Is the purpose of the Christian Science Center a righteous one? We can answer with a ready, strong affirmative. The constant aim of the activities of The Mother Church—most visible now in this strengthening expansion—is to satisfy more fully the world's need for genuine good, for the spiritual ideas that supply every need.
We can rejoice in the certainty that the foundation of this project is laid on the absolute all-power of the one infinite God. As Nehemiah told of "the hand of my God which was good upon me"Neh. 2:18; in his building of the wall of Jerusalem, so we can affirm with conviction that those whose charge it is to work out the details and decisions of the Christian Science Center have the hand of our God, which is good, upon them.
If evil had the intelligence or the initiative to circumvent the orderly completion of a constructive pursuit, it would use the sly assertion that the undertaking is less than a united one. It may make this claim. But any statement of the one lying voice is of necessity a concoction of falsities, no matter what it is labeled. Perceiving the claim to disrupt, however, can evoke in the workers a unified enthusiasm, a bugle call to strengthen their stronghold. Our work is to acknowledge and prove that the expanding mission of Christian Science goes forward in unity. Mrs. Eddy writes: "The elements of earth beat in vain against the immortal parapets of this Science. Erect and eternal, it will go on with the ages, go down the dim posterns of time unharmed, and on every battle-field rise higher in the estimation of thinkers and in the hearts of Christians."Miscellaneous Writings, p. 383;
