For more than a century, readers of The Christian Science Journal have found inspiration, discovered new ideas, and been healed as a result of reading its articles, testimonies, and features. With thousands of individual articles published through the years, there have, of course, been any number of topics and subjects addressed. Yet, there is one thing every article and testimony has in common: each is based on what is in the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
Science and Health helps people get to know their Bible much better. Many have said that the Christian Science textbook has caused their Bible to come to life! The author, Mary Baker Eddy, related how important the Bible was to her work: "My first writings on Christian Science began with notes on the Scriptures. I consulted no other authors and read no other book but the Bible for about three years" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 114). The Bible and Science and Health are eminently important to people everywhere—these two books are the revelation of God's law of good for everyone. Those who study these books discover divine Spirit, God, and the deep, wonderful spirituality that is our true nature as God's child. The law of God's goodness made plain in the Bible and Science and Health brings healing, regeneration, and peace. And God's laws couldn't, of course, be confined to members of one or another particular religious denomination; they are universal—they apply to everyone everywhere.
"The fact remains, that the textbook of Christian Science is transforming the universe," wrote Mrs. Eddy (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 372). Not only the articles but the very lives of the writers contributing to this magazine illustrate, to a degree, how the words of the Bible and of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures can be utterly transforming. Please turn the page and see for yourself!
