Editorials

Sooner or later every student of Christian Science comes to know that true freedom inheres only in the activity of the one Mind. An evidence of that activity is seen in the irresistible urge which has constantly impelled mankind toward the realization of an ever larger sense of freedom, breaking the bonds of materiality and revealing man's native state of perfection.

To the consecrated student of Christian Science there is no subject which demands more earnest study, and more prayerful consideration as to its meaning and method of demonstration, than does the Christian Science treatment. As with all other important questions, there must be an understanding of its fundamental premise, and of the rules whereby such premise may be utilized and proved equal to the solution of each problem presented.

There are few quarters of the globe to-day where the news has not penetrated that Christian Science heals the sick. Mention is constantly being made of the fact all over the civilized world; and people are not nearly so skeptical as they once were, when told that some one they may have known has been healed of, perhaps, a long-standing sickness, through the agency of Christian Science.

No sooner is the student of Christian Science confronted with the problem of evil than the question arises how best to prove its unreality, how most successfully to overcome its claims to a power which assumes to be opposed to good. The problem of destroying evil is as old as evil's claim to existence; yet, the method of solving it has only been made available through the discovery in modern times of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy.

There are few topics of greater importance than that pertaining to primal cause; and certainly an understanding of none of them can exceed in value for humanity a knowledge of the source or origin of all reality. The so-called human mind is constantly dealing with what are known as secondary causes and their effects.

So much of the association of humanity is carried on through conversation that there is, now and always, great need that one's speech should be carefully watched lest it prove a prolific source of evil; for whereas the tongue should proclaim only good, it may become the advocate of all that is false and harmful. James tells us that "the tongue.

Christian Scientists have found in the teachings of Mrs. Eddy the solution to the riddle of the universe, for therein is revealed the practical answer to Job's troubled questionings concerning man's true being as well as to Pilate's more pointed query, "What is truth?" For them, the Persian poet's couplet, inquiring as to man's origin and destiny, has no mystery.

When our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, started the Christian Science periodicals, she conferred upon the world a blessing of inestimable magnitude. From the most modest of beginnings they have grown to great proportions.

There is great need to-day for the spirit of gentleness among men. There is always this need; but it seems as if the world, which had become so accustomed to the warfare of the years so recently gone by, still retained its attitude of aggressive mental strife.

Whenever individuals unite to promote a common cause, it becomes immediately necessary to formulate rules of action, that procedure may be orderly and effective. A significant episode in connection with the coming of the Pilgrim Fathers to the shores of the New World, one upon which, with something of wonder, succeeding generations have loved to dwell, was the gathering, in the little cabin of the Mayflower , of those hardy seafarers, to formulate and adopt a compact as the basis for the government of the community they were about to establish.