Editorials

One can awaken at any moment to the fact that life and intelligence are not material, but spiritual. In that moment it will be seen that consciousness is Mind and expresses Mind in all its manifestations.

A Poignant scene is described in the eleventh chapter of John. Two sisters, Mary and Martha, are grieving for their brother, who has died.

Christian Science alone interprets God aright to mankind and reveals the basis of thought and action whereby men are equipped to have dominion over all of the limitations and obstructions of evil and materiality. When the disciples of Jesus brought to him an epileptic child and asked why they could not heal him, the Master said that it was because of their unbelief.

Christian Science reveals a fixed divine Principle, which is God. Unseen to the physical senses, the presence of this Principle is known only by its effects.

The Christian Scientist's gratitude to God for His boundless blessings is measured by his devotion to Truth, by the demonstration, rather than by the profession, of his faith. Jesus once watched some rich men and a poor widow casting gifts into the treasury of the temple.

Everyone desires health. Many have longed for the strength and freedom which accompany health; yet, depending upon unpredictable material means for attaining health, they have not found it.

To enter the kingdom of heaven we must recognize within ourselves a higher, purer, wider, and inspirational consciousness. The kingdom of heaven is at hand; it is within us; it is the realm of true being.

We simplify our labors when we work in a direct line toward a right objective. Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has given us valuable help in the true education of the rising generation. In one of her letters she writes (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

We enjoy a glorious liberty because we have a glorious God, a dependable divine Principle, which liberates us from a lawless and illegitimate existence, based on a belief in a mind apart from God. Our liberation from the bondage of materiality comes by means of spiritual perception, prayer, and progress.