Putting on record insights into the practice of Christian Science.
Editorials
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE demonstrates that we experience what we believe to be real. This is true concerning the motives we believe govern men.
DIVINE SCIENCE is more than a flickering light in a world darkened by materialism and inadequate theology. This glorious Science is the flaming sword which—according to the Scriptural allegory of the Garden of Eden ( Gen.
MORTAL sense claims it can measure manhood, but it never sees the real man. Human consciousness sees the real and unreal, or mortal and immortal, as combined in one and becomes confused.
MRS. EDDY was healed of the effects of a severe accident when, in reading the Bible, she discerned that divine law governs man and the universe.
CHRIST JESUS gave to the world the full proof that life is not destructible, that human life continues after death until the individual proves his existence in Mind as its immortal, spiritual idea. The Master made this plain by raising the dead and by his own resurrection and ascension.
Divine grace is not something we earn; it is the gift of God to men. It is not capricious; it acts as impartial and unfailing law.
If we are truly alive to the presence of God's universe, we know exactly what we are doing and why we are doing it. We are conscious of our God-given abilities, and we are using them.
The resurrection of Christ Jesus has special meaning for the student of Christian Science because he has learned that man is spiritual now and forever and that immortality is not something which must take place after death; it is a present fact and a demonstrable one. In his resurrection, Jesus vividly showed that death does not end the human sense of life but is merely an event in it and that mankind continue unchanged after death.
Of vital significance to the orderly progress and protection of Christian Science is the By-Law contained in the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy, Article XXIII, Section 10 , which reads in part, "In Christian Science each branch church shall be distinctly democratic in its government, and no individual, and no other church shall interfere with its affairs. " Our Leader evidently laid great stress on this provision, for a few years after this By-Law was adopted she asked the then Chairman of The Christian Science Board of Directors and Editor in chief of her periodicals to publish in the Christian Science Sentinel (January 15, 1910) her wish with respect to greater democracy in Christian Science churches.
STOCKPILES of nuclear armaments continue to grow. The number of nations possessing these armaments increases.