Article December 31, 1932 Issue

The Christian Science Publishing House

UNA B. WILLARD

As one follows the building of the new Publishing House in its advancing stages of construction, the magnitude of its meaning and the vastness of its purpose flood consciousness, and its symbolism stimulates contemplations rich and fruitful.

For example, considered as a symbol, the steel which enters into its construction, tempered and tested, hints the process through which every student of Christian Science goes in learning how to put on "the whole armour of God." Or the various waterproofing materials used to insure dryness remind one of the tremendous and ceaseless need of so protecting one's consciousness with the impenetrable and impermeable truth as to resist the slightest suggestion of evil that would dampen one's ardor for gaining the understanding of the oneness and the allness of Mind.

This work was not started until the actual need for more adequate space to carry on effectively the work of our periodicals impelled it. Since then, as always follows obedience to right guidance, the building activity has moved forward in an orderly, systematic way, markedly free from confusion. Mrs. Eddy says of Christian Science that it "illustrates the unlabored motion of the divine energy" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 445). An observant student of Christian Science recalls that divine Science, as shown by Mrs. Eddy (ibid., p. 123), "resolves things into thoughts," and he begins mentally to exchange the materials he sees going into the structure for ideas.