In founding the Christian Science movement, Mrs. Eddy provided every possible avenue through which to make her revelation of Truth available to mankind. The establishment of the Christian Science Reading Rooms is one of her priceless provisions for humanity.
Our Leader constantly turned to divine Mind for inspiration and vision in order to see what was needed, then for guidance in the fulfillment of the revelation on earth. The human manifestation of a spiritual idea was always as divinely directed as was the original idea which first inspired her thinking. This fact applies to our Reading Rooms. Seen from this standpoint, they are an exemplification of divinity's care of humanity in daily experience. A divine activity and its fulfillment are never separated; they are one. The recognition of this oneness keeps the human manifestation of the Reading Rooms under the government of divine Mind, always subject to the spiritual truth.
How, then, does this divine activity function in human experience? A Christian Science Reading Room typifies the saving power of the Christ on the roadside in every city, town, or village where a Church of Christ, Scientist, is located. Reading Rooms are the gift of the church to the community, the liaison between the church services and the local citizens. They represent the arms of the church outstretched to those seeking Truth. They are part of the complete manifestation of the divine idea, Church, made manifest on earth as the Church of Christ, Scientist. In the midst of the pressure of materiality, its rush and confusion, our Reading Rooms symbolize "the secret place of the most High" (Ps. 91:1). The power that lies within their ability to bless is infinite in its purpose and vital in its application.
