Editorials

What we see and learn is partly determined by the instruments we employ. Relying on the material senses for information, we see a material world and a fleshly man.

How has life treated you? Has it promised you much? And have the promises been fulfilled? Would you rate your life as good, fair, poor, or what? And what does Christmas tell you about life and about yourself? Well, whatever our concept of life, something happened when Christ Jesus was born that made a difference. And if we understand it now, it makes a difference today.

Whatever one's needs may seem to be, it is Spirit that will supply them, not matter. Do they seem to be for food, housing, clothing, transportation, education, reasonable recreation, money to pay taxes? The spiritual ideas that originate in the inexhaustible divine Mind and belong by reflection to every individual representative of God take care of them all.

We can heal the sick through God's power if we consciously reflect God. That man always reflects God is a scientific truth, but unless we are actively conscious of ourselves reflecting the qualities of God, the healing work we do for ourselves and others will be more spasmodic than scientific.

The history books show that mankind has perpetually been plagued by problems of personal lack and world shortages. If we are confronted by them now (and we are), these are not new phenomena but present-day instances of mortality's first lie—finity.

Christian Science can show how to prove the spiritual truth that you are never separated from good, and that you're always separate from all that seems to be bad. This proving takes spirituality and humility, but your cultivation of these will enable you to start demonstrating in your own life that good is present and whatever would negate good is always absent, always nothing.

The work one does in preparation for and while participating in a church business meeting is not unlike what one needs to do to maintain his own good health. To maintain good health, an individual needs to guard his consciousness of himself.

The essentiality of founding our thought and life on spiritual realities was indicated by Christ Jesus. Doing so was a prime characteristic of his own life.

A beautiful white peony growing on a pile of jagged bricks—the remnants of a bombed house—attracted much attention. To local residents of that war-torn city it symbolized the indestructible vigor of life and beauty.

Progress in demonstrating the truths of Christian Science is inevitable if we follow our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. And we follow her as we study to understand the spirit as well as the letter of her revelation.