"Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light" (Eph. 5:14). Paul wrote this to the church at Ephesus. His exhortation applies in some measure today to all members of the Church of Christ, Scientist. For example, if laziness or apathy has lulled one who was brought up as a Christian Scientist into accepting the protection and help of Christian Science only through the work and understanding of others, he must learn that gratitude for that protection and help is best expressed by efforts to increase his own understanding of Science. When he accepts the challenge to reawaken, he finds that only righteous, prayerful work can give one the understanding which results in demonstrations of the power of Truth in his own affairs.
Mary Baker Eddy, whose spiritual insight into the Bible and whose tremendous capacity for work enabled her to give us Christian Science, asks in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 356), "When will mankind awake to know their present ownership of all good, and praise and love the spot where God dwells most conspicuously in His reflection of love and leadership?"
When we really desire to express gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for her unselfed work in giving us this wonderful truth and to consecrated practitioners of Christian Science for their help in guiding us into the bounty of Love, then we are ready to show our gratitude by our work. This is our reawakening, and with it we shall have caught a glimpse of the spiritual heritage which is man's as the incorporeal child of God. And also we shall have learned that the dominion which belongs to man as the reflection of God must be demonstrated in human affairs by wakeful activity, if we are to claim it as our birthright.
