Editorials

Christian Scientists who have had mailed to them from London, England, spurious publications which by their titles purported to be official periodicals of The Mother Church, will be interested to know that on July 27, 1916, there came to trial in the English courts the case of The Christian Science Publishing Society, of Boston, Mass.

Light in Our Dwellings

Throughout the Bible there is no other word which so frequently and fittingly describes the divine presence among men as light.

Forestalling Error

It is the part of wisdom to destroy evil before it can pass from intent into action, from cause to effect.

Truth the Best Preventive

In these days of much education along the lines of public health, and especially that phase of the subject which has been termed "preventive medicine," it is noticeable that not even the most sanguine of the advocates of drastic health laws permits himself to prophesy the utter extinction of disease by these methods.

"Human footsteps"

ON page 253 of Science and Health Mrs.

Fatherhood and Motherhood

THOSE unacquainted with Mrs.

A Genuine Revival

OF late years a good deal has been talked and written about the need for a great religious revival.

Trying and Doing

ONE of the meanings of the verb to try is to attempt, or to put forth an effort, and it is simply astonishing how often trying is made to take the place in human experience of actual doing.

Control of the Sea

IN the great readjustment of world affairs now going forward, the control of the sea must eventually ensure the control of the earth.

Divine Principle

IT is almost an axiom that everybody would accept and conform to truth, if they really knew it to be the truth.

Two Ways

ACCORDING to human apprehension there are two ways,—one of the flesh, the other of Spirit.

Restoration

THE spiritual idea embodied in the word restoration is of tremendous significance, whether we take it in its many Scriptural settings or in the writings of our revered Leader, Mrs.