Editorials

Show an eager group of students what a bountiful harvest looks like, give them lots of seeds, turn them loose on a plot of land, and what's likely to happen? Planting. And plenty of it! At least that's what one teacher assumed when teaching gardening to a class of elementary school students.

Divine Love heals because it is pure good. Love has no evil element.

There are many ways of viewing things; perhaps as many ways as there are individual perceptions and opinions. Yet the law of God, Christian Science, reveals a uniquely spiritual perspective, transcending human viewpoints.

It isn't hard to imagine the tense atmosphere that may well have prevailed as Jesus stood facing the Pharisees. See Luke 5:17-25.

You might think there's nothing to learn from Chris Kitch about turning around a bad life, if you looked at the way things used to be. Decades of living on sidewalks and in back alleys; alcoholic; drug addict; three children; found unfit to be a mother; her children taken from her; shoplifting; time in prison; back on the streets.

Tick, tick, tick. Every moment of every day they say, the countdown toward millennium goes on.

There are thousands of people who, along with you, are reading this month's issue of The Christian Science Journal. Each of us looking on this page is surely individual—we live in different countries, have different backgrounds, have different appearances.

My friend was telling me what a difficult year he was having. He felt he had been forced by circumstances—or maybe by God (he wasn't sure)—to give up so much.

Many a mother yearns for her children to have access to quality education—education that will prepare them to develop their full potential for good citizenship and productive, satisfying living. Such an education, of course, should be available and accessible to every child — indeed, to all the world's citizens, whatever their age.

It's no fun being left out. It's no fun being excluded —from a club or a party or just a conversation.