Editorials

In speaking of the parable given by Christ Jesus of the man who, having found the "pearl of great price," goeth and selleth all and buyeth it, Mary Baker Eddy says on page 253 of "Miscellaneous Writings": "Buyeth it! Note the scope of that saying, even that Christianity is not merely a gift, as St. Paul avers, but is bought with a price, a great price; and what man knoweth as did our Master its value, and the price that he paid for it?" Until men are aware of the value of this greatest of all pearls, they will not be willing to pay for it, and therefore they will not possess it.

When one discerns any quality of God, he discerns a quality of man as God's likeness; and as one scientifically claims the quality as his own, it appears in his thought and life. One who has had such experience, moreover, can help others in developing like qualities.

Life is everywhere. No one can step beyond its boundaries.

In a passage cherished by Christian Scientists, and worthy of the most careful consideration of everyone, Mary Baker Eddy writes ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 210 ), "Beloved Christian Scientists, keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them.

To express certitude in our lives, not with fanaticism or human resolution but with spiritual authority, we must know God, and therefore our relation to Him. ''He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me," said Jesus.

A Memorable day opened that morning Jesus stopped at Jacob's well. The well is there today, at the foot of the mountain by the roadside, halfway between Jerusalem and Nazareth.

The fact recorded in the Bible that Christ Jesus wore the seamless robe is no mere coincidence, but a fitting reminder to humanity. Thus were the completeness and majesty of God's representative made manifest in his daily apparel.

Christianly scientific thought and action can assuredly supply the protection which is needed under any conditions, but they can do far more than this. As experience continually shows, they can annul the threatening evil.

It was summer on the farm. Two boys, eight or nine years old, scampering over the fields, came to a standstill on a hillside.

For the soldier, the statesman, the individual of any sort today, what is the practical meaning of the so called miracles of Scriptural times, those episodes in which men and women, often in apparently desperate circumstances, received by spiritual means the help they needed? In quantity and variety, no less than in quality, the episodes make an impressive record. The writer of the book of Hebrews, after referring to a number of them in detail, continues: "And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.