Editorials

"LOOK UNTO ME"

In the prophecy of Isaiah we read these beautiful words: "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
Every intelligent person has some sense of the significance of testimony to our asserted knowledge of the past, and to our judicial attitude toward men and movements to-day.

LOVE EVER THE THEME

Many of those who have since become Christian Scientists were much surprised when they first attended a Christian Science church service, to find there was neither personal preacher nor sermon, in the common acceptance of those terms.

THE SECOND COMMANDMENT

The second commandment is the subject of much study on the part of Christian Scientists who cannot accept any Scriptural teaching "in the oldness of the letter," to quote St.

"BE OF GOOD CHEER."

The one condition of thought from which the efficiency of the Christian worker imperatively demands he shall be free, is a state into which he is constantly tempted to fall, namely, discouragement.

OMNIPOTENT, UNCHANGING GOOD

Our attention has been called to the following specially pertinent question and answer, which recently appeared in the editorial columns of The New York Farmer, published at Port Jervis, N.

ABSTINENCE

All thoughtful people discover sooner or later that selfdenial in its broadest sense must be practised, if real and lasting progress is to be made in any direction, and some Christians have carried this form of self-discipline to great length, so far as outward indulgences are concerned, who clearly have not understood the Master's teaching on this subject.

ALL GOOD IS

There are few men, and none of parts, who do not erect and dream over their castles in Spain, who have not outlined an ideal of earthly circumstance and surroundings with which they associate the thought of happiness and satisfaction; and the difficulty of many a task, the weight of many a burden, has been temporarily lessened by this ministry of hope, the promise it gives of a sometimes success.

UNIVERSAL APPLICATION

Frequently at the Wednesday evening meetings we hear testimonies given in which the speaker includes a statement of his gratitude for the greater prosperity which he is enjoying in his business affairs, and to a stranger who is attending a Christian Science service for the first time, this statement may prove somewhat puzzling.
It may be assumed that all value the comfort and freedom of health, though many live and deport themselves after a fashion which they could not commend as conducive thereto.

FIRSTFRUITS

All Christian people are supposed to be familiar with the Master's admonition, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness," but not all lay the needed emphasis upon the "first," which relates itself very naturally with the demand found throughout the Old Testament for the rendering to God of all the firstfruits.
Paul followed up his question to King Agrippa, "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?