Editorial April 10, 1978 Issue

Looking to the 'eighties

Geoffrey J. Barratt

It's not too soon to do it. Looking to the 'eighties involves facing today. Tomorrow has roots in this day and is much shaped by it. Now is the time to deal with whatever needs working out—and to do it from a spiritual basis. To the extent we realize what this will mean for the future, we'll do it.

George Orwell's novel 1984 is not the only prophet of gloom for that decade. But not all prophets are glum. However, to deflect negative influences from the 'eighties, and to contribute something to clearing the way for the positive, we need to foster—right in this twenty-four hours and continuingly—our sense of divine reality. And in the 'seventies, to be living this spiritual perspective as well as we can. This is where Christian Science comes in.

"One thing is eternally here; it reigns supreme to-day, tomorrow, forever," Mary Baker Eddy points out. "We need it in our homes, at our firesides, on our altars, for with it win we the race of the centuries. We have it only as we live it. This is that needful one thing—divine Science, whereby thought is spiritualized, reaching outward and upward to Science in Christianity, Science in medicine, in physics, and in metaphysics."^{The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, pp. 126–127;}