Editorials

Everyone desires health. Many have longed for the strength and freedom which accompany health; yet, depending upon unpredictable material means for attaining health, they have not found it.

To enter the kingdom of heaven we must recognize within ourselves a higher, purer, wider, and inspirational consciousness. The kingdom of heaven is at hand; it is within us; it is the realm of true being.

We simplify our labors when we work in a direct line toward a right objective. Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has given us valuable help in the true education of the rising generation. In one of her letters she writes (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

We enjoy a glorious liberty because we have a glorious God, a dependable divine Principle, which liberates us from a lawless and illegitimate existence, based on a belief in a mind apart from God. Our liberation from the bondage of materiality comes by means of spiritual perception, prayer, and progress.

The Christian Science church, known as the Church of Christ, Scientist, derives its origin directly from divine Mind. In the Historical Sketch in the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy we read ( p.

Resistance to God must be a myth, else God is not All and supreme. Christian Science reveals God's allness and omnipotence, and it also reveals man's perfection as His likeness.

In the eleventh chapter of John's Gospel we read of one of the most remarkable healings recorded in the Scriptures, namely, the resurrection from the dead of Lazarus, a friend of Jesus. Only a metaphysician of the highest order could have overcome the opposition and annulled the false material laws which contributed to the death and burial of Lazarus.

In this restless age of speed and gadgets, technological wonders and released physical power, the subject of prophets and prophecy seems remote and abstract. Yet the Bible prophets have contributed something basic and of great value to the welfare of mankind.

The record of the birth of Jesus may easily be regarded by many Christians as one of the outstanding stories in the Bible—by some, perhaps the greatest. In fact, our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, thought it fitting for Christian Scientists to hold in remembrance the birth of Jesus.