Our love for Christian Science and our certainty that it is the truth which will heal and comfort all mankind will show us the need to seek for opportunities to offer it to others. To many, Christian Science is only a name, and therefore the misconceptions of it are varied. Often we need to remind ourselves that the furtherance of our Cause belongs not alone to The Christian Science Board of Directors, lecturers, practitioners, or those whom we sometimes refer to as the more experienced members of our church. The growth of Christian Science is the responsibility of all Christian Scientists, no matter how new our introduction to it, how small our understanding of it, or how temperamentally unsuited we believe ourselves to be to tell the stranger about it.
When the urge comes to offer Christian Science to someone, we should do it. Many people today would testify that their lives have been changed from fear and inharmony to freedom and joyous trust in God because some Christian Scientist refused to be frustrated in his desire to offer the healing truth to others. With his heart filled with gratitude, a Scientist has obeyed Mrs. Eddy's urging embodied in her statement: "Millions of unprejudiced minds—simple seekers for Truth, weary wanderers, athirst in the desert—are waiting and watching for rest and drink. Give them a cup of cold water in Christ's name, and never fear the consequences." On the same page she adds, "Those ready for the blessing you impart will give thanks."Science and Health, p. 570;
Perhaps we should be less anxious regarding the consequences if we noted that it is not prejudiced but unprejudiced minds of whom Mrs. Eddy speaks—millions of them. They are waiting for that rest of which Christ Jesus spoke when he said, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."Matt. 11:28; They long for that spiritual draft of "living water" referred to by Jesus when he said to the woman at the well of Samaria, "Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." John 4:10, 14;
