Editorials

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS are profoundly grateful for the understanding that God is permanent and unchanging throughout all eternity. On page 120 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs.

Men are always desiring to be victorious. Whatever the obstacle or difficulty presented, there is in every heart a wish that victory may be won.

Christian Science maintains that God, who is the only creator, is perfect, and consequently that His creation is likewise perfect. Hence the teaching of Christian Science, that spiritual creation is never in need of restoration or renewal.

Throughout orthodox Christendom observance of Easter as an annual festival is inseparably associated with the resurrection of Christ Jesus. It is, accordingly, a time when Christians ponder the "deep things of God.

THE Christian Science practitioner always works with the consciousness that there is only one cause in existence. This distinguishes his practice from that of every other; for no healing system extant among men, except Christian Science, is based on the understanding that God, Spirit, is the one and only cause of all that has real being.

THERE is nothing with which mankind is more closely concerned than with the question of true relationship. To understand its meaning and thus be able to work out, in daily living, harmonious association with others is what most men consider one of their greatest problems.

THE dogmas of Christian theology have long been favorite battle ground. The meaning and purpose of the Scriptural messages almost from the beginning of the Christian era have been prolific subjects for debate; and the controversy is still on.

Much has been thought, spoken, and done concerning missions and missionaries. Nearly, if not quite all, the Christian churches carry on what they call missions with the aid of missionaries whom they employ, whereby their especial doctrines or denominational creeds are promulgated.

Christian Science gives an entirely new viewpoint from which to survey creation. Before one knows anything about the truth which Christian Science reveals, he lives in the belief that what is generally known as the universe,—the earth and the other planets, the stars and the nebulæ, which men picture to themselves as existing in space, in other words, the so-called material universe, including so-called material man,—is the most real thing there is or can be.

The passages in the gospel of John which deal with the incarnation of the Christ are of peculiar significance to students of Christian Science. Christians have long found in these passages justification for the belief that material man is the temple of the Holy spirit, a belief which has led them into the doctrine of dualism,—spirit indwelling in matter.