Article May 15, 1937 Issue

"The babe we are to cherish"

BLANCHE NELSON

Christian Science offers help, healing, and happiness to all who accept its ministrations. It also demands something of all who become its students and would continue to partake of its benefits.

On page 370 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy has written: "In different ages the divine idea assumes different forms, according to humanity's needs. In this age it assumes, more intelligently than ever before, the form of Christian healing. This is the babe we are to cherish." A dictionary defines "cherish" as "to hold dear; to keep with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect; to harbor in the thought." Applying these meanings to the passage just quoted, we see that there is plenty of work for each one who undertakes to follow the divine command to heal the sick.

When Jesus was born of Mary, his mother wrapped her babe "in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn." The child "grew, and waxed strong in spirit." Reaching manhood, Jesus demonstrated the healing power of Truth and Love and, through continuously and progressively expressing the Christ, finally rose above and beyond all material apprehension. Through the years, his teachings have been a divine influence; and his promise that the Spirit of truth should come and "guide ... into all truth" has been fulfilled in the coming of Christian Science. Are we making room for it?

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