Those
attending a Christian Science service for the first time may have remarked that the only public prayer we have is a few moments of silent communion with God, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer alone, or of that prayer with its spiritual interpretation as given in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
With
some evident understanding of the so-called carnal or mortal mind and the limits to which it may go in evil activity, the prophet Jeremiah wrote (17:9), "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Every
student of Christian Science should be known as a Christian healer, as one who comforts others and acquaints them with God and with their true spiritual self.
When
Christ Jesus explained to the woman at Jacob's well that true worshipers are those who worship God in spirit and in truth, he added a meaningful statement, which is sometimes overlooked.