Editorials

Good and action are interwoven. Can you imagine inactive good? Socrates couldn't.

If Christian Science just taught about Deity—about the eternality of Love and the glory of man and the universe as divine Life's expression—then we could be excused for thinking that although Science was intriguing, extraordinary, or a very beautiful way of thinking, it was rather insignificant when the crunch of trouble really came in human life. But Christian Science doesn't merely teach about the nature of God and of man in God's image.

Rivaling the alchemists' desire to find a way to turn base metals into gold has been amateur physicists' striving to create perpetual motion machines. Both goals may have been impelled by a force that would, if not misinterpreted, pull mankind's researches out of matter altogether.

Christ Jesus taught and demonstrated man's full perfection. His ascension gave conclusive proof that man is the unflawed expression of God.

Politics can be about many things: carrying out the will of the people, reallocating a nation's wealth, the wielding of human power. It can be about personalities, ideas, communication, ideologies, notions, theories.

Christ Jesus healed people who were very close to death—and in several instances had already crossed that boundary. There are many examples today of individuals who, faced with life-threatening situations, have overturned imminent death through the same Spiritual Science explained and practiced by Christ Jesus.

Millions of youngsters begin school this autumn, some of them for the first time. Thousands of men and women are taking on different jobs, some just entering the job market; others are starting retirement.

Receptivity to information and truths can be a very appealing concept. (Ask any schoolteacher!) And spiritual receptivity is very appealing—essential, in fact—when it comes to really scaling the heights of truth.

How did he pray? his disciples must have often wondered. They saw the healing results of Jesus' prayers: a bowed body standing straight, Zacchaeus escaping from a rut of greed and corruption, the bitter life of a prostitute purified, spiritualized, sweetened to a deep and humble love.

What Christian hasn't been inspired by the great escape of Paul and Silas! See Acts 16; They were locked securely in the inner prison when an earthquake, an event supposed to be so frightening, meant to them the beginning of their liberation. And in the midst of this drama a jailer on the verge of committing suicide was, instead, converted to Christianity.