BY the recent decision of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts there is placed before every member of The Mother Church the opportunity to aid in quickly restoring our periodicals to their rightful position as auxiliaries for publicly presenting Christian Science, the essence of which is to be found in its purity and entirety only in the writings of our Leader. The claims of those who stood loyally by what they conceived to be Mrs. Eddy's spiritual demonstration of church government have been vindicated. The misguided attempts to reverse what she intended to stand unchallenged and inviolate have been rebuked.
The Manual has emerged unbroken and unchanged. Its place in our movement is established for all time. Its intent is plain and unmistakable, for its author is its interpreter, and her interpretation is registered in the history of her church during the past thirty years.
This is not a time for exultation or recrimination. It is the hour when every intelligent plea for closer unity and cooperation among brethren should be promptly heeded and wisely observed. The past two years have been fertile in lessons pointing to the need of greater watchfulness, higher consecration, more loving consideration for each other, and greater devotion to the teachings of our Leader, in order that sickness and sin may be more quickly and effectively vanquished and universal healing and universal reformation may be brought appreciably nearer.
