Editorials

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 474 ), "Christian marvels (and marvel is the simple meaning of the Greek word rendered miracle in the New Testament) will be misunderstood and misused by many, until the glorious Principle of these marvels is gained.

SUPERSTITION formerly associated with natural phenomena is being dispelled by more accurate observation. But in the domain of religion, superstition still obtains.

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS have been the recipients of numerous blessings through their understanding of Christian Science. A better sense of health has come to many of them.

Success in Christian Science is the result of unvarying insistence on spiritual facts and unvarying resistance to material fallacies. A dictionary describes "fallacious" as that which is deceptive and leads into error of judgment.

When the Master said to his disciples ( John 16:12, 13 ), "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth," evidently he knew that the thought of the world was not yet ready to receive the final revelation of Christ, Truth.

Never were mortals so occupied as they are today investigating matter and its phenomena. A host of investigators, for instance, is engaged in the study of physics and chemistry, and, as everybody knows, numerous discoveries have been made in these and kindred subjects during the last fifty or a hundred years.

WHEN John the Baptist came "preaching in the wilderness of Judaca," he said, "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. " At that time John was proclaiming the presence of the long-expected Messiah, and he evidently perceived that Jesus would, through his demonstration of Christ, Truth, establish the heavenly kingdom among men.

UNQUESTIONABLY , there is value in sound academic education and in keeping abreast of the times, noting the mental and outward changes and understanding what is producing them. From decade to decade, education develops, and what one generation learns along materialistic lines, the next one may be called upon to unlearn.

THREE words in common use in Christian Science are belief, faith, and understanding. Since they represent states of consciousness, it is well that students should be clear as to their meaning.

The highest purpose of any government should be to bring out righteousness, reciprocal harmony, and prosperity between individuals and nations. In order to achieve this, governments and peoples need to express highest morality, unerring wisdom, impartial justice.