Editorials

SEEKING FOR ORIGIN

Every-day experience has to do in large part with things as human sense finds them, and the great majority even of professed Christians accept the so-called common-sense, materialistic view of substance, and contentedly trudge along in this "broad" mortal way.

"BE NOT AFRAID."

How often, when seemingly overwhelmed by threatening danger, the terror-stricken one has longed to hear spoken to him those words of glad assurance that came to the little group of disciples in the ship, as they watched in the dawning light one who was approaching them across the tossing waters.
Literature presents no finer appeal to schooled manliness than that found in the sixth chapter of St.

ERROR UNREAL

It is now very well known that the fundamental proposition of Mrs.

HEALING A CHRISTIAN DUTY

One of our contemporaries—an organ of one of the oldest religious bodies—recently said, in a discussion of the works of spiritual healing which are being done outside the pale of such religious organizations as the one it represents: "None of these cults have any ecclesiastical sanction, and yet they are undertaking to do what the church in the earlier days carried forward as a part of the gospel mission, bringing healing to the body as well as peace to the mind, and salvation to the soul, and so promoting a 'wholeness without which no man shall see the Lord.

TODAY'S BLESSINGS

In the Lamentations of Jeremiah, we find in the midst of his sorrowful musings a declaration that the divine mercy and compassion are "new every morning," a statement which recalls the oft-quoted words of our revered Leader that open the Preface to Science and Health: "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

"IF IT BE OF GOD.'

Thanks to the wide-spread publicity which is today accorded to Christian Science, both by its friends and quite unintentionally by its opponents, it is only occasionally that this practical and demonstrable religion is mistakenly denominated as "neither Christian nor scientific.

THE UNFAILING STREAM

Few subjects are more frequently mentioned today by those interested in the welfare of mankind, than that of irrigation, since for many and vast regions of the earth it means the possible change of uninhabitable stretches of sand into luxuriant farms and gardens.

LOVE AND LAW

The first and most important thing for every little one to learn, is the unyielding nature of true love, and the future of the child whose parents are not wise enough or not strong enough to impart this lesson, is apt to bring him unhappiness if not defeat.

UNFAILING TRUTH

Few Christian people would deny that divine Truth must of necessity be unfailing, and yet not many of these are ready to avail themselves of its infinite power and limitless provision for human need in all the varied exigencies of human experience, although the psalmist assures us that divine Truth "endureth to all generations.

HEARERS AND DOERS

When Jesus assembled his disciples before the feast of the passover, when he "knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father," and after he had symbolized to them the humility of that love "which passeth all understanding" and had eaten his last supper with them, he preached a sermon second only in importance to the sermon on the mount.

STRENGTH, HOW ATTAINED?

Thoughtful people all discover, sooner or later, that strength is an indispensable factor of health, harmony, and success.