“Brethren, our annual meeting is a grave guardian. It requires you to report progress, to refresh memory, to rejuvenate the branches and to vivify the buds, to bend upward the tendrils and to incline the vine towards the parent trunk. You come from feeding your flocks, big with promise; and you come with the sling of Israel's chosen one to meet the Goliaths.”— Mary Baker Eddy(The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 125:4)

“The real house in which ‘we live, and move, and have our being’ is Spirit, God, the eternal harmony of infinite Soul. The enemy we confront would overthrow this sublime fortress, and it behooves us to defend our heritage.” — Mary Baker Eddy (Pulpit and Press, p. 2: 12-15)

To be a healer both inside and outside the prison/institution. “Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtain of thy habitations:” (Isa. 54:2 (to,))“Forget self in laboring for mankind;” (Mis. 155: 7 (to;)) “...drink with me the living waters of the spirit of my life-purpose, to impress humanity with the genuine recognition of practical, operative Christian Science.”(Mis. 207:3)