Editorials

IN his second epistle to the Corinthians Paul writes, "Our sufficiency is of God; who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth. but the spirit giveth life.

WHEN tempted, Christ Jesus was ready with the rejoinder, "Get thee behind me, Satan. " Thus he proved his sonship; and he was equally ready with "Nay" as with "Yea.

IT seems doubtful if in any other of his epistles Paul revealed more of his innermost thoughts than in his messages to Timothy, whom he described as his "beloved and faithful son, in the Lord. " In his second letter to Timothy, Paul also addresses him with great solemnity and, it seems, refers to the approaching end of his own militant ministry.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches that God is infinite and perfect Mind and that man is the perfect idea, image, or reflection of Mind. Thus, the standard of Christian Science may be said to be perfect God and perfect man.

IT is prophesied in Isaiah regarding Christ Jesus, "He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth. " Because Jesus knew that he had the support of Spirit and spiritual law, he went courageously forward in solving mortal problems and lovingly meeting human needs; and Christian Scientists, his humble followers, aspire to do the same, from the same spiritual basis.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches that to spiritualize human consciousness, whereby thought is changed from a material to a spiritual basis, is mankind's great need. But so insistent is the testimony of physical sense that this reformation seems difficult of accomplishment.

WHOEVER is seeking true ability needs first of all to recognize his own total inability to achieve anything good from a material or personal basis. Not until one recognizes and humbly admits his mortal inability to cope with any problem does he intrust himself and all that concerns him to a higher power.

THE Church of Christ, Scientist, is founded on a basis which cannot be shaken, because Christian Science is absolute and incontrovertible. This church is established on the Rock, Christ.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE emphasizes the necessity of overcoming every erroneous belief to which human consciousness is committed. Since God, divine Mind, is infinite, is the only Mind, and conscious only of His own perfect ideas, the ideas which constitute the universe, nothing is real which does not have place in divine consciousness.

EXAMINATION for membership in a Christian Science church is not merely to ascertain how much an applicant knows of Christian Science, but also to learn how greatly he desires to know more. Enough of what he knows may be readily ascertained by a few well-chosen questions; how earnestly he desires to know more may be estimated by his general attitude towards Christian Science, by his attendance at church services, and above all by his efforts to apply what he already knows.