Editorials

Certain truths are fundamental to Christian Science healing, and all other truths are contingent upon them. For instance, we have these statements in "Unity of Good" by Mary Baker Eddy ( p.

If one were to ask a friend, "Why do you work?" the answer would probably be, "To provide for my daily needs and those of my family. " Christ Jesus gave to mankind a higher concept of daily work when he said to the people who followed him ( John 6:27 ), "Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you.

Much of the work Christ Jesus accomplished during his ministry concerned the human body. He healed it, fed it, protected it, restored it to life and useful activity.

" The king can do no wrong" reads an axiom of jurisprudence which evolved with the establishment of temporal, sovereign authority. This doctrine of the infallibility of the ruler or the government states but the counterfeit conception of the absolute divine authority which belongs exclusively to God.

When an individual is faced with an intricate problem in arithmetic, he can solve it only by applying his understanding of mathematical truths. He must reason correctly step by step until he arrives at the correct answer.

When Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, discerned the distinction between reality and unreality, she initiated a spiritual revolution in human consciousness. Lying in bed with an injury which neither medicine nor surgery could heal, she read the Bible and gained a spiritual conviction that God, divine Mind, is the cause of all real being and that all that is not of Mind is unreal.

Justin Martyr , who lived in the second century of the Christian era, studied the popular philosophies of his day. Not finding true knowledge in this study, he became a Christian.

Almost two thousand years ago the Virgin Mary heard the voice of an angel telling her that she would give birth to a son. He was to be called Jesus, the Son of the Highest.

Since the time of Christ Jesus, Christianity has come to successive generations, and it is gradually penetrating human consciousness with the living elements of Truth. Justice and mercy, purity, integrity, and love are more and more widely lived.

The peace and welfare of the world depend largely on the degree of understanding and integrity, or spiritual righteousness, which the nations of the world bring to bear on their relationships with each other. Mary Baker Eddy tells us that the people's idea of God has much to do with the health and progress of the world.