Editorials

The Bible contains many promises which encourage us to look ahead with hope and with confidence that good will prevail in all things. But the Bible contains much more than mere promises.

One way of governing a large body of persons pursuing the same objectives is to organize under a constitution which sets forth laws needed for carrying out designated affairs. The Manual of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, was provided by Mary Baker Eddy as the constitution for the governing of her Church.

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.