Editorials

Perhaps our closest neighbor is our husband or wife. Christ Jesus advised that those who marry "are no more twain, but one flesh.

Mary Baker Eddy's love for the practice of Christian Science never wavered. She saw practical demonstration as utterly essential to the continuance and growth of Christian Science.

For several years The Mother Church has been facing this question: how to bring more of the public to Christian Science lectures in Boston. We've been finding that the beginning of the answer is to ask instead, How do we bring Christian Science lectures to the Boston public? We have noticed that no matter how much we spent on advertising for a Christian Science lecture in the Boston community, most of those attending turned out to be church members.

The prophet Isaiah glimpsed it through divine inspiration: a child would be born of a virgin and would become known as mankind's Saviour. God's omnipotent government would be made plain through an unparalleled advent of spiritual understanding.

A friend gives you a surprisingly generous gift. It shows tremendous thoughtfulness and discernment.

A man was having a private struggle. The world around him suggested that there was really nothing all that wrong with the sensual thoughts he was having and the actions these thoughts were prompting.

People's capacity to want to give, to help, to save, is evident everywhere. We see it in many ways: in concern for the earth, in charitable contributions, in what neighbors do for one another.

An article entitled "Those healthy-minded Christian Scientists" appeared recently in a provincial Canadian newspaper, The Whigstandard . The Whig-Standard, Kingston , Ontario, March 9, 1990.

Suppose you've never heard of Christian Science or of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Suppose you come from a different culture, have been brought up in a religion other than Christianity.

We were watching a little fellow who's almost five as he helped first his dad, then a next-door neighbor, and finally us as we shoveled out from a new snowfall. I wish you could have seen this fellow—his face truly was angelic.