Every earnest student of Christian Science longs to overcome error in his life and to gain a clearer understanding of God and His Christ. The way to achieve this goal is made plain by Mrs. Eddy. She writes in Science and Health (p. 428), "To divest thought of false trusts and material evidences in order that the spiritual facts of being may appear,—this is the great attainment by means of which we shall sweep away the false and give place to the true."
After her momentous discovery in 1866, Mrs. Eddy devoted nearly a half century to establishing the Christian Science movement on sure foundations that the great attainment might be available to the generations to follow. In her final plan for her Church, each activity plays its role to help humanity "divest thought of false trusts and material evidences in order that the spiritual facts of being may appear."
Central to her establishment of her Church was the provision for public church services on Sunday and Wednesday. Attending church on Sunday is a longstanding Christian tradition, but for the Christian Scientist attendance on Wednesday as well as Sunday is a measure of one's love and gratitude for the Cause. There is not a point in the growth of a Christian Scientist at which he may feel that he is no longer obligated to attend services, or that he no longer needs the church organization or its activities. It is plain that he who still feels the need for nourishing and refreshing the human organization called body still needs the nourishment and refreshment to be found in the human organization called church.
