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Editorials
Discord in our lives is proportionate to our conscious or unconscious agreement with the claims of the erroneous senses. It is a consequence of ungodlike thinking.
The Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, reminds its members of the need for diligent effort in order that the ideals of its Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, may be realized. The keynote to progress in any line of endeavor is work.
" Reason ," declares Mrs. Eddy ( Science and Health, p.
Evil has to do with anything that impairs one's happiness or welfare or that deprives one of good. Disease is evil; so are the various influences that tend to disrupt and demoralize human life.
A People's culture clearly reflects its thinking. Where God and His Christ have been acknowledged and an effort has been made to train and refine human consciousness according to Christian standards, intellectual, moral, and spiritual vigor has characterized mankind.
The Christian Science Board of Directors announces the election of Inman H. Douglass, C.
THE pure understanding of God that Christ Jesus brought to the world was priceless. He addressed the people with God-derived authority.
IT is not difficult for a Christian Scientist, or, as a matter of fact, for any truly logical thinker, to agree that whatever is incorrect or erroneous comes under the designation of nothingness. It is obviously a mistake, wrong, and such errors have no real value.
IN the resurrection of Christ Jesus one finds the great proof of mankind's ability to break the fetters of flesh through the spiritualization of human thought. These fetters would localize men, tie them to the body, restrict their movements, and finally consign them to death.
One's body calls for such constant attention that it may seem difficult or even impossible at times to obey Paul's counsel in II Corinthians, where he approves a willingness "to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord" ( 5: 8 ). Two verses earlier are his words, "Whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.