Editorials

Anyone who is in touch with his own feelings and has experienced unselfed love knows that its source is something outside a mortal selfhood. More than emotion, more even than human affection, this love impelling one to forget himself in blessing another begins to approximate the divine.

A useful, healing distinction is made by Christian Science between superficial human emotion and genuine inspiration. Inspiration has a spiritual source, divine Soul.

What does one do if a mental night comes, if thought is filled with doubt— even intimations of death itself? Much depends on what he has been doing. If he has been cultivating his spiritual understanding through study and prayer and practice, he is aware of a tested inner light that will see him through—perhaps without the help of another.

[Companion to January editorial: "Both old and new"] Suppose you decided to sit back and begin rereading the entire Bible—gain a wholly fresh perspective on its vast and profound message. You open the book and begin at the beginning: "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

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.