Mary Baker Eddy was never in any doubt as to the value of her unique gift to humanity. As Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, she could view with childlike wonder the magnitude of her lifework and rest serene in the consciousness that God alone had enabled her to accomplish it. With simplicity and the unerring wisdom that Godlike purity begets, she listened to and obeyed the Mind that directed her. In memorable language she has evaluated her work: her discovery and its practical proof; its presentation in her writings; and her founding of the Christian Science movement. Her words may always be studied with growing understanding, insight, and inspiration.
In two different but perfectly correlative passages she recognizes with deep humility the nature of the redemptive gift God prepared her to give to us, even the full revelation of the Science, or law, of God; and she warns us of the responsibility that such an acceptance entails—no less than the cross or burden of proof that rests on each one of us.
The first passage occurs in a letter that she wrote to an early student and is published in "Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy" by Irving C. Tomlinson. It reads (p.125): "I feel that you all have in my book Science and Health the anchor of your being that will prove sure and steadfast in storm and shine. O! how thankful I am that God has enabled me to give to you, my dear children in Christ, a rich inheritance."
