IN reading the new volume, "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," in which is garnered up for us the ripened wisdom of our revered Leader's lifelong endeavor for the uplift of humanity, one cannot fail to be impressed, among other helpful features, with the dignity and forcefulness of its Foreword. The largeness of vision, the keen foresight of threatening dangers, the tender admonition, the conservative summing-up of what had been accomplished in the establishment of the cause of Christian Science,—all these bring clearly before us the immensity of our obligation as followers of so devoted a Leader, when weighed in the balances of service to mankind. How this obligation can best be met is tersely told in the closing paragraph:—
"Deeds, not words, are the sound test of love;and the helpfulness of consistent and constant right thinking—intelligent thinking untainted by the emotionalism which is largely self-glorification—is a reasonable service which all Christian Scientists can render their Leader."
Two factors which have loomed large in the progress of Christian Science, as organized and directed by its Discoverer and Founder, are the selflessness of her devotion and the instinctive prevision which not only enabled her to see great things but to do them in a great way, to anticipate and provide for a need and at the same time wait patiently for the fulness of its advent. We have only to review the historical facts set forth in the Foreword to see these potencies illustrated.
