Editorials

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.

The discovery of Christian Science in 1866 marked a decisive turning point for progress in medicine. This fact stood out to me in bold relief not long ago as I was rereading the classic American novel Little Women.

From the standpoint of Christian Science, the whole concept of substance as God, divine Spirit, radically challenges the notion that true wealth can be counted according to material measures. Matter by its very nature, both in specific forms and in its general tendency, is always finite.

Life without rules. Sounds ideal? You might imagine a world where no one tells you what to do, a world where you're free to go where you like and do what you please.

Maurine Campbell was a pioneer Christian Scientist from Des Moines, Iowa. In 1889, she came to Boston to work at The Christian Science Publishing Society—then centered in a single crowded room on the third floor of the Hotel Boylston.

The last couple of months in the year are usually when work winds down, or rushes ahead a bit, in order for us to have additional time around the holidays to spend with friends and relatives. It's not often the time when we launch a significant project.

What are the greatest enemies to health and wholeness? If you asked most people, you would probably get obvious answers such as disease, or accident and injury, or perhaps old age and decrepitude. Some might suggest environmental degradation and pollution.

Have you ever considered the fact that a Christian Science Reading Room exists to alert the community that human experience does not exist in a realm separate from God's government? A Reading Room can be thought of as the leaven of Truth and Love at work, permeating the neighborhood with a sense of Christ's new appearing, bringing healing and order to every aspect of human life. (Of course, it isn't the Reading Room that does this, but the prayer of those manning it and supporting it!) Christ, Truth, reveals that the human and the divine actually coincide.