Editorials

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.

Action is an important factor in everyone's experience. Existence is never static and inanimate; it abounds in activity.

Alert , obedient members of The Mother Church are ever mindful of that important By-Law in the Church Manual by Mary Baker Eddy ( Art. VIII, Sect.

Rudyard Kipling's character, Kim, mentally refused to listen to an East Indian's mesmeric suggestions intended to make Kim believe that a water jug which appeared to be broken in fifty pieces was joining itself together again. To divert his thought from the suggestions Kim repeated the multiplication table over and over.

Justice is not contingent on human laws, humanly administered, which because they are human can be set aside or misinterpreted. It is an attribute of the divine Mind.

How well this person expresses himself, how convincingly, is remarked every day of some writer or speaker. Why his skill, facility, success? There are various reasons, of course.

The position of The Mother Church as to Mary Baker Eddy's place in the fulfillment of Bible prophecy is clearly set forth in the following paragraphs. These conclusions are not new; they are confirmed by our Leader's writings, and the steadily unfolding fruitage of Christian Science bears witness to their truth.

To be taught does not necessarily mean to learn. "Give instruction to a wise man," we read in Proverbs, "and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

Ah , to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. — Longfellow Each of us is a builder.