Article April 5, 1952 Issue

IS IT AUTHORIZED?

ARTHUR PERROW

The infinite presence and power and law of God constitute complete and supreme authority. All realities of being are authorized by the one infinite divine Mind. Divine ideas are harmonious, everlasting, and necessarily included in true consciousness. Human or carnal concepts, often discordant and otherwise undesirable, are without genuine authorship, without law, and therefore they have no real existence.

Every earnest and law-abiding person wishes to know what is authorized in his particular field of endeavor and how to be governed by that authorization. Without proper authority for thought or action one might accept directives which could lead to confusion, perhaps to chaos.

Christian Scientists lovingly accept the Bible and Mary Baker Eddy's inspired and demonstrable interpretation of its writings as their sole authority for practicing and teaching the glorious and healing truth. How grateful every Christian Scientist is for the Manual of The Mother Church, authorized and made available for every member of a Church of Christ, Scientist, by our beloved and God-inspired Leader, Mrs. Eddy. Here we learn of The Christian Science Board of Directors, whose functions she clearly established. Among other things the Manual makes provisions for the authorized Christian Science literature and for the weekly Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, which are "divinely authorized."

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