How wonderfully similar to our own task was that of the woman at the sepulcher! Of her Mrs. Eddy writes in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 258): "To the woman at the sepulchre, bowed in strong affection's anguish, one word, 'Mary,' broke the gloom with Christ's all-conquering love. Then came her resurrection and task of glory, to know and to do God's will,—in the words of St. Paul: 'Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.'"
Every member of The Mother Church is entrusted with this "task of glory, to know and to do God's will." Even in the midst of seemingly insurmountable difficulties he may begin to fulfill this "task of glory" by holding faithfully to God and His idea, by ceaselessly bearing in mind the demonstrable truth that "God created man in his own image," and that He "saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."
Proportionately as he attains this goal of Christianity scientific thinking, the student finds himself undisturbed over matters which appear to be wrong, be they political, financial, industrial, or personal. Responding to a higher line of reasoning, he ceases to follow the habit often prevalent in society, in politics, or in the press, of circulating that which is mischievous and untrue, for he is learning that Christian Science supports unfailingly the right thinker and doer in accordance with divine law, while he who holds to the erroneous and unreal may lose sight of that support. And thus through the faithful, prayerful practice of good, the right thinker becomes less and less inclined to think about evil, to talk about it, or to get frightened about it. He knows that this course would hide from his view the real man, who reflects the Life which is God, and the power of that Life. "Reflects this Life," Mrs. Eddy writes in "Pulpit and Press" (p. 4), "and with it cometh the full power of being."
