Editorials

FORGIVENESS

That the question of forgiveness is a vital doctrine of Christianity, no student of the New Testament can deny.

OFFICE OF THE READING-ROOM

In the Wednesday evening meetings and in the testimonies published in our periodicals, frequent mention is made of the reading-rooms which are open to the public in all the cities and towns where branch churches are located, and in many others where as yet the progress of the Christian Science movement has only justified the formation of a small society.

POSSIBILITIES

In the gospels we find a number of strong statements as to what is possible to those who let go of the mortal, material sense of things, and lift their thoughts to God as the source of all that is real and harmonious.

STRENGTH AND STRUGGLE

If one were to ask the average twentieth-century business man how to win success, he might elicit the single word "Hustle.

"FAITHFUL OVER A FEW THINGS."

We read in the gospels that when Jesus chose those who were to carry on the work of preaching and healing which he was about to inaugurate, they forsook all to follow him, and throughout the time he was with them we find him impressing upon them, again and again, the necessity for faithfulness in their high calling, even to that sorrowful rebuke to Peter, "Couldest not thou watch one hour?

"YE ARE MY WITNESSES"

There was never a time, surely, when the world was in greater need than it is today of witnesses to the truth, those who in humble walks and ways make it convincingly appear to men; and whatever our own sense of delinquency, we may rejoice that consecrated Christian Scientists are bringing this about, and that every one of us may have a part in this great achievement for God.

CLINGING TO EARTH

Mrs.

PRECEPT AND PRACTISE

Recently the time seemed opportune to refer in these columns to the support which should be accorded the newspaper and magazines which Mrs.

"WHAT OF THE NIGHT?"

In the ninth chapter of John's gospel, which is truly a gospel in itself, containing as it does a statement of Principle and its idea, Truth and its demonstration, we find these words of the Master: "I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

GENUINE LIVING

St.

"COME UNTO ME."

It is often asked by those who criticize Christian Science why so much space is given in Science and Health and in our periodicals to the subject of healing, and why this subject is referred to so frequently in our midweek meetings and in the conversation of Christian Scientists.

A SONG OF ASSURANCE

A thoughtful reading of the ninety-first Psalm brings one a keener sense of the fitness of the union of truth and beauty, of the expression of the highest ideal in the highest art.