Editorials

The practice of Christian Science is a scientific practice; it is therefore exact, and not speculative. The truth concerning God and man, when entertained and understood by the Christian Science practitioner, heals with certainty.

In her life and manner of living, a marked simplicity characterized Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and revelator of Christian Science. Her home was dignified and representative, but devoid of ostentation or display.

Any act or experience by which one is purified is a form of baptism. Purification of thought is precedent to spiritual understanding, and therefore in order to heal through Christian Science it is necessary to purify thought, motive, and action.

Christ Jesus' parable of the talents in the twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew may refer to any right activity, and its application is seen in the exercise of intelligence. The servants who multiplied with use the talents entrusted them by their master were blessed, but the servant who hid his one talent in the earth was deprived of the little he had.

Through the study of Christian Science we learn that the real and only man of God's creating reflects the freedom of the divine Mind. We learn that being, or existence, is not material but spiritual.

The Scriptures reveal God to be Truth, one infinite, good Father, or Spirit, whose creation is good; and they expose the untrue, or deceptive, nature of all that is not good. In Genesis (3:1) we find the serpent, the Biblical figure for sin, described as "more subtil than any beast of the field;" and in Revelation (12:9) the same serpent is called "the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.

True law is God's law, the law of Love. Law that does not include love is not God's law, and we need not be afraid of it.

" What ," Pilate asked, "is truth?'" ( John 18:38 . ) And through the centuries mankind continues to ponder the same query.

Would it not be wonderful to live in a realm of changeless beauty, to enjoy uninterrupted health, and to experience unalloyed happiness? The realm of God, or the kingdom of heaven, includes just such a prospect. When Christ Jesus healed the sick and reformed the sinner, he did so because he was aware of the heavenly harmony existing here and now as a state of consciousness.

On the great walls of the Extension of The Mother Church, to the right of the Readers' rostrum as one faces it, are inscribed statements based upon lines written by Mary Baker Eddy and found on page 270 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " As they appear on the walls they read: "If sin makes sinners, Truth and Love can unmake them.