Editorials

People are thinking in new ways about employment. Those who watch employment trends say it's no longer uncommon for someone to have several careers in his or her lifetime.

Followers of Christ Jesus today are much like other people. They sleep and eat, go to work and shop, read and interact in community affairs.

Recent years have found considerable attention being given to the whole mortal process of death and dying. There are courses and seminars, medical and sociological studies, books written about the psychology of dying, about the emotional cost to individuals and families, the financial cost, and the various systems and mechanisms to help people cope.

Bible readers often gain a healthy respect for little things. They learn that small and humble things—when they have the authority of divine Spirit behind them—are vastly more powerful than big things that thunder and threaten and throw their material weight around.

"Neither dishonesty nor ignorance ever founded, nor can they overthrow a scientific system of ethics" ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 464 ).

Through the years, month after month, The Christian Science Journal has been playing a vital role in my practice of Christian Science healing. For example, when I was establishing myself in the public practice of Christian Science, the Journal published Myrtle C.

What can evil do, and what can't it do? There is a very revealing account in the Bible's New Testament that illustrates one of Christ Jesus' encounters with evil. See Matt.

There are so many ways you could spend a two-week vacation. You could do something fun—like visiting friends or reading magazines or taking violin lessons or climbing mountains.

It was at some point during the flurry of activity in the days just preceding my sister's wedding—dozens of preparations in progress, doorbells and telephones ringing, people coming and going, the dog barking—that my mother's quiet, comical way of looking at life tweaked her into identifying the occasion as "organized confusion. " It brought smiles to our faces, especially since what seemed on the surface to be only a state of confusion was actually a state of orderly progression— everything progressing harmoniously within the framework of an orderly plan—and it was good to be reminded of that.

The town meeting began routinely enough. What soon occurred, however, was a dispute between a handful of residents and a land developer.