Editorials

"BE THOU CLEAN"

It sometimes happens that persons who have tried in vain to be healed through medical treatment, perhaps at much expense and with much suffering because of the means employed, and who have as a last resort turned to Christian Science, cherish a strong sense of resentment not only toward the system which had failed to relieve them from their ills, but also toward those through whom it had been employed.

SCIENTIFIC RULES

Throughout Mrs.

THE WAYSHOWER

Nothing is more clearly taught by Christ Jesus than that a knowledge of God embraces and sums up one's promise and possession of eternal life: that the true consciousness is a God-consciousness; and this fact gives the greatest possible weight to the question whether our acquaintance with Him whom the Master taught us to think of as "the Father" is steadily increasing.

WHY DISCRIMINATE?

The different light in which coroners view the many deaths under medical treatment which come to their attention, and an occasional death under Christian Science treatment, is aptly shown in a statement to the New York Sun by the Christian Science committee on publication for that state, from which we quote as follows:—

LOVE POINTS THE WAY

Thoughtful people are becoming deeply impressed with the conviction that the social order embraces many facts and conditions which are altogether wrong, and that the spirit of Christian brotherhood, alone, can right them.

SYMBOLS

In Science and Health we read that "spiritual teaching must always be by symbols".

PRACTICAL GRATITUDE

In our daily experience we largely get into the habit of dividing into various grades the sins which tempt mankind.

SCIENTIFIC FORGETTING

To the student of Christian Science the Scriptures take on a new meaning and make strong demands for unhesitating obedience to statements of truth which were formerly passed over as having no vital relation to the working out of our present-day problems.

GROWTH AN AWAKENING

That the normal Christian life means steady growth, would appeal to most people as logical if not axiomatic; and if they were asked the meaning of growth, practically all would approve the saying that "the Christian man should grow as grows the tree.

DIVINE SERVICE

The need for daily and hourly doing of deeds of Christianity, rather than simply putting on a religious habit for set occasions, is emphasized by Mrs.

"LAID UNTO THE ROOT."

Of all the pests with which the farmer has to struggle nowadays, none are more sure to be on hand than the old-fashioned weeds.

UNFOLDINGS

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs.