IT is probable that never in the history of the human race has so much investigation been made into the nature of all kinds of disease or so much effort and money spent on the search for the remedy for physical and mental ills. It would be no exaggeration to say that the reason for this is mainly the innate longing of mankind to prevent suffering and to release human beings from the bondage of disease in all its forms.
This longing to help mankind, regardless of personality, nationality, or creed, has been the basis of a vast amount of constructive legislation and reform. It was the basis of the religion of Christ Jesus, who said (John 10:10),"I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." It is the basis of successful practice in Christian Science.
The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, expressed this longing in describing her foundational work as follows (Retrospection and Introspection, p. 30): "The motive of my earliest labors has never changed. It was to relieve the sufferings of humanity by a sanitary system that should include all moral and religious reform." It is also for this purpose that every Christian Scientist has enlisted in the Cause of Christian Science, and to him or her this desire to help mankind should become a lifework and not a mere alternative or secondary occupation or interest.
