"O blessings infinite!
O glad New Year!
Sweet sign and substance
Of God's presence here.
"Give us not only angels' songs,
But Science vast, to which belongs
The tongue of angels
And the song of songs."
With thought lifted above the human concept of time, our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, thus greeted the coming of a new year (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 354). The rolling around of another calendar year bespoke for her only the vision of fresh opportunities for growth in grace and the glimpsing of "blessings infinite." Reversing the mortal sense of time with its fears, changes, and limitations, Mrs. Eddy saw the
