When
Christ Jesus spoke of himself as the true vine and his Father as the husbandman, he was using a vividly descriptive metaphor familiar in the East.
In
The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, one has the happy assurance that at every Sunday service he will hear one of the inspirational hymns the words of which were written by the Christian Scientists' loved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.
On
page 158 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the author, Mary Baker Eddy, gives a short account of the history of medicine.