Editorials

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches one to differentiate between submission to man-made decrees, which lead to human subjection, and submission to spiritual law, which establishes harmony and dominion. Instead of submitting to the discord of sickness and sin, the Christian Scientist submits himself, with all his aims and desires, to God's compelling law of spiritual perfection, harmony, and immortality.

FROM the beginning of history, men and women have sought and hoped for a greater control over adverse conditions and a larger life. Christ Jesus recognized this as the desire and need of all humanity when he said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" ( John 10:10 ).

THE mental nature of hearing and its relation to obedience stand out in these words of Jesus: "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. " He also emphasized resistance to wrong impulses when he said, "And a stranger will they not follow,.

IT is not putting it too strongly to say that the majority of men do not believe that God is in intimate relationship with them. The Supreme Being is not visible to material sight; no Word of His strikes the material ear—none of the physical senses gives any direct indication of His presence.

IN Christian Science, one of the essential points is that infinite Mind is conscious, exclusively, of infinite good. Only absolute good is real; hence, nothing else is known to absolute Mind.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE gives an unfailing test for reality, namely, its perfection. Mrs.

ON page 182 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes: "We cannot obey both physiology and Spirit, for one absolutely destroys the other, and one or the other must be supreme in the affections.

IT would be instructive as well as gratifying for Christian Scientists to know what contributions have been made by different persons to the scientific concepts of God and man. The Scriptures contain comparatively few dates, they are not always arranged or compiled in chronological order, and they do not always name the actual authors of documents or writings.

PRESUMABLY , everyone wants to understand his real identity and to express it more and more perfectly. From the early training of a child and on through the years, self-expression of some kind takes place, and character is developed, but not always satisfyingly, in spite of earnest efforts.

" THE starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind,—that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle. " Thus does Mrs.