Article June 10, 1916 Issue

True Loyalty

ABIGAIL DYER THOMPSON

Her discovery of Christian Science brought to our Leader the vision of a demonstrable religion, a church that should stand for salvation from sickness as well as from sin; and for many years the world has witnessed the outward and tangible proof of her inwardly perceived ideal. Christian Science today is fulfilling its mission with "signs following," and those who would assist in carrying on this great cause in obedience to their Leader's plan will "cooperate" and not "coelbow." (See Miscellaneous Writings, p. 138.) They will be grateful for Science and Health, for the Christian Science movement, and for the organization and activities of the Christian Science church.

In Christian Science an idea cannot be separated from its expression, and therefore an attempt to do so indicates ignorance of Principle. It is inconsistent to say that we accept one and reject the other. The subtle argument that this can be done, should be met and resolved into nothingness by all Christian Scientists. On page 560 of Science and Health we read: "The great miracle, to human sense, is divine Love, and the grand necessity of existence is to gain the true idea of what constitutes the kingdom of heaven in man. This goal is never reached while we hate our neighbor or entertain a false estimate of any one whom God has appointed to voice His Word. Again, without a correct sense of its highest visible idea, we can never understand the divine Principle."

In order to fulfil both the letter and the spirit of the last line of the Lord's Prayer, "Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever," it is not necessary to discredit the honest efforts of mankind. Even today there is great cause for rejoicing in the fact that the world is witnessing in large measure the rich fruitage of Christian Science as a result of the splendid work accomplished by its representatives. Through divine guidance our beloved Leader outlined in detail the activities and operations for the progress of Christian Science; and while through her clear vision she has perceived and prophesied of the time to come when material organization should be outgrown, that exalted experience will never be ushered in through criticism and condemnation, but through the fulness of brotherly love. Then shall echo back through the ages the song of the angels,—"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men."

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