The purpose of a Christian Science lecture is to enlighten the public as to Christian Science, to reply to condemnation of it, and to give the facts of the life of its Founder and Discoverer, Mrs. Eddy.See Manual of The Mother Church, Art. XXXI, Sect. 2
But this enlightenment is not merely a cerebral correction. Mrs. Eddy writes of the Board of Lectureship, "The purpose of its members is to subserve the interest of mankind, and to cement the bonds of Christian brotherhood, whose every link leads upward in the chain of being."The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 339
A lecture is a public affair, through which members of branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, offer to their community a spiritual gift they themselves have found precious and precise. They will want to find the best way of attracting the attention of the public, for the lecture is primarily directed to those who know little or nothing of Christian Science. True, it will be a correction of misapprehensions and prejudices. But to fulfill its purpose it must also awaken spiritual sense in the hearers.
