Editorials

"In spirit and in truth"

There is a good deal of what the world calls human nature in the feeling which prompts Christian Scientists to look with great satisfaction upon the constantly increasing number of members of The Mother Church and of the branch churches in the larger cities.
As announced at the annual meeting of The Mother Church, June 9, the readers elected for the ensuing term of three years are:—

Things Contrary

There are few if any outside of the teachings of Christian Science who are awake to the fact that the flesh and Spirit "are contrary the one to the other," as St.
He who has learned to bring the greatest spiritual truths into touch with the so-called lesser things of life, has discovered the secret of the solution of his problem.

"Lest ye enter into temptation"

It is sometimes a trying experience to the young and enthusiastic adherents of Christian Science, and ofttimes to those who have been longer grounded in the faith, to find that they are not exempt from trials and temptations, and that constant vigilance is needed to keep in the straight and narrow way which is the direct road to the kingdom and the Father's house of "many mansions.

"Caught up unto God"

There is nothing quite so gorgeous as a jeweled morning, and those who revel in its freshness and song gain a vision with which no other offering of the day can compare.

Progressive Contentment

Christian Science begins with the individual by making him desire and seek after better things than those which seem to prevail when he turns to the truth.

"If any man will come after me"

There is only one reasonable explanation why the multitudes followed Jesus in those few brief years of his earthly ministry.
In the sermon by Mrs.

Man's Unlimited Endowment

No chapter of the Book of books is more impressive, more wonderful in declaration, or more worthy of our study than the seventeenth chapter of John, for it is a marvel both of content and of diction.
One of the lessons that Christian Scientists are learning is the need for "patient continuance in well-doing.

Perceiving the Ideal

How true it is that we truly see only what we truly are! This fact illumines St.