Editorials

Among the followers of the Master, John is known as the beloved disciple, and his words and life indicate why he was loved. Sitting at the feet of Jesus, he caught perhaps more clearly than all the others the essential quality of the Christ as demonstrated in Jesus' life and works.

The edifice of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, is unique. There is no church building exactly like it.

The very name "Church of Christ, Scientist," implies activity, for the Christ, God's infinite idea, manifests or exhibits the activity of divine Mind. The Christ is always acting to accomplish good—waking mankind from the mortal dream, destroying the delusions of sense, healing the sick and sinful, revealing brotherhood, bringing Love's justice and mercy to light, inspiring mankind to recognize real life in Spirit.

Christian Science has often been beautifully described as the redeemer of human consciousness; and this it truly is, for the mission of Christ is purely redemptive. In human experience the Christ is revealed in spiritual ideas.

In her explanation of real being Mary Baker Eddy uses the Latin Ego, or I, as one of the terms for God. A dictionary definition of "ego" which conforms to her usage is "the conscious and permanent subject of all experience.

All real being is in God, spiritual and perfect. Apart from the divine Mind and its ideas nothing really exists.

Until the patriarch Moses presented to his people the law from Mount Sinai the wisdom and the necessity of right conduct and right living were but dimly appreciated. Men generally knew no moral law and therefore felt no impulsion to obey a code which advocated or compelled a loving consideration one of another.

" All history is a Bible. " These words A of Thomas Carlyle's echo a great truth.

In the allegory of spiritual creation (Genesis 1) we find the third day typifying the period of progress in which the multiplicity of God's ideas is revealed. The symbol of multiplicity is the seed, and its wonderful fitness is seen when we contemplate the possibilities of reproduction contained within a single tiny grain.

The agnostic who has turned from religion, unsatisfied by the many and contradictory conceptions of Deity, finds in Christian Science a completely satisfying understanding of God. He finds a God whom he can intelligently love and worship.