Editorials

At this season of the year, when men's thoughts are turning in gratitude to God for His goodness and bountiful gifts, it is well for Christian Scientists to consider the great blessings which have come to mankind through His faithful messenger, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Out of the joys and sorrows of her experience, out of divine revelation and the deep searchings for God and His ways, out of a heart of importunate prayer and spiritual fasting, out of deep-rooted love for all mankind, came the discovery of Christian Science, Then appeared our Soul-inspired textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," setting forth the final revelation of Truth to mankind: Divine Science, the Comforter, as prophesied by Christ Jesus.

The world is in great need of finding something more stable, more abiding than material theories of life. Christian Science points out that the Bible fills that need, for it is a scientific textbook which contains the exact Science of life; it reveals the truth of being.

" The divine understanding reigns, is all , and there is no other consciousness," affirms Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 536 ) Consciousness pertains to God, divine Mind.

In a letter to The Christian Science Board of Directors, Mary Baker Eddy writes ( The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 143 ), "Watch and pray that God directs your meetings and your lives, and your Leader will then be sure that they are blessed in their results.

From the Scriptures we learn that the Israelites received many assurances of the happy destiny available for them. But the fulfillment of these assurances was dependent upon obedience to the law of God, including the Ten Commandments.

Thoughtful people have often felt uneasy about placing confidence in the mortal sense of life. Its fleeting nature has been likened by them to a dream.

The student of Christian Science learns that true employment means more than daily activity in business, however successful and continuous his work may be. He learns that real and uninterrupted employment is the consistent and joyous demonstration of man's true selfhood as the son of God.

The conflict which grips the world today could be described as a struggle between that which is permanent and that which is impermanent. On one side we see thought which treasures the things of Spirit, God: the moral and spiritual values that are indestructible, trustworthy, compassionate, intelligent.

The whole purpose of being is to glorify God, to acknowledge Him as the Almighty, the only creator, power, and presence. We honor God not only in words but even more in deeds, through the exemplification in our lives of His complete nature.

In a recent address to the nation, the President of the United States of America declared with conviction that the Armed Forces of his country would never be used for any purpose other than for defense. And he declared that in his judgment the combined forces of the free nations of the world are adequate to defend themselves against any aggressive counterforces which would attempt to wage war.