Editorials

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE has restored healing as a fundamental element of Christian worship. It reveals the Principle of healing to be God, infinite Love, who eternally acts through changeless laws to produce, maintain, and govern a universe of spiritual ideas.

WHO knows the origin of man, the origin of his own existence, spiritually understood? The individual who can and does answer that question correctly is equipped with dominion over evil, with definite and holy power to establish the consciousness of good as his own, and to demonstrate that that consciousness is accompanied by the evidence which bears witness to its reality. He is so equipped because he knows himself.

Mary Baker Eddy felt no doubt regarding the divine origin of the Science she set forth in the Christian Science textbook. She says in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" ( pp.

The Psalmist, turning his thought to God, declared ( 51:6 ), "Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. " Mary Baker Eddy makes a statement that might be considered correlative when she writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

While the objective of Christian Scientists extends beyond the living of moral lives, yet it must always be remembered that Christian Science demands the highest, most impeccable morality of its adherents. Morals are the mores , as the Latin language designated them, that is, the customs which cannot be violated without repercussions in the relationships of mankind.

ON page 469 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the author, Mary Baker Eddy, writes: "We can have but one Mind, if that one is infinite. We bury the sense of infinitude, when we admit that, although God is infinite, evil has a place in this infinity, for evil can have no place, where all space is filled with God.

CHRIST JESUS wrought the wonders of his ministry on a purely metaphysical basis. He looked beyond matter to divine Mind, God, to find cause, and he utilized the forces of Spirit—intelligence, integrity, love—to destroy the false mental causes of disease and limitation.

ANYONE who knows Truth feels the impulsion to share it. Truth has power and purpose to assert itself.

Christian Science brings health within the possibility of everyone's experience, for it reveals God as the source of health, and God is ever available to those who love good. Often, in the language of Christian Science, health is linked with holiness, and since holiness connotes spiritual purity, health is seen to be the mental state that companions freedom from sin.

The shepherd and his sheep is a theme which runs through the pages of the sacred Scriptures. The children of Israel from the earliest period of their history were said to be keepers of sheep.