Editorials

Every discordant effect in the body is produced by some mental error entertained, not destroyed. If such an erroneous belief is not taken into account, discerned, and cast out, the body is apt to take on the consequence of evil or fearful thinking.

The Christmas season, rightly interpreted, points human thought to the truths of being which the Saviour received from God and proved in ineffable compassion for mankind. Christ Jesus, whose birth the Christian world celebrates, showed humanity how to break the bonds of mortality and escape from the grasp of material sense in which men's woes and limitations appear.

ON the occasion of the Thanksgiving Day service held in First Church of Christ, Scientist, Concord, New Hampshire, in 1904, Mrs. Eddy wrote to the members of that church as follows (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

THE theory and practice of Christian Science are, of course, inseparable. The theory includes an understanding of the nature of God as primal cause and of the continuing, uninterrupted relationship that exists between God and man.

PERHAPS the human race needs nothing so much as intelligent direction: how to think, what to do, where to go, when to act, which course to pursue. But men need a true sense of direction in more than minute by minute personal decisions; they need it in the full course of their lives.

" Christian Science is absolute; it is neither behind the point of perfection nor advancing towards it; it is at this point and must be practised therefrom. " This statement was made by Mrs.

Soul , God, is supreme in earth as in heaven, Christian Science affirms. That the power of Soul is not always evidenced in human affairs does not mean that Soul is absent or incapable of controlling our lives in the minutest details.

When our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, gave the directive that the Christian Science periodicals are to be kept abreast of the times, she opened the way of progress for these messengers of Truth for centuries to come. Today her wisdom is displayed in the progressive step being taken in the method of distributing The Christian Science Monitor to the world.

Through Christian Science we learn that God is supreme good, immutable good, total good. In "Rudimental Divine Science," Mrs.

Membership in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, provides a unique spiritual experience. The simple and dignified steps leading to and comprising membership, divinely impelled, bring splendid opportunities to work harmoniously with others who share similar aspirations.