Editorials

THE word "substance" has a very definite meaning to the student of Christian Science, a meaning, however, very different from that which is generally accepted. Ordinarily, matter (so called), that which the physical senses claim to detect and analyze, is looked upon as substance; but these same material senses take no cognizance whatsoever of Spirit, which Christian Science declares to be the only real substance.

THERE is only one correct teaching of Christian Science, and that is the teaching which Mary Baker Eddy, the revered and beloved Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, gave to the world in her writings. No teaching which departs therefrom in any least particular presents Christian Science correctly; while all that is in accordance with it is of God, good, and has His sanction resting upon it.

THE power of divine Mind to reach, through the Christ, Truth, the deepest recesses of human thought, thereby to uncover and destroy its false claims, is fully set forth in "Unity of Good" ( p. 2 ).

IN "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p. 13 ) Mrs.

MANY a time, when Christian Science has been presented to those in need of it, the questions have been asked: Have not all Christian denominations a common origin in the Christianity which Christ Jesus taught and demonstrated? And, How does the teaching of Christian Science differ from that of other systems of religion? The questions are very natural; and every one has the right to ask them. Certainly the Christian Scientist would have no one remain in the dark with regard to the religion which he has found to be so eminently practical in all the affairs of his life.

ALTHOUGH mankind waited for more than eighteen hundred years for an answer to Pilate's question, "What is truth?" yet we may be sure that the answer came when mortals were prepared to receive it and to profit by it. In Christian Science, Mrs.

Jesus ' parable of the talents has furnished many a lesson to multitudes of men and women who have been seeking to conform their lives to the demands of Christianity. This parable with its simple story of the one who gave to his servants a varied distribution of talents,—to one five, to another two, and to yet another one,—and then left them, coming back at a later day and asking an account of their stewardship—all this is very familiar to every student of the Bible.

Paul set an example of fortitude and unyielding obedience to his vision which seekers for spiritual truth may well emulate. In writing of his purpose to the Christians at Philippi, he related to them something of the process by which he had gained much in the right direction.

In the Christian Science Sentinel of February 27, 1926, we announced that there had been established in the office of the Treasurer of The Mother Church a Charitable Institutions Fund, from which appropriations would be made as they may be needed for The Christian Science Benevolent Association, The Christian Science Pleasant View Home, or any similar institutions that may be established by The Mother Church in accordance with Section 8 of Article I of the Church Manual. Now we announce that The Mother Church has established another fund, to be known as the Endowment and Extension Fund.

" AND God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion. " Thus is recorded in the first chapter of Genesis the first statement of God's law of dominion for man.