Editorials

Progress Spiritward

The Christian Scientist is eager to make spiritual progress.

Time

Time is the human concept which ascribes duration and limits to human acts and experiences.
The confidence which Christian Scientists have in their religion has frequently been commented upon by other religionists, who have seen how they have remained steadfast under ridicule and perhaps persecution, and have persisted in spite of these in carrying on the work of the Christian Science movement.

The Mighty Rebuke

Every rebuke administered by the Christian Scientist at the right time and in a healing spirit should leave the individual with a sense of having been freed from some incubus, and so brought nearer the realization of his spiritual identity.

Certain Aspects of Law

As used in the Old Testament, the word "law" nearly always means direction or instruction.

And they came with haste"

On that first Christmas night the shepherds of whom we love to read were faithful in guarding their flocks; but their gaze was not so earthbound as to make them unobservant of an unusual glory in the heavens.

Peacemakers

It was Christ Jesus who, in his Sermon on the Mount, spoke these words: "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

The Nativity

For about eight centuries before the birth of Jesus, the people Israel had been subjected to conquest, dispersion, exile, or tyranny by one despotic power after another—Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, Macedonia, Egypt, Syria, Rome.

A Christmas Sentiment

[A statement furnished by request to the New York Evening Journal, the Chicago Evening American, and the San Francisco Call-Bulletin]

Mastery of One's Self

On page 254 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs.

Possible and Impossible

When suffering from certain diseases or conditions labeled incurable by material systems, many have accepted the verdict that, for them, recovery is an impossibility.

Law

Law is a word having such different meanings that a different word for each of them would be convenient as well as conducive to comprehension and clear expression.