Editorials

New Prices for Our Periodicals

During the past two years publishers of newspapers and periodicals have been called upon to meet a situation unprecedented in the history of the publishing business, due to the increased price of paper and other expenses of production.

Real Ambition

David was really ambitious.
"The members of Christian Science Society, Zurich, assembled in business meeting, desire to express to you and to the contributors of the war relief fund of The Mother Church their deep sense of gratitude for the generous donations sent to this country.

The Call and the Answer

In studying in the Bible the subject of prayer, we discover that the appeal which comes from the human side is very insistent.

Neither Law nor Gospel

One of the most subtle beliefs of mortal mind is that which declares that there is a well defined law of heredity to which all mankind is subject, not only in individual matters, but also in family, communal, racial, and national affairs.

"An holy priesthood"

Christian Scientists are sometimes asked whether there is any ordained ministry in their church corresponding to that of other churches.

Filibustering

Out of that strange masterful time when the Dutch, the Spanish, and the English were contending for the riches of the newly discovered Western Hemisphere, there arose the word filibuster.

Good Omnipotent and Eternal

Evil's persistent effort at this particular time seems to be so to engross Christian Scientists in war news and war preparations as to render them perfunctory in their scientific study and work.
Beginners in the study of Christian Science often ask if they cannot have definite rules given them for working out the problems which they meet in their daily experience.

Letting God Outline

Outlining materially robs life of elasticity and hedges it about with limitations.

The Essence of Democracy

That men have held the right of self-government to be more precious than the possession of the sense of life itself, has been recorded in all ages, but not from the time of Jesus until Mrs.
That other than Christian Scientists who have been helped by the Christian Science War Relief Committee are appreciative of the brotherly kindness thus manifested is shown in the letters given below.