Such Loving Provision

     
        The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, made such loving provision for the spiritual understanding and progress of her followers, and all those yearning to understand God better. First and most important, her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.  Added to this is her other writings, the periodicals, public lectures, as well as the many ways The Mother Church in Boston, Massachusetts is reaching out across the globe to bless mankind.

        And what I'm grateful for this morning are the Bible Lessons that students of Christian Science read and ponder each day.  There is no way to measure the comfort and enlightenment and spiritual support these Lessons have brought me over the years.  I was just thinking this week of how far-reaching they are when I was talking to a friend in Oak Ridge, TN.  Frank is a devoted student of Christian Science and when he was serving in the Marines on Iwo Jima, he had with him the tiny little books that comprised the daily lessons-- the Bible and Science and Health.  When he could, he actually read these service editions between shellings! Talk about blessings far and wide.

        And one time, when we were coming back from Zurich, Switzerland and had our Christian Science Quarterly out on the tray, with our books, I happened to look at the couple next to us ,and there were the same items.  We both were reading our Bible and the Christian Science textbook on the way back to Boston.  It was such fun getting to know this couple. Small world, indeed.

        Just writing and publishing her major work, Science and Health, would have been enough for much people.  But that so many other provisions have been made for mankind's betterment is something I continue to appreciate greatly.