Editorials

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.

The method of Christian Science healing is wholly mental—spiritually mental. Not a single element of matter or of mortally mental energy enters into it.

The ideal church business meeting? Maybe there isn't any such thing, any more than there's a perfect human being. But just as we, as humans, improve as we grow in the understanding that perfect man, imaging God, is our actual identity, church business meetings improve as a result of our progressive realization that real Church is the perfect spiritual idea of Truth and Love.