It will be interesting to the field to know that since the new order of services was established, a change has also been made in the manner of conducting the Friday evening meetings here in Boston. Instead of a continuation of the Bible lesson as formerly, meetings in the nature of experience meetings are held. A message from our Leader inaugurated these meetings.
These meetings have already borne much fruit. As one after another of those who have been marvellously healed and spiritually uplifted through Christian Science, gets up and relates his or her experience, speaking not idle words, but words of earnestness out of the depth of a thankful heart, relating in simple, unaffected strain, the glorious works of divine Truth in his or her case, a profound sense of God's nearness is felt, and tears of joy and thankfulness come unbidden to many an eye. There is a depth of meaning attached to words which come from actual experience and demonstration in comparison with which mere assertion, argument, speculation, or supposition from an intellectual standpoint, become indeed as "sounding brass and tinkling cymbals,"—empty and fruitless.
One speaks of how he was brought into Christian Science; another of how he was healed physically; another of the glorious spiritual uplifting which came with the first ray of light; another refers to the self-sacrifice of our Leader in building up the cause; and so each meeting makes up a complement of experiences which is exceedingly helpful as well to Scientist as to stranger, and one which must touch a responsive chord in the heart of every sincere listener.
