Editorials

A recent cover story in a weekly newsmagazine focused on "the results of the broadest and most expensive research project in medical history. " For the millions of readers who saw the headline, though, it would not have appeared as welcome news.

Christian healing as practiced in Christ Jesus' day was accomplished by spiritual means alone, and without material aid. And so it is today, as practiced in Christian Science.

For much of the twentieth century the word "metaphysics" dropped out of popular use. With Christian Scientists, of course, it remained a mainstay of expression.

Have you heard the preaching at The Mother Church lately? It's outstanding! Of course, it's still the same as the "preaching" in your own branch on Sunday, wherever you are. But have you thought about the Lesson-Sermon In the Christian Science Quarterly.

If someone says he's a good carpenter, we would expect to see evidence, perhaps in the way he frames a house or hangs a door. If someone tells us that he knows how to plant a vegetable garden, we might expect to see plenty of fresh cucumbers or tomatoes on the dinner table! No matter what the endeavor, whenever there's a claim that something can be accomplished, we naturally anticipate results.

"Art when really understood is the province of every human being," The Art Spirit (Philadelphia and New York:J. B.

Christ Jesus is the Saviour, Master, Way-shower. He showed the way for each of us to be reconciled to God and thus to know ourselves in truth as God's pure image and likeness, the spiritual reflection of infinite Mind.

Of fundamental importance to followers of Christ Jesus is his command "Ye must be born again. " John 3:7.

Jesus cited his works of spiritual healing as proof of his identity as the promised Messiah, or Christ, the chosen or anointed messenger of God to humanity (see Matt. 11:2-6).

Christ Jesus' statement "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment" John 7:24. can be very helpful to us in learning how to deal with the appearances of evil that so often present themselves in daily experience.