Editorials

Christian Science reveals the true nature of God and man. God, it declares, is perfect Mind, and man is Mind's perfect image, reflection, or idea.

In no particular, perhaps, did our Leader manifest greater wisdom than in her ordination of the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" as "our only preachers" ( Christian Science Quarterly, Explanatory Note, p. ii ), and in her provision for the Lesson-Sermons to be read in our churches.

The understanding of God is the remedy for every error under the sun. God and His manifestation is all that exists.

Christian Science is the Comforter promised by Christ Jesus when he said, "I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth" ( John 14:16, 17 ). That Christian Science is bringing comfort to mankind today is being constantly proved by those who understand its teachings, for it is supplying their needs often in truly marvelous ways.

As the highest bringer of good tidings, the teacher and demonstrator of eternal Truth, Christ Jesus established practical Christianity on the changeless Principle, which he named God, the Father. What he knew about God revealed to him that divine aid is sufficient to supply every need of men.

Probably most Christian Science practitioners would agree that a majority of the problems brought to them by patients have to do with a finite, human sense of relationship. If the problem is not due to the mistake of someone's assuming a false sense of obligation and responsibility for the welfare, maintenance, and happiness of others, it is likely to be due to the dissatisfaction and discontent of others who resent such assumption of responsibility and regard it as domination or meddlesomeness.

Christian science today is revealing God to mankind in a truly marvelous way; and anyone may learn of this revelation and make it his own by study of the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's writings.

When Christ Jesus made the startling declaration, "Before Abraham was, I am," he not only referred to the eternality of universal Truth, but also to his own pre-existence as the individual son of God, an individual instance of divine reflection. It will be readily seen that these words apply to all the individual sons of God, just as they did to Jesus, the Christ.

Noting the admonition in Hebrews that we "lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us," many of us wonder how it is to be obeyed. What are these false weights, and where are they? As understood in Christian Science, they are materialistic beliefs of pleasure and pain lodged in mortal thought and dislodged through spiritual understanding.

Mankind is ever searching in matter for something that will bring it health when it is sick and strength when it is weak—for something that will restore it. From the dawn of time mankind has done this; for it believes that matter sustains and prolongs life, that matter is essential to its very existence.