Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, under the marginal heading, "Anatomy defined" writes, "Are thoughts divine or human?
What a sweet word it is—forgiveness —and what kindness, self-forgetfulness, and beauty are wrapped up in it! To practice it is to experience a taste of the infinite of Love, and without it one cannot approach God.
When Christian Science asserts that matter is really lifeless, inert, sensationless, it doesn't ignore the fact that certain forms of matter seem very much alive, very sensitive—especially to pain.
When my son was still a baby, a combination of coincident factors, including the passing of my mother and the breaking up of my marriage, resulted in my experiencing a nervous breakdown.
For almost forty-one years I have enjoyed reading the testimonies and articles in the Christian Science periodicals, and studying Christian Science, without submitting a written testimony expressing my gratitude for all this religion has meant to me.
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