Editorials

Murder

Every people, in every age, have done their utmost to protect themselves against murder.
The study of the Bible in the light of Christian Science is an awakening to the spiritual meaning of the creation which the divine Mind knows.

On the Washing of Hands

There is a common belief that the mentality of Pilate may be summed up in his famous question, What is truth?

Moments of Healing

In the practice of Christian Science one often finds that those seeking help will report, before the complete healing comes about, that they have had certain periods of relief, lulls in the seeming tempest of trouble, which have been welcome foretastes of what whole freedom is.

The Father-Mother God

The Fifth Commandment, though it may seem almost the easiest to understand of the ten words of the Decalogue, is, in some ways, perhaps the most difficult.

"All that really is"

The simple gladness to be alive is fresh and vital because it is the proof of Life itself, untouched by any confused sense of human ways and means nurtured by the supposed mortal mind as it expands its unreal belief.

Faith by Works

The apostle James put the practice of Christian Science in one concrete sentence when he wrote, "Shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.

The Prescribing of Drugs

The technique of prescribing drugs, like that of every other phase of medical or surgical practice, has changed immensely, since the discovery of Christian Science, as the doctors themselves have recognized that the effect of a prescription on a patient is mental.

The Seventh Day

The world has altered since Moses imposed the ordinances of the law on the people at Sinai.

The Nail in the Sure Place

One phase of the overturning that has been going on throughout the world is a questioning of the Bible by those who consider themselves modernists in philosophy, literature, and general thinking.

A Great Leader

True leadership is one of the greatest of qualities.

Methuselah and Longevity

Of Methuselah, the son of Enoch and the grandfather of Noah, the Bible has very little to say.