Editorials

Education in any field or discipline implies comprehension. Understanding is certainly an important, even a key, aspect of Christian Science.

How often many of us have found comfort, when we needed healing, encouragement, inspiration, by turning to old friends—familiar spiritual truths in the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's writings.

Elisha demonstrated the spiritual fact that true substance is never used up. A widow experienced proof of this truth by way of a pot that continued to pour out oil until she had filled every available vessel.

We live in a world of material forces. At least, so it seems.

Christmas! A season of joy and the giving and receiving of gifts. But so much more.

In all history no other individual has equaled Christ Jesus' impact on human consciousness. In three brief years of public ministry he literally changed the course of the world—more so, in fact, than even most Christians realize.

Christian Science refers to God as absolute Principle, absolute Life. "Principle," Mary Baker Eddy says in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "is absolute.

Divine Science, the Comforter promised by Christ Jesus, has come to this age revealing the truth of being—illustrating with concrete evidence that God is supreme good; that man expresses God's perfection. This reality, advanced by the Christ and loved by the individual, transforms consciousness.

There are times in the practice of spiritual healing when two or more Christian Scientists work together in helping another to regain health. One is a Christian Science practitioner, and one—or more, if the patient is requiring round-the-clock care—is a Christian Science nurse.

Christian Science starts with God, rests on God, and stays with God. It reveals the pure reality of all things in such a way that we can prove this reality.