Editorials

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.

OVER nineteen centuries ago there was born into the world one whose coming was heralded by "the angel of the Lord" in the sweetest language that has ever reached mankind. The "shepherds abiding in the fields" by night heard the message; and even to-day, with all those many hundreds of years between, it is still resounding among all who are longing for its fulfillment.

THERE is one fact which all mankind must come to acknowledge and accept, namely, that there is only one Governor and that this Governor is God, the infinite, divine Mind. To-day many mortals seem to believe there should be as many governors as there are persons, and but comparatively few have awakened in any degree to the great and glorious truth, that "man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love" as Mrs.

WHEN Christ Jesus, repeating the thought and, in part, the language of the psalmist, declared, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away," he revealed to his disciples who heard him, and to their succeeding generations, two facts of great import. With impressive brevity he set forth in a single sentence and with perfect assurance the permanency of Truth expressed in "my words," manifestly implying its reality, that is to say, its stable, permanent, and eternal quality.

BY the recent decision of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts there is placed before every member of The Mother Church the opportunity to aid in quickly restoring our periodicals to their rightful position as auxiliaries for publicly presenting Christian Science, the essence of which is to be found in its purity and entirety only in the writings of our Leader. The claims of those who stood loyally by what they conceived to be Mrs.

A business man who is working out his daily affairs through the application of Christian Science, is sometimes tempted to think too much of the complex details of each problem, and not enough of the basic idea manifesting Principle. Many business investigations and reports are confused by a mass of facts and figures which in themselves may be highly interesting but which may not reveal the truth of the situation, for statistics and specific data, including examples, comparisons, and other devices of minute analysis weigh as nothing against a single metaphysical truth.

There is no more remarkable phase of all Mrs. Eddy's writings than the extraordinary manner in which, by sheer spiritual insight, she has fathomed the meanings of some of the most difficult and recondite passages in the Bible.

Technically , the year 1921 may be termed one of relative peace, especially if its events are compared with the state of the world between 1914 and 1918. Yet peace can be fully understood only by those who have found it for themselves in Mind, and may even appear to be continual commotion to others, for the equilibrium of Mind which constitutes both rest and order is not a static physical condition but moves and lives with infinite vitality.

Order is inseparable from law. So obvious is this that the two are always connected in human thought.