Editorials

With longing and earnest desire the thoughts of men turn to peace at this time when conflict throughout the world is making confusion. As the hungry long for food and the parched ground for the dew, so do men and women desire to find once more the ways of peace.

A Cynic once said that a man is immortal until death; whereas popular religion declares that his immortality begins then. Certainly no one can be called immortal so long as he lives in the constant expectation of death, even if he believes that he may take up the broken threads of his existence beyond the grave.

Thinkers are sufficiently familiar with destructive criticism to recognize its futility in the saving of the world. If the criticism is mere captious faultfinding, the critic suffers most, for wrong thoughts entertained are self-inflicted poison.

When the message of salvation through repentance was to be sent to Nineveh, the word of the Lord came unto Jonah saying, "Preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. " The effect of this preaching was a change of heart in those who heard, and every one, from the highest in rank to the humblest in station, engaged in prayer and fasting, and because they turned from sin and with humility sought to be obedient to Principle the impending evil was averted.

ONE of the noblest tasks of Christian Science is to rescue the right ideas expressed by words from the false concepts which the usage of mortal mind has ingrafted into them. The word pride should not be discarded because it has been abused.

NOT all who are acquainted with Mrs. Eddy's teachings are aware that the article entitled "An Allegory" in her "Miscellaneous Writings" was selected by her to be read at the World's Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago in 1894.

MANY poets have sung of the weariness of waiting, and the wisdom of the human mind has been put into the proverb which declares, "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. " And yet men have waited through many years and have been patient in their work, and in the time of gray hairs have seen the hope that in early youth they cherished bloom into fruition.

In the prophecy of Isaiah we find a distinct promise that God would manifest himself to humanity through His own idea as revealed to mankind, and that his name was to be Immanuel. In the first chapter of Matthew's gospel we find the fulfillment of this prophecy in the birth of Jesus, and we read that the angel who announced his appearing said that his name should be Immanuel, or "God with us.

One of Simon Peter's noblest qualities, namely his genuine trust in the Master, made him willing to declare, "We have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. " Toiling all the night in vain is the human method, but letting down the net in obedience to God's command incloses "a great multitude of fishes.

When John wrote, saying, "Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ," he was declaring clearly and emphatically the fact of Mind and its manifestation, revealing the absolute and that which is related to it. The fellowship of which he spoke brings out for us the true rule and the right practice in life, and inspires the Christian to be a worthy representative "of our Lord, and of his Christ.