Editorials

The more nearly the sun is directly overhead, the smaller becomes our shadow. Physically, of course, it is impossible completely to lose one's shadow, but it is possible to be free of mental shadows—experiences of sorrow and discord—by keeping one's mind directly under the control of God, divine Principle.

Christian Science lifts our concept of thanksgiving to the contemplation of the ideas of God. These spiritual ideas, conceived and expressed by the divine Mind, are the substance and form of true being.

The method of Christian Science healing is wholly mental—spiritually mental. Not a single element of matter or of mortally mental energy enters into it.

The ideal church business meeting? Maybe there isn't any such thing, any more than there's a perfect human being. But just as we, as humans, improve as we grow in the understanding that perfect man, imaging God, is our actual identity, church business meetings improve as a result of our progressive realization that real Church is the perfect spiritual idea of Truth and Love.

It is sometimes said that Christian Science is mind over matter. And it is sometimes said that it is not.

Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, identifies morality with God's law. Both morality and spirituality derive their power and consistency from Spirit.

Sociologists and other experts assert that we live in an era of intensive change. And they warn that the pace of change is likely to speed up.

Anyone who wants to heal as Jesus did needs not only to be strictly moral but spiritually-minded. Under God's guidance the Master directed his followers to obey the moral law of Moses in its spirit as well as the letter.

When disease threatens, when human relationships become strained, when supply seems short, when one feels lonely, insecure, inadequate, afraid—healing is needed. Christian Science presents the truth of God.

"Can I speak to you confidentially?" A newcomer to Christian Science may ask this question of a Christian Science practitioner he has engaged to help him through prayer. What he has to say may be very private—perhaps in connection with his business or family life, his financial situation, or intimate details about his physical or mental condition.