Editorials

Rebirth may seem as mystifying a demand to many people today as it did when Christ Jesus required it of Nicodemus two thousand years ago See John 3:1-7. The need for rebirth confronts everyone.

In some areas this time of the year many amateurs joyfully are rehearsing Handel's oratorio Messiah . That today people aren't content to let just the professionals sing this mighty work of praise to God may say something profound about the nature of messiah.

The people expected a Saviour. When Christ Jesus was born, many anticipated the Messiah's appearing.

It is easy to capitalize the numeral one: One. But in divine Science this is more than a stylistic move.

There is a cure for the common cold. This disease, just as any other, must submit to the power of Christ, Truth.

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.