What Christian Scientist doesn't long to see his branch church or society better attended? Not because the mere filling of seats is the objective but because there's so much for his church to give and all too few of humanity's billions are awake to the fact that they have a share in this giving.
What member doesn't long to see much more response to Christian Science lectures, radio programs, Reading Rooms, literature distribution, The Christian Science Monitor? Why, one might ask, when members work and pray so hard and the world's need is so great, do these church activities seem to have relatively little impact on public thought?
The Gospel of Luke records Christ Jesus' reaction when one of his hearers remarked, "Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God." He proceeded to tell the story of a man who made a great supper but found those to whom he had sent invitations full of excuses for not coming. One wanted to see a piece of ground he had bought, another needed to try out some newly purchased oxen, and yet another had just been married. Then the poor, the maimed, the halt, and the blind were invited. The master of the feast ordered his servants to "go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled."Luke 14:15, 23;
