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EDITOR'S NOTE. - The
Cosmopolitan presents this month to its |
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readers a facsimile of an
article sent to us by Mrs. Eddy, with the
corrections on the manuscript
reproduced in her own handwriting.
Not only Mrs. Eddy's own devoted
followers, but the public gen- |
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erally, will be interested
in this communication from the extraordi-
nary woman who, nearly
eighty-seven years of age, plays so great
a part in the world and leads
with such conspicuous success her very |
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great following.
Mrs. Eddy writes very
rarely for any publications outside of the
Christian Science periodicals,
and our readers will be interested in |
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this presentation of the
thought of a mind that has had so much
influence on this generation.
The Cosmopolitan
gives no editorial indorsement to the teachings
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of Christian Science, it
has no religious opinions or predilections to
put before its readers. This
manuscript is presented simply as an |
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interesting and remarkable
proof of Mrs. Eddy's ability in old age
to vindicate in her own person the
value of her teachings.
Certainly, Christian
Scientists, enthusiastic in their belief, are |
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fortunate in being able to
point to a Leader far beyond the allotted
years of man, emerging
triumphantly from all attacks upon her, and
guiding with remarkable skill,
determination, and energy a very |
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great organization that
covers practically the civilized world.
King David, the Hebrew bard, sang, "I have
been
young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the right- |
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eous forsaken, nor his seed begging
bread."
I for one accept his wise deduction, his
ultimate or
spiritual sense of thinking, feeling, and acting, and its
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reward. This sense of rightness acquired by
experience
and wisdom, should be early presented to youth and to
manhood in order to forewarn and forearm humanity.
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The ultimatum of life here and hereafter is
utterly
apart from a material or personal sense of pleasure, pain,
joy,
sorrow, life, and death. The truth of life, or life in |
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truth, is a scientific knowledge that is
portentous; and
is won only by the spiritual understanding of Life as
God,
good, ever-present good, and therefore life eternal.
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You will agree with me that the material
body is mortal,
but Soul is immortal; also that the five personal
senses
are perishable: they lapse and relapse, come and go, until |
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at length they are consigned to dust. But
say you,
"Man awakes from the dream of death in possession of
the five
personal senses, does he not?" Yes, because |
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death alone does not awaken man in God's
image
and likeness. The divine Science of Life alone gives
Copyright, 1907, by Mary
Baker G. Eddy. Renewed, 1935.
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the true sense of life and of
righteousness, and demon-
strates the Principle of life eternal; even the
Life that |
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is Soul apart from the so-called life of
matter or the
material senses.
Death alone does not
absolve man from a false material |
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sense of life, but goodness, holiness, and
love do this, and
so consummate man's being with the harmony of heaven;
the omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience of Life, |
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even its all-power, all-presence,
all-Science.
Dear reader, right
thinking, right feeling, and right
acting - honesty, purity, unselfishness
- in youth tend |
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to success, intellectuality, and happiness
in manhood.
To begin rightly enables one to end rightly, and thus it is
that one achieves the Science of Life, demonstrates health, |
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holiness, and immortality.
[Boston
Herald, April, 1908]
MRS. EDDY SENDS THANKS
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Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy has sent the
following to the
Herald: -
Will the dear
Christian Scientists accept my thanks |
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for their magnificent gifts, and allow me
to say that I am
not fond of an abundance of material presents; but I
am cheered and blessed when beholding Christian healing, |
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unity among brethren, and love to God and
man; this
is my crown of rejoicing, for it demonstrates Christian
Science.
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The Psalmist sang, "That thy way may be
known
upon earth, thy saving health among all nations."
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[Minneapolis (Minn.)
News]
UNIVERSAL FELLOWSHIP
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Christian Science can and does produce
universal
fellowship. As the sequence of divine Love it explains
love,
it lives love, it demonstrates love. The human, |
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material, so-called senses do not perceive
this fact until
they are controlled by divine Love; hence the
Scripture,
"Be still, and know that I am God."
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BROOKLINE,
MASS.,
May 1, 1908
[New York Herald]
MRS. EDDY'S OWN DENIAL THAT SHE IS ILL
Permit me to say,
the report that I am sick (and I
trust the desire thereof) is dead, and
should be buried. |
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Whereas the fact that I am well and keenly
alive to the
truth of being - the Love that is Life - is sure and
stead-
fast. I go out in my carriage daily, and have omitted |
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my drive but twice since I came to
Massachusetts.
Either my work, the demands upon my time at home, or
the weather, is all that prevents my daily drive.
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Working and praying for my dear friends'
and my dear
enemies' health, happiness, and holiness, the true sense
of
being goes on.
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Doing unto others as we would that they do
by us, is
immortality's self. Intrepid, self-oblivious love fulfils the
law and is self-sustaining and eternal. With white-winged |
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charity brooding over all, spiritually
understood and de-
monstrated, let us unite in one Te Deum of
praise.
BOX G, BROOKLINE,
MASS., |
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May 15, 1908
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276
[Christian
Science Sentinel, May 16, 1908]
TO
WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
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Since Mrs. Eddy is watched, as one watches
a criminal
or a sick person, she begs to say, in her own behalf, that
she is neither; therefore to be criticized or judged by |
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either a daily drive or a dignified stay at
home, is super-
fluous. When accumulating work requires it, or because
of a preference to remain within doors she omits her |
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drive, do not strain at gnats or swallow
camels over
it, but try to be composed and resigned to the shock-
ing
fact that she is minding her own business, and rec- |
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ommends this surprising privilege to all
her dear friends
and enemies.
MARY BAKER EDDY
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[Boston Post, November, 1908]
POLITICS
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy
has always believed that those |
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who are entitled to vote should do so, and
she has also
believed that in such matters no one should seek to
dictate
the actions of others.
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In reply to a number of requests for an
expression of
her political views, she has given out this statement: -
I am asked, "What are your politics?" I have none, in |
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reality, other than to help support a
righteous government;
to love God supremely, and my neighbor as myself.
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CHAPTER XV - PEACE AND WAR
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[Boston Herald, March, 1898]
OTHER WAYS THAN BY WAR
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IN reply to your question, "Should
difficulties between
the United States and Spain be settled peacefully
by
statesmanship and diplomacy, in a way honorable and |
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satisfactory to both nations?" I will say I
can see no
other way of settling difficulties between individuals and
nations than by means of their wholesome tribunals, |
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equitable laws, and sound, well-kept
treaties.
A bullet in a man's
heart never settles the question of
his life. The mental animus goes on,
and urges that the |
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answer to the sublime question as to man's
life shall come
from God and that its adjustment shall be according to
His laws. The characters and lives of men determine the |
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peace, prosperity, and life of nations.
Killing men is
not consonant with the higher law whereby wrong and
injustice are righted and exterminated.
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Whatever weighs in the eternal scale of
equity and
mercy tips the beam on the right side, where the immortal
words and deeds of men alone can settle all questions |
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amicably and satisfactorily. But if our
nation's rights or
honor were seized, every citizen would be a soldier
and
woman would be armed with power girt for the hour.
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To coincide with God's government is the
proper in-
centive to the action of all nations. If His purpose for |
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peace is to be subserved by the battle's
plan or by the
intervention of the United States, so that the Cubans
may learn to make war no more, this means and end |
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will be accomplished.
The government of
divine Love is supreme. Love rules
the universe, and its edict hath gone
forth: "Thou shalt |
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have no other gods before me," and "Love
thy neighbor
as thyself." Let us have the molecule of faith that
removes mountains, - faith armed with the understand- |
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ing of Love, as in divine Science, where
right reigneth.
The revered President and Congress of our favored land
are in God's hands.
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[Boston Globe, December, 1904]
HOW STRIFE MAY BE STILLED
Follow that which is
good.
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A Japanese may believe in a heaven for him
who dies
in defence of his country, but the steadying, elevating
power
of civilization destroys such illusions and should |
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overcome evil with good.
Nothing is gained by
fighting, but much is lost.
Peace is the promise
and reward of rightness. Gov- |
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ernments have no right to engraft into
civilization the
burlesque of uncivil economics. War is in itself an
evil,
barbarous, devilish. Victory in error is defeat in Truth. |
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War is not in the domain of good; war
weakens power
and must finally fall, pierced by its own sword.
The Principle of all
power is God, and God is Love. |
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Whatever brings into human thought or
action an ele-
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ment opposed to Love, is never requisite,
never a neces-
sity, and is not sanctioned by the law of God, the law |
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of Love. The Founder of Christianity said:
"My
peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give
I unto
you."
|
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Christian Science reinforces Christ's
sayings and doings.
The Principle of Christian Science demonstrates
peace.
Christianity is the chain of scientific being reappearing in |
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all ages, maintaining its obvious
correspondence with the
Scriptures and uniting all periods in the design of
God.
The First Commandment in the Hebrew Decalogue - |
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"Thou shalt have no other gods before me" -
obeyed,
is sufficient to still all strife. God is the divine Mind.
Hence the sequence: Had all peoples one Mind, peace |
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would reign.
God is Father,
infinite, and this great truth, when
understood in its divine metaphysics,
will establish the |
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brotherhood of man, end wars, and
demonstrate "on
earth peace, good will toward men."
[Christian
Science Sentinel, June 17, 1905]
THE PRAYER FOR PEACE
Dearly Beloved: - I request that
every member of The
Mother Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, pray
each |
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day for the amicable settlement of the war
between
Russia and Japan; and pray that God bless that great
nation and
those islands of the sea with peace and |
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prosperity.
MARY BAKER EDDY
PLEASANT VIEW, CONCORD, N.
H.,
June 13, 1905
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REV. MARY
BAKER EDDY,
Pleasant View, Concord, N. H.
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Beloved Leader: - We acknowledge
with rejoicing the
receipt of your message, which again gives assurance
of
your watchful care and guidance in our behalf and of your |
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loving solicitude for the welfare of the
nations and the
peaceful tranquillity of the race. We rejoice also in
this
new reminder from you that all the things which make for |
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the establishment of a universal, loving
brotherhood on
earth may be accomplished through the righteous prayer
which availeth much. |
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WILLIAM B. JOHNSON, Clerk
BOSTON, MASS., June 13, 1905
[Christian Science Sentinel, July
1, 1905]
"HEAR, O ISRAEL: THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD"
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I now request that the members of my church
cease
special prayer for the peace of nations, and cease in full |
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faith that God does not hear our prayers
only because of
oft speaking, but that He will bless all the
inhabitants
of the earth, and none can stay His hand nor say unto |
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Him, What doest Thou? Out of His allness He
must
bless all with His own truth and love.
MARY BAKER EDDY
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PLEASANT
VIEW, CONCORD, N. H.,
June 27, 1905
[Christian Science Sentinel, July
22, 1905]
AN
EXPLANATION
In no way nor manner
did I request my church to cease
praying for the peace of nations, but
simply to pause in |
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special prayer for peace. And why this
asking? Because
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281
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a spiritual foresight of the nations' drama
presented
itself and awakened a wiser want, even to know how |
| 3 |
to pray other than the daily prayer of my
church, -
"Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it
is in
heaven."
|
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I cited, as our present need, faith in
God's disposal of
events. Faith full-fledged, soaring to the Horeb
height,
brings blessings infinite, and the spirit of this orison is
the |
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fruit of rightness, - "on earth peace, good
will toward
men." On this basis the brotherhood of all peoples is
established; namely, one God, one Mind, and "Love thy |
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neighbor as thyself," the basis on which
and by which
the infinite God, good, the Father-Mother Love, is ours
and we are His in divine Science.
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[Boston Globe, August, 1905]
PRACTISE THE GOLDEN RULE
[Telegram]
|
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"Official announcement of peace between
Russia and
Japan seems to offer an appropriate occasion for the ex-
pression of congratulations and views by representative |
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persons. Will you do us the kindness to
wire a sentiment
on some phase of the subject, on the ending of the
war,
the effect on the two parties to the treaty of Portsmouth, |
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the influence which President Roosevelt
has exerted for
peace, or the advancement of the cause of arbitration."
Mrs. Eddy's Reply
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE Globe:
War
will end when nations are ripe for progress. The
treaty of Portsmouth is
not an executive power, although
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its purpose is good will towards men. The
government of
a nation is its peace maker or breaker.
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I believe strictly in the Monroe doctrine,
in our Con-
stitution, and in the laws of God. While I admire the
faith
and friendship of our chief executive in and for all |
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nations, my hope must still rest in God,
and the Scrip-
tural injunction, - "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all
the ends of the earth."
|
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The Douma recently adopted in Russia is no
uncer-
tain ray of dawn. Through the wholesome chastise-
ments of Love,
nations are helped onward towards |
| 12 |
justice, righteousness, and peace, which
are the land-
marks of prosperity. In order to apprehend more,
we must
practise what we already know of the Golden |
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Rule, which is to all mankind a light
emitting light.
MARY BAKER EDDY
MRS. EDDY AND THE PEACE MOVEMENT
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MR. HAYNE DAVIS, American Secretary,
International Conciliation Committee,
542 Fifth Avenue, New York City
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Dear Mr. Davis: - Deeply do I thank
you for the
interest you manifest in the success of the Association
for
International Conciliation. It is of paramount im- |
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portance to every son and daughter of all
nations under
the sunlight of the law and gospel.
