If we plan a Sunday banquet and invite our friends, do we wait until Sunday to begin thinking about it? Or do we begin well ahead of time, planning the menu, even making sure we have the right clothes to wear? Every week we prepare a spiritual feast—if we are members of a church —and we invite everyone in the neighborhood. We call it a church service. How well do we remember the day and prepare for it?
The Sunday services in a Church of Christ, Scientist, offer to all who will come a feast of Truth and Love. The subject and the Lesson-Sermon In the Christian Science Quarterly; read from the Bible and from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy are the same everywhere on a given Sunday. But the number of people who attend, and their expectations, differ according to the members' obedience to the commandment, "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy." Ex. 20:8;
Preparations for this Sunday feast begin at least on Monday of the week before. Aside from the work of committees to care for such important details as having the auditorium comfortable, attractive, with the best possible acoustics, caring for the grounds so that the public will know that something beautiful will be going on in the church and that they are invited, and announcing the services through available means, every member of the church has the opportunity to work prayerfully to prepare an inviting and healing mental atmosphere.
