Editorials

The Two Witnesses

The explanatory note to be found in The Christian Science Quarterly contains the phrase, "The Bible and the Christian Science text-book are our only preachers.

Faith and Understanding

Owing to the obscuring influences of material belief the word faith has to a large extent lost its original meaning,—that which is given to it in the Scriptures, especially in our Master's teachings.

"Rightful King of the world"

There can be no doubt that at the end of two and a half years the world is heartily tired of war's hatreds, barbarities, and sufferings, and that there is today a genuine desire for peace.

Giving and Receiving

Throughout the Scriptures much is said about the divine bestowals, so much indeed that we might naturally look all about us to see humanity in possession of every good thing.

The Freedom of the Sea

Every human right has its counterfeit in some human abuse.

"Suffer it to be so now"

In March, 1898, just previous to the declaration of war by Spain upon the United States, Mrs.

Christian Unity

However desirable Christian uniformity and conformity may seem as a matter of expediency, it has no real value unless it be the expression of spiritual unity.

Wise Discrimination

Students of Christian Science are all acquainted with Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, and also know the high estimate put upon it by Mrs.

The Kingdom Within

Throughout Jesus' ministry he spoke of the kingdom of God as a reality, and of the immanent possibility of its realization in the affairs of men.

The Lamb and the Wolf

It need not shock the working Christian Scientist to be told that the carnal mind will probably offer him the choice of becoming either a wolf preying upon the lambs or a good shepherd feeding his flock "in green pastures" and leading it "beside the still waters.

Guidance

There is a very beautiful passage in the twenty-fourth chapter of Genesis which tells how Abraham sent away from the land of Canaan a trusted servant to find a wife for his beloved son Isaac.

"Fear made manifest"

Explaining her contention that all disease is mental in origin, Mrs.