Editorial June 2, 1934 Issue

Our Annual Meeting: Its Significance

Violet Ker Seymer

The Annual Meeting of The Mother Church proclaims to the world the unity of good appearing in the Christian Science organization, a unity which members are equipped to prove in the very face of temptation to indulge the dissensions of mortal mind. As this scientific fact of all-inclusive unity in the one infinite Mind is proved first throughout our movement, this spiritual unity will extend in blessedness to all the world, blotting out its disagreements, healing its breaches.

In connection with the ark and the mercy seat, we note this divine promise given to Moses: "And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat." Unmerciful thoughts withdraw before the mercy seat, for mercy is a quality of infinite Love which knows no evil, no censure; and communion with divine Mind is a hallowing influence bearing fruit in the honest heart. As we prepare ourselves to receive the outpoured blessings of divine Love, the Annual Meeting is to us a sign of the times, an evidence that the prophecy regarding the leaven "which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened," is being fulfilled, and in this fulfillment each one is called upon to play his individual part.

When the apostles were "all with one accord in one place" on the day of Pentecost, we read that "they were all filled with the Holy Ghost." This spiritual experience is repeated at the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church in the measure that its deep purpose is held sacred in the heart of each member. Referring to the Annual Meeting as "a grave guardian," Mrs. Eddy writes (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 125), "It requires you to report progress, to refresh memory, to rejuvenate the branches and to vivify the buds, to bend upward the tendrils and to incline the vine towards the parent trunk."

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