May God guide and
prosper ever this good endeavor. |
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Most truly yours,
MARY BAKER EDDY
PLEASANT VIEW, CONCORD, N. H., |
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April 3,
1907
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283
MRS. EDDY'S ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF APPOINTMENT
AS
FONDATEUR OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR |
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INTERNATIONAL CONCILIATION
FIRST CHURCH OP CHRIST, SCIENTIST, NEW YORK CITY,
MR.
JOHN D. HIGGINS, Clerk
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My Beloved Brethren: - Your
appointment of me as
Fondateur of the Association for International
Concilia-
tion is most gracious.
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To aid in this holy purpose is the leading
impetus of
my life. Many years have I prayed and labored for the
consummation of "on earth peace, good will toward |
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men." May the fruits of said grand
Association, preg-
nant with peace, find their birthright in divine
Science.
Right thoughts and deeds are the sovereign
remedies |
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for all earth's woe. Sin is its own enemy.
Right has its
recompense, even though it be betrayed. Wrong may be
a
man's highest idea of right until his grasp of goodness |
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grows stronger. It is always safe to be
just.
When pride, self, and human reason reign,
injustice is
rampant.
|
| 21 |
Individuals, as nations, unite harmoniously
on the basis
of justice, and this is accomplished when self is lost in
Love - or God's own plan of salvation. "To do justly, |
| 24 |
and to love mercy, and to walk humbly" is
the stand-
ard of Christian Science.
Human law is right only as it patterns the
divine. |
| 27 |
Consolation and peace are based on the
enlightened sense
of God's government.
Lured by fame, pride, or gold, success is
danger- |
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ous, but the choice of folly never fastens
on the good
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284
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or the great. Because of my rediscovery of
Chris-
tian Science, and honest efforts (however meagre) |
| 3 |
to help human purpose and peoples, you may
have
accorded me more than is deserved, - but 'tis sweet
to be
remembered. |
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Lovingly yours,
MARY BAKER EDDY
PLEASANT VIEW, CONCORD, N. H., |
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April 22,
1907
[Concord (N.
H.) Daily Patriot]
A
CORRECTION
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Dear Editor: - In the issue of your
good paper, the
Patriot, May 21, when referring to the Memorial
service
of the E. E. Sturtevant Post held in my church building, |
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it read, "It is said to be the first time
in the history of
the church in this country that such an event has oc-
curred." In your next issue please correct this mistake. |
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Since my residence in Concord, 1889, the
aforesaid
Memorial service has been held annually in some church
in
Concord, N. H.
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When the Veterans indicated their desire to
assemble
in my church building, I consented thereto only as other
churches had done. But here let me say that I am |
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absolutely and religiously opposed to war,
whereas I do
believe implicitly in the full efficacy of divine Love to
conciliate by arbitration all quarrels between nations |
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and peoples.
MARY BAKER EDDY
PLEASANT VIEW, CONCORD, N. H., |
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May 28,
1907
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285
TO
A STUDENT
Dear
Student: - Please accept my thanks for
your |
| 3 |
kind invitation, on behalf of the Civic
League of San
Francisco, to attend the Industrial Peace Conference,
and
accept my hearty congratulations.
|
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I cannot spare the time requisite to meet
with you;
but I rejoice with you in all your wise endeavors for
industrial, civic, and national peace. Whatever adorns |
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Christianity crowns the great purposes of
life and demon-
strates the Science of being. Bloodshed, war, and op-
pression belong to the darker ages, and shall be relegated |
| 12 |
to oblivion.
It is a matter for
rejoicing that the best, bravest, most
cultured men and women of this
period unite with us in |
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the grand object embodied in the
Association for Inter-
national Conciliation.
In Revelation 2: 26,
St. John says: "And he that |
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overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the
end, to
him will I give power over the nations." In the words
of St.
Paul, I repeat: -
|
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"And they neither found me in the temple
disputing
with any man, neither raising up the people, neither
in the
synagogues, nor in the city: neither can they |
| 24 |
prove the things whereof they now accuse
me. But
this I confess unto thee, that after the way which
they call
heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, |
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believing all things which are written in
the law and in
the prophets."
Most sincerely yours, |
| 30 |
MARY BAKER EDDY
PLEASANT VIEW, CONCORD, N. H.
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286
[The Christian
Science Journal, May, 1908]
WAR
|
| 3 |
For many years I have prayed daily that
there be
no more war, no more barbarous slaughtering of our
fellow-beings; prayed that all the peoples on earth and |
| 6 |
the islands of the sea have one God, one
Mind; love
God supremely, and love their neighbor as themselves.
National
disagreements can be, and should be, arbi- |
| 9 |
trated wisely, fairly; and fully settled.
It is
unquestionable, however, that at this hour
the armament of navies is
necessary, for the purpose |
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of preventing war and preserving peace
among nations.
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287
CHAPTER XVI - TRIBUTES
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[New York Mail and Express]
MONUMENT TO BARON AND BARONESS DE HIRSCH
|
| 3 |
THE movement to erect a monument to the
late
Baron and Baroness de Hirsch enlists my hearty
sympathy. They were
unquestionably used in a re- |
| 6 |
markable degree as instruments of divine
Love.
Divine Love reforms,
regenerates, giving to human
weakness strength, serving as admonition,
instruction, and |
| 9 |
governing all that really is. Divine Love
is the noumenon
and phenomenon, the Principle and practice of divine
metaphysics. Love talked and not lived is a poor shift |
| 12 |
for the weak and worldly. Love lived in a
court or cot
is God exemplified, governing governments, industries,
human rights, liberty, life.
|
| 15 |
In love for man we gain the only and true
sense of love
for God, practical good, and so rise and still rise to
His
image and likeness, and are made partakers of that Mind |
| 18 |
whence springs the universe.
Philanthropy is
loving, ameliorative, revolutionary; it
wakens lofty desires, new
possibilities, achievements, and |
| 21 |
energies; it lays the axe at the root of
the tree that
bringeth not forth good fruit; it touches thought to
spiritual issues, systematizes action, and insures success;
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288
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it starts the wheels of right reason,
revelation, justice, and
mercy; it unselfs men and pushes on the ages.
Love |
| 3 |
unfolds marvellous good and uncovers hidden
evil. The
philanthropist or reformer gives little thought to self-
defence; his life's incentive and sacrifice need no apology. |
| 6 |
The good done and the good to do are his
ever-present
reward.
Love for mankind is
the elevator of the human race; |
| 9 |
it demonstrates Truth and reflects divine
Love. Good is
divinely natural. Evil is unnatural; it has no origin in
the nature of God, and He is the Father of all.
|
| 12 |
The great Galilean Prophet was, is, the
reformer of re-
formers. His piety partook not of the travesties of
human
opinions, pagan mysticisms, tribal religion, Greek phi- |
| 15 |
losophy, creed, dogma, or materia
medica. The divine
Mind was his only instrumentality in religion or
medi-
cine. The so-called laws of matter he eschewed; with |
| 18 |
him matter was not the auxiliary of Spirit.
He never
appealed to matter to perform the functions of Spirit,
divine
Love.
|
| 21 |
Jesus cast out evil, disease, death,
showing that all
suffering is commensurate with sin; therefore, he cast
out devils and healed the sick. He showed that every |
| 24 |
effect or amplification of wrong will
revert to the wrong-
doer; that sin punishes itself; hence his saying,
"Sin
no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." Love |
| 27 |
atones for sin through love that destroys
sin. His rod
is love.
We cannot remake
ourselves, but we can make the |
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best of what God has made. We can know
that all is
good because God made all, and that evil is not a
fatherly
grace.
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289
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All education is work. The thing most
important is
what we do, not what we say. God's open secret is seen |
| 3 |
through grace, truth, and love.
I enclose a check
for five hundred dollars for the
De Hirsch monument fund.
TRIBUTES TO QUEEN VICTORIA
MR.
WILLIAM B. JOHNSON, C.S.B., Clerk
Beloved Student: - I deem it proper
that The Mother |
| 9 |
Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston,
Massachusetts, the
first church of Christian Science known on earth,
should
upon this solemn occasion congregate; that a special meet- |
| 12 |
ing of its First Members convene for the
sacred purpose of
expressing our deep sympathy with the bereaved
nation,
its loss and the world's loss, in the sudden departure of |
| 15 |
the late lamented Victoria, Queen of Great
Britain and
Empress of India, - long honored, revered, beloved.
"God
save the Queen" is heard no more in England, but |
| 18 |
this shout of love lives on in the heart of
millions.
With love,
MARY BAKER EDDY |
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PLEASANT VIEW, CONCORD, N.
H.,
January 27, 1901
It being inconvenient for me to attend the
memorial |
| 24 |
meeting in the South Congregational church
on Sunday
evening, February 3, I herewith send a few words of con-
dolence, which may be read on that tender occasion.
|
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I am interested in a meeting to be held in
the capi-
tal of my native State in memoriam of the late lamented
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India.
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It betokens a love and a loss felt by the
strong hearts
of New England and the United States. When contem- |
| 3 |
plating this sudden international
bereavement, the near
seems afar, the distant nigh, and the tried and true
seem
few. The departed Queen's royal and imperial honors |
| 6 |
lose their lustre in the tomb, but her
personal virtues can
never be lost. Those live on in the affection of
nations.
Few sovereigns have
been as venerable, revered, and |
| 9 |
beloved as this noble woman, born in 1819,
married in
1840, and deceased the first month of the new century.
LETTER TO MRS. McKINLEY
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My Dear Mrs. McKinley: - My soul
reaches out to God
for your support, consolation, and victory. Trust in
Him
whose love enfolds thee. "Thou wilt keep him in perfect |
| 15 |
peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee:
because he trusteth
in Thee." "Out of the depths have I cried unto Thee."
Divine Love is never so near as when all earthly joys seem |
| 18 |
most afar.
Thy tender husband,
our nation's chief magistrate, has
passed earth's shadow into Life's
substance. Through |
| 21 |
a momentary mist he beheld the dawn. He
awaits to
welcome you where no arrow wounds the eagle soaring,
where no
partings are for love, where the high and holy |
| 24 |
call you again to meet.
"I knew that Thou
hearest me always," are the words of
him who suffered and subdued sorrow.
Hold this attitude |
| 27 |
of mind, and it will remove the sackcloth
from thy home.
With love,
MARY BAKER EDDY |
| 30 |
PLEASANT
VIEW, CONCORD, N. H.,
September 14, 1901
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291
TRIBUTE TO PRESIDENT McKINLEY
Imperative,
accumulative, holy demands rested on the |
| 3 |
life and labors of our late beloved
President, William
McKinley. Presiding over the destinies of a nation
meant more to him than a mere rehearsal of aphorisms, |
| 6 |
a uniting of breaches soon to widen, a
quiet assent or dis-
sent. His work began with heavy strokes, measured
movements, reaching from the infinitesimal to the |
| 9 |
infinite. It began by warming the marble of
politics
into zeal according to wisdom, quenching the vol-
canoes of
partizanship, and uniting the interests of all |
| 12 |
peoples; and it ended with a universal
good overcoming
evil.
His home relations
enfolded a wealth of affection, - a |
| 15 |
tenderness not talked but felt and lived.
His humanity,
weighed in the scales of divinity, was not found wanting.
His public intent was uniform, consistent, sympathetic, |
| 18 |
and so far as it fathomed the abyss of
difficulties was
wise, brave, unselfed. May his history waken a tone
of
truth that shall reverberate, renew euphony, empha- |
| 21 |
size humane power, and bear its banner
into the vast
forever.
While our nation's
ensign of peace and prosperity |
| 24 |
waves over land and sea, while her reapers
are strong,
her sheaves garnered, her treasury filled, she is suddenly
stricken, - called to mourn the loss of her renowned |
| 27 |
leader! Tears blend with her triumphs. She
stops to
think, to mourn, yea, to pray, that the God of harvests
send
her more laborers, who, while they work for their |
| 30 |
own country, shall sacredly regard the
liberty of other
peoples and the rights of man.
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292
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What cannot love and righteousness achieve
for the
race? All that can be accomplished, and more than his- |
| 3 |
tory has yet recorded. All good that ever
was written,
taught, or wrought comes from God and human faith in
the
right. Through divine Love the right government is |
| 6 |
assimilated, the way pointed out, the
process shortened,
and the joy of acquiescence consummated. May God
sanctify our nation's sorrow in this wise, and His rod |
| 9 |
and His staff comfort the living as it did
the departing.
O may His love shield, support, and comfort the chief
mourner at the desolate home!
POWER OF PRAYER
My answer to the
inquiry, "Why did Christians of every
sect in the United States fail in
their prayers to save |
| 15 |
the life of President McKinley," is briefly
this: Insuffi-
cient faith or spiritual understanding, and a compound
of
prayers in which one earnest, tender desire works uncon- |
| 18 |
sciously against the modus operandi
of another, would
prevent the result desired. In the June, 1901,
Message
to my church in Boston, I refer to the effect of one |
| 21 |
human desire or belief unwittingly
neutralizing another,
though both are equally sincere.
In the practice of
materia medica, croton oil is not mixed |
| 24 |
with morphine to remedy dysentery, for
those drugs are
supposed to possess opposite qualities and so to
produce
opposite effects. The spirit of the prayer of the righteous |
| 27 |
heals the sick, but this spirit is of God,
and the divine
Mind is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever; where-
as the human mind is a compound of faith and doubt, |
| 30 |
of fear and hope, of faith in truth and
faith in error.
