Editorial January 3, 1953 Issue

THE REVELATION AND THE INSTITUTION

Helen Wood Bauman

The central light of the Christian Science movement is the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Its author, Mary Baker Eddy, who received the full and final revelation of Truth which this textbook contains, had no doubts regarding its divine origin. She says in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 114): "It was not myself, but the divine power of Truth and Love, infinitely above me, which dictated 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.' I have been learning the higher meaning of this book since writing it."

What our Leader learned from the textbook, how she applied what she learned, and what she accomplished from that application are largely preserved in her Prose Works other than Science and Health. Here we find not only a description of her own healing, which led to her discovery of Christian Science, but accounts of many remarkable healings which she later accomplished—convincing evidence that her revelation was divinely authentic. Prose Works contains the record of the founding of the institution which Mrs. Eddy designed to protect the revelation and take its healing message to all mankind.

This record contains descriptions of the building of the original edifice of The Mother Church and its Extension, as well as Mrs. Eddy's messages at the time of their dedication. Here we find her Annual Meeting messages; her dedicatory letters to branch Churches of Christ, Scientist; instructions to lecturers, Readers, teachers, students; notices of the founding of the Christian Science periodicals; addresses to associations; and many articles dealing with various phases of Christian Science in its application to human problems.

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