On
page 95 of "Retrospection and Introspection" our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in her untiring endeavor to guide her followers wisely and to forestall a possible rift in their armor by timely admonition, quotes a verse by A.
Charles W. J. Tennant, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
In reply to a correspondent writing in your issue of November 29, let me say that to a Christian Scientist "reality" means that which "is spiritual, harmonious, immutable, immortal, divine, eternal".
C. Augustus Norwood, Committee on Publication of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts,
A number of articles regarding the proposed memorial to the late Miss Sarah Osgood Bagley, of Amesbury, which have appeared in recent issues of your paper have been noted with interest by Christian Scientists because of their various references to the early work of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.
Everyone
recognizes that unselfishness implies selfforgetfulness, self-sacrifice, and self-effacement, but in Christian Science this quality takes on an even wider meaning.
The
hired hall in which a band of workers in Christian Science had been holding services scarcely expressed, in its exterior and location, the harmony that any Christian Science activity has a right to claim.
As
related in the seventh chapter of Judges, from a human standpoint it seemed indeed a formidable army that the young Gideon and his small band of followers were about to encounter.
In
times of stress or doubt, when mortals seem to be struggling with some form of sickness or sin, possibly accompanied by lack and limitation, thought instinctively turns for help to a higher source than materiality offers.