Editorials

The approach of the first day of a new calendar year stimulates hope and invites gratitude. The year 1918 registered great victories.

At the beginning of another year many are asking what further changes are to come as crowns fall and thrones totter in the mighty shaking of all things by the fiat of omnipotent Truth. In the twelfth chapter of Hebrews reference is made to the giving of the Ten Commandments from Mt.

Students of the Bible find many a thrill of joy as its spiritual truths unfold to them. In the horror of darkness produced by aggressive war they have remembered that promise from the psalms: "Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness;" and the reasonable basis for this expectation is that the upright man is "gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

At the dawn of the world's first Christmas we read that the wise men from the East came to Jerusalem and inquired there for the newly born King of the Jews. We all know the story as given in the second chapter of Matthew, and we see how little Herod's duplicity and savagery availed to save himself or his dynasty, for there was not a single quality within the range of his thought which had any relation to the "everlasting king" of Jeremiah's prophecy,—the "King of nations,"—whose kingship endures whether men recognize it or not.

Mrs. Eddy's illustrated work, "Christ and Christmas," has by pen and picture presented a summing up of the meaning of the new birth.

The human will strives not for mastery over itself but for control over the lives and fortunes of others. Mrs.

Liberty has never been established by a false peace. It takes the righteous facts of truth to satisfy the high ideals of liberty.

It is very well known that when Mrs. Eddy attached the word Science to Christianity there were many protests, and occasionally criticisms of this sort are heard even now.

We expect with faith that when God's way is known in the earth honesty will be regular, kindness will be prevalent, and men will have understanding hearts. Before this can be, however, much that is crooked must be made straight.

In all lands and at all times the harvest season is regarded as an occasion for much rejoicing; and little wonder, even if it sometimes fails to bring all that we desire, or brings instead much that we would rather be spared. Let this be as it may, the promise made to Noah, "Seedtime and harvest.