Editorials

THE sons of men are constantly contemplating the problem of their salvation from the woes which beset them. Sin, disease, poverty, sorrow, death—evil in its many forms—seem to companion with them; and from their toils they would be freed.

In these days much is being said on subjects which pertain to bodily health, based upon the belief that body is physical and finite. Many current magazine articles and radio broadcasts deal with medication, hygiene, dietetics, and with psychotherapy.

" All suffering," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 198 of "Miscellaneous Writings," "is the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of both good and evil. " And a little later she adds, "Suffering is the supposition of another intelligence than God.

Christian science declares the spiritual fact that creation is perfect, that the real universe—God's universe—is perfect; and it is doing this, in spite of all that the material senses may argue to the contrary. God is infinite Mind, infinite good, and His creation or universe, which consists of spiritual ideas, reflects all the qualities of perfect Mind.

To justify that only which is justifiable, this is the behest of Truth; to seek, without partiality of self-love or self-will, those thoughts and their resultant actions which have intrinsic justification, this is the Christ-standard. Brought before Pilate, upon whose authority his fate appeared to depend, Jesus was concerned only with the justification of his spiritual selfhood.

On page 587 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is found the following definition: "Good. God; Spirit; omnipotence; omniscience; omnipresence; omni-action.

The student of Christian Science soon learns that Christian Science differs radically from all other religious systems on certain points of fundamental importance. So pronouncedly is this the case that some who perceive this difference regard it as so revolutionary as to preclude their going farther with the study.

AT a time when the world is, so to speak, at the crossroads, when international affairs have reached the stage where a right sense of direction is greatly needed by statesmen and others entrusted with matters of government, it is of the utmost importance that they be guided by divine wisdom, rather than by selfish national interests or mere human expediency. This is a time when all who are desirous of promoting the best interests of humanity may recall with profit the words of the Apostle James, "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

IN Christian Science there is presented to humanity a radically new solution of the problem of evil. This solution may appear at first startling in its undeviating absoluteness of premise and conclusion, but to spiritual reasoning its logic is unanswerable.

" WHITHER shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there" ( Psalms 139:7, 8 ). Whoever penned these words had more than glimpsed the truth of God's allness.