Article August 6, 1927 Issue

The Student and the Cause

JOHN GERARD LORD

Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 450), "The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death." This enlistment, then, might be said to have become an actuality at the time we unite with The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, or a branch church, or both. For by this uniting with the Christian Science church, or both. For by this uniting with the Christian Science church, do we not declare ourselves to be in full accord with the teachings of Mrs. Eddy, its Founder, and with the purpose, motives, and aims of the Christian Science movement?

Let us consider for a moment what this means. The purpose of this church which our Leader under God's direction and guidance established, is to bring healing to humanity, the healing of all discordant material conditions through the bringing of God's kingdom, the reign of harmony, to earth. It is this church that has brought to us the healing, life-giving truth; and surely our gratitude to God and to our Leader, as well as our conviction that we have found the living way, prompts us to come out and take our stand beside our fellow Scientists, and declare to the world that we have found the Christ, Truth.

Having taken this stand, we must progress. Love for God of necessity includes love for our fellow-men. And how can we better manifest love for our brother than by ever striving to strengthen our trust in God, that we may gain a better understanding of Truth, and thus reflect more of good and so spiritualize our thought that we shall be able to express the qualities of divine Love? These qualities of meekness, patience, forbearance, gentleness, charity, and loving-kindness—spiritual qualities—will attract those who through wandering in the night of materiality are longing for the light.

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