Editorials

Jeffrey is three years old, and Emily, his playmate, is four and a half. They've discovered our house in the course of expanding their neighborhood world.

There are few more glorious sights than a field that is ripe for harvest. Harvesting entails hard work, as anyone who lives on a farm knows, but it is also a time of joyous fruition—the culmination of one's labor.

Someone once observed that we spend 50 percent of our time thinking about what others are doing and 50 percent doing what others are thinking. There's probably a certain kind of accuracy to this adage.

Someone who was on the verge of being executed wasn't, because Jesus mediated the legal dispute. A man who had been ostracized from his community because of some terrible malady was restored to health by Jesus and then told to return home.

Recent investigations by geneticists have produced an intriguing theory: that the ancestry of modern humans can be scientifically traced back to one specific woman. With a touch of irony, the geneticists have decided to give her a rather well-known name.

Once in a while you may see the phrase unexpectedly in a news-magazine, when the writer is desperate for a way to make his prose more lively. But probably for many people animal magnetism remains a topic from another century.

A recent series in The Christian Science Monitor, "Christian Healing Today," Monitor, December 22-24, 29, 30, 1987. highlighted the reawakening of an interest in Christian healing among churches of many denominations and pointed out the challenges they face in finding a way to be faithful to Christ Jesus' command to heal the sick.

In 1893 the membership of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, received a call for the Church's first annual meeting to be held in October. Later, in the Manual of The Mother Church, a By-Law was amended to specify a Monday date in June, which has been kept each year since 1908.

A winter's walk along Walden Pond where Henry David Thoreau once beat a determined retreat from civilization always offers food for thought. The most obvious observation is that his retreat wasn't all that far from civilization, and that fact is even more evident today.

At a Wednesday testimony meeting a while ago I was thinking just how much Mrs. Eddy counted on individual members to contribute to the success of the Christian Science movement.