Editorials

Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Retrospection and Introspection" ( p. 87 ).

Class instruction in Christian Science from an accredited teacher is a step which every alert student anticipates with eagerness. It is a step in the educational system of Christian Science which our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has provided for us and which should not be unduly delayed in the student's experience.

Referring to the great revelation which came to her, Mary Baker Eddy writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 108,109 ), "My discovery, that erring, mortal, misnamed mind produces all the organism and action of the mortal body, set my thoughts to work in new channels, and led up to my demonstration of the proposition that Mind is All and matter is naught as the leading factor in Mind-science.

Divine Mind's eternal mandate is for order, and Christian Science demonstrates the obedience to this mandate that is real and universal. In the record of the revelation of spiritual creation found in the first chapter of Genesis we note that "the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep" before God's resounding mandate, "Let there be light," was heard.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" ( p. 290 ), "Divine Love is never so near as when all earthly joys seem most afar.

In her Message to The Mother Church for 1902 Mary Baker Eddy speaks of "the spiritual dawn of the twentieth century" as signifying "religion parting with its materiality. " Here are her words (p.

What happened yesterday, or years ago, is considered by many to be responsible for present lack, sickness, and physical or mental pains. The thought of what may happen tomorrow makes men fearful, ill, and unhappy.

Christian Science is a way of life. This way of living demands honesty, purity, simplicity, and unselfed love.

It is with deep regret and with sincere sympathy for the many friends and pupils of our beloved associate and coworker, George Wendell Adams, C. S.

The first Christmas. A babe in a manger.