With touching simplicity our Leader wrote in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 52), "I have worked to provide a home for every true seeker and honest worker in this vineyard of Truth." Turning to Christian Science, mortals learn that an unselfish desire to know God is all that is at first needed to bring their God-appointed home to view. In Science each one is inspired to know and obey the truth; for God talks to him and His voice can be heard. The loving friends who received Christ Jesus in their house at Bethany gained an unforgettable proof of this when their Master raised Lazarus from the tomb. They saw that even the darkest threat which human experience enfolds could be disarmed by meek acceptance of the spiritual inspiration which God endlessly supplies.

Inspiration is an impartation from divine intelligence, which supersedes the suggestions of physical sense. It is through spiritual inspiration that our prayer is answered; and there is no place where this inspiration cannot be gained and followed. Though the seeming evidence of matter disputes it, unselfed thought can rise above every temptation of animal magnetism. Lazarus obeyed the summons of inspiration while he was still bound with the graveclothes of material beliefs; and in glorified measure it governed the faithful witness who stood outside his tomb and boldly declared the unchanging facts of Life. The sincere search for inspiration will give constant and continuous employment to all.

Jesus once told a story of the strange guests who were found at a great wedding feast prepared by a king (Matthew 22:1–14). Some whose rank or importance entitled them to be there were absent, while others more needy and more meek came instead. The only demand made by the host was that every guest should wear a wedding garment. Equally today, all may share the benefits of healing through Christian Science, but it is only through a life made pure by inspiration that a student can retain his hold on Truth. Regardless of supposed limitations of education, of past mistakes or present difficulties, healing is within the reach of everyone who is willing to accept it on these terms.

Once, in the home of his friends, at Bethany, Jesus pointed out that Martha, though busily engaged in useful tasks, was missing the inspiration which Mary received while sitting at his feet. Mary was commended for obeying the spiritual demand which cleanses from ignorance and sin. By the completeness of self-surrender she was enabled to discern and to make her own the teachings which were to transfigure her life and win for her devotion the reverence of the ages.

The sacred privilege of serving the Cause of Christian Science in any position, however humble or exalted, is an urgent invitation to draw closer to the Christ, through inspiration constantly renewed by study and self-sacrifice. There is Scriptural authority for the conviction that he who seeks to serve the Church of Christ, Scientist, must constantly conform his aims and ways to God's directing. This should impel every church member to strive diligently to free himself from aggressive suggestions of envy and mad ambition, and from the temptation to mistake them for the quiet promptings of spiritual guidance. Whether in or out of church office, a Christian Scientist is unlimited in his opportunities and power to demonstrate the dominion of good for himself and for others.

Loyal students who hold aloft the Christ, Truth, make it easy for others who are less firmly grounded to do the same. Those who came to the feast at the house of Simon the leper because they were curious to see Lazarus, were probably not unlike many eager seekers for healing who come to the Wednesday evening meetings in Christian Science churches. The fragrance of gratitude, expressed in spoken testimonies or through the unselfed thoughts of silent witnesses, will suffice to heal some of these, and will encourage others to lay down burdens of anxiety and self-love which impede healing. In the presence of the Christ, Truth, no promise of good is impossible of quick fulfillment.

God uses the "poor in spirit" to proclaim His purpose to mankind, for they are quickest to hear His voice. In obedience to His will Christ Jesus became the Messiah, and Mary Baker Eddy became the revelator of the Science of being. Mortal mind can neither appropriate spiritual inspiration nor divert its course. Jesus said to Nicodemus, "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." When our Leader was divinely appointed, as the revelator of Christian Science, to found The Mother Church, she had faith that God would supply all that this Church will ever need to nourish and safeguard it. Deriving its power from God alone, it will gather new strength in every victorious encounter with the hypnotism and the atheism of false government.

The final revelation of Truth is contained in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and everyone who has access to that sacred volume learns how to gain access to the Christ. As directly and as truly as those who were inspired by the Master's presence, the student of Christian Science finds in his textbook the inspiration which lifts him above beliefs of sickness and sin. Eternally God manifests Himself through the inspired Word. Wisemen and lowly shepherds followed the same star to the cradle of Jesus, and shared the inspiration which revealed to them the Christ. Everyone who approaches Science and Health humbly and expectantly, free from desire to dictate terms to God, will be led step by step to the healing which he needs. In this book Mrs. Eddy wrote (p. 84), "Acquaintance with the Science of being enables us to commune more largely with the divine Mind, to foresee and foretell events which concern the universal welfare, to be divinely inspired,—yea, to reach the range of fetterless Mind." They who willfully resist Truth, perhaps learning through suffering, must at last surrender their resistance, for eventually all will be compelled by Truth to learn the lesson of obedience. Human thought may feel satisfied with or resigned to partial healing, incomplete reformation, or ease in matter, but every hindrance to perfection will disappear as it becomes better understood that Love's only "Thou shalt" is, Thou shalt be whole.

The student who has learned to turn from person to Principle for healing and salvation is assured that, although Jesus left his friends at Bethany to go to Jerusalem, the Christ remained their immortal Comforter. No human abode can fix the bounds of the divine presence. By putting on the Mind of Christ, the Christian Scientist gains inspiration and finds home and heaven.