Editorials

The theory has long been held that the quality which chiefly distinguishes mankind from the lower animals is the ability to reason.
"WHEN understanding changes the standpoints of life and intelligence from a material to a spiritual basis, we shall gain the reality of Life, the control of Soul over sense, and we shall perceive Christianity, or Truth, in its divine Principle.

Truth Antidotes Error

THERE is only one way of destroying a lie, and it is to know the truth about that of which the lie is told.

Scientific Judgment

PERHAPS no teaching of Christ Jesus is more often disobeyed than the injunction, "Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Baptism

The beginner in Christian Science often finds himself questioning as to the nature and value of the rites and ceremonies which may have formed part of his religious life before he commenced the study of this Science.

Self-Abnegation

There is nothing that the Christian Scientist desires more earnestly to attain than real self-abnegation.

Realization

The student of Christian Science awakens to the paramount necessity of making spiritual truth real to himself.
All men are longing to have their desires satisfied.

"A merry heart"

In that miscellany of wisdom commonly called the Proverbs of Solomon there occurs the saying, "A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

Overcoming Malpractice

Christian Scientists greatly rejoice in the supreme fact that God is the only power and presence.

The Comfort that is of God

"The Bible contains the recipe for all healing," writes Mrs.

God's Balances

The beginning of each year is always a time of balancing accounts; most of the world then weighs its past efforts in order that it may know just how it stands.