CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS may be grateful indeed that the right sense of work is becoming more apparent, and also that they are seeing the need of continuing "the first works" referred to in the Revelation of St. John, the active interest in and demonstration of spiritual power. They recognize the validity and primality of the Master's injunction, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." And they discover through prayer and experience the value of that seeking.
Learning something of the power and orderliness of the Cause of Christian Science as expressed by The Mother Church, including its branches and societies under the Church Manual, each member is led to see that there are certain requirements for individual progress which are outstanding and primary. Among these primary requirements it may be clearly seen that unswerving loyalty to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and practical coöperation with The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, stand out as most important requirements made upon the individual members of the organization.
It may be said that the demonstration of individual loyalty and the doing of the works come through two elements necessary to growth and progress—light and refreshment. In Christian Science we see that light corresponds to Truth, the Principle of all true enlightenment, the source of all true knowledge. As the light of Truth is recognized and utilized, there is true growth and progress.
