“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.” Ps.121:1

In Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Precepts, Vol. 1, Gilbert Carpenter recounts an incident regarding the resignation of Julia Field-King as editor of the Christian Science Journal. Mrs. King had changed an article of Mrs. Eddy’s, and Mrs. Eddy rebuked her strongly and asked for her resignation, because it showed that she could be influenced by error, and thus become dangerous to have in a responsible position.

Carpenter writes: “When it was plain that Mrs. King would have to go, Mrs. Eddy sent her the following letter….

“Before you leave us, if leave you must, I want you to give me a call and let me take you over my house and look with me on the hills and catch their rest. ‘For the strength of the hills I bless Thee, my God, Our father’s God.’ Hemans.”

“From this letter we learn that Mrs. Eddy wanted Mrs. King to take this blow in the right spirit, so that she might right herself, after being released from the malpractice that necessarily attended her position. How often Mrs. Eddy used the hills in this way: when events seemed to be more than she could endure; when friends mocked and betrayed, and error seemed to be holding sway temporarily, she would contemplate the hills and see how insignificant were the happenings in this mortal sense of things, in comparison with the eternal nature of the hills. Mrs. Eddy hoped Mrs. King would catch this realization about her own tragedy by coming to Concord and catching the rest of the hills.”