Article May 2, 1936 Issue

Our Church Service

HELEN M. MULLIN

One of the great legacies from the Leader of the Christian Science movement, Mary Baker Eddy, to mankind is the Christian Science church service. Hungry hearts are fed and sick bodies are healed at the Sunday and Wednesday services. Congregational worship, characterized by spiritual understanding, provides an effectual healing power for the whole world. The services not only heal and bless the individuals who attend them, but send forth a universally regenerating influence, the beneficence of scientific prayer being measureless. Mrs. Eddy has beautifully expressed the value of prayer in the Christian Science services on page 189 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" in these words: "The silent prayers of our churches, resounding through the dim corridors of time, go forth in waves of sound, a diapason of heart-beats, vibrating from one pulpit to another and from one heart to another, till truth and love, commingling in one righteous prayer, shall encircle and cement the human race."

The world-weary find in the Christian Science Sunday and Wednesday services inspiration to press on to joys higher than those offered by materiality. They find that God, who is omnipresent good, divine Mind, supplies wisdom to guide them every step in their journey heavenward. The sick come to seek the divine truth which heals disease, and find a present reward for this seeking in their restoration to health. They feel the ever-flowing tides of divine Love encompassing their being, and are borne into spiritual realms of new and better thinking, where fear, sickness, and suffering fade away. The sinning find that God regenerates them with the sweet peace of purity, replacing the belief of pleasure in sin with the heaven-born joy of true manhood.

The services in the Christian Science churches bring out the true worship which demonstrates the healing and regenerating power of the Christ. The Lesson-Sermon, read in the Sunday services, unfolds the revelation of God's eternality and His infinite love to man. The enlightenment resulting from study of the Lesson-Sermon dissolves the human will and its destructive results through recognition of the ever-operativeness of God's will or law. The Lesson-Sermon rings forth the joyous message of good, even as the shepherds of old heard it when the angel multitude sang, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." It gives poise, peace, and strength to all who read or listen with understanding. The Word goes forth with power. The message proceeds from God, Truth, and accomplishes the divine purpose. It fills each human need as no human power can do. No attempt of evil can turn back or stultify what God is doing for the human race through the Christian Science services.

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