"One holy church of God appears
Through every age and race,
Unwasted by the lapse of years,
Unchanged by changing place."
Humanity has always worshiped some form of deity. Under the stars or in grand edifices mankind have sought a god to worship, have reached beyond the mortal for a power stronger than that conceived by a limited material sense of life and intelligence. Wherever people have come together to entreat an unknown god for favors, or, in more enlightened states of thought, to praise God for His goodness, there a sense of church has come into being.
Often mankind has offered prayers to God as though He were afar off, as a Being wholly separate from man, but having the power to give or withhold good or evil. Can we be grateful enough for the revelation in Christian Science that man is one with God as idea, that he is indeed the very expression of God's being? Our worship in Christian Science leads us into newness of life, in which we do not struggle to reach the ear of a far-off God, but we endeavor to quiet the material senses that would prevent our hearing what ever-present Mind is saying. We need be in no certain spot or assume no particular attitude to commune with our Father-Mother God. We need only turn away from the clamor of the material senses, which argue separation from God, to find our oneness, or unity, with Him and to commune with divine Spirit.
