Editorials

NO thoughtful student of the life of Christ Jesus can follow him as he went about among the poor and suffering, who ofttimes actually blocked his way with their importunities, without being impressed with the intelligent, ever active, and efficient sympathy of his great heart. The official suppression and neglect of the commoner in those days, his extreme poverty, together with the general prevalence of leprosy and other dreadful diseases, sufficiently explain the fact that, as goon as the Master's good will and healing power became known, he was simply overwhelmed with calls for help, and in the freedom and fulness of his response he gave to history its most glorious page.

ALL professing Christians are agreed that Christ Jesus is the Exemplar, the model for all his followers, and there are none who accept this proposition more heartily and unreservedly than do Christian Scientists. Respecting this our revered Leader says, in a remarkable article entitled "Vainglory," "Lives there a.

AT that memorable breakfast beside the sea of Galilee, when the Master for the last time broke bread with his disciples, occurred the significant incident which John records in his gospel: "When they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

A STUDY of the relation which exists between revelation and inspiration is of profound interest to the Christian Scientist. The dictionaries tell us that revelation is "the act of revealing or communicating divine truth, especially by divine agency or supernatural means.

THE initial word of St. Paul's injunction to the Philippians, "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus," is a small key, but it opens the door to a broad and exceedingly fruitful field of thought.

IN studying the sayings of Jesus, one cannot fail to be impressed by the thorough understanding of the vagaries and limitations of the so-called human mind which he displayed. His parables and his metaphors go to the very root of humanity's foibles, and point out the weaknesses and self-deception of mortals, the failings not only of those in his own day, but in ours as well.

THE recognition in Christian Science that there is but one source of truth, whence radiates all that is real, beautiful, and good, impels the inference that every impulse for better things which has wrought itself into the web of human progress has, in an important sense, registered the divine appearing. We are thus led to explain revelation as the result of an opening, or at least a thinning of the enveloping mists of mortal sense through which the ever-present light of Truth has found its way into human understanding.

THE present age little appreciates the magnitude of Mrs. Eddy's discovery and statement of the divine Principle of being, and the application of spiritual Science to all the problems of existence which is thereby made possible.

AN English contemporary, the British Congregationalist , recently expressed this opinion: "We believe that if the church of Christ, in humble dependence upon its Lord, would resolve to keep step with him, the ancient miracles would be repeated. " Not only is every word of this statement true, but the wonder is that after nineteen hundred years of Christianity there should be such general obliviousness among the professed followers of the master Christian to the truth therein expressed, as to make it startling.

THERE is perhaps no other question of such vital interest to humanity at large as that of man's immortality, even the attainment of present good giving place to it, possibly for the reason that here we "walk by faith, not by sight," and must continue to do so, to some extent, until the belief in materiality yields to spiritual reality. That the religious teaching of the past on this subject has been mainly unsatisfying is shown by the intense and sometimes hopeless grief displayed by those whose dear ones pass on, and also by the fact that so many turn eagerly to the modern interpretations of oriental philosophy, hoping to find therein that which they have missed in the orthodox teaching on death and the hereafter.