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Editorials
Intelligence governs the universe and man. Christian Scientists and many who are not yet Scientists will agree with this statement.
In an Easter message to The Mother Church in 1902 Mary Baker Eddy wrote (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 155 ), "May this glad Easter morn find the members of this dear church having a pure peace, a fresh joy, a clear vision of heaven here,—heaven within us,—and an awakened sense of the risen Christ.
Christ Jesus did more than declare that man's life is eternal; he lived this truth. He exhibited real life both in its essence and in its indestructibility.
Many sufferers have come to Christian Science because all other means of restoration had failed. They turned to it as a last resort and found their needs supplied and their problems solved.
True judgment is the ability to arrive at correct conclusions. It calls for discernment, wisdom, intelligence, justice; but most of all, it calls for love.
The Lord's Prayer is one of the precious gifts which Christendom has received from Christ Jesus, the great Way-shower of men. It is the one prayer in which all Christian denominations can unite to glorify God.
On pages 115 and 116 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy reveals the steps of translation to be taken in reaching the immortal and spiritual idea of Life. She has called this transition "Scientific Translation of Mortal Mind.
Nothing can ever hinder or prevent the fulfillment of God's purpose for His creation. Each one of His ideas from the least to the greatest is uninterruptedly doing His will and manifesting His power.
It is sometimes said that humility is the most elusive Christian virtue, for to be truly humble one must be unaware of being so. In his autobiography Benjamin Franklin quaintly shows the elusiveness of this virtue.
Happy the man who realizes through spiritual sense that the only real heart is the great heart of divine Love, and that man is God's image and likeness. Paul wrote ( Rom.