Editorials

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.

Some people like to be alone. They relish the peace and the opportunity for quiet thought that it affords.

The message which Christ Jesus brought to the world was twofold: the divine perfection of God and His sons, and the way of proving that perfection by purifying the human self. After giving some specific directions for carrying out such purification, Jesus said, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

The author points out that "God's law of harmony and its rule of application is always with us, always infinitely potent to solve any problem which material sense may present."

Many explosions in human behavior have been interpreted as blowing off steam or clearing the air. They take the form of personal quarrels, rebellion against authority, or indulgence in destructive actions.

Because God is Father-Mother, as Christian Science reveals, everything He creates is characterized by both masculine and feminine qualities. These qualities are altogether mental and refer in Science to spirituality reflected from God rather than to material gender.

In the process of learning the facts of divine Science and applying them to our experience, we go through basic changes in our thinking and living. Even though these changes are not always easy, we should not chafe at this necessity.

Sometimes when we were children attending school, we had mixed feelings about our schoolmaster. This is because a teacher seemed to us a somewhat contradictory character who at one time was gentle and kind, at another stern and dictatorial.

The most profound truths in the Scriptures are often taught by symbols. Christ Jesus employed the symbol of leaven to explain the inevitable expansion in human thought of God's spiritual idea, the Word of Truth.