Editorials

Debtors and creditors figure with other familiar characters in the parables of Christ Jesus—with farmers and fishermen, priests and tax collectors, merchants and housewives. Jesus used these various types to teach compassionate moral and spiritual lessons.

The question "If God is good and is All, why is there so much suffering in the world?" is age-old. The article by a Sunday School teacher on page 386 of this issue of the Journal indicates the possibilities such a problem presents for a group discussion among young people who know something of the teachings of Christian Science.

Spirituality usually has a religious expression, but religious teachings and activities don't always have a strong spiritual element. Spirituality doesn't war, since it naturally outshines any would-be opponent.

Christianity has always maintained that God meets every human need abundantly. The master Christian insisted that people should never be concerned about their supply of human necessities—even food and clothing—because God, the divine Father of all, "knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

"Just a coincidence. " In many areas of activity coincidence means little but a random concurrence of events without significance.

Spiritualization of thought: it's the only thing that will prosper and unite our church and keep it safe. It alone must finally help Christian Science stand out, separate and apart, from merely mortal thinking and organization.

Precedents are among the heaviest type of fetter that human beings have used throughout the ages to chain themselves and others. "We've always done it like this," they say; "it has never been done in any other way.

As regular readers of The Christian Science Journal know, Science and Health was first published a century ago, in 1875. Its author, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in its Preface: "A book introduces new thoughts, but it cannot make them speedily understood.

Great interest in the future is being generated by the urgency and depth of many of mankind's present problems. What will the future look like? it's asked.

The man and woman God made are governed by the immutable law of God. Divine law controls the entire spiritual universe of Spirit.