Editorials

In the 8th chapter of Matthew is a wonderful account of the healing of two insane men, and this story is also told by Mark and Luke with some slight variations which are not necessarily contradictions of Matthew's account. It is true that Mark and Luke mention only one man, but they dwell at greater length upon the healing, and tell how the poor, tormented sufferer began to express that perfect ideal of manhood which not only recognized the Christ that had healed him, but which loved his deliverer and desired to follow him wherever he went.

In her statement that "evil is sometimes a man's highest conception of right, until his grasp on good grows stronger" (Science and Health, p. 327), Mrs.

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A very popular impression in regard to Christian Science is that it is merely a system of drugless healing, and this view has been so strongly held by many critics of Mrs. Eddy's teachings that they are considerably surprised when informed that the aim and purpose of these teachings is to rescue mankind from all their erroneous beliefs, whether those beliefs are in the reality of sickness or of sin.

THE confused and the unintelligible have no interest for logical thought. Sanity demands of statements a distinguishable order, relation, end, and purpose, an exhibition of the "eternal fitness of things;" and this demand is made not only of immediate expressions of thought, but of history, of nature, of faith, of conduct; in a word, of life.

Mrs. Eddy says that "Jesus' spiritual origin and understanding enabled him to demonstrate the facts of being,—to prove irrefutably how spiritual Truth destroys material error, heals sickness, and overcomes death" (Science and Health, p.

IT is sometimes objected, by those who know of Christian Science only by hearsay, that it makes too much of physical healing, but this is an entirely mistaken sense both as to its purpose and results. If one were to read without prejudice all the testimonies published in our periodicals, he would see that in a large majority of cases the emphasis is placed upon the spiritual awakening which has come with the healing, and especially upon the opening up of the Scriptures which always accompanies the study of Science and Health.

Will our readers kindly bear in mind that the work at headquarters is necessarily divided into departments, also that by referring to the advertising pages of the Journal and Sentinel they will be able to ascertain the person or persons to whom their correspondence should be addressed in order to avoid delay. The Christian Science Publishing Society publishes and sells The Christian Science Journal, the Christian Science Sentinel, The Christian Science Quarterly, Der Herald der Christian Science, besides Bibles, pamphlets, reprints, also other miscellaneous publications fully listed in our advertising pages.

FEW would be disposed to question the proposition that the concept of God is the most important factor of human progress. Paul recognized this in his Mars Hill address, where he said, "Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

THE recently published statement of the dean of a well-known Protestant cathedral, that "God never intended His people to have immunity from those ills to which flesh is heir; but that sickness, like all other disciplines of life, is to be treated as a means of spiritual education," is thrown into striking relief when put over against the word of the Lord to our fathers, saying, "I will take sickness away from the midst of thee," and the specific command of Christ Jesus to his disciples that they "heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils. " When we recall the unnumbered assurances of the Bible that it is the will of God that those who accept His government should be well, and the corroborative fact that Christ Jesus constantly healed the sick of "all the ills to which flesh is heir;" when we read how the people came to him by the thousand, bringing the suffering and the diseased, and it is said again and again that he "healed them all," and then find those who are known as the ministers of Christ practically declaring that in all this blessed work the Master was defeating the divine purpose by robbing the beneficiaries of his ministry of the "means of spiritual education," then surely we have come upon an anomaly of colossal proportions.