Editorials

MANKIND believes that experience is the greatest of teachers, and that from it comes wisdom. In Christian Science it is learned that, strictly speaking, divine Mind, through the agency of its Christ, is the only true teacher, and that true wisdom is a quality of divine Mind gained only through spiritual understanding.

PRINCIPLE is a term used in Christian Science for God. Sometimes exception is taken to it by those not accustomed to its use, on the ground that it appears to detract from the nature of Deity, that it tends to give the impression that God does not exercise the qualities which men prize most highly, such as loving sympathy, an understanding or knowledge of the needs of man, watchful care over all His children.

WHEN man s work has been viewed from a merely human standpoint, the reverse of truth has appeared and a large share of the misery in the world has resulted from a total misapprehension of what man's work really is, and of how it is to be accomplished. Although prophet and apostle had glimpsed the true concept of work, and although Jesus understood and demonstrated it perfectly, it was not until the revelation of Christian Science came to the world through our God-inspired Leader, Mrs.

PAUL, the apostle to the Gentiles, ever strove to convince his hearers, and the readers of his epistles as well, of his great earnestness of purpose in undertaking to establish in the hearts of men the teachings of his Lord and Master, Jesus the Christ. So imbued was he with the spirit of the Christ that he strove at all times, in season and out, to carry the message of everlasting salvation to all prepared to receive it.

MANKIND often thinks more of honoring itself than of honoring God. Because its basis of thinking is so largely selfish, it considers the honor it imagines due its own human thinking, efforts, and achievements as of primary importance.

IF Christian Science gave its adherents nothing but the assurance that life is eternal, they would be under a tremendous debt of gratitude to it. Who among Christian Scientists does not remember the time when all was uncertain as to the future, when it was wrapped in mystery, when it appeared as if that which men call death might be the end of all things so far as men are concerned! They had perhaps studied deeply in philosophy, in natural science, and in religion too; but the best that could be said for these was that they had given birth to a not too certain faith in the continuity of life.

THAT God definitely outlines His will and purpose is made clear by Mrs. Eddy in numerous passages.

ABOUT twenty years ago our Leader instructed the then Christian Science Board of Directors to take steps for the establishment of a sanatorium where those in need might be healed. Our movement to-day is world-wide, and our sanatorium at Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, established in 1916, has ministered beneficently to so many that the question has repeatedly been raised, "Will there ever be similar institutions established at distant points, so that the long trip to Boston may be avoided?" Our reply has been, in effect, that when it should be made clear to us that the time had arrived for the establishment of another sanatorium under the auspices of The Mother Church, the field would be duly notified.

THE world as a whole has not yet learned that God's will is always good. A large percentage of those who call themselves Christian still believe that God permits evil, if He does not definitely cause it; they therefore hold Him at least indirectly responsible for all that is wrong, and they still imagine that His will is something to be feared quite as much as to be desired.

STUDENTS of Christian Science, through much study, contemplation, and demonstration, not only make themselves thoroughly familiar with all of Mrs. Eddy's published works, but they also undertake to gain a clear understanding of the movement which she founded, organized, and personally led.