Editorials

THROUGHOUT the Scriptures,—from the days when Abram entreated Lot, "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, .

We are glad to have the privilege of publishing an extract from a letter to Mrs. Eddy, from a Christian Scientist in the West, and Mrs.

IN Christian Science great emphasis is laid upon the office of the Holy Comforter, whose ministry was foretold by Christ Jesus as the necessary fulfilment of his own redemptive work. The 14th, 15th, and 16th chapters of John's Gospel are wonderfully rich in promises of the future unfoldment of the saving ministry of Truth inaugurated by the great Teacher and committed to his students, also, to quote himself, to them "which shall believe on me through their word.

TO suppose, as many seem to, that Christian Science is a sort of family cure-all,—like the old-time household panacea,—to be taken in frequent or large doses when pain is experienced, and to be put on the shelf when the pain is banished, is a serious mistake, and it is incumbent upon Christian Scientists to prove by their daily living that this concept of their faith is most certainly not the one held by them. Through faithful study of their text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," they have learned that to be "every whit whole" means not only to be well physically, but also to be well spiritually and morally.

OF all the many perplexing problems with which humanity is brought face to face, one of the most puzzling is its own seemingly inexplicable nature. It is perfectly clear, to all who think, that opposite? cannot dwell together, and yet from his cradle to his grave that which is regarded by the many as man is, and ever has been, a bundle of arrant contradictions.

WHEN one recalls the part which the belief of evil has played in the tragedy of mortal experience, and the universal longing to escape the suffering which always attends its reign, it is not difficult to accept the statement that in the course of human history more sacrifices have probably been made and more prayers offered to the devil than to God. Devotion to rites that are cruelly painful and oppressive, as well as degrading, to the end that some malicious spirit may be propitiated, some dreaded event be escaped from, characterizes practically all so-called heathen religions, and the traveler may still come upon concrete evidences, in many lands, of an enthronement of a belief in the power of evil which is too sadly pitiful to be either described or forgotten.

IN the book of Isaiah we find a wonderfully graphic and poetical description of human conditions at the time when peace shall come to take the place of war and right to displace all wrong. The prophet says: "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light.

MUCH of the criticism of Christian Science which finds its way into the public press these days is in reality a criticism of the critic's own belief of what Christian Science is; and this is nowhere more apparent, to those who are familiar with Science and Health and Mrs. Eddy's other writings, than when the would-be critic fails to distinguish between Christian Science in its reliance upon divine Mind and the mental suggestion which depends upon the willpower of fallible mortal mind, or when he confuses Christian Science with faith-cure.

At the head of the list of anniversary congratulations to well-known people which Life prints every week, there stands in the issue of July 14, 1910, the following tribute. It gives us much pleasure to reproduce this tribute from Life, and to express in Mrs.

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS are always glad to hear of criticism of their doctrines and practice, if only it be fair and if the critic does not claim to have a complete knowledge of the subject when he has only the dilettante's point of view. The time has gone by when any thoughtful person, especially one with religious conviction, can afford to admit ignorance of Christian Science.