Editorials

“To my sense,” Mary Baker Eddy once wrote, “the Sermon on the Mount, read each Sunday without comment and obeyed throughout the week, would be enough for Christian practice. The Word of God is a powerful preacher, and it is not too spiritual to be practical, nor too transcendental to be heard and understood” ( Message to The Mother Church for 1901, p.

 There are people who feel very close to God. They believe God looks after them and that they can rely on His care.

 Why is it important that a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, maintain a Christian Science Reading Room (see Mary Baker Eddy, Church Manual, p. 63 )? Why should every Christian Scientist actively support Reading Rooms? Mrs.

Everything Christ Jesus taught reflected the supremacy of God’s love for man—and he proved it by living it. His resurrection was the culminating proof for all humanity that divine Love alone is Life.

Widespread threats to humanity’s safety prompt many of us to want to help. We may not be first responders on the scene, or members of law enforcement involved in preventing attacks, but all of us have the capacity to help by applying what we learn of the nature and power of God, and of man’s eternal oneness with God, to any situation.

“Oh! for that robe of righteousness that is without a seam, without a single crevice through which error can enter. That garment not sown together by human hands, woven by the edicts of the Schools and held together by sects.

Christmas means vastly different things to people. Many merchants see it as an economic blessing, an important source of needed income, while others complain that it has become too commercialized.

The Pilgrims who began settling in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620 went through a winter of nearly unbearable hardships, during which they lost half of their number. Yet, in the autumn that followed, they, along with the native Wampanoag Indians, held an elaborate feast to celebrate their gratitude to God for His guidance and care.

In browsing through some earlier decades of Christian Science testimonies online recently, I was struck by the startling contrast between so much of today’s social media and those snapshots of life that arrive weekly and monthly as testimonies of healing. Instead of being “selfies,” as it were—in pictures or in words—relaying the usual “latest” family accomplishments and opinions, testimonies are apt to tell of sacred life-changing moments.

Many people devote time and attention to maintaining physical health. Yet despite these efforts, individuals often find themselves still saddled with health problems, sometimes the very problems they were deliberately trying to prevent.