Teachers of Christian Science will find it advisable to band together their students into associations, to continue the organization of churches, and at present they can employ any other organic operative method that may commend itself as useful to the Cause and beneficial to mankind.

Of this also rest assured, that books and teaching are but a ladder let down from the heaven of Truth and Love, upon which angelic thoughts ascend and descend, bearing on their pinions of light the Christ-spirit.

Guard yourselves against the subtly hidden suggestion that the Son of man will be glorified, or humanity benefited, by any deviation from the order prescribed by supernal grace.  Seek to occupy no position whereto you do not feel that God ordains you.  Never forsake your post without due deliberation and light, but always wait for God’s finger to point the way.  The loyal Christian Scientist is incapable alike of abusing the practice of Mind-healing or of healing on a material basis.

The tempter is vigilant, awaiting only an opportunity to divide the ranks of Christian Science and scatter the sheep abroad; but “if God be for us, who can be against us?” The Cause, our Cause, is highly prosperous, rapidly spreading over the globe; and the morrow will crown the effort of to-day with a diadem of gems from the New Jerusalem.

EXEMPLIFICATION

To energize wholesome spiritual warfare, to rebuke vainglory, to offset boastful emptiness, to crown patient toil, and rejoice in the spirit and power of Christian Science, we must ourselves be true.  There is but one way of doing good, and that is to do it!  There is but one way of being good, and that is to be good!

Art thou still unacquainted with thyself?  Then be introduced to this self.  “Know thyself!” as said the classic Grecian motto.  Note well the falsity of this mortal self!  Behold its vileness, and remember this poverty-stricken “stranger that is within thy gates.”  Cleanse every stain from this wanderer’s soiled garments, wipe the dust from his feet and the tears from his eyes, that you may behold the real man, the fellow-saint of a holy household.  There should be no blot on the escutcheon of our Christliness when we offer our gift upon the altar.

A student desiring growth in the knowledge of Truth, can and will obtain it by taking up his cross and following Truth.  If he does this not, and another one undertakes to carry his burden and do his work, the duty will not be accomplished.  No one can save himself without God’s help, and God will help each man who performs his own part.  After this manner and in no other way is every man cared for and blessed.  To the unwise helper our Master said, “Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.”

The poet’s line, “Order is heaven’s first law,” is so eternally true, so axiomatic, that it has become a truism; and its wisdom is as obvious in religion and scholarship as in astronomy or mathematics.