Editorials

IT would be difficult to designate a teaching of Christ Jesus upon which he laid greater emphasis than upon the thought that no man can serve two masters, that it is quite impossible to follow the right and the wrong, the truth and the error, about anything. No sane person questions the correctness of this teaching, and the self-respect of every honest man must impel him to blame himself alone for every ill resulting from his indifference to it.

AS we read in the Bible and in secular history of the struggles of mankind to reach the light, we can but be impressed by the fact that their failure to go steadily forward has ever been due to the tendency to cling to materiality, to regard it as essential to their happiness if not to their very existence. Freedom, seen from any view-point, is a mental or spiritual idea, and is only attained as material fetters are thrown off one after another,—the pride, the luxury, the indolence, the greed; all the lusts which spring from the false belief that man is material as well as spiritual, if not wholly material.

There seems to be a thought with many who write letters of appreciation and gratitude to our Leader, for the benefits derived through her teachings, that their letters may never be seen nor read by her. This is not the case.

Mrs. Mary Baker G.

ONE of the most striking statements in the Bible is the angel's declaration to Mary, "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee. " In the Gospels we have the first mention of the Holy Ghost, although some of the New Testament writers refer to this divine manifestation as having influenced those of an earlier day.

THE vital and universal significance of the Christian Science movement, its place in the providential ordering of the world's spiritual advance, cannot be duly appreciated or even understood apart from a knowledge both of its revolutionary and constructive teaching, and of the religious thought conditions into the midst of which it has been projected. Respecting these thought conditions very much is being said to-day by religious authorities who demand a hearing.

Our Leader has requested us to say that no letters of inquiry are to be addressed to her touching upon questions that should properly come before the Clerk or other officers of The Mother Church, The Christian Science Publishing Society, or the publisher of her books. Will our readers please bear this request in mind, so that they will not trespass upon the attention of secretaries whose legitimate duties fully occupy their time.

A Complete Concordance to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," revised from the latest edition of Science and Health, is now on the press and will be ready for delivery in a few days. In the revision of this work the plan of the original Concordance has been retained in its entirety.

THE dawn of Christianity was a sunburst of good. It was history's most glorious exhibition of the giving that is born of Love.

THE statement was recently made by a prominent clergyman that while there had been a marked decline in religion, the present period is characterized by a no less marked reaction towards religion, including the study of the Scriptures. It was also stated that Christian Science is the logical and inevitable expression of this reaction.