Editorials

A recent headline caught my attention. It read, "Fighting the images graven in men's minds.

Reliance upon prayer for healing is difficult for many people to accept. And even though the number of people who have been healed through prayer in Christian Science over the past one hundred and twenty-two years must now be in the millions, as much controversy surrounds this phenomenon today as it did in the early Christian Church.

Jeffrey is three years old, and Emily, his playmate, is four and a half. They've discovered our house in the course of expanding their neighborhood world.

There are few more glorious sights than a field that is ripe for harvest. Harvesting entails hard work, as anyone who lives on a farm knows, but it is also a time of joyous fruition—the culmination of one's labor.

Someone once observed that we spend 50 percent of our time thinking about what others are doing and 50 percent doing what others are thinking. There's probably a certain kind of accuracy to this adage.

Someone who was on the verge of being executed wasn't, because Jesus mediated the legal dispute. A man who had been ostracized from his community because of some terrible malady was restored to health by Jesus and then told to return home.

Recent investigations by geneticists have produced an intriguing theory: that the ancestry of modern humans can be scientifically traced back to one specific woman. With a touch of irony, the geneticists have decided to give her a rather well-known name.

Once in a while you may see the phrase unexpectedly in a news-magazine, when the writer is desperate for a way to make his prose more lively. But probably for many people animal magnetism remains a topic from another century.

A recent series in The Christian Science Monitor, "Christian Healing Today," Monitor, December 22-24, 29, 30, 1987. highlighted the reawakening of an interest in Christian healing among churches of many denominations and pointed out the challenges they face in finding a way to be faithful to Christ Jesus' command to heal the sick.

In 1893 the membership of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, received a call for the Church's first annual meeting to be held in October. Later, in the Manual of The Mother Church, a By-Law was amended to specify a Monday date in June, which has been kept each year since 1908.