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293
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| 1 |
The knowledge that all things are possible
to God ex-
cludes doubt, but differing human concepts as to the |
| 3 |
divine power and purpose of infinite Mind,
and the so-
called power of matter, act as the different properties of
drugs are supposed to act - one against the other - and |
| 6 |
this compound of mind and matter
neutralizes itself.
Our lamented
President, in his loving acquiescence,
believed that his martyrdom was
God's way. Hun- |
| 9 |
dreds, thousands of others believed the
same, and hun-
dreds of thousands who prayed for him feared that the
bullet would prove fatal. Even the physicians may have |
| 12 |
feared this.
These conflicting
states of the human mind, of trembling
faith, hope, and of fear, evinced a
lack of the absolute |
| 15 |
understanding of God's omnipotence, and
thus they pre-
vented the power of absolute Truth from reassuring the
mind and through the mind resuscitating the body of |
| 18 |
the patient.
The divine power and
poor human sense - yea, the spirit
and the flesh - struggled, and to mortal
sense the flesh pre- |
| 21 |
vailed. Had prayer so fervently offered
possessed no
opposing element, and President McKinley's recovery
been
regarded as wholly contingent on the power of God, |
| 24 |
- on the power of divine Love to overrule
the pur-
poses of hate and the law of Spirit to control matter, -
the
result would have been scientific, and the patient |
| 27 |
would have recovered.
St. Paul writes:
"For the law of the Spirit of life in
Christ Jesus hath made me free from
the law of sin and |
| 30 |
death." And the Saviour of man saith:
"What things
soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive
them, and ye shall have them." Human governments
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294
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| 1 |
maintain the right of the majority to rule.
Christian
Scientists are yet in a large minority on the subject of |
| 3 |
divine metaphysics; but they improve the
morals and the
lives of men, and they heal the sick on the basis that
God
has all power, is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, |
| 6 |
supreme over all.
In a certain city
the Master "did not many mighty
works there because of their unbelief," -
because of the |
| 9 |
mental counteracting elements, the startled
or the un-
righteous contradicting minds of mortals. And if he were
personally with us to-day, he would rebuke whatever |
| 12 |
accords not with a full faith and spiritual
knowledge of
God. He would mightily rebuke a single doubt of the
ever-present power of divine Spirit to control all the con- |
| 15 |
ditions of man and the universe.
If the skilful
surgeon or the faithful M.D. is not dis-
mayed by a fruitless use of the
knife or the drug, has not |
| 18 |
the Christian Scientist with his conscious
understanding
of omnipotence, in spite of the constant stress of the
hindrances previously mentioned, reason for his faith in |
| 21 |
what is shown him by God's works?
ON
THE DEATH OF POPE LEO XIII, JULY 20, 1903
The sad, sudden
announcement of the decease of Pope |
| 24 |
Leo XIII, touches the heart and will move
the pen of
millions. The intellectual, moral, and religious energy
of
this illustrious pontiff have animated the Church of |
| 27 |
Rome for one quarter of a century. The
august ruler
of two hundred and fifty million human beings has now
passed through the shadow of death into the great forever. |
| 30 |
The court of the Vatican mourns him; his
relatives
shed "the unavailing tear." He is the loved and lost
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295
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| 1 |
of many millions. I sympathize with those
who mourn,
but rejoice in knowing our dear God comforts such with |
| 3 |
the blessed assurance that life is not
lost; its influence
remains in the minds of men, and divine Love holds
its substance safe in the certainty of immortality. |
| 6 |
"In Him was life; and the life was the
light of men."
(John 1: 4.)
A
TRIBUTE TO THE BIBLE
LETTER OF THANKS FOR THE
GIFT OF A COPY OF MARTIN LUTHER'S
TRANSLATION INTO GERMAN OF THE BIBLE,
PRINTED IN
NUREM BERG IN 1733
|
| 12 |
Dear Student: - I am in grateful
receipt of your time-
worn Bible in German. This Book of books is also
the
gift of gifts; and kindness in its largest, profoundest |
| 15 |
sense is goodness. It was kind of you to
give it to me.
I thank you for it.
Christian Scientists are fishers of men.
The Bible is |
| 18 |
our sea-beaten rock. It guides the
fishermen. It stands
the storm. It engages the attention and enriches
the
being of all men.
A
BENEDICTION
[Copy of
Cablegram]
COUNTESS
OF DUNMORE AND FAMILY, |
| 24 |
55
Lancaster Gate, West, London, England
Divine Love is your
ever-present help. You, I, and
mankind have cause to lament the demise of
Lord Dun- |
| 27 |
more; but as the Christian Scientist, the
servant of God
and man, he still lives, loves, labors.
MARY BAKER
EDDY |
| 30 |
PLEASANT
VIEW, CONCORD, N. H.,
August 31, 1907
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296
HON. CLARENCE A. BUSKIRK'S LECTURE
The able discourse
of our "learned judge," his flash of |
| 3 |
flight and insight, lays the axe "unto the
root of the
trees," and shatters whatever hinders the Science of
being. |
| 6 |
MARY BAKER EDDY
PLEASANT VIEW, CONCORD, N. H.,
October 14,
1907
"HEAR, O ISRAEL"
The late lamented
Christian Scientist brother and the
publisher of my books, Joseph
Armstrong, C.S.D., is not |
| 12 |
dead, neither does he sleep nor rest from
his labors in
divine Science; and his works do follow him. Evil has no
power to harm, to hinder, or to destroy the real spiritual |
| 15 |
man. He is wiser to-day, healthier and
happier, than
yesterday. The mortal dream of life, substance, or mind
in matter, has been lessened, and the reward of good |
| 18 |
and punishment of evil and the waking out
of his Adam-
dream of evil will end in harmony, - evil powerless, and
God, good, omnipotent and infinite. |
| 21 |
MARY BAKER
EDDY
PLEASANT VIEW, CONCORD, N. H.,
December 10, 1907
MISS CLARA BARTON
In the New York
American, January 6, 1908, Miss
Clara Barton dipped her pen in my
heart, and traced its |
| 27 |
emotions, motives, and object. Then,
lifting the curtains
of mortal mind, she depicted its rooms, guests,
standing
and seating capacity, and thereafter gave her discovery
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297
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| 1 |
to the press. Now if Miss Barton were not a
venerable
soldier, patriot, philanthropist, moralist, and states- |
| 3 |
woman, I should shrink from such salient
praise. But
in consideration of all that Miss Barton really is,
and
knowing that she can bear the blows which may |
| 6 |
follow said description of her soul-visit,
I will say, Amen,
so be it.
MARY BAKER EDDY |
| 9 |
PLEASANT
VIEW, CONCORD, N. H.,
January l0, 1908
THERE IS NO DEATH
|
| 12 |
A suppositional gust of evil in this evil
world is the
dark hour that precedes the dawn. This gust blows
away the
baubles of belief, for there is in reality no evil, |
| 15 |
no disease, no death; and the Christian
Scientist who
believes that he dies, gains a rich blessing of disbelief
in
death, and a higher realization of heaven.
|
| 18 |
My beloved Edward A. Kimball, whose clear,
correct
teaching of Christian Science has been and is an inspira-
tion
to the whole field, is here now as veritably as when |
| 21 |
he visited me a year ago. If we would
awaken to this
recognition, we should see him here and realize that he
never died; thus demonstrating the fundamental truth |
| 24 |
of Christian Science.
MARY BAKER EDDY
MRS. EDDY'S HISTORY
|
| 27 |
I have not had sufficient interest in the
matter to read
or to note from others' reading what the enemies of
Christian Science are said to be circulating regarding my |
| 30 |
history, but my friends have read Sibyl
Wilbur's book,
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298
|
| 1 |
"The Life of Mary Baker Eddy," and request
the privi-
lege of buying, circulating, and recommending it to the |
| 3 |
public. I briefly declare that nothing has
occurred in my
life's experience which, if correctly narrated and
under-
stood, could injure me; and not a little is already re- |
| 6 |
ported of the good accomplished therein,
the self-sacrifice,
etc., that has distinguished all my working
years.
I thank Miss Wilbur
and the Concord Publishing Com- |
| 9 |
pany for their unselfed labors in placing
this book before
the public, and hereby say that they have my
permission
to publish and circulate this work. |
| 12 |
MARY BAKER EDDY
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299
CHAPTER XVII - ANSWERS TO CRITICISMS
|
| 1 |
[Letter to the New York Commercial
Advertiser]
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND THE CHURCH
|
| 3 |
OVER the signature "A Priest of the
Church,"
somebody, kindly referring to my address to First
Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Concord, N. H., writes: |
| 6 |
"If they [Christian Scientists] have any
truth to reveal
which has not been revealed by the church or the Bible,
let them make it known to the world, before they claim |
| 9 |
the allegiance of mankind. "
I submit that
Christian Science has been widely made
known to the world, and that it
contains the entire |
| 12 |
truth of the Scriptures, as also whatever
portions of truth
may be found in creeds. In addition to this,
Christian
Science presents the demonstrable divine Principle and |
| 15 |
rules of the Bible, hitherto undiscovered
in the trans-
lations of the Bible and lacking in the creeds.
Therefore I query:
Do Christians, who believe in sin, |
| 18 |
and especially those who claim to pardon
sin, believe
that God is good, and that God is All? Christian
Scientists firmly subscribe to this statement; yea, they |
| 21 |
understand it and the law governing it,
namely, that
God, the divine Principle of Christian Science, is
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300
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| 1 |
"of purer eyes than to behold evil." On
this basis they
endeavor to cast out the belief in sin or in aught |
| 3 |
besides God, thus enabling the sinner to
overcome
sin according to the Scripture, "Work out your own
salvation
with fear and trembling. For it is God which |
| 6 |
worketh in you both to will and to do of
His good
pleasure."
Does he who believes
in sickness know or declare that |
| 9 |
there is no sickness or disease, and thus
heal disease?
Christian Scientists, who do not believe in the reality
of disease, heal disease, for the reason that the divine |
| 12 |
Principle of Christian Science,
demonstrated, heals the
most inveterate diseases. Does he who believes
in
death understand or aver that there is no death, and |
| 15 |
proceed to overcome "the last enemy" and
raise the
dying to health? Christian Scientists raise the dying to
health in Christ's name, and are striving to reach the |
| 18 |
summit of Jesus' words, "If a man keep my
saying, he
shall never see death."
If, as this kind
priest claims, these things, inseparable |
| 21 |
from Christian Science, are common to his
church, we
propose that he make known his doctrine to the world,
that
he teach the Christianity which heals, and send out |
| 24 |
students according to Christ's command, "Go
ye into all
the world, and preach the gospel to every creature,"
"Heal
the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast |
| 27 |
out devils."
The tree is known by
its fruit. If, as he implies,
Christian Science is not a departure from the
first cen- |
| 30 |
tury churches, - as surely it is not, -
why persecute
it? Are the churches opening fire on their own religious
ranks, or are they attacking a peaceable party quite
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301
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| 1 |
their antipode? Christian Science is a
reflected glory;
it shines with borrowed rays - from Light emitting
light. |
| 3 |
Christian Science is the new-old
Christianity, that which
was and is the revelation of divine Love.
The present flux in
religious faith may be found to be |
| 6 |
a healthy fermentation, by which the lees
of religion will
be lost, dogma and creed will pass off in scum, leaving
a
solid Christianity at the bottom - a foundation for the |
| 9 |
builders. I would that all the churches on
earth could
unite as brethren in one prayer: Father, teach us the
life
of Love.
|
| 12 |
PLEASANT
VEIW, CONCORD, N. H.,
March 22, 1899
[Letter to the
New York World]
FAITH IN METAPHYSICS
Is faith in divine
metaphysics insanity?
All sin is insanity,
but healing the sick is not sin. |
| 18 |
There is a universal insanity which
mistakes fable for
fact throughout the entire testimony of the material
senses. Those unfortunate people who are committed to |
| 21 |
insane asylums are only so many
well-defined instances
of the baneful effects of illusion on mortal minds
and
bodies. The supposition that we can correct insanity |
| 24 |
by the use of drugs is in itself a species
of insanity. A
drug cannot of itself go to the brain or affect cerebral
conditions in any manner whatever. Drugs cannot |
| 27 |
remove inflammation, restore disordered
functions, or
destroy disease without the aid of mind.
If mind be absent
from the body, drugs can produce |
| 30 |
no curative effect upon the body. The mind
must
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302
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| 1 |
be, is, the vehicle of all modes of healing
disease and of
producing disease. Through the mandate of mind or |
| 3 |
according to a man's belief, can he be
helped or be killed
by a drug; but mind, not matter, produces the result
in
either case.
|
| 6 |
Neither life nor death, health nor disease,
can be pro-
duced on a corpse, whence mind has departed. This
self-evident fact is proof that mind is the cause of all |
| 9 |
effect made manifest through so-called
matter. The
general craze is that matter masters mind; the specific
insanity is that brain, matter, is insane.
|
| 12 |
[Letter to the New York Herald]
REPLY TO MARK TWAIN
It is a fact well
understood that I begged the students |
| 15 |
who first gave me the endearing appellative
"Mother,"
not to name me thus. But without my consent, the use
of the
word spread like wildfire. I still must think the |
| 18 |
name is not applicable to me. I stand in
relation to
this century as a Christian Discoverer, Founder, and
Leader. I regard self-deification as blasphemous. I may |
| 21 |
be more loved, but I am less lauded,
pampered, provided
for, and cheered than others before me - and where-
fore? Because Christian Science is not yet popular, and |
| 24 |
I refuse adulation.
