Editorials

IN defining her concept of the man Jesus, Mary Baker Eddy, the revelator of Christian Science, writes on page 589 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Jesus. The highest human corporeal concept of the divine idea, rebuking and destroying error and bringing to light man's immortality.

WHEN St. Paul stood upon Mars' Hill he opened his sermon with a bold and arresting statement.

" CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is both demonstration and fruition, but how attenuated are our demonstration and realization of this Science!" These words were written by Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science and demonstrated its power over human ills in countless instances of compassionate healing. They are found on page 61 of "Unity of Good" and are followed by this revealing statement: "Truth, in divine Science, is the steppingstone to the understanding of God; but the broken and contrite heart soonest discerns this truth, even as the helpless sick are soonest healed by it.

THE Psalmist declared ( Ps. 130:7, 8 ): "Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

THE Master foretold "upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; .

Paul's question to King Agrippa rings with faith that should rouse every age to admit God's omnipotence ( Acts 26:8 ), "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?" When God is understood as the only healer, the possibility of destroying every phase of error is seen. "What cannot God do?" asks Mary Baker Eddy on page 135 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

Every room has a door. In other words, there is always a way out of any situation.

Christ Jesus saw clearly that the way of deliverance from the ills of the flesh and from all materiality was the understanding and scientific maintenance of man's true identity as a son of God. He endeavored to have men claim that sonship and prove it.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in her Message to The Mother Church for 1902 ( pp. 9,10 ), "Whatever enlarges man's facilities for knowing and doing good, and subjugates matter, has a fight with the flesh.

Many desire to have their lives changed, transformed into a more satisfying and harmonious existence. Instinctively they reach out for freedom from fear and pettiness, for a wider range of action, for deeper affections, higher usefulness.