Article August 18, 1945 Issue

Come Out and Be Separate

MARY SUE LA HEIST

It is interesting to note that Mary Baker Eddy in her writings refers but once to pressure. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she says (p. 451), "Christian Scientists must live under the constant pressure of the apostolic command to come out from the material world and be separate."

The Christian Science Reading Room is an aid to us in responding to this pressure of truth. Here through study and prayer we may find release from all the false pressure of overwork, fatigue, grief, worry, or whatever ailment seems to bring its weight upon us. The business man or woman, surrounded by minds many, fenced in by hourly demands upon time and thought, finds in a centrally located Christian Science Reading Room a quiet place where one may indeed come out and be separate from the rushing, anxious world thought.

Mrs. Eddy in her God-directed wisdom provided early for these Rooms, where authorized Christian Science literature may be read, borrowed, or purchased. Their full significance for us as Christian Scientists does not become clear until we have learned to turn to them as a part of our religious experience. As we use them, work for them, and express our gratitude for their contribution to those individuals seeking spiritual values, we become recipients of the joy they can bring into human experience.

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