Editorials

This year has marked the centennial of The First Church of Christ, Scientist. The Manual of The Mother Church includes this record: "On the twenty-third day of September, 1892, at the request of Rev.

She told her family she didn't want to be there; the new house and new community were just not the same as the old ones. It was clear from the girl's comments that change, even when it's progressive, isn't always what we expect.

 The author notes that as we see more of divine Mind’s ever-presence, “we find an eternal coexistence—a unity with God that has never been broken.”

We call it simply the Bible—or the Good Book. But its spiritual meaning is revolutionary.

The spiritual ministration of Christian Science goes significantly beyond anything anticipated by the medical profession—even those who take what is called a holistic approach, concerning themselves with what they call "the whole person. " Christian healing has as its primary focus not the human body but man's relationship to God.

Mary Baker Eddy describes the type of reader who will most benefit from the Christian Science textbook when she dedicates the pages of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures "to honest seekers for Truth. " Science and Health, p.

Many people take with some degree of seriousness the effect their thoughts can have on their well-being. For instance, it would be fairly common for people to recognize that if their attitudes were consumed with hatred, such harsh feelings over a period of time might not lead to the most pleasant condition for their bodies! At minimum, most would acknowledge that an individual's resentment or hostility can rob him of a more normal life of peace and happiness.

We live in an age that focuses increasing attention on the body. Hardly a book, a television program, a newspaper or magazine, is without some emphasis on the body.

A point in the theology of Christian Science that sometimes causes people concern or puzzlement is the assertion that evil—sickness, disease, and sin—is unreal. To someone suffering from sickness or severe personal misfortune, this bald statement, out of context, could suggest that Christian Science is out of touch with life.

You can almost picture the wide-eyed, inquisitive five-year-old carefully taking hold of the pocket compass that his father had brought to his bedside for him to see. What impressed the boy most about the compass was not that the needle pointed in the same direction regardless of which way he turned the case; rather it was that whatever was acting on the needle was something outside the case, something in space, "the space that had always been considered empty.