Article April 4, 1959 Issue

Effective Support

The success of our Christian Science Reading Rooms depends largely upon the support of church members, spiritually and otherwise. No matter what the circumstances may be—whether a Reading Room is located in the church edifice or in a spacious ground-floor room, fully equipped—the need is daily spiritually progressive activity.

Effective inspirational support and its inevitable results were proved in the experience of one librarian, who writes:

"For some time now we have made continuous progress in our Reading Room. At times it has seemed slow, but there has been a steady moving forward; in particular, we have witnessed the overcoming of limited thinking with regard to this phase of our church activity. I remember one afternoon when we had not seen a visitor all day and I was tempted to be somewhat discouraged. As I stood in the study room looking at all the wonderful books which were available for reading, I recalled the definition of 'wilderness,' given in the Glossary of 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures' by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy (p. 597). It reads: 'Loneliness; doubt; darkness. Spontaneity of thought and idea; the vestibule in which a material sense of things disappears, and spiritual sense unfolds the great facts of existence.'

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