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Editorials
Do you ever wonder what it might have been like to have been present at the gatherings of the early Christians described in the book of Acts? It is said of the participants in one of these gatherings, "They were all with one accord in one place. " Acts 2:1.
The early Christian Church sets the example. The challenge today is to follow it—to keep the fires of spiritual purpose burning.
Christ Jesus sent his disciples into the world. In his great prayer just before his crucifixion, he said that he was not asking the Father to take them out of the world.
A message given at The Mother Church many years ago remains as timeless and timely as is the Church itself. Referring to the Founder of the Church, her student William P.
In 1901 the New York Herald published this statement from Mary Baker Eddy: "The continuity of The Church of Christ, Scientist, is assured. " The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany , p.
The reality of spiritual being behind Christian Science treatment keeps it from depending on the abilities of the person praying. And the more we become conscious of this divine reality, or Science of being, the less we suppose we have to accomplish something "personal" in declaring words of truth.
Are you in favor of the Christian Science practice? Of course! We all are. Well, perhaps we need to make sure we value treatment by Christian Science practitioners as much afterward as when we're receiving it! Occasionally, people may seem to have a "gratitude lapse" along about the time it comes to pay the practitioner.
The infinitude of God is a fundamental teaching in Christian Science. God's infinite being is coincident with His omnipresence, omnipotence, eternality, and immeasurable good.
The lesson of the resurrection has a message for everyone, but especially for anyone who is endeavoring to follow Christ Jesus. It speaks of the ever-present Christ, Truth, enabling us to stay with the God-given tasks we are to accomplish.
A little lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor, See Ps. 8:5.