Article March 5, 2007 Issue

Never too late to participate

WRITTEN FOR THE SENTINEL

WE WOULD LIKE to tell you about a remarkable man named Boyd Peterson of Beverly Hills, California. Not long ago, while discussing one of his favorite subjects—Christian Science—Boyd said that he not only wasn't a member of The Mother Church, but that he'd thought it was too late to even consider taking this step of progress and mutual blessing.

But it's never too late to align ourselves and our lives with the greatest of all causes on earth! And never too late to recognize the spiritual power of Church in the world, to unite with it and, as Christian Science Founder Mary Baker Eddy put it, be "... new-born of Spirit ... bringing forth the fruits of Love,—casting out error and healing the sick" (Science and Health, p. 35).

You see, by now Boyd has been a dedicated, practicing Christian Scientist for around 80 years. When he was very young, the chapters of Science and Health were in a different order than they are today. Mrs. Eddy hadn't yet revised her book into its present order (she did that in 1902, when Boyd was still a toddler). At that time, the Original Edifice of The Mother Church in Boston still stood alone, before the larger Extension was erected at its side in 1906. Had Boyd been at Pleasant View in Concord, New Hampshire, he also could have seen Mrs. Eddy address the 10,000 Christian Scientists who gathered there in 1903—years before she moved back to Boston, where she launched The Christian Science Monitor. He even could have read the very first edition of this great newspaper while it was hot off the presses in 1908.

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