Editorials

Humanity wastes much time in waiting—waiting for some desired event, for a more abundant supply, for a healing, or in waiting for some evil or disease which may be considered inevitable. Waiting is tied up in the belief that events must take place in order to ensure our health or happiness, that our fortunes and lives are inextricably enmeshed in materiality and mortality.

The history of Job, a wealthy man, recorded in the Old Testament has occupied the thought of students of the Bible throughout the centuries. The story relates that Satan asked permission of God to test Job's loyalty to the Almighty by causing him to lose all his possessions and by bringing death to all his sons.

The battle to free mankind from sorrow, sadness, poverty, sin, disease, and death, waged so valiantly by Christ Jesus and his apostles, is continued in some degree today by earnest Christians everywhere. Joined in that battle is the army of loving, courageous men and women known as Christian Scientists.

Christ Jesus once rebuked the Pharisees and Sadducees who asked him to show them a sign from heaven. He said ( Matt.

Christian Science teaches its followers how to make practical in their daily lives the great fact of the unity which exists eternally between God and His perfect creation. Through the persistent acknowledgment of God as Spirit and of man as His perfect, spiritual idea, inseparable from Him, men and nations are brought into harmonious relationships.

Probably every publishing company welcomes a large volume of contributions. And what publishers look for is excellence of quality in the manuscripts submitted.

In normal family relationships each member supports the others in tangible ways. The breadwinner, for example, supplies the financial needs, while the homemaker provides an orderly and harmonious household.

Christian Science reveals that true atomic force is actually spiritual, not material. Mary Baker Eddy says (Miscellaneous Writings, p.

" Be not conformed to this world," urged Paul in his letter to the Romans ( 12: 2 ). "But," he continued, "be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

A Significant symbol found in the Bible is that of a woman. Through Christian Science we learn that this symbol stands primarily for generic man, the image, or idea, of our Father-Mother, God.