Editorials

With the swiftly passing years we are again recalling the time when the Son of God was so manifested to humanity by Christ Jesus that the world's thought could never again be the same as it had been, could never again plead ignorance of God in justification of evil thinking or doing. Since that time the rift in the clouds of material sense which enabled the Judean shepherds to catch a glimpse of the heavenly host has been widening, and to-day we not only see what they saw and hear what they heard, but in the clear light of divine Science we are coming to apprehend the Christ as the type of true manhood to which all men must "be conformed," to use Paul's words, in order to express what man really is.

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, And from the river unto the ends of the earth. Thy kingdom come.

Rev. Mary Baker G.

To me Christmas involves an open secret, understood by few—or by none—and unutterable except in Christian Science. Christ was not born of the flesh.

When human faith and hope were ready to burst the fetters of long-time bondage, a handful of brave men and women rose superior to the ties of family and country and came to these shores seeking freedom to worship God. Their bold venture finds a parallel in the experience of Abraham, who for the sake of a pure religion left home and country and became the father of a great race to which all mankind is indebted for its grand theistic literature,—the words of patriarch and prophet that are to-day as never before helping to work out the divine purpose in the uplifting of mankind.

Our friend Mr. B.

Mental carelessness must take its place among the sins which men struggle against, and for which they repent. Phillips Brooks.

The able discourse of our "learned Judge," his flash of flight and insight, lays the axe "into the root of the trees," and shatters whatever hinders the Science of being. Mary Baker G.

This decorative and instructive picture by H. B.

The distinctive note of autumnal nature is comforting. To the troubled mind and heart it brings a sweet solace, and they who long for peace, "the central feeling of all happiness," do well to frequent her retreats.