Editorials

When Mary Baker Eddy established The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, she founded an institution which expressed the Mother-love of God. Joining The Mother Church is not a perfunctory duty, but a step of spiritual advancement marking a stage of spiritual development in the consciousness of a Christian Scientist.

When Christ Jesus taught his followers the parable of the tares and the wheat, he was showing mankind how to reap a harvest of spiritual good. He was explaining the duality of the so-called human mind, wherein good and evil seem to exist side by side, and expounding the Science of salvation, which demonstrates the nothingness of mortality and the immortal nature of good.

Is there a more beautiful command in the Decalogue than that relating to the observance of a Sabbath rest? In fact, the very word "Sabbath" means in the Hebrew tongue "rest. " "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy," proclaimed Moses.

PRAYER is the desire of the human mind to reach the heavenly Father. Through hope, contrition, entreaty, supplication, and affirmation, it advances thought to reach the understanding which finds rest and peace in unity with God.

ON page 259 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy writes, "When the Lawgiver was the only law of creation, freedom reigned, and was the heritage of man ; but this freedom was the moral power of good, not of evil: it was divine Science, in which God is supreme, and the only law of being. " Every statement of Truth is a statement of divine law.

SEPTEMBER 1 , 1948, marks the fifty-year milestone of the weekly periodical of our movement. On the first of September, 1898, The Christian Science Publishing Society launched The Christian Science Weekly.

This editorial is intended primarily for church members who desire to become better acquainted with the preparation necessary for a successful Christian Science lecture. It is culled from the experience of one who has served as chairman of the lecture committee in a branch church and also as a member of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship.

John , the beloved disciple, declared the greatest truth known to mankind when he wrote ( I John 4: 16 ), "God is love. " For centuries, human beings have been slowly yielding to this great truth by partaking of Love's harmonious nature.

Earnest Christian Scientists throughout the Field often pose this question: "What is the greatest need of our movement at this moment?" We may well turn to the writings of our beloved Leader for the answer. Mary Baker Eddy in her "Miscellaneous Writings" says ( p.

When Jesus described himself as having existed before Abraham (John 8:58), he was referring to the Christ, his incorporeal, spiritual selfhood, the divine image which coexists with God as God's eternal manifestation. This was the Christ which the Master comfortingly promised would be with us always.