Editorials

The one who is indeed "as a little child'' is glad because of Life itself, and the gladness cannot be measured on any human basis, for it is far more than a human feeling in that it is as calm and as real as the one Mind which causes it. Size or extent, as mortal mind thinks of them in terms of matter, are not to be thought of in the joy of true Life, since there is but one standard by which the amount of man's delight in Spirit can be judged, and that is the standard of allness.

It would seem that there is no harder task in the whole world than that of thinking in terms of pure Mind. Jesus of Nazareth, of course, succeeded in doing this: what are termed his miracles are the conclusive answer to any skepticism.

Many writers for ages have tried to depict life as it really is, without however, doing more than to represent their limited sense of life, their personal attitude toward experience, their human reaction at whatever comes to their attention. Are gloomy emotions, brutalities, and physical terrors and desires realistic? Are the depths of mortal unworthiness and stupidity, when set down in literary form, the basis for accurate conclusions as to the actuality of human existence? Could a portrayal of merely mortal living as altogether happy be, on the other hand, rightly considered to be realistic in effect by those who are seeking the absolute truth? Each critic of so-called realistic literature has usually formulated his own definition and theory of realism, until the reader nowadays may be puzzled by the many varied concepts when there can be only one truth.

Never has the skeptic enjoyed the opportunity he is enjoying to-day. To begin with, never has it been so safe to be a skeptic.

During the year or more before the armistice, a condition appeared among the Allies which at the time was called war-weariness. This sense of exhaustion suggested itself not only to the soldiers in the trenches but to those at home who were busy in their share of the campaign for rightness.

There is surely no sentence in the English language more compact with scientific meaning than that, on page 468 of Science and Health, which runs, "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. " The reader who has mastered the significance of this saying, even in a slight degree, has embarked upon a voyage into the spiritual world, bursting through the fogs of materiality into the sunlight of Truth, and gaining through the experience an ever broadening perception of the intention of another passage, this time on page 123 of Science and Health, in which Mrs.

Though many thinkers and writers seem nowadays much concerned as to whether civilization is to survive the war experience, the average person might be nonplussed if he were asked to explain what civilization means to him. Thus in Mr.

Nature , Whistler was wont to say, in his humorous way, comparing it to art, was creeping up. It might be said to-day that orthodox exegesis has become so unorthodox that it is creeping up into line with Christian Science.

In spite of jealousies, feuds, and wars, humanity has been seeking a basis of agreement, even though this may not have seemed to be its desire. Often, of course, a despot has tried to impose on the world by force his own will as a basis on which he would have all unite regardless of their inclinations.

The doctrine of the Trinity is the most complex and difficult question in orthodox theology. It is not to be found in a concrete form in the Old or the New Testament, but has to be reached by a process of deduction or inference.