Editorials

During the war, those who understood something of what constitutes working for Principle expected eagerly and rightly that, with the coming of peace, there would be a very thorough overturning of the old systems of party politics in every country. This overturning has, of course, begun.

When Mrs. Eddy wrote, on page 480 of Science and Health, "When the substance of Spirit appears in Christian Science, the nothingness of matter is recognized," when she embodied a somewhat similar statement in the fifth tenet, on page 497 of the same book, when, on pages 9 and 10 of "Unity of Good," she demanded, "What is the cardinal point of the difference in my metaphysical system?" and immediately answered her own question as follows, "This: that by knowing the unreality of disease, sin, and death, you demonstrate the allness of God.

Sometimes the one seeking healing through Christian Science is tempted to query too much as to when the relief may be expected and why it has not yet seemingly come about. Such questionings Mrs.

The Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, in London, is a fine scholar, a brilliant thinker, and a writer of admitted capacity.

In elections, in business, in every phase of experience, it is well, of course, to consider the record of all those concerned. Any sequence of action, however, needs to be understood as a whole.

The world is keeping the centenary of Herbert Spencer's birth. He was a man of prodigious learning and of an even more prodigious industry.

What constitutes a truly radical stand, as understood in Christian Science, is of interest to the whole world. For any seeming whatever, there must be the true idea.

In the New Testament the word translated assembly is the same as that translated church, namely, èκκλŋσía. This is surely no mere chance; on the contrary, the writers of the books in which the word occurs must have had a clear perception of the fact that the assembly, like the church, was not a mere gathering together of so many persons, but was, as Mrs.

The now which God knows is always good. To every age, the temptation has probably come to regard the past or the future as more enjoyable than the present.

One of the most puzzling things to the unwary reader of the Authorized Version of the Bible is the fact that it is written in Elizabethan English. This fact is rendered less obvious because the language is not completely archaic, like that of Chaucer, and because words, whilst retaining their ordinary form and spelling, have in many instances changed their meaning.