Editorials

In his famous lecture on the conquests of the Saracens, Dr. John Lord focuses attention upon the fact that during the thirteen years in which Mohammed stood not only for pure monotheism but for a kindly, inoffensive life, the recognition and practice of universal brotherhood, he gained only about a score of converts; but when he appealed to the passions of men, assured the faithful of all the delights of a sensual heaven, and invoked the sword as a means of propaganda, he converted all Arabia within eleven years! This unpopularity of a high ideal, and this seeming gain attending the lowering of the ethical standard, is abundantly illustrated in the history of religions.

To every earnest worker in the field of Christian Science there is likely to come not once but many times the question as to its possibilities in meeting promptly and effectually the false claims of evil to place and power. He is a skeptic indeed who today, in the face of unnumbered thousands of testimonies of the healing of "all manner of disease," attempts to refute the assertion that Christian Science, as taught and demonstrated by its adherents, does make whole the sick and the sinning,—the fulfilment to this age of the Master's promise, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also.

THERE are many who recall that on first reading Science and Health they were impressed, and withal perchance annoyed, by Mrs. Eddy's frequent repetition of statements respecting the unreality of matter and of evil.

IT is St. John who says, and in no uncertain tone, "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world;" and this to many Christian people means an unequivocal demand for asceticism, from which they shrink.

IF , as Mrs. Eddy has declared on page 271 of Science and Health, "the Sermon on the Mount is the essence of this Science,"—the Science of Christianity,—then unquestionably the golden rule is its epitome.

All thinkers have seen that there is a wide difference between a thing itself and the ordinary concept of it, and this is even more true in respect to the divine idea and the human concept of that idea. With wonderful insight Mrs.

ACCORDING to their uniform testimony, those who enter a. upon an honest, truth-seeking study of Christian Science invariably realize a great purification and exaltation of sense.

IN her discovery and gift to the world of Christian Science, "the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony" ( Rudimental Divine Science, p. 1 ), Mrs.

IN January, 1895, at the dedication of the first edifice of The Mother Church, the following statement by our revered Leader was given out in the sermon prepared by her: "I have ordained the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,' as pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston,— so long as this church is satisfied with this pastor" ( Pulpit and Press, p. 7 ).

UPON the human plane, individualism, the independent living of one's own life, may have both a noble and an ignoble expression. In its demand for personal freedom, its right to work out its own salvation subject to none other but God, the democratic idea is altogether worthy.