Students of Christian Science are familiar with the fact that their textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is based on the Scriptures, and therefore should be studied in connection with the Bible. Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, in explaining how this revelation came to her, makes the following statement (ibid., p. 126): "The Bible has been my only authority. I have had no other guide in 'the straight and narrow way' of Truth."
Every conscientious follower of this Science will therefore not only accept the statements in the textbook, but will also trace these statements to the Bible and find the correlation, thus making his arguments stronger and more effective in preventing or destroying aggressive mental suggestions. It is not a difficult task to find Bible verses supporting our beloved Leader's utterances. The Concordance to Science and Health contains about eight pages of Scriptural quotations which are used and spiritually illumined by Mrs. Eddy, and thus their clarity and healing efficacy are brought to light.
A woman who had been afflicted with much suffering found through the study of that week's Lesson-Sermon new inspiration and joy in II Corinthians 4:17, 18, and in the stillness of the night came the angel message: "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." A new light dawned on her consciousness. She saw that the pain was but temporal, and could serve only to awaken her to the recognition of the "eternal weight of glory." Reasoning further she could see that here was a definite summons to look "not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen," and in a scientific sense it was revealed to her that she must turn from the evidence of the material senses to the contemplation of the nature of God and His creation. Thus, realizing the allness and oneness of infinite Mind, she found release and rest for herself, and was able to apply this truth in helping others out of suffering and in teaching with authority a class in the Christian Science Sunday School.
