“That in 1875, after nine years of arduous preliminary labor, she wrote the Christian Science text-book, ‘Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures;’… that it has healed multitudes of disease and has revealed God to well-nigh countless numbers—facts which prove, (1) that Science and Health does not need to be interpreted to those who are earnestly seeking Truth; (2) that it is not possible to state truth absolutely in a simpler or more pleasing form.”
Excerpt from a Letter by LEWIS C. STRANG
Pleasant View, April 21, 1906 (published in May 1906 Journal and the forward in Miscellany)

I am so grateful that the correct sense of Christian Science, as Mary Baker Eddy intended, is lived and shared here including the importance of “mental anatomy”. Mr. Strang’s letter, written at Pleasant View, is powerful antidote to human pride which thinks to operate outside of God and succeed. Something I am learning needs continual guard against. We can see the effects of pride trying to permeate the holiness of this season for a more “pleasing form” of worship. Pride is the absolute opposite of the beautiful Christmas story and would try to “deceive the very elect” but by its fruits- emptiness, depression, disappointment, etc we can be awakened to this counterfeit. We are blessed to have the true sense Christmas understood and explained here.