Editorials

Religion is a general term. It can mean different things to different persons.

As long as there is one thought in consciousness which is inconsistent with God's bestowal of good on man, we are not to that degree demonstrating our true nature as God's reflection. God declared man to be good in the beginning, and He has not retreated, nor can He ever retreat from that declaration.

Christ Jesus confounded his opponents when he said ( John 8:58 ), "Before Abraham was, I am. " Limiting their understanding of individual existence to fleshly life, with birth and death as its components, these materialists could not grasp the spiritual implications of the Master's words.

ADDRESSING one who dwells "in the secret place of the most High," the Psalmist declares, "There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling" ( Ps. 91:1, 10 ).

THE institutions which have most to do with molding our characters and determining our experiences are church and home. These do not compete with but complement each other.

IN this era of scientific discovery, it should not seem strange that Christianity should be discovered and practiced as absolute Science. Every science seeks to discover and elucidate exact knowledge and to utilize material laws for various purposes.

UNDOUBTEDLY there is an ever increasing awareness of the mental nature of disease. Those who devote themselves to the various systems of mental healing are confirming, perhaps unwittingly, the findings of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, nearly a century ago.

MAN , God's image and likeness, is a perfect and complete idea. Each individual spiritual idea—each one of us who, to sense, appears to be a mortal—is actually immortal and complete.

OF late years some doctors of medicine have been admitting that thought plays a part in the incidence and development of certain diseases. For nearly a century Christian Science has been pointing out the effect of fear and discordant thought upon the body.

Is prayer effective? Does what we think of God and of His perfect creation have any beneficial effect on mankind? To both questions Christian Science gives an affirmative answer. On page 210 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," Mary Baker Eddy advises Christian Scientists to keep their thoughts filled with that which is good only—with Truth and Love.