My first visit to
The Mother Church after it was built
and dedicated pleased me, and the
situation was satisfac- |
| 27 |
tory. The dear members wanted to greet me
with escort
and the ringing of bells, but I declined and went alone in
my carriage to the church, entered it, and knelt in thanks |
| 30 |
upon the steps of its altar. There the
foresplendor of
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303
|
| 1 |
the beginnings of truth fell mysteriously
upon my spirit.
I believe in one Christ, teach one Christ, know of but |
| 3 |
one Christ. I believe in but one
incarnation, one Mother
Mary. I know that I am not that one, and I have
never
claimed to be. It suffices me to learn the Science of the |
| 6 |
Scriptures relative to this subject.
Christian Scientists
have no quarrel with Protestants,
Catholics, or any other sect. Christian
Scientists need to |
| 9 |
be understood as following the divine
Principle - God,
Love - and not imagined to be unscientific worshippers
of a human being.
|
| 12 |
In his article, of which I have seen only
extracts, Mark
Twain's wit was not wasted in certain directions. Chris-
tian Science eschews divine rights in human beings. |
| 15 |
If the individual governed human
consciousness, my
statement of Christian Science would be disproved;
but to demonstrate Science and its pure monotheism |
| 18 |
- one God, one Christ, no idolatry, no
human propa-
ganda - it is essential to understand the spiritual idea.
Jesus taught and proved that what feeds a few feeds |
| 21 |
all. His life-work subordinated the
material to the
spiritual, and he left his legacy of truth to man-
kind. His metaphysics is not the sport of philosophy, |
| 24 |
religion, or science; rather is it the
pith and finale of
them all.
I have not the
inspiration nor the aspiration to be |
| 27 |
a first or second Virgin-mother - her
duplicate, ante-
cedent, or subsequent. What I am remains to be proved
by the good I do. We need much humility, wisdom, |
| 30 |
and love to perform the functions of
foreshadowing and
foretasting heaven within us. This glory is molten in
the furnace of affliction.
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304
[Boston
Journal, June 8, 1903]
A
MISSTATEMENT CORRECTED
|
| 3 |
I was early a pupil of Miss Sarah J.
Bodwell, the
principal of Sanbornton Academy, New Hampshire, and
finished my course of studies under Professor Dyer |
| 6 |
H. Sanborn, author of Sanborn's Grammar.
Among
my early studies were Comstock's Natural Philosophy,
Chemistry,
Blair's Rhetoric, Whateley's Logic, Watt's |
| 9 |
"On the Mind and Moral Science." At sixteen
years
of age, I began writing for the leading newspapers, and
for many
years I wrote for the best magazines in the |
| 12 |
South and North. I have lectured in large
and crowded
halls in New York City, Chicago, Boston, Portland,
and at
Waterville College, and have been invited to |
| 15 |
lecture in London, England, and Edinburgh,
Scotland.
In 1883, I started The Christian Science Journal, and
for several years was the proprietor and sole editor of |
| 18 |
that periodical. In 1893, Judge S. J. Hanna
became
editor of The Christian Science Journal, and for ten
subsequent years he knew my ability as an editor. In |
| 21 |
a lecture in Chicago, he said: "Mrs. Eddy
is from
every point of view a woman of sound education and
liberal
culture."
|
| 24 |
Agassiz, the celebrated naturalist and
author, wisely
said: "Every great scientific truth goes through three
stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. |
| 27 |
Next, they say it has been discovered
before. Lastly,
they say they have always believed it."
The first attack
upon me was: Mrs. Eddy misinterprets |
| 30 |
the Scriptures; second, she has stolen the
contents of her
book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,"
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305
|
| 1 |
from one P. P. Quimby (an obscure,
uneducated man),
and that he is the founder of Christian Science.
Failing |
| 3 |
in these attempts, the calumniator has
resorted to Ralph
Waldo Emerson's philosophy as the authority for
Christian
Science! Lastly, the defamer will declare as honestly (?), |
| 6 |
"I have always known it."
In Science and
Health, page 68, third paragraph, I
briefly express myself unmistakably on
the subject of |
| 9 |
"vulgar metaphysics," and the manuscripts
and letters
in my possession, which "vulgar" defamers have circu-
lated, stand in evidence. People do not know who is |
| 12 |
referred to as "an ignorant woman in New
Hampshire."
Many of the nation's best and most distinguished men
and
women were natives of the Granite State.
|
| 15 |
I am the author of the Christian Science
textbook,
"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures;" and
the
demand for this book constantly increases. I am |
| 18 |
rated in the National Magazine
(1903) as "standing
eighth in a list of twenty-two of the foremost
living
authors."
|
| 21 |
I claim no special merit of any kind. All
that I am
in reality, God has made me. I still wait at the cross to
learn definitely more from my great Master, but not |
| 24 |
of the Greek nor of the Roman schools -
simply how to
do his works.
A
PLEA FOR JUSTICE
|
| 27 |
My recent reply to the reprint of a scandal
in the
Literary Digest was not a question of "Who shall be
greatest?" but of "Who shall be just?" Who is or is |
| 30 |
not the founder of Christian Science was
not the trend
of thought, but my purpose was to lift the curtain on
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306
|
| 1 |
wrong, on falsehood which persistently
misrepresents
my character, education, and authorship, and attempts |
| 3 |
to narrow my life into a conflict for
fame.
Far be it from me to
tread on the ashes of the dead or
to dissever any unity that may exist
between Christian |
| 6 |
Science and the philosophy of a great and
good man, for
such was Ralph Waldo Emerson; and I deem it unwise to
enter into a newspaper controversy over a question that |
| 9 |
is no longer a question. The false should
be antagonized
only for the purpose of making the true apparent. I have
quite another purpose in life than to be thought great. |
| 12 |
Time and goodness determine greatness. The
greatest
reform, with almost unutterable truths to translate,
must wait
to be transfused into the practical and |
| 15 |
to be understood in the "new tongue." Age,
with
experience-acquired patience and unselfed love, waits
on God.
Human merit or demerit will find its proper |
| 18 |
level. Divinity alone solves the problem
of human-
ity, and that in God's own time. "By their fruits ye
shall
know them."
REMINISCENCES
In 1862, when I
first visited Dr. Quimby of Portland,
Me., his scribblings were
descriptions of his patients, and |
| 24 |
these comprised the manuscripts which in
1887 I adver-
tised that I would pay for having published. Before his
decease, in January, 1866, Dr. Quimby had tried to get |
| 27 |
them published and had failed.
Quotations have been
published, purporting to be Dr.
Quimby's own words, which were written
while I was his |
| 30 |
patient in Portland and holding long
conversations with
him on my views of mental therapeutics. Some words
in
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these quotations certainly read like words
that I said to
him, and which I, at his request, had added to his |
| 3 |
copy when I corrected it. In his
conversations with
me and in his scribblings, the word science was not
used at all, till one day I declared to him that back |
| 6 |
of his magnetic treatment and manipulation
of patients,
there was a science, and it was the science of mind,
which
had nothing to do with matter, electricity, or |
| 9 |
physics.
After this I noticed
he used that word, as well as other
terms which I employed that seemed at
first new to him. |
| 12 |
He even acknowledged this himself, and
startled me by
saying what I cannot forget - it was this: "I see now
what you mean, and I see that I am John, and that you |
| 15 |
are Jesus."
At that date I was a
staunch orthodox, and my theologi-
cal belief was offended by his saying
and I entered a de- |
| 18 |
murrer which rebuked him. But afterwards I
concluded
that he only referred to the coming anew of Truth, which
we both desired; for in some respects he was quite a seer |
| 21 |
and understood what I said better than some
others did.
For one so unlearned, he was a remarkable man. Had
his
remark related to my personality, I should still think |
| 24 |
that it was profane.
At first my case
improved wonderfully under his
treatment, but it relapsed. I was gradually
emerging |
| 27 |
from materia medica, dogma, and
creeds, and drifting
whither I knew not. This mental struggle might
have
caused my illness. The fallacy of materia medica, its |
| 30 |
lack of science, and the want of divinity
in scholas-
tic theology, had already dawned on me. My ideal-
ism,
however, limped, for then it lacked Science. But
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| 1 |
the divine Love will accomplish what all
the powers
of earth combined can never prevent being accom- |
| 3 |
plished - the advent of divine healing and
its divine
Science.
REPLY TO McCLURE'S MAGAZINE
|
| 6 |
It is calumny on Christian Science to say
that man is
aroused to thought or action only by ease, pleasure, or
recompense. Something higher, nobler, more imperative |
| 9 |
impels the impulse of Soul.
It becomes my duty
to be just to the departed and to
tread not ruthlessly on their ashes. The
attack on me |
| 12 |
and my late father and his family in
McClure's Magazine,
January, 1907, compels me as a dutiful child and
the
Leader of Christian Science to speak.
|
| 15 |
McClure's Magazine refers to my
father's "tall, gaunt
frame" and pictures "the old man tramping
doggedly
along the highway, regularly beating the ground with a |
| 18 |
huge walking-stick." My father's person was
erect and
robust. He never used a walking-stick. To illustrate:
One
time when my father was visiting Governor Pierce, |
| 21 |
President Franklin Pierce's father, the
Governor handed
him a gold-headed walking-stick as they were about to
start for church. My father thanked the Governor, |
| 24 |
but declined to accept the stick, saying,
"I never use
a cane."
Although
McClure's Magazine attributes to my father |
| 27 |
language unseemly, his household law,
constantly en-
forced, was no profanity and no slang phrases.
McClure's
Magazine also declares that the Bible was the only
book |
| 30 |
in his house. On the contrary, my father
was a great
reader. The man whom McClure's Magazine
characterizes
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309
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| 1 |
as "ignorant, dominating, passionate,
fearless," was
uniformly dignified - a well-informed, intellectual
man, |
| 3 |
cultivated in mind and manners. He was
called upon
to do much business for his town, making out deeds,
settling quarrels, and even acting as counsel in a lawsuit |
| 6 |
involving a question of pauperism between
the towns of
Loudon and Bow, N. H. Franklin Pierce, afterwards
President of the United States, was the counsel for |
| 9 |
Loudon and Mark Baker for Bow. Both entered
their
pleas, and my father won the suit. After it was decided,
Mr.
Pierce bowed to my father and congratulated him. |
| 12 |
For several years father was chaplain of
the New
Hampshire State Militia, and as I recollect it, he was
justice
of the peace at one time. My father was a |
| 15 |
strong believer in States' rights, but
slavery he regarded
as a great sin.
Mark Baker was the
youngest of his father's family, and |
| 18 |
inherited his father's real estate, an
extensive farm situ-
ated in Bow and Concord, N. H. It is on record
that
Mark Baker's father paid the largest tax in the colony. |
| 21 |
McClure's Magazine says, describing
the Baker home-
stead at Bow: "The house itself was a small, square box
building of rudimentary architecture." My father's |
| 24 |
house had a sloping roof, after the
prevailing style of
architecture at that date.
McClure's
Magazine states: "Alone of the Bakers,
he |
| 27 |
[Albert] received a liberal education. . .
. Mary Baker
passed her first fifteen years at the ancestral home at
Bow.
It was a lonely and unstimulating existence. The church |
| 30 |
supplied the only social diversions, the
district school
practically all the intellectual life."
Let us see what were
the fruits of this "lonely and
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310
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| 1 |
unstimulating existence." All my father's
daughters were
given an academic education, sufficiently advanced so
that |
| 3 |
they all taught school acceptably at
various times and
places. My brother Albert was a distinguished lawyer.
In addition to my academic training, I was privately |
| 6 |
tutored by him. He was a member of the New
Hamp-
shire Legislature, and was nominated for Congress, but
died
before the election. McClure's Magazine calls my |
| 9 |
youngest brother, George Sullivan Baker, "a
workman in
a Tilton woolen mill." As a matter of fact, he was joint
partner with Alexander Tilton, and together they owned a |
| 12 |
large manufacturing establishment in
Tilton, N. H. His
military title of Colonel came from appointment on
the
staff of the Governor of New Hampshire. My oldest |
| 15 |
brother, Samuel D. Baker, carried on a
large business in
Boston, Mass.
Regarding the
allegation by McClure's Magazine that all |
| 18 |
the family, "excepting Albert, died of
cancer," I will
say that there was never a death in my father's family
reported by physician or post-mortem examination as |
| 21 |
caused by cancer.
McClure's
Magazine says that "the quarrels between
Mary, a child ten years old, and her father, a gray-haired |
| 24 |
man of fifty, frequently set the house in
an uproar,"
and adds that these "fits" were diagnosed by Dr. Ladd
as
"hysteria mingled with bad temper." My mother |
| 27 |
often presented my disposition as exemplary
for her other
children to imitate, saying, "When do you ever see
Mary
angry?" When the first edition of Science and |
| 30 |
Health was published, Dr. Ladd said to
Alexander Tilton:
"Read it, for it will do you good. It does not
surprise
me, it so resembles the author."
