Editorials

Thinking Rightly

It is gratifying to note, as a sign of the times, that many people are recognizing not only the futility but also the harmfulness and bad taste of indulging one of the stock subjects of general conversation, namely, descriptions of the ills "that flesh is heir to.

Healing of Dishonesty

Speaking of the more immediate effects of Christian Science, Mrs.

Law a Power

Few people would be willing to deny the power of law, however understood, but there would doubtless be great diversity of opinion as to how this power could be proved.

"Honor to whom honor is due"

On page 148 of "Miscellaneous Writings" there appears an extract from a letter by Mrs.

Harvest Lessons

The great Teacher had much to say about sowing and reaping, and it is well for us to cling to the fact that the good seed and its fruitage were given first place in his discourses and their permanence was shown.

"Out of the depths"

No one can familiarize himself with the book of Isaiah without being impressed that he has come into touch with a man of remarkable vision, one whose spiritual intuition was no less authoritative than rare.

"I press toward the mark"

There is a tendency at times, with some Christian Scientists, in their honest desire to make known what great things Truth has done for them, to hark back too persistently to the past, to recall and rehearse with painstaking detail the sufferings endured or the trails undergone, until quite unawares both narrator and listener have etched upon their consciousness as a vivid reality thoughts which are as an open door inviting the return of the illusion of sickness or sin.
"Wonderful ! How wonderful!" All were looking out of the car windows, feasting upon the beauty that lay like a radiant sunset upon the woods.

Differing View-points

A Study of the book of Acts and of the various epistles reveals the fact that considerable time and growth in grace were needed in order to reconcile the differing views of those who were at that day accepting Christianity.

Freedom in the Truth

To the Christian Scientist all right thinking, all real progress, and all that makes for the good of humanity is the manifestation of infinite Mind, God.

"Christ in you"

It doubtless called for great daring on the part of St.

The Heart of Things

No one can think of the unprofitableness of most of the things which consume humanity's attention, and at the same time have some sense of the seriousness of the problems which we are called upon to solve in this life, without feeling that waste of time and opportunity assumes, with the many, the semblance of a crime.