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15	                           TEXTBOOK  APPRECIATED 

  	    It has been my privilege to have interviews with
  	representatives of more than sixty per cent of the na-
18	tions of this earth, under their own vine and fig-tree. 
  	I had never heard a principle understandingly ad-
  	vanced that would enable mankind to obey the apos-
21	tolic command, "prove all things," until Science and
  	Health with Key to the Scriptures was placed in my
  	hands. I believe that the honest study of this book
24	in connection with the Bible will enable one to "prove
  	all things." 
  	    I make this unqualified statement because of what
27	my eyes have seen and my ears heard from my fellow-
  	men of unquestioned integrity, and the positive proofs
  	I have gained by the study of these books. Many
30	supposed material laws that had been rooted and
 1	grounded in my mentality from youth have been over-
  	come. It required some time for me to wake up to
 3	our Leader's words in Miscellaneous Writings, p. 206:
  	"The advancing stages of Christian Science are gained
  	through growth, not accretion." I had many disappoint-
 6	ments and falls before I was willing to do the scientific
  	work required to prove this statement; yet notwithstanding
  	the cost to ourselves, I am convinced that we cannot do
 9	much credit to the cause we profess to love until we place
  	ourselves in a position to prove God as He really is to us
  	individually, and our relation to Him,... by scientific work. 
12	    I wish to express loving gratitude to our Leader for
  	the new edition of Science and Health. In studying
  	this new edition one cannot help seeing the wisdom,
15	love, and careful and prayerful thought expressed in
  	the revision. Often the changing of a single word in
  	a sentence makes the scientific thought not only more
18	lucid to him who is familiar with the book, but also to
  	those just coming into the blessed light. All honor to
  	that God-loving, God-fearing woman, Mary Baker G. 
21	Eddy, whose only work is the work of love in the helping
  	of mankind to help themselves; who has placed before her
  	fellow-men understandingly, what man's divine rights are,
24	and what God really is. — H. W. B., Hartford, Conn. 
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