Editorials

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is available for all to understand and practice. Its teachings, which are set forth in the Bible and in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, may be grasped by any student who sets bias aside and approaches the study in sincerity and humility.

ON page 22 of "Retrospection and Introspection" Mrs. Eddy writes: "God is over all.

MOST of the men or women who have accomplished much in any era have had enthusiasm. They have had intense interest in what they were doing.

THE behest of Paul to Timothy, "Do the work of an evangelist," is a call to activity in proving the omnipotence of good on all occasions. The Christian Science evangelist who is a bringer of good tidings must not only talk about the work he has done, should do, or wishes he could do: he can continually do the works and do them more successfully.

IN the fourth chapter of Luke's Gospel is a verse—the fortieth— of striking simplicity and significance. It reads: "Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.

MOSES can be fairly regarded as the founder of the Hebrew or Jewish religion. The Israelites had a religion before he taught them, but it does not appear to have been distinctly formulated.

A SPECIAL fund has been established by The Mother Church for building the new Publishing House for The Christian Science Publishing Society, to be erected on Norway Street opposite The Mother Church edifice, according to the sketch printed in The Christian Science Monitor of April 17, which has been generally approved and greatly admired. The estimated cost of the new building is not less than $3,000,000, all of which it is confidently expected will be forthcoming in due course so that the traditions of the past will be upheld and the building be paid for when completed without calling for a temporary loan from outside sources.

THE word "science" means systematized knowledge of any subject. There is, for example, the science of chemistry, of physics, of astronomy, of botany, of zoology— natural sciences they are called.

THE average man having to make his way in life is wont to regard himself as self-dependent and self-supporting. Impelled by ambition, pride, or else moved by the necessity of providing for those near and dear to him, he may live under the constant sense of pressure and personal effort.

IN the first century of the Christian era, formal letters usually began by designating the persons by whom and to whom they were written. Nearly all the authors of letters in the New Testament followed this usage; Paul also added his signature.