Words are important; they convey concepts. In "No and Yes," Mary Baker Eddy says (p. 10): "The two largest words in the vocabulary of thought are 'Christian' and 'Science.' The former is the highest style of man; the latter reveals and interprets God and man; it aggregates, amplifies, unfolds, and expresses the All-God."
In this age when fervent desire for freedom and justice, which Christian fundamentals alone can confer, and when interest in natural science, which implies a search for the knowledge of truth, dominate general thought, the name "Christian Science" should appeal as no other name for a religion can. No other name is so full of meaning.
The association of the words "Christian" and "Science" should startle the world and lead it to investigate the religion whose designation includes both words. Many people unaware of this religion will be led to recognize that Christianity as Jesus taught and practiced it is Science in its true and absolute sense. Thoughtful searchers will find that, being Christian, this religion is based upon God as Love, and, being Science, it is God's healing law, which did not diminish in power after the days of Jesus, but which needed to be discovered and proved.
