The importance of the publications made in the Journal the last and the present month, is apparent to all readers. The popular idea of the Christian Scientist is of one who in the religious world is a sort of homeless nondescript.
The Minutes of the N. A. meeting at Cleveland, published in July, show that Christian Scientists are an organized, coherent body, sober and orderly in method, and with clear, well-defined purpose. The Historical Sketch, Tenets, and By-Laws of the first Church of Christ (Scientist), published in the present issue, show that Christian Science is not just now taking on methods of order, but that they were instituted by its inspired Leader at the first external manifestation of acceptance of her mission. "Order is Heaven's first law," and Science— the Mind of God— could not be manifested among men in other than an orderly form.
The Tenets or creed— of the Church of Christ (Scientist), it may fairly be claimed, are the first statement of religious Faith ever made that is universal in its form, The Scriptures, the guide to Life, one Father, the brotherhood of man, purity and Love, these are the simple, universal doctrines,— all embraced in the one word God, Truth, on which our Church is founded.
