Editorials

HEALTH LAWS

It is quite customary for parents to impress upon their children at an early period the importance of observing health laws, and there is nothing wrong about this if a correct sense of what constitutes these laws is entertained.

BOTH GOSPEL AND WORKS NEEDED

The Duluth News Tribune, in discussing the appeal which the church necessarily must make to mankind in order to maintain, or rather regain, its place in their affections and fulfil its mission in the satisfaction of their spiritual hunger, says editorially:—

"SPIRITUAL BEAUTY"

IN Science and Health we are told that "it is ignorance and false belief, based on a material sense of things, which hide spiritual beauty and goodness".
THE presence and power of divine Truth may be thought of as having been demonstrated in the past, or as capable of being demonstrated in the future; nevertheless, one may have a deep conviction of the truth of both these propositions and yet have no tangible or saving hold on spiritual things, and for the reason that the truth is redemptively effective for each of us only in the "now" of consciousness.
IN these days when so much is being said and done for the cause of temperance, the question, "What is Christian Science doing for temperance?

DAILY BREAD

It is now very generally admitted by religious thinkers that the "daily bread" for which we ask in the Lord's Prayer means very much more than material food.

"NONE GOOD BUT ONE"

Christian Science teaches, as did Jesus, that "there is none good but one, that is, God;" and when students of Christian Science are not so taught they are defrauded of the pure teachings of Mrs.

A NEW BY-LAW

Teachers' and Practitioners' Offices.

LAW AND ORDER

Those who come to Christian Science usually do so in search of health, but they soon find that in order to insure its permanent possession they must attain to harmony, and in their efforts to secure this they cannot too often give heed to the familiar adage, "Order is heaven's first law.

BURNING OUR BRIDGES

It would be rather difficult, surely, to find a seriousminded student in any department of collegiate study who is not ready to give up his old and faulty notions about things for the new and demonstrably correct views which are being imparted to him.
Not many years ago the critics were loath to admit that Christian Science was capable of healing disease, or that any one could be healed by this or any other system which was not dependent upon drugs or the lancet.

TRUTH IS INTELLIGIBLE

Christian Science rebukes the tendency to superficial thinking.