Editorials

Christian Science not Debatable

The association of the word Science with Christianity produces surprise when first heard.

Economy

In theology the word economy is used to mean a dispensation or distinct era under divine government.

Treason

The betrayal of friendship is generally accounted a particularly odious offense.

Warfare, True and False

Readers of the Bible are apt to overlook the fact that although the idea of peace figures largely therein, a great deal is also said about warfare.

Government not Politics

The problem usually set for a country or a community is to bring out a social order wherein there will be justice primarily.

Distribution of Literature

For a number of years the free distribution of Christian Science literature has been assuming increasingly larger proportions in the activity of the entire field.

Prophecy

There was perhaps never a time when prophecy was more eagerly looked into than at the present, and this is surely well, for we find in the first epistle to the Thessalonians this admonition: "Despise not prophesyings.

Things that Seem

Surface indications catch the eye of material beliefs and pretend to be solid facts.

Principle Our Omnipresent Guide

To Christian Scientists the word Principle expresses the truth that "God is infinite person," unlimited in knowledge and goodness, as the textbook states.

Material Beliefs Destroyed

Popular opinion finds it difficult to admit that what are generally called material facts are nothing more substantial than material beliefs.

Transformation

A MOST insistent demand of the Christian religion reads, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.

"Pleasures and palaces"

Perhaps the author of Home, Sweet Home" may not himself have roamed among palaces; but he did try out material pleasures, only to find with the Preacher that "all is vanity,"—that after all his searching abroad for pleasure, it was to be found in the simple joys of home.