Editorials

ONWARD , Christian soldiers"—when this stirring hymn is sung, what heart does not respond to the call to go forward, ever forward, in the Christian's warfare? Is not the thought of retrogression repugnant to a progressive thinker? Who enjoys taking a retrograde step? To retrogress or retrograde means simply to step backward. To a Christian Scientist, whose watchword is progress, the suggestion of possible retrogression is unthinkable.

An unselfish desire to do good and an unselfed love for God and man are the motives essential to the successful treatment of sin or disease through Christian Science. A restrictive, selfish desire, or a willful purpose in the thought of one attempting to practice this Science ensures defeat.

" Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely. " How pleasant and comely are our lives being made with praise? Praise of good is like sunshine.

In this issue of the Journal will be found reports covering most of the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church on June 3 of this year. This occasion, as in the past, proved to be a joyous one, for it afforded opportunity to set on record the progress of our redemptive movement in the year just ended.

Good is measureless. Because it is God, Spirit, it cannot be made finite.

If one is lost in a wilderness, he must take wisely directed footsteps in order to get out. If one is in the wilderness of materiality, there are wisdom-ordered footsteps he must take in order to get out.

At certain seasons of the year, from the Readers' desks in many Christian Science churches comes a cheering and important notice. It is the announcement that applications for church membership are receivable, and that all who wish to unite with The Mother Church or one of its branches are lovingly invited to make known their desires to the proper officers.

Human language is essentially the outcome of thought. It is the human mind's effort to express itself audibly or in writing.

Man's heritage of dominion comes from divine Principle, the one cause and creator—and man has that dominion by reflection. He has it not within himself as a separate power from God.

If a student of Christian Science enjoys companioning with children and young people, and if he has an aptitude for imparting his understanding of this Science, he should not miss the priceless privilege, if called upon, of teaching in the Christian Science Sunday School. Who can estimate the far-reaching results of bringing to youth, by precept and example, in home and in school, a demonstrable knowledge of Jesus' healing message? In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes ( p.