Editorials

" O blessings infinite! O glad New Year! Sweet sign and substance Of God's presence here. "Give us not only angels' songs, But Science vast, to which belongs The tongue of angels And the song of songs.

IN the second chapter of Luke is a meaningful account of great beauty. Here we read that Simeon, a devout man, recognized the infant Jesus as the Messiah when Mary presented him in the temple according to the custom of Jewish law.

TWO events stand out at the dawn of the first Christmas. One is the visit of the Wisemen and the other the adoration of the shepherds.

AN American periodical, The Ladies' Home Journal , once carried an article written especially for it by the revered Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy. The article was titled "What Christmas Means to Me" and was subsequently reprinted in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" ( pp.

IT is with deep regret and with sincere sympathy for the many friends and pupils of our beloved associate and co-worker, Charles E. Heitman, C.

When Mary Baker Eddy established The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, she founded an institution which expressed the Mother-love of God. Joining The Mother Church is not a perfunctory duty, but a step of spiritual advancement marking a stage of spiritual development in the consciousness of a Christian Scientist.

When Christ Jesus taught his followers the parable of the tares and the wheat, he was showing mankind how to reap a harvest of spiritual good. He was explaining the duality of the so-called human mind, wherein good and evil seem to exist side by side, and expounding the Science of salvation, which demonstrates the nothingness of mortality and the immortal nature of good.

Is there a more beautiful command in the Decalogue than that relating to the observance of a Sabbath rest? In fact, the very word "Sabbath" means in the Hebrew tongue "rest. " "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy," proclaimed Moses.

PRAYER is the desire of the human mind to reach the heavenly Father. Through hope, contrition, entreaty, supplication, and affirmation, it advances thought to reach the understanding which finds rest and peace in unity with God.

ON page 259 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy writes, "When the Lawgiver was the only law of creation, freedom reigned, and was the heritage of man ; but this freedom was the moral power of good, not of evil: it was divine Science, in which God is supreme, and the only law of being. " Every statement of Truth is a statement of divine law.