Editorials

The way we schedule our lives it would seem that time is the one great fact of existence. Not only do we eat, sleep, rise, work, and play by the clock, but we divide our lives into periods we liken poetically to months or seasons of the year.

All that really is, is divine Mind and its activity or idea. To mortal sense—to that which assumes the materiality of all cause and effect—it doesn't seem this way.

The divine Word is a mighty healing power in human affairs. No mortal condition or force is capable of resisting its transforming, regenerating influence when it is spoken with the authority of Christly understanding.

In the Christian Science Sentinel for June 12, 1909, there appeared an item written by Mary Baker Eddy: "Take Notice. To Christian Scientists: —See Science and Health, page 442, line 30, and give daily attention thereto.

The Bible emphasizes the spiritual origin of man. We read: "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

Notwithstanding the extraordinary high tide of technological innovation reached in this century—instanced in the density of communications and orbital satellites—that which can have the most practical implications in the life of each of us occurred two thousand years ago. Christ Jesus' resurrection has contemporary meaning and application—in Christian Science it signifies that life is not, never was, and never will be in matter.

The core of Christ Jesus' teachings was the fact that God is Love and that one who lives as God's child loves unselfishly —as well as eternally. It is this core that mortals glimpse, find inspiring, and promptly find ways to evade.

With translucent simplicity Mrs. Eddy explains Church: "The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.

Even amid shame and degradation may be found two qualities of thought which, if nurtured, can spring up, reverse the downward trend, and raise the individual to heights of spiritual vision and expression. These qualities are self-knowledge and humility.

Enoch never died. With spiritual significance the Bible tells of one whose days "were three hundred sixty and five years: and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.