"Never was there a more solemn and imperious call than God makes to us all, right here, for fervent devotion and an absolute consecration to the greatest and holiest of all causes," declares our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, on page 177 of "Miscellaneous Writings." In the next paragraph she follows this declaration with several urgent, soul-searching questions, ending with the query, "Will you give yourselves wholly and irrevocably to the great work of establishing the truth, the gospel, and the Science which are necessary to the salvation of the world from error, sin, disease, and death?" Then she adds, "Answer at once and practically, and answer aright!"
This rousing call to Christian Scientists for consecrated, vigorous spiritual activity in behalf of their beloved Cause, which is the divine way of salvation for all mankind, is as applicable this very moment as it was at the time when it was written. And what, we may well ask ourselves, are we doing about it? Are we responding to that imperative call in the fullest measure of which we are capable? Are we rising to the great need of this hour to refute the aggressive claims of evil with all the understanding we have of God's law as revealed to us in Christian Science? Every Christian Scientist needs to be awake to the fact that, although the malicious threat of evil seems to be directed against the human forms of government standing for the freedom of mankind, its primary purpose now, as it has always been, is to extinguish the Christ, the light of Truth.
Human governments and organizations which are based upon the dignity of the individual and the right of mankind to worship God according to the dictates of individual conscience are bulwarks against the lawless, godless elements of the carnal mind, whose aim against religious freedom is deadly in its intent. Therefore every 'individual needs to be alert to work for and support that form of human government which affords the most freedom to its constituents. Christian Science is not something apart from human experience, but supports and supplements all that is right and good in it. So in using his understanding of Christian Science to promote the welfare of mankind the student is expressing his devotion to the "greatest and holiest of all causes."
