Editorials

"THE ENGRAFTED WORD"

Every thoughtful husbandman lives with the poets, past and present, in wonderland, and in all his copartnerships with nature he is never more impressively reminded of his high calling than when, scions and grafting tools in hand, he opens new channels for the burgeoning life of the spring-awakened trees.

"LIVELY STONES"

The Salem.

COMING TO OUR OWN

It sometimes happens that those who have a great deal of property, have also a great deal of difficulty in paying their debts.

"WHY ART THOU CAST DOWN?"

The psalmist's query, "Why art thou cast down, O my soul?

OUR TEXT-BOOKS

In the opening pages of the chapter on Science, Theology, Medicine, in the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs.

SEPARATENESS

A great deal is said about the need for unity among Christian people, but it is not always remembered that the demand for separateness is of equal importance.

ASCENDING MAN

Human sense makes such frequent exhibitions of its consent if not attachment to the unideal, impulses which are unquestionably opposed to Spirit are so frequently in evidence, that aspiring hearts sometimes experience a sense of great discouragement.

"NO ROYAL ROAD"

Mrs.

LIFE'S SUNSHINE

These days when old earth seems to be speeding in its race toward our northland summer, and when we are enticed on every hand to forget all that hinders our companionship with the sweet out-of-door awakenings, one is led to think again, and with an ever increasing wonder of interest, of the relation of light to life, and of the tremendous fact that this relation is true for all the ranges of history, observation, and experience.

REPENTANCE

All through the Scriptures we find statements as to repentance, from those which appear in the early records up to the angelic messages given in the book of Revelation.

EXACTNESS IN STATEMENT

Christian Scientists who travel to any extent are often surprised to hear expressed in conversations to which they must listen, the most erroneous concepts of Christian Science, and they wonder how and where such misinformation could have originated.

BIBLE STUDY

In the fifth chapter of John's gospel we find a lengthy discourse by Christ Jesus on the subject of life as spiritually understood, and this teaching follows the account of the remarkable healing of a man who had for thirty-eight years been a helpless sufferer.