The purpose of a Christian Science lecture is to bless mankind, individually and collectively—to communicate the redeeming Christ and to show its saving influence on human consciousness in the form of healing. Blessing should be abundantly anticipated and experienced.
A Christian Science lecture produces spiritual growth every time it's presented; for through it human thought is to some degree evangelized and spiritually advanced. Thought thus becomes a little less material and a little more divinely endowed. Human experience is to this extent, then, improved, and this improvement is lecture fruitage.
"Lecture fruitage" can mean different things to different people. For some, it can take form, and often does, in physical healing. For others, a lecture brings new or renewed inspiration, a more spiritual concept of what life really is, an awakening to a practical Christianity that solves human problems by spiritual means. In some instances, attendance at a lecture means improved human relationships, more satisfying employment, increased strength, greater usefulness, a better view of oneself and of others. Attendance can also result in sin renounced; grief overcome; weariness conquered; despondency, limitation, idleness, loneliness, eliminated.
