NO thoughtful Christian Scientist can fail to recognize more and more clearly, as the days go by and the opportunities come to him to put to the test the truth of Mrs. Eddy's teachings, not only for himself but for others, and in their demonstration to prove again and again the power of Truth to heal and to save today through reliance upon the one true God, as in the time of the Master and his disciples, how increasingly great is the debt of gratitude and loyalty that he owes to the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science,—gratitude for the blessings that have come to him through his utilization of its teachings, and loyalty to the cause and its forever Leader.
We sometimes forget, in the rich abundance that is ours today, how patiently and tirelessly our beloved Leader labored to place the Science and truth of being which she had discovered, upon a stable foundation; until the Church of Christ, Scientist, in all its fair and generous proportions, had been evolved and its office for the redemption of mankind from sin and sickness unfolded; until the manifold publications demanded by the varied needs of the field and humanity at large had been launched upon their world-wide mission. Indeed we can scarcely realize how wide is the scope of her beneficence unless we were to try to imagine what life would mean to us were we suddenly deprived of these guides to the way of salvation which have made possible for us the fulfilment of the Master's promise, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also;" that the Christ-healing is once more established throughout the length and breadth of the earth, and "these signs" do follow "them that believe."
When we think, therefore, not only of our own experience, what these words of the Master have come to mean to us in the light of the teachings of Christian Science, but of the unnumbered thousands who likewise owe to it all that makes for health and happiness, even that understanding of God which is life eternal to them that attain it,— how inadequately can we repay this debt save by unmeasured service to the cause established by our Leader, the reinstatement of the healing works wrought by the Master and his followers, and a whole-hearted consecration to the ex-emplification of its teachings.
