Article April 14, 1923 Issue

Bible history has shown that rites and ceremonies established...

Mrs. Hettie Williams, Committee on Publication for Gloucestershire, England,

Bristol Times and Mirror

Bible history has shown that rites and ceremonies established in one age, as type and symbol of the real, have, at a later period, given place to higher and less material observances of the same. At each stage of development both the messenger and the message have at first been refused and reviled by the majority. In the closing words of her Communion Hymn (Poems, p. 75) Mrs. Eddy says:—

"Thou the Christ, and not the creed;
Thou the Truth thought and deed;
Thou the water, the bread, and the wine."

Indisputably, the writer of these words was a loyal disciple of Christ Jesus, and was, obviously, under divine guidance, seeking to lead thought up to a more spiritual conception and a more practical obedience.

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