About Us

Royer Park features a playground (across from the church), athletic fields and other facilities, and it is the venue for many celebrations. Most city holiday parades proceed down Park Drive.

Our Reading Room, first established in 1938, has been in a variety of locations over the years. Our Reading Room is currently in a commercial center in Roseville, where it has been located since 1994.

We gather in the church or the Reading Room for special presentations, like the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church.

God’s Child Is Unfallen

“A friend lovingly invited me to accompany her on a bus trip to Ashland, Oregon. I had not been there for many years, so I was excited to be going to see several plays. Traveling on a large chartered bus required several high steps to get on and off. My friend used a walker to get around, so I was happy to assist her when necessary.

On the second morning of the trip, while helping my friend get her walker over the curb, I lost my balance. I fell on my knees and wrist. Although I was in excruciating pain, I told all our tour mates that I was OK. I could declare that truth, because silently, I was thanking God that He knows nothing about accidents, so I could not either. I was so grateful to feel God’s presence and power right there with me. My friends helped me up, and as I continued up the hill to the theater, I continued my prayers with some of the words to a hymn.”

I enjoyed the play, got on and off the bus back to the hotel with no pain. I knew I was completely healed. I was also grateful that I had my own room, where I could study the Daily Bible Lesson. So many passages from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy assure us “that we can never fall from our high estate.” Page 392 promises me, that as God’s perfect image, I must always take antagonistic grounds against all that is opposed to my health, harmony and joy. Praying with these truths protected my healing from any of my tour mates’ fears. I am grateful every day for Christian Science and its healing truths.”

D.W.

Sciatica Symptoms

“Early this year I began waking up with pain so severe in my hip and leg that I could only move with the support of a cane. I had practitioner help for a while, found useful Science and Health statements, assistance from a reading room attendant in tracking down Christian Science Sentinel articles and hymn 139 in the Christian Science Hymnal, “I walk with Love along the way, / And O, it is a holy day; / No more I suffer cruel fear, / I feel God’s presence with me here; / The joy that none can take away / Is mine; I walk with Love today.” That was my constant companion. I am so grateful for all the avenues provided for our use and for the healing that quickly followed.”

D.F.L.

Just One Man, Not Two

“The truth of Christian Science is there for all of us to apply, and in one way of looking at it, it’s all very simple. But each of us works to discover fresh understanding or a new light on that truth, and when we do, it leads to healing.

I found the new light that I needed a month or so ago. Over the course of a day or two, I began to have great difficulty walking and just moving about. As Christian Scientists, it’s impossible for us to avoid getting information about anatomy, and it seemed that many parts of my body were giving me problems at the same time. I read my Lesson over a couple of days and looked for inspiration in different places. Then one day, it hit me that my problem was that I was trying to think correctly about 2 men – the spiritual man and mortal man. But we learn in CS that there is just one real man. So what about that “other” man? I saw clearly that there wasn’t another man, a mortal man with overwhelming problems. Rather what was clamoring for my attention was an illusion, a false report about the man I am. About that time, Mrs. Eddy’s definition of “anatomy” was in the Lesson. She says, “Anatomy, when conceived of spiritually, is mental self-knowledge, and consists in the dissection of thoughts to discover their quality, quantity and origin.”

So I began to practice real anatomy – mental self-knowledge, and I turned my thought to God and that real man, claiming my right of freedom from pain, my right of natural movement and flexibility. I dismissed all contrary suggestions as just that – suggestions or, to put it bluntly, lies. That was late in the day, and I held that view in my thought over the hours until bedtime. When I awoke, I gratefully realized that I was able to walk freely, do things around the house, and even get down on the floor to comb the cat.

That wasn’t quite the end of the story. Periodically, over the following days and weeks, there was a little voice that said, “I’m back!” My answer, with a bigger voice was, “No you’re not.” And I held to that image of God’s man that had healed me. I thought a lot about the bylaw in our Church Manual, “It shall be the duty of every member of this Church to defend himself daily against aggressive mental suggestion…” And that’s what these little voices were: aggressive mental suggestion.

I should add that I encountered another challenge. Occasionally, I’d absent-mindedly think, “I wonder how that knee, or hip, or foot is doing.” Then – no surprise – I’d get complaints from the body parts I was wondering about. I realized that I was creating my own aggressive mental suggestion, so I learned to cut off thoughts like that immediately.

Now, I find I’m reminding myself frequently – “just one man, not two.” And I am training myself to expect nothing but harmony. I’m grateful for all the varied ways in which individual, God-inspired facets of truth come to us to help us deal with daily challenges.”

R.F.