THE COVER OF THIS DECEMBER Journal portrays the coming of dawn over the Galilean Sea—and the land of Jesus' ministry. Mary Baker Eddy writes of such a sunrise in the opening sentences of Science and Health, "The wakeful shepherd beholds the first faint morning beams, ere cometh the full radiance of a risen day" (p. vii).
As solar light comes gradually, even so does the dawn of reinstated primitive spiritual healing—Christian Science. Its appearing equally touches lives in mansion or barrio, village or metropolis, emergency room or practitioner's office. The usefulness of Christian Science enters into human experience right where it is encountered and needed.
Judgment accompanies it not. Free moral agency in the understanding and application of Christian Science is an inherent right. Each receiver of spiritual light draws upon it in his or her own way and is warmed and cared for by it according to the need and present spiritual understanding. The blessing of Christian Science healing need not be administered by policy. It is best seen in the limitless and unbreakable love of God for everyone. Each student of the Bible and of Mary Baker Eddy's writings on healing is on his or her own journey. No one can walk in another's path. No one can judge how slow or swift, little or long, the strides should be.
