Editorial June 7, 1913 Issue

"AND BE YE THANKFUL."

Archibald McLellan

At the annual meeting of The Mother Church, held this week, it was stated by the clerk, in his report, that the number of persons admitted to membership in the church during the year just closed was greater than ever before in any year of its history; also, that the number admitted at the semiannual admission of members on May 30 of this year was the largest number received at any one time since the church was formed.

The full significance of these statements cannot be understood except by those who realize that no one is solicited to join this church, and but few join it until after they have been healed of disease of some kind, or have experienced such a moral or spiritual regeneration as has completely changed their whole outlook upon life. What effect, therefore, such facts as these will have upon those persons who have been unwilling to admit the stability and inherent strength of the movement founded by Mrs. Eddy, is something with which we have no occasion to be concerned. All we need to know is that we have proved for ourselves in Christian Science the word of the prophet Isaiah, that "the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear," and that divine Love is ready to heal mankind when mankind is ready to be healed. Jesus said that to understand God is life eternal, and so long as Christian Scientists endeavor to prove the truth of these words, so long will the healing of all manner of diseases continue to win adherents to and strengthen the cause in which they have enlisted.

Mrs. Eddy, when she formed the Church of Christ, Scientist, declared that its object was to "reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing" (Manual, p. 17). That this lost element of healing is being reinstated, is proved by the verbal testimony of thousands at the Wednesday evening meetings each week, in addition to the testimonies which with their message of hope and healing enrich every issue of the Sentinel and Journal. And not only this, but the better idea of God which Christian Science is inculcating, is shown in a letter received at this office, from which we quote as follows:—

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