Editorials

During the war it was rightly hoped that a time of better work, wiser thinking, and real progress of all sorts would follow the stir. Yet, merely to look to the future, it has been proved, may be to ignore the good of the present.

The world is supremely tired of the people who go about offering new lamps for old. It has learned that it is usually all in the way of trade, and that the main object is that the trader should be enriched in the process.

Some uninformed people have mistakenly believed that Christian Science has not participated sufficiently in general social service. The fact is that the activity of demonstrable Principle for the benefit of all is boundless.

A league of nations is a necessity of mankind. It is a product of the world's growing perceptions of its own moral bankruptcy.

When the humanly prosperous business man stops to consider why he is thankful, he needs to differentiate carefully between the true substance which is Spirit and the illusion of materiality. To be glad that a course of heartless profiteering or of ruthless monopolizing has brought one wealth is not to be truly grateful to Principle at all.

It is impossible to tell a lie about anything except the truth. Even a fairy tale is dependent upon some semblance of fact for its fantastic embroidery of human existence.

Amid the discords that necessarily attend any attempts to make utterly selfish settlements of one kind or another now that the war is over, many are sincerely considering some form of cooperation as a remedy for seeming inequalities of opportunity. On the one hand, the old systems of domination seem struggling still to perpetuate themselves.

THERE is nothing in the world which it is, apparently, more difficult for mankind to concede than the unreality of matter. Even the philosophers who have preached the theory have studiously eschewed the practice.

During the war, those who understood something of what constitutes working for Principle expected eagerly and rightly that, with the coming of peace, there would be a very thorough overturning of the old systems of party politics in every country. This overturning has, of course, begun.

When Mrs. Eddy wrote, on page 480 of Science and Health, "When the substance of Spirit appears in Christian Science, the nothingness of matter is recognized," when she embodied a somewhat similar statement in the fifth tenet, on page 497 of the same book, when, on pages 9 and 10 of "Unity of Good," she demanded, "What is the cardinal point of the difference in my metaphysical system?" and immediately answered her own question as follows, "This: that by knowing the unreality of disease, sin, and death, you demonstrate the allness of God.