Editorials

Every March, as the last sticky snowstorms of winter change over into the first blustery rain showers of spring, something wonderful happens here in Boston—something known as the Flower Show. For more than a century now, Bostonians have converged on this annual extravaganza by the tens of thousands to preview the lush sweet peas and azaleas and roses of summer some ten or twelve weeks before these flowers actually arrive in outdoor gardens.

Isn't it fascinating to watch large planes take off? It's truly amazing to me that an enormous aircraft, filled with passengers and cargo, weighing tons, can soar to great heights. Yet, as incredible as it appears, we know that airplane flight isn't contrary to law—indeed, it's in accord with law, the laws of aerodynamics.

Christian Science and the senses are at war. It is a revolutionary struggle.

The Old Testament recounts that after Jacob was reconciled to his brother Esau, he fulfilled his vow to return to Bethel and to build an altar unto God. See Gen.

They were affectionate, fluffy, and usually white—those sheep of ancient Palestine. Their wool made fine-woven cloth that was warm and beautiful.

You can't change the law of spiritual reality—the allness and supremacy of God, good, and the absolute goodness of God's spiritual idea, man. Neither can anyone else.

Over the centuries, people have dreamed about a universal language—one that everyone everywhere could speak. If there were such a language, they've thought, you could visit any country in the world and immediately feel at home.

Martin Luther King, Jr. , wrote of the revolutionary civil-rights movement he led as an action fully grounded in love, the pure love, or agape, of the New Testament.

It's one thing to know that man is the spiritual image and likeness of God, who is the divine Principle of reality. It's quite another thing to make a commitment within oneself to live according to this divine standard and to exercise the vigorous self-discipline such a commitment entails.

Most of us are already very busy. "How can I possibly do more?" is a question we usually ask when it looks as though we've reached our limit.