Article October 7, 2013 Issue

The final word

Elizabeth Kellogg

Divine Science, the Word of God, saith to the darkness upon the face of error, “God is All-in-all,” and the light of ever-present Love illumines the universe.

—Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 503

“The first look. The final word.” Trendy fashion magazine Vogue uses this phrase to advertise its online content, and the words convey a sense of the magazine’s authority in the fashion industry. Designers whose looks are featured in its pages are practically guaranteed success. A picture on its cover is the most highly prized achievement of many a fashion model’s career. Its editors have front row seats at the world’s biggest fashion shows. Such, it seems, is the power of that which has both “the first look” and “the final word”!