Editorial June 12, 1926 Issue

Our Opportunity

Albert F. Gilmore

Frequently, it seems, Christian Scientists pay too little attention to the important fact that as disciples of Christ Jesus, and as loyal followers of Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, they are engaged in true Christian ministry, the highest and holiest of all service. "The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death," Mrs. Eddy tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 450), through devoting himself to the establishment of God's kingdom on earth, the kingdom of righteousness and love. How foreign in its purpose is such a mission to the motives, aims, and desires which in general actuate the activities of mankind!

The individual who, through the remedial and regenerative power of the Christ, Truth, has felt its healing touch, and in consequence is an earnest student of Christian Science, is bound to take up, in some phase or both for himself and for others the ministry of spiritual healing. Above all else he is desirous of spreading the gospel of Truth, of sharing with all who are athirst the living waters from which he has so copiously drunk. He therefore becomes an active agent in the promotion of the Cause in which he has enlisted, a Cause having for its purpose the noblest of missions, the healing of mankind of sin and disease and the bringing to humanity of redemption and salvation. A holy Cause, all will agree,—indeed, the holiest,—which may well command our highest consecration, our deepest devotion!

While all, to be sure, may not be engaged directly in healing the sick, yet all who are giving their service to any feature of the work entailed in carrying on the Christian Science movement should recognize the deep significance of their activities. In the historical sketch which appears in the Manual of The Mother Church (p. 17), relative to the purpose for which the Church of Christ, Scientist, was founded, we find these significant words: "To organize a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing." No church could be founded for a more sacred purpose; none could be more firmly founded upon the Rock, Christ. Every worker, then, Christian Science movement has part in commemorating the ministry of Christ Jesus, and in reinstating primitive Christianity.

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