Article August 21, 1920 Issue

The Unfolding Idea

MARY E. HARDY

Many months ago the writer read from the pages of our Sentinel that we should learn to read The Christian Science Monitor as our Leader would read it. The words were hidden in the quiet sanctuary of thought, where with other rays of reflected light, they served as a nucleus for a better understanding of the mission of our periodicals as a whole. In the thin pamphlet, the first copy of our Christian Science Journal, we see the loving undaunted courage of Mrs. Eddy, who gave to a sleeping world the awakening message of freedom which in its expansion has become a chronicle of healing activity. As a natural result of broadening idea a greater demand is met in fuller supply. The possibility of a weekly message is thus seen and also the necessity for an awakening responsibility for its protection. When divine Love gave us the Christian Science Sentinel, it brought with it message, "What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch." We have each and all found that the admonition is most needed.

Mrs. Eddy first trod the path, and met and conquered the foe, which is ever attempting to turn aside the message of brotherly love and force mankind into still longer sojourn in Egypt. But the child has waxed strong. It has learned to translate its mother tongue, the language of Spirit, to its hungry and thirsty brother. The true idea continues then to unfold as Le Heraut de Christian Science and Der Herold der Christian Science. The writer has striven to make her own a fuller understanding of the steps necessarily taken against the aggressive enemies of divine Love's idea as unfolded to the world by each of our periodicals. It is a statement without dispute that our periodicals are bearing to sinful, sick, and suffering humanity Mrs. Eddy's conception of the healing and redemption of divine Love. Because this idea is above the clouds of error, it cannot be destroyed or lost. It has been and is safeguarded by her consecrated, unselfed daily giving of the bread of heaven for the salvation of the needy.

Each one who in gratitude has yearned to emulate her example, however meager the attempt, has to that degree progressed beyong mere faith in statements, which her giving made fact. If we have followed her footsteps as faithfully as she has followed the Christ, it is our privilege to discern how and why The Christian Science Monitor is one of her greatest gifts. Heading its editorial page we read, "First the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear." Have we, in attempting to assimilate the metaphysical translation of the above statement, reached back of effect to cause? Before the blade there was the seed, the grain of truth expressing divine consciousness. We have each and all marveled at its living, loving, potent qualities, so vital that every crushing process, like the weight upon the yeast, only served to bring into expression its unquenchable source, the Love which never fails, but which rather, from the law of creative force, must ever unfold eternal identity. Spiritual vision revealed to Mrs. Eddy, the seer of this age, the trend of the world's thought and she was able to discern the mental hunger through "the things which do appear." So, as is consistent with her habit of obedience to divine Love's call, the mandate went forth from her abiding place in Truth and The Christian Science Monitor, the daily chronicle of the trend of human thought, was established, in the prevalent struggle to find a cleaner way of daily living. This gift was made in loving desire to help all and injure none.

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