Article August 29, 1931 Issue

Repetition

ALBERT EDWARD WILSHIRE

IN Christian Science churches where Sunday services are held both morning and evening, the First Reader makes the following announcement: "The evening service is a repetition of the morning service." (See Explanatory Note of the Christian Science Quarterly, p. 2.) In the ordinary sense the word "repetition" may be taken to mean repeating the same words; and if this is accepted as the only definition, it may furnish a reason for not attending the second service on Sunday. But shall we not do well to consider the word in a higher interpretation?

We all know that, no matter how many times we study the Lesson-Sermon during the week, with each reading we gain a deeper insight into the spiritual meaning that lies behind the words; and many a seeker after Truth has received further enlightenment from hearing the Lesson-Sermon read from the desk a second time on Sunday. Let us, then, not make the mistake of thinking that after the morning service there is no more to be gained from the Lesson-Sermon, because the evening service is "a repetition of the morning service."

A Christian Science church is a successful church proportionately as the healing truth goes out from it, and this must be entertained in the individual consciousness of all its members. We are all readers of the Lesson-Sermon which proclaims the truth. As we think truly, we are all practitioners, helping to heal the world's woes and miseries; and what greater opportunity could there be to help heal the world's sick thoughts than for the whole membership of a Christian Science church to assemble twice on Sundays? Our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, writes in "Rudimental Divine Science" (p. 9), "The spiritual power of a scientific, right thought, without a direct effort, an audible or even a mental argument, has oftentimes healed inveterate diseases."

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