Editorials

It is sometimes said that Christian Science is mind over matter. And it is sometimes said that it is not.

Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, identifies morality with God's law. Both morality and spirituality derive their power and consistency from Spirit.

Sociologists and other experts assert that we live in an era of intensive change. And they warn that the pace of change is likely to speed up.

Anyone who wants to heal as Jesus did needs not only to be strictly moral but spiritually-minded. Under God's guidance the Master directed his followers to obey the moral law of Moses in its spirit as well as the letter.

When disease threatens, when human relationships become strained, when supply seems short, when one feels lonely, insecure, inadequate, afraid—healing is needed. Christian Science presents the truth of God.

"Can I speak to you confidentially?" A newcomer to Christian Science may ask this question of a Christian Science practitioner he has engaged to help him through prayer. What he has to say may be very private—perhaps in connection with his business or family life, his financial situation, or intimate details about his physical or mental condition.

Spiritual being is a present reality and refuge. It is not something necessitating a prolonged struggle or arrived at only in an afterlife.

When Christ Jesus said, "The meek .

We all aim to be better healers and problem-solvers. We can be.

Healing in Christian Science involves, in its most radical sense, being born again— out of matter into Spirit. Improved human conditions always accompany mankind's gradual emergence from belief in error into the true consciousness of Love, until finally thought is wholly spiritualized and matter disappears.