Editorials

New Year's resolutions and those who make them are often the butt of cynical humor—and not without reason. Somehow these resolutions seem to fade mysteriously away after a short time, and old habits of thought and action reassert themselves.

The Christian Scientist is taught by his religion to protest against suffering, sickness, and infirmity. He does not accept them as reality, nor does he think of them as coming from God.

With young people lies the opportunity to push on the centuries to a higher and wider demonstration of Christian Science than the world now achieves. If one's contribution to the world doesn't increase the spiritualization of human thought in one's generation, it hasn't much value.

One of the most immediate needs of our time is for the light of intelligence to show us the way out of the many dark and perplexing problems that face both individuals and nations. We can be confident that there is a way and that through prayer this way can become apparent.

We have all heard the story that an ostrich, when in danger, would bury its head in the sand, assuming that if the impending trouble were not seen, it would cease to exist or at least go away. Some people believe that Christian Scientists are figuratively burying their heads in the sand when they deny reality to evil.

In 1900 Mary Baker Eddy wrote, "Again loved Christmas is here, full of divine benedictions and crowned with the dearest memories in human history—the earthly advent and nativity of our Lord and Master. " The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

Gratitude is that blessed sense of warm, humble thankfulness and appreciation which wells up in our hearts when we contemplate the goodness of God and His wonderful creation. This must have impelled the Psalmist to sing, "Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!" Ps.

The ever-widening scope of information and research has been a devastating challenge to the blind beliefs held by mankind. On every hand traditional beliefs have been subjected to the searchlight of inquiry and have been discarded when they have been exposed as without foundation in fact.

As Christian Scientists enter the second century of scientific Christianity, they need to consider what their Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, foresaw for the great movement she founded. In The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany she speaks of her first visit to The Mother Church after its completion, and she says: "The dear members wanted to greet me with escort and the ringing of bells, but I declined and went alone in my carriage to the church, entered it, and knelt in thanks upon the steps of its altar.

Christian Science teaches that we can demonstrate only what is already divinely true. We could not make peace or have unity among men were not that unity already a fact in divine Science.