Editorials

Few were ever more appreciative of honest worth than Mrs. Eddy.

In Christian Science churches and societies the annual elections bring opportunities for the exercise of many Christian virtues; for the doing of much Christianly metaphysical work; for the casting out of personal preferences and opinions; for the laying hold of a larger understanding of the way to trust God with the government of all things. Each year Christian Scientists all over the world are thus called upon to awaken yet more fully to the realization of what their church organization, individually and collectively, stands for, and how its interests and activities may be advanced most effectively.

The reply made on one occasion by Christ Jesus to those trying to confuse him has a direct pertinency to the question of obedience to the law. In response to the query, "Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cæsar, or not?" looking at a coin of the realm, he asked his interrogators, "Whose is this image and superscription?" When they replied, "Cæsar's," he said, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Cæsar's; and unto God the things that are God's.

MEN have talked a great deal about mind. Some have believed it to be located in brain and have supposed it capable of thinking both good and bad thoughts.

IN "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 174) Mrs.

THE master's teaching relative to the duty and obligations growing out of human intercourse and relationships is definite. He explicitly taught that compassion, mercy, unselfishness, and justice should always mark the deeds of men.

The present age is one of the most enlightened in the history of the world, and never before, probably, have men been so keenly alive to the possibilities of human development. Every civilized nation values its educational systems; and the endeavor is constantly being put forth to increase their efficiency in order that men and women may be more thoughtful.

Nothing , perhaps, requires more watchful care than our desires. What we desire most is what we work for.

The use of the word "city" as a synonym for a place of refuge and safety, in both secular and sacred literature, runs far back into the traditions of antiquity. The habit of people to gather into groups for protection and the consequent building of strong defenses against their enemies led to the use in the Scriptures of the word "city" as symbolizing a place of shelter and security.

When James was writing to the early Christians, warning them against the sins to which men seem liable, he urged them to be swift to hear and slow to speak. He did not stop there, however, but went on to say, "Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves," concluding his exhortation in this direction that if one be "not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.