The Forth Bridge in Scotland is a famous cantilevered, double-span tubular steel structure completed in 1890. Considerably over one mile long it carries the railroad from Edinburgh across the estuary of the River Forth toward the Highlands of northern Scotland. Such is its height that even today the largest ships afloat would have adequate clearance beneath.
It used to be that a team of painters worked on the bridge continually. When they finished painting from one end to the other, they began again where they had started. So there was a popular expression used in Britain when one had a task that was usefully repetitive: "It's like painting the Forth Bridge!"
Studying the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy might certainly be considered in this category. Just as her book Science and Health contains the discovery of Christian Science, so the Church Manual encapsulates the very foundation of the Christian Science movement. Moreover, there is no doubt that Mrs. Eddy regarded this little book to be as divinely inspired as Science and Health.
