Editorials

GOD FOR THE RIGHT

No attribute of the Deity is more frequently and more emphatically named in the Scripture than is His justice.

ENJOYMENT

It is scarcely possible to lay too much emphasis upon the fact that joy is one of the essentials of our being, that it is to our mentality what sunshine is to fruit and flower.

HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE

We quote the following from an interesting article by Rex G.

THE DIGNITY OF LABOR

The sentence imposed upon Adam—"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground"—is usually remembered with a bitter sense of resentment on the part of those who believe that they must suffer endless pains and penalties because of the mistake made by their remote ancestor, but Paul gives a happier turn to thought when he says, "As in Adam all die; even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

THE PURIFICATION OF SENSE

Refinement of experience is always preceded by purification of thought, the ennoblement of our living by the exaltation of our concepts, and it is this that gives such dynamic significance to the ideal.

NO TRUST NEEDED

We clip the following from an editorial in the Springfield.

THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT

The first sentence of the Fourth Commandment—"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy"—is a metaphysical statement of the true manner of observing the Sabbath.

GRATITUDE AND COMPASSION

In reading the Psalms, and especially those portions which were more frequently used in the temple service, one is impressed with the earnestness with which the Christian believer is enjoined to maintain a spirit of gratitude and rejoicing.

SPURIOUS MANUSCRIPTS

Our readers are again warned against the circulation of manuscripts which purport to be extracts from letters written by our Leader to her students; alleged shorthand reports of instructions given by certain teachers to their pupils, and other papers of equally doubtful authenticity which are being passed from hand to hand.

THE SPIDER'S WEB

Sitting in the quiet of the evening hour, attention was divided between the glories of the sunset sky and the delicate wonders of a spider's web which chanced to interlace the point of view.

THE TRUE FOUNDATION

The past week marks an epoch in the history of the Christian Science movement, the completion of the new publishing house being an event which concerns Christian Scientists the world over.
We clip the following editorial, under the above caption, from the Trenton, N.