Editorials

From the beginning of Scriptural history a rising line of thought is evident as individuals turned from the material sense of life and sought the spiritual, thereby winning the blessing of God. Because of their loyalty to the pure glimpses they caught of the one invisible God, their progeny were multiplied and their possessions increased.

A COST is involved in taking forward spiritual footsteps. But such progress also has its compensation; and as spiritual values become more and more worthwhile to us, we inevitably gain more than we lose.

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.