Articles

Recently a mother asked a friend who is a Christian Scientist: "How can I tell my child that there is no matter? This would be too frightening to him. Because of this I find myself avoiding certain passages Mrs.

The purpose of the activities of the Church of Christ, Scientist, is to bless mankind. These activities are illimitable, reaching out to encompass humanity with their spiritual intent and offering.

" It has been said, and truly, that Christianity must be Science, and Science must be Christianity, else one or the other is false and useless; but neither is unimportant or untrue, and they are alike in demonstration. This proves the one to be identical with the other.

The expression, "minding one's own business," has had various meanings. One is that the affairs of another should not be pried into, nor should there be an attempt to dominate or dictate to another if, by so doing, one abrogates prerogatives and rights.

Recently when we were on a trip some four hundred miles from home, we found that we had a leak in our power steering unit. The mechanic to whom we took the car for repairs said that he had no part with which to fix it and that it would take several days to get such a part from the factory.

If there ever was a doubt about man's pre-existence—his existence before his so-called human birth—our great Master, Christ Jesus, removed that doubt when he said, "Before Abraham was, I am" ( John 8:58 ). He voiced the same idea when he said, "I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father" ( John 16:28 ).

In his familiar parable of the tares and the wheat, Jesus pointed out the great importance of the harvest hour. When the servants discovered that both tares and wheat were growing together in the field and reported this to the owner, he cautioned them to wait until the harvest before attempting to separate the valuable wheat and the useless tares, because a premature weeding process might result in destroying not only the tares but the wheat.

For one who wishes to attain peace of mind, health, and happiness, it is of great importance that he learn to recognize his true being as a child of God and to separate this true self from the mortal concept. The first chapter of Genesis states clearly ( verse 27 ), "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

We seem to be in a material body and living in a material world. But through the earnest study of Christian Science we learn that since God is the only Mind, true existence is divinely mental or spiritual.

Heaven on earth is a startling idea, heaven within us even more startling. To the Christian Scientist these ideas are not impossibilities.