Editorials

Students of our Leader's writings, including the Manual of The Mother Church, must have noted that Mrs.

SPIRITUAL RESPONSIBILITY

Although mortals have widely differing opinions about many things, all who are above the plane of actual savagery are agreed that certain moral requirements are equally binding upon all men, specifically the provisions of the Decalogue, which safeguard the lives, property, and reputations of mankind.

A VITAL FAITH

In Mrs.

SAVING THE SLUMS

A student of social conditions in London has recently called attention to the startling fact that, according to the reports of Christian workers among the poor, when a certain level of destitution has been reached the situation seems to become quite hopeless, and from this he argues rightly that Christian thought should awaken to the fact that the gross violation of economic law is largely responsible for these conditions.

"DECENTLY AND IN ORDER"

It is scientific as well as Christian that "all things be done decently and in order," and this is especially true when applied to the organization of Christian Science societies or branch churches, for if each step of such organization be rightly taken, the possibility of friction and misunderstanding in later years will be avoided.

"NEARER, MY GOD, TO THEE"

THE heavens may have seemed brass in many a crucial hour, and yet normal people have never been able to think of God as inaccessible, and Christian Science is blessing all mankind in making His nearness the more apparent and intelligible.

READING-ROOM PRIVILEGES

ALL Christian Science churches are required to have a reading-room where our literature, including the Bible, may be read and studied, or purchased if the reader so desires.

CHRISTMAS AND CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS

Because  the observance of Christmas is so general, it is perhaps natural that there should be many inquiries at this season in regard to this holiday and the place it should hold in the thought of Christian Scientists.
At this season of the year the word Thanksgiving is often heard among American people, and the sentiments associated with the name are without doubt many and varied.

"THINK ON THESE THINGS"

The Christian life has two aspects which can never be dissociated, namely, right thinking and right doing.

NOT MORTAL, BUT IMMORTAL MIND

Most of us can remember the time when for a physician to admit that Christian Science had healed any one of any disease was an unheard-of thing.

"ANOINTED OF GOD."

In his last long heart-to-heart talk with his disciples, Jesus said to them, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit,.