Editorials

Nothing is more vital to successful healing in Christian Science than strict adherence to the standard of healing established by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. This standard is clearly set forth by her on page 167 of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, in the following statement: "It is not wise to take a halting and half-way position or to expect to work equally with Spirit and matter, Truth and error.

There is immense healing in the simple truth that God knows. The only knowing going on in the infinite realm of reality is the knowing done by divine Mind.

What does Easter commemorate? Not tragedy but triumph. Not sadness but joy.

The view at the top. We can probably all recall a time when this prospect has kept us struggling up a steep track.

Does the Christian precept "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" Matt. 5:48; seem formidable?—a demand that is beyond the capacity of any human being to fulfill? In fact, this injunction from Christ Jesus' Sermon on the Mount is a promise as well as a demand.

The Christian Scientist is grateful not only for the freedom he receives in healing but also for the system of metaphysics that enabled him to understand enough about God to be healed. If our appreciation for the healing system diminishes, so may our ability to practice it.

Sometimes Christian Scientists wonder how they should live. What shape and texture should their life have? The query must be answered mainly in generalizations—the lives of people endeavoring to scientifically understand God and their real nature as God's expression are colored by openness and fairness in their dealings with others, civic-mindedness, impartiality, unselfishness, and the like.

The divine Science of being is understandable, exact, and pure. It holds no uncertainties.

New Year resolutions, if wisely made and wholeheartedly kept, can have a marked effect on our physical health as well as our mental and moral well-being. The mental, moral, and physical aspects of humanity's identity are indissolubly related.

Terror—either as apparent cause or effect—can be lessened. It can be controlled and eliminated because terror is simply stress manufactured, magnified, and spread by mortal thought.