Editorials

Sometimes the one seeking healing through Christian Science is tempted to query too much as to when the relief may be expected and why it has not yet seemingly come about. Such questionings Mrs.

The Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, in London, is a fine scholar, a brilliant thinker, and a writer of admitted capacity.

In elections, in business, in every phase of experience, it is well, of course, to consider the record of all those concerned. Any sequence of action, however, needs to be understood as a whole.

The world is keeping the centenary of Herbert Spencer's birth. He was a man of prodigious learning and of an even more prodigious industry.

What constitutes a truly radical stand, as understood in Christian Science, is of interest to the whole world. For any seeming whatever, there must be the true idea.

In the New Testament the word translated assembly is the same as that translated church, namely, èκκλŋσía. This is surely no mere chance; on the contrary, the writers of the books in which the word occurs must have had a clear perception of the fact that the assembly, like the church, was not a mere gathering together of so many persons, but was, as Mrs.

The now which God knows is always good. To every age, the temptation has probably come to regard the past or the future as more enjoyable than the present.

One of the most puzzling things to the unwary reader of the Authorized Version of the Bible is the fact that it is written in Elizabethan English. This fact is rendered less obvious because the language is not completely archaic, like that of Chaucer, and because words, whilst retaining their ordinary form and spelling, have in many instances changed their meaning.

March 4, 1920. Board of Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society, 107 Falmouth Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

"Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek most to know themselves,"—so declared Shakespeare, and all thoughtful men have recognized this self-knowledge as a primal necessity to all true accomplishment in being and doing. In other words, men must act intelligently if they are to express any right activity; and what does this intelligence imply but true self-knowledge? Since God is the infinite One, He must be the only Ego, and He therefore includes all selfhood.