Dear Friends,
Each year about this time we look forward to being in touch with you as very dear friends and fellow members of The Mother Church. This year we’d like to use the occasion to think together about the fact that all of us are also fellow members of the Cause of Christian Science.
Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, used that word Cause frequently. For her, it signified a strong activity, a focused, resolute working together for the sake of all humanity. But it wasn’t just one among the many deserving and good purposes in the world. She knew it to be God-impelled, the “greatest and holiest of all causes” (Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p. 177), the one Cause that would make evident the nature of man as by no means material but wholly spiritual. It would reveal even in the midst of the clamorous claims of a scientific age, a new and true idea of God, which is today making available to all the experience of Christ-healing.
