Editorials

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.

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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.

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.

Much  has been said of late years concerning the prevention and treatment of so-called contagious or infectious diseases by various material methods, and it is to be noted in this connection that whatever results may be claimed by the advocates of these methods, the area of such diseases, according to medical opinion, is steadily widening. It is held, on the basis of the germ theory, that nearly all diseases are communicable, consequently the segregation of sufferers is coming to be insisted upon as a means of prevention; this, too, in spite of the general admission that fear is a preponderating element in all diseases, and that separation from home and friends would have a disastrous effect by inducing the hopelessness which more than almost anything else needs to be guarded against.

IN reading the "Testimonies from the Field" published in each issue of this magazine, we find many instances where the writers have been healed of diseases which had been pronounced incurable by the physicians in attendance, and the present number is no exception in this regard. In these testimonies, as in all those which are given in our publications, the facts must be vouched for by some one knowing to the conditions of the healing, and preferably by a member of The Mother Church.

New York, N. Y.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.