Article November 11, 1944 Issue

Consecration to the Manual

SUSAN F. CAMPBELL

It matters not whether one lives in the remotest part of the world or has his abode within a stone's throw of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, each member thereof has a definite responsibility. His is the joyful privilege of praying gratefully and constructively for the Cause of Christian Science.

Unity, in its higher sense, is more than getting together for church meetings and working or talking happily and enthusiastically with other members. Unity is spiritual, and is found in the reflection of the one Mind, as we look deep into the heart of Love to learn more of the glorious idea, Church. A soldier, a sailor, an aviator, or anyone else, though he may be leagues away is still at one with The Mother Church as he realizes his unity with God and with Church as understood through the study of Christian Science. The highest work in The Mother Church is unseen; it is silent prayer and watchfulness, which unify, heal, and naturally draw mankind to Christian Science, and to an ever-ascending concept of Church.

When the Manual of The Mother Church is studied and one's work is well done in the various activities which Mary Baker Eddy learned were requisite in establishing the Cause of Christian Science on earth, there may come times of surface stirs; but there will always be a stability and peace which no human stir can reach, for eventually the steady, strong undercurrents of metaphysical work will demonstrate that God governs in our present sense of church. Those who are actively willing to consecrate their lives to the establishing of Christian Science on earth hold to the Church Manual through storm as well as sunshine, and never doubt that, because its Rules and By-Laws were impelled by divine power, they will ever be victorious.

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