Editorials

What the world means by spirituality and its idea of ordinary morality are widely different; and yet they are very closely related and apparently inter-dependent. Therefore let us not flatter ourselves that we are growing spiritually' while our lives in any respect fall short of the human standard of morality.

He must be reckoned a daring man who denies the reality of matter and yet asserts the reality of evil, for the logic of the situation leads to the inevitable inclusion of evil in the divine consciousness, and thus involves some startling contradictions. For example, if the one infinite Mind embraces evil it must embrace all that evil entails including death.

As morning dawns, long before the great sun in fullorbed splendor proclaims the day, the mountain peaks catch the beams of light and reflect them to the valleys below still resting in the deep, dark shadows. Prophetic rays they are, touching only the highest altitudes, harbingers, moreover, of the splendors in store for all the world.

Being enriched in everything to all bountifulness. which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.

As we ascend, new obstacles ever present themselves to be overcome, new tests of our sincerity and earnestness appear. These should bring to us no sense of discouragement, but rather assurance that greater victories are possible to us.

History is replete with illustrations of the dangers resulting from what may have been an altogether necessary reaction. The tension attending a long-delayed relief from trying conditions, often leads to an excess of revolt which may prove to be equally far removed from the normal and healthful plane of thought or life.

There are those who, while deeply interested in Christian Science, seem quite shut out from its benefits by the conviction that the saving and effective apprehension of its truth is attained with great difficulty, and that only the intellectually and spiritually favored may hope to enter its inner courts. This wholly unauthorized, untrue, and unprogressive mental state may result from a very general temptation to lethargy, or it may grow out of the presumptuous denial of spiritual achievement, if the deepest spiritual problems are not immediately solved; or it may be superinduced by a discussion of error which does not mean its destruction, but rather its enthronement; an assertion of its presence and subtlety which intensifies the sense of its reality, and thus discourages the beginner and the uninformed.

IT is truly said that a stream can rise no higher than its source, and it is equally true that human character does not rise higher than the source from which humanity draws inspiration. If character has no surer foundation than uncertain, changing human opinions of right and wrong, it is like a house built upon the sand, whose destruction is certain under stress of storm and flood.

The lion crouched by the way of the Pilgrim in Christian Science is a false sense of sacrifice. Its roar is but a threat, and, like all error, it will cower and slink away under a brave eye, a determined purpose.

The reports received from the branch churches, showing that our Leader's "Words to the Wise" have been heeded, are very interesting, and if space permitted we would be glad to submit them in full. Many of these reports are brief, and breathe the spirit of the soldier answering roll-call.