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I will relate the following incident, which
occurred later
in life, as illustrative of my disposition: -
|
| 3 |
While I was living with Dr. Patterson at
his country
home in North Groton, N. H., a girl, totally blind, knocked
at the door and was admitted. She begged to be allowed |
| 6 |
to remain with me, and my tenderness and
sympathy were
such that I could not refuse her. Shortly after, however,
my good housekeeper said to me: "If this blind girl stays |
| 9 |
with you, I shall have to leave; she
troubles me so much."
It was not in my heart to turn the blind girl out,
and so
I lost my housekeeper.
|
| 12 |
My reply to the statement that the clerk's
book shows
that I joined the Tilton Congregational Church at the age
of
seventeen is that my religious experience seemed to |
| 15 |
culminate at twelve years of age. Hence a
mistake may
have occurred as to the exact date of my first church
membership.
|
| 18 |
The facts regarding the McNeil
coat-of-arms are as
follows: -
Fanny McNeil,
President Pierce's niece, afterwards |
| 21 |
Mrs. Judge Potter, presented me my
coat-of-arms, say-
ing that it was taken in connection with her own
family
coat-of-arms. I never doubted the veracity of her gift. |
| 24 |
I have another coat-of-arms, which is of my
mother's
ancestry. When I was last in Washington, D. C., Mrs.
Judge
Potter and myself knelt in silent prayer on the |
| 27 |
mound of her late father, General John
McNeil, the
hero of Lundy Lane.
Notwithstanding that
McClure's Magazine says, "Mary |
| 30 |
Baker completed her education when she
finished Smith's
grammar and reached long division in arithmetic," I
was
called by the Rev. R. S. Rust, D.D., Principal of the
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312
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| 1 |
Methodist Conference Seminary at Sanbornton
Bridge, to
supply the place of his leading teacher during her tempo- |
| 3 |
rary absence.
Regarding my first
marriage and the tragic death of my
husband, McClure's Magazine
says: "He [George Wash- |
| 6 |
ington Glover] took his bride to
Wilmington, South Caro-
lina, and in June, 1844, six months after his
marriage, he
died of yellow fever. He left his young wife in a miser- |
| 9 |
able plight. She was far from home and
entirely without
money or friends. Glover, however, was a Free Mason,
and thus received a decent burial. The Masons also paid |
| 12 |
Mrs. Glover's fare to New York City, where
she was
met and taken to her father's home by her brother George.
. . .
Her position was an embarrassing one. She was a |
| 15 |
grown woman, with a child, but entirely
without means
of support. . . . Mrs. Glover made only one effort at
self-support. For a brief season she taught school."
|
| 18 |
My first husband, Major George W. Glover,
resided in
Charleston, S. C. While on a business trip to Wilming-
ton,
N. C., he was suddenly seized with yellow fever and |
| 21 |
died in about nine days. I was with him on
this trip.
He took with him the usual amount of money he would
need on
such an excursion. At his decease I was sur- |
| 24 |
rounded by friends, and their provisions in
my behalf were
most tender. The Governor of the State and his staff,
with a long procession, followed the remains of my be- |
| 27 |
loved one to the cemetery. The Free Masons
selected
my escort, who took me to my father's home in Tilton,
N. H. My
salary for writing gave me ample support. |
| 30 |
I did open an infant school, but it was
for the purpose of
starting that educational system in New Hampshire.
The rhyme attributed
to me by McClure's Magazine is
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313
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| 1 |
not mine, but is, I understand, a
paraphrase of a silly
song of years ago. Correctly quoted, it is as
follows, so |
| 3 |
I have been told: -
Go to Jane
Glover,
Tell her I
love her |
| 6 |
By the
light of the moon
I will go to her.
The various stories
told by McClure's Magazine about |
| 9 |
my father spreading the road in front of
his house with
tan-bark and straw, and about persons being hired to
rock
me, I am ignorant of. Nor do I remember any such stuff |
| 12 |
as Dr. Patterson driving into Franklin, N.
H., with a
couch or cradle for me in his wagon. I only know that
my
father and mother did everything they could think of |
| 15 |
to help me when I was ill.
I was never "given
to long and lonely wanderings,
especially at night," as stated by
McClure's Magazine. I |
| 18 |
was always accompanied by some responsible
individual
when I took an evening walk, but I seldom took one. I
have
always consistently declared that I was not a medium |
| 21 |
for spirits. I never was especially
interested in the
Shakers, never "dabbled in mesmerism," never was "an
amateur clairvoyant," nor did "the superstitious coun- |
| 24 |
try folk frequently" seek my advice. I
never went
into a trance to describe scenes far away, as McClure's
Magazine says.
|
| 27 |
My oldest sister dearly loved me, but I
wounded her
pride when I adopted Christian Science, and to a Baker
that
was a sorry offence. I was obliged to be parted |
| 30 |
from my son, because after my father's
second marriage
my little boy was not welcome in my father's house.
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314
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| 1 |
McClure's Magazine calls Dr. Daniel
Patterson, my
second husband, "an itinerant dentist." It says that |
| 3 |
after my marriage we "lived for a short
time at Tilton,
then moved to Franklin . . . . During the following
nine
years the Pattersons led a roving existence. The doctor |
| 6 |
practised in several towns, from Tilton to
North Groton
and then to Rumney." When I was married to him, Dr.
Daniel
Patterson was located in Franklin, N. H. He had |
| 9 |
the degree D.D.S., was a popular man, and
considered a
rarely skilful dentist. He bought a place in North Groton,
which he fancied, for a summer home. At that time he |
| 12 |
owned a house in Franklin, N. H.
Although, as
McClure's Magazine claims, the court
record may state that my
divorce from Dr. Patterson was |
| 15 |
granted on the ground of desertion, the
cause neverthe-
less was adultery. Individuals are here to-day who were
present in court when the decision was given by the judge |
| 18 |
and who know the following facts: After the
evidence
had been submitted that a husband was about to have Dr.
Patterson arrested for eloping with his wife, the court |
| 21 |
instructed the clerk to record the divorce
in my favor.
What prevented Dr. Patterson's arrest was a letter from
me
to this self-same husband, imploring him not to do it. |
| 24 |
When this husband recovered his wife, he
kept her a
prisoner in her home, and I was also the means of recon-
ciling the couple. A Christian Scientist has told me that |
| 27 |
with tears of gratitude the wife of this
husband related
these facts to her just as I have stated them. I lived
with Dr. Patterson peaceably, and he was kind to me up |
| 30 |
to the time of the divorce.
The following
affidavit by R. D. Rounsevel of Littleton,
N. H., proprietor of the White
Mountain House, Fabyans,
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315
|
| 1 |
N. H., the original of which is in my
possession, is of
interest in this connection: -
|
| 3 |
About the year 1874, Dr. Patterson, a
dentist, boarded
with me in Littleton, New Hampshire. During his stay,
at different times, I had conversation with him about his |
| 6 |
wife, from whom he was separated. He spoke
of her being
a pure and Christian woman, and the cause of the separa-
tion being wholly on his part; that if he had done as he |
| 9 |
ought, he might have had as pleasant and
happy home as
one could wish for.
At that time I had
no knowledge of who his wife was. |
| 12 |
Later on I learned that Mary Baker G. Eddy,
the Dis-
coverer and Founder of Christian Science, was the above-
mentioned woman. |
| 15 |
(Signed) R. D. ROUNSEVEL
Grafton
S. S. Jan'y, 1902. Then personally appeared
R. D. Rounsevel and made oath
that the within statement |
| 18 |
by him signed is true.
Before me, (Signed)
H. M. MORSE,
Justice of the Peace
21 Who or what is the McClure
"history," so called, pre-
senting? Is it myself, the veritable Mrs. Eddy,
whom
the New York World declared dying of cancer, or is it
24 her alleged double or dummy heretofore
described?
If indeed it be I, allow me to thank the
enterprising
historians for the testimony they have thereby given of
the
27 divine power of Christian Science,
which they admit has
snatched me from the cradle and the grave, and
made
me the beloved Leader of millions of the good men and
30 women in our own and in other
countries, - and all this
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316
|
| 1 |
because the truth I have promulgated has
separated the
tares from the wheat, uniting in one body those who love |
| 3 |
Truth; because Truth divides between sect
and Science
and renews the heavenward impulse; because I still hear
the
harvest song of the Redeemer awakening the nations, |
| 6 |
causing man to love his enemies; because
"blessed are ye,
when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and
shall
say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake."
[Christian
Science Sentinel, January 19, 1907]
A
CARD
The article in the
January number of The Arena maga- |
| 12 |
zine, entitled "The Recent Reckless and
Irresponsible
Attacks on Christian Science and its Founder, with a
Survey of the Christian Science Movement," by the |
| 15 |
scholarly editor, Mr. B.O. Flower, is a
grand defence of
our Cause and its Leader. Such a dignified, eloquent
appeal to the press in behalf of common justice and truth |
| 18 |
demands public attention. It defends human
rights and
the freedom of Christian sentiments, and tends to turn
back
the foaming torrents of ignorance, envy, and malice. |
| 21 |
I am pleased to find this
"twentieth-century review of
opinion" once more under Mr. Flower's able
guardianship
and manifesting its unbiased judgment by such sound |
| 24 |
appreciation of the rights of Christian
Scientists and of
all that is right.
MARY BAKER EDDY
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CHAPTER XVIII - AUTHORSHIP OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH
|
| 1 |
THE following statement, which was
published in
the Sentinel of December 1, 1906, exactly defin- |
| 3 |
ing her relations with the Rev. James Henry
Wiggin of
Boston, was made by Mrs. Eddy in refutation of allega-
tions
in the public press to the effect that Mr. Wiggin |
| 6 |
had a share in the authorship of "Science
and Health
with Key to the Scriptures."
MRS. EDDY'S STATEMENT
|
| 9 |
It is a great mistake to say that I
employed the Rev.
James Henry Wiggin to correct my diction. It was for
no such purpose. I engaged Mr. Wiggin so as to avail |
| 12 |
myself of his criticisms of my statement of
Christian
Science, which criticisms would enable me to explain
more
clearly the points that might seem ambiguous to |
| 15 |
the reader.
Mr. Calvin A. Frye
copied my writings, and he will tell
you that Mr. Wiggin left my diction
quite out of the |
| 18 |
question, sometimes saying, "I wouldn't
express it that
way." He often dissented from what I had written,
but I
quieted him by quoting corroborative texts of |
| 21 |
Scripture.
My diction, as used
in explaining Christian Science, has
been called original. The liberty that
I have taken with
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318
|
| 1 |
capitalization, in order to express the
"new tongue," has
well-nigh constituted a new style of language. In
almost |
| 3 |
every case where Mr. Wiggin added words, I
have erased
them in my revisions.
Mr. Wiggin was not
my proofreader for my book |
| 6 |
"Miscellaneous Writings," and for only two
of my books.
I especially employed him on "Science and Health with
Key
to the Scriptures," because at that date some critics |
| 9 |
declared that my book was as ungrammatical
as it was
misleading. I availed myself of the name of the former
proofreader for the University Press, Cambridge, to |
| 12 |
defend my grammatical construction, and
confidently
awaited the years to declare the moral and spiritual
effect
upon the age of "Science and Health with Key |
| 15 |
to the Scriptures."
I invited Mr. Wiggin
to visit one of my classes in the
Massachusetts Metaphysical College, and
he consented |
| 18 |
on condition that I should not ask him any
questions.
I agreed not to question him just so long as he refrained
from questioning me. He held himself well in check |
| 21 |
until I began my attack on agnosticism. As
I pro-
ceeded, Mr. Wiggin manifested more and more agita-
tion, until
he could control himself no longer and, |
| 24 |
addressing me, burst out with:
"How do you know
that there ever was such a man as
Christ Jesus?"
|
| 27 |
He would have continued with a long
argument,
framed from his ample fund of historical knowledge,
but I
stopped him.
|
| 30 |
"Now, Mr. Wiggin," I said, "you have
broken our
agreement. I do not find my authority for Christian
Science
in history, but in revelation. If there had never
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319
|
| 1 |
existed such a person as the Galilean
Prophet, it would
make no difference to me. I should still know that |
| 3 |
God's spiritual ideal is the only real man
in His image
and likeness."
My saying touched
him, and I heard nothing further |
| 6 |
from him in the class, though afterwards
he wrote a
kind little pamphlet, signed "Phare Pleigh."
I hold the late Mr.
Wiggin in loving, grateful memory |
| 9 |
for his high-principled character and
well-equipped
scholarship.
LETTERS FROM STUDENTS
|
| 12 |
The following letters from students of Mrs.
Eddy
confirm her statement regarding the work which the
Rev. Mr. Wiggin
did for her, and also indicate what he |
| 15 |
himself thought of that work and of Mrs.
Eddy: -
My Dear
Teacher: - I am conversant with some facts
which perhaps have not come under the observation of |
| 18 |
many of your students, and considering the
questions
which have recently appeared, it may interest you to be
advised that I have this information. On the tenth day of |
| 21 |
January, 1887, I entered your Primary class
at Boston.
