Dear Journal Readers.— You are returning home, or soon will be, and a consideration of the Cause you profess to love is required of you. Without doubt, you have given testimony of the Truth, and carried the glad tidings to many poor sufferers, that there is healing and salvation for them; without doubt, too, you have spoken a good word for the Journal, and recommended or given it to them to read, but have you forgotten the Church? It is your privilege to give generously and receive the reward. If I knew of a beautiful country, replete with hill and mountain effects, and a glorious effulgence over it all, would it not be a duty and pleasure for me to urge all travellers to journey thither? Would they not receive ample return for their expenditure, supposing there were some costs entailed? So it is with our Church work. We are entering a beautiful country, and the Light is before us—attainable—for us. I do not feel like a beggar at all when I ask you for your gifts for the Church, for am I not showing you the way to bless others as well as yourselves? It is for the salvation of others as well as yourselves.
Do not be niggardly, those of you who can afford to do so much; and you can all afford to do something. I would like every one of you to feel this a direct appeal to you individually. Let it be a heart offering. Never mind about taking counsel with the head. Get out of the finite sense, and know that Good is infinite, and that you have inexhaustible treasures.
I am told that some say it is unscientific—that is, not in strict keeping with Christian Science—for us to build a church of brick! Well now, that is a way of getting out of doing good, but I hope it is not an excuse for parsimony. The Church triumphant is not of brick. It is Heaven; but One Mind, and the harmony thereof. But who of you are ready to quite do away with the symbols yet? Not one of you has given all you have, and said "I have no further need of what mortals require." Jesus did not reject a temple to teach in.
