Editorials

In the Sermon on the Mount, Christ Jesus taught the great lesson that supply comes from God, not from matter or human sources. He explained that even the birds are fed and the flowers and grass clothed by the heavenly Father; and then he asked ( Matt.

In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes ( p. 252 ), "A knowledge of error and of its operations must precede that understanding of Truth which destroys error, until the entire mortal, material error finally disappears, and the eternal verity, man created by and of Spirit, is understood and recognized as the true likeness of his Maker.

Christ Jesus foretold that a great fermentation would take place in the world as error resisted the advancing appearing of the Christ, God's divine ideal, and as Truth became known to all peoples. His vivid picture of the disturbance is recorded in the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew.

Christ Jesus claimed his unity with God. He said ( John 10:30 ), "I and my Father are one.

Age and time have no place in the Science of being and therefore do not touch man's true selfhood. Referring to this, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

Many observers of human nature admit the necessity for greater spiritual enlightenment. Some feel that civilization will not survive unless there is a return to the practice of the spiritual values as found in the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount.

Those attuned to Spirit, God, realize the presence of the Father and note the working of His power among men. They feel the spirit of Christmas abroad, the joy of the nativity of the true sense of life, and are drawn to Truth by the resistless power of spiritual good.

In an article which Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, wrote at one time for the New York World and which now appears in her book "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" she says ( pp. 259, 260 ): "Christmas respects the Christ too much to submerge itself in merely temporary means and ends.

The book of Revelation is a book of overcoming. It depicts in colorful figures the individual and collective victory of mankind over all sin.

Spiritual sense bears witness to Spirit and to all that emanates from God, or good. In this evidence are included the perfection and permanency of spiritual existence.