Editorials

MANY poets have sung of the weariness of waiting, and the wisdom of the human mind has been put into the proverb which declares, "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. " And yet men have waited through many years and have been patient in their work, and in the time of gray hairs have seen the hope that in early youth they cherished bloom into fruition.

In the prophecy of Isaiah we find a distinct promise that God would manifest himself to humanity through His own idea as revealed to mankind, and that his name was to be Immanuel. In the first chapter of Matthew's gospel we find the fulfillment of this prophecy in the birth of Jesus, and we read that the angel who announced his appearing said that his name should be Immanuel, or "God with us.

One of Simon Peter's noblest qualities, namely his genuine trust in the Master, made him willing to declare, "We have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. " Toiling all the night in vain is the human method, but letting down the net in obedience to God's command incloses "a great multitude of fishes.

When John wrote, saying, "Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ," he was declaring clearly and emphatically the fact of Mind and its manifestation, revealing the absolute and that which is related to it. The fellowship of which he spoke brings out for us the true rule and the right practice in life, and inspires the Christian to be a worthy representative "of our Lord, and of his Christ.

To students of the Bible there can be no question that real freedom springs from nothing less than spirituality. Paul must have discerned this when he wrote to the Corinthians, "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

" One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day," writes Peter in his second epistle. On page 504 of Science and Health Mrs.

Christianity is not something vague and historical, a tradition out of the past. The evidences of Christianity are not arguments set forth by a professor of apologeties.

Is there a boy on earth who has not at some time desired to be a soldier? And why this desire? Because to be a soldier names, in one's own consciousness, to fight for the right. A great awakening of ideals has come sweeping over the nations.

As we approach the end of the year we are accustomed to look over its experiences in order that we may rate ourselves and find how much has been gained during the months which have gone by. Mrs.

When Jesus found that the understanding of the men of his age was not ready for truth stated metaphysically, or theologically if we use the word in its true sense, he perpetuated his teaching in parables. If in his very presence there was the wrangling and criticism of scribe and Pharisee over his uttered sentences, then the preservation and transmission of his words and teaching in correct form needed to be provided for.