Alert, obedient members of The Mother Church are ever mindful of that important By-Law in the Church Manual by Mary Baker Eddy (Art. VIII, Sect. 6) which reads: "It shall be the duty of every member of this Church to defend himself daily against aggressive mental suggestion, and not be made to forget nor to neglect his duty to God, to his Leader, and to mankind. By his works he shall be judged,—and justified or condemned."
Much has been said and written about one's duty to his heavenly Father and to his brother man. Did not the Master, Christ Jesus, sum up the question succinctly when he stated that loving God with all the heart, mind, and strength, and one's neighbor as himself, fulfilled the law and prophets? The purpose of this editorial, therefore, is to consider that portion of the Manual By-Law relating to the Christian Scientist's duty to his Leader—our beloved friend and revelator of Truth, Mary Baker Eddy.
Why, someone may ask, should it have been necessary to include this provision in this most vital and far-reaching By-Law? Does it not go without saying that the earnest student of Christian Science loves and reveres the God-anointed messenger who has brought to humanity the long-forgotten tidings of Christian healing? In the twelfth chapter of Revelation, that remarkable word picture which reveals beyond a peradventure the coming of Christian Science to this age, we read of a "great red dragon" waiting to devour the child —the spiritual, saving idea—which the woman ''clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet" is to bring forth. Then later the dragon is said to persecute the woman, and is "wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."
