What PM Abe is doing with President Trump is to build real alliance. Not the fake “charm offensive” made up like North Korea does using their women to please others. We don’t please leaders of other countries like that. We only pay respect and build a true relationship.
“Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.”
—II Corinthians 1:3, 4
“Let the Bible and the Christian Science textbook preach the gospel which heals the sick and enlightens the people’s sense of Christian Science. This ministry, reaching the physical, moral, and spiritual needs of humanity, will, in the name of Almighty God, speak the truth that to-day, as in olden time, is found able to heal both sin and disease.”
—Mary Baker Eddy, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 147
The meeting will be held in the Extension of The Mother Church in Boston and broadcast live online Monday, June 3, at 1:00 p.m. EDT. (You can find your local time on this World Clock). You're welcome to come to Boston to view it in person (please see Weekend Guide) or to watch it online in your community. A video replay will be available within 24 hours. Annual Meeting and the weekend events will all be live streamed on the Annual Meeting webpage.
LARRY KING, HOST: Good evening. Our special guest tonight: a return visit with Virginia Harris, chairman of the Christian Science board of directors. This is a worldwide religion, and we're going to delve into many aspects of it. They also publish the famed "Christian Science Monitor," generally acknowledged by those not even close to the religion, as one of the great publications in the world.
Are you involved with the publication?
VIRGINIA HARRIS, CHAIRMAN, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH: The Board oversees the editorial content of it, but I'm not day-to-day responsible for the paper.
KING: And does it have autonomy?
HARRIS: It does. Totally.
KING: So it can say what it wants, editorialize the way it wants, read the way it wants.
HARRIS: Definitely.
KING: And they're going to open a big -- next to the -- and it's published in Boston.
HARRIS: Correct.
KING: And next to that building next year, they're going to open a Mary Eddy library, right?
HARRIS: That's right. Mary Baker Eddy Library for the betterment of humanity.
KING: She was the founder of the church.
HARRIS: She was, and the founder of the newspaper. And we're taking the walls down around her ideas and letting these ideas find their way out into circulation.
KING: Religious and otherwise?
HARRIS: Religious and otherwise, Larry, yes. She...
KING: Going to have artifacts from the newspaper, and the like?
HARRIS: Artifacts, prototypes of first page. We'll have all the paper there, and all of her additions of science and health. She has about 500 pages, published and unpublished, of writing. When this library opens, it will be the largest multidisciplinary collection of an American woman.
KING: What were you doing before you got to be chairman?
HARRIS: Well, I was with the church for about five years before I was elected to the board. And I oversaw all of its worldwide activities, all the churches -- we've got churches in, oh, golly, about 74 countries. Sunday schools, reading rooms...
HARRIS: Well, it went fine. They had a great relationship. And when we didn't feel well, my mother would obviously pray, and sometimes we had shots.
KING: One of the bases of this is this thing with regard to medicine, which Christian Scientists don't take. Let's get a little history. Who was Mary Baker Eddy?
HARRIS: Well, Mary Baker Eddy was a 19th Century woman who lived in New England. And -- a fabulous woman, incredible. She was on a search, very much like what people are doing today. She was not well. She was a single mother, and she was exploring all sorts of homeopathy, hydropathy, all those things that people did in those days to try to get well.
HARRIS: Alternative medicines. And then she had a severe accident. And she had always been very fond of the Bible, she had been a student of the Bible. But with this accident, it turned her to the Bible. They didn't think she was going to live. And she did, because what she found was that God had been left out of all those other alternatives, and that God made a difference. She was healed. She went on to be...
KING: Through prayer.
HARRIS: Through prayer. Through her own prayers. Through reading accounts of Jesus' healings in the New Testament.
HARRIS: Well, actually, she went on to write a book first, as she began to heal. And she began to teach others how to heal. She became very well-known. In fact, when doctors in New England couldn't heal cases, they'd say: Call Mary -- or, not call, but get Mary Baker Eddy here.
In fact, one time she healed somebody. She went in, somebody was dying of pneumonia. And a doctor, Dr. Davis, stood over there and watched Mrs. Eddy heal this dying person. And he said to her: You've got to write a book. You've got to publish this and give it to the world.
Nine years later she published "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."
HARRIS: It did. It did. It put down the ideas, these spiritual laws that exist in the universe -- that if people understand them, they can apply them.
KING: What made it, Virginia, a faith in and of itself? Why didn't you just have Jews who believed in the power of prayer, Catholics who believe in the power of prayer? Why did you need a Christian Science religion?
HARRIS: She didn't think you did. In fact, there wasn't a church for years, because people who were Baptist, people who were Jews, who were Catholics would read "Science and Health" and they would take it back into their faith and be a better Jew.
KING: Not take medicine and be a better Jew and pray, when they were sick.
HARRIS: Exactly.
KING: So what formed the faith?
HARRIS: The faith was formed as the readers of this book, "Science and Health," began to want to talk to each other about the healings they were having. They wanted to learn. They wanted to come into a community. And so she then formed a church, so that, I think, too, Larry, that the book, the message would have a design, a way to get out. Because then she formed a college where people could learn this. She formed the journal, the "Christian Science Journal." And one thing after another...
HARRIS: I'm often asked that question. It's sort of a juxtaposition of things. It's a metaphor. She...
KING: Because there is no Christian Science. Prayer.
HARRIS: Well, it's prayer. But she saw primitive Christianity, the healings that were done in primitive Christianity, having a science to them -- that they could be provable, practical, all the time.
KING: Did she get the idea for newspaper, too?
HARRIS: Yes, she did.
KING: We'll ask about that and a lot more. Virginia Harris, chairman of the Christian Science board of directors is our guest tonight on LARRY KING LIVE. This is fascinating and lots to explore. Don't go away.
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