Editorials

"SERVANT OF ALL"

We have recently been asked by a member of a branch church to state whether it is proper and in line with good practice to designate and regard some one member of a branch church as its "head.
In the seventeenth chapter of Acts we read of Paul's visit to Thessalonica, and of the awakening to truth of many "devout Greeks," among them prominent women; as also at Berea.
In Christian Science faith grows out of an understood Principle, while the world's philosophies and sciences have all begun with the phenomena of experience and reasoned therefrom.

"SEEK YE FIRST."

One of the necessary conditions for the success of a Christian Science church is harmony, and in order to bring about this condition or to maintain it, it is important to know what constitutes true harmony.

THE STATURE OF A MAN

In the kindly and unselfish "Mr.

SCIENCE AND PROGRESS

Within the past fifty years the world has undoubtedly made its greatest progress, and this because men have at last come to see that all truth is knowable and that even the quest for truth contributes greatly to the progress of the individual as well as that of the race.

"EVERY WHIT WHOLE"

A Peculiarity that has long been noticed by Christian Scientists is that those who have criticized their faith from a theological standpoint, frequently have been willing to grant the possibility or even certainty of its value as a healing agency, while many of those who have criticized it from the view-point of a physician have been equally ready to admit that its theology is productive of good results.

MEN IN OUR RANKS

A letter from a student in the field says there is a grave need for more men in Christian Science practice.

THE RIGHT ATTITUDE

In a recent Lesson-Sermon there was a very telling instance of the relation between certain truths.
One of the most significant features of the story of the prodigal is this, that when understood it is found to be not a far-away Oriental tale, but a near-by experience.

A WORD TO OUR HELPERS

An important factor in the advancement of the Cause of Christian Science is its publications, and the progress which has been made along this line, in the way of development, owes its success, in large measure, to those loyal workers, all over the field, who are mindful of our Leader's longtime request that they not only subscribe for the periodicals issued by the Publishing Society, but read them and write for them.

LOSS AND GAIN

"I cannot pray as I used to, and I am almost frightened when I think of it.