Editorials

We are living at a time when material power is increasing as never before. For this reason, it is well to think about power, to consider what it is, whence its source, what it accomplishes, how it acts.

The great poet Shakespeare in one of his plays vividly portrays human existence as consisting of seven ages starting with infancy and ending with old age and helplessness. How different are these concepts of life from those depicted by Christian Science! This Science reveals man as spiritual and perfect, as coexistent and coeternal with his creator.

One can never develop the full possibilities of manhood as long as he believes that mind is in brain, that life is in matter, that intelligence is in person. For even humanly speaking, brain, flesh, and the material personality are the products of so-called mortal mind, and this mind is not the product of matter.

We are informed in the Scriptures that Elihu told Job ( 37:23 ), "Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict. " And the Psalmist, speaking of the afflictions which sometimes befall the righteous, declares ( 34:19 ), "The Lord delivereth him out of them all.

Who is going to guide the nations of today out of the wilderness of sin, sickness, want, depression, and chaos into which they seem to have fallen? Mary Baker Eddy, the Leader of the Christian Science movement, points the way to the answer when she writes ( Message to The Mother Church for 1902, p. 4 ), "I again repeat, Follow your Leader, only so far as she follows Christ.

One of the most important steps of spiritual progress taken by the student of Christian Science is that of class instruction, which is provided for by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in Articles XXVI and XXVII of the Manual of The Mother Church. Students will find it helpful to study these By-Laws as well as other references to class teaching and education contained in Mrs.

MAN , we learn from the Scriptures, was created in God's image and likeness. This creation is complete and wholly good.

MANKIND in general know little about the silent mental influences under which they live and act. But Christian Science is alerting its adherents to detect such influences, to accept only good as true, and to reject whatever does not come from God.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches that man in God's image and likeness is deathless, eternal, and indestructible. It therefore denies the generally accepted belief that eternal life can be achieved only as the result of an experience called death.

When Christ Jesus was born, shepherds heard the heavenly host heralding his birth. These humble men were receptive to the divine presence, which readily finds the heart prepared to accept Christ, Truth.