Late last year, Associate Editor Mary Trammell and Circulation/Marketing Manager Ricardo Saldivar traveled to nine countries in Latin America, representing the Portuguese and Spanish Editions of The Herald of Christian Science. They held twenty-nine meetings with Christian Scientists on the mission of the Herald, a magazine established by Mary Baker Eddy in 1903 "to proclaim the universal activity and availability of Truth."The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353. This editorial records some highlights and spiritual lessons from their travels.
Christianity in Latin America isn't what it used to be. A "virtual explosion" has ignited millions of worshipers there with a gospel-based faith.Kim A. Lawton, "Faith Without Borders," Christianity Today, May 19, 1997, pp. 39-49. Faith that leaves behind time-honored dogma for a one-on-one relationship with God. Faith that meets poverty, oppression, child abuse, and corruption head-on. Faith that's evangelical—that takes seriously Jesus' words "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."Mark 16:15.
This dynamic thought-climate is highly favorable to the consideration of a scientific basis for Christianity, to discovering the laws of God and practicing spiritual healing. The Science of Christianity promotes gospel-based faith in its purest, most original form. As Mary Baker Eddy once wrote, "Christian Science is the pure evangelic truth."Retrospection and Introspection, p. 65.
