The following address by the Reverend Mary Baker G. Eddy was read by W. B. Johnson C. S. B. Feb. first 1893 before the C. S. A., the old society of her college.
Beloved Students,—This question nearest my heart is uppermost; are you filling the measures of life's music with all the sweet tones, and exact, which you have been taught as the harmony of Christian Science, —tones from which I catch the echo of your lives? As crescendo and diminuendo accent music, so, the trembling strains in human dirges illustrate loss and gain; loss of the pleasures and pains and pride of human life; gain of the courage of convictions and final obedience to spiritual law. The ultimate of scientific convictions is not an argument, not saying, but doing the Word; it is the fruits of watchfulness, prayer, struggle, tears and triumph.
Obedience alone demonstrates the divine Principle which we profess to understand and love. Never absent from its post, never off guard, never out of time, obedience is "faithful over a few things." If in one instance this cardinal point be lacking, you lose its reward, to be made "ruler over many things." To the liver thereof, a progressive life is the sole reality of life, and unfolds its own immortal Principle.
