A GREAT
deal is said at the present time about the power of the human will, indeed there are many who mistakenly suppose that Christian Scientists attempt to heal themselves and others by means of will-power, when it is instead the surrender of the belief that man has a mind separate from God which is the first step toward healing.
We
have received a number of requests for the republication of what our Leader wrote as defining her meaning of the phrase "rotation in office," and we are glad to comply with these requests.
Few
would question that the safety and welfare of the communal life is determined by the ethical status of the people, the reverence shown for a moral order.
It
is a fair inference, to judge from the many letters received at headquarters which request information as to the right way to carry on the work of the Sunday school, that the subject is one of great interest, and that there is not only an intention upon the part of those who are most intimately connected with and responsible for the conduct of this work for the good of the children who are attending these schools in the branch churches, to put into it their best efforts, but a general desire that these efforts shall be rightly directed.
There
appeared in a recent issue of the Outlook an article by President Maclaurin of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which we clip the following:—
ONE
of the most striking statements of Christian Science, and one in which is shown the fundamental difference of this teaching from all other so-called metaphysical systems, is found on page 468 of Science and Health.