One of the grandest features of Christian Science is that it inculcates that the acme of true living is in the hearing and obeying of God's Word directly.
Love's treasure consists in the fact that it is our privilege through obedience to its Word to realize its completeness and reflect it. To do this constitutes Life. It makes no difference in the beginning what the occupation, how limited the circumstances, how humble the social condition, what the sex, color, or age, spiritual hearing and obedience of the Word of Truth as it is in Christ, is the influence of real power before which mortal environment becomes as clay in the hands of the potter.
The recent change in our Church service, in the nature of things, works greatly to bring this thought uppermost. It tends to make us cease looking to others for our thought, and to look more to God alone for inspiration and support. Taking God's Word second hand is a substitute for the direct Word, for this latter inspires and enlarges our sense of Being and capacity to express it. We have been too willing that others should do our spiritual thinking, as well as acting, for us.
