Putting on record insights into the practice of Christian Science.
Editorials
Precedents are among the heaviest type of fetter that human beings have used throughout the ages to chain themselves and others. "We've always done it like this," they say; "it has never been done in any other way.
As regular readers of The Christian Science Journal know, Science and Health was first published a century ago, in 1875. Its author, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in its Preface: "A book introduces new thoughts, but it cannot make them speedily understood.
Great interest in the future is being generated by the urgency and depth of many of mankind's present problems. What will the future look like? it's asked.
The man and woman God made are governed by the immutable law of God. Divine law controls the entire spiritual universe of Spirit.
"Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. " Eph.
Once we've tasted spiritual inspiration, we never want to lose it. Inspiration enables us to break out of belief in constrictive material life and projects us into the awareness of infinite Spirit.
No matter what disease seems to be present, the potent facts of Spirit are already there to lift us up and heal us.
Today we sometimes hear it said that we are living in "the post-Christian era. " The implication is that Christianity has followed the pattern of earlier religious faiths and after a period of vitality and growth it has gradually weakened in its appeal, declined in value to the human race, and is now fading into obsolescence.
Look around you. What do you see? Table, chairs, walls, a window? Trees, park bench, cars? A huge range of material objects constantly facing us and apparently real may lead us to think of them as entirely actual, parts of our natural environment.
More than ever before people in the Western World are now experimenting with a method of meditation derived from a great religion of the East, Hinduism. Their hope is that through this method they will gain release from the stresses of modern living and discover energies within themselves that previously were dormant.