Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

The question, What is Truth, is answered by demonstration, by healing both disease and sin and this demonstration shows that Christian healing confers the most health and makes the best men. Theology and physics teach that both Spirit and matter are real and good, whereas the fact is that Spirit is good and real, and matter is Spirit’s opposite. To develop the full might of this Science, the discords of corporeal sense must yield to the harmony of spiritual sense, even as the science of music corrects false tones and gives sweet concord to sound. Since the author’s discovery of the might of Truth in the treatment of disease as well as of sin, her system has been fully tested and has not been found wanting but to reach the heights of Christian Science, man must live in obedience to its divine Principle. Future ages must declare what the pioneer has accomplished. It is the task of the sturdy pioneer to hew the tall oak and to cut the rough granite. A book introduces new thoughts, but it cannot make them speedily understood. Though empires fall, the Lord shall reign forever. The only guarantee of obedience is a right apprehension of Him whom to know aright is Life eternal. Ignorance of God is no longer the steppingstone to faith. Contentment with the past and the cold conventionality of materialism are crumbling away. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity. The Wisemen were led to behold and to follow this daystar of divine Science, lighting the way to eternal harmony. So shone the pale star to the prophetshepherds yet it traversed the night, and came where, in cradled obscurity, lay the Bethlehem babe, the human herald of Christ, Truth, who would make plain to benighted understanding the way of salvation through Christ Jesus, till across a night of error should dawn the morning beams and shine the guiding star of being.

The wakeful shepherd beholds the first faint morning beams, ere cometh the full radiance of a risen day. To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings. Science and Health with Key To The Scriptures

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy