Editorials

Suppose Church wasn't here—that Sunday and Wednesday services, Reading Rooms, Sunday Schools, lectures, college organizations, and other church activities we take for granted, weren't part of our experience. For those whose lives have been given needed substance and structure through these activities, that is unimaginable.

According to a Gallup poll, more than a few people believe in ghosts. One in four Americans who were polled say they do.

In a book called Growing Up Isn't Hard to Do if You Start Out as a Kid, the author asks kids lots of questions. Then he stands back to see what happens.

Do you recall why you became a member of the Church of Christ, Scientist? Wasn't it because you had glimpsed something of the immensity and scope of scientific Christianity as you studied Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy? And perhaps you had experienced tangible proof of the presence of God and His Christ in your life through healing.

The author makes the point that success in healing doesn't come from age or experience, but rather from "our love of God and our conviction of divine Truth's reality."

When  I was a child, our family often visited a man who had a wonderful garden. There were magnificent flowers, and the vegetables were bigger than what I'd seen anywhere else.

Plans are underway for 1991 and 1992 Youth Meetings in the United States and Canada. As with the 1990 Youth Meetings, local Christian Scientists have initiated these meetings and opened them to all young people in their areas.

I had decided to read again the Gospels in the New Testament— Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. I wanted to see what single idea or truth would stand out on that particular day.

Christ Jesus' last instruction to his disciples before the ascension was "Ye shall be witnesses unto me. " Acts 1:8.

Probably no aspect of Christian Science has come under more intense public discussion recently than Christian Science healing. Yet the outcome has been different from what many might have imagined.