Editorials

David and Solomon were successive kings of Israel. Their reigns present a striking contrast.

Because Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, presented the subject of prayer from an entirely new standpoint and from a spiritual and metaphysical aspect that ran contrary to the traditional concepts associated with orthodox religion, she was called by some "the prayerless Mrs. Eddy.

" The spiritual dominates the temporal. " These significant words are to be found on page 193 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" by Mary Baker Eddy.

In her book "Miscellaneous Writings' Mary Baker Eddy says ( p. 330 ): "It is good to talk with our past hours, and learn what report they bear, and how they might have reported more spiritual growth.

The emphasis which Christian Science places on God as the all-pervading, all-inclusive presence naturally corrects the faulty theological concept of Deity as a remote or distant entity. In doing this.

Self-Esteem has two meanings: self-respect and self-conceit. The first is laudable, the second something to rise above as worthless.

It is wisdom to acknowledge the authority of the Christ under all circumstances. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

Expressing and teaching the fundamentals of what to the people of his day were revolutionary concepts was the method by which the Master, Christ Jesus, carried on his ministry. We read in the Gospel of John ( 6:44–59 ): "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in "No and Yes" ( p. 11 ): "Man has an immortal Soul, a divine Principle, and an eternal being.

Undoubtedly this present age will be recorded in history as the period in which a right evaluation of matter was made. Even while materialism seems rampant in many quarters, the very knowledge which undermines that materialism is advancing.