Editorials

Evil has to do with anything that impairs one's happiness or welfare or that deprives one of good. Disease is evil; so are the various influences that tend to disrupt and demoralize human life.

A People's culture clearly reflects its thinking. Where God and His Christ have been acknowledged and an effort has been made to train and refine human consciousness according to Christian standards, intellectual, moral, and spiritual vigor has characterized mankind.

The Christian Science Board of Directors announces the election of Inman H. Douglass, C.

THE pure understanding of God that Christ Jesus brought to the world was priceless. He addressed the people with God-derived authority.

IT is not difficult for a Christian Scientist, or, as a matter of fact, for any truly logical thinker, to agree that whatever is incorrect or erroneous comes under the designation of nothingness. It is obviously a mistake, wrong, and such errors have no real value.

IN the resurrection of Christ Jesus one finds the great proof of mankind's ability to break the fetters of flesh through the spiritualization of human thought. These fetters would localize men, tie them to the body, restrict their movements, and finally consign them to death.

One's body calls for such constant attention that it may seem difficult or even impossible at times to obey Paul's counsel in II Corinthians, where he approves a willingness "to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord" ( 5: 8 ). Two verses earlier are his words, "Whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.

It is certain that youth will advance to manhood. It is equally certain that manhood will be enriched as it preserves the vibrant, expectant qualities that characterize youth.

Everyone will agree that something is animating him, giving him life and activity. Even when he is asleep, the normal action of his body continues.

The Christianity taught and practiced by Christ Jesus is scientific in nature. It is understandable and demonstrable, not mystical.