As Christian Scientists we witness with pride the expansion of effort evidenced by the Christian Science Church Center as The Mother Church moves forward with its programs of growing service to mankind. We realize that this growth is made possible by students and branch churches encircling the world. And we further realize that the branch churches expand only as the individual student is filled with love of what Church really is, and students work together in unity of service.
"You worship no distant deity, nor talk of unknown love," our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, tells us in a letter to a new church. "The silent prayers of our churches, resounding through the dim corridors of time, go forth in waves of sound, a diapason of heartbeats, vibrating from one pulpit to another and from one heart to another, till truth and love, commingling in one righteous prayer, shall encircle and cement the human race."The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 189;
At every Christian Science service individual spiritual unfoldment of truth and love takes place. Inspired prayer lifts our thought above the narrow, limited concepts of a divided humanity to the real universe, harmonious, undivided, where God, infinite, all-inclusive Love, is supreme. Thus our entire movement may be likened to one universal heartbeat in its prayerful effort to bring together all mankind in one grand bond of spiritual brotherhood.
