It's always fascinating to look out from an airplane and see reflected sunlight flashing from car windshields thousands of feet below. This light has a penetration brighter than any lighthouse, because we are seeing the rays of the sun itself. People have long known how to harness the power of the sun's rays by focusing the light through a lens that concentrates it to the point where it can make something burst into flame.
Even more dynamic is the effect of united thought that is at one with God. "The rays of infinite Truth, when gathered into the focus of ideas, bring light instantaneously," writes Mary Baker Eddy, "whereas a thousand years of human doctrines, hypotheses, and vague conjectures emit no such effulgence."
Science and Health, p. 504. The Sunday services held worldwide in Christian Science churches act as a kind of lens, bringing into focus healing ideas. The potential of these services for transforming human consciousness is far greater than might be imagined even by those familiar with them.
Everything about the Sunday service allows the deep, spiritual facts of being, the truth of God and man and all creation, to be so illumined in the thought of those attending that spiritual reality is better understood—and the result is healing. The Founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist, Mrs. Eddy, established a church service uniquely adapted to spiritually enlighten and elevate human consciousness, and to heal.
