Editorials

In the course of a day's work Christian Science practitioners are likely to hear many personal details of their patients' lives. Some of the stories related may seem stranger than fiction.

An answer does exist because God is Love and Love meets the human need— inevitably. The answer may demand of you the deepest spiritual growth you've been called upon to undertake.

The opening passages of the Bible, the first chapter of Genesis—despite their using the imagery of animals, plants, and stars—are purely spiritual in their message. It is made undeniably clear there that God is the only power or operator.

Some things should never be taken for granted. One of them is Christian Science treatment.

A vital theme running throughout the Bible is the importance of man to God. Both Old and New Testaments declare again and again that God is the divine, infinite, and only creator, all-powerful, all-present, all-knowing, and eternal.

Prestige in a business or professional situation is often sought. This is not unnatural.

The basic premise of Christ Jesus' teaching and of Christian Science is that God, good, is All-in-all and there is no other power, presence, substance, or reality. This idea echoes through the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs.

Relatively few people have yet recognized the profound significance of the revelation that came to Mary Baker Eddy. Those who have pondered it a lifetime readily admit they are only beginning to appreciate its magnitude.

Christian Science is the springboard, so to speak, to the endless depth of Spirit, infinite God. Our success or otherwise in Science—in grasping and proving it—is very much determined by whether we plunge into the Science of Spirit or are content just to paddle on its shores.

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