Millions in Africa and Europe are hearing of Mary Baker Eddy for the first time via shortwave radio. And Christian Science lectures as well can be expected to reach predominately public audiences. How can we help the public, so dear to Mrs. Eddy, to come to appreciate her as we do? In the Manual of The Mother Church she states that it is the duty of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship "to bear testimony to the facts pertaining to the life of the Pastor Emeritus." Man., Art. XXXI, Sect. 2. But is it only the lecturers and others giving public talks who bear testimony to these facts?
A Christian Scientist tells of his early struggle with what he thought to be the "facts" about Mrs. Eddy. He had gathered these "facts" from books borrowed from a public library, books that he did not know had been especially written to discredit her. He loved what he was reading in her book Science and Health—at least that which he could understand— but he struggled with what he thought to be true about Mrs. Eddy. Finally he related these "facts" to a practitioner. And, he says, he will never forget her response. She didn't offer an argument. The practitioner just smiled and said, "Oh, Mrs. Eddy wasn't like that."
