Editorials

The fact that God is Mind can be proved by each individual when he turns to God for direction, decision, wisdom, and healing. The relationship of Mind and idea must be acknowledged, and the directness of this relationship must be practiced.

The time of spiritual harvest is here, or the discovery of Christian Science, the healing truth proved by Christ Jesus, would not have been made. Even in the days of Jesus there was a dearth of laborers to harvest the fruits of spiritual readiness for the Christ that he demonstrated.

When Christ Jesus was baptized of John, there came a voice from heaven saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. " Matt.

Those taking part in protest demonstrations sometimes carry placards displaying the words, "Make peace, not war!" It would be difficult to fault the idealism and concern that motivates such slogans, but human warfare is a complex problem that cannot be solved by public demonstrations or well-meaning slogans alone. All persons with decent instincts want to see an end to war.

Becoming a member of The Mother Church and one of its branches is more than a privilege. Carrying out the requirements of such membership protects the member and guides him into the realm of immortal existence in Spirit.

A Christian Science treatment when properly given is the most potent therapeutic agent ever discovered. Through spiritual understanding and the focus of right ideas the omnipotence of divine Mind is brought to bear on human discord.

In the relation of God and man there is unity of being, but there is distinctness of operation, or activity. God is cause, and man is effect.

At the moment of her discovery of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy began her great mission as interpreter of the Bible. It was at this moment, when she grasped the spiritual import of a passage in Matthew she had been reading, that the Science of the Bible dawned on her spiritual sense.

It is rather astounding to consider what a large proportion of time the average individual spends in the contemplation of death. Accident, disease, war, crime, suffering, seem to take up a large part of the news and hence occupy thought to a great extent.

That God can heal the sick is an established fact. But the question is often asked how He does it, since the Bible declares that He is "of purer eyes than to behold evil.