The office of an usher, according to Webster's dictionary, is "to introduce or escort as ... a forerunner or harbinger." An usher in a Christian Science church is often the first to greet a stranger. How important, therefore, that he faithfully fulfill his office of serving as the harbinger of the Christ, Truth, and its healing message as it finds expression in the church service! He will do so in the measure that he expresses love, joy, dignity, helpfulness, alertness, and grace.
It is an usher's privilege, as well as his duty, to follow the example of the master Christian, of whom Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health: "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick." Science and Health, pp. 476, 477; No matter what picture mortal sense testimony presents, it is an usher's duty impersonally to behold the perfect man of God's creating.
Mrs. Eddy says, "I earnestly advise all Christian Scientists to remove from their observation or study the personal sense of any one, and not to dwell in thought upon their own or others' corporeality, either as good or evil." Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 308, 309; What important advice this is for an usher!
