Editorials

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.

THERE are few subjects of so large import to mankind as that which treats of the bringing of evil into subjection; and few if any are considered more universally or from more varied standpoints. All righteous men recognize that evil must be dealt with and subjugated if any degree of harmony is to be gained and maintained, and there are innumerable theories as to the way this may best be done.

HOW radical are the truths which Christian Science has revealed! They are absolute, unalterable; they cannot be compromised with in the slightest degree. Thus, when Christian Science declares that God is All-in-all, it means what it says, and nothing else.