Editorials

TO those whose thought has been spiritually illumined through Christian Science, few things seem more futile than the bickerings, the disagreements, the willful strivings of men. Sometimes, nursing their grievances, mortals will remain at variance with one another for long periods.

IT is not to be presumed that when Jesus said, "Give, and it shall be given unto you," he referred to the giving of money or of material things. Having just previously admonished his hearers to love their enemies, to be merciful, and to withhold judgment, it is altogether probable that he referred to the giving of kindly, good, and helpful thoughts.

THE way of perfection is the way of conscious spiritual reflection of God, the one infinite Ego. God maintains His image in harmony and completeness; therefore this reflection is eternal and inviolate.

IF one explores the history of the past as it concerns mankind, one finds it disfigured throughout by tragedy. Often it shows class pitted against class, one class ruthlessly oppressing another, which for the time being is powerless to protect itself.

God's spiritual and indestructible creation has no need of redemption. But the human race requires to be lifted above the agelong superstition of life and intelligence in matter to the recognition of the one perfect and infinite Mind—that Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus"—that Mind through which he dealt a deathblow to tyrannical material beliefs.

Speaking in the name of God, the prophet Isaiah cried, "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters. " In a land where drinkable water was often difficult to obtain, this figurative invitation of the prophet must have meant much.

Christian Science is emphatic in its upholding of the First Commandment ( Exodus 20:3 ), "Thou shalt have no other gods before me. " There is one God, one creator, one great First Cause, known also in Christian Science as Mind, Spirit, Soul, Life, Truth, Love, Principle.

It is possible that when St. John recorded, with Oriental imagery, the series of visions which came to him on the Isle of Patmos, he believed that the second coming of Christ would occur in the immediate future.

The progressive Christian Scientist finds the study of everything pertaining to spiritual being absorbing and rewarding. He can say with Paul, "I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

We are apparently witnessing in the world today a mighty conflict between the forces which make for human enslavement and those which ensure the freedom of mankind. On the one hand, law is being set aside; on the other, law is being championed.