Editorials

"IF IT BE OF GOD."

In the early days of the Christian Science movement, the truths so fearlessly set forth in its text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," naturally enough, because so distinct from the accepted orthodox teaching and practise of centuries past, aroused a storm of criticism from the clerical and the medical professions, with the press as a common vehicle; criticisms which, as Mrs.

PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY

Christ Jesus was a reformer in the best sense.
Three and a half years ago the Board of Directors of The Mother Church requested Bicknell Young, as a member of the board of lectureship, to make his headquarters in Europe.

"TOGETHER WITH GOD."

That effective response to all the demands upon us, as parents, practitioners, and public citizens, constitutes a heavy load, is a proposition to which some of us may often be tempted to concede; and that the dominion of this sense does not represent the freedom which Christ Jesus declared was to be gained through a knowledge of Truth, goes without saying.

THE NINTH COMMANDMENT

The ninth commandment, which reads, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor," makes a strong demand for truth between a man and his neighbor.

"HEAL THE SICK."

The healing of the sick through spiritual means is ever the most astonishing thing to those who regard disease as a reality.
There is no denying that mortals can never be content with the narrow range of existence to which material sense bears testimony.

GLIMPSES OF MAN

The most impressive object within the range of human vision is humanity, and a truly great man is certainly the most impressive thing in the world.

FACTS AND FIGURES

Under the plausible guise of a desire for the public good, and upon the plea that the public is either incapable or not to be trusted in its judgment of what is best for its own interests, the medical societies of the different states are becoming more aggressive and more persistent than ever before in their efforts to secure the enactment of legislation for the purpose of preventing the practise of any system of healing disease which is not within their scope and control.

THE SOWER

"I know that the healing work is the one thing I ought to do.

PERFECTION DEMANDED.

It is not always borne in mind that perfection is a demand of Principle which applies to all we think, say, and do, from the least thing to the greatest, and that lapses from obedience to this demand are sure to cost us dear.

"FEAR YE NOT."

Throughout Science and Health Mrs.