Editorials

The ideal of business is service. The coordination of the efforts of men should result in enlarged advantages and blessings for all mankind.

The question has sometimes been asked: What constitutes a Christian Science practitioner? It might as well have been: What does it mean to be a Christian Scientist; for how can one be a Christian Scientist without practicing Christian Science? So soon as one first sees that Christian Science is the Science of the Christ, he understands that to be a Christian he must be one scientifically, and to be one scientifically he must be one practically; for one can only understand Science as he demonstrates it. Then the fact is that every one who has united himself with Christian Science and is endeavoring to be true to its teaching in any degree, has become a practitioner of Christian Science.

With a weary sense of the futility of the whole thing, the wise man said, "Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. " A modern poet spoke likewise of one condition of freedom, describing it negatively, when he said, "Not with blinded eyesight, poring over miserable books.

The golden rule, which Jesus states as follows: "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them," is a law which knows no distinctions, no partiality, no limitations. It means the same thing at all times, under all circumstances, to all people.

Mrs. Eddy well indicated the universality of the teaching of the Lesson-Sermons when she said in "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p.

When , in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gave the commands, "Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also," and, "Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain," he made a demand which humanity has felt it was well-nigh impossible to fulfill. His words are so unmistakably direct, so simple in statement, so unequivocal in meaning, that they must of necessity be obeyed if accepted.

" What went ye out for to see?" inquired Jesus, "A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet. This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

Prayer is a subject which presents itself to the thought of the Christian Scientist as one of vital importance. The Christian world has always looked upon prayer as the means whereby the individual might have audience with Deity.

Wherever there is a Church of Christ, Scientist, the visitor or inquirer may be sure of instruction at its regular services on any Sunday of the year by means of the Lesson-Sermon for that date. During every week of the year he will find its reading room available for quiet study of the Bible and Christian Science literature, including the works of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Fddy.

When Jesus was asked the question, "Who is my neighbour?" he answered with that pearl of parables so familiar to every student of the Bible, the parable of the good Samaritan. This parable has stood as the epitome of teaching in regard to true neighborliness from the day Jesus gave it to the present time, and many have been the attempts to live up to its high ethics.