Editorials

" A man ," writes Emerson, "is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world. " The oneness of Life precludes unrelated being.

No government that is not based upon divine law, upon love for God and man. can endure.

In 1621, after their first harvest in the new land, the sturdy. God fearing Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts, appointed a day of thanksgiving to the Giver of all good.

Those material possessions that JL men deem of greatest value, which they seek and cling to, despite loss and disillusionment, continue to influence and sometimes wholly absorb their lives. To the child, his treasures—so transitory, so fiercely held, so quickly outgrown—are, while they last, his primary concern, and to him their loss or dissolution spells tragedy.

The word "man" is used in Christian Science in an individual and a collective, or generic, sense. When used in an individual sense, it refers to a single man.

If you are not a lover and student of words, eager to learn of their derivation and often surprising meanings, you are missing much. Those who make close companions of unabridged dictionaries and exhaustive Bible concordances enter a new and delightful country, which might be compared to "a land," referred to in the Scripture, "wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness,.

A net in which many mortals become entangled is the belief that because they have made a serious mistake, they must suffer indefinitely a penalty. It may be a bad investment with years of resulting recrimination; a moral lapse that seems to have cast a darkening cloud on life's way; a domestic or business partnership unwisely entered into with consequent friction and thwarted hopes; an ill-chosen vocation, leading to disappointment and a feeling that one's life has been a failure; or a crime committed, followed by what seems an unerasable stigma.

In Science discernment and demonstration go hand in hand. He who perceives the truth and then forgets or makes no attempt to put it into practice, has not really discerned it.

In the forty-third chapter of Isaiah occurs a statement of deep significance to the student of Christian Science: "Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God. " What an arresting, inspiring thought! Man is as necessary to his Maker as the ray is necessary to the sun, because man, Christian Science teaches, is God's expression.

In opening out to humanity vistas of freedom of which it had never dreamed, freedom from every phase of fear to which mortality is prey, Mary Baker Eddy lifted up a standard not only of intellectual and spiritual greatness but of unsurpassed grace and tenderness. On page 341 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," speaking of "Freedom to worship God" which her ancestors of New England had won and which she had inherited, she writes, "I have one innate joy, and love to breathe it to the breeze as God's courtesy.