Article September 29, 1951 Issue

"WRITE THE VISION"

LACY BELL RICHTER

One of the most joy-giving activities in Christian Science provided for us by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, is that of writing for our periodicals. Mrs. Eddy must have seen the spiritual value of this activity to the student, for after the establishment of the first periodical, The Christian Science Journal, in 1883, she wrote to her students (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 156), "Please send in your contributions as usual to our Journal." In another letter she refers to writing for our denominational organ as a moral obligation and a universal charge entrusted to us by divine Love (ibid., p. 155). She who had so thoroughly explored the medium of the written word that her readers might know the potency of divine ideas lovingly offered the same privilege to us.

In the first chapter of Genesis we read that after blessing His creation, made in His image, God commanded man to "be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth." As we more clearly discern the infinite ideas of God which constitute the one and only man, we find our waste places comforted, our ills destroyed, and our gladness restored. How natural, then, to voice our gratitude through the periodicals, our impersonal missionaries, which, in bearing the record of our fruitage, multiply the blessing and shower the far corners of the earth with spiritual nourishment.

"Write the vision," declared Habakkuk (2:2), "and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it." Surely the prophet was urging us to record a hallowed experience in such glowing terms that another's spiritual progress would receive fresh impetus.

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