Where Do You Sit in church? Does it matter? Why do so many Christian Scientists sit in the back of our auditoriums for church services? Why do many of those same individuals sit right down front for a Christian Science lecture? Is animal magnetism, the term Mary Baker Eddy used to describe error or the carnal mind, handling us and we simply don't recognize it? I had an experience a number of years ago regarding this that has meant a lot to me.
I was sitting in church one Wednesday evening with my wife when all of a sudden this angel thought came to me, quite loudly I must say: "Go sit down front!" It was quite startling really. I continued to sit there, and the thought came again, "Go sit down front!" This was just before the testimony meeting began in a large well-attended Christian Science church. We were all at one end of the auditorium, and the First Reader was way at the other end. The more I sat there, the more this heavenly expression impelled me to obey it. So, finally, I nudged my wife, we got up, and walked down to the front of the auditorium and sat there for the service, quite to the amazement of the other members. I think my wife thought I was quite daft.
The next week a good friend of mine called and said to me, "Robert, you shocked us with that move to the front of the auditorium last week." This individual, in fact, had just recently been elected First Reader at our church, but had not yet begun to serve. But the point is that if on my own I had been the one to think of making this change, it may not have even been noticed. But since I was impelled by divine Mind, the power of the Christ, Truth, was behind my move, and that startled the other individuals in the congregation.
