"Let not your heart be troubled," entreated Jesus, comforting his disciples: "ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you" (John 14: 1,2). Then follows this wonderful promise: "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."
In the land of Christian Science this promise of the Master's is being fulfilled. Conceiving the spiritual idea of the Father's house, wherein are many mansions, many individual havens of Love, Mary Baker Eddy founded and built The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, upon the Rock—Christ. At its building, limiting suggestions of the carnal mind were overcome through the wedding of inspiration and understanding in human thought and action, so revealing the Christway of true home building in the hearts of men. As its name so tenderly implies, The Mother Church speaks to mankind of the divine Principle, the one Father-Mother, Love, to whom the eternal individuality of man as revealed by Christ is infinitely-precious.
Perceiving the Christian church as the human manifestation of the Father's house, the writer of Hebrews rejoiced (3:5, 6). "Moses verily was faithful in all his [God's] house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; but Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end." In the Old Testament Moses is described repeatedly as a servant of God. The Jews believed that his "testimony," given in the law, had been a complete and final revelation of God's will, but the writer of this epistle is bringing out the superior authority of Christ, the Son, over the house, or Church, of God.
