Editorials

" OH, he had a change of heart!" How often we hear this expression, signifying that someone has changed his mind in regard to some situation, altered his decision as to some action. It may be a change from unkindness to generosity or the reverse, but at any rate his mental attitude is changed.

THE above statement is being affirmed daily, often hourly, by more members of the human race than ever before in human history. It ends "the scientific statement of being" given by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p.

WITH the coming of June, the time is at hand for the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church. Although the Church Manual by Mary Baker Eddy does not require the presence at these gatherings of any members but those who are the Church officers, the Annual Meeting should mark an important milestone in the journey Spiritward of every Christian Scientist.

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.