Long-time
familiarity with the sermonic feature of the customary religious service is likely to bring one a great surprise when he discovers, on first attending a Christian Science church, that personal preaching has been eliminated from the order of exercises.
In
our Wednesday evening meetings and in our periodicals many testimonies are given of the betterment of social and business conditions through the application of the rule of Christian Science to every problem that presents itself in human experience, and to the person who analyzes these testimonies it is very apparent that to the extent in which unselfishness and right desire prevail in the thought of the Christian Scientist, to that extent is a blessing received.
If
one were given a problem in mathematics to solve, he would first endeavor to understand it thoroughly, and then apply to its solution the rule by which such a problem can be worked out.
One
of the most noticeable effects of Christian Science is the awakening of gratitude for every good thing, and a desire to manifest it in some practical way.
At
the beginning of another year of work in the lecture field, we are glad to comply with the request for a republication of the letter addressed by our revered Leader to the board of lectureship in the earlier stages of this great work for humanity, believing that it will likewise be an inspiration to every Christian Scientist.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
has for nearly half a century been revealing to humanity in a new and most vital way the privilege of sonship to God, and it has had to do this in the face of a false sense of man's relation to his heavenly Father.
There
are not a few beginners in Christian Science who are puzzled when called on to explain how cures are effected by the use of drugs, and one such has recently asked, "If the worth of things is to be determined by their fruits, and some material remedies have brought health as certainly as has Christian Science, according to the testimony of those benefited, why should not the good of both be recognized and accepted?
