Editorials

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.

In the early days of the Christian church, while the bishop was the overlooker or overseer of a specific group of workers, the familiar figure of the shepherd was used continually to describe his duties. In fact the bishop's crook or pastoral staff was made like the shepherd's staff, that by the very insignia his flock might be reminded of his spiritual office.

WHEN the children of Israel begged of Samuel that he would give them a king to reign over them, they gave as their reason for such a desire, "That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. " Samuel warned them that if they insisted upon this they would eventually find themselves the servants of this king and that all they owned would become his property.