Editorials

There can be no question that Christian Science made its first appeal to humanity with the declaration that Mind is the healer of disease and that it includes all reality. Very few, perhaps, paused to argue this proposition, nor did they need to do so, for the evidence of Mind's healing power followed so closely upon the declaration of it that denials were practically ruled out of court.

Christian Science circled the earth and became a world religion in less than half a century. It has taken its place among the recognized Christian denominations having adherents in all parts of the world.

" There is but one way to heaven, harmony," Mrs. Eddy writes on page 242 of Science and Health, "and Christ in divine Science shows us this way.

On page 42 of "Miscellaneous Writings" we find this wonderfully assuring statement by our revered Leader: "Man is not annihilated, nor does he lose his identity, by passing through the belief called death. " On the same page Mrs.

History records but one touch of mercy as coming from outside the circle of Jesus' immediate followers during this heartrending mistrial before the Roman judgment seat. This touch came not from Annas or Caiaphas representing the priesthood, not from Herod, "that fox" who mocked Jesus, nor even from the more honest Pilate, but from a totally unexpected source outside the official setting of this terrible scene,—from Pilate's wife.

The new-old miracle of earth's awakening from its winter sleep has its parallel in our spiritual experience. The night of sorrow and suffering may envelop us for a season, may even seem to bolt out all that life holds of hope and promise, but through the long dark watches there is yet a ray of light, for we know of a surety that the morning cometh, and we wait patiently for the joy and gladness that follow in its train.

NO book of the Bible more clearly shows the futility of attempting to interpret Holy Writ literally than the book of Jonah. The attempt to materialize Scripture has proven particularly unfortunate in the case of this book, for it has drawn upon the Bible in general much cheap wit and resentful skepticism, and the name of Jonah has been made to apply to one who brings disaster to any company with which he is associated.

THE responsibility of the spiritually awakened toward those who are still asleep to the demands of Truth, is forcefully presented in the third chapter of Ezekiel's prophecy. This prophet was called to go and warn those who were resisting the demands of God's law, and it seems that he felt the greatness of the task imposed to such an extent that he went "in bitterness;" but he adds, "The hand of the Lord was strong upon me.

" FOR precept must be upon precept," wrote the prophet Isaiah in patriarchal days, and history repeats itself even in this enlightened twentieth century. To the people of Moses' time the ten commandments had been promulgated, obedience to which would have meant a speedy entrance into the land of peace and plenty, instead of those futile and fruitless years of wandering in the desert.

Many who come into Christian Science at first think it would be easier to present the truth to their former friends and acquaintances, as they certainly desire to do, if they did not have to explain the unreality of matter as well as the unreality of disease and sin. When they attempt to do this many are "offended," even as so many were in the time of Christ Jesus, for they fail to see that when Christian Science insists upon the allness of God, who is Spirit, this necessarily rules out the belief in matter and evil,—belief manifested in sin, disease, and death.