Elsewhere in the Journal will be found reports and communications concerning organization in Boston and New York for Dispensary Work. This is only another of the phases of the process of organization of Christian Science, often noticed in the Journal, and that is going on in every part of the country. Christian Science when recognized in individual consciousness as a Revelation of divine Truth, that means nothing less than the regeneration of humanity, cannot help taking a visible body.
The system of individual office practice has been for planting of seed. Until Science had conquered a certain place in human consciousness, this was the proper and only possible method of work. So long as its claims were met by a general skepticism it could only be advanced by quiet individual effort; the elements of organization did not exist.
Science is understanding of Spirit, the reality of Being. Christianity proclaimed on the basis of belief and faith — as it was by the apostles — could be preached as they preached it, to a world that was uninstructed in the mysteries of godliness, and plunged in sensuality. The phenomena of Christianity presented in the time of the apostles were precisely the same in nature as those presented to-day in a great revival. It was a contagion, propagated according to the methods of mortal mind. It did not rest on understanding, and the greater part of those who were converted, as is fully shown in the history of the early Church, soon fell back into the grossest forms of sinful indulgence.
