It has been my privilege to attend the Wednesday Evening Meetings in various cities, east and west, and while they uniformly show a marked interest and increasing helpfulness, there is yet much room in many places for improvement, by hearing from those who have had demonstrations but have not had the confidence to relate them. The many who speak oftenest would gladly give place to new voices, but they feel that there should be no prolonged intervals between testimonies.
Many times of late the thought has come to me, how easy it ought to be to speak in such meetings, where the moral and spiritual atmosphere is filled with thought-waves of harmony and helpfulness toward right thinking, and the unfettered expression of Truth. In our royal birthright, which is so emphasized in Christian Science, we are no longer strangers but brethren, and everything should be conducive to perfect freedom of utterance. So it seems to me we ought to resolve that error shall not suppress right thinking, nor shall it defeat its public expression.
If we but had that utter absence of self-consciousness and embarrassment which the child has when learning to talk (as we are now learning to talk Christian Science), we could have none of this trouble, and we should hear many more voices in these meetings. The child has something to say, and says it—says it with an abandon and eagerness that are quite refreshing—because while he has not yet learned any set phrases or forms of speech, he invents his own little language of delight to express his feelings, and his meaning is understood.
