The need of a Christian Science Church is great. "There are churches enough," you may say. Yes, too many, perhaps,—all teaching something good, and each doctrine meeting the demands of some people. At the same time there are fifties, in every denomination, who, if called upon to give an honest opinion, would say: "I am spiritually starving, with the teaching I now receive."
If Christian Science demonstrates Life, Love, Truth, which is God, so clearly that you can commence where you will, and solve the problem without approaching the Red Sea, then the Scientists are keeping Divine Science from advancement, by not having a church large enough to hold all these fainting pilgrims. We need a shepherd every Sunday to cheer us on our way.
We are constantly being told that Scientists take for one of their mottoes, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," and yet are constantly quarreling among themselves. This is one of our mottoes. We have undertaken to show much to the world; therefore we need a place of meeting, not for gossip, but improvement,— a place which will serve for Association meetings.
