Our
Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, throughout her writings shows us that in many ways we are constantly forming mental pictures, and that, whether we know it or not, these are being externalized in experience either as God's reflection, reality and harmony, or else as so-called mortal mind's mirage.
The
first words from the Christian Science textbook to be read by numberless people are oftentimes those found on the walls of many of our churches: "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.
Arthur E. Blainey, Committee on Publication for the Province of Ontario, Canada,
In your issue of November 1, a correspondent, "Bible Christian," has undertaken to criticize Christian Science, and to dispute certain statements made by a lecturer during his lecture in Stratford on October 27, and reported in part in the Stratford Beacon-Herald of October 28.
J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,
In her book "Retrospection and Introspection" Mary Baker Eddy relates incidents and experiences leading up to her discovery, in 1866, of Christian Science.
John Murray Burriss, Committee on Publication for the State of Kansas,
If a person repeats a statement over and over to convince himself that the statement is true, such practice is "an overheated brand of Christian Science," according to a paragraph in your esteemed paper of January 16.
Human
thought, with its limited finite beliefs, is never satisfied; and with the hope that its limitations may cease, it is constantly seeking different environment.
In
expressing thankfulness for blessings experienced, speakers in our Wednesday evening testimony meetings sometimes make the remark that prayer was offered or the truth declared "as we are taught in Christian Science.
An
expression frequently used in public addresses by statesmen and in the press is the term "preparedness," meaning a state of being prepared, being ready.
Students
of Christian Science who perceive the spiritual meaning of the sacred Scriptures, through the literal and figurative wording of the text, can appreciate in some measure what the writer of the epistle to the Hebrews meant when he referred to the way of Christ Jesus as "a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.
