Editorials

Spiritual Communion

In accordance with the Church Manual.

Upward Wings

When beset with dread of his enemies, with desire for revenge and dreariness of heart, the Psalmist cried yearningly, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

Reason and Revelation

In the common thought of mankind that alone is entitled to classification as fact, or truth, which is arrived at through the processes of reason.

Balaam or Balak

It is stated in the book of Numbers that the children of israel had come up out of the land of Egypt and were pressing toward the land of promise.

"Unfaltering tenderness"

"The little that I have accomplished has all been done through love,—self-forgetful, patient, unfaltering tenderness".

Claims True and False

Belief in creation as material and in human personality as man is the seeming source of the false claims which mortals must deny and destroy in order to gain the true sense of man's selfhood.

Faith and Works

"Our Master's first article of faith propounded to his students was healing, and he proved his faith by his works," writers Mrs.

Spiritual Joy

Joy is often regarded as the outcome of happy human conditions; but this concept of joy places it at the mercy of mortal and material circumstances.

Conversation in Heaven

In his epistle to the Philippians, Paul draws a sharp contrast between the materially-minded—those absorbed in the gratification of the physical senses—and those who, like himself, were striving to rise out of the bondage of matter into the realm of Spirit, where Christ Jesus had shown the way.

Steadfast Faith

Steadfastness is a quality of spiritual understanding, and it includes unshaken hope and faith.

Christian Warfare

How often has the Christian life been referred to as a warfare! Christianity, as taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus, has given to all who have accepted it a spiritual idealism, and it is between this idealism and the evil beliefs of the world that the warfare is waged.

The "chart of life"

The student of Christian Science, if he be thorough and sincere, is also an earnest student of the Bible, for the sacred Scriptures contain the truth which is revealed in Christian Science.