Dedication is a fundamental and vital activity of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. The very word "dedication," with its synonyms "consecration" and "devotion," implies a spiritual activity of thought that should underlie and characterize the entire church membership.
Mrs. Eddy surely knew the essence of dedication, for through her consecration and devotion to Truth, which Jesus demonstrated, the revelation of divine Science was brought to mankind. She sought for and found the unfoldment of God's Word in the Scriptures. So the student of Christian Science who is a church member turns daily to the Scriptures, and to the explication of them found in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, in order to gain enlightenment, inspiration, and guidance in his affairs and in the affairs of his church.
In his deep and penetrating interchange with the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well, related in the fourth chapter of John, Christ Jesus said, "The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him." Is not consecration to God the true worship of which Jesus spoke? His supreme example of consecration to the Father's purpose is an ever-present fount of inspiration upon which we may draw continually.
