Editorials

Healing, a Christian Duty

How simply does Matthew bear record in the eighth chapter of his Gospel of the healing works of the Master! He writes, "When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick.

Verity

Spiritual verity is mankind's ever present refuge from material falsity.

Sound Business

While the healing of disease through spiritual means has come quite generally to be recognized, it is not so commonly acknowledged that the same divine Principle is available to solve all the problems which confront mankind.

Class Teaching

There seems to be a growing tendency on the part of some teachers to solicit pupils for their classes, and to permit others to do so without objection or correction.

Development

Nobody will gainsay that there is room for improvement in everyone, though they may differ in their opinion as to what constitutes development and how to attain it.

Purity of Motive

A great responsibility rests upon the members of the Church of Christ, Scientist.
The linking together of the words "science" and "art," which so commonly occurs in secular literature, has its analogy in the study and practice of Christian Science.

Steadfast Trust in God

"Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord," are the words of the twenty-seventh psalm; and they are very similar in meaning to many others that occur throughout the Bible.

"Undo the heavy burdens"

True fasting, in other words, abstention from false thinking, coupled with the activity of good works, is thus spoken of by Isaiah: "Is not this the fast that I have chosen?

"The fact concerning error"

In emphasizing the need for students of Christian Science to know the unreality of evil, of every phase of error, Mrs.

Changeless Health

Health has usually been thought of as physical and uncertain.

"Newness of life"

It is written in Proverbs that "understanding is a well-spring of life unto him that hath it;" and a psalm says that "with thee [God] is the fountain of life.