A universal truth undergirds the convening of a Christian Science Students Association. It impels both a student's prayers for and attendance at his or her association meeting. It is the great Bible truth "And they shall be all taught of God." John 6:45.
Prayer for each year's meeting is enhanced by a student's knowing that the association is already the result of prayer—of Mary Baker Eddy's own prayers to safeguard her discovery of Christian Science and to aid her followers everywhere and for all time to come in their demonstration of that discovery. We find answers to her prayers recorded in her Manual of The Mother Church. She once said of the Manual By-Laws that "each one was the fruit of experience and the result of prayer." The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 343.
Just think of it: each Christian Science Students Association meeting, held in obedience to Articles XXVI and XXVII of the Manual, is the result of Mrs. Eddy's own prayers. And in a very real sense God is still answering those prayers! For God's provision, as revealed to our Leader, is still in effect. By our prayers for and attendance at our associations, we're having part in God's answer. Recognition of this fact confirms the healing and redeeming purpose of each year's meeting.
