Letters to editors are fairly common for most publications.
What isn't quite so common is letters that go beyond the usual expression of opinion on various subjects, to tell of actual healing that has taken place or of new perspective gained as a result of what has been written.
Such letters deserve to be read again—and again.
They begin to make clear that this is no ordinary publishing activity. What authors, editors, and readers are about in jointly publishing these pages is nothing less than a spiritual revolution—a revolution that is taking many forms and being felt the world over.
You begin to see from these letters that spiritual truth is the most real and vital force for good in the world today. The role of Christian Science healing in all of this can't be ignored. It is the fuel of a growing flame.
Dear Editors,
A few days ago I was contemplating the great visible movements toward freedom in several countries and felt they were comparable in importance to some of the movements of people recorded in the Bible. But it bothered me how this current movement would be recorded for posterity in religious history. Then I remembered that Mrs. Eddy wrote in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, "The first was The Christian Science Journal, designed to put on record the divine Science of Truth ..."
That's it! The Journal can include a record of the broader aspects of today's startling events. Then my August 1990 Journal arrived and its first article told of events in South Africa, East Berlin, South America, and the Grenada invasion, incidents within these events being interpreted spiritually by the government worker (a Christian Scientist). It was exactly what I believe Mrs. Eddy would have wanted—for generations hence will be able to link what was written here to the history books and have some thoughtful interpretation to contemplate. Looking back on a few 1990 Journal articles, I see that other happenings which were front-page news in The Christian Science Monitor and papers all over this country are complemented by records of spiritual progress touching these same intense occurrences.
I'm glad that specific events of which the world is taking breathless notice are being mentioned in the Journal, not with mere philosophical comments, but with specific truths which were employed on the spot by specific people working in specified countries at a certain time. These accounts and interviews are not only inspiring, but will add to the authenticity of our claims for what is good and powerful in Christianity.
San Bernardino, CA
Dear Editors,
In the last few years there has been in the periodicals an exceptional unfoldment of relevance to the human need, expressed in very awakening and vivid terms, yet with no sacrifice of metaphysical purity. Mrs. Eddy speaks in Science and Health of a minister's sermon being such that the "listeners will love to grapple with a new, right idea ..." This is what the periodicals are doing more and more, striking deeply inward so that ideas initiate the development in consciousness of profoundly new meanings.
Another aspect of the periodicals (in all their various forms of expression) that comes clearer all the time is the sense of universal family—Christian Scientists from all over the world breaking the bread of their own evangelization of individual spiritual experience to share with other Christians.
Locust Grove, VA
