CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS rejoice in the progress of the Christian Science movement, knowing that this progress has been achieved through the power of divine Mind, reflected in spiritual activity by Mary Baker Eddy and her loyal followers. As unselfed love, humility, and obedience to spiritual law have gained the victory over personal sense in individual consciousness, The Mother Church and its branches have moved forward in their conquest of evil's collective claims.
Every conscientious Christian Scientist desires to help in promoting the Cause of Christian Science by proving God's government of man in his own consciousness. He knows that the unfolding demonstration of government in The Mother Church, or its branches, depends not wholly upon persons in official positions. Continued progress is assured only as Spirit overcomes the flesh in the daily thinking and living of the Christian Scientists who make up the rank and file of the movement. Each must learn to guard his consciousness from the despiritualizing influence of personal sense, which is ever urging its claims against that real sense of God's power and goodness which makes one a useful member of the Christian Science organization.
Church members may well ask themselves, What does Mother Church or branch church membership mean in individual experience? Does it mean perfunctory attendance at meetings and payment of dues; participation in church work, regarded as an irksome duty; the holding of an office, regarded as a personal privilege; the enjoyment of the prestige which attaches to a person who is prominent in the work of an organization? Or does it mean serving for the sake of serving, service that may be rendered in silence, be perhaps all unknown, or unappreciated if known?
