Friendship,
one of the deepest and most important things in human experience, can certainly be considered a "human need," and the following statement from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy gives us assurance that such needs are met.
The
world is learning that true happiness and joy have their source in spiritual understanding and right living, and not in any material condition or circumstance.
Those
who have had no experience with Christian Science, its teaching and practice, may be inclined to dismiss it casually on the basis of what they believe it to be.
