Editorials

As we approach the end of the year we are accustomed to look over its experiences in order that we may rate ourselves and find how much has been gained during the months which have gone by. Mrs.

When Jesus found that the understanding of the men of his age was not ready for truth stated metaphysically, or theologically if we use the word in its true sense, he perpetuated his teaching in parables. If in his very presence there was the wrangling and criticism of scribe and Pharisee over his uttered sentences, then the preservation and transmission of his words and teaching in correct form needed to be provided for.

Often may we ask ourselves what it is that constitutes a nation, and we need not search long for the answer, which comes very naturally. It is, Men! It of course goes without saying that until we have men worthy of the name, the nations of the earth will fail to express any high ideal, though they may ofttimes turn their gaze toward that which all must admit to be the one thing worth striving for.

Generous impulses and spontaneous joys in well–doing are accompaniments of growth in Christian Science. Bugle calls to activity are constantly resounding over the sleeping camps of the mentally lazy, arousing those who should be spiritual warriors to unfurl the standard of Truth and advance against the enemies of mankind.

The carpenter's trade has a peculiar interest because Jesus of Nazareth probably served as an apprentice to Joseph when he worked at his trade. "Is not this carpenter's son?" his fellow said with fine scorn, after to teaching in their synagogue.

For a number of years the free distribution of Christian Science literature has been assuming increasingly larger proportions in the activity of the entire field. The desire of Christian Scientists to avoid neglecting this important work, together with the necessity for developing step by step the organized means for accomplishing the best results, has sometimes produced a lack of uniformity in methods and a liability in some instances to conflict in authority.

Christian Scientists  should be prophets. They should be such close students of immortal Mind that that Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus" will reveal to them the past and the future as well as the significance of the present.

In Paul's first, epistle to Timothy we find this statement: "Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness. " The scholars of course tell us that the word mystery as used in the New Testament had a different meaning to that which is now attached to it, but in spite of this we find the spiritual significance of this passage and similar statements brought to light in Christian Science.

There once was a time when strange things were taught, and the lives of men were made unhappy in proportion to the earnestness with which they believed these teachings. One of the things taught in those days was the duty of every man to do good, on the condition that doing good involved his own losing of good.

After coming into Christian Science people often begin to ask to what extent their former religious views concerning the belief of sin and its punishment are in line with the teachings of Science. It may be said that very few religious people apart from Christian Science are at all agreed respecting the punishment of wrong-doers, although the faithful study of the Scriptures throws a wonderful light upon this whole subject.