Editorials

"Oh that I knew where I might find him!" Job 23:3 . When we begin to echo longingly Job's desire to find God, perhaps we're ready to consider Primary class instruction in Christian Science.

Each of us has the capacity to demonstrate the truth that man is ageless, glorious, deathless—immortal—now. It may sound contradictory to say that the cultivation of this capacity involves understanding that immortality doesn't need cultivation.

Everyone wants to feel secure. We want to know that our life has value.

Any book that has inspired redemption and healing for thousands of people must be the outcome of God. This is true of the Bible.

"The finest bread hath the least bran; the purest honey, the least wax; and the sincerest Christian, the least self love. " "Meditations Divine and Moral" (1664).

Oneness is the nature of infinite Spirit, God. Anything other than oneness would divide God's omnipotence and omnipresence—an utter impossibility.

Sunday School is church. Maybe the classrooms are located next door to the auditorium (or in the basement), but Sunday School isn't a separate entity or appendage.

"Abandon intellectual wrestling and just pray to follow Christ. " This was the loving counsel a teacher of Christian Science gave a student some years ago.

The beginning of a new year is indeed a good time for evaluating where we've been, that we may better see our way forward. Our immediate yesteryear, 1985, was a year both fraught with challenges and rich with fruitage for the Christian Science movement.

Suppose someone asks, "Does your Church have any burning sense of mission about helping humanity? Are Christian Scientists just trying to be healthy and happy?" You would probably convey in some way—to a great extent through the quality of your love—the total conviction that the Church you belong to was formed for the definite purpose of helping mankind. As Christian Scientists we may not have thought recently about the full sweep of the Cause of Christian Science.