Editorial December 8, 1951 ISSUE

THE INWARD VOICE

Richard J. Davis

As one becomes a student of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," he sees clearly why Mary Baker Eddy, its author and the revelator of this Science, aptly termed her book the Key to the Scriptures, for in the light of the revealed Christ, Truth, which this book presents, the pages of the Bible become illuminated and take on a deeper and far more spiritual meaning than a mere literal reading of the Scriptures would ever convey.

For centuries the Bible has remained for the average reader a closed and generally misunderstood book. Many of its statements and incidents have seemed obscure and contradictory, and therefore have been largely misinterpreted. False theological concepts have clouded the vision of what otherwise would bring great spiritual light. Realizing this, Mrs. Eddy writes in her textbook (p. 319): "The divine Science taught in the original language of the Bible came through inspiration, and needs inspiration to be understood. Hence the misapprehension of the spiritual meaning of the Bible, and the misinterpretation of the Word in some instances by uninspired writers, who only wrote down what an inspired teacher had said."

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