Editorials

There is nothing drab or colorless to human life when one begins to build spiritually. Even a glimpse of man's real selfhood in unity with God imparts a whole new dimension to one's experience.

Each year every community where a Church of Christ, Scientist, is situated receives a valuable gift—at least one lecture on the subject of the healing Christ. These annual lectures are, in fact, a gift from God.

If the body is a mental concept, as we learn in Christian Science, it includes not only the physical frame but the body of one's human experience, including human ties, interests, responsibilities, joys, and sorrows. Christ Jesus said, "He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

Christ Jesus' prayers were the most authoritative and effective the world has ever known. He prayed constantly and confidently.

News reports speak of a growing housing shortage that, unless something drastic is done to correct it, will reach astronomical proportions by the end of this decade. In other words, for thousands of families a decent home will remain just a dream unless some unforeseen breakthrough is achieved.

Christian Science reveals God as the perfect, infinite Mind and man as the perfect image or reflection of this Mind. But from the way most of us see man, he seems to be both material and spiritual, embodying life and death, sickness and health, good motives and bad motives, love and hate, and so on.

Because man is the joyous reflection or activity of God, divine Mind, man's real existence is beautiful and satisfying. To see this is vital to our health and well-being.

Most people would agree that the human race should be improved, and many are engaged in devoted effort to bring about this result through scientific, theological, social, and political means. Many see promise in the rapidly developing techniques of the geneticists, by means of which, it is believed, radical changes may be produced in various forms of animal as well as vegetable life.

The times demand better spiritual healing. To attain it, we shall have to gain a more enlightened faith.

Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes ( No and Yes , p. 25 ): "Man outlives finite mortal definitions of himself, according to a law of 'the survival of the fittest.