Just as we expect to see improvement and progress in the areas of body, home, or business because of our application of spiritual law as learned in Christian Science, so we should expect to see improvement and progress in our church experience. A maturing concept of Church must appear as a sound, healthy, and expanding human expression. It should be practiced on every level, local and universal.
Our local church experience is an ideal proving ground for what we understand of the work of Mrs. Eddy as Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. It is easier, perhaps, to love the revelation found in her writings and to enjoy the protection and blessings of that discovery than to follow her all the way in the thorny path she trod as Founder. Such following means devotion to church building, which is essentially healing of limitation on all levels. The path may be filled with obstacles, but so it was for the Founder.
For a period I could look out an office window at The Mother Church, the Original Edifice nestling alongside the Extension. It was a perfect reminder of Mrs. Eddy's own maturing concept of Church. I was awakened then to the path which every devoted student must take. These buildings symbolized the necessity to move on with the church; the student's individual progress was at one with the church's progress, and behind it all was the power of God motivating and impelling His own divine idea of Church in the world.
