Editorials

Spiritual healing is seen in the spontaneity and power of Christ Jesus' ministry among men. His healing works demonstrated the loftiness of his teachings, and Christian Science explains the basis of both with irrefutable clarity.

There is inherent in the human mind a desire to worship or to adore someone or something. If the object of worship and adoration is God, then all is well.

Christian Science is restoring pure Christianity. How is the restoration taking place? Mrs.

Generation after generation, mortals have asked the questions, Where did evil come from? What is its origin? Even those who, through the study of Christian Science, have gained some knowledge of the allness and ever-presence of good may have been perplexed by the so-called problem of evil. Let us consider the first question referred to above: Where did evil come from? This question may be inferentially answered by asking another question: Where did the erroneous belief that two and two makes five come from? Obviously, it did not come.

" A Man of knowledge increaseth strength. " Knowledge of God, divine Principle, is the one all-inclusive gain to be unremittingly sought.

Two sayings of Jesus, recorded in John's Gospel, are of deep and enduring interest. One of them reads: "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.

" Consolation and peace are based on the enlightened sense of God's government. " This scientific fact stated by Mrs.

There is a sentence on page 494 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," which is used as an inscription on the walls of many Christian Science church edifices, and which has brought help and encouragement to unnumbered persons. This sentence, written by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, is as follows: "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.

Great uncertainty broods over the human race, generally, with regard to immortality. This is shown in the anxiety of mortals as to the future, in their dread of possible extinction.

On page 40 of the Manual of The Mother Church, its author, Mary Baker Eddy, says, "In Science, divine Love alone governs man. " The real man, spiritual man, then, is never governed, controlled, influenced, or swayed by human passions such as anger, hatred, resentment, revenge, jealousy, envy, or fear.