Article December 7, 1935 Issue

Our Wednesday Evening Meetings

ALLEN BARNARD DRURY

Are we all grateful enough for the meetings which Mrs. Eddy so wisely provided for in the middle of each week? Are they not opportune for the giving and receiving of blessings in the testimonies of individual experiences and remarks on Christian Science? And do they not confirm what our Leader says on page 206 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that "in the scientific relation of God to man, we find that whatever blesses one blesses all"?

These meetings, which are for praise to God, acknowledgement of good, and encouragement, most fittingly provide for an expression of gratitude from each one for that which Christian Science has done or is doing for him. These meetings offer us the right place in which publicly to honor God, "who healeth all thy diseases," to be thankful for Christ Jesus' demonstration of God's power to overcome every material belief and so-called law, to acknowledge with deep gratitude Mrs. Eddy's purity and her clarity of spiritual thinking, which made possible the appearing of God's gift of Christian Science.

No greater inspiration can be found for realizing the nature of the testimony meetings than the words of our revered Leader on pages 148 and 149 of "Miscellaneous Writings," words which will bear much study and a sincere effort to carry out their requirements. She desired that the invitation to these meetings should be as indicated in the words of the prophet Isaiah, "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." After quoting these words she said: "Invite all cordially and freely to this banquet of Christian Science, this feast and flow of Soul. Ask them to bring what they possess of love and light to help leaven your loaf and replenish your scanty store."

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