Editorials

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.

Prayer, the deep and true desire of the heart, is always answered. Only mortal sense would seem to argue to the contrary, for mortal sense outlines the fulfillment of desire in terms of materiality, which is illusion.

WHEN Truth is entertained and permitted to occupy the field of human consciousness, a change takes place in the whole composition of thought. Christ Jesus likened it to the effect of leaven, which, when placed in the kneading trough, changes the composition of meal, making the dough light and palatable.

FORGIVENESS characterizes great men and women. Joseph, David, and others towered above their fellows because they forgave enemies willingly.

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS appreciate and are grateful for the tremendous contribution of their religion to the thinking of the ages, for Christian Science focuses all that is truly good into the pattern of reality. They know it does this by revealing God as the author of all good and of good alone and as the only author of anything that exists.

" HE rose again the third day according to the scriptures. " Thus wrote Paul to his friends in Corinth ( I Cor.

SOON after the writer commenced the study of Christian Science he made the acquaintance of one who was a Hebrew and Greek scholar of considerable distinction. This man translated the complete Bible from the original languages and learned to think and speak in Hebrew and Greek as readily as in English.

EVERY Christian Scientist is a law unto himself. This is not to say that anyone is license unto himself.

THE true prophets of Bible times were seers. They foresaw and foretold spiritual events.