Article January 4, 1930 Issue

Christianity is the world's hope of salvation

From an address by William R. Rathvon at an Ushers' Meeting in the Original Mother Church Edifice,—October 25, 1929

Christianity is the world's hope of salvation. Christian Science is applied Christianity. The Mother Church is to this age the accredited exponent of Christian Science; and the Sunday and Wednesday evening services at which you as ushers officiate are outstanding ordinances of The Mother Church. Two days of each week you as ushers are doing God's service, but as Christian Scientists divine Love expects you and every one of us to be on duty every day of every week, and everyone is rewarded in the proportion that his job is well done, be it a little one or a big one. We cannot all be leaders, but we can all face forward, keep in step, and follow the flag of Principle wherever it may lead us. The man in the rear rank can march as far in a day as the man in front.

In Science we need never wish for greater opportunities for doing good than those that lie right at hand. What changes a small opportunity into a great one is the amount of good we put into it. Those of you who, like myself, have done pioneer work in a small Christian Science community, can testify to this.

Nowhere in the whole of our various activities do I know of any better opportunity for the development of those virtues and graces which our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, has listed as "patience, meekness, love, and good deeds," "self-forgetful-ness, purity, and affection" (see Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 4 and 15) than in the faithful performance of duties and obligations that attend membership in a small church. Large churches have their advantages, but the small ones call upon their limited membership for a diversity of service that larger churches have to apportion among many.

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