Editorials

In memory of soldiers fallen in battle, Abraham Lincoln said at Gettysburg, "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. " If we remember loved ones for the good their lives reflected on earth, we have little time for self-pity.

A Debate about the value of morality seems to be occupying the attention of many people and is, no doubt, a sign of the growing materialism of this age. As viewed in Christian Science, in which morality and spirituality are seen as inseparable, any tendency to downgrade the importance of morality is a symptom of spiritual deficiency that can be overcome only through spiritualization, and the consequent dematerialization, of human thought.

If there is any one lesson that the world should learn from the life and works of Christ Jesus, it should be that of God's universal control. Wherever he was, whatever condition confronted him, the Master was ready to prove the supreme control of the Father.

When Jesus healed the sick by spiritual means alone he made available a method of healing that surpasses every other one. When this method is generally understood, as it surely will be, men will not relegate it to the realm of the mystical and so deprive themselves of the superior benefits of spiritual healing.

On the third day after they had crucified him, a woman made her way to the sepulcher. She along with some others bore spices to anoint the body.

John records that when Christ Jesus said, "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing" ( John 6:63 ), "from that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. " This radical statement of the Master was offensive to the mentalities that honored the flesh as agreeable and vital to existence.

If a copy of the Bible were put aboard a rocket and fired into space, guided to land on a far-off planet, and if this Bible were discovered and could be read there by a people who had never heard of earth or of any of its history—a people who had no possible means of knowing whether one single event recounted in the Bible had ever taken place—the Bible would transform that civilization. This would be inevitable because its message is a message of Truth that is universal, and anyone who reads it in search of Truth will find it.

In Christian Science, healings are often referred to as demonstrations because in them something of Truth has been proved. Spiritual healing, although often referred to as mental healing, differs from all other mental modes of healing, in which the erring human mind, without recourse to the divine Mind, attempts to heal itself.

To members of the Church of Christ, Scientist, working for the church means much more than giving personal attention to various offices or committees to which they are assigned. It means working prayerfully and metaphysically to bring to light through these activities the spiritual idea, Church, and to protect the human institution which represents that idea on earth.

Because men have assumed that evil is a reality, that it is as real as and, at times, more powerful than good, they have been limited in their ability to overcome it. There is no question but that to the materially minded, evil seems to be real, to have power, and to be ever active.