In many localities a need is forcing itself upon the consciousness of Scientists; the need of a home-building, wherein not only Sunday services may be held, but where every day in the year children, women, and men may come together to read and talk of this wonderful revelation brought to human thought; where claims of sickness and sin may be made to disappear before the healing power of Divine Truth and Love.
To accomplish the building of these homes, there must be three points held in view. First: Honesty of purpose. Fidelity to our highest sense of Truth will always lead us into greater unfolding of limitless Mind. Second: Self-sacrifice. The yielding up of personal sense, is the demand of Truth and Love at every step of the way. Third: Systematic Bible-study. This study is placed before each and all in the Christian Science Bible Lessons. Let each of our number write out these lessons, study, them every day in the week, and the individual reward will surely come; for the promise is "To him that overcometh."
An earnest, persistent study of these lessons, for the past seventeen months, has resulted in continual increase of joy and gratitude for the inexhaustible gleams of Truth lighting up every lesson; thereby dispelling some illusion of mortal sense at each study. Nor is this benefit restricted to individual work. When most of the assembly have made a careful study of the lessons, the power of Truth, brought out on Sabbath morning, is wonderful. On many Sabbaths we have had an out-pouring of the Holy Ghost,—understanding of Truth,—whereby hidden sin has been exposed and self-destroyed.
