"You Will Have to Learn to Love Me More."

Very important book for a serious and receptive seeker of Truth.

First of all, no matter what anyone has said about the controversy over Bliss Knapp's "Destiny of the Mother Church," (including myself), this is essential reading for Christian Scientists. Mr. Keyston has compiled so many quotes from early workers in Christian Science that I had heard or read many years ago, that this cannot be ignored if only for that reason. I particularly remember a conversation my grandparents had about a controversy regarding something Judge Hanna said. The bottom line there was, "But the Mother Church says."I had read an earlier version of this thesis on the internet, and I must say that this copy I have now, makes the author's position much more clear, and less likely to be misunderstood; and even if I do still have a problem with a couple of minor points of interpretation, I am convinced of his honesty and thoroughness.This is in stark contrast to the changes in editions of some other Christian Science materials, over the years, where things have been changed, resulting in completely different impressions or ideas. The difference is reminiscent of what is happening with the modern Bible translations.I have in recent years seen church members who have never even heard certain things. Whether or not there has been a deliberate attempt on the part of some in earlier times to bury information is one of the things being debated. When things get changed, even if there were or were not good intentions,or someone was duped -- or whatever -- and even if there is an attempt by someone later to set things right, they can't do it without admitting what was done, and then people will say, "Why should we believe this now?" So I am grateful to be able to remember certain things that I have read, seen, and heard over the years.The proof, however, is in the pudding as they say. One of the very few things I had NOT heard before, was that the healing work in Chicago had at one point stopped, and Mrs. Eddy had told them that it was because they were not loving her enough; and that when the situation was corrected, the work resumed. I believe it.P.S. There are two pages with reviews for this book. The other page has more reviews. It also says "In Stock" and the price is a normal one. I don't know what the difference is for this page.

I first came in contact with this book when I was serving as both First Reader and Chairman of the Board in my church in 1996. Since it was addressed to First Readers, and I was the First Reader at this time, I took it home and started to read it. I also contacted the Committee on Publication for North Carolina and asked her about it. She told me that she had also received this book and, once she realized what it was, she consigned it to the "circular filing system," meaning the trash. An appropriate place for it.After reading the book, I decided to write the author and advise him that I would not be bothering to debate the erroneous metaphysics in his book, and furthermore, that any "advice" on my selections for Wednesday evening services and Scriptural selections for Sunday, if I were taking any advice at all, would come from the Board of Directors and no one else.To my surprise, Keyston wrote me back, saying that while he is in sympathy with my lack of interest in debating erroneous metaphysics, he insisted that the charges I made should be substantiated. So, despite having no wish to have any further contact with this man, I wrote him back.Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of his book, I informed him, occurred on pages 41-42, during his attempt to recharacterize the Woodbury Suit, in which an former student of Mrs. Eddy's, Josephine Woodbury, brought a lawsuit against Mrs. Eddy for libel. The suit alleged that Mary Baker Eddy, in her communion address on June 4, 1899, was referring to Josephine Woodbury as the "Babylonish woman" of Revelation 17. Woodbury further alleged that Mary Baker Eddy thought of herself as the "woman clothed with the sun" in the 12th chapter of Revelation.Keyston does quite the song-and-dance number, insisting that Mary Baker Eddy believed she was the "woman clothed with the sun," despite her own testimony and that of her students to the contrary. In court, no less.Keyston writes, "When Mrs. Eddy's students were put on the stand to testify for Mrs. Eddy, they were asked, 'Do you believe Mrs. Eddy to be the God[-]crowned woman in Revelation and does she teach this?' If just one of them had answered 'Yes,' Mrs. Eddy would have lost this lawsuit."This would be to imply that Mrs. Eddy's students answered "No," since the suit was decided in Mrs. Eddy's favor. In other words, he is claiming that Mary Baker Eddy is a liar and perjurer. She believed, according to Keyston, that she was "the woman clothed with the sun" in Revelation, but denied it in court. Moreover, her students perjured themselves by denying this.Keyston continues, "Both Judge Hanna and Ira Knapp knew what Mrs. Eddy had taught them about her place but they could not say so in court."So, Mary Baker Eddy not only committed perjury, but suborned it by inducing her students to lie on her behalf.I wrote this all down in my reply to Keyston, and never heard from him again.What does Mary Baker Eddy herself say about this woman? "The woman in the Apocalypse symbolizes generic man, the spiritual idea of God; she illustrates the coincidence of God and man as the divine Principle and divine idea. The Revelator symbolizes Spirit by the sun. The spiritual idea is clad with the radiance of spiritual truth, and matter is put under her feet."So, to hear Keyston tell it, Mrs. Eddy lied in court, and further instructed her students to lie for her, and lied to the entire world by stating that the "woman clothed with the Sun" represents "generic man," while privately believing that this woman represents her and her only.