Editorial June 27, 1903 Issue

Communion

Before this issue of the Sentinel will have reached all our readers, thousands of Christian Scientists will be assembled in Boston for the Communion in the Mother Church and for the Annual Meeting. The Sentinel extends to all a cordial and fraternal welcome. What profit their journey will afford them largely depends upon their own receptivity, but still more upon what each one has brought to this "great bridal feast of Truth and Love."

To the extent that we are fulfilling our solemn "promise to strive, watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to love one another; and to be meek, merciful, just, and pure" (Science and Health, p. 497), will we receive "good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over." By bringing to these annual gatherings a pure and abiding love for our neighbor, yea, for all mankind, we secure a spiritual uplift and blessing beyond our most earnest expectations.

Our faithful and beloved Leader has devoted herself unreservedly to the interests of humanity; by precept and example she has lovingly and unselfishly led us in our Master's footsteps, and in so far as we have profited by her wise leadership and loving counsel are we prepared to commemorate our Lord's "last spiritual breakfast with his disciples in the bright morning hours, at the joyful meeting on the shore of the Galilean Sea" (Science and Health, p. 34). She has, in the following words, expressed the significance and purpose of our communion: "This spiritual meeting with our Lord, in the dawn of a new light, is the morning meal which Christian Scientists commemorate. They bow before Christ, Truth, to receive more of his reappearing, and silently commune with the divine Principle, Love. They celebrate their Lord's victory over death, his probation in the flesh after death, its exemplification of human probation, and his spiritual and final ascension above matter, or the flesh, when he rose out of material sight" (Science and Health, p. 35).

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