Each year every community where a Church of Christ, Scientist, is situated receives a valuable gift—at least one lecture on the subject of the healing Christ. These annual lectures are, in fact, a gift from God. They are provided under the Rules of the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy and are therefore divinely inspired. In proportion as members recognize and prayerfully demonstrate that this activity of their branch church is God-inspired, Godsupplied, and God-governed, it will fulfill its redemptive purpose in the community. It will draw multitudes to it by virtue of its spiritual attraction, and be memorable for the incidents of healing and regeneration that result from it.
Now that it is more than a century since Christian Science was discovered and presented to humanity by its Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, there is a tendency to assume that the world is acquainted with its teachings. In fact, only a very small percentage of the millions of people who populate this planet have ever heard of it. And some of these are grossly misinformed.
The purpose of a Christian Science lecture is to enlighten and correct—to present the facts of God's nature as divine Principle and of the perfection of His universe including man—and to correct ignorant and malicious misconceptions prevalent in public thought concerning the method of demonstration of these divine facts in human experience.
