A Man Whose Wife was healed of chronic illness through Christian Science, and who found freedom from alcoholism and the use of tobacco by reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, wrote: "How can we estimate the value of a book, the study of which brings such transformation and regeneration? Only as we endeavor to live, and strive to practise what it teaches, can we begin to pay our debt to God, and to her whom He has sent to make plain to human understanding the life and teaching of Christ Jesus." Science and Health, p. 677.
Many have echoed this thought in testimonies published in the Christian Science periodicals and during testimony meetings in Churches of Christ, Scientist, around the world. You may have done so yourself if you have tasted the pure love and healing power expressed in the pages of Science and Health.
It's important that those of us who have been healed and comforted by this book realize what we have. We need to value the treasure —to recognize the wealth we've inherited. That which the Bible calls "the carnal mind" would divert us from recognizing what's truly valuable and from the responsibility of caring for it in the right way.
