In 1993, meetings were held throughout the United States and in many other countries focusing on the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science. The purpose of these meetings was to engage church members in making the revealed Comforter, the divine Science which Christ Jesus taught and practiced, more widely known to all mankind through Science and Health. This year there have been a number of follow-up meetings with the same focus. On May 3, Jean Stark Hebenstreit, C.S.B., of Kansas City, Missouri, conducted a follow-up meeting in the Sunday School of The Mother Church. The meeting included an opportunity for those in attendance to tell how they have been sharing Science and Health. What follows is an amended version of Mrs. Hebenstreit's talk.
Mrs. Hebenstreit: Science and Health is no ordinary book. It has the healing message every individual needs—of God's all-power and of man's present spiritual existence as the offspring of Spirit. It is the divine Science Christ Jesus taught and preached and proved. Mrs. Eddy did not write the book for personal or denominational advantage but for greater spiritual illumination for mankind, to relieve it of fear, confusion, conflicts. That is why it is a book for the public.
When the centurion came to Jesus seeking healing for his servant, Jesus said to him, "Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee" (Matt. 8:13). Those are four big, important words, "as thou hast believed." What the centurion believed would be made manifest. Even some physicists of today are coming to agreement that we see what we first believe, rather than we believe what we see. You know that old adage, "Out of sight is out of mind." Well, we could rephrase that, "Out of mind is out of sight," because thought is always externalized or objectified. Whatever is held in thought is not long out of experience.
