Editorials

Church building is not just a one-time physical undertaking; it is an ongoing spiritual activity. It does not primarily involve collecting money, drawing up plans, and adding brick to brick, or even member to member, though on the surface one will see these things occurring.

All ideas that are genuine and true come directly from God. They are inevitably good.

We can shed material symptoms of ill health through recognizing the spiritual evidence of God's goodness just where those symptoms seem to be manifested. This exchange of false symptoms for true evidence is essentially a mental event.

The temptation some of us may face in dealing with this question is to wonder about church membership figures. But the purpose of this editorial is not to analyze figures.

True being is the eternally perfect, spiritual expression of God, divine Life. Its development is the unfoldment of the ideas of infinite Mind, God.

It's not extravagant to assert that a spiritually scientific approach to study, rather than the standard human one, makes an infinite difference to its value and results. The practice of Christian Science involves turning away from the material senses as unreliable witnesses to reality and acknowledging the present reality of Spirit and its perfect ideas.

If the kingdom of heaven is at hand, as Christ Jesus said it is, why should anyone be troubled, impoverished, dissatisfied, sick, or in pain? In fact, nobody should be and nobody need be. It is possible for even the most unhappy of mortals to claim and to take possession of the good that the Master assured us abounds in the heavenly universe, and to do this today.

A significant lesson for Christians to learn from the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ Jesus is that we must become men and women of vision. Jesus was clearly a man of incomparable vision.

There's a difference, a significant one, between getting out of trouble and being out. The real man, forever held as an idea in Mind, God, could never fall away from Mind, never lapse into trouble out of which he must climb or be hauled.

Although it would be unusual to find armed guards stationed at places of worship throughout the world, it wouldn't be so unusual to find them at banks, military establishments, or in some industries. But churches, mosques, pagodas, and synagogues have not generally been institutions in need of defense.