The Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, reminds its members of the need for diligent effort in order that the ideals of its Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, may be realized. The keynote to progress in any line of endeavor is work. Mrs. Eddy says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 340): "There is no excellence without labor; and the time to work, is now. Only by persistent, unremitting, straightforward toil; by turning neither to the right nor to the left, seeking no other pursuit or pleasure than that which cometh from God, can you win and wear the crown of the faithful."
One often hears or reads of the prodigious labor carried on by natural scientists when hundreds of thousands or even millions of experiments are made in laboratories in the course of developing some material invention or investigating some natural phenomenon. Many natural scientists are unsparing in their devotion to their work, completely dedicated in their application of the knowledge they possess, and unremitting in their scientific efforts to obtain more information on given subjects than they already have.
The contribution which such diligent workers make to the progress of the world in their efforts to bring material environment under control is very great. But those who are working in the area of spiritual Science, Christian Science, need to be even more unsparing in their labors for mankind if the Church of Christ, Scientist, is to thrust ahead of materialism's claim to power and bring humanity and human environment under the absolute control of Spirit. In fact, because the goal of the scientific Christian is the higher, his work should be the more dedicated to the truths he knows to be demonstrable.
