Article November 19, 1904 Issue

Why we Love our Leader

ESTHER A. L. RUDD.

We have had the Bible all our lives, we have read and studied it, and have tried to get the peace and harmony which it teaches. We have, however, worshiped many gods under the guises of belief in pleasure in the senses, the belief in sickness, that death is a friend, and that evil is most powerful. Besides all this, we have believed that God is not unlike mortal man, and we should be doing the same to-day were it not for one who was found worthy, one who loved God more than she feared man. Through this one came the reflection of divine Love and she was obedient unto the heavenly vision and inspiration, denying herself, forgetting her own personality in her love for God and man, and her desire to lift her brother man up to his God-given dominion. Giving love for ridicule and buffetings, while bearing the yoke, she sought not her own ease, but did God's will and work, and labored to release from bondage all who were enslaved to the carnal mind, those who were worshiping under every green tree of error, in every valley of corruption.

Is it any wonder that we love our Leader, Mrs. Eddy? We have learned to worship one infinite God through the truth revealed through her to us, and we know that her teaching is true because we are daily and hourly proving it in numberless ways, even as Jesus did and promised that his followers should do. Christian Science as taught by our beloved Leader has given to multitudes, joy for sorrow, peace for brokenheartedness, love in place of hate, health instead of helpless invalidism.. It saves from the bondage of sin, and shows us how to know our Father-Mother God.

We express the love and gratitude we have for our Leader, not in the way that the world teaches us to love, but we love her just in so far as we understand, live, and practise the truth taught by her, which is "prove all things; hold fast that which is good."

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