Editorials

In order to demonstrate the healing power of Christian Science, it is essential that we recognize the way in which our need for Truth has been met. Christ is Truth, the Way in Science.

" The history of our country, like all history, illustrates the might of Mind, and shows human power to be proportionate to its embodiment of right thinking," writes Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health ( p.

Perhaps nothing in the life of Christ Jesus is more astonishing than the continuing spontaneity of his powerful thinking. This spontaneity was the result of his actual consciousness of the kingdom of God, which he came to reveal to the world.

In the face of what appears to be a threatening situation in the world—evil vaunting itself above good, often in the name of good—it is encouraging to consider a question that Mrs. Eddy asks and then answers from the Bible: "Who is it that demands our obedience? He who, in the language of Scripture, 'doeth according to His will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay His hand, or say unto Him, What doest Thou?'" (Science and Health, p.

The Bible contains many promises which encourage us to look ahead with hope and with confidence that good will prevail in all things. But the Bible contains much more than mere promises.

One way of governing a large body of persons pursuing the same objectives is to organize under a constitution which sets forth laws needed for carrying out designated affairs. The Manual of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, was provided by Mary Baker Eddy as the constitution for the governing of her Church.

In memory of soldiers fallen in battle, Abraham Lincoln said at Gettysburg, "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. " If we remember loved ones for the good their lives reflected on earth, we have little time for self-pity.

A Debate about the value of morality seems to be occupying the attention of many people and is, no doubt, a sign of the growing materialism of this age. As viewed in Christian Science, in which morality and spirituality are seen as inseparable, any tendency to downgrade the importance of morality is a symptom of spiritual deficiency that can be overcome only through spiritualization, and the consequent dematerialization, of human thought.

If there is any one lesson that the world should learn from the life and works of Christ Jesus, it should be that of God's universal control. Wherever he was, whatever condition confronted him, the Master was ready to prove the supreme control of the Father.

When Jesus healed the sick by spiritual means alone he made available a method of healing that surpasses every other one. When this method is generally understood, as it surely will be, men will not relegate it to the realm of the mystical and so deprive themselves of the superior benefits of spiritual healing.