Article February 6, 1937 Issue

From Letters, Substantially as Published

The Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...

C. Shelton Agar,—Durban

Natal Mercury

The Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is based on the inspired Word of the Bible, and its first issue was in 1875. Since then there have been critics who have claimed to have discovered some connections between the ideas contained in Mrs. Eddy's textbook and those of other writers, but the fact remains that during all these years not one of these claims has been found valid.

From childhood, Mary Baker Eddy was an earnest Bible student, and believed in the power of God to heal the sick. Her consecrated life and profound search for Truth and its underlying Science enabled Mrs. Eddy to discern spiritually the practical import of the Scriptures, more especially the teachings of Christ Jesus, and her textbook has brought to light once more the availability of spiritual power to heal the sick and the sinning. Science and Health has revealed to human understanding the nature of the allness and oneness of God, who is good, and of man's relationship to Him; or in the words of St. Paul, "Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you."

Countless men and women throughout the world are living witnesses to healthy, happy, and useful lives renewed from invalidism as the result of reading and studying the Bible with Science and Health; therefore, this textbook cannot be classified or compared with any human philosophy. On page 110 Mrs. Eddy says, "In following these leadings of scientific revelation, the Bible was my only textbook." And she continues, "No human pen nor tongue taught me the Science contained in this book, Science and Health; and neither tongue nor pen can overthrow it."

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