Editorial September 5, 1953 Issue

UNITY WITH OUR LEADER

Helen Wood Bauman

Christian Scientists are those who accept the Science of Christianity as it was discovered by Mary Baker Eddy and who follow her as their Leader. This does not involve personal idolatry, but the honest recognition that Mrs. Eddy was divinely inspired in her discovery of the truth of being and in her founding of the institution which protects and disseminates that truth—The Mother Church and its branches. To fail to appreciate our Leader's mission in its compassionate ministration is to fail to understand the idea she revealed. To understand this idea is to unite with her in the way of her own design of bringing salvation from mortality to all men.

Mrs. Eddy discovered absolute reality. To her pure thought was unveiled the fact of God's oneness and allness; the inseparability of God and man—His likeness; the presence and glory of universal harmony. The kingdom of heaven became visible through the transparency of her innocent consciousness, a consciousness unsullied by selfishness or materialism. She spiritually discerned the realm of Mind as it exists eternally, peopled with divine ideas and untouched by the mortal sense of life, which she found to be a deep mesmeric dream.

In the measure that we discern what our Leader discovered and press on to full proof of the real through our own spiritualization and through our supporting the institution Mrs. Eddy founded, we are uniting with her in awakening from the mortal dream and in helping others to do so. Our efforts need constant protection from the seeming influence of materialism that they lose not their freshness of impulse and inspiration. Mrs. Eddy warns in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 81): "Nothing except sin, in the students themselves, can separate them from me. Therefore we should guard thought and action, keeping them in accord with Christ, and our friendship will surely continue."

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