Editorial August 4, 1951 Issue

THE DAY OF MIRACLES IS NEVER PAST

RICHARD J. DAVIS

IN his epistle to the Romans, Paul writes (8:5), "They that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit." As one studies the teaching of Christian Science, he perceives the wide distance that exists in thought and reasoning between the materialist and one who is learning to think from the basis of spiritual reality.

The materialist minds "the things of the flesh." To him, matter appears as the only reality. His opinions, his reasoning and conclusions, always assume that the life and substance of all things are material. He looks to matter and its cause, socalled mortal mind, for his answers. On the other hand, he to whom Spirit has appeared as the reality of being is experiencing a constantly increasing vision of spiritual sense. He is learning to dwell on divine facts, "the things of the Spirit," and expect their evidence.

From childhood Mary Baker Eddy had been searching for "the things of the Spirit." Turning to the Bible for the scientific answer to her own immediate physical healing and recovery from the effects of an accident, she found the explanation in the healing works of Christ Jesus. The so-called miracles of the Master, which before had seemed to her supernatural and inexplicable, now took on their true character as specific evidence of the activity and presence of divine law. She had discovered the ever-operative law of Spirit, God. She saw that this law, transcending the testimony of the material senses, is always operative to heal the diseases, sins, and discordant ills of mankind, and that the Master demonstrated that law through a spiritual and scientific knowledge of God and of man's true being.

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