At the season of the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, the members of the Church think of their Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, with special gratitude. This season may well serve as a reminder of the unity they should feel as they work out the purposes of the great movement she left in their hands. On one occasion, when calling students of Christian Science together, she said (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 135), "Abiding in Love, not one of you can be separated from me; and the sweet sense of journeying on together, doing unto others as ye would they should do unto you, conquers all opposition, surmounts all obstacles, and secures success."
Here is a sequence which operates as law: obedience to the Golden Rule brings certain success. Mrs. Eddy obeyed the Golden Rule by founding the Christian Science movement. Her vision of divine Mind as the only cause and of man as Mind's reflection, or spiritual image, provided the gospel which she was to proclaim. With this revelation came the responsibility of protecting the good news and of sharing with all mankind the truths which had blessed and healed her.
We journey on with our Leader as we dedicate our lives to making the institution she founded a continuingly successful one. We can never separate Mrs. Eddy from her Church. She devoted years of prayerful metaphysical work to establishing The Mother Church so firmly on the foundation of the Christ-principle that "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Matt. 16:18). She grasped the full meaning of the church which Christ Jesus established, and she restored to it the lost art of healing, which centuries of materialism had obscured.
