Article November 14, 1925 Issue

The Good Samaritan

BERTHA L. MOORE

Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, gives us, on page 210 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," this remarkably clear admonition: "Beloved Christian Scientists, keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them." How necessary for our protection to be obedient to her advice!

Jesus, when asked by a lawyer what he should do to inherit eternal life, referred him to the Mosaic law, telling him that he must love God with all the heart, mind, soul, and strength, and his neighbor as himself. The lawyer then asked, "Who is my neighbour?" Jesus replied with that incomparable story of the good Samaritan, who, finding one wounded by the wayside and stripped of his raiment, had compassion on him, bound up his wounds, took him to a place of shelter, and paid for his care. The Master's final advice to the lawyer was, "Go, and do thou likewise."

Our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has certainly followed the Master's advice. It was her humility and compassion which made her long to bind up the wounds of robbed and suffering humanity. In the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she writes (pp. 226, 227): "I saw before me the sick, wearing out years of servitude to an unreal master in the belief that the body governed them, rather than Mind. ... I saw before me the awful conflict, the Red Sea and the wilderness; but I pressed on through faith in God, trusting Truth, the strong deliverer, to guide me into the land of Christian Science, where fetters fall and the rights of man are fully known and acknowledged." She bound up the wounds of many; poured in the wine of inspiration and understanding, and the oil of consecration and charity (see Glossary of Science and Health, pp. 598, 592); provided a shelter for many wounded, and paid dearly the price for their shelter.

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