Editorials

Doubtless many students of the Bible have been inspired and encouraged by the assurance contained in the following verse from the one hundred and forty-seventh Psalm: "Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite. " This verse takes on added meaning when read in the light of Christian Science, which reveals that man, being the spiritual likeness of God, reflects perfectly the divine nature.

Christian Science has done more than any other system of religion for womankind. Christianity, as founded on the teaching of Christ Jesus, opened wide the kingdom of heaven, the reign of spiritual harmony, not to men alone, but to women as well.

It is probable that the Israelites of Old Testament times did not generally accept the fact of individual immortality. Even in the New Testament, disputes on this subject between Pharisees and Sadducees are referred to.

Were we to search the Scriptures, we could find no words that more perfectly define the ideal of the true humanitarian than those of Jesus: "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. " This Christly gift of life, in all its wealth of joy and beauty, was his to bring, because he both possessed and understood it; he knew whence it came, how it might be preserved, and he brought it not to the circumscribed few, but to all who were willing to accept and utilize it.

Christ Jesus was the greatest healer the world has ever known. The Gospels of the New Testament contain the record of his healing work among men, and plainly indicate that it was the direct result of his spiritual understanding; that is, of his knowledge of God and God's creation.

The Christian Science Board of Directors announces the establishment of the Christian Science Literature International Distribution Fund, to be used for distributing authorized Christian Science literature in countries where combatants or civilians are mobilized or congregated because of the war begun in 1939, and for supplying authorized Christian Science literature to the branch churches and societies in Germany, which, under present circumstances, are prevented from paying for it. Contributions to this Fund should be sent to Edward L.

So long as there is a judgment seat there must also be a mercy seat. Without mercy there can be no judgment.

One of the definitions of the word "counterfeit," given by Webster, is, "That which is made in imitation of something, with a view to deceive;" another is, "That which represents or is like another thing. " For example, a counterfeit bank note is made to imitate a genuine one with the intent to deceive those into whose hands it may fall.

A new year affords to many an opportunity to make a survey of the year that is gone, to consider how they might have used it more profitably, and to make resolutions of a kind that will ensure that the year on which they have entered will hold for them better health, greater happiness, and more usefulness. And thinking, no doubt, of those phases of their life which, viewed from a moral and spiritual standpoint, they have felt were questionable, many resolve to live more righteously, more justly, more honorably than before.

SHORTLY after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea his advent was hailed by the just and devout Simeon. Of Simeon, the Gospel of Luke says, "It was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.