Editorials

In a letter to The Christian Science Board of Directors, Mary Baker Eddy writes ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 143 ), "Watch and pray that God directs your meetings and your lives, and your Leader will then be sure that they are blessed in their results.

From the Scriptures we learn that the Israelites received many assurances of the happy destiny available for them. But the fulfillment of these assurances was dependent upon obedience to the law of God, including the Ten Commandments.

Thoughtful people have often felt uneasy about placing confidence in the mortal sense of life. Its fleeting nature has been likened by them to a dream.

The student of Christian Science learns that true employment means more than daily activity in business, however successful and continuous his work may be. He learns that real and uninterrupted employment is the consistent and joyous demonstration of man's true selfhood as the son of God.

The conflict which grips the world today could be described as a struggle between that which is permanent and that which is impermanent. On one side we see thought which treasures the things of Spirit, God: the moral and spiritual values that are indestructible, trustworthy, compassionate, intelligent.

The whole purpose of being is to glorify God, to acknowledge Him as the Almighty, the only creator, power, and presence. We honor God not only in words but even more in deeds, through the exemplification in our lives of His complete nature.

In a recent address to the nation, the President of the United States of America declared with conviction that the Armed Forces of his country would never be used for any purpose other than for defense. And he declared that in his judgment the combined forces of the free nations of the world are adequate to defend themselves against any aggressive counterforces which would attempt to wage war.

When Moses was called by God to liberate the children of Israel from bondage to Pharaoh, he doubted his capacity to fulfill this mission. But God was not to abandon Moses to a task depending solely upon his personal prowess.

More than once Christ Jesus pointed to a change in order that must come to the world's thinking, when the first shall be last and the last first. One such instance is recorded in the nineteenth chapter of Matthew.

Mary Baker Eddy appreciated the beauties and glories of the material world for what they implied and for the lessons they taught. She tells us that our concept of the material world must be spiritualized, and she says (Miscellaneous Writings, p.