In speaking of the divine idea, Mary Baker Eddy writes on page 370 of "Miscellaneous Writings": "In this age it assumes, more intelligently than ever before, the form of Christian healing. This is the babe we are to cherish."
How most wisely and effectively to cherish this babe of Christian healing, so that it may develop into the manhood of the Son of God, this is the question which each one must ask himself. To those who have experienced the healing power of Christian Science, in whom faith has been kindled, who have known relief from suffering, from fear, from inharmony, the babe has already appeared. Yet, even though this is so, for many there must still remain the question, How consistently, how intelligently, if indeed at all, has it been cherished? In selfish preoccupation, in deliberate irresponsibility, in timid self-depreciation has it not sometimes been rather neglected or forgotten?
In this, our day, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science assures us that the divine idea is not presented to humanity as a citadel to be stormed, as an inner sanctuary to be entered by the privileged few alone, as a distant, elusive goal of attainment, but as a babe to be loved, protected, nurtured.
