Editorials

They were affectionate, fluffy, and usually white—those sheep of ancient Palestine. Their wool made fine-woven cloth that was warm and beautiful.

You can't change the law of spiritual reality—the allness and supremacy of God, good, and the absolute goodness of God's spiritual idea, man. Neither can anyone else.

Over the centuries, people have dreamed about a universal language—one that everyone everywhere could speak. If there were such a language, they've thought, you could visit any country in the world and immediately feel at home.

Martin Luther King, Jr. , wrote of the revolutionary civil-rights movement he led as an action fully grounded in love, the pure love, or agape, of the New Testament.

It's one thing to know that man is the spiritual image and likeness of God, who is the divine Principle of reality. It's quite another thing to make a commitment within oneself to live according to this divine standard and to exercise the vigorous self-discipline such a commitment entails.

Most of us are already very busy. "How can I possibly do more?" is a question we usually ask when it looks as though we've reached our limit.

Have you ever seen pictures of the Sinai Peninsula, where the children of Israel journeyed for forty years? The landscape is often stark: barren, arid, and desolate. Moses had urged the Israelites to leave Egypt and their life of bondage and to follow him to Canaan, to the land that God had promised to Abraham and his descendants forever.

The effect of spiritual Truth in consciousness is change—improvement—in both the human mind and body. This process of improvement, of spiritual development and progress, plays a key role in the practice of Christian Science healing.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.

My boyhood friends and I loved to go hiking and climbing around in the local foothills as often as we could. I recall how vigorously we would scale the jagged rocks.