HOW DO PEOPLE DESCRIBE IN MERE WORDS THE REVOLUTIONARY, infinitely compassionate, and healing truths they find in Mary Baker Eddy's book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures? How do they describe Christian Science? In myriads of ways. Almost inevitably, though, they reach for expansive words like mighty, all-encompassing, magnificent, sublime, supreme. Or even majestic—hinting at the unimpeachable authority of God's laws to empower children, women, and men to vanquish every imaginable form of evil.
Actually, majesty is a word Mrs. Eddy herself used to characterize her discovery. "As you work, the ages win," she once wrote to church members, "for the majesty of Christian Science teaches the majesty of man." The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 188. Yet this "majesty of Christian Science" is no elitist, exclusive kind of thing. How could it be? Its role model is the consummately humble man pictured on the cover of this magazine, Christ Jesus. The man who preached that "the meek," would "inherit the earth."Matt 5:5. The man who was "the King of kings,"I Tim 6:15. but was so self-effacing that he literally fled to the mountains when people tried to make him king over Israel.
So the majesty of Christian Science has nothing to do with pageantry and dynasty and royal accoutrements. It's about bowing before the all-power of divinity. It's about a Science whose "genius" is humility.Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896, p. 356. "More than regal is the majesty of the meekness of the Christ-Principle," Mrs. Eddy wrote.Miscellany, p. 149.
