Article March 12, 1938 Issue

Giving a Christian Science Lecture

EDITHE L. PATTERSON

Speaking of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, our Leader says (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 339), "The purpose of its members is to subserve the interest of mankind, and to cement the bonds of Christian brotherhood, whose every link leads upward in the chain of being." Hence, the design of a Christian Science lecture is to awaken the thought of humanity to know the one supreme and infinite God and His Christ, as revealed in the Bible and in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

The truth presented in the lectures attracts the receptive thought to the warmth of God's perfect love. It draws mankind into its effulgence, as the sunshine tenderly and naturally inclines the leaflet toward the light. And like the sunlight, a Christian Science lecture illumines the pathway of the seeker as he travels from sense to Soul. Again, the lectures on Christian Science might be likened to a great supper, a feast of good things, at which the church or society giving the lecture is the host.

If we were giving an important banquet of material things, we should make every effort to see that all details pertaining to it were properly and efficiently arranged beforehand. Is not this an illustration of the effort we should put forth in preparing for our spiritual feast? Thought must be made ready to receive the truth. It must be willing to be cleansed of the many beliefs of mortal mind that would tend to disturb and interfere with our banquet of spiritual things. This can be done only by individual right thinking and consecrated prayer.

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