Editorials

" For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. " Mary Baker Eddy has brought these words of St.

If any believer in Deity were asked if he thought there ever could arise a substitute for God—that is, some person or power which could take the place of the Almighty—he would doubtless repudiate the suggestion as an absolute impossibility. And yet mortals have in general been believing in a substitute for God without realizing it, and suffering because of their ignorant, mistaken belief.

Christ Jesus healed the sick through spiritual means. There is no doubt about it.

Only the life and individuality which are eternal are real, Christian Science teaches. Accordingly this Science constantly turns thought away from temporal matter and material selfhood, wherein mortal life is identified, to the immortality of God, self-existent Mind, and the equally immortal nature of Mind's expression, spiritual man.

In the teachings of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy has revealed to the world the true nature of creation as the unfolding of spiritual ideas. On pages 502 and 503 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she says: "There is but one creator and one creation.

One who had lately been called to serve as First Reader of a large Christian Science church was asked if he was finding much to meet in his new activity. "Much?" he replied.

The basis of all demonstration in Christian Science is the great fact that God is Spirit and His entire creation is spiritual, the complete and perfect reflection of His complete and perfect being. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, makes this clear in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where on page 259 she writes, "The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,—perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration.

The word "idea" is a little word with a big meaning. It has an important place in the teachings of Christian Science, as is evidenced by the frequency with which Mary Baker Eddy uses it in her writings.

With what joy must John the Baptist have exclaimed, "Behold the Lamb of God"! Prophetically he had been foretelling the coming of a teacher mightier than he, but apparently their paths had not crossed up to the time that Jesus came to him for baptism. According to three of the Gospels, John definitely heard a "voice from heaven" identifying the Master as the promised Messiah; hence his glad salutation ( John 1:29 ), "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

ONE meaning of the meaningful First Commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" ( Ex. 20:3 ), is pointed out by Mary Baker Eddy thus: "Thou shalt have no belief of Life as mortal" ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.