Editorials

THERE is but one tide which never ebbs! The Christmastide, which began with the advent of Jesus, has been flowing on uninterruptedly for over nineteen centuries —not always recognized, but nevertheless flowing on; and it will go steadily forward until all that is unlike God, good, shall have been swept into evil's native oblivion; until all the shores of time shall have been washed clean of everything "that defileth, .

How immeasurably above that of his contemporaries—his religious contemporaries—was Jesus' understanding of the Christ! In the fullness of time he had come, born of a woman whose purity had enabled her to conceive of man as the Son of God—the Messiah heralded throughout Jewish history as the one who should redeem his people. Endowed beyond measure with spiritual discernment, Christ Jesus understood, as no other had ever understood, the relation which exists between God and man, as Father and son; and thus he was able to identify his real selfhood with the real man, the spiritual idea of God, the Christ.

THE spirit which commonly pervades Christendom during the Christmas season is that of rejoicing. For a brief period, at least, there is a turning away from the affairs which so completely absorb us day by day with their monotonous round of obligations, to share in the deeper things of life through giving expression to the season's joy in terms of affection and brotherly-kindness.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches radical reliance on God. It states the truth—the absolute truth—about God; and with a knowledge of that truth men are fully equipped to place unlimited faith in God under all circumstances.

THERE was, perhaps, nothing which Jesus affirmed more frequently than that men would be healed in the measure of the faith realized. Again and again, he declared of those who were delivered from direst diseases that such healing came because of faith.

IN Matthew's Gospel we read that when Jesus told the disciples that "he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders, .

WHEN God said to Solomon, "Ask what I shall give thee," Solomon replied, "Give .

WHEN the word "Christian" is considered, how varied are the thoughts that may arise within us! We think, perhaps, of the many sects that are in existence, differing in greater or less degree from each other on some point of doctrine, but all calling themselves by the name of Christian. While, in certain instances, these differ widely on what they may call essentials, one thing they have in common: they all claim to be followers of Christ Jesus.

THE teachings of Christ Jesus invariably point to the necessity of gaining freedom from bondage to sin both in order to manifest sound health and also to win salvation. Recognizing that all causation is mental and spiritual, he urged upon his hearers the paramount necessity of freeing one's self from every type of sinful belief and wrong desire.

NOTHING can possibly have a greater effect upon the lives of men than their views about God. Now, as in the past, these views are often based on erroneous concepts, with the result that God is looked upon by many as a being very much after the pattern of the sons of men, —a being who loves and hates, and is merciful and vengeful by turns.