Words of truth read during the Lesson-Sermons at all our Christian Science churches have the power to heal every discordant condition that may be troubling those listening to the service. The truths in the words of the church solos and the hymns that the congregations sing, carry the same healing power.
I sincerely believe that people who come to worship in church have a deep desire to be healed and to be good. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “The habitual struggle to be always good is unceasing prayer. Its motives are made manifest in the blessings they bring,—blessings which, even if not acknowledged in audible words, attest our worthiness to be partakers of Love” (p. 4). The prayers of churchgoers and their desire to hear the Word of God result in blessings when they recognize, along with the Psalmist, that “[God’s] word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path” (Psalms 119:105).
What is required of us is to be watchful, so that we abide in God’s law and obey His Word and commandments, and do not disregard them—even though it may sometimes seem that we have a strong reason or justification for a wrong attitude.
