Articles

God is never dormant. He is continuously expressing Himself.

One morning not long ago the postman dropped a Christian Science Sentinel through our letter box. I picked it up and glanced through it, and one article stood out to me.

The idea of the allness of good and the nothingness of evil that Christ Jesus demonstrated, and that Christian Science explains, seems quite remote to many people—sometimes even to lifelong students of Christian Science. After all, we appear to live in a dualistic world in which good and evil share equally in all the moments of daily living.

On Monday evening, June 7, following the 1993 Annual Meeting, a special fruitage meeting was held. Twenty church members from around the world told of their own experiences in reading Science and Health and of how they had felt its transforming power.

There were no training institutes for nursing in Jesus' time. He went up to the mountain and prayed, and I'm so grateful that each one of us has the opportunity to do that, without any barriers.

Is our concept of nursing based on popular imagery? We read books and watch television in which medical nurses dress in a particular way and have an accepted role in conventional medical care. But is Christian Science nursing based on a nonmedical version of medical nursing, or does it have a different basis? Christian Science nursing practice is based wholly on the teachings contained in the Bible and in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

How often in our daily lives do we find ourselves confronting the picture before our eyes that would try to convince us that the material world is the real and that God's creation is the unreal? This is a constant challenge. Yet if we're honestly seeking truth, we will willingly take the side of divine Truth against error, the side of good against evil, the side of Spirit against matter.

Jesus was once in the temple, watching while people put money into the treasury. Many were casting in large sums, but one widow put in only two mites (a fraction of one cent).

As practitioners of Christian Science, how can we heal ourselves, our family members, and our friends—including the general public who request our help—more effectively? The answers to this question are found in the textbooks of Christian Science: the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. These books show how God, Truth, heals through Christ.

Editor's note : We are pleased to share the following talk with readers of the Journal. It was delivered last fall by James Robert Corbett at a worldwide conference of Committees on Publication held in Berlin, Germany.