Editorials

" Poetry, " writes the brilliant Thomas Carlyle, ".

In a terse little sentence, which if heeded would revolutionize human thinking and bring to light the solution of all humanity's problems, Mary Baker Eddy declares in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 492 ), "For right reasoning there should be but one fact before the thought, namely, spiritual existence.

Mortals believe that sight and hearing are personal possessions; that each mortal has these faculties embodied in his corporeality and that time, accident, or other material beliefs may impair or destroy them. Christian Science presents an opposite view.

On April 14, 1883, the Journal of Christian Science, as this periodical was originally called, made its initial modest appearance. Mary Baker Eddy was its founder and first editor, indeed its chief contributor for the first few numbers.

HERE is recorded a friendly conversation which might take place between two students of Christian Science. Mr.

WHEN someone is overwhelmed with human demands or faced with the need of making a difficult decision, how often the remark is made, "I don't know where to begin. " And perchance, mesmerized and bewildered, one does not begin, but procrastinates a little longer in the realm of sense; and so the situation drifts along and the error is left to smolder.

WHAT a treasure house is the book of Psalms! "Coming from a vast variety of individuals," writes the learned Dr. Leslie in The Abingdon Bible Commentary (p.

" OH, he had a change of heart!" How often we hear this expression, signifying that someone has changed his mind in regard to some situation, altered his decision as to some action. It may be a change from unkindness to generosity or the reverse, but at any rate his mental attitude is changed.

THE above statement is being affirmed daily, often hourly, by more members of the human race than ever before in human history. It ends "the scientific statement of being" given by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

WITH the coming of June, the time is at hand for the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church. Although the Church Manual by Mary Baker Eddy does not require the presence at these gatherings of any members but those who are the Church officers, the Annual Meeting should mark an important milestone in the journey Spiritward of every Christian Scientist.