Editorials

When authorities predict that incidence of a certain disease may reach epidemic proportions, what is the responsibility of Christian Scientists? It is fundamental to the practice of Christian Science to do what our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, expected we would do: prayerfully respond to mankind's needs.

When you think of someone brave, who is it? Do you find yourself thinking of somebody in the past? Not necessarily the far past, of course, but someone who has done something already? What about people who are brave right now? People who are doing something that calls for tremendous faith in the power of good to overcome evil while they're "in harm's way. " When we're looking back, bravery is relatively easy to discern.

There's a lot of earnest thought given to the great need for peace in our world. Peace in families, in neighborhoods; peace among religious and political factions; peace along the borders of smaller nations and between the governments of superpowers.

The book of Acts relates more than one stirring experience. Such is the account of the Christian disciple Peter's visit to a man named Aeneas.

Individual freedoms—basic freedoms of speech, press, assembly, religion—are still not fully recognized as inalienable rights in much of our world today. In one country a woman, like many of her fellow citizens, was sent to prison as a dissident.

We can heal sin by recognizing “God's allness and our individuality as completely His spiritual reflection.”

Recently I saw a science-fiction film that was produced in the 1960s. In it there was a geneticist who was greatly concerned with the Malthusian vision of the world's population overwhelming its food supplies.

Christ Jesus taught his followers that church building could only begin with and continue from the basis of Christ, the immortal spiritual manhood that he exemplified. Commending the acknowledgment that his true selfhood was Christ, Jesus said, "Upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Abraham Lincoln, in the accepted joshing style of the times, once remarked of a political opponent, "He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. " Louise Bachelder, ed.

People who are hurting, who are suffering, who are struggling to make their way in life, who are challenged by loss or grief, may quite understandably face what is sometimes called a crisis of confidence. The doubts can loom large.