Editorials

Some medical systems now recognize mental causes of physical symptoms and effect cures by correcting mental conditions. Christian Science goes much further.

Those who have accepted the teachings of Christian Science and are conscientiously putting them into practice have within them a growing religious faith that God is, as the Bible says, "a strong hold in the day of trouble. " Nah.

Students of Christian Science have no doubt about why they exist. This Science has shown them that they are individual expressions of the one God.

The Easter story shows us something of what we are that makes it as natural for us to say, "I am not sick," as it is to say, "I do not steal. " It reveals the spirituality and indestructibility of the real man, and it unveils our capacity to claim our real identity.

The outreach of Christian Science to the world is an ongoing, ever-expanding activity. Because it symbolizes the infinite newness and variety of God, creative divine Mind, this outreach must from time to time change in format and direction to meet the changing mores and needs of society.

Christ Jesus outlined the way to deal with the situation when others seem to offend us—when their behavior toward us seems to have been unethical or damaging, or when they have, according to our judgment, violated rules of Christian conduct and trespassed against society. He showed us how to pray and how to forgive as we ourselves would be forgiven.

At the end of the chapter on Christian Science Practice in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy gives this admonition: "Christian Scientists, be a law to yourselves that mental malpractice cannot harm you either when asleep or when awake. " Science and Health, p.

When Christian Scientists seek exemption for their children from compulsory health requirements, they accept the responsibility of devoting fully as much care to these children's well-being as the health measures in question are intended to provide. A Christian Scientist does not claim the right to neglect the health of his child.

Mr. Welz: Number 6 in the Order of Services for the Wednesday Meetings, as listed in the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy, provides for the congregation to give "experiences, testimonies, and remarks on Christian Science.

When Christ Jesus healed the sick, he went straight to the mental cause of the trouble and corrected that. He knew that all diseased conditions were externalized pictures of disturbed thought, figments of the human mind, and he destroyed them with the healing balm of spiritual Truth.