Editorials

It is noteworthy that following her immediate recovery from the effects of a fall and injury which physicians and medicine had failed to heal, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, turned to her Bible in her search for the understanding of the spiritually scientific law whereby she had regained her health. Speaking of this, she writes in her book "Retrospection and Introspection" ( p.

Probably nothing that Christian Science teaches is more vigorously or more subtly resisted than its appraisal of evil as nothingness. Yet a clear understanding of this appraisal is an essential factor in healing the sick and in overcoming every type of error that besets mankind.

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.