Editorials

Restoring the body

The Bible presents a revelation of self-sustaining substance that is permanent—demonstrably undepleted, unspent, inexhaustible, indestructible, and, in fact, irreplaceable.
Even when people have a comfortable life and a wealth of things, there is still too often a poverty of the spirit.
A man who had just started to study Christian Science was trying to grasp the meaning of "the scientific statement of being"—those six potent sentences in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

Testimonies report progress

The occasion of the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church affords us an opportunity to consider how we have progressed in specific ways, since the satellite videoconference last December, toward living for all mankind.

Our love and mankind's future

This editorial begins on a historic morning for Christian Scientists—the morning of December 8, 1984—the day of the first satellite videoconference for Christian Scientists all over the world.

Living for mankind

Sooner or later, those who would live for mankind learn that deeply Christian prayer is the best friend of unselfish living.

Dragon slaying

Children's books of the past were full of princes who grew up to journey into a far land and slay fire-breathing dragons.

Holy moments

Many individuals, when they're seeking God, know those holy moments—moments when they feel the touch of the Christ.
One Sunday afternoon a commentator on television was talking about what he felt was essential in order for a Christian church to be true to God's Word.

Caring: a privilege from God

A daughter was thinking about her mother.
Television brings the world's hunger and its many other problems to our own dinner table.
Someone lost on a starless night or in a blinding blizzard still can get his bearings from a compass.