“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: … and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.” Isaiah 52
On Sunday the importance of the United States Constitution was lightly touched upon during the Roundtable. The Constitution’s true purpose of protecting Christian Science is well explained in Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Precepts, book 2, by Gilbert Carpenter, C.S.B. (He spent a year living in Mrs. Eddy’s household.) It gave me a deeper appreciation of this sacred God ordained document.
“In complying with civil law in founding the Church, Mrs. Eddy was not attempting to establish a permanent thing in what she herself taught was unreal. She was merely being guided by divine Mind to make her organization earthquake proof, to establish it so firmly that no phenomenon of mortal mind or matter could overthrow it. … It should be made as permanent as the last demonstration to be made in tearing down the temple of matter, so that it will remain until the end of mortal illusion.
Mrs. Eddy wrote that the church must be properly chartered, and the whole proceeding be made strictly legal. She knew that the laws of our country are foundational. Thus if the Christian Science Church in its human expression is supported by the Constitution of the United States of America, it has the greatest chance of perpetuity of anything man-made. It will remain until the last stone of the temple Is torn down.
Once a typhoon swept over a tropical island. The only survivors were natives who clung to the oldest and largest trees. Those who took refuge in the church, which was built of stone, were drowned! Mrs. Eddy selected the most enduring thing that our country has produced, – namely, its Constitution, – for her Cause to cling to. This will be the last belief to be overcome; and the world will be ready for spiritual freedom, when demonstration has been carried that far.”