Editorials

Opportunity and Ability

It is easy to see why the figure of the shepherd has appeared so often in Christian literature, and why it has proved so useful.

The Key of Life

The Founder of Christianity left humanity in no doubt that selfishness would not survive.

Decision

When Christ Jesus declared, "I and my Father are one," he set forth in one brief sentence the keynote to every decision which men are at any time called upon to make.

Healing, Divinely Natural

It is recorded in Mark's Gospel: "And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.

Healing as a Bugle Call

The word "healing," as used in Christian Science, relates in the most searching manner to every need of bodily cure.

"The wells of salvation"

The prophet Isaiah says: "Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

One Cause and Effect

Success does not originate or appear of itself.

Safety and Victory

Do the great statements about safety in the ninety-first Psalm point to something that is definitely dependable in an hour of need?

"The strong deliverer"

Deliverance from evil and from the fears which tempt men to believe that good is not infinite and ever present, is not won by means of escape; it is not learned by depending upon others; it is not earned by waiting impotently until the danger has passed.

Immortality a Divine Fact

Some Biblical passages, regarded literally, might indicate that their authors believed it possible for God, the creator of man, to be eternal, but for man, His creation, to be temporal.
Christians in general have believed in the advantages of prayer and reformation, or self-discipline.

"Semper paratus"

Refuting the fallacy that it is necessary to sustain the so-called physical body by material means until divine Mind is ready to heal it, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says.