Editorials

Modern technological developments have telling social effects. Quick communication is turning the world into one village in which nearly everyone knows what nearly everyone else is doing and thinking, even while this is happening.

Can you see thoughts with the naked eye? Of course you can. You are seeing them every waking moment.

With the advent of Christianity and then the founding of Christian Science, there has been a gradual amelioration of theology to the point where the nature of God is better understood; and the demonstration of this nature in human experience results in more equity, mercy, and healing love. In many instances in the Old Testament there is a concept of God that seems harsh in its justice and perhaps cruel in its implementation.

Protests are not new. There have always been protesters against established conditions and laws.

Throughout history the manifestation of God's presence and power has come to receptive individuals in the way that they have been prepared to understand it, and this fact holds true today. In some of the earliest Bible history, Abraham was directed by the voice of God, Moses saw the burning bush, Elijah heard the still small voice, and David walked with God.

Church, as it is understood in Christian Science, is a subject of vast dimensions. It is universal in its scope, reaching far beyond a material building or even its admittedly important institutional aspects.

An answer to the often heard question What is Christian Science? might begin with an explanation of what Science is not. It decidedly is not merely a human method of healing without drugs.

"Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift. " II Cor.

At a time of turbulent upheaval in society, when many are floundering for lack of direction in their lives and crime is on the increase, it is mandatory for us to turn constantly to divine Principle and perceive how the control of Principle may be demonstrated in daily experience. Christian Science teaches that God alone governs man, for man is the image and likeness of God, the emanation of divine Mind.

According to Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, the word "church" is derived from the Greek kyrios meaning lord, master, and in turn from kyros meaning power. While there is a distinction between a derivation and a definition, the source word often maintains its influence throughout the development of a definition.