Editorials

HOWEVER substantial the visible foundations of a structure may seem, unless they are laid upon the solid rock there is no absolute assurance of stability; hence the wise builder spares neither patience nor expense in his effort to gain this end. He continues to excavate the superimposed earth and debris until he reaches a ledge which has the planet behind it and which will not fail him when the fortieth story is added.

On April 29 our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, made an important change on page 55 (69 of the old edition) of "Unity of Good," and requested that it be published in the Journal.

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.

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.

Box G, Brookline, Mass. , April 12, 1909.

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.

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