Editorials

In her book, "Miscellaneous Writings," Mary Baker Eddy says ( pp. 256, 257 ): "The assertion that matter is a law, or a lawgiver, is anomalous.

The spirit of divine adventure animated Mary Baker Eddy as she set forth to reveal the Science of Christianity to mankind. It was the beginning of the greatest adventure which the world had witnessed since the day when "Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.

Christian Scientists understand that in proportion as any fact of being is recognized and realized in its true import, it is demonstrated; for by such realization the false sense which alone seemed to obscure the fact is dispelled. It is therefore of great practical advantage to know the nature of the ideas of God, divine Mind, which constitute the true creation.

Viewed from the standpoint of suppositional mortal existence, there appears to be something called human consciousness which is in need of regeneration, healing, and salvation. Were it not for this, there would have been no need for the Messianic mission of Christ Jesus, and there would have been no basis for his promise that in due time his Father would send another Comforter.

It is significant that in the seventeenth chapter of John, in which is given the prayer of Christ Jesus on the eve of his crucifixion, the Master is represented as praying first for himself. The prayer abounds in the tenderest of petitions and the most exalted realization on behalf of his disciples, those of that period and all who were to follow.

" Let integrity and uprightness preserve me," declared the Psalmist, "for I wait on thee. " From Genesis to Revelation the Bible teaches that defense from danger, moral and physical, is to be found in the individual's conscious reliance upon God.

One of the most important of the many wonderful provisions our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, made for the advancement of the Christian Science movement was her ordination in 1895 of the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" to be the pastor of all Christian Science churches. Writing of this ordination on pages 382 and 383 of "Miscellaneous Writings," Mrs.

In that hour of momentous decision when Jesus knew that Judas was about to betray him, his concern was not for himself, but for the world which he had come to save, and from which he was so soon to be removed. His greatest task, on which tireless patience and devotion had been expended during these brief years of Messiahship, was the training of this little band of followers to carry on his work.

A small boy who had been asked what he would like as a gift decided on a pocket knife, and for some days, while he was waiting for it, delighted himself with the prospect of having a good strong blade that would cut. But when the knife came, it had on it not only the one blade but four, and in addition a variety of useful contrivances which he had not thought of—an awl, a file, scissors, and the like—capable, it seemed to him, of doing about all that could need to be done with tools.

Routine, meaning orderly procedure, or the habitual doing of things in an orderly or systematic way, is a good thing to cultivate. Many who have succeeded in human affairs have done so through acquiring the habit of ordering their daily work in a sustematic manner and adhering more or less rigidly to the prescribed order.