Editorials

Every day the flood tides of humanity's troubles seem to wash stronger at our own doorstep, touching our lives in innumerable ways. The urgencies of strife at home and abroad, of worldly confusion and suffering, and of potentially apocalyptic technology drive home the increasing necessity to deal with mankind's needs in our daily prayers.

There's something about the start of a new year that makes people resolve, "I'm going to do better this year. " And for a while we often do manage to maintain our resolutions.

In answer to the question "How would you define Christian Science?" Mrs. Eddy writes, "As the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony.

We know Christian Science is radical; it challenges material appearances and matter-based conclusions at every step. But we may not realize just how radical it is until we explore, with open mind and receptive heart, the implications of the Truth it reveals.

In contrast with Christian Science we might classify as "mental suggestion" that subversive technique of a so-called material mentality which seeks willful control over bodily conditions, material circumstances, or events. It may take the form of autosuggestion or a silent attempt to influence other human minds—either for good or for evil purposes.

How secure we feel when we can speak with authority. We know the subject we're talking about, and our words ring with the assurance that comes of certainty.

Every unfoldment of the divine idea, Christ, in human consciousness echoes in some modest way the never-to-be-surpassed advent of Christ Jesus. Jesus said to Nicodemus, "Ye must be born again.

Thanksgiving, as a national holiday, seems to belong predominately to the people of the United States and Canada. Yet gratitude for good can flow from the hearts of all of us no matter where we live.

"Soul" and "body" are terms needing much clarification. Christian Science provides this clarification, explaining that Soul is Spirit, God, and that body is Soul's spiritual reflection.

Starting with finite views of life, mortals hope that promise will lead to fulfillment. But when we reason in Christian Science from the standpoint of God as Mind, the infinite One, and man as Mind's infinite idea, we recognize that completeness is already the condition of man's real being.