Editorials

"Joy to the world, the Lord is come, Let earth receive her King" Christian Science Hymnal, No. 164; is the triumphant refrain we associate with the annual commemoration of the birth of Christ Jesus.

Three kings feature in the traditional Christmas story as told in legend and carol. The Bible itself does not specify either the rank or number of these visitors to the newborn Jesus; it describes them as "wise men from the east" Matt.

Why is science fiction so in vogue? Maybe because we seek a richer, more varied sense of environment. Perhaps mankind intuitively longs to see the whole cosmos as having pockets of life.

Every one of God's creatures has its place and purpose assigned it by its Maker. Every idea of divine Mind, God, is directly related to this Mind and directly expresses it.

How great is God's goodness! He is divine Love, and with boundless generosity He pours out spiritual gifts to all His children in unimaginable plenty. Even though this may seem unrealistic to the world's hungry millions, this is the fact.

Perhaps emphasizing its importance, Mary Baker Eddy lists intuition first in a series of elements necessary for a perception of real being. "Spiritual sense, contradicting the material senses, involves intuition, hope, faith, understanding, fruition, reality," Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.

Exactly what is substance? Until comparatively recently this question has been considered to be synonymous with "What is matter?" and it has attracted the attention of scientific thinkers for at least twenty-five centuries. At the early beginnings of Greek philosophy matter was a mystery.

At a business meeting of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, an expensive project was under consideration. Much diversity of opinion was expressed.

The meat of human politics is sometimes defined as working out who gets what (and when) of the finite "pies" of material power and wealth. The teachings of Christian Science—like those of Christ Jesus —are metaphysical, however.

When Mary Baker Eddy gave the Church of Christ, Scientist, its present form as The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, with membership open to Christian Scientists anywhere in the world, she made clear that it was a universal and not merely a local church. See Manual of The Mother Church 19:1-6, Art.