Why is it important that a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, maintain a Christian Science Reading Room (see Mary Baker Eddy, Church Manual, p. 63)? Why should every Christian Scientist actively support Reading Rooms?
Mrs. Eddy explains in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures that Christian Science is the Word of God, showing the infinitude of God as Love and the perfection of each individual as God’s image and likeness. This Word of God, the Comforter or divine Science, is the law of God’s universal goodness, ever operative and ever available. The Gospels show that Christ Jesus comprehended this law perfectly, demonstrated it by reforming and healing people, and promised that it would always be here for each to discover.
The first tenet of Christian Science says that Christian Scientists “take the inspired Word of the Bible as [their] sufficient guide to eternal Life” (Science and Health, p. 497). As we commit ourselves more fully to that tenet, we cherish communing with God and with the Pastor of the Church of Christ, Scientist—the Bible and Science and Health.
