Editorial June 2, 1962 Issue

Our Annual Meetings

Ralph E. Wagers

The Annual Meetings of The Mother Church are profound in their simplicity. The reports that are read at these meetings do more than tell of the progress of the Church as an institution. They point to the results, as well as to the needs, of spiritual growth on the part of the followers of Mary Baker Eddy, who, through her writings and example, will ever be the Leader of the movement that God directed her to establish.

To Christian Scientists the original edifice of The Mother Church and its Extension are symbols of the spiritual vision, the moral courage, and inspired leadership of Mrs. Eddy. Into these buildings went the hopes, prayers, and, in many cases, the savings of the early Christian Scientists. They are reminders that our Leader looked forward to the universal acceptance of the Science she had discovered and founded. And they encourage her followers to hope and pray that present and future members will rise spiritually to the point where their demonstrations will equal, if not exceed, those of the earlier period.

There is a definite relationship between the spiritual development of individual Christian Scientists and the growth of the movement itself. It is what goes on within that counts, the degree in which our desires and affections direct our efforts in ways that adequately conform to the demands of this Science. Daily growth in love and obedience, loyalty and discipline, on the part of its members is the only basis upon which such a vital movement can accomplish the work it has to do.

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