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Editorials
One of the first statements of Christian Science which its students generally learn is, "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all" ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 468 ).
All people think of Principle as unerring and undeviating. And so it is.
It is obvious in Christian Science that men's release from their difficulties is not necessarily dependent on the lapse of time. It depends on their enlightenment, their recognition of the truth of being, by which they find they are not subject as they had supposed they were to limitation and evil.
The Christian Scientist, knowing that God is the only Mind, knows also that the only metaphysics entitled to be so called is divine metaphysics. This was the great truth which Christ Jesus set forth when he declared, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.
Ordinarily man is thought of as partly temporal in his make-up, and partly permanent; the permanent part is spoken of as soul, the temporary as body. The prevailing opinion is that soul, at the moment of dissolution, in some unaccountable way escapes to live on, while the abandoned body is left to disintegration.
It is with deep regret, and with sincere sympathy for the many friends and pupils of our beloved associate and co-worker, William P. McKenzie, C.
Does the word "charity" signify to us what it did to the writer of the epistles to the Corinthians? It is evident from the thirteenth chapter of the first epistle that Paul knew both the meaning and therefore the practice of charity. The apostle had been talking to the people of Corinth of some of the parts which they might be called upon to play, where opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand.
The revelation and the resulting benefits of Christian Science, it need hardly be said, are by no means exclusively for those who are now called Christian Scientists. They are for every human being.
A Man sat down at his desk to write a paper. As is frequent on such occasions, thought fled for a moment.
At this hour of great world need for the things of Spirit, it is important that students of Christian Science should avail themselves of every opportunity for spiritual advancement provided by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. One entire chapter of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," is entitled, "Teaching Christian Science," and Articles XXVI and XXVII of the Manual of The Mother Church pertain to this subject.