Editorials

It would seem that with all the advances of civilization, humanity still has much to learn about how precious life actually is. Yet there is an answer to mankind's need for enlarging its sense of life's value.

Recently, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, I saw a special exhibit of the paintings of the Italian seventeenth-century artist Caravaggio. The artist's use of light and shadow, his emphasis on realistic human detail, certainly showed his ability to appreciate and utilize both beauty and technique.

You and I wouldn't be happy with Christian Science if there wasn't something more to learn. If we could actually come to the end of the subject, where we knew all there was to know about it, we would have reached its limits—and our own! Having "learned it all," we would have nothing left to do, no way to extend and further improve ourselves.

We learn in Christian Science that consciousness is not subject to an invasion of evil thought-forces. This truth has profound implication for humanity's freedom.

It might appear that there are many ways to alleviate disease, according to human belief. Medicine, psychotherapy, hypnotism, biofeedback, diet and exercise, even voodoo—any one of these may offer temporary relief from physical and psychological distress if the human mind concedes power and validity to that particular system of treatment.

The rights and equality of women have received a powerful impetus in the past hundred years. Society has moved a long way from the time when women nearly everywhere lacked even the right to vote, though it is still far from eradicating the tendency to subordinate and abuse women.

Some Christian churches are divided into lay members and clergy—part-time and full-time. But our Church takes a different approach.

Comprehending the fulfillment of prophecy is as individual as comprehending prophecy itself. Christ Jesus' ministry fulfilled Old Testament prophecies of a coming Messiah.

Most Christian Scientists know the happiness they feel when they are able to give something of their spiritual understanding of God to someone who is in need. "Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love.

To become comfortable with the belief that an imperfect ego which we call "I" or "me" living along in matter will someday become perfect is actually to believe in something other than Christian Science. The one I, or Ego, is God and is already perfect.