Editorials

"MARTYRS."

Our revered Leader tells us that "martyrs are the human links which connect one stage with another in the history of religion".

HANDLING THE SERPENT

No word spoken by the Master expresses a more inspiring thought, or embraces a greater prophecy and privilege for men, than his familiar saying, "Ye shall know the truth.

ONLY ONE STANDARD

One of the best known and most vital truths of Christian Science is that embodied in the "scientific statement of being".

LIGHT AND LIFE

They who are privileged to look out upon New England hillsides these days have found themselves surrounded by battlements of color of wondrous variety and richness.

"SINCERITY AND TRUTH"

The apostle Paul directs thought away from creed and ritual, even from that which meant so much to his coreligionists, namely, the passover, with its unleavened bread; and he tells them of a better way to keep the feast, which is to get rid of the "leaven of malice and wickedness," and to partake of "the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

"REAL STRENGTH"

In every movement, whether it be religious or otherwise, there is a tendency to gage its success wholly from the material standpoint, that is, to measure its importance by its numerical, social, or financial strength; and this all too common tendency, so far as it has a bearing on Christianity, is recognized and rebuked in a recent issue of the British Congregationalist, from which we quote the following paragraph:—

UNDERSTANDING

ALL through the Scriptures great emphasis is laid upon the need of understanding, the fervent prayer of the psalmist, "Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart," being specially worthy of our consideration.

ORDER AND SOVEREIGNTY

UPON the material plane there can be no pearl without an oyster; the little jelly-like animal seems absolutely necessary to the production of this gently-lighted gem.

CIVIC DUTY

IN these days when things political seem to loom largely in the national horizon, the welfare of the people at large rightly commands something more than a passing interest from every good citizen, a class from which Christian Scientists are by no means excluded, as throughout Mrs.

SERVICE AND AT-ONE-MENT

The statement by an earnest Christian Scientist that he thought of himself only as the conductor through which "the water of life" reached his patients, expressed in a forcefully commonplace fashion his faith in God as the only healer, and his joyous realization of the abundance of that living stream of which if a man drink he "shall never thirst.

REMISSION

There are some who fail to understand the teaching of Christian Science relative to sin, and who therefore quarrel with their own misconceptions; but all honest seekers after truth soon discover that Christian Science declares sin and all discord to be unreal because God is not their author, and St.

"FEED MY SHEEP"

The coincidence and correlation of profession and practise was insisted upon by the Master from the very beginning of his ministry, and he himself set an example in this respect which, had it been consistently followed in the succeeding centuries, could but have long since revolutionized the world and redeemed it both physically and morally.