Editorials

Possibly much more than they realize, those who take their stand in a community as adherents of Christian Science are meticulously watched and their actions weighed by their fellows of differing faiths. Many people who stoutly maintain that they know nothing of and care less for this religion, show a startling familiarity with the Christian ideals for which it stands.

When some material object is made, for instance an automobile, it is first conceived in thought; drawings are made; materials are assembled, mechanical processes set to work; and the car is completed. The making is over; so many strokes and it is done; there is a beginning and an end of the making.

Christian Science honors those intellectual qualities which are guided by and subordinated to Spirit. The greatest intellects have always been the humblest.

In the first issue of The Journal of Christian Science, on April 14, 1883, Mary Baker Eddy, its Founder and Editor, called this newcomer in the field of journalism "An Independent Family Paper, to Promote Health and Morals;" then at the head of its columns she placed this virile statement of the Apostle Paul: "For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds. " Here then is a guiding light for every man, woman, and child enlisted for service in this great Cause.

On pages 115 and 116 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy sets forth what she calls the "Scientific Translation of Mortal Mind" in three degrees, beginning with "depravity" and ending with "understanding. " Here we see the states through which mortal man rises from the total unreality of evil to the comprehension of those qualities of Spirit which express the real.

Power is indispensable to all of us. We do not make it, but it is perpetually active in us, and for us.

Many readers of these lines have without doubt had that rare privilege of singing carols at the Royal Albert Hall in London around the Yuletide. They have thrilled to that triumphant burst of song when from the great choir of hundreds of voices has poured forth Tennyson's New Year's message: Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

An early Christian in Ireland is credited with this lovely prayer: "Christ is in the eye that sees me. Christ is in the ear that hears me.

In the seventeenth chapter of John we learn what was in the thought of Jesus as he prayed for his disciples. The Christ-mission of revealing Truth to the world, he was now entrusting to them.

" It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old. The angels, bending near the earth, Their wondrous story told Of peace on earth, good will to men, From heaven's all-gracious King; The world in solemn stillness lay To hear the angels sing.