Editorials

Christ Jesus patiently prepared his disciples for the task of spreading his teachings among mankind. "I will make you fishers of men" Matt.

After standing for a few minutes in a crowded place a woman confided to the friend who joined her, "I've been watching the people as they passed by in the street and I must admit I find many of them quite unattractive. An hour ago I might have said that I love all mankind, but now I have doubts.

Political liberty is important. It provides the opportunity for a vital sense of life where everyone is free to realize his potential.

From time to time we are asked about claims put forward by individuals or groups who maintain that their special interpretations of the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy are necessary for a full understanding of Christian Science. This includes supposed elucidations of and improvements upon the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

In our true selfhood we are spiritual beings, reflections of the one Divine Being. We are not, as false, mortal belief insists, limited, physical creatures anchored to a material earth.

The reality of spiritual being is even now fulfilled everywhere. Because this is absolutely true, advancement—according to Christian Science—is not the changing of thought from one mortal stage to another or the moving of people or objects from here to there.

When an individual begins to understand Christian Science, he may seem to be going through a grand transformation. Perhaps a healing has convinced him that matter is not as substantial as he thought it was; that God, Spirit, is really All; and that the term man does not mean a multitude of material personalities.

There's a need for mankind to find a new way of looking at things. Here is a crisp expression of this: "When emerging crises first beset a society, there are calls to do a better job of following the ways of tradition.

Tell a person he is spiritual and perfect, and most likely he will disagree. He probably believes firmly in the substantiality of his material body, knows he has character faults to overcome, mortal longings, moral weaknesses, and is well aware that he has lessons to learn and higher to go in the attainment of wisdom and the expression of goodness before the description fits.

As conscious beings, we reflect to a degree the source of real consciousness, the divine Mind. And this Mind enables us always to think intelligently, fearlessly.