Editorials

MANKIND often thinks more of honoring itself than of honoring God. Because its basis of thinking is so largely selfish, it considers the honor it imagines due its own human thinking, efforts, and achievements as of primary importance.

IF Christian Science gave its adherents nothing but the assurance that life is eternal, they would be under a tremendous debt of gratitude to it. Who among Christian Scientists does not remember the time when all was uncertain as to the future, when it was wrapped in mystery, when it appeared as if that which men call death might be the end of all things so far as men are concerned! They had perhaps studied deeply in philosophy, in natural science, and in religion too; but the best that could be said for these was that they had given birth to a not too certain faith in the continuity of life.

THAT God definitely outlines His will and purpose is made clear by Mrs. Eddy in numerous passages.

ABOUT twenty years ago our Leader instructed the then Christian Science Board of Directors to take steps for the establishment of a sanatorium where those in need might be healed. Our movement to-day is world-wide, and our sanatorium at Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, established in 1916, has ministered beneficently to so many that the question has repeatedly been raised, "Will there ever be similar institutions established at distant points, so that the long trip to Boston may be avoided?" Our reply has been, in effect, that when it should be made clear to us that the time had arrived for the establishment of another sanatorium under the auspices of The Mother Church, the field would be duly notified.

THE world as a whole has not yet learned that God's will is always good. A large percentage of those who call themselves Christian still believe that God permits evil, if He does not definitely cause it; they therefore hold Him at least indirectly responsible for all that is wrong, and they still imagine that His will is something to be feared quite as much as to be desired.

STUDENTS of Christian Science, through much study, contemplation, and demonstration, not only make themselves thoroughly familiar with all of Mrs. Eddy's published works, but they also undertake to gain a clear understanding of the movement which she founded, organized, and personally led.

ALTHOUGH men have generally accepted the fact that to be envious is most often to be arrayed against that which is noble and good, yet there is, perhaps, no sin which is more universally, though it may sometimes be unconsciously, indulged. Envy has betrayed mankind into all sorts of discontent and evil, from the petty discomfort which results when one allows himself to be disquieted because another possesses something he imagines is better than has fallen to his lot, to the awful wrong of attempting to harm the one whose excellence or good fortune has, he believes, in some way eclipsed or interfered with his own.

"GOD hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God"—the Psalmist's words. The power of God had many times been evidenced to the Hebrew people; and in their psalms they rejoiced in the memory of it: they sang of it.

COMPARISON of the social standards of the present day with conditions which existed before the Christian era must convince one of the great progress toward true idealism which has been made in the intervening centuries. Many social customs which obtained in that ancient time would not be tolerated in civilized countries to-day.

Christian Scientists , mindful of the admonition of their Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, do not assail the religious beliefs of other people. If such attacks are made, by word of mouth, by radio, or by printed page, the public may be sure that they come from persons or organizations who are not within the ranks of Christian Science, whatever their claims may be.