From the skywalk on the fiftieth floor of the Prudential Tower one gets a splendid view of Boston. On clear days landmarks many miles away are easily discernible. But that's not all. At almost the base of the tower an extensive building project is under way. A stranger is apt to ask a guide, "What's going on down there?" And it's quite a story. What greets the eye is only part of it.
These words of Mrs. Eddy might answer the question. They were never more applicable than they are right now. She says, "The Church, more than any other institution, at present is the cement of society, and it should be the bulwark of civil and religious liberty."Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 144, 145; The Church offers something valuable to all, to those who are engaged in righting wrongs and to those who are earning a living or caring for a family or trying in various ways to get normal relaxation and enjoyment.
The Church has always stood for moral and spiritual values, considering them not only as indispensable to individual character but as great stabilizers of society. The need for these values is imperative today. But the perception of this need is obscured by preoccupation with inferior values that appeal mostly to personal and pleasurable indulgences. Often people are more interested in the paycheck than in the service they are rendering mankind. Eventually it is found that the attempt to find satisfaction and security in terms of matter deadens the higher sentiments and aspirations.
