Branch Church News
The spiritual law and the legal guards that undergird the perpetuity of the Church of Christ, Scientist, and its form of government are discussed in detail in a pamphlet long available at Christian Science Reading Rooms. The pamphlet is titled "Permanency of The Mother Church and Its Manual.
Does it ever feel like too much of an effort to get to the subway, or join a car pool, for a 20-minute ride to attend a Christian Science lecture? A report by one lecturer from his Asian tour tells of people going through waist-deep waters in order to get to a lecture that was held the day after a typhoon struck. "There was no electric power in the town, so the lecture was given in a blackout with the help of some effective battery-powered fluorescent flashlights.
Healings of children have resulted from the inspiration they gained when listening to the cassette "Before we read," according to reports reaching the Publisher's Agent. The cassette, available at Christian Science Reading Rooms, includes all seven of Mary Baker Eddy's hymns.
I can still see my mother's face when, at the age of seventeen, I told her I was going to leave the Christian Science Sunday School and start attending church services instead. My reason? I wasn't getting anything out of Sunday School anymore.
A well-located Christian Science Reading Room, wholeheartedly supported by church members and staffed by inspired workers, is a shining light in any community. Sometimes, however, there is a tendency to hide its light and to defeat, to some extent, its purpose.
One way Christian Scientists contribute to their communities is by providing lectures, open to the public, by members of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship. And this motivation to share can bring individual, spiritual growth, as a member of a Christian Science Society in South West Africa related: "In our country there are diverse races and cultures.
(Third in a series by the Sunday School Division of The Mother Church) At the end of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, the Evangelist adds two brief verses packed with meaning: "And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. " Matt.
(Second in a series by the Sunday School Division of The Mother Church. ) We're witnessing today a kind of educational warfare for the minds and bodies of children.
(First in a series by the Sunday School Division of The Mother Church. ) In learning how to become spiritual healers, Christian Scientists naturally trust Mary Baker Eddy's clear instruction.
The quality of our neighborhood Should we relocate our church, or can something be done to change the evidence of neighborhoods that are beginning to deteriorate? Are there certain neighborhoods where our churches, Sunday Schools, Reading Rooms, do and do not belong? Not exactly new questions, and the answers are neither new nor automatic. But for Christian Scientists involved in decisions about church property, location, and neighborhood profiles the answers are at the very least hinted at in Christ Jesus' words and actions.