Article February 18, 1928 Issue

Impersonal Apostles

IRENE LOUISE OPPENHEIM

THE keynote of right distribution of the Christian Science periodicals is surely contained in our Master's words, as recorded in the seventeenth chapter of John's Gospel, "I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them," and in our Leader's reference to the periodicals in the Church Manual (p. 44), where she calls them the "organs" of her church. As Jesus gave the words which came to him from God to those who were ready to receive them, so also did he send forth these followers of his to carry the truth to others.

The Christian Science periodicals were the outcome of Mrs. Eddy's desire to share with all the world the truth which had been given her of God; and each issue to-day is the result of the understanding of God which has come to Christian Scientists as a consequence of her teachings. And so, to-day, these periodicals go into all the world, impersonal apostles, to "preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things."

All the activities of the Church of Christ, Scientist, are means whereby Truth may reach those who seek it. The work of literature distribution is that of an apostle, of one sent forth; for it is through this channel that the words of Isaiah are renewedly fulfilled: "I am found of them that sought me not." In every other church activity the seeker for Truth comes where it may be found—to the services, the lectures, the Reading Rooms; but in the case of the literature, the periodicals may go out to seek and to find the receptive thought. They go to give the cup of cold water, which Christ Jesus and our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, speak of, to those who are waiting and watching for Truth, but may not know where to find it.

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