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Editorials
Like every purposeful thing we do as Christian Scientists, writing for the periodicals should be placed on a metaphysical footing. This metaphysical basis has endless sparkling facets, and we view these individually.
A hundred years ago, the first step was taken toward founding the Church of Christ, Scientist. On April 12, 1879, Mary Baker Eddy and some of her students voted: "To organize a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.
Looking across a chasm, we may be able to identify landmarks on the other side. Even though we've not been there before, maps, drawings—even that firsthand glimpse at a distance—may have given us at least a beginning feel of just what it is like over there.
A student on a subway platform reading a musical score, his lips pursed— finger and foot tapping, I noticed. I couldn't hear any music, but I'm sure he could.
True consciousness is immortal. The only real consciousness endures forever.
We live in a spiritual universe that teems with manifestations of God's being, the representatives of His sublime nature. The spiritual fact is that God, the one creator of all, is infinite, divine Mind, and the one true creation is Mind's infinite expression.
You've contacted a Christian Science practitioner for treatment and healing. Don't drift along even for a moment with the thought that you have simply transferred your worries to somebody else and left yourself with nothing to do.
A woman stood at a bus stop, shivering in the rain. Would that bus never come? A lighted shop window caught her attention.
A close look at the record of impressive healings that took place in the early days of the Christian Science movement helps answer an important question: Is healing activity as substantial now as it was in earlier years? It's a fair question and deserves an answer. But an accurate answer requires a degree of spiritual discernment.
Christian Science is unique. Its church, its organization, is unique.