Editorials

Joy in the Healing Work

In the thirty-fifth chapter of Isaiah these words occur: "And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Knowing and Controlling Self

If Christ Jesus taught a definite method for the mental practice which is required to obtain salvation from evil, the authors of the four Gospels did not record it at length.

Reliance on God

On page 166 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.

Wisdom

Every normal human being desires to be divinely wise, to preserve harmony in his character, experience, home, and career; and he lovingly desires this harmony for all individuals and nations, for divine Love and wisdom are eternally allied.

Democratic Government

The discovery of Christian Science had to be followed by the founding thereof.

Immutability

In the parable of the two houses, the one built on the rock and the other on the sand, Jesus gave an illustration of material mutability and spiritual immutability.
In teaching that God, divine Mind, is infinite good, and that man is the image or reflection of Mind and therefore expresses unlimited good, Christian Science is doing more for the health of mankind than any other agency in the world to-day.

Discovery of Christian Science

How did Mrs.

True Self-Respect

On page 226 of "Miscellaneous Writings" our Leader asks the question, "What has an individual gained by losing his own self-respect?

Demonstrating Qualities

The practice of Christian Science can be regarded as demonstrating the qualities of true being—those which really belong to God and man.

Christian Science Houses in England and Wales

We are glad to announce the opening of a fund under the auspices of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, to enable needy Christian Scientists to enter Christian Science Houses in England and Wales.
Human existence sometimes seems largely to consist of a struggle between the forces of good and the supposititious forces of evil.