Editorials

The Magnificent Universe

Nature is being rediscovered.
Whatever challenging situation we face, we can take command of it only if we understand what is true.
It is said that time softens grief and hurtful memories; yet we should not be concerned that it will separate us from those we love but no longer see.

The Right Emphasis

Until we achieve that clarity and depth of spiritual perception that enables us to completely and spontaneously shuck off beliefs in something other than God's spiritual reality, we need to have a more positive spiritual emphasis, to emphasize the spiritual truth more than the material appearance.
You can do a lot in an hour, and the most important hour in your whole week can be the one you spend in Sunday School.

Today's Confrontation

The forces of evil confront the forces of good today much as they did in biblical times.
Christ Jesus taught—and spiritual integrity demands—that our first aim should be to understand Deity, rather than merely to seek human betterment.
"Spiritual sense," Mary Baker Eddy says in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "is a conscious, constant capacity to understand God.

Finding Rest

—a poet's moving expression of the restlessness and agitation which many people feel.
The ultimate truth of being as taught in the Bible, and further elucidated by Christian Science, is that man is the offspring of God, divine Spirit.
Seventy is mentioned in the Bible as a reasonable age to attain and even now some people do not relish the prospect of living much longer, for fear of decrepitude and distress.
Unoriginal thought—thought without a spiritual origin—is a primary characteristic of Pharisaism.