Article April 11, 1936 Issue

The Lesson-Sermon

[Written Especially for Young People]

BARBARA D. WILSON

YOUNG Christian Scientists sometimes find it difficult to study the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly as faithfully as they should. In a crowded schedule of schoolwork and homework, social engagements, or business duties, there may seem to be little or no opportunity for such study. Again, one may have the time but may lack the inclination for this study. The young person in business possibly thinks that the hours when he is not employed should be entirely devoted to rest and recreation. Others may think the Lessons uninteresting or hard to understand.

All these arguments, and many more, mortal mind persistently and persuasively employs to keep the students of Christian Science from a daily, systematic study of the Lesson-Sermon. And why should this be so? Because this Lesson, as Mrs. Eddy points out in Article III, Section 1, of the Church Manual, is "a lesson on which the prosperity of Christian Science largely depends."

"The prosperity of Christian Science" means the prosperity of each Christian Scientist, the increase of his spirituality, the broadening of his vision, and the growth of his power to think and act rightly—all of which means the gradually lessening influence and final annihilation of mortal mind and all its attendant discords. Small wonder, then, that evil should fight against this right activity, even as it presumes to fight against all good!

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