Editorials

This month's issue of the Journal includes a report of the meeting held in Boston August 16-18 for members of Christian Science organizations at colleges and universities. Those who attended this meeting are now addressing the challenges on their respective campuses of putting into practice the inspiration they gained at the meetings.

The revelation of divine Science, which means everything to us as Christian Scientists, is that God, Spirit, is All—and that nothing exists other than Spirit and its creation. We agree this isn't something we can ever, for any reason, afford to set aside as "too metaphysical.

Don't you feel we can probably do better in having an open, caring affection for each other—among Christian Science teachers? practitioners? church members? Selfless love among loyal members of the Christian community helped make the early Christian Church a bloc that no hammering of persecution could break. And what an obvious difference this spirit of love and unity makes in a church or in a Christian Science Students Association! It's like walking out of a patch of fog and into a field full of sunshine.

How we all long to feel loved and cared for—to feel that there is a safe haven where we can go for peace and rest. Especially in times of trial, temptation, and weariness we look for this safe place.

Only a "hair shirt" theology would impugn joy—suggesting that even the unselfish happiness of our lives is a sin and that virtue is to be found only in suffering. The human spirit naturally rebels at such a cruel notion.

The pages of this periodical are filled with explanation and proof that Christian Science corresponds with the Bible and fulfills its promises. No Bible prophecy is lovelier or timelier than the promise made to Noah that life would never again be overwhelmed by a flood of destruction.

The Bible tells us that God is infinite and perfect. See for example, Ps.

"Spiritual observation and self examination. " This was the theme for this year's Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Some years ago our children used to refer to a house we had lived in earlier as "the blue house. " That's the way they remembered it.

Often when attending a Wednesday testimony meeting, I've tried to put myself in the shoes of someone who may have just walked into a Christian Science church for the first time. Maybe the visitor has taken a seat in the balcony, or in the rear of the auditorium, or right down front in the first pew.