Article January 29, 1944 Issue

On Giving a Christian Science Lecture

MARGARET MORRISON

Mary Baker Eddy , the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, under the guidance of divine wisdom, established The Christian Science Board of Lectureship. She provided for its activities in the Manual of The Mother Church. Therefore, every authorized Christian Science lecture takes place under the provisions and protection of the Church Manual. Such a lecture is based on the truth taught in Christian Science, namely, the allness and oneness of divine Mind, God, and His alone government and power. A Christian Science lecture presents to the world that of which Mrs. Eddy speaks on pages 126 and 127 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," where she says, "This is that needful one thing—divine Science, whereby thought is spiritualized, reaching outward and upward to Science in Christianity. Science in medicine, in physics, and in metaphysics."

The giving of a Christian Science lecture is first considered, in its every aspect, from a metaphysical basis. From that basis the necessary human steps are worked out in intelligence, order, dignity, and joyous alertness. This ensures that the giving of a lecture will not become a matter of a mere duty, routine, or, possibly, entertainment. While maintaining its dignity of purpose and deportment, it should never become heavy with undue solemnity, never tainted with ritualism, but it should reflect the spontaneity of Love rejoicing in its own loveliness and power to bless. No petty personalities should creep in to interfere with the nobility of Mind and its active, enriching qualities. It partakes of freshness, inspiration, the ever-renewing energy of Spirit. It is, indeed, the irresistible activity of Truth demanding that a highway be made in the desert of human beliefs for its message of freedom, health, joy, and beauty.

When a lecture is thus based on the allness of Mind and its manifestation, the church giving the lecture finds unfolding within itself Mind's vital law of progress. Pure divine metaphysics, because of the innate simplicity of Truth itself, will feed and bless all, however simple or advanced the state or stage of consciousness which listens. When Jesus fed the five thousand with a few loaves and fishes, it is stated, he broke the bread and gave it to his disciples to give to the multitude, who were satisfied. It is good to know that no matter how small the pieces into which it was broken, the bread remained bread, not made more palatable. nor eked out, with extraneous substance. So Truth, ungarnished by human opinions or embellishments, feeds and nourishes all with its own purity.

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