Editorial May 20, 1961 Issue

Filling an Office

Helen Wood Bauman

An office is a position in which one is assigned special services and entrusted with special duties. In the setting up of an organization such as a government, a business, or a church, certain offices are established to carry out the purposes of the organization. This was done by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, when she established the Church of Christ, Scientist, and provided the Manual of The Mother Church for its government.

While the Church officers consist of Mrs. Eddy, the Pastor Emeritus, members of The Christian Science Board of Directors, a President, First and Second Readers, a Clerk, and a Treasurer, various offices were established for particular tasks needing to be performed by members of the Church. Members who have no special assignment in The Mother Church (or in its branches) still have important functions to carry out through membership itself.

Any office in the Church, considered in the light of Christian Science, is an activity of divine Mind, which Mind maintains perpetually. Humanly considered, such an office calls for special metaphysical understanding of the task involved. Those who fill offices in the Church come and go; but the office remains and will continue until the human organization is no longer needed, for it will have completed its purpose: matter will have disappeared and the victory of Life over mortality, Truth over delusion, Love over enmity, will have been won.

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