Editorials

"The basis of Christmas"

"On earth peace, good will toward men," was the angels' message to the shepherds keeping watch over their flock, on the night that Jesus was born.

Sovereignty

The understanding of spiritual dominion as bestowed upon man according to the first chapter of Genesis dawns slowly upon human consciousness.

Forewarned Is Forearmed

Warning that an epidemic of influenza is to be expected during the present winter recently emanated from a meeting of a division of the American Public Health Association.

"An impervious armor'

It has been widely recognized that throughout his great Sermon on the Mount, Christ Jesus was emphasizing the primary importance of thought in human experience.
It is probable that a good many persons find themselves somewhat disturbed and more or less perplexed by reason of increased taxation and the steadily mounting cost of living.

Anatomy

According to mortal ruling, the decision as to whether a circumstance or condition is to be accepted as fact or dismissed as fable depends upon whether the human senses testify to its authenticity.

Utilizing Divine Law

Christian Scientists understand that law, in its real meaning, is the expression of God, Principle.

Usefulness

The measure of the individual's usefulness depends upon whether he sees himself as servant or as Son.

The Law of Immortality

When the Apostle Paul wrote the Ephesians that there is "one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all," he must have discerned that God, infinite good, is omnipresent and universal.

"For a victory over evil"

"The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible," Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures".
Many are familiar with the saying, "Procrastination is the thief of time," and it might be said with equal truth that procrastination is a waster of time.
Recent years have undoubtedly seen the boldest and largest-scale use of intentional mesmerism, or hypnotism, that the world has known; and this coming from under cover of a method which has nothing to commend it, plainly foreshadows its extinction.