Editorials

Mankind has always been greatly interested in its leaders, in the qualities and characteristics that make for leadership. Much time and many words have been spent discussing this topic.

The word "weather" is used to indicate the state of the material atmosphere as to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, cloudiness or clearness. In recent times nations, recognizing the importance of weather in human experience, have sought to discover the physical factors and forces causing atmospheric changes, and to anticipate and foretell weather conditions.

Few mortals there be who have not, at one time or another, wooed that inconstant wraith, the desire to command, to dominate. Note a group of children at play.

A Dictionary's definition of the verb "to organize" is, "To arrange in interdependent parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation with respect to the whole. " What we call a human organization results from the efforts of individuals to organize for the accomplishing of some common purpose.

Let us get together on this matter. " This is a colloquialism that seems to have found a permanent place in daily speech.

Nineteen centuries ago there appeared the most remarkable healer of disease this planet has ever known. Not one drug did he prescribe.

EVERY day is "Independence Day" to the student of Christian Science as he transfers his dependence on matter to dependence on Spirit. Understanding and depending on Spirit, its divine law and spiritual facts, he finds himself independent of the restrictions and limitations of material beliefs and false laws.

BABOONS and materially thinking mortals have certain mental qualities in common. For instance, baboons often raid the cornfields in South Africa and damage the crops.

WHO will take issue with the assertion that war is a curse? Has it not been the scourge of mankind since the dawn of human history? In the Bible, the first record of strife appears in the fourth chapter of Genesis, when Cain's envy brings about the murder of his brother. The steps leading up to this famous fratricide show the insanity of all warfare.

Some of you will remember the experience, once printed in the Christian Science Sentinel, of a young woman who had a terrifying dream that recurred in her sleep night after night, and who was finally freed from it through the healing truths of Christian Science. In this dream the young woman would find herself in a small valley surrounded by mountains with only a narrow trail leading out over a mountain pass.