Editorials

In the relation of God and man there is unity of being, but there is distinctness of operation, or activity. God is cause, and man is effect.

At the moment of her discovery of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy began her great mission as interpreter of the Bible. It was at this moment, when she grasped the spiritual import of a passage in Matthew she had been reading, that the Science of the Bible dawned on her spiritual sense.

It is rather astounding to consider what a large proportion of time the average individual spends in the contemplation of death. Accident, disease, war, crime, suffering, seem to take up a large part of the news and hence occupy thought to a great extent.

That God can heal the sick is an established fact. But the question is often asked how He does it, since the Bible declares that He is "of purer eyes than to behold evil.

In every instance of the forward thrust of knowledge, what was known by mankind yesterday is not enough for today. To illustrate, take speed.

Spiritual healing is a deep and searching therapeutic that reaches down into the innermost recesses of human consciousness. It is based on an understanding of the Christ, and it brings to thought a profound stillness and rest, silencing the fear and excitement that appear on the body in varying forms of disease, thus restoring a normal sense of health.

It is agreed that one of the basic causes of crime and violence is the sense of frustration that pervades the experience of many individuals. What underlies frustration is the limitation of opportunity, supply, or a just share of the benefits of modern society.

As long as Christian Science is thought of merely as another church, a denomination, or a sect, it is not understood. This Science is the truth of being, and the truth is universal law.

One of the prominent aspects of the Christ is the fact of man's sonship with God. As the true relationship of God and man, Father and son, dawns upon the individual, it has a marked effect upon his thought about himself, his conduct toward his fellowmen, and his own realization of health and well-being.

Isaiah was stating a truth that underlies all genuine spiritual healing when he wrote, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee. " Isa.