THE weekly Lesson-Sermon, outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly, is a sermon fraught with untold blessings and prosperity for the world. Mrs. Eddy emphasizes its importance in these words in the Church Manual (Art. Ill, Sect. 1): "The Readers of The Mother Church and of all its branch churches must devote a suitable portion of their time to preparation for the reading of the Sunday lesson,—a lesson on which the prosperity of Christian Science largely depends."
While this rule is specifically applicable to Readers in churches, most earnest Christian Scientists prayerfully study the Lesson-Sermon each day. The result is that they listen to the reading of the Lesson-Sermon on Sunday with deeper understanding and with fresh inspiration.
Animal magnetism, or mortal mind, would, if it could, occasionally deceive even an experienced student. For a patient sometimes says to a practitioner: "I don't seem to be getting anything out of the Lesson-Sermon anymore. I read it nearly every day, but I'm just reading words." Usually such a one is complaining of lack of health, lack of harmony, lack of supply, or lack of prosperity. The lack all of us need to eliminate is the lack of the conviction of the ever-presence of God, good.
