Editorials

When our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, gave the directive that the Christian Science periodicals are to be kept abreast of the times, she opened the way of progress for these messengers of Truth for centuries to come. Today her wisdom is displayed in the progressive step being taken in the method of distributing The Christian Science Monitor to the world.

Through Christian Science we learn that God is supreme good, immutable good, total good. In "Rudimental Divine Science," Mrs.

Membership in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, provides a unique spiritual experience. The simple and dignified steps leading to and comprising membership, divinely impelled, bring splendid opportunities to work harmoniously with others who share similar aspirations.

Christian Science reveals spiritual concepts, defines them accurately, and demonstrates them scientifically. One such concept is Christ.

Perhaps no question has been more eagerly asked and less satisfactorily answered than the one that serves as the title of this editorial. The difficulty lies in the fact that the question asserts and impliedly assumes the reality of something that is not real, something that appears to be real only to a false sense of things.

" Pure Mind gives out an atmosphere that heals and saves," declares Mrs. Eddy in her work "Miscellaneous Writings" (p.

Ideas , like rays of light, need to be brought into focus at a certain point in order that they may provide enlightenment. Christian Science does this with precision and thus makes the light of Christ, Truth, intelligently available to all.

Spirit , God, is omnipresent. In Spirit there is no matter or mortal mind and hence no laws of limitation.

Physical force, being neither intelligent nor moral, has no control over its own use and so is subject within certain limits to the will of men. Spiritual thinking, on the contrary, thinking based on the allness of Spirit, embodies divine intelligence and so expresses the divine will.

Christ Jesus opened his Galilean ministry with these stirring words: "The kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel" ( Mark 1:15 ). A new realm, the kingdom of heaven, at the door of mankind! Here, unseen to the physical senses, beyond the material and mortal, the evil and destructive, is a kingdom of light, order, and harmony.