Editorials

Salvation

Referring to Paul's words to the Corinthians, "Now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation," Mrs.

Absent Healing

One of the names for the one God given in the Hebrew Scriptures is Jehovah-Ropheka, which means "Jehovah that healeth thee" or "the Lord that healeth thee".

"Light in the darkness"

How often in our human experiences we are called upon to make decisions! In some occupations, indeed, this is constantly having to be done.

The Holiness of Life

Some may have thought of holiness as involving human solitude, even monasticism.

Peter's Concept of Jesus

Until after Paul became a Christian, Peter was the foremost follower of Jesus.

The Beatitudes

A dictionary defines blessedness as "felicity of the highest kind;" but because of its material view of creation mankind sometimes conceives of blessedness as merely a state of outward prosperity.
"Heal through Truth and Love," writes Mrs.

Our Sacred Institution

The Christian Church began when Jesus, in the character of the Christ, asked his first two disciples to follow him and they accepted his call.

Spiritual Rest

As Christian Science is understood and practiced, not only does healing result, but restfulness is experienced.

The Beam and the Mote

The aim of every Christian Scientist is to keep before him the model of the perfect man and to identify himself with it.

Primitive Christianity

The Christian Science denomination, or Church of Christ, Scientist, formed in 1879, is "a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing".

Encouraging Changes

The saying that the leopard cannot change his spots has sometimes been interpreted to mean that one's dominating defects of character are unalterable, or one's physical state unhealable.