Editorials

We are taught in Christian Science not to rest on the evidence of the material senses. And the questions come up: "What if the material senses indicate health and well-being? Do we believe them then?" The answer still must be that we do not rest on such evidence.

Christ Jesus was an activist of the highest order. He taught, he preached, he healed.

When we encounter difficulty in healing, it may be that we do not have the right concept of matter. We may be thinking of it as something external to thought and independent of thought.

Christ Jesus' words "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom" Luke 12:32 ; have never been more comforting than today. War, social unrest, blatant sensuality, indifference to religion, seem so widespread and aggressive that it is a real challenge to the Christian thinker to keep his perception of God's kingdom unclouded and his confidence in the power of good undisturbed.

Currently the press tells us of widespread resistance to discipline on the part of youth. Especially is this situation found in the schools.

The public practice of Christian Science is an immensely rewarding career. It is the real answer to one's deepest aspirations.

It is a plain fact that many people feel a hunger for something beyond themselves, a hunger for affection, for experience, for what they call life. Properly interpreted, this is a search for God; but when misinterpreted, it may result in various immoral acts, experimentation with drugs, a searching for satisfaction in worldly ways and in material sense.

In the first three centuries of Christian history the subject of the origin of matter was a controversial, theological question. Some Christian sects contended that matter was basically evil and that God did not make it.

When we use the word "Christ" to mean the true idea of God, more than just the right understanding of God is involved. The true idea is the actual expression of God.

Over three hundred years ago William Shakespeare put these words in the mouth of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: "This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament .