The following reports of fruitage from sharing the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, have been selected from the many hundreds which were received in response to the letter of November 15, 1962, to all members of The Mother Church from The Christian Science Board of Directors.

New Jersey

My husband and I were introduced to a merchant seaman and his family shortly after settling in our retirement home in a small community. The seaman, a chief engineer, told us about his interest in the Christian Science periodicals which are delivered to the docks of the port of New York and distributed to the seamen on board the outgoing ships. He said he was impressed by the good, authentic international news contained in The Christian Science Monitor, as well as by the various articles in the other periodicals; but he had never seen a copy of Science and Health. Furthermore he remarked that we were the first Christian Scientists he had ever met.

We appreciated this opportunity to place our textbook in receptive hands and offered to lend him a copy, which he gratefully accepted.

A little later he was called out to sea again; but before sailing he visited us for the purpose of asking permission to take the book with him on his travels through the Orient. We told him to consider the book his own by all means, that it made us very happy to know he felt the need of having it with him. His wife informed me he had spent most of his time off duty reading the book, and many times when she had other plans.

After his return from the Orient he visited us again and related how the truths in Science and Health had helped him in his contacts with the men over whom he had charge.

Immediately following the first service he attended in our church, he purchased at our Reading Room a paperback copy of the textbook to send to his son in another city. The young man works for the Government as a teacher of electronics. Although a seemingly successful and brilliant mathematician, he had not been happy. His parents were quite concerned about his apparent lack of control of temper whenever things did not go his way. The father recognized his son's need for the controlling and comforting guidance of Christian Science.

The son is now receiving this guidance through his study of Science and Health. He has told his father that he realizes that the metaphysics of Christian Science and mathematics are similar. He seems ready to understand the infinite idea. He keeps the paperback copy in his desk for study at the office whenever his work permits and, without any qualms, reads it openly at his desk. Once when so engaged he sensed another's presence, and there, looking over his shoulder was a colonel reading along with him. Soon, another one of the so-called brass was looking too and reading along with them. As a result, both of these men went out to the nearest Reading Room, and each one purchased a copy of Science and Health.

Louisiana

I gave a copy of our textbook as a gift to a Negro high school graduate. Before he was to enter college he was accidentally shot in the head. His condition appeared critical. The doctor told his mother he was afraid the damage to her son's brain would cause a stroke and paralyze him for life. The mother had also been given a copy of Science and Health. She and her son turned to their books and earnestly read them for assurance of his safety. In a few days he was released from the hospital, and the following week he enrolled in a nearby college.

He took his book with him to college, and he roomed with two other students. One of them immediately became interested in reading and discussing the textbook with him. The other roommate scoffed and asked, "Are you a square?" He replied that he was finding within this book all the answers to his problems.

He read it daily and proved it to be helpful in raising his scholastic standing as the weeks passed. The roommate who had scoffed and several other friends decided to read when their grades were low. Up to the present time he has interested eight students in the reading of Science and Health. Additional copies of it have been given and are being shared among them.