Editorials

ON page 469 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the author, Mary Baker Eddy, writes: "We can have but one Mind, if that one is infinite. We bury the sense of infinitude, when we admit that, although God is infinite, evil has a place in this infinity, for evil can have no place, where all space is filled with God.

CHRIST JESUS wrought the wonders of his ministry on a purely metaphysical basis. He looked beyond matter to divine Mind, God, to find cause, and he utilized the forces of Spirit—intelligence, integrity, love—to destroy the false mental causes of disease and limitation.

ANYONE who knows Truth feels the impulsion to share it. Truth has power and purpose to assert itself.

Christian Science brings health within the possibility of everyone's experience, for it reveals God as the source of health, and God is ever available to those who love good. Often, in the language of Christian Science, health is linked with holiness, and since holiness connotes spiritual purity, health is seen to be the mental state that companions freedom from sin.

The shepherd and his sheep is a theme which runs through the pages of the sacred Scriptures. The children of Israel from the earliest period of their history were said to be keepers of sheep.

Prayer, the deep and true desire of the heart, is always answered. Only mortal sense would seem to argue to the contrary, for mortal sense outlines the fulfillment of desire in terms of materiality, which is illusion.

WHEN Truth is entertained and permitted to occupy the field of human consciousness, a change takes place in the whole composition of thought. Christ Jesus likened it to the effect of leaven, which, when placed in the kneading trough, changes the composition of meal, making the dough light and palatable.

FORGIVENESS characterizes great men and women. Joseph, David, and others towered above their fellows because they forgave enemies willingly.

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS appreciate and are grateful for the tremendous contribution of their religion to the thinking of the ages, for Christian Science focuses all that is truly good into the pattern of reality. They know it does this by revealing God as the author of all good and of good alone and as the only author of anything that exists.

" HE rose again the third day according to the scriptures. " Thus wrote Paul to his friends in Corinth ( I Cor.