The year 1895 witnessed many great events in Christian Science. The dedication of the Mother Church was the chiefest thereof for it signalled the erection to an unexpectant world, of the first Temple whose leading Tenet is the preaching of the Gospel by healing the sick and sinful through one and the same process, namely, the Christ Cure.
Should not the Church of Christ stand for the full Gospel of Christ? Can that be said to be a full Gospel which fails to teach and practise the whole of Jesus' teaching and practise? That form or system of Christianity, however earnest or zealous its adherents, which eliminates from its categories the plain and emphatic commandments of Jesus, and would obliterate from the Gospel pages and annihilate from human consciousness the mighty import of Jesus' healing the sick as he did, and taught his disciples and all who should follow him in deed and in truth, to do, can in no true sense be said to be the full and complete Gospel of Jesus Christ.
A church founded on the great Tenet that God is Spirit and Spirit is all, therefore the only Life, Substance and Intelligence of the universe, was the vital need of the age, and to meet that need in God's own way and order, Christian Science was given to the world through His chosen servant, the Discoverer and Founder thereof; and the church edifice which typifies such a Christianity, was erected and dedicated to God as a testimonial to the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. And thus it stands and will stand through the coming ages.
