Editorials

IN her autobiography, "Retrospection and Introspection," the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science states on page 24 that in February, 1866, she was healed through spiritual power and means of an injury caused by an accident. Continuing the record, she writes that in the latter part of that year she "gained the scientific certainty that all causation was Mind, and every effect a mental phenomenon.

NOTHING is of greater importance to mankind than the knowledge of God as the only creator, and of His creation, man. For this knowledge exposes the false nature of the material sense of creation which is binding men, and thus opens up the way for their liberation from the consequences of materiality.

The study of Christian Science discloses the true, logical, and withal simple answers to the many questions which have long perplexed seekers for Truth. Among the subjects which formerly had bewildered some who are now Christian Scientists, and which had made religion appear saddening and unattractive to them, is that of probation.

In the tenth chapter of Revelation we read of a "mighty angel" having "in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth. " The interpretation of this verse found on page 559 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" gives the clue to the final extermination of evil.

At each Easter season the thought of Christendom turns to contemplation of one of the greatest events in human history — the resurrection of Christ Jesus. The great Teacher had been crucified on Calvary.

Jesus never made a promise or imposed a condition which could not be fulfilled. Calling unto him a little child, he said to his disciples, "Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

At one time when Christ Jesus came to Capernaum, he questioned the disciples as to the nature of an argument they had had among themselves on the way. It is to their credit that they were ashamed of the dispute and were silent, "for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.

Christian Science is not a religion which prepares one merely for a future state of existence; it is a system of thought which is adequate to meet every human need, adequate for the working out of the full salvation of the individual and of the whole human race. It is thus thoroughtly practical.

THE usual thought regarding religion relates to the outward forms, avowals, or acts by means of which men indicate their belief in and reverence for or fear of a superhuman power or Being. Thus the form, essence, and influence of men's religious belief and worship are determined by the nature of the authority to which they bow.

THE inspired definition of "Church" found on page 583 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy also tells us, by inference, of the nature and authority of the true church member.