A young girl was once told by a teacher in high school that one's religion is his own thought about God, and church the outward body that comes the closest to expressing one's thought about Him. These definitions stayed with her, and she vainly tried to reconcile the two during many years of orthodox church attendance. Great was her joy when, after years of unsatisfied longing, she found the Church of Christ, Scientist, where the blending of her thought and feeling merged into the realization of the true idea of Church.
The definition of "Church" in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy reads as follows:
"The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.
