Editorials

EVERY individual is a mental householder and need entertain only the thoughts of his own selecting. He is his own doorkeeper, and, like an alert sentry, should always be ready with the challenge, "Who goes there?" One who remains awake at his post will not fall into wrong mental company.

IT is a marvelous fact to contemplate that notwithstanding all the material senses seem to tell us of decay we are living now in a universe of perpetual freshness, a universe of perpetual freshness because it is a perfect universe. How are we able to say this? We can do so because through Christian Science we know that the real universe or creation is the reflection of God.

In effect, Christ Jesus spoke of love —love for God, who is good—as the best of all motives. (See Mark 12:28-34; Luke 18:18, 19.

THE Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is printed in Revised Braille, grade one and a half. So are the books by Mrs.

THE teaching of Christian Science is gradually correcting the fallacies held by mortals on what many of them have been wont to speak of as the judgment day. A theory held by not a few is that sometime in the future—probably the remote future —the Almighty will sit in judgment on all mankind for their thoughts and deeds while on earth, and decide upon the place whither they will have to go—heaven or hell—perhaps there to spend the remainder of eternity.

THE task of forgiveness is much simplified in Christian Science because it is impersonalized. Standing on the watchtower of Truth, and challenging error, the Christian Scientist sets himself to prove that neither the offending action of another nor its attempted reaction in himself —taking form, perhaps, in resentment, discouragement, or sadness— has any legitimate claim to presence or action.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE healing may be correctly regarded in different ways. Thus, it may be regarded as including, or as not including, a personal agent and a personal subject.

MANKIND'S troubles can all be effaced as the true sense of intelligence is manifested, to the exclusion of its counterfeit. On page 469 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs.

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS are not in any doubt as to the nature of the God whom they worship. They understand Him to be omnipotent Mind or Spirit, infinite Truth, infinite Love.

To comprehend the Christian religion in more than a general way, one needs to know a good deal about the Jewish religion as it existed at the beginning of the Christian era. To grasp the ideas which Jesus taught, one ought to have a considerable knowledge of the thought-world in which he did his teaching.