Editorials

BELIEF, FALSE AND TRUE

Writing to the Romans of the significance of belief, and illustrating his point by reference to the prevailing notions of his countrymen respecting ceremonially pure and impure foods, St.

THE TRUE SOLUTION

In these days of social and industrial unrest, when men are arrayed against each other and the problem of an equitable adjustment seems difficult of solution, here and there a great cry goes up for the multiplication of laws which will regulate the relations of all classes.

TRUTH'S REDEMPTIVE RANGE

We are living in the "wireless age," when the known flight of electric impulse through the vastness of space gives us firmer foothold for faith, since it makes a limited sense of the amplitude of Truth's redemptive radition seem the more incongruous and out of keeping.

LIFE AND ACTIVITY

Not many years ago, Professor Drummond, admittedly one of the brightest intellects of his day, wrote: "Nature cannot say what spiritual life is.

SEEKING AND FINDING

It is worthy of note that the first declaration of the mission of Christ Jesus to the children of men, as recorded in the New Testament, is that "he shall save his people from their sins;" and as we follow him through his brief ministry it is made clear that the primary purpose of his coming was the awakening of mankind to universal salvation, to a recognition of the at-one-ment of God and man, and the leading of humanity through progressive steps to that knowledge of God which he said was "life eternal.

THE ALLNESS OF GOOD

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"BE YE THEREFORE WISE"

The higher meaning which attaches to the Scripture word wisdom, identifies it with that spiritual understanding or knowledge of Truth referred to in the familiar proverb, "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom.

IF THINE EYE BE SINGLE

Christ Jesus declared the infiniteness, the allness of God's kingdom, and evil's consequent nothingness and powerlessness, in the closing sentence of that wonderfully comprehensive prayer, so full of significance today to Christian Scientists, which he taught his followers nineteen centuries ago: "Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.
The discovery that a very common twentieth-century habit occupies a prominent place among the things which in the book of Deuteronomy are branded as an offense to God, makes it clear that in the realm of human selfishness there is little new under the sun.

PONDERINGS

In Proverbs we read: "Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL

As a basis in explanation of the efforts put forth each year to obtain legislation which will prohibit the practice of Christian Science, the proponents of such legislation usually try to show two things, first, that Christian Science does not heal; and second, that it is a menace, because, as they allege, Christian Scientists do not obey the laws in regard to the reporting of so-called contagious diseases.

BELIEF AND UNDERSTANDING

It is often observed by those who are not Christian Scientists, that students of Christian Science place considerable emphasis upon the word "belief.