Editorials

God is the infinite Mind of man. Thoughts that proceed from Him have the qualities of this Mind.

Love urges each of us to extend his prayer beyond personal and local concerns to include the specific and general needs of humanity. But there's more to it than breadth of concern.

When Mrs. Eddy's name is mentioned, a student of her books may have a mental picture of her.

An honest, humble thought of oneself in the light of infinite Truth is something like the view from a high point in the Sierras or the Alps; there is seemingly no end to the heights, depths, forms, textures, colors, to be seen in any direction. And the farther one walks, the more there is to be seen.

Inspired thought is the only real remedy for mankind's ills. It brings the light of the understanding of true being to human consciousness and thereby heals the body, for the body is mortal mind's subjective state.

In the allness and eternality of Mind, God, all that can be known is already known, all that has to happen is already happening. As these divine facts begin to take hold of us, they bring a new concept of education.

Christ Jesus illustrated the immortality of life, and he showed us the way to become conscious of immortality and thus to experience it. The illustration began with his birth, of which Mary Baker Eddy says in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: "Born of a woman, Jesus' advent in the flesh partook partly of Mary's earthly condition, although he was endowed with the Christ, the divine Spirit, without measure.

"How happened you to establish a college to instruct in metaphysics, when other institutions find little interest in such a dry and abstract subject?" Replying to this frank question, Mrs. Eddy comments in part on the divine metaphysics she taught: "It is a Science that has the animus of Truth.

The more nearly the sun is directly overhead, the smaller becomes our shadow. Physically, of course, it is impossible completely to lose one's shadow, but it is possible to be free of mental shadows—experiences of sorrow and discord—by keeping one's mind directly under the control of God, divine Principle.

Christian Science lifts our concept of thanksgiving to the contemplation of the ideas of God. These spiritual ideas, conceived and expressed by the divine Mind, are the substance and form of true being.