Editorials

Science And Health, the textbook of Christian Science, has been rightly termed by its author, Mary Baker Eddy, the key to the Scriptures because it reveals the spiritual significance of the Bible in both word and incident. On page 320 of this textbook Mrs.

Divine Love is expressed in service to God and man. Such service is divine service; it is the grace and activity of Love which make all burdens light.

In her "Tribute to President McKinley" Mary Baker Eddy speaks in highest terms of his humane character, his affection, tenderness, and sympathy. She says (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

Christian Science is the Holy Ghost, or Comforter, because its purpose is to bring comfort or healing to sick and sinning humanity. Prophesied by the Master, the Christ as revealed in Christian Science is specifically designed to prove the power and presence of God in human affairs.

No subject before human thought today is more compelling than that of man's continuous and indestructible individuality. No idea is riper for comprehension.

Spiritual inspiration is the heavenly characteristic which changes the standpoint of thought from the material to the spiritual. This change of standpoint is necessary in order to understand and demonstrate Christian Science.

Traditional religious teaching and human experience stemming from it have led mankind to believe that the way of progress must be one of suffering that suffering must necessarily accompany one's spiritual progress. But the concept of suffering can only be associated with the belief that man is material and mortal, never with the consciousness of one infinite spiritual being.

Christian Science gives positive assurance of redemption from sin, disease, and death. In absolute Truth it is correct to regard redemption as already complete.

A Bow in the cloud marked the covenant which God made with Noah and his sons and with all living creatures— a covenant which implied that life belongs to Deity and is indestructible. In the Scriptural account God's voice is recorded as saying ( Gen.

The Master's unequivocal declaration and demonstration of man's inseparable relationship to God not only was misunderstood, but constantly aroused the intense opposition of false theology, as witnessed in the antagonism of the rabbis and the dogmatic resistance of the Pharisees. Demanding his crucifixion, they said ( John 19:7 ), "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.