Editorials

" To coincide with God's government is the proper incentive to the action of all nations. " This statement, which was made by Mary Baker Eddy near the beginning of the Spanish-American War, sets a perpetual standard for international action.

The greatest solvent in the world is Love. The Love referred to is divine, not human.

" It is 'a consummation devoutly to be wished' that all nations shall speedily learn and practise the intermediate line of justice between the classes and masses of mankind, and thus exemplify in all things the universal equity of Christianity. " These words, written by Mary Baker Eddy, are found in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" ( p.

In a message to The Mother Church in 1899 Mary Baker Eddy writes as follows: "Brethren, our annual meeting is a grave guardian. It requires you to report progress, to refresh memory, to rejuvenate the branches and to vivify the buds, to bend upward the tendrils and to incline the vine towards the parent trunk" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

Someone has defined the meaning of the word "parable" as "an earthly story with a heavenly meaning," and probably every student of Christian Science would agree with this definition. We remember, for instance, our Master's parable of the leaven as recorded in the Gospel of 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.

After his resurrection Jesus met two of his grieving disciples on the road to Emmaus, but they failed to recognize him. Yet here was the selfsame Master walking and talking with them just as before the crucifixion.

In the language of Christian Science the word "Truth" is used as a synonym not only for God, but for His manifestation, the Christ-idea. Mary Baker Eddy makes this clear in her "Miscellaneous Writings" where she says ( pp.

Christ Jesus once said of himself ( Luke 19:10 ), "The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. " His mission was therefore one of restoration.

Writing of the joy she felt because of the progress of the Churches of Christ, Scientist, in a certain American city, Mary Baker Eddy said, "A great sanity, a mighty something buried in the depths of the unseen, has wrought a resurrection among you, and has leaped into living love. " And then she defined this "something" in these words: "It is unity, the bond of perfectness, the thousandfold expansion that will engirdle the world,—unity, which unfolds the thought most within us into the greater and better, the sum of all reality and good.

The Psalmist experienced many of the trials which confront men today. But he also gained a clear recognition of God's ever-present power.