A few days later, in conversation with you about the
preparation of a theme, you suggested that I call on the |
| 24 |
late J. Henry Wiggin to assist me in
analyzing and arrang-
ing the topics, which I did about the twentieth of
the
above-named month. These dates are very well fixed in |
| 27 |
my memory, as I considered the time an
important one
in my experience, and do so still. I also recall very
plainly the conversation with you in general as regards |
| 30 |
Mr. Wiggin. You told me that he had done
some literary
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320
|
| 1 |
work for you and that he was a fine
literary student and
a good proofreader.
|
| 3 |
Upon calling on Mr. Wiggin, I presented my
matter for
a theme to him, and he readily consented to assist me,
which
he did. He also seemed very much pleased to |
| 6 |
converse about you and your work, and I
found that his
statement of what he had done for you exactly agreed
with what you had told me. He also expressed himself |
| 9 |
freely as to his high regard for you as a
Christian lady,
as an author, and as a student of ability. Mr. Wiggin
spoke of "Science and Health with Key to the Scrip- |
| 12 |
tures" as being a very unique book, and
seemed quite
proud of his having had something to do with some
editions. He always spoke of you as the author of this |
| 15 |
book and the author of all your works. Mr.
Wiggin
did not claim to be a Christian Scientist, but was in
a measure
in sympathy with the movement, although |
| 18 |
he did not endorse all the statements in
your textbook;
but his tendency was friendly.
I called on Mr.
Wiggin several times while I was in your |
| 21 |
Primary class at the time above referred
to, and several
times subsequent thereto, and he always referred to you
as
the author of your works and spoke of your ability without |
| 24 |
any hesitation or restriction. Our
conversations were at
times somewhat long and went into matters of
detail
regarding your work, and I am of the opinion that he |
| 27 |
was proud of his acquaintance with you.
I saw Mr. Wiggin
several times after the class closed,
and the last conversation I had with
him was at the |
| 30 |
time of the dedication of the first Mother
Church edifice
in 1895. I met him in the vestibule of the church
and he
spoke in a very animated manner of your
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321
|
| 1 |
grand demonstration in building this church
for your
followers. He seemed very proud to think that he had |
| 3 |
been in a way connected with your work, but
he always
referred to you as the one who had accomplished this
great
work.
|
| 6 |
My recollections of Mr. Wiggin place him as
one
of your devoted and faithful friends, one who knew
who and what
you are, also your position as regards |
| 9 |
your published works; and he always gave
you that
position without any restriction. I believe that Mr.
Wiggin
was an honest man and that he told the same |
| 12 |
story to every one with whom he had
occasion to talk,
so I cannot believe that he has ever said anything
whatever of you and your relations to your published |
| 15 |
works differing from what he talked so
freely in my
presence.
There is nothing in the circumstances which
have |
| 18 |
arisen recently, and the manner in which
the statements
have been made, to change my opinion one iota in this
respect.
|
| 21 |
It will soon be twenty years since I first
saw you and
entered your class. During that time, from my connec-
tion
with the church, the Publishing Society, and my |
| 24 |
many conversations with you, my personal
knowledge of
the authorship of your works is conclusive to me in every
detail, and I am very glad that I was among your early |
| 27 |
students and have had this experience and
know of my
own personal knowledge what has transpired during the
past
twenty years.
|
| 30 |
I am also pleased to have had
conversations with
people who knew you years before I did, and who have
told me of their knowledge of your work.
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It is not long since I met a lady who lived
in Lynn,
and she told me she knew you when you were writing |
| 3 |
Science and Health, and that she had seen
the manu-
script. These are facts which cannot be controverted
and they
must stand. |
| 6 |
Your affectionate student,
EDWARD P.
BATES
BOSTON,
MASS., November 21, 1906
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| 9 |
My Beloved Teacher: - I have just
read your state-
ment correcting mistakes widely published about the
Rev. James H. Wiggin's work for and attitude towards |
| 12 |
you; also Mr. Edward P. Bates' letter to
you on the
same subject; which reminds me of a conversation I
had with
Mr. Wiggin on Thanksgiving Day twenty |
| 15 |
years ago, when a friend and I were the
guests invited
to dine with the Wiggin family.
I had seen you the day before at the
Metaphysical |
| 18 |
College and received your permission to
enter the next
Primary class (Jan. 10, 1887). During the evening my
friend spoke of my journeying from the far South, and |
| 21 |
waiting months in Boston on the bare hope
of a few
days' instruction by Mrs. Eddy in Christian Science.
She and
Mrs. Wiggin seemed inclined to banter me on |
| 24 |
such enthusiasm, but Mr. Wiggin kindly
helped me by
advancing many good points in the Science, which were
so
clearly stated that I was surprised when he told me |
| 27 |
he was not a Christian Scientist.
Seeing my great interest in the subject,
he told me
of his acquaintance with you and spoke earnestly and |
| 30 |
beautifully of you and your work. The
exact words I
do not recall, but the impression he left with me was
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entirely in accordance with what Mr. Bates
has so well
written in the above-mentioned letter. Before we left |
| 3 |
that evening, Mr. Wiggin gave me a pamphlet
entitled
"Christian Science and the Bible," by "Phare Pleigh,"
which
he said he had written in answer to an unfair |
| 6 |
criticism of you and your book by some
minister in the
far West. I have his little book yet. How long must it
be before the people find out that you have so identified |
| 9 |
yourself with the truth by loving it and
living it that you
are not going to lie about anything nor willingly
leave
any false impression.
|
| 12 |
In loving gratitude for your living
witness to Truth
and Love,
FLORENCE
WHITESIDE |
| 15 |
CHATTANOOGA, TENN.,
December 4, 1906
Beloved
Teacher: - My heart has been too full to
tell |
| 18 |
you in words all that your wonderful life
and sacrifice
means to me. Neither do I now feel at all equal to ex-
pressing the crowding thoughts of gratitude and praise |
| 21 |
to God for giving this age such a Leader
and teacher to
reveal to us His way. Your crowning triumph over error
and sin, which we have so recently witnessed, in blessing |
| 24 |
those who would destroy you if God did not
hold you up
by the right hand of His righteousness, should mean to
your
older students much that they may not have been |
| 27 |
able to appreciate in times past.
I wonder if you will
remember that Mr. Snider and
myself boarded in the home of the late Rev. J.
Henry |
| 30 |
Wiggin during the time of our studying in
the second
class with you - the Normal class in the fall of 1887?
We
were at that time some eight days in Mr. and Mrs.
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| 1 |
Wiggin's home. He often spoke his thoughts
freely
about you and your work, especially your book Science |
| 3 |
and Health. Mr. Wiggin had somewhat of a
thought
of contempt for the unlearned, and he scorned the sug-
gestion
that Mr. Quimby had given you any idea for |
| 6 |
your book, as he said you and your ideas
were too
much alike for the book to have come from any one but
yourself. He often said you were so original and so |
| 9 |
very decided that no one could be of much
service to
you, and he often hinted that he thought he could give
a
clearer nomenclature for Science and Health. I re- |
| 12 |
member telling you of this, and you
explained how long
you had waited on the Lord to have those very terms
revealed to you.
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| 15 |
I am very sure that neither Mr. Wiggin nor
his esti-
mable wife had any other thought but that you were
the author
of your book, and were he here to-day he |
| 18 |
would be too honorable to allow the thought
to go out
that he had helped you write it. He certainly never
gave us
the impression that he thought you needed |
| 21 |
help, for we always thought that Mr. Wiggin
regarded
you as quite his literary equal, and was gratified and
pleased
in numbering you among his literary friends. |
| 24 |
Everything he said conveyed this impression
to us -
that he regarded you as entirely unique and original.
He told
us laughingly why he accepted your invitation |
| 27 |
to sit through your class. He said he
wanted to see if
there was one woman under the sun who could keep to
her text. When we asked him if he found you could do |
| 30 |
so, he replied "Yes," and said that no man
could have
done so any better.
Both Mr. and Mrs.
Wiggin frequently mentioned
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325
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| 1 |
many kindnesses you had shown them, and
spoke of
one especial day when amidst all your duties you per- |
| 3 |
sonally called to inquire of his welfare
(he had been
ill) and to leave luscious hothouse fruit. One thing
more,
that I think will amuse you: Mr. Wiggin was |
| 6 |
very much troubled that you had bought your
house
on Commonwealth Avenue, as he was very sure Back
Bay property
would never be worth what you then |
| 9 |
paid for it. He regarded the old part of
Boston in
which he lived as having a greater future than the new
Back
Bay.
|
| 12 |
Years ago I offered my services to you in
any capacity
in which I could serve you, and my desire has never
changed. Command me at any time, in any way, beloved |
| 15 |
Leader.
With increasing love
and gratitude, ever faithfully your
student,
|
| 18 |
CARRIE HARVEY SNIDER
NEW YORK, N. Y.,
December 7, 1906
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CHAPTER XIX - A MEMORABLE COINCIDENCE AND HISTORICAL FACTS
[The Christian
Science Journal]
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| 1 |
WE are glad to publish the following
interesting
letter and enclosures received from our Leader. |
| 3 |
That legislatures and courts are thus
declaring the liberties
of Christian Scientists is most gratifying to our
people; not
because a favor has been extended, but because their |
| 6 |
inherent rights are recognized in an
official and authori-
tative manner. It is especially gratifying to them
that
the declaration of this recognition should be coincident |
| 9 |
in the Southern and Northern States in
which Mrs. Eddy
has made her home.
MRS. EDDY' S LETTER
|
| 12 |
Dear Editor: - I send for
publication in our periodicals
the following deeply interesting letter from
Elizabeth Earl
Jones of Asheville, N. C., - the State where my
husband, |
| 15 |
Major George W. Glover, passed on and up,
the State
that so signally honored his memory, where with wet eyes
the
Free Masons laid on his bier the emblems of a master |
| 18 |
Mason, and in long procession with tender
dirge bore his
remains to their last resting-place. Deeply grateful, I
recognize the divine hand in turning the hearts of the noble
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Southrons of North Carolina legally to
protect the practice
of Christian Science in that State.
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| 3 |
Is it not a memorable coincidence that, in
the Court of
New Hampshire, my native State, and in the Legislature
of
North Carolina, they have the same year, in 1903, made |
| 6 |
it legal to practise Christian Science in
these States?
MARY BAKER EDDY
PLEASANT
VIEW, CONCORD, N. H., |
| 9 |
October
16, 1903
MISS ELIZABETH EARL JONES' LETTER
Beloved
Leader: - I know the enclosed article will
make |
| 12 |
your heart glad, as it has made glad the
hearts of all the
Christian Scientists in North Carolina. This is the
result
of the work done at last winter's term of our Legislature, |
| 15 |
when a medical bill was proposed calculated
to limit or
stop the practice of Christian Science in our State. An
amendment was obtained by Miss Mary Hatch Harrison |
| 18 |
and a few other Scientists who stayed on
the field until the
last. After the amendment had been passed, an old
law,
or rather a section of an act in the Legislature regulating |
| 21 |
taxes, was changed as follows, because the
representa-
tive men of our dear State did not wish to be "discour-
teous to the Christian Scientists." The section formerly |
| 24 |
read, "pretended healers," but was changed
to read as
follows: "All other professionals who practise the art of
healing," etc.
|
| 27 |
We thank our heavenly Father for this
dignified
legal protection and recognition, and look forward to
the
day, not far distant, when the laws of every State |
| 30 |
will dignify the ministry of Christ as
taught and prac-
tised in Christian Science, and as lived by our dear,
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dear Leader, even as God has dignified,
blessed, and
prospered it, and her. |
| 3 |
With devoted love,
ELIZABETH EARL
JONES
105 BAILEY ST., ASHEVILLE, N.
C., |
| 6 |
October
11, 1903
The following
article, copied from the Raleigh (N. C.)
News and Observer,
is the one referred to in Miss Jones' |
| 9 |
letter: -
The Christian
Science people, greatly pleased at the
law affecting them passed by the
last Legislature, are |
| 12 |
apt also to be pleased with the fact that
the law recog-
nizes them as healers, and that it gives them a license
to heal. This license of five dollars annually, required |
| 15 |
of physicians, has been required of them,
and how this
came about in Kinston is told in the Kinston Free Press
as follows: -
|
| 18 |
Sheriff Wooten issued licenses yesterday to
two
Christian Science healers in this city. This is probably
the first
to be issued to the healers of this sect in the |
| 21 |
State.
Upon the request of
a prominent healer of the church,
the section of the machinery act of the
Legislature cover- |
| 24 |
ing it was shown, whereupon application
for license was
made and obtained.
The section, after
enumerating the different professions |
| 27 |
for which a license must be obtained to
carry them on in
this State, further says, "and all other professionals who
practise the art of healing for pay, shall pay a license fee |
| 30 |
of five dollars."
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This was construed to include the healers
of the Chris-
tian Science church, and license was accordingly taken |
| 3 |
out.
The idea prevails
that the last General Assembly of
North Carolina relieved the healers of
this sect from paying |
| 6 |
this fee, but this is not so. The board
only excused them
from a medical examination before a board of medical
examiners.
|
| 9 |
Mrs. Eddy's reference to the death of her
husband,
Major George W. Glover, gives especial interest to the
following letter from Newbern, N. C., which appeared |
| 12 |
in the Wilmington (N. C.)
Dispatch, October 24, 1903.
Mrs. Eddy has in her possession
photographed copies of
the notice of her husband's death and of her
brother's |
| 15 |
letter, taken from the Wilmington
(N. C.) Chronicle as
they appear in that paper in the issues of July
3 and
August 21, 1844, respectively. The photographs are ver- |
| 18 |
ified by the certificate of a notary
public and were pre-
sented to Mrs. Eddy by Miss Harrison.
