Editorials

How spiritual power comes to light in human experience, doing its mighty healing works, and what it is that obscures this power to mankind, are clearly indicated in a single paragraph in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

No Continuity to Evil

The human mind, believing as it does in the reality of evil, quite easily acquires the habit of expecting and prophesying the continuity of evil conditions such as disease, famine, war, pestilence, and so forth.

Progress for All

It has often been observed that human happiness arises not so much from any given human state of things as from progress.

Reliability

He who relies upon God in confidence that divine Love will preserve him, and that divine intelligence will direct him, ceases to fear or question the unreliability of others or of the world in which he lives.
[The following editorial was published originally in The Christian Science Journal for December, 1898, in a period when Mrs.

"Proofs of God's care"

The proof of God's care does not lie in the mere possession of human ease, physical health, and prosperity, though mortal mind would fain have us so believe.

Infinite Capacity

Some synonyms of the word "infinite," given by Webster's dictionary, are "limitless," "boundless," and "immeasurable.
Pray for the prosperity of our country, and for her victory under arms; that justice, mercy, and peace continue to characterize her government, and that they shall rule all nations.

God Our Strength

The words, "God is my strength," uttered in substance by many Scriptural characters, are a statement of actual fact for every one of God's creatures, Christian Science shows.

All Disease Is Curable

Many persons, especially those who are medically educated, regard some kinds of disease as incurable.

Perception

In speaking of the effect upon his disciples of Jesus' resurrection, Mary Baker Eddy writes on page 34 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "It helped them to raise themselves and others from spiritual dulness and blind belief in God into the perception of infinite possibilities.
To people everywhere who have been dislocated by the war, who have had to turn from ways of living and prospects which they cherished to others of which they knew little and which they would not have chosen, Christian Science offers assurances of the most heartening character.