Editorials

It was a memorable day when Mary Baker Eddy discovered that there is only one Mind, the divine Mind, or God. Obviously this Mind cannot conceive evil and disease or experience them.

The Department of Agriculture has published a thick book entitled "'Climate and Man" in which interesting data are recorded concerning the effect of climate on plants and persons. In it climate is called "a world influence.

To know what is God's purpose and to abide by it has been the prayer of humanity wherever trust in Him and belief in His care for His creation have been nurtured. And proof, in big things as in little, of these words of Isaiah has been experienced: "The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.

Abraham , according to the delightfully instructive pastoral in the seventeenth and eighteenth chapters of Genesis, talks with God at the door of his tent under the Mamre oaks. God promises him a son.

Earnest and eloquent were the many exhortations of Paul to the Romans, but none more earnest and heart-searching than this: "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. " Metaphysician and student of humanity that he was, Paul knew how easy it was to present to God and to the world that which has in it no element of sacrifice, that which is neither holy nor, according to the standards laid down by the Master, acceptable.

One of the first statements of Christian Science which its students generally learn is, "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all" ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 468 ).

All people think of Principle as unerring and undeviating. And so it is.

It is obvious in Christian Science that men's release from their difficulties is not necessarily dependent on the lapse of time. It depends on their enlightenment, their recognition of the truth of being, by which they find they are not subject as they had supposed they were to limitation and evil.

The Christian Scientist, knowing that God is the only Mind, knows also that the only metaphysics entitled to be so called is divine metaphysics. This was the great truth which Christ Jesus set forth when he declared, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.

Ordinarily man is thought of as partly temporal in his make-up, and partly permanent; the permanent part is spoken of as soul, the temporary as body. The prevailing opinion is that soul, at the moment of dissolution, in some unaccountable way escapes to live on, while the abandoned body is left to disintegration.