MISS MARY HATCH HARRISON' S LETTER
|
| 21 |
To the Editor: - At no better time
than now, when the
whole country is recognizing the steady progress of
Chris-
tian Science and admitting its interest in the movement, |
| 24 |
as shown by the fair attitude of the press
everywhere,
could we ask you to give your readers the following com-
munication. It will put before them some interesting |
| 27 |
facts concerning Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, and
some in-
cidents of her life in North and South Carolina which
might
not have been known but for a criticism of this
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| 1 |
good woman which was published in your
paper in
August, 1901.
|
| 3 |
I presume we should not be surprised that a
noteworthy
follower of our Lord should be maligned, since the great
Master himself was scandalized, and he prophesied that |
| 6 |
his followers would be so treated. The
calumniator who
informed you in this instance locates Mrs. Eddy in Wil-
mington in 1843, thus contradicting his own statement, |
| 9 |
since Mrs. Eddy was not then a resident of
Wilmington.
A local Christian Scientist of your city, whose womanhood
and Christianity are appreciated by all, assisted by a |
| 12 |
Mason of good standing there and a
Christian Scientist of
Charleston, S. C., carefully investigated the points
con-
cerning Major Glover's history which are questioned by |
| 15 |
this critic, and has found Mrs. Eddy's
statements, rela-
ting to her husband (who she states was of
Charleston,
S. C., not of Wilmington, but who died there while on |
| 18 |
business in 1844, not in 1843, as claimed
in your issue) are
sustained by Masonic records in each place as well
as
by Wilmington newspapers of that year. In "Retro- |
| 21 |
spection and Introspection" (p. 19) Mrs.
Eddy says of
this circumstance: -
"My husband was a
Free Mason, being a member in St. |
| 24 |
Andrew's Lodge, No. 10, and of Union
Chapter, No. 3, of
Royal Arch Masons. He was highly esteemed and sin-
cerely lamented by a large circle of friends and acquaint- |
| 27 |
ances, whose kindness and sympathy helped
to support me
in this terrible bereavement. A month later I returned to
New Hampshire, where, at the end of four months, my |
| 30 |
babe was born. Colonel Glover's tender
devotion to his
young bride was remarked by all observers. With his
parting breath he gave pathetic directions to his brother
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331
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| 1 |
Masons about accompanying her on her sad
journey to
the North. Here it is but justice to record, they per- |
| 3 |
formed their obligations most faithfully."
Such watchful
solicitude as Mrs. Eddy received at the
hands of Wilmington's best
citizens, among whom she |
| 6 |
remembers the Rev. Mr. Reperton, a Baptist
clergyman,
and the Governor of the State, who accompanied her to
the
train on her departure, indicates her irreproachable |
| 9 |
standing in your city at that time.
The following letter
of thanks, copied from the Wil-
mington Chronicle of August 21,
1844, testifies to the love |
| 12 |
and respect entertained for Mrs. Eddy by
Wilmington's
best men, whose Southern chivalry would have scorned
to
extend such unrestrained hospitality to an unworthy |
| 15 |
woman as quickly as it would have punished
the assail-
ant of a good woman: -
A
CARD
|
| 18 |
Through the columns of your paper, will you
permit
me, in behalf of the relatives and friends of the late
Major
George W. Glover of Wilmington and his be- |
| 21 |
reaved lady, to return our thanks and
express the feeling
of gratitude we owe and cherish towards those friends
of
the deceased who so kindly attended him during his last |
| 24 |
sickness, and who still extended their care
and sympathy
to the lone, feeble, and bereaved widow after his decease.
Much has often been said of the high feeling of honor |
| 27 |
and the noble generosity of heart which
characterized the
people of the South, yet when we listen to Mrs.
Glover
(my sister) whilst recounting the kind attention paid to |
| 30 |
the deceased during his late illness, the
sympathy ex-
tended to her after his death, and the assistance volun-
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| 1 |
teered to restore her to her friends at a
distance of more
than a thousand miles, the power of language would be |
| 3 |
but beggared by an attempt at expressing
the feelings of
a swelling bosom. The silent gush of grateful tears
alone
can tell the emotions of the thankful heart, - words are |
| 6 |
indeed but a meagre tribute for so noble an
effort in be-
half of the unfortunate, yet it is all we can award: will our
friends at Wilmington accept it as a tribute of grateful |
| 9 |
hearts? Many thanks are due Mr. Cooke, who
engaged
to accompany her only to New York, but did not desert
her or
remit his kind attention until he saw her in the |
| 12 |
fond embrace of her friends.
Your
friend and obedient servant,
(Signed) GEORGE S. BAKER |
| 15 |
SANBORNTON
BRIDGE, N. H.,
August 12, 1844
The paper containing
this card is now in the Young |
| 18 |
Men's Christian Association at Wilmington.
The facts regarding
Major Glover's membership in
St. Andrew's Lodge, No. 10, were brought to
light in a |
| 21 |
most interesting way. A Christian Scientist
in Charles-
ton was requested to look up the records of this lodge,
as
we had full confidence that it would corroborate Mrs. |
| 24 |
Eddy's claims. After frequent searchings
and much in-
terviewing with Masonic authorities, it was learned that
the lodge was no longer in existence, and that during the |
| 27 |
Civil War many Masonic records were
transferred to
Columbia, where they were burned; but on repeated
search
a roll of papers recording the death of George |
| 30 |
Washington Glover in 1844 and giving best
praises to
his honorable record and Christian character was found;
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333
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| 1 |
and said record, with the seal of the Grand
Secretary,
is now in the possession of the chairman of the Christian |
| 3 |
Science publication committee.
In the records of
St. John's Lodge, Wilmington, as
found by one of your own citizens, a
Mason, it is shown |
| 6 |
that on the twenty-eighth day of June,
1844, a special
meeting was convened for the purpose of paying the last
tribute of respect to Brother George W. Glover, who |
| 9 |
died on the night of the twenty-seventh.
The minutes
record this further proceeding: -
"A procession was
formed, which moved to the resi- |
| 12 |
dence of the deceased, and from thence to
the Episcopal
burying-ground, where the body was interred with the
usual ceremonies. The procession then returned to the |
| 15 |
lodge, which was closed in due form."
It has never been
claimed by Mrs. Eddy nor by any
Christian Scientists that Major Glover's
remains were |
| 18 |
carried North.
The Wilmington
Chronicle of July 3, 1844, records that
this good man, then known as
Major George W. Glover, |
| 21 |
died on Thursday night, the twenty-seventh
of June. The
Chronicle states: "His end was calm and peaceful, and
to
those friends who attended him during his illness he gave |
| 24 |
the repeated assurance of his willingness
to die, and of his
full reliance for salvation on the merits of a
crucified Re-
deemer. His remains were interred with Masonic honors. |
| 27 |
He has left an amiable wife, to whom he had
been united
but the brief space of six months, to lament this
irreparable loss."
|
| 30 |
From the Chronicle, dated September
25, 1844, we copy
the following: "We are assured that reports of
unusual
sickness in Wilmington are in circulation." This periodi-
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334
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| 1 |
cal then forthwith strives to give the
impression that the
rumor is not true. It is reasonable to infer from
news- |
| 3 |
paper reports of that date that some
insidious disease
was raging at that time.
The allegation that
copies of Mrs. Eddy's book, "Retro- |
| 6 |
spection and Introspection," are few, and
that efforts are
being made to buy them up because she has contradicted
herself, is without foundation. They are advertised in |
| 9 |
every weekly issue of the Christian
Science Sentinel, and
still contain the original account of her
husband's demise
at Wilmington.
|
| 12 |
May it not be, since this critic places
certain circum-
stances in 1843, which records show really existed in
1844,
that the woman whom he had in mind is some other one?
|
| 15 |
We can state Mrs. Eddy's teaching on the
unreality of
evil in no better terms than to quote her own words.
Nothing could be further from her meaning than that evil |
| 18 |
could be indulged in while being called
unreal. She
declares in her Message to The Mother Church [1901]:
"To
assume there is no reality in sin, and yet commit |
| 21 |
sin, is sin itself, that clings fast to
iniquity. The Pub-
lican's wail won his humble desire, while the
Pharisee's
self-righteousness crucified Jesus." |
| 24 |
MARY HATCH HARRISON
MAJOR GLOVER'S RECORD AS A MASON
Of further interest
in this matter is the following ex- |
| 27 |
tract from an editorial obituary which
appeared in 1845 in
the Freemason's Monthly Magazine, published by
the
late Charles W. Moore, Grand Secretary of the Grand |
| 30 |
Lodge of Massachusetts: -
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335
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| 1 |
Died at Wilmington, N. C., on the 27th June
last,
Major George W. Glover, formerly of Concord, N. H.
|
| 3 |
Brother Glover resided in Charleston, S.
C., and was
made a Mason in "St. Andrew's Lodge, No. 10." He was
soon
exalted to the degree of a Royal Arch Mason in |
| 6 |
"Union Chapter, No. 3," and retained his
membership
in both till his decease. He was devotedly attached
to
Masonry, faithful as a member and officer of the |
| 9 |
Lodge and Chapter, and beloved by his
brothers and
companions, who mourn his early death.
Additional facts
regarding Major Glover, his illness and |
| 12 |
death, are that he was for a number of
years a resident of
Charleston, S. C., where he erected a fine
dwelling-house,
the drawings and specifications of which were kept by
his |
| 15 |
widow for many years after his death. While
at Wilming-
ton, N. C., in June, 1844, Mr. Glover was attacked with
yellow fever of the worst type, and at the end of nine days |
| 18 |
he passed away. This was the second case of
the dread
disease in that city, and in the hope of allaying the excite-
ment which was fast arising, the authorities gave the cause |
| 21 |
of death as bilious fever, but they
refused permission to
take the remains to Charleston.
On the third day of
her husband's illness, Mrs. Glover |
| 24 |
(now Mrs. Eddy) sent for the distinguished
physician who
attended cases of this terrible disease as an expert (Dr.
McRee we think it was), and was told by him that he could |
| 27 |
not conceal the fact that the case was one
of yellow fever
in its worst form, and nothing could save the life of
her husband. In these nine days and nights of agony |
| 30 |
the young wife prayed incessantly for her
husband's
recovery, and was told by the expert physician that
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336
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| 1 |
but for her prayers the patient would have
died on
the seventh day.
|
| 3 |
The disease spread so rapidly that Mrs.
Glover (Mrs.
Eddy) was afraid to have her brother, George S. Baker,
come to her after her husband's death, to take her back to |
| 6 |
the North. Although he desired to go to her
assistance,
she declined on this ground, and entrusted herself to the
care of her husband's Masonic brethren, who faithfully |
| 9 |
performed their obligation to her. She
makes grateful
acknowledgment of this in her book, "Retrospection and
Introspection." In this book (p. 20) she also states, |
| 12 |
"After returning to the paternal roof I
lost all my hus-
band's property, except what money I had brought
with
me; and remained with my parents until after |
| 15 |
my mother's decease." Mr. Glover had made
no will
previous to his last illness, and then the seizure of dis-
ease
was so sudden and so violent that he was unable |
| 18 |
to make a will.
These letters and
extracts are of absorbing interest to
Christian Scientists as amplification
of the facts given by |
| 21 |
Mrs. Eddy in "Retrospection and
Introspection."
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337
CHAPTER XX - GENERAL MISCELLANY
|
| 1 |
[Boston Herald, Sunday, May 15,
1898]
THE UNITED STATES TO GREAT BRITAIN
|
| 3 |
HAIL, brother! fling thy banner
To the
billows and the breeze;
We proffer thee warm welcome |
| 6 |
With our hand, though not our knees.
Lord of the main and manor!
Thy palm, in ancient day, |
| 9 |
Didst rock the country's cradle
That
wakes thy laureate's lay.
The hoar fight is
forgotten; |
| 12 |
Our eagle, like the dove,
Returns to
bless a bridal
Betokened from above.
|
| 15 |
List, brother! angels whisper
To
Judah's sceptred race, -
"Thou of the self-same spirit, |
| 18 |
Allied by nations' grace,
"Wouldst cheer the
hosts of heaven;
For Anglo-Israel, lo! |
| 21 |
Is marching under orders;
His hand
averts the blow."
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338
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| 1 |
Brave Britain, blest America!
Unite
your battle-plan; |
| 3 |
Victorious, all who live it, -
The
love for God and man.
TO
THE PUBLIC
|
| 6 |
The following views of the Rev. Mary Baker
Eddy
upon the subject of the Trinity, are known to us to be
those
uniformly held and expressed by her. A reference |
| 9 |
to her writings will fully corroborate this
statement. -
EDITOR Sentinel.
The contents of the last
lecture of our dear brother, |
| 12 |
on the subject "The Unknown God Made
Known,"
were unknown to me till after the lecture was delivered
in
Boston, April 5.
|
| 15 |
The members of the Board of Lectureship are
not
allowed to consult me relative to their subjects or the
handling
thereof, owing to my busy life, and they seek a |
| 18 |
higher source for wisdom and guidance. The
talented
author of this lecture has a heart full of love towards
God
and man. For once he may have overlooked the |
| 21 |
construction that people unfamiliar with
his broad
views and loving nature might put on his comparisons
and
ready humor. But all Christian Scientists deeply |
| 24 |
recognize the oneness of Jesus - that he
stands alone
in word and deed, the visible discoverer, founder, de-
monstrator, and great Teacher of Christianity, whose |
| 27 |
sandals none may unloose.
