"When am I ready to join The Mother Church?" This question may be asked at any age, but when our twelve-year-old son asked it, somehow I felt he was too young to appreciate the responsibilities involved, and I said so.
Immediately he came back with, "What responsibilities?"
I replied, "A Mother Church member has to pray for his Church, pay a yearly per capita tax out of his own earnings, and understand that smoking and drinking are not in accordance with the teachings of Christian Science." Then I added, "And this means for all time! Are you ready to face this? Hypocrisy is basic dishonesty, and our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says: 'Honesty is spiritual power. Dishonesty is human weakness, which forfeits divine help,'Science and Health, p. 453 and you don't ever want to be in a position to forfeit divine help, do you?"
