Editorial August 21, 1902 Issue

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The very intimate connection between our Sunday services and the Wednesday evening meetings must be apparent to all. At the former, the Gospel is preached; at the latter grateful acknowledgment of healing and spiritual uplifting follows. Both services are necessary to a complete and well-rounded presentation of the activity of Christian Science.

On Sunday the Readers are expected to—and do—so conduct the services that every word is intelligible to the entire congregation. Failure in this essential would seriously mar the service. Is not a similiar obligation laid upon the congregation at the Wednesday evening meetings? Is the existence of such an obligation recognized, and does every speaker seek to fulfil this important requirement? If a testimony is so trivial that it is a matter of indifference to the speaker whether it be heard or not, why take the time to give it? If it is worth giving it should be given in such a manner as to be heard and understood by every one present. Even in the larger churches this is not beyond the capacity of any person who will make the effort.

Let us remember also that Christian Science has no jargon, no stilted phraseology peculiar to itself. Christian Scientists know through experience that sickness is healed, sin is destroyed, and sorrow is banished by applying the rules of Christian Science, and that it is therefore unnecessary to bolster their faith with recitals in technical terms, the meaning of which they alone will comprehend. Remember the stranger within our gates. He knows nothing of "beliefs" and "claims." To him sickness, sin, and sorrow are real, and he wants proof that they can be healed. Give him a cup of cold water in Christ's name. M.

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