Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, said of the original edifice of The Mother Church (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 141), "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, our prayer in stone, will be the prophecy fulfilled, the monument upreared, of Christian Science," adding, "All loyal Christian Scientists hail with joy this proposed type of universal Love."
Today, students of Christian Science throughout the world have participated in the erection of the new Christian Science Publishing House. When thought turns to God in grateful acknowledgment of divine goodness and love, it is well for us prayerfully to contemplate the deeper meaning of this building activity. Begun at a period when the whole world seemed caught in a maelstrom of depression and lack, the building of this edifice is monumental proof that God is, as Christian Science declares, the only source of supply. What unshakable evidence that material things do not constitute true substance! They are only the humanly comprehensible things which typify that "enduring substance" which fadeth not away.
As one prayerfully reasons with respect to this fadeless substance, some comprehension is gained that the mental concept and human experience are correlated. One is thus naturally led to accept the undeniable premise that thinking produces the phenomena of which one is humanly cognizant. In the light of this fact, the quality of one's thinking becomes vitally significant.
