Instinctive
in the human heart is an innate feeling that health is an inherent quality of life, the legitimate and normal state of man's being, as witness mankind's effort to gain and retain health, together with the endless research carried on in this endeavor and the noble and self-sacrificing lives of those who would truly be humanity's helpers.
By
the time these words appear in print, many newly elected First and Second Readers will have begun their sacred periods of service in Christian Science churches; and it is to be hoped that their fellow members are doing their part in making the readership experience a happy, fruitful one.
A statement
of vital importance to the student of Christian Science is that which our inspired Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, makes on page 451 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
As
we rode through the country on a beautiful autumn afternoon, all nature aflame with glory, the thought-provoking remark was made: "Have you ever heard the theory that there is but one sense, that of feeling?
In
a Greek dictionary of the New Testament the word translated "charity," appearing in the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians, is also defined as love; and thus has the Christian world come to interpret the term which the translators of the King James Version have used in this beautiful epistle.