Editorials

Christian Scientists often refer to Mary Baker Eddy as their Leader. An inquirer might wonder just what this means.

Those who play team sports know the value of a crowd eagerly cheering them on. A high-school football team grinding toward the goal line works a little harder and feels a stronger impulsion to win when the crowds are verbally pushing it forward.

Slander of man amounts to blasphemy of God, since God's true man is created complete and perfect, in His likeness. But one seldom slanders just for the sake of slandering.

Many people today fear that the world may be nearing ultimate destruction. Some, however, actually welcome the event with great religious fervor.

During Christ Jesus' farewell discourse with his apostles, See John, chaps. 14-17.

What does the concept of structure mean to you? A building? A piece of sculpture? The fabric of government? Structure easily brings to mind impressions of steadiness, order, freedom from chaos or instability. In light of such qualities as these, it is understandable why we may feel a certain strength, durability, security, when we ponder the spiritual nature of Church as Mrs.

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If we persist in bringing to life's difficulties a correct understanding of God as perfect and of man as created in His likeness, we will see increasing evidence that our true identity is spiritual and perfect. Such persistence toward realizing the genuine harmony inherent in our true nature might be compared in some ways with the biblical occupation of the Promised Land by the children of Israel.

What was the way Christ Jesus healed? Through radical, absolute reliance on the law and power of God! He expected of his followers that they too heal the sick and the sinner. Christian Science confirms that Christian healing is possible today as in the Master's own day.

By introducing the concept of God as absolute Principle— universal, immutable, final, supreme—Christian Science throws new light on the origin, existence, and properties of natural law. From Newton to Einstein, physicists envisioned an orderly "clockwork" universe—a universe of predictable character in everything from microscopic particles to cosmic forces.