Extract
from
Messages to The Mother Church
Communion,
January 2, 1898
MARY
BAKER EDDY
. . . Beloved brethren, another
Christmas has come and gone. Has it enabled us to know more
of the healing Christ that saves from sickness and sin? Are
we still searching diligently to find where the young child
lies, and are we satisfied to know that our sense of Truth
is not demoralized, finitized, cribbed, or cradled, but has
risen to grasp the spiritual idea unenvironed by
materiality? Can we say with the angels to-day: "He is
risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid
him"? Yes, the real Christian Scientist can say his Christ
is risen and is not the material Christ of creeds, but is
Truth, even as Jesus declared; and the sense of Truth of the
real Christian Scientist is spiritualized to behold this
Christ, Truth, again healing the sick and saving sinners.
The mission of our Master was to all mankind, and included
the very hearts that rejected it — that refused to see
the power of Truth in healing.
Our unity and progress are
proverbial, and this church's gifts to me are beyond
comparison — they have become a wonder! To me, however,
love is the greater marvel, so I must continue to prize love
even more than the gifts which would express it. The great
guerdon of divine Love, which moves the hearts of men to
goodness and greatness, will reward these givers, and this
encourages me to continue to urge the perfect model for your
acceptance as the ultimate of Christian Science. . .
.
Extract from
"Messages to The Mother Church" by Mary Baker Eddy
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and
Miscellany, pp. 122-123
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