Editorials

We are happy to announce a new full-length motion picture in color entitled "The Mother Church in Action. " The picture shows the expanding scope and progress of the world-wide activities of The Mother Church.

Christ Jesus demanded obedience to the moral as well as to the spiritual law. To the impotent man whom he had healed, the Master said ( John 5:14 ), "Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

Members of branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, have a great opportunity to prove the truths they daily acknowledge in their study of Christian Science. This opportunity is particularly apparent in members' meetings, in which the business of the church is taken care of and human opinions enter discussions.

A Happy New Year ! This is the wish expressed throughout the world by millions who celebrate the first day of January as the beginning of a new year. How to attain an abiding sense of happiness —this is one of the deep desires of mankind.

WHATEVER Christ Jesus said had great metaphysical meaning and deserves our prayerful study. And this is true of his words recorded in Matthew ( 13:33 ), "The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

AN eminent electrical engineer, Charles P. Steinmetz, is reported to have said over a quarter of a century ago, "Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness and are of little use in making men and women creative and powerful.

ONE way of settling differences between men and nations is through mediation. This is the process whereby two parties, or their representatives, come together with a third person to work out a satisfactory solution to a particular situation about which they do not agree.

ARTICLE III, Section 6, of the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy specifies that all Readers in branch churches must be members of The Mother Church. The rules for the recognition of a Christian Science Society include a similar provision; so when Christian Scientists apply for the recognition of The Mother Church and for a card in The Christian Science Journal as a branch church or as a society, they should have for Readers members in good standing in The Mother Church.

God is always giving of His goodness and perfection. In fact, it is the very nature of God to give.

With the discovery of Christian Science there has come a need for reevaluating the mission of Christ Jesus. It has been generally granted that he gave proof of such truths as the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, of the power of goodness and the continuity of life.