Mary Baker Eddy,
the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures".
To
all of us at some time has come an experience that involved a consideration of place; and if viewed with human opinion alone it must have seemed a baffling problem.
It
pleased one little three-year-old boy, as he watched the gentle rain fall upon the green earth, to exclaim, "God is smiling!" And who can say that the metaphor was not a happy one?
The
statement of Jesus, "Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him," is often quoted as though God knew that man lacked something.
Without
instruction there would be no progress in the world; and without human contact, to share our instruction and blessings with others, selfishness would tend to increase.
How
consistently did the master Christian, Christ Jesus, practice the truth! How perfectly did he prove that he could be in the world but not of it! He walked among his fellow-men, listening to their rehearsals of inharmony and disease, but always so conscious of good as the only reality as to heal all who came to him for healing.
Thomas C. Hollingshead, Committee on Publication for the State of Idaho,
There is no doubt that Arthur Brisbane, in his reference to Christian Science in a recent issue of your paper, intended to convey the impression that this religion claims that its study and the living of its teachings confer ability beyond what one has been accustomed to consider natural to himself.
Ralph B. Textor, Committee on Publication for the State of Ohio,
Some time ago a news item from London, England, appeared in your newspaper which stated that "an organization to 'interpret' the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy has been formed.
