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Editorials
It is necessary for the student of Christian Science to maintain a proper perspective in his study in order that he may progress steadily and consistently. One definition of the term "perspective" is "the interrelation in which parts of a subject are mentally viewed.
In some countries government assistance is free to the elderly who need hospital care because of illness or because of the inroads of the belief of old age. This assistance is a humane measure.
In the study of Christian Science we are faced with the necessity of lifting our thoughts of existence to an entirely new concept of life, to the spiritual reality of being, the new heaven and new earth portrayed in the Scriptures. And in order to comprehend the things of Spirit, we must begin to use the new tongue, or language of Spirit.
Everything in God's universe has a purpose. A purposeless idea of the one all-wise Mind would be an impossibility.
If all human beings practiced the Golden Rule uttered by Jesus, "As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise," Luke 6:31 mental influence would always be beneficial. No one wants to be mentally influenced without his knowledge and permission.
The man of God's creation is spiritual. He is free of material limitations, free of disease, free of fear, free of sin and its deadly effects, free of death itself.
In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy says, "Take possession of your body, and govern its feeling and action.
In the Preface of "Pulpit and Press" Mary Baker Eddy looked ahead to the time when the Science she discovered in 1866— Christian Science—would have been known in the world for a century. The children of the late nineteenth century would then be twentieth century elders.
One of the common fears of men is that one can be brought into a circumstance where he cannot help himself. Such an error has no spiritual foundation and should be thoroughly rejected as a spurious argument of the carnal mind.
June is the month for the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church. Mrs.