Editorial February 17, 1945 Issue

Dedication

Margaret Morrison

Every Church of Christ, Scientist, is dedicated. It is dedicated to serving and furthering the Cause of Christian Science; to maintaining its sure foundation in Spirit; to seeing that its power, prestige, and healing work are progressively made manifest. On pages 2 and 3 of "Pulpit and Press" the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, says: "How can we do this Christianly scientific work? By intrenching ourselves in the knowledge that our true temple is no human fabrication, but the superstructure of Truth, reared on the foundation of Love, and pinnacled in Life." As this dedicatory living is individually maintained by the members of the Church of Christ, Scientist, they will find their church edifices being dedicated quietly and harmoniously without undue thought-taking of material ways and means. The outward evidence of inward divine impulsion is inevitable. "No thought of thine can be hindered," is an interesting translation of the second verse of the forty-second chapter of Job.

The true Cause of Christian Science is the coming of the invisible Christ to human consciousness, revealing the truth of being as spiritual, eternal, complete, and perfect. This coming of the Christ, Truth, is individual and direct. Each one must find his true selfhood as the temple or embodiment of Spirit, the expression of divine Mind. How quietly the Christ comes to the human heart, not with fanfare of many words, nor storming of arguments. Gently Love invades the heart, softly as a brightly dawning day after a night of storm. Even as it was promised by David (II Sam. 23:4): "And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain." Even so spring to light the ideas of Love's revealing.

This spiritual consciousness of its members constitutes the true, invisible Church of Christ, Scientist. Continuing in the same paragraph in "Pulpit and Press" Mrs. Eddy says: "Such being its nature, how can our godly temple possibly be demolished, or even disturbed? Can eternity end? Can Life die? Can Truth be uncertain? Can Love be less than boundless?" Deathless Life, certain Truth, boundless Love—to these is every true member of every Church of Christ, Scientist, dedicated—and to the degree in which these truths are demonstrated is the Cause of Christian Science served.

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