Editorials

CHRIST JESUS gave to the world the full proof that life is not destructible, that human life continues after death until the individual proves his existence in Mind as its immortal, spiritual idea. The Master made this plain by raising the dead and by his own resurrection and ascension.

Divine grace is not something we earn; it is the gift of God to men. It is not capricious; it acts as impartial and unfailing law.

If we are truly alive to the presence of God's universe, we know exactly what we are doing and why we are doing it. We are conscious of our God-given abilities, and we are using them.

The resurrection of Christ Jesus has special meaning for the student of Christian Science because he has learned that man is spiritual now and forever and that immortality is not something which must take place after death; it is a present fact and a demonstrable one. In his resurrection, Jesus vividly showed that death does not end the human sense of life but is merely an event in it and that mankind continue unchanged after death.

Of vital significance to the orderly progress and protection of Christian Science is the By-Law contained in the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy, Article XXIII, Section 10 , which reads in part, "In Christian Science each branch church shall be distinctly democratic in its government, and no individual, and no other church shall interfere with its affairs. " Our Leader evidently laid great stress on this provision, for a few years after this By-Law was adopted she asked the then Chairman of The Christian Science Board of Directors and Editor in chief of her periodicals to publish in the Christian Science Sentinel (January 15, 1910) her wish with respect to greater democracy in Christian Science churches.

STOCKPILES of nuclear armaments continue to grow. The number of nations possessing these armaments increases.

THERE is great cause for rejoicing when a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, is built, paid for, and dedicated. Those who have worked and prayed to bring the work to a successful conclusion have felt a power, an energy, that has impelled them many times to surmount obstacles and overcome difficulties.

GENERALLY speaking, ignorance is not a desirable state of mind, for it implies a lack of knowledge of facts. But ignorance of God and His creation and ways is more disastrous than any other kind and has the most negative and far-reaching effect.

Before Mrs. Eddy discovered Christian Science it would have been the height of folly for anyone to question the reality either of sin or disease.

Christ Jesus performed many healings which illustrated the power of Mind to remove diseases from the body. There was, for example, the case of the man with the withered hand.