This unusual collection is comprised of excerpts from letters that Mr. Ross wrote to patients seeking his help as a Christian Science practitioner. These excerpts are strong in the absolute truth needed to heal various claims. But they are also filled with compassion, hope, encouragement, and practical advice — a happy blending of the absolute and relative. To one patient, Mr. Ross wrote: “Life is perpetually hale and hearty because it is God. This Life is in you and through you. It is yours. Indeed, it is you and you are it, because you and Life are one. You and Life are interwoven as certainly as the figure is interwoven with the rug. “No room in your system, therefore, for any disarrangement. Life knows no such abnormal condition as you describe, since Life is God, the jealous God who endures no interference.” “Yes, God is all and the only of your being. You cannot be otherwise than well built and well maintained in every part and detail. This is why you can say, ‘Perfect God and perfect woman, and I am the woman.’ “Talk these truths to yourself understandingly day to day. Thereby you will receive a good treatment. I will stand by you, but through your own efforts, as indicated above, you can accomplish a great deal.” Although these letters were written to his patients, they are as though they were written to everyone today seeking healing — especially healing of physical problems. They have the personal touch that a caring practitioner has for his patients.

A collection of fourteen lectures that Mr. Ross gave between 1922 and 1942 while serving as a Christian Science lecturer. Includes: The Divine Immanence; The Destiny of Man; The Operation of Divine Law in Human Affairs; The Answer to Human Problems; Assurance to a Troubled World. This is an inspiring collection of lectures, with an introduction that tells Mr. Ross’ experience in finding Christian Science and his desire to give lectures that would reach his listeners — a desire that he realized when he became a lecturer. His lectures were so popular that when he lectured, the auditorium was filled, and people were turned away. His lectures carry the same healing message today. From the lecture “The Divine Immanence” we find the following under the heading “Life Not in Matter”: “Throughout her writings Mrs. Eddy uses the word ‘Life’ as synonymous with God, and she maintains, in unmistakable language and with flawless logic, that God is man’s life. But in so doing she makes it clear that she is referring to spiritual man, not the material concept of him. She affirms that life is not in matter and does not reside in the material body. . . . “The mistaken supposition that matter is real and that man has a material body is the source of a person’s difficulties. With that false notion begin his limitation, his insecurity, his suffering. Believing himself incased in a body of matter, he is confined to the limited area occupied by that body, instead of enjoying the limitless freedom and positive exemption from danger which belong to man born of Spirit. “There need be no apprehension that through the renunciation of material belief the foundation of things will slip away or that man will lose his identity. Christian Science teaches that man’s individual entity persists throughout eternity, never to be absorbed in Deity nor yet to be disintegrated and lost among the shifting sands of time. And experience in the practice of Christian Science proves that the more one dwells in the spiritual sense of existence the more do beauty and perfection and permanence become apparent, for the false concept of things, which has obscured the real, passes away. The world of nature begins to appear ‘appareled in celestial light,’ the world of humanity commences to lose it blemishes of mind and body and the individual finds himself growing ‘unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.’” For an introduction to Christian Science, this collection of lectures is outstanding. Mr. Ross had a talent for explaining such profound metaphysics in a manner that made them appealing to those who knew little or nothing about this Science.