"Those who look for me in person, or elsewhere than in my writings, lose me instead of find me." So writes Mrs. Eddy on page 120 of Miscellany. Why, then, do Christian Scientists, apart from their daily study of Mrs. Eddy's writings, so earnestly read and reread the authentic books about their Leader?
Perhaps the answer may be found in Mrs. Eddy's words as recorded by one of her students in the volume "We Knew Mary Baker Eddy," Second Series. The student wrote (p. 16): "I remember her statement, 'There are no short cuts in Christian Science,' and she said, as I recall, 'I have taken you up into the mount; I have showed you the promised land'— and then she added with finality, but also with infinite tenderness—'but you will have to walk every step of the way to get there.'"
It is in treading this way—sometimes a difficult one—to reach the promised land, in which God and man are inseparable, that students of Christian Science constantly find encouragement and inspiration in turning to the record of the one who, following the Way-shower, and quite alone, walked every step of the way before them.
