As we meet this year in Berlin, Boston, and on the Internet, we're all seeing a powerful, far-reaching revolution in thought. We know that "evidences of progress and of spiritualization greet us on every hand" Science and Health, p. 158.—just as Mary Baker Eddy did in 1902, when she wrote those words in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the book she committed to "honest seekers for Truth." Ibid., p. xii.
The signs of promise Mrs. Eddy was seeing included increasing evidence that the book's message was healing, that Christian Science is provable by everyone, in fact—by people of many different religious faiths or no faith at all. But forces were at work in public thought that would try to obscure that universal message. Particularly in the press, where she experienced those forces firsthand and where Christian Science was often grossly misrepresented or not discussed at all.
So, Mrs. Eddy committed her book to seekers, and she longed to help them find their way to its message. But how? The answer became clear: by caring for the public—that is, for public thought—by helping people have a more accurate understanding of her message. That would remove obstructions to the seeker's journey.
