"...the great Shepherd"

THOMAS F. HARE

"These two books are your pastor? The Bible and this textbook? Everyone who studies Christian Science has the same pastor all over the world? Fantastic! That's a genius idea!" These are the comments of a young man who has just been introduced to the Christian Scientist's pastor at a Christian Science Bookmobile located beside a city park in an American midwestern metropolis.

Yes, the establishment as pastor of the King James Version of the Bible coupled with Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy is "a genius idea." More than that, it is divinely inspired. This young man instantly caught the vision of the unity of doctrine, impersonality, and strength of impartation that this totally unique concept of pastor embraces.

When the young man was provided with a current copy of the Christian Science Quarterly and shown how to study the Lesson-Sermons he was even more enthusiastic. "A program of study with the pastor each day? Why, everyone becomes a theologian! Everyone has the same theology all around the world!" This individual was a theological student at a local seminary. When the Bookmobile drove off a half hour later, he was still sitting under a locust tree in the park, getting acquainted with Christian Science through the pastor.

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