A STUDENT of Christian Science rejoicingly wrote to another Christian Scientist of the lovely new suite into which a mutual friend had moved. She wrote of the twentieth-century office with the forward look in these words: "It is so representative of Christian Science in its expression of beauty and the best."
As the student pondered the words she had written to her friend, she thought about what she meant by "beauty and the best" being representative of Christian Science. She realized that through her unfolding understanding of this Science, she had learned to see beauty as embodying all the qualities of Soul, some of which are expressed humanly as dignity, refinement, poise, graciousness, color, form, design, harmony, and joy. And she saw that "the best" implies an unlimited sense of spiritual substance.
Upon visiting Boston at Annual Meeting time, the writer observed many evidences of how our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, manifested beauty and its qualities. Her demonstration of the unlimited substance and loveliness of Soul unfolded in many ways. From the small pincushion on Mrs. Eddy's dressing table and the exquisitely monogramed linen towels in her home in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, to the majestic Extension of The Mother Church in Boston, the writer discerned that in our Leader's life beauty and order reigned.
