Editorials

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.

FROM the depths of true repentance the Psalmist once declared, "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. " From his day to ours such sacrifices as these have been laid upon God's altar; and now, as then, they always result in the blessing of a rich and ever unfolding understanding of God's transcendent goodness and perfections.

ON page 17 of the Church Manual is found a statement of the purpose which actuated the first group of Christian Scientists, namely: "To organize a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing. " In view of this statement it is pertinent to inquire whether or not the Christian Science church has fulfilled its purpose, so clearly defined.

The subject of prayer is one of ever increasing interest to mankind. Since men are becoming more and more convinced that all good is in and of God, and since prayer is the acknowledged means of approach to Deity, they are commencing to comprehend the fact that it must be through prayer that they are to come into the conscious possession of all good.

In these days much is heard about spiritual healing outside of the Christian Science movement. Many of the churches are interested in it, and some of them have even gone the length of investigating the subject.

The yearning for changeless love seems almost universal. Mortals long for the love that will not lessen, for that deep affection which, in whatsoever reversal of circumstances, will remain throughout all time unaltered in its intensity and unchanged in its constancy.

IT would be impossible to estimate the extent to which the First Commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," has influenced the thought of the world. Nothing certainly has done more to establish monotheism,—the doctrine of one God, —and so to destroy polytheism,—the doctrine of gods many.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE has come to deliver mankind from all evil; for it has come proclaiming the ever present power of God, good. Men have often prayed to God for freedom from wrong; but they have prayed —and then have turned to human means and methods to win the deliverance from evil which they have been afraid God either would not or could not bring to them.

NO phase of modern thought, as reflected in current discussion, is more illuminating than the attempt to reconcile the teachings of the Bible with the unprecedented developments in so-called natural science, and to adjust these teachings to the present demands of society. Alarmed, it seems, by the extraordinary progress made in the realm of scientific discovery and the application of new inventions to human problems, religionists are striving to reconcile the Biblical teachings to these new conditions in the hope of lessening the tendency to skepticism and agnosticism which has become all too prevalent as the result of these discoveries.