Editorials

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.

Suppose that as members of The Mother Church we were strictly obligated to live in Christian fellowship with every other member in good standing— and let's assume that our failure to do so meant removal from membership. Or suppose your branch church's or society's Journal listing could be removed from this publication for failing to maintain an attitude of Christian fellowship toward another Journal -listed church or society.

Most of us have happy memories of friends we have not seen for years and of whom we have no pictures. Our recollections of their physical features may have become hazy—and perhaps that is just as well, since by now they would probably look different and would certainly be wearing more modern clothes than when we saw them last.

"Imagine an electronic calculator landing on Ben Franklin's writing table. Within a few minutes, the inventor of the lightning rod has figured out how to use the device, but his initial delight soon gives way to perplexity.

When we begin to study Christian Science and to put its teachings into practice, we are often exhilarated and in awe of the consequences. We accept the spiritual truth of God's perfect creation, and healings occur—what people call miracles.

Christianity has a message of supreme importance for mankind. It is the message of Life.

Christ Jesus' resurrection after his crucifixion and three days' entombment was a unique event in mankind's awakening from the dream of substance, man, and life in matter. We in the twentieth century are continuing beneficiaries of his victory.