Editorials

Christian Science, in bringing the Science of spiritual healing to the world, is bestowing upon mankind the greatest of blessings. Its inspired teaching is renewing hope, casting out fear, bringing comfort to the distressed and sorrowful, bestowing health upon those who, through understanding, come within its beneficent influence.

The saying of Jesus, recorded in the twelfth chapter of John's Gospel, "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me," is often interpreted to mean, If the Christ, or spiritual idea, is lifted up in human consciousness, it will draw all men unto it. Although the context, especially the thirty-third verse, indicates that Jesus was referring at that time to what he knew would soon occur, namely, his crucifixion, for the verse reads, "This he said, signifying what death he should die," it is quite likely that he was looking beyond his trial and execution to his victory over death, a victory which he had already foreseen and predicted.

Few people fail to plan for a reasonable amount of physical nourishment and rest. In addition, the Christian Scientist needs to allow for "times of refreshing.

Christian Science enables its students to see how the resurrection of Christ Jesus from the grave was the inevitable result of his spiritual understanding of "the deep things of God. " During his ministry among men he was constantly overcoming the conditions to which mankind was subject, sickness, sin, lack, and the like, by bringing that understanding to bear on them.

King George The Fifth of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, has passed away, greatly beloved of the people of his Empire. When in 1901 our Leader asked the First Members of The Mother Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, to "convene for the sacred purpose of expressing [their] deep sympathy with the bereaved nation, its loss and the world's loss, in the sudden departure of the late lamented Victoria," she spoke of the Queen as "long honored, revered, beloved" ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

THE divine declaration, "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good," is complete and irrevocable. Universal, eternal harmony is the fiat of divine Principle to be accepted without reservation and with great gladness.

THERE are definitions of the word ''enthusiasm, " such as, for example, "ecstasy," "emotion," "frenzy," which might make it seem that this word could not be rightly applied to the activities of Christian Scientists. On the other hand, however, enthusiasm is also defined by Webster as "lively manifestation of joy or zeal," which is quite a different thing.

WHEN Mrs. Eddy wrote the words (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,  p.

THE experience of agriculturists, horticulturists, and gardeners, professional and amateur, would tend to acceptance of the belief that for every plant, shrub, or tree there is some kind of pest, either vegetable or animal, that is capable of injuring or destroying it. For example, there is the dodder, which derives its sustenance from the plant about which it twines itself.

" THE allness of Deity is His one-ness" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 267).