IN this issue of the Journal are to be found reports read at the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church on June 7 of this year. It will be well worth while for all students of Christian Science to note these milestones in the progress of our great movement in the twelve months just past. There is much to encourage us; but should not every student beware lest he be tempted to relax in his resolve to be an alert, consecrated soldier in this holy Cause? The members of The Mother Church may well ask themselves, in the words of a rousing hymn (Christian Science Hymnal, No. 82),
What can we do to work God's work,
To prosper and increase
The brotherhood of all mankind,
The reign of the Prince of Peace?
What can we do to hasten the time,
The time that shall surely be,
When the earth shall be filled with the
glory of God
As the waters cover the sea?
We can, first of all, pray for obedience— obedience to our great Master's behest found in the thirteenth chapter of John (verse 35),"By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." Here are serious questions which each Christian Scientist may profitably put to himself: Since the last Annual Meeting, have I become more loving with my brethren, more compassionate, more hopeful of healing? Have I progressed in impersonalizing evil, in condemning sin but endeavoring to save its victim? Do I realize that I am not worthy of the sacred name of Christian Scientist if I am not striving to unsee and make nothing of every suggestion that man can be dishonest, selfishly ambitious, unloving and unlovely?
