Editorials

To those engaged in the practice of Christian healing, Mary Baker Eddy offers this encouragement and instruction: "Hold perpetually this thought,—that it is the spiritual idea, the Holy Ghost and Christ, which enables you to demonstrate, with scientific certainty, the rule of healing, based upon its divine Principle, Love, underlying, overlying, and encompassing all true being. "   Science and Health , p.

The author notes that whether we are “literally alone or surrounded by others, our love for others—our words, our deeds, and especially our prayers—can make a difference.”

One of the main issues causing considerable debate among Christian and other religious communities today is aptly summed up in the headline of a recent article in U. S.

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.