At the second annual meeting of the National Christian Science Association, at the Meionaon, in Boston, on Wednesday, April 13, —after the regular business was transacted and officers elected,— Rev. Mary B. G. Eddy, the president, gave the Annual Address to her students,—or (as she called it in the personal letters of invitation which she sent to her students) the Message.
She began by describing human ideals, as represented by Bunker Hill Monument, for example, pointing to the ideal of political freedom, and by the State House, which indicates the ideal of law and justice. From the thought of human desires, Mrs. Eddy rose to a consideration of the divine aspiration after the ideal.
Her message, she said, was so simple that it might be difficult to receive; as the loftiest works are always the simplest. Her students desired to be successful healers; but to be triumphant healers they must follow God's law solely, and attain the simplicity of little children in Christ—Truth. If healing did not prosper as it should, this was owing to a want of devotion to Divine Truth and Good. The world's hand should be grasped firmly but gently. Christian Scientists are to the religious world, what backwoodsmen are to civilized America,—pioneers, who have much rough work to do.