The Board of
Lectureship is absolutely inclined to
be, and is instructed to be,
charitable towards all, and
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hating none. The purpose of its members is
to sub-
serve the interest of mankind, and to cement the bonds |
| 3 |
of Christian brotherhood, whose every link
leads up-
ward in the chain of being. The cardinal points of
Christian
Science cannot be lost sight of, namely - one |
| 6 |
God, supreme, infinite, and one Christ
Jesus.
The Board of
Lectureship is specially requested to be
wise in discoursing on the great
subject of Christian |
| 9 |
Science.
MARY BAKER EDDY
FAST DAY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, 1899
|
| 12 |
Along the lines of progressive Christendom,
New
Hampshire's advancement is marked. Already Massa-
chusetts has
exchanged Fast Day, and all that it for- |
| 15 |
merly signified, for Patriots' Day, and the
observance
of the holiday illustrates the joy, grace, and glory of lib-
erty. We read in Holy Writ that the disciples of St. |
| 18 |
John the Baptist said to the great Master,
"Why do we
and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?"
And he answered them in substance: My disciples |
| 21 |
rejoice in their present Christianity and
have no cause
to mourn; only those who have not the Christ, Truth,
within them should wear sackcloth.
|
| 24 |
Jesus said to his disciples, "This kind
goeth not out but
by prayer and fasting," but he did not appoint a
fast.
Merely to abstain from eating was not sufficient to meet |
| 27 |
his demand. The animus of his saying was:
Silence
appetites, passion, and all that wars against Spirit and
spiritual power. The fact that he healed the sick man |
| 30 |
without the observance of a material fast
confirms this
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340
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| 1 |
conclusion. Jesus attended feasts, but we
have no record
of his observing appointed fasts.
|
| 3 |
St. Paul's days for prayer were every day
and every
hour. He said, "Pray without ceasing." He classed
the usage
of special days and seasons for religious ob- |
| 6 |
servances and precedents as belonging not
to the Chris-
tian era, but to traditions, old-wives' fables, and
endless
genealogies.
|
| 9 |
The enlightenment, the erudition, the
progress of relig-
ion and medicine in New Hampshire, are in excess of
other States, as witness her schools, her churches, and |
| 12 |
her frown on class legislation. In many of
the States
in our Union a simple board of health, clad in a little
brief authority, has arrogated to itself the prerogative |
| 15 |
of making laws for the State on the
practice of medicine!
But this attempt is shorn of some of its
shamelessness by
the courts immediately annulling such bills and
pluck- |
| 18 |
ing their plumes through constitutional
interpretations.
Not the tradition of the elders, nor a paltering,
timid,
or dastardly policy, is pursued by the leaders of our rock- |
| 21 |
ribbed State.
That the Governor of
New Hampshire has suggested to
his constituents to recur to a religious
observance which |
| 24 |
virtually belongs to the past, should tend
to enhance their
confidence in his intention to rule righteously the
affairs
of state. However, Jesus' example in this, as in all else, |
| 27 |
suffices for the Christian era. The dark
days of our fore-
fathers and their implorations for peace and plenty
have
passed, and are succeeded by our time of abundance, even |
| 30 |
the full beneficence of the laws of the
universe which
man's diligence has utilized. Institutions of learning
and
progressive religion light their fires in every home.
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| 1 |
I have one innate joy, and love to breathe
it to the
breeze as God's courtesy. A native of New Hampshire, |
| 3 |
a child of the Republic, a Daughter of the
Revolution, I
thank God that He has emblazoned on the escutcheon
of
this State, engraven on her granite rocks, and lifted |
| 6 |
to her giant hills the ensign of religious
liberty - "Free-
dom to worship God."
SPRING GREETING
|
| 9 |
Beloved brethren all over our land and in
every land,
accept your Leader's Spring greeting, while
The bird
of hope is singing |
| 12 |
A lightsome
lay, a cooing call,
And in her heart is beating
A love for all
- |
| 15 |
" 'Tis
peace not power I seek,
'Tis meet that man be meek."
[New York
Herald, May 1, 1901] |
| 18 |
[Extract]
MRS. EDDY TALKS
Christian Science
has been so much to the fore of late |
| 21 |
that unusual public interest centres in the
personality
of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, the Founder of the cult.
The
granting of interviews is not usual, hence it was |
| 24 |
a special favor that Mrs. Eddy received
the Herald
correspondent.
It had been raining
all day and was damp without, so |
| 27 |
the change from the misty air outside to
the pleasant
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342
|
| 1 |
warmth within the ample, richly furnished
house was
agreeable. Seated in the large parlor, I became aware |
| 3 |
of a white-haired lady slowly descending
the stairs.
She entered with a gracious smile, walking uprightly and
with light step, and after a kindly greeting took a seat |
| 6 |
on a sofa. It was Mrs. Eddy. There was no
mis-
taking that. Older in years, white-haired and frailer,
but Mrs.
Eddy herself. The likeness to the portraits |
| 9 |
of twenty years ago, so often seen in
reproductions, was
unmistakable. There is no mistaking certain lines
that
depend upon the osseous structure; there is no mistaking |
| 12 |
the eyes - those eyes the shade of which is
so hard to
catch, whether blue-gray or grayish brown, and which
are
always bright. And when I say frail, let it not be |
| 15 |
understood that I mean weak, for weak she
was not.
When we were snugly seated in the other and smaller
parlor
across the hall, which serves as a library, Mrs. |
| 18 |
Eddy sat back to be questioned.
"The continuity of
The Church of Christ, Scientist,"
she said, in her clear voice, "is
assured. It is growing |
| 21 |
wonderfully. It will embrace all the
churches, one by
one, because in it alone is the simplicity of the
oneness
of God; the oneness of Christ and the perfecting of man |
| 24 |
stated scientifically."
"How will it be
governed after all now concerned in
its government shall have passed
on?"
|
| 27 |
"It will evolve scientifically. Its
essence is evangelical.
Its government will develop as it progresses."
"Will there be a
hierarchy, or will it be directed by a |
| 30 |
single earthly ruler?"
"In time its present
rules of service and present ruler-
ship will advance nearer
perfection."
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It was plain that the answers to questions
would be
in Mrs. Eddy's own spirit. She has a rapt way of talk- |
| 3 |
ing, looking large-eyed into space, and
works around a
question in her own way, reaching an answer often
unexpectedly after a prolonged exordium. She explained: |
| 6 |
"No present change is contemplated in the
rulership.
You would ask, perhaps, whether my successor will be a
woman
or a man. I can answer that. It will be a man."
|
| 9 |
"Can you name the man?"
"I cannot answer
that now."
Here, then, was the
definite statement that Mrs. Eddy's |
| 12 |
immediate successor would, like herself,
be the ruler.
Not a Pope or a
Christ
"I have been called a pope, but surely I
have sought |
| 15 |
no such distinction. I have simply taught
as I learned
while healing the sick. It was in 1866 that the light of
the Science came first to me. In 1875 I wrote my book. |
| 18 |
It brought down a shower of abuse upon my
head, but
it won converts from the first. I followed it up, teaching
and organizing, and trust in me grew. I was the mother, |
| 21 |
but of course the term pope is used
figuratively.
"A position of authority," she went on,
"became
necessary. Rules were necessary, and I made a code of |
| 24 |
by-laws, but each one was the fruit of
experience and the
result of prayer. Entrusting their enforcement to
others,
I found at one time that they had five churches under |
| 27 |
discipline. I intervened. Dissensions are
dangerous in
an infant church. I wrote to each church in tenderness,
in
exhortation, and in rebuke, and so brought all back to |
| 30 |
union and love again. If that is to be a
pope, then you
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344
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| 1 |
can judge for yourself. I have even been
spoken of as a
Christ, but to my understanding of Christ that is
impos- |
| 3 |
sible. If we say that the sun stands for
God, then all his
rays collectively stand for Christ, and each separate
ray
for men and women. God the Father is greater than |
| 6 |
Christ, but Christ is 'one with the
Father,' and so the
mystery is scientifically explained. There can be
but
one Christ."
|
| 9 |
"And the soul of man?"
"It is not the
spirit of God, inhabiting clay and then
withdrawn from it, but God
preserving individuality and |
| 12 |
personality to the end. I hold it absurd to
say that when
a man dies, the man will be at once better than he was
before death. How can it be? The individuality of him |
| 15 |
must make gradual approaches to Soul's
perfection."
"Do you reject
utterly the bacteria theory of the
propagation of disease?"
|
| 18 |
"Oh," with a prolonged inflection,
"entirely. If I
harbored that idea about a disease, I should think
myself
in danger of catching it."
|
| 21 |
About Infectious Diseases
"Then as to the laws - the health laws of
the States
on the question of infectious and contagious diseases. |
| 24 |
How does Christian Science stand as to
them?"
"I say, 'Render to Caesar the things that
are Caesar's.'
We cannot force perfection on the world. Were vaccina-
|
| 27 |
tion of any avail, I should tremble for
mankind; but,
knowing it is not, and that the fear of catching small-
pox is more dangerous than any material infection, I |
| 30 |
say: Where vaccination is compulsory, let
your children
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345
|
| 1 |
be vaccinated, and see that your mind is in
such a state
that by your prayers vaccination will do the children no |
| 3 |
harm. So long as Christian Scientists obey
the laws, I
do not suppose their mental reservations will be thought
to
matter much. But every thought tells, and Christian |
| 6 |
Science will overthrow false knowledge in
the end."
"What is your
attitude to science in general? Do you
oppose it?"
|
| 9 |
"Not," with a smile, "if it is really
science."
"Well, electricity,
engineering, the telephone, the steam
engine - are these too material for
Christian Science?" |
| 12 |
"No; only false science - healing by drugs.
I was a
sickly child. I was dosed with drugs until they had no
effect
on me. The doctors said I would live if the drugs |
| 15 |
could be made to act on me. Then
homoeopathy came
like blessed relief to me, but I found that when I
pre-
scribed pellets without any medication they acted just |
| 18 |
the same and healed the sick. How could I
believe in
a science of drugs?"
"But surgery?"
|
| 21 |
"The work done by the surgeon is the last
healing that
will be vouchsafed to us, or rather attained by us, as we
near a state of spiritual perfection. At present I am |
| 24 |
conservative about advice on surgical
cases."
"But the pursuit of
modern material inventions?"
"Oh, we cannot
oppose them. They all tend to newer, |
| 27 |
finer, more etherealized ways of living.
They seek the finer
essences. They light the way to the Church of
Christ.
We use them, we make them our figures of speech. |
| 30 |
They are preparing the way for us."
We talked on many
subjects, some only of which are
here touched upon, and her views, strictly
and always
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346
|
| 1 |
from the standpoint of Christian Science,
were continu-
ally surprising. She talks as one who has lived with her |
| 3 |
subject for a lifetime, - an ordinary
lifetime; and so
far from being puzzled by any question, welcomes it as
another opportunity for presenting another view of her |
| 6 |
religion.
Those who have been
anticipating nature and declaring
Mrs. Eddy non-existent may learn
authoritatively from |
| 9 |
the Herald that she is in the flesh
and in health. Soon
after I reached Concord on my return from Pleasant
View, Mrs. Eddy's carriage drove into town and made |
| 12 |
several turns about the court-house before
returning.
She was inside, and as she passed me the same ex-
pression
of looking forward, thinking, thinking, was on |
| 15 |
her face.
CONCORD,
N. H.,
Tuesday, April 30, 1901
MRS. EDDY'S SUCCESSOR
In a recent
interview which appeared in the columns
of the New York Herald, the
Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, |
| 21 |
Discoverer and Founder of Christian
Science, stated that
her successor would be a man. Various conjectures
having arisen as to whether she had in mind any particu- |
| 24 |
lar person when the statement was made,
Mrs. Eddy
gave the following to the Associated Press, May 16,
1901:
-
|
| 27 |
"I did say that a man would be my future
successor.
By this I did not mean any man to-day on earth.
"Science and Health
makes it plain to all Christian |
| 30 |
Scientists that the manhood and womanhood
of God
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347
|
| 1 |
have already been revealed in a degree
through Christ
Jesus and Christian Science, His two witnesses. What |
| 3 |
remains to lead on the centuries and
reveal my successor,
is man in the image and likeness of the
Father-Mother
God, man the generic term for mankind."
GIFT OF A LOVING-CUP
The Executive
Members of The Mother Church of
Christ, Scientist, will please accept my
heartfelt acknowl- |
| 9 |
edgment of their beautiful gift to me, a
loving-cup, pre-
sented July 16, 1903. The exquisite design of boughs
encircling this cup, illustrated by Keats' touching couplet,
|
| 12 |
Ah happy,
happy boughs, that cannot shed
Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring
adieu!
would almost suggest that nature had reproduced her |
| 15 |
primal presence, bough, bird, and song, to
salute me.
The twelve beautiful pearls that crown this cup call to
mind
the number of our great Master's first disciples, and |
| 18 |
the parable of the priceless pearl which
purchases our
field of labor in exchange for all else.
