Christian Science teacher and practitioner of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, currently serves as First Reader of The Mother Church. I spoke with Mr. Young on a beautiful April evening at a restaurant in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in Boston's South End. As an example of how anyone can feel the magnitude and universality of Christian Science, he showed me an e-mail from a Muslim friend. This man had attended one of the three Wednesday testimony meetings at The Mother Church on April 5, which centered on gratitude for Jill Carroll's recent release by her Iraqi captors. The e-mail says, "If there are two things that all Muslims are reminded of, [they] are a deep reverence for the Almighty, and a constant state of God-consciousness. I found both in the Church. It was like stepping into another world. The humility, the concern for all humanity and an all-encompassing love for our fellow men—these are values that we all need to implement in our daily lives." Here are a few excerpts from Young's comments during our conversation about "the majesty of Christian Science."
I immediately think of the universality of Science. The Bible talks about the law of God being put in your inward parts and written in your heart. See Jer. 31:33 . Christian Science has got to be—is, right now—written in the inward parts of every individual in the whole world, because it is the Science of being. It's not something external that we try to understand, but it's something we all come home to in our hearts. It is the truth of God that's written in us.
To me, that means that the majesty of Christian Science involves seeing the truth of being in every individual.
