SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES
By MARY BAKER EDDY
President of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College AND Pastor Emeritus of the First Church of Christ, Scientist Boston, Mass.

1910

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by MARY BAKER GLOVER (now MRS. EDDY) In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885, by MARY BAKER G. EDDY In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Copyright, 1890, 1894, 1901, 1902, 1906, BY MARY BAKER G. EDDY Published 1910 Re-Published 1986 by The Mary Baker Eddy Foundation

YE shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. JOHN viii. 32. THERE is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

SHAKESPEARE. OH! Thou hast heard my prayer; And I am blest! This is Thy high behest: — Thou here, and everywhere. MARY BAKER G. EDDY.

PREFACE
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To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings. The wakeful shepherd beholds the first faint morning beams, ere cometh the full radiance of a risen day. So shone the pale star to the prophetshepherds; yet it traversed the night, and came where, in cradled obscurity, lay the Bethlehem babe, the human herald of Christ, Truth, who would make plain to benighted understanding the way of salvation through Christ Jesus, till across a night of error should dawn the morning beams and shine the guiding star of being. The Wisemen were led to behold and to follow this daystar of divine Science, lighting the way to eternal harmony. The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity. Contentment with the past and the cold conventionality of materialism are crumbling away. Ignorance of God is no longer the steppingstone to faith. The only guarantee of obedience is a right apprehension of Him whom to know aright is Life eternal. Though empires fall, "the