Article October 18, 1952 Issue

THE PREACHING BOOKS

NANCY BARNHART

Ever since religion began there have been preachers, whose function has been to interpret Deity to men. Yet even through the pages of the Old Testament a fresh wind was blowing. The prophet Jeremiah was heard to say (31:34), "They shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord."

Joel took up the message (2:28,29): "I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit." When in course of time the Virgin Mary brought forth her son she accepted this vision, saying (Luke 1:38), "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word."

Until the completion of the original edifice of The Mother Church, toward the end of the last century, personal sermons were preached in Christian Science churches. But a new idea of ministry was to come from the same divine source that had revealed Christian Science. For Mary Baker Eddy announced that the Bible and her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," conjoined, would be our impersonal pastor.

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