Editorial October 5, 1940 Issue

The Wednesday Meetings

Alfred Pittman

It is evident that for a great number of people the midweek meetings in Christian Science churches have a unique quality of interest, an attraction unsurpassed by any type of public gathering. And this is readily understandable as one becomes familiar with the meetings.

Consider for a moment their pattern and substance. There is first, along with hymns and prayer, a setting forth in readings from the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, of the fact that spiritual power, the power of God, is now scientifically available for the healing of every trouble, and for the incomparable enrichment of mankind. Then follow, from the congregation, testimonies to the truth of this essential message. Not strangers, for the most part, but residents of the local community known to others in the congregation and living under circumstances more or less like theirs, tell how in the face of difficulties, or when there were no special difficulties, they have been able to prove the presence and power of God, infinite Love, and so have been helped and healed.

In any of the meetings, the speakers are likeky to represent a wide variety of human backgrounds. Now and again, in the larger churches, they are of several nationalities or races. They come from various occupations, and with varying degrees of understanding of Christian Science. And virtually all tell of help received where it seemed most needed in their own human situations, thereby impressively illustrating the universal availability of Christian Science.

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