A Young woman living on a continent where racial, religious, and economic freedoms were being placed in increasing jeopardy, had spent a year with her husband at a great American university. Here she had experienced the healing power of Christian Science and had begun an earnest study of its teachings. Continuing this study upon her return to her native land, she eventually sought membership in The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.
On the day that she received notice of her admission she wrote to a friend across the ocean: "This is a very sacred day for us. My husband is compelled to be away from home, but he has gone joyously, knowing that now I am protected from all errors and dangers."
Her simple message voices the constant security which Christian Scientists feel in their Church in its true spiritual significance. The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, expressed this significance on that memorable day in 1894, when, with quiet ceremony, the cornerstone of The Mother Church was laid in Boston. Enumerating the articles which were placed and sealed in the cornerstone, she declared that these were "without pomp or pride, laid away as a sacred secret in the heart of a rock, there to typify the prophecy, "And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; ... as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land:' henceforth to whisper our Master's promise, 'Upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it'" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 144).
