Editorials

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.

ALTHOUGH men have generally accepted the fact that to be envious is most often to be arrayed against that which is noble and good, yet there is, perhaps, no sin which is more universally, though it may sometimes be unconsciously, indulged. Envy has betrayed mankind into all sorts of discontent and evil, from the petty discomfort which results when one allows himself to be disquieted because another possesses something he imagines is better than has fallen to his lot, to the awful wrong of attempting to harm the one whose excellence or good fortune has, he believes, in some way eclipsed or interfered with his own.

"GOD hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God"—the Psalmist's words. The power of God had many times been evidenced to the Hebrew people; and in their psalms they rejoiced in the memory of it: they sang of it.

COMPARISON of the social standards of the present day with conditions which existed before the Christian era must convince one of the great progress toward true idealism which has been made in the intervening centuries. Many social customs which obtained in that ancient time would not be tolerated in civilized countries to-day.

Christian Scientists , mindful of the admonition of their Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, do not assail the religious beliefs of other people. If such attacks are made, by word of mouth, by radio, or by printed page, the public may be sure that they come from persons or organizations who are not within the ranks of Christian Science, whatever their claims may be.

The Christian Scientist is not given to dwelling overmuch on the human divisions of time. He admits that to mankind these divisions may often serve quite a useful purpose, but he looks upon them largely as milestones along the highway of life.

IN one of her earlier poems Mrs. Eddy has written ( Poems, p.

In several of her published writings, Mrs. Eddy speaks of Christ Jesus as having dated the Christian era, and she gives the reason for this momentous fact; and on page 199 of "Miscellaneous Writings" she states, "The marvellous healing-power of goodness is the outflowing life of Christianity, and it characterized and dated the Christian era.