Every
time an individual enters a Church of Christ, Scientist, he is responding to the attraction of the Christ, seeking the open fount of Truth, which is free to all.
In
her address to the Alumni of the Metaphysical College in 1895 Mary Baker Eddy said, "Christian Scientists cannot watch too sedulously, or bar their doors too closely, or pray to God too fervently, for deliverance from the claims of evil".
Abraham Lincoln
in a speech in Baltimore, Maryland, in April, 1864, said, "We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
The
remarkable faith and courage of the Shunammite woman which enabled her to declare, "It is well," as she faced the death of her small son, has inspired untold thousands for centuries.
Progress for the individual Christian Scientist and his local branch Church of Christ, Scientist, is inseparable from fulfillment of his duty to all mankind, speakers at this meeting emphasized.
The
Christian Scientist finds that the experience of attending college affords many opportunities to prove God's allness and to demonstrate man's endless capabilities as the child of the infinite, all-knowing Mind.