Editorials

The Sound Mind

The teaching of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science is both comforting and disturbing.

Pursuit of Happiness

The children of this world are sometimes accounted wiser than the children of light.

Opposites

It is very generally admitted by thinking people that Spirit and the flesh are opposites, and that they are exclusive the one of the other.

Within the Sanctuary

Those who love birds have sorrowed over the wanton destruction of them which has caused some varieties practically to disappear.

Fear Cast Out

With strange inconsistency the human mind sometimes regards fear as an easy virtue, but when it is labeled cowardice metes out to it the severest condemnation.

Unconditional Surrender

There is no affiliation between truth and error, love and hate, life and death.

Not Seeing the Angel

In the book of Daniel we are told how the weary king, after his night of fasting and sleepless humiliation at being tricked by his courtiers, rose early and came with haste to the den of lions into which Daniel had been thrust, and "cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel," saying, "O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?

To Whom Gratitude Is Due

Nations as well as individuals must learn to express gratitude.

Refuge

So long as the dream of mortal existence lasts we shall need to have a place of refuge from the numerous ills which beset humanity, all of these being but varied manifestations of the belief in a life separate from God, the one and only Life.

Believing the Bible Messages

One who was a churchgoing Christian, on meeting a Christian Scientist, began to discuss the prevalent epidemic concerning which there was much fear, and said, I suppose you Christian Scientists will stand steadfast in these troublous times.

Patriotism

Say what we may, patriotism can never be defined in terms of matter.

With the Whole Heart

The common saying, "Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well," expresses a spiritual truth.