Editorials

In all the crises of human experience, those who are in any wise spiritually awakened turn to the Bible for consolation; nor is this strange, since we find in the fortieth chapter of the prophecy of Isaiah the command, "Comfort ye my people, saith your God. " Then follows the message to be given to an afflicted people at that day,—"Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished.

All ethical questions, all the important issues connected with human progress, are related to and bound up with a yet greater question, namely, that respecting the nature and allness of Deity, an answer to which must antedate the profitable discussion of every vital matter, since it conditions all rational thought. It is this fact that renders the maintenance of the perfection of the divine character, as taught in Christian Science, of such immeasurable significance.

Until we learn to think with the understanding which is the reward of a knowledge of divine Science, we are wont to regard vision as purely a matter of seeing with the material eyes, as something dependent on mortal sight. We pity the blind as those deprived of the beauties of earth and sky, when we should remember, as Mrs.

THAT all real progress, all genuine gain, is an educational advance, the displacement of the error in human consciousness by truth, is a mere truism, and yet how frequently we all need to be reminded of it. This thought of salvation as the attainment of wisdom was expressed by the Master in his teaching that freedom is to be gained as we "know the truth," and it is reechoed in Mrs.

THERE are very few who realize that Christian Science demands perfect exactness of statement, and what is more, scientific thought-processes, which are always in harmony with the requirements of divine Principle. Too long has religion been coupled with mere belief or blind faith.

THERE are few whose experience has brought them in touch with life as mortals know it, who have not found out for themselves that preaching and practice ofttimes do not companion together. One may profess with the lips obedience to the greatest of the commandments, and yet fail utterly when it comes to actual performance, though quite sincere in his desire to do what is right.

TO the students of Christian Science, nothing is more interesting than to trace the relation between the statements of Scripture which announce the establishment of God's kingdom among men, and the teachings of their text-book which make plain the part that every professed follower of Christ should take toward this end. To Christ Jesus, the kingdom of God with its life-giving laws was an eternal fact, but this was far from being the case with humanity at large; and though the religious teachers of his day doubtless admitted its existence, they practically denied the operation of its laws, which are always spiritual.

IT is quite a common thing to hear very intelligent men speak in terms of gentle irony respecting "the impracticability of the transcendental," idealism being identified by them as the dream of the visionary. They are willing to hear the dreamers talk, ready to pronounce their concepts beautiful, but as for their part and place in the actual doing of things,—well, it is simply denied that they have any.

" LET your light," said the great Teacher, "so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. " It is evident from this counsel that Jesus expected his disciples, the chosen ones who had left all to follow him, to be bright and shining lights to those still sitting in the darkness of sin and sorrow.

BELIEF in the so-called miracles is a large factor in religious faith, hence anything which tends to disturb it, militates directly against the prevailing conviction of and hold upon Christian verities. Furthermore, the disappearance of the traditional phenomena attending the activity of an assertedly divine law, tends to beget a spirit of incredulity respecting the historic actuality of such phenomena, since our human experience of the unvarying continuity of law warrants the expectation that under normal conditions it will give an account of itself, without regard to times or seasons.