Editorials

The world's greatest healing institution is the highest manifestation of the true, spiritual Church. The influence of this church-institution is felt in the three important aspects of mankind's affairs—the moral, mental, and physical.

In The First Church of Christ , Scientist , and Miscellany Mary Baker Eddy writes: "Individuals, as nations, unite harmoniously on the basis of justice, and this is accomplished when self is lost in Love—or God's own plan of salvation. 'To do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly' is the standard of Christian Science.

Healing in Christian Science is not like any other curative method known to humanity. It does not involve changing a bad human situation into a better one, or a sick body into a well body.

Christian Science heals sickness by first destroying the mental disturbance that causes it. This Science shows us how to look away from physical symptoms and correct the real culprit, mortal mind, with spiritual Truth.

Christ Jesus gave mankind spiritual weapons. If we use them, we can accomplish all the good that men have attempted to accomplish with material weapons.

There is nothing mythical about Christ Jesus' life and works. True, much of what he taught and did runs counter to established theories regarding matter and what produces and controls its action.

Human beings spend much time looking for better methods for accomplishing things. They constantly search for new, improved ways of doing almost everything from looking after babies to building bridges.

A testimony appearing in a recent Sentinel (February 5) tells of a child's healing of dumbness as a result of three years of daily treatment by a Christian Science practitioner. Some healings appear to take longer than others.

Gratitude is the keynote of healing in Christian Science. It opens the door to the reception of Love's abundant outpouring of good to patient and practitioner alike.

Love is essential to the prosperity of a Christian Science church community. In fact, without love there can be no church.