Editorials

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.

In recording the steps which she took to establish the Science of Christianity, Mary Baker Eddy writes: "I knew the Principle of all harmonious Mind-action to be God, and that cures were produced in primitive Christian healing by holy, uplifting faith; but I must know the Science of this healing, and I won my way to absolute conclusions through divine revelation, reason, and demonstration" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 109 ).

Perhaps nothing is more irksome than to be obliged to listen to a monotone. Monotony in music as well as in speech is, to say the least, not pleasing and may even be trying to one's patience.

The Christian Scientist rejoices in his understanding of God, in the knowledge of the nature of Deity which Christian Science has given him. It is impossible for him to tell all that this knowledge has meant to him, of comfort, protection, and health.

IN the Manual of The Mother Church, by Mary Baker Eddy, is found the following By-Law ( Art. XXIV, Sect.

FEW could have spoken with more profound knowledge than did David of the experiences which come to those who are determined, whatever the seeming difficulties and temptations, to find and establish their true relations with God. With supreme spiritual exaltation, and with dynamic conviction, he set forth where the place of safety, and the power which belongs to it, alone are to be found.

"PROLONG the strain 'Christ risen!' Sad sense, annoy No more the peace of Soul's sweet solitude! Deep loneness, tear-filled tones of distant joy, Depart! Glad Easter glows with gratitude. " Thus does Mary Baker Eddy, in her poem "Easter Morn" (Poems, p.

Christian Science teaches us to look out from God, divine perfection. How else could we obey the lofty injunction of Jesus, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect"? In Christian Science, the distress of human frailty is exchanged for the joy of spiritual individuality.