Editorials

Paul's question to King Agrippa rings with faith that should rouse every age to admit God's omnipotence ( Acts 26:8 ), "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?" When God is understood as the only healer, the possibility of destroying every phase of error is seen. "What cannot God do?" asks Mary Baker Eddy on page 135 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

Every room has a door. In other words, there is always a way out of any situation.

Christ Jesus saw clearly that the way of deliverance from the ills of the flesh and from all materiality was the understanding and scientific maintenance of man's true identity as a son of God. He endeavored to have men claim that sonship and prove it.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in her Message to The Mother Church for 1902 ( pp. 9,10 ), "Whatever enlarges man's facilities for knowing and doing good, and subjugates matter, has a fight with the flesh.

Many desire to have their lives changed, transformed into a more satisfying and harmonious existence. Instinctively they reach out for freedom from fear and pettiness, for a wider range of action, for deeper affections, higher usefulness.

Spiritual reasoning leads every clear thinker to the realization that above and entirely apart from the clashing opinions and mental picture presented by the material senses, the law and will of God, divine Principle, is maintaining every detail of true being in harmony and order. The study of Christian Science awakens one to the perception of this unassailable fact.

Christ Jesus knew God to be Spirit, the one Father or cause of all, and this understanding empowered him to prove that man, the effect of Spirit, is spiritual and consequently sinless, diseaseless, deathless. As the Way-shower, he fully demonstrated his own sonship with God, and the fleshly Jesus, the Son of man, disappeared.

The basis of being is Spirit, not matter. The basis of pure intelligence is Mind, not brain.

Beholding the unprecedented mental upheaval that appears to be taking place in human consciousness today, it must be apparent to all thinking people that we are in the midst of a moral chemicalization. The complicated and unhappy conditions that humanity is facing are compelling men and women to turn for help, not merely in word, but in deed, to a power greater than a human sense of self.

IT was recently announced in the daily press that Dr. Albert Einstein had discovered mathematical equations which he believes will tie together in one all knowledge of the physical universe.