Editorials

"Ruler in Israel"

The prophet Micah, foretelling the coming of the Messiah, declared that he would be "ruler in Israel," and that he would "be great unto the ends of the earth.

"They that are whole"

It is recorded of Jesus, in the Gospel of Mark, that "when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?

"I AM THAT I AM"

When God said to Moses, "I AM THAT I AM," He revealed Himself as the one all-inclusive, ever-present divine Principle of that which actually is.

True Witnessing

In proclaiming the truth that God is infinite—All—Christian Science is making known to humanity the tremendously important fact that whatever is unlike good is without actual or real being.

The Divine Demand

The belief that God required material sacrifices of His people—how persistently through the ages has this misconception hidden from them what alone it is that God does require of men! With the clarity of spiritual vision, the prophet Micah saw and declared it; but as so many others had done before, and were to do after him, he spoke to those who understood him not.
Spiritual healing as practiced in Christian Science cannot be regarded as being in the experimental stage.

Man's Real Heritage

Christ Jesus not only said, "I and my Father are one," but after his resurrection he also said to Mary Magdalene, "Go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

Control

On page 294 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," Mary Baker Eddy has written that if the Master were with us today, "he would mightily rebuke a single doubt of the ever-present power of divine Spirit to control all the conditions of man and the universe.
The Psalmist asked the question, "Whither shall I go from thy spirit?
In the realm of human experience, error is corrected by truth.

"The stability of thy times"

The prophet Isaiah, moved to indignation as he was at the shortcomings and disobedience of the people, did not lose his confidence in the coming of Christ's kingdom.

Proving Evil Unreal

Mary Baker Eddy made the great discovery that evil is unreal—evil, in its every seeming form.