Editorials

Sir Winston Churchill observed, "It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. " Speech, House of Commons, November 1947; Certainly democracy has proved itself, among human systems of government, to be of enormous support to the development and progress of human liberties.

A glance through Science and Health will show that this book includes many quotations from the Bible. A deeper study of it will reveal that there is hardly a page without some scriptural reference, even though an actual quotation may not be mentioned.

Many of us can remember vividly when we drew back the curtain of matter for the first time. We peered through and wondered at those broad vistas of Spirit, God— no longer obscured—that we glimpsed beyond matter.

Church building is not just a one-time physical undertaking; it is an ongoing spiritual activity. It does not primarily involve collecting money, drawing up plans, and adding brick to brick, or even member to member, though on the surface one will see these things occurring.

All ideas that are genuine and true come directly from God. They are inevitably good.

We can shed material symptoms of ill health through recognizing the spiritual evidence of God's goodness just where those symptoms seem to be manifested. This exchange of false symptoms for true evidence is essentially a mental event.

The temptation some of us may face in dealing with this question is to wonder about church membership figures. But the purpose of this editorial is not to analyze figures.

True being is the eternally perfect, spiritual expression of God, divine Life. Its development is the unfoldment of the ideas of infinite Mind, God.

It's not extravagant to assert that a spiritually scientific approach to study, rather than the standard human one, makes an infinite difference to its value and results. The practice of Christian Science involves turning away from the material senses as unreliable witnesses to reality and acknowledging the present reality of Spirit and its perfect ideas.

If the kingdom of heaven is at hand, as Christ Jesus said it is, why should anyone be troubled, impoverished, dissatisfied, sick, or in pain? In fact, nobody should be and nobody need be. It is possible for even the most unhappy of mortals to claim and to take possession of the good that the Master assured us abounds in the heavenly universe, and to do this today.