Editorials

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.

Solomon is synonymous with wisdom. The clever way he determined which of two claimants was actually the mother of an infant has stood for ages.

Has it ever quietly dawned on you that someone you wanted very much to help through Christian Science probably needed to correct something wrong deep in his or her own thinking? And has it ever seemed to you that this person just wouldn't let go of his errors and therefore you couldn't reach him? For example, you might have reasoned that because you couldn't manage to change the aspects of a person's character contributing to the problem, healing was blocked. If we have got into the habit of thinking this way about cause, we're apt to have more reasons for not healing than for healing.

Have you asked yourself recently, "What's right with my branch church?" Maybe a few of us would admit we don't always phrase the question quite that way! A few months ago, as I was on my way to a Wednesday testimony meeting, I was ruminating about church. I found myself thinking in what were supposedly "common sense" terms about today's typical priorities and their negative effect on church.

My car broke down. It was late at night and I was traveling alone.

Sometimes the human mind struggles with the idea of metaphysical healing, perhaps even doubting the possibility of divine power as a real or "very present help in trouble. " This may be a particular challenge for one who has suffered with sickness or pain over a considerable length of time.

However difficult or easy we may believe our situation to be, we always have one and the same problem to solve—no more, no less. And that is the problem of being.