From the Editors April 25, 2011 Issue

Permanent healing, not ‘soothing syrups’

The Editors

Turn on the radio or television, and you’re likely to find advertisements for drugs, reports on new medicines that claim to be even better and more intelligent in their ability to find disease and cure it. But none of them offers permanent healing. Some include serious side effects, and others offer only temporary relief. So the question arises: Is it actually possible to be free of a particular sickness forever? 

Christian Science, as discovered and taught by Mary Baker Eddy, insists that permanent healing is possible. Healings on the pages of this magazine and previous issues—right back to 1898 when it was founded—show that this promise can be a reality. 

To prove it requires a change of thought, a shift from belief in matter to a conviction of Spirit’s reality as a present power in one’s life. This is different from an intellectual change—“If I only think the right thoughts” or “If I read the Bible Lesson one more time.” It’s a demand to plunge deep into spiritual reality and to understand the nature of God and one’s relation to Him. It’s to accept the spiritual fact that one really is the child of Spirit, and then live out the implications of that status.

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