At a Wednesday evening testimony meeting in our local church I heard a woman express gratitude for her spiritual growth in Christian Science. She said she had previously felt that she was not really getting anywhere because she'd never had any important work to do at or for The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Then she went on to say that she had friends from earlier years who had become writers for The Christian Science Monitor and the religious periodicals; others had become Christian Science practitioners, lecturers, and teachers. They had achieved what she felt were significant positions in the Church, and were doing great good for mankind. And for a long time she felt she had not accomplished much just being a branch church member. But then she added her thanks for being able, through a deeper understanding of her relationship to God, to put this unworthy thought behind her, and see herself in a better light as God's, divine Love's, cherished spiritual idea, bearing witness to all that God truly is.
How glad I was that she had been healed of that false estimate of herself, for she truly is a responsible person, obviously loves God, and has an unusually caring attitude about the great needs of humanity. It's clear that praying for mankind is one of her primary activities. Could she, or any of the other very fine individuals working in so many branch churches, possibly be insignificant? And, of course, working and praying in our local churches is also working for The Mother Church, for each is a branch of The Mother Church. Isn't it all really one church—the Church of Christ, Scientist? And to demonstrate consistently the healing and saving Christ-spirit is still, and always will be, the single most important activity we can engage in for the Cause of Christian Science. We can all be healers.
