Here we stand on the threshold of a new century of Christian Science with the activity of the Christ, Truth, unlimited before us. The challenging and exalting experience in the first century of Christian Science only hints the promise in the second. Individually and collectively we can see this promise fulfilled, the promise of an ever-widening, ever-unfolding knowledge of God, demonstrated right where we are.
Of course, we need to work. In Mrs. Eddy's words, "The song of Christian Science is, 'Work—work—work—watch and pray.' "Message to The Mother Church for 1900, p. 2; And this is our song in the second century—working, watching, praying, to bear witness to Truth. Our greatest contribution to the world is to demonstrate the Christ-idea in our lives—to prove our heritage of perfection as children of God and to destroy the claim that evil can be real.
This task is the cross we take up as followers of the Christ. At times our cross may seem heavy and impossible to bear. But the seeming weight of the cross is lightened for us by an understanding of Mrs. Eddy's beautiful explanation of Eucharist. She writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: "Our Eucharist is spiritual communion with the one God. Our bread, 'which cometh down from heaven,' is Truth. Our cup is the cross. Our wine the inspiration of Love, the draught our Master drank and commended to his followers."Science and Health, p. 35;
