We all have places of the heart, places where we return from time to time to reaffirm what brings us together, but even more, to look forward to new journeys, new discoveries, new challenges. For readers of the Journal, new or longtime, the pages of this magazine have been such a meeting place. We've been drawn together by a common experience of Christian healing. We're searching for ways to forward this Cause and to explore more deeply in our own lives the spiritual reality that is life-giving.
The beginning of a new year, then, is an especially good time to consider what lies at the core of this movement, at the very fountain head of the discovery of Christian Science: the Holy Bible.
The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, unlike us today, didn't have a "Christian Science textbook" to introduce her to Christian healing. She did have the Bible, though, and it was to the Scriptures that she turned, throughout her life. As you read her writings, you recognize her radical reliance on the Bible and the primary place it occupied in her life. In the Preface to Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, she tells us that the Bible was her sole teacher. Later she confides to the reader: ". . . I have found nothing in ancient or in modern systems on which to found my own, except the teachings and demonstrations of our great Master and the lives of prophets and apostles. The Bible has been my only authority. I have had no other guide in 'the straight and narrow way' of Truth." Science and Health, p. 126.
