Editorials

Christian Science teaches that all church building is basically spiritual. Every activity of the Church of Christ, Scientist, must have its foundation in Spirit and in the discernment of the true nature of Church.

The Preacher, to illustrate his point that wisdom is better than physical strength, declared ( Eccl. 9:14 ), "There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

" To-day I pray that divine Love, the life-giving Principle of Christianity, shall speedily wake the long night of materialism, and the universal dawn shall break upon the spire of this temple. " These words are part of an address written by Mary Baker Eddy and placed in the cornerstone of the original edifice of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.

One of the holidays observed throughout the United States is called Labor Day. It is a day early in September which was dedicated originally to labor and is especially observed by many of the labor unions with parades and exercises.

We can destroy any "false mental causes" when we recognize that "God is the one and only Mind, hence the one and only cause."

Humanity wastes much time in waiting—waiting for some desired event, for a more abundant supply, for a healing, or in waiting for some evil or disease which may be considered inevitable. Waiting is tied up in the belief that events must take place in order to ensure our health or happiness, that our fortunes and lives are inextricably enmeshed in materiality and mortality.

The history of Job, a wealthy man, recorded in the Old Testament has occupied the thought of students of the Bible throughout the centuries. The story relates that Satan asked permission of God to test Job's loyalty to the Almighty by causing him to lose all his possessions and by bringing death to all his sons.

The battle to free mankind from sorrow, sadness, poverty, sin, disease, and death, waged so valiantly by Christ Jesus and his apostles, is continued in some degree today by earnest Christians everywhere. Joined in that battle is the army of loving, courageous men and women known as Christian Scientists.

Christ Jesus once rebuked the Pharisees and Sadducees who asked him to show them a sign from heaven. He said ( Matt.

Christian Science teaches its followers how to make practical in their daily lives the great fact of the unity which exists eternally between God and His perfect creation. Through the persistent acknowledgment of God as Spirit and of man as His perfect, spiritual idea, inseparable from Him, men and nations are brought into harmonious relationships.