ONE who leaves a solitary place to become a citizen of a populous community, if he is capable of utilizing the advantages of the community, generally finds his opportunities enlarged. Similarly, one uniting with the great organization of The Mother Church with its branches, an organization formed to preserve intact in its perfectness the revelation of divine Science, which healed and saved him, and to bring this Science to all mankind, finds his mental treasures abundantly multiplied.
Indeed, the sublime possibilities of Christian Science are not available in self-centered mental isolation. But going up into the mount to commune with God, withdrawing from the multitudes in order to gain clearer views through which to help those multitudes, is not separating from them, but getting truly closer to them. Even in exile, the Revelator was not in spirit isolated from the churches, as is proved by his messages to them. conveying the full effulgence of his culminating demonstration in the vision of the Apocalypse.
Suppose one should find himself materially isolated, or in a sparsely settled region; such is the blessed ministry of Christian Science that membership in The Mother Church is not denied him. "The wilderness and the solitary place" are made "glad" for him, because membership in The Mother Church immediately makes him one of a vigorously industrious multitude wherein his right thinking is in demand. The Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the Manual of The Mother Church and the other writings by our Leader, the great stream of authorized Christian Science literature, give him spiritual instruction, and the daily round gives him ample scope for the prayerful and energetic application of his knowledge of Truth.
