![]() ![]() The great battle of Armageddon is upon us. 177): "Never was there a more solemn and imperious call than God makes to us all, right here, for fervent devotion and an absolute consecration to the greatest and holiest of all causes. Eddy sounds for all those who have joined the ranks of Christian Science? She reminds us (Miscellaneous Writings, p. ![]() Who can continue to sleep or be apathetic when once he has heard the trumpet note of warning that Mrs. Hence the most zealous disciple, though daily in the forefront of the battle of Truth against error, is often to human sense working unacknowledged in the background, as was the case with our beloved Leader. It is clothed in childlikeness, purity, spontaneity, and humility. ![]() It has been tried in afflictions and has risen purer and more fervent in the Cause of Christ. True zeal, being spiritual, is the expression of uninterrupted inspiration. Let us watch against drifting by slow degrees into indifference and deadness, and let us, rather, strive to increase the purity of our zeal. Apathy, in any degree, is carnal-mindedness, which is death. If we are genuinely striving to enter into a fuller understanding of divine Science, we are not turned away by either pride or timidity from the duty and privilege of serving our Cause wherever and whenever opportunity occurs and Love points the way. Not human prestige or past accomplishment, but what we are expressing of spirituality at this moment, day by day, is what primarily fits us for any office. Perhaps the excuse for inaction is based, on pride, a belief that because we have filled a so-called important office we are exempt from the necessity of doing other lesser work. Likewise our Leader never for a moment stepped to the side lines, but showed ever-increasing zeal, even toward the close of her earthly career establishing The Christian Science Monitor, one of the most far-reaching of her great accomplishments. Christ Jesus increased in good works right up to the ascension. We must never allow our spiritual eagerness to wane. Therefore should not we as church members watch against the subtle suggestion that because we have worked many years in church offices we can now afford to sit back and let the newcomers carry on? Surely that suggestion is from the carnal mind. True zeal is naturally radiant and must be expressed in action it heals, comforts, and regenerates both ourselves and others. If we are faithful to our vision of Truth, then indeed will our consciousness become a house of prayer in which we may entertain angels, or spiritual ideas and intuitions. Since Jesus was our great Exemplar, did not his cleansing of the temple illustrate the necessity for each one of us to express the same zeal and cleanse his house or consciousness of all that defiles his worship of God, Spirit, and dims his vision of the Christ? Only through like vigorous activity are we enabled to drive out of our hearts the greed, lust, tyranny, envy, apathy, and pride which are the enemies of true zeal. Such workers never mark time, but quietly and fervently press forward, translating into human action the pure thoughts of God. ![]() And blessed is the church whose membership includes many who in humility and understanding are zealous workers. The alert Christian Scientist has no difficulty in differentiating between the two in daily experience. Blind enthusiasm mortal will." Here are set forth the true, spiritual zeal as exemplified by Christ Jesus and the opposite mortal concept, the stimulus of will power. 599): "The reflected animation of Life, Truth, and Love. Zeal is defined in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy ( p. He said to the dove sellers ( John 2:16), "Take these things hence make not my Father's house an house of merchandise." And the account continues, "His disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up." Gospel of John relates that Jesus went up to Jerusalem at the time of the passover and that, seeing the outer court of the temple being used much as a common market for the sale of cattle and doves and the changing of money, he made a whip of cords and drove the merchants, oxen, and sheep out of the temple and overturned the tables of money. ![]()
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