Editorials

FEW, if any, of us have not at some time desired to be comforted, because comfort implies the alleviating of our troubles. The heart heavy with grief and separation reaches out for solace; those battling with afflictive disease, or caught in the meshes of tenacious sin, hunger for comfort and encouragement.

IN Christian theology the word "Providence" has been and still is frequently used as a term for Deity. And too often in ignorance of the true nature of God or Deity, untoward events—disease, death, accidents, and great catastrophes—have been ascribed to the inscrutable will and dispensation of Providence.

WHAT student of Christian Science does not find himself, again and again, marveling at the inspiration of the author of the textbook of this Science? That Mary Baker Eddy was divinely guided in writing this book, even she did not question. In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" ( p.

" For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. " Mary Baker Eddy has brought these words of St.

If any believer in Deity were asked if he thought there ever could arise a substitute for God—that is, some person or power which could take the place of the Almighty—he would doubtless repudiate the suggestion as an absolute impossibility. And yet mortals have in general been believing in a substitute for God without realizing it, and suffering because of their ignorant, mistaken belief.

Christ Jesus healed the sick through spiritual means. There is no doubt about it.

Only the life and individuality which are eternal are real, Christian Science teaches. Accordingly this Science constantly turns thought away from temporal matter and material selfhood, wherein mortal life is identified, to the immortality of God, self-existent Mind, and the equally immortal nature of Mind's expression, spiritual man.

In the teachings of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy has revealed to the world the true nature of creation as the unfolding of spiritual ideas. On pages 502 and 503 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she says: "There is but one creator and one creation.

One who had lately been called to serve as First Reader of a large Christian Science church was asked if he was finding much to meet in his new activity. "Much?" he replied.

The basis of all demonstration in Christian Science is the great fact that God is Spirit and His entire creation is spiritual, the complete and perfect reflection of His complete and perfect being. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, makes this clear in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where on page 259 she writes, "The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,—perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration.