Editorials

THE book of Job has been called by a profound thinker, "a masterpiece of Semitic genius," and scholars have found much pleasure in its dramatic and majestic presentation of the problem of human suffering and the attempts of philosophy and scholastic theology to account for it. Apart from the views of critics and scholars, the wayfaring man, when himself oppressed by the heavy burden of suffering, whether mental or physical, is greatly drawn to the book of Job, and ofttimes is tempted to echo the sad plaint of this just man who, according to the story, had to endure untold misery because Satan desired to afflict him.

AS one comes to think of it, there is no familiar physical fact so central, so all-surrounding as light. Three million suns stud the firmament as silent witnesses to its universality, hence the fitness and frequency of its symbolic use by the Scripture writers.

PROBABLY one of the most comprehensive and effective answers that can be made to the question so often asked, What is Christian Science and how does it operate? is to quote the crystallized definition which Mrs. Eddy gives on page 1 of "Rudimental Divine Science": "The law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony.

THE mellow harvest days have come again, to bring to many the rich fruitage of their own faithfulness, and to remind others of the saying that "we must bring to wealth all its value; we must do, if we would possess. " Laziness seems appallingly vast in the aggregate, and it is ever arguing how much easier it is to part company with vexatious labor, to commit one's problems to others and believe and do what they say, than to enter into the wrestling with great questions and issues for ourselves.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE has accomplished a great work in compelling people who are affiliated with some one or other of the many Christian denominations to "search the Scriptures" as they had never done before in order to defend the doctrines which they had either accepted or inherited. In many instances this search is undertaken for the purpose of showing some Christian Scientist that his views are unscriptural, an attempt which can never result in aught but the illumination of the inquirer if he is honest and reasonable and if he sincerely desires to get at the truth.

IN "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p. 232 ) Mrs.

The devotees of a long-established religious order are always troubled by any show of change. They are not only subject to the dominion of a habit of thought, but never having learned to demonstrate the verity of their religious convictions, discrimination between divine truth and human opinions has been neglected until the beliefs of their fathers have come to wield a controlling influence which rightly belongs to demonstrable truth alone.

As the character of Christ Jesus is studied in the light of Christian Science, we are impressed by the fact that his spotless purity offers the best explanation of his mighty works. This being admitted, we may well ponder deeply his fearless declaration, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

The excuse sometimes proffered for human weaknesses and peccadillos is, "Oh, it doesn't amount to anything. If I never do anything worse than that, I shall be all right.

AT this period, the question of the Philippian jailer, "What must I do to be saved?" takes on a new significance to the average mortal, who is not so much concerned about salvation which is supposed to deal largely with a future life as with the pressing demands of the present hour. He asks what he shall do to be saved from limitation, lack, and possible failure, and this opens up the subject of vocation and leads him to inquire what he is best fitted to do.