The General
Association of Teachers, 1903
MARY BAKER
EDDY
My Beloved Students:
— I call you mine, for all is thine and mine. What God
gives, elucidates, armors, and tests in His service, is
ours; and we are His. You have convened only to convince
yourselves of this grand verity: namely, the unity in
Christian Science. Cherish steadfastly this fact. Adhere to
the teachings of the Bible, Science and Health, and our
Manual, and you will obey the law and gospel. Have one God
and you will have no devil. Keep yourselves busy with divine
Love. Then you will be toilers like the bee, always
distributing sweet things which, if bitter to sense, will be
salutary as Soul; but you will not be like the spider, which
weaves webs that ensnare.
Rest assured that the good
you do unto others you do to yourselves as well, and the
wrong you may commit must, will, rebound upon you. The
entire purpose of true education is to make one not only
know the truth but live it — to make one enjoy doing
right, make one not work in the sunshine and run away in the
storm, but work midst clouds of wrong, injustice, envy,
hate; and wait on God, the strong deliverer, who will reward
righteousness and punish iniquity. "As thy days, so shall
thy strength be."
"The General
Association of Teachers, 1903," by Mary Baker Eddy
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and
Miscellany, p. 251:23-17 np
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