Editorials

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.

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.