In the Preface of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy says (p. vii): "It is the task of the sturdy pioneer to hew the tall oak and to cut the rough granite. Future ages must declare what the pioneer has accomplished." It is with much gratitude that I am able to say that I am one of a fourth generation of Christian Scientists in our family, declaring what the pioneer, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy, accomplished in her untiring efforts to bring the Christ, Truth, to humanity.
It has been a joy and privilege to have had this heritage of the teachings of Christian Science. God, divine Love, has always met my every need.
Through the help of my parents and kind practitioners, healings were always forthcoming. One day, however, as I was reading Science and Health, this passage arrested my thought (p. 297): "Until belief becomes faith, and faith becomes spiritual understanding, human thought has little relation to the actual or divine." My thought was aroused to my need of advancing to a higher spiritual understanding that I might be better able to do my own work in proving the truth.
