Editorials

OBSERVERS of the social order of the day are convinced that in all the relations of life there is a strong tendency toward complexity, and that, in consequence, simplicity in thought and habit is becoming more difficult to maintain. This condition arises from the involvement of the age in materiality; that is to say, from the general acceptance of life as material, as having its source in matter, as inherent in matter, and as supported by it.

THE nature of life has ever been a problem to mankind. It has been almost universally believed to commence at human birth and to cease or pass away at death; and always the human mind, so called, has associated life with matter.

TO the material consciousness there seems to be little else than that which speaks of and for self-seeking. The larger portion of mankind seems absorbed in seeking that which will in some way or other enhance the comfort, pleasure, power, and magnitude of a personal selfhood.

IN one of the most appealing lessons taught by the Master, the parable of the shepherd, he declared himself to be the "shepherd of the sheep," their guardian and protector from all lurking danger. "I am the door," he declared: "by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

WHEN Mrs. Eddy placed in our Church Manual ( p.

HAPPINESS is a purely spiritual quality, without a taint of the material about it. Everybody is desirous of possessing happiness; but many fail, either because they do not know how to obtain it, or because they are unwilling to follow the behest of wisdom in its pursuit.

THE efforts of evil to bolster up a bad case are proverbial. With the aim to deceive, evil sometimes even goes so far as to don the habiliments of good.

IN the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 205 ), Mrs.

THE distinctive natures of the law and the gospel, and yet the necessity of their unity in the right understanding and practice of Christianity, have ever since the beginning of the Christian era engrossed the attention of both religious scholar and layman. The Jews, who were deeply versed in what they considered the right interpretation of the Mosaic law, found themselves almost totally deaf to the gentle voice of the gospel when Jesus came proclaiming its good news.

THE Christian metaphysician recognizes that mortals are constantly faced with the necessity of discriminating between good thoughts and bad, between those which have their source in Truth, infinite good, and those which appear to emanate from a false mentality, either being subjective with one's self or coming from a seeming source external to one's mentality. While the Christian Scientist is assured of evil's unreality, the claim of evil to existence as an entity or fact must nevertheless be vigorously handled and destroyed.