Editorials

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.

While many Christian churches perhaps have failed to grasp the deeper implication of the resurrection and ascension of the Master, Christ Jesus, nevertheless they all celebrate with joy the risen Saviour, and so does the Church of Christ, Scientist. Joy is the salient note of the Easter season.

The transformation of all human beings to a state of spirituality is inevitable because it is in accord with God's demand for perfection. None can escape it, however degraded by sin and selfishness some may seem to be.

One of the most remarkable sermons ever recorded was preached by the Apostle Peter on the Day of Pentecost. The feast of Pentecost was the harvest festival of the Jews.

The average person commencing a study or an investigation of Christian Science usually at some point finds himself asking these questions: "You say that Christian Science teaches that God is infinite, All, the one inclusive Spirit, and that there is no matter. Well, if all is Spirit, what about all this of which I now seem to be aware or cognizant—the trees, the flowers, the birds, and other wonders of creation? Have they no reality? When you say that all is Spirit, does this mean the annihilation or obliteration of that which appears to me as a creation? Is this nothing but a figment of my imagination?" Christian Science gives to the inquirer a perfectly lucid and satisfactory answer to this important question.

In northern regions when winter spreads its white mantle over the land, do we sometimes look back with regret at the bright warm season of summer and long for the return of spring? Perhaps we envy those who live in a temperate region or those who seek a warmer clime and remain there until the miracle of spring appears. Christian Science reminds us, however, that God is everywhere.

In the Sermon on the Mount, Christ Jesus taught the great lesson that supply comes from God, not from matter or human sources. He explained that even the birds are fed and the flowers and grass clothed by the heavenly Father; and then he asked ( Matt.

In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes ( p. 252 ), "A knowledge of error and of its operations must precede that understanding of Truth which destroys error, until the entire mortal, material error finally disappears, and the eternal verity, man created by and of Spirit, is understood and recognized as the true likeness of his Maker.

Christ Jesus foretold that a great fermentation would take place in the world as error resisted the advancing appearing of the Christ, God's divine ideal, and as Truth became known to all peoples. His vivid picture of the disturbance is recorded in the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew.