The writer has many times read articles expressing gratitude for our Lesson-Sermons. A short time ago he had occasion to spend Sunday in a small town in which there was no church, and as he was not acquainted with any Christian Scientist in the place, he went to his room at the hotel, and held a service alone, according to the usual order, except that he acted as both First and Second Reader, and also as congregation. For an offertory he gave thanks to God for benefits received in Christian Science. The peace and joy thus experienced were very uplifting.
Many of us do not realize the value of a daily study of the Lesson-Sermon. Mrs. Eddy tells us in the explanatory note in the Quarterly, that "the Bible and the Christian Science textbook are our only preachers," and that "the canonical writings, together with the word of our textbook, corroborating and explaining the Bible texts in their spiritual import and application to all ages, past, present, and future, constitute a sermon undivorced from truth, uncontaminated and unfettered by human hypotheses, and divinely authorized."
Our Lesson-Sermons are prepared at headquarters by consecrated workers, and while it may at first seem to some of us impracticable to see the relationship between the references from the Bible and those from our textbook, consistent study will reveal it. Jesus said, "Seek, and ye shall find;" and if we are willing to take whatever we understand, however little it may be, and use it, we shall find our progress rapid.
