Articles

The quality of justice is always safely out of human hands and in God's keeping. Though all human resources and recourses should utterly fail, divine justice would remain demonstrable— supreme.

Help for marital problems can be found in the Bible—spiritually understood in the light of Christian Science— and not only in verses that specifically mention marriage and divorce but also in the accumulated scriptural evidence of how spiritual power transforms our lives. Sometimes the question seems to be, Is it better to stay married and be miserable or to get a divorce? Happily, these are not the only alternatives.

The world seeks plenty, but in most cases in the wrong direction—from matter and personality. As we understand the real nature of good, we see that it's not from anything material, in some far country or greener pasture.

Are individuals controlled by a supercomputer? According to physiology, the human brain is the basis of thought and action and, in addition to storing knowledge, influences the body. This brain is claimed to be the source of intelligence, consciousness, reason, and all movement.

One of the important healing activities of the Church of Christ, Scientist, is giving a lecture. The time we spend preparing for it can be one of the most beautiful seasons of the year.

Have you ever stopped to realize that we all have unlimited ability to perceive Truth, and with infinite outreach, because in actuality we reflect the one limitless Mind, God? Just consider for a moment the marvelous possibilities of the human being able to "see" his way through all the chaos that material sense presents today! Real seeing is knowing, and real knowing brings healing of whatever God, good, did not make. Church membership encourages us to take vigorous steps forward in our spiritual seeing and knowing.

The lack of discipline in today's society is cause for concern. As individuals everywhere act out what they believe is a right to go their own way, spiritual, moral, and civil laws are often disregarded.

Some places in the United States and other parts of the world have a special beauty in an early fall day—a depth and purity of light not always noticeable at other seasons. This light symbolizes for me the spiritual innocence and purity of Christ, especially significant, perhaps, because it is a phenomenon of autumn.

The scientific understanding of multiplication as the manifestation of God's power is needed in defeating such false beliefs as overpopulation and abnormal cell increase. Is the ancient belief that the universe and man are material approaching its end? In obedience to the law of God, infinite Spirit or divine Truth, this belief is self-destroying, and its eventual demise is obliquely indicated in forms of accelerated error, such as overpopulation and the apparent proliferation of certain kinds of terrorism, crime, violence.

Wham! What a noise! Another plane goes supersonic—or "crashes the sound barrier," to state it incorrectly. Actually, there has never been a sound barrier.