Editorials

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.

The history of the human race as recorded from Genesis to Revelation is largely a record of resistance to the divine will. Not always consciously, but nevertheless unremittingly, mortal man, desiring the way of the flesh, the way of self-determination, has opposed the will of God.

The eleventh chapter of Hebrews begins with the following verse: "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. " Faith is an excellent and a helpful quality, but the demonstration of Christian Science requires something more than mere faith.