In 1901, the Boston Transcript reported that "in the services of the Christian Scientists ... No sermon was preached, no address given. Readers take the place of preachers, and readings from the Scriptures and 'Science and Health' take up the time that, in other churches, would be devoted to sermons." Transcript, June 10, 1901 .
It may be only a coincidence, but that same year in her address to her Church, Mrs. Eddy wrote: "True, I have made the Bible, and 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,' the pastor for all the churches of the Christian Science denomination, but that does not make it impossible for this pastor of ours to preach! To my sense the Sermon on the Mount, read each Sunday without comment and obeyed throughout the week, would be enough for Christian practice. The Word of God is a powerful preacher, and it is not too spiritual to be practical, nor too transcendental to be heard and understood. Whosoever saith there is no sermon without personal preaching, forgets what Christian Scientists do not, namely, that God is a Person, and that he should be willing to hear a sermon from his personal God!" Message to The Mother Church for 1901, p. 11.
