Editorials

In a message to The Mother Church in 1899 Mary Baker Eddy writes as follows: "Brethren, our annual meeting is a grave guardian. It requires you to report progress, to refresh memory, to rejuvenate the branches and to vivify the buds, to bend upward the tendrils and to incline the vine towards the parent trunk" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p.

Someone has defined the meaning of the word "parable" as "an earthly story with a heavenly meaning," and probably every student of Christian Science would agree with this definition. We remember, for instance, our Master's parable of the leaven as recorded in the Gospel of Matthew ( 13:33 ): "The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

After his resurrection Jesus met two of his grieving disciples on the road to Emmaus, but they failed to recognize him. Yet here was the selfsame Master walking and talking with them just as before the crucifixion.

In the language of Christian Science the word "Truth" is used as a synonym not only for God, but for His manifestation, the Christ-idea. Mary Baker Eddy makes this clear in her "Miscellaneous Writings" where she says ( pp.

Christ Jesus once said of himself ( Luke 19:10 ), "The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. " His mission was therefore one of restoration.

Writing of the joy she felt because of the progress of the Churches of Christ, Scientist, in a certain American city, Mary Baker Eddy said, "A great sanity, a mighty something buried in the depths of the unseen, has wrought a resurrection among you, and has leaped into living love. " And then she defined this "something" in these words: "It is unity, the bond of perfectness, the thousandfold expansion that will engirdle the world,—unity, which unfolds the thought most within us into the greater and better, the sum of all reality and good.

The Psalmist experienced many of the trials which confront men today. But he also gained a clear recognition of God's ever-present power.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Retrospection and Introspection" ( p. 87 ).

Class instruction in Christian Science from an accredited teacher is a step which every alert student anticipates with eagerness. It is a step in the educational system of Christian Science which our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has provided for us and which should not be unduly delayed in the student's experience.

Referring to the great revelation which came to her, Mary Baker Eddy writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 108,109 ), "My discovery, that erring, mortal, misnamed mind produces all the organism and action of the mortal body, set my thoughts to work in new channels, and led up to my demonstration of the proposition that Mind is All and matter is naught as the leading factor in Mind-science.