Editorials

It is quite impossible to separate law and obedience. The instant law is conceived, that same instant obedience is demanded; for without obedience law would cease to be law; it would be without power or activity.

Prayer is the means whereby men commune with God and receive His answer. It is instinctive with men to pray.

With the acceptance of the belief of life apart from God,— that is to say, of the human sense of life as physical, sustained only by material means,—there arose the necessity for labor. The Adam-man's condemnation to eat his bread in the sweat of his face was the beginning of a problem that has been his deep and constant concern from that vaguely distant day to the present hour; for he has never been free from the necessity of procuring the subsistence upon which he has agreed that life itself depends.

The question has been raised several times in the last four or five years, and again recently, as to whether it is best for branch churches throughout the field to send resolutions to the Board of Directors expressing loyalty to our Cause, and especially towards our institutions as established under the counsel of our inspired Leader. These resolutions are invariably a spontaneous expression from the churches.

The ninety-first psalm from beginning to end expresses the trust of the writer of it in God. It is a pouring forth in song of faith steadfastly established in the Almighty as refuge, protector, deliverer.

No one ever uttered a wiser, truer word than did Mrs. Eddy when she said, "Each individual is responsible for himself" (Miscellaneous Writings, p.

Throughout the centuries Christians in general have been content to interpret the words of John, "For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil," as applicable alone to Christ Jesus. It has been, apparently, quite forgotten that the Nazarene taught that his followers were likewise the "sons of God.

Thy gentleness hath made me great. " So sang David when God had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies.

The exhortation which Paul addressed to the churches of Galatia, "Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not," must indeed have been hope-inspiring to the sincere among the Christians who received it. It is hope-inspiring still to all who are endeavoring to follow in the footsteps of the great Master, and particularly so to those who, through the teachings of Christian Science, have learned something of the unlimited power of good.

Paul constantly admonished his hearers to enter into a larger sense of liberty. Clearly recognizing the bondage of the flesh—that is, the fleshly or false beliefs—as, apparently, mankind's most potent enemy and stumblingblock, he urged them, with all his great powers of persuasion, to break the fetters which they had accepted as inevitable, and to stand fast in the full liberty of the sons of God.