In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy says, "Whatever inspires with wisdom, Truth, or Love—be it song, sermon, or Science— blesses the human family with crumbs of comfort from Christ's table, feeding the hungry and giving living waters to the thirsty."Science and Health, p. 234; And at the conclusion of her book Retrospection and Introspection she quotes these lines from a poem by A. E. Hamilton:
Ask God to give thee skill
In comfort's art:
That thou may'st consecrated be
And set apart
Unto a life of sympathy.
For heavy is the weight of ill
In every heart;
And comforters are needed much
Of Christlike touch.Ret., p. 95;
If one is serving the Cause of Christian Science as a practitioner or a nurse, it is his earnest desire to bring comfort with a Christlike touch to every hungering heart.
