When branch church members help give a Christian Science lecture, they provide spiritual ideas to a community—ideas that have practical results. Such a lecture illustrates fundamental metaphysical truths that settle over an audience with the sweet fragrance of spiritual goodness. The healing message, based on God, divine Principle, permeates the surrounding mental atmosphere, working a purification, or regeneration. A lecture is designed to instruct the public regarding what Christian Science teaches about God and man. It bears correct testimony to the life of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy. It certainly blesses a community by replacing ignorance with enlightenment. For many, this unique presentation can be an overture to a whole life of spiritual good.
Such a talk may draw, in comparison to the number of residents, only a few people. Yet the lecture comforts and heals beyond its immediate audience. A desire to bring to light Christ, Truth, turns those who are giving the lecture away from emphasizing the number of people present. The power of a lecture to heal and uplift the race comes from the perception and faith of church members that Truth is operating.
Would any Christian dare say that the Sermon on the Mount does not aid him today? In like manner a Christian Science lecture, clarifying Bible truths, spreads into community thought—supporting all that is positive and offsetting the malodorous evils proceeding from mortal mind. So this message leaves a good fragrance, an understanding of God that destroys moral and physical maladies.
