Just over a century ago, following the dedication of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mary Baker Eddy published a note in which she brings out several important points concerning this Church, its impact on the world, its relation to other churches, and on the relation of Christian Scientists to one another. On this last point she writes: "Christian Scientists, their children and grandchildren to the latest generations, inevitably love one another with that love wherewith Christ loveth us; a love unselfish, unambitious, impartial, universal,—that loves only because it is Love. Moreover, they love their enemies, even those that hate them. This we all must do to be Christian Scientists in spirit and in truth. I long, and live, to see this love demonstrated. I am seeking and praying for it to inhabit my own heart and to be made manifest in my life. Who will unite with me in this pure purpose, and faithfully struggle till it be accomplished?"Pulpit and Press, p. 21.
On another occasion she wrote of "the hearts of Christian Scientists" being "woven together."See Miscellaneous Writings, p. 145. Hearts woven together—what a lovely expression of what we can demonstrate of Church!
Christ Jesus made a promise of the impact of such togetherness when he said, "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them."Matt. 18:20. It's a promise with a condition—to be gathered together "in my name," in the very nature of Christ. When this condition is fulfilled, the promise that the Christ is right there in the midst of them—speaking directly to the consciousness of each individual—is fulfilled.
