Every week the Churches of Christ, Scientist, hold Wednesday and Sunday services, each having a specific function and each offering unique spiritual blessings. Attendance at these services is no merely routine performance of a moral duty or correct social act. It is participation in the "fellowship of Mind," an opportunity to realize more clearly the beauty, actuality, and availability of Spirit and to understand more fully the present fact that God is infinite Love, divine Principle, and that man is His perfect, complete expression. Furthermore, attendance at these services is a token of gratitude for blessings received, a sign of right expectation of blessings to come, and a proof of the Love-inspired desire to share the blessings of Christian Science with all mankind.
Christian Science is the Science of divine reality, the Science of God, who is Life, Truth, Mind, and of His spiritual man. The God-inspired purpose of Christian Science is to bring to light the individual and universal salvation of mankind from disease, sin, sorrow, lack, death—from every falsity and mesmeric dream of life and intelligence apart from God. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes (pp. 146. 147): "Divine metaphysics is now reduced to a system, to a form comprehensible by and adapted to the thought of the age in which we live. This system enables the learner to demonstrate the divine Principle, upon which Jesus' healing was based, and the sacred rules for its present application to the cure of disease." These statements indicate the individual aspect of the study and demonstration of Christian Science and also its universal applicability. In varying manner and measure our church services are adapted to the individual and universal aspects of Christian Science.
Spiritual apprehension and demonstration in Christian Science are primarily individual. They come to each sincere student of Science as an integral part of his conscious experience. Nevertheless, they take place amid his daily activities as a member of a family, as a laborer, student, businessman, employer, teacher, or citizen. They include the overcoming of every sort of inharmony—physical disease, sinful desire, unhappy personal relations, lack, fear, sorrow. And the spiritual overcoming of all these so-called individual problems benefits others as well as the Christian Scientist, thus awakening thought to the interrelation of individual and universal healing. In the overcoming of his problem each student has for daily help the Scriptures, the writings of our Leader, the Bible Lessons, as outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly, and the Christian Science periodicals. Spiritual refreshment gained from these pure sources not only nullifies inharmony, but also brings enhanced appreciation of the manifold indications of Love.
