Mrs. Eddy sent this message to a class of students in the Board of Education in 1905: "Beloved:—I am glad you enjoy the dawn of Christian Science; you must reach its meridian. Watch, pray, demonstrate. Released from materialism, you shall run and not be weary, walk and not faint." The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 254.
Mrs. Eddy realized more fully than anyone else what it means to be a Christian Scientist. She understood that the words and works of Christ Jesus exemplify the Science which alone holds the solution to the world's problems.
She defines the role of the Christian Scientist when she says, "The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good."Science and Health, p. 450. When one enlists in the army he binds himself voluntarily to a cause. Having enlisted, if he defaults or tries to run away he is a deserter and is punished accordingly. He has placed himself under strict law, and must obey law morning, noon, and night. So the Christian Scientist has enlisted to follow the Master in his words and works so far as he understands them, to demonstrate the revelation of God's allness which has been entrusted to him, and to overcome sin, disease, and death.
