PRINCIPLE is a term used in Christian Science for God. Sometimes exception is taken to it by those not accustomed to its use, on the ground that it appears to detract from the nature of Deity, that it tends to give the impression that God does not exercise the qualities which men prize most highly, such as loving sympathy, an understanding or knowledge of the needs of man, watchful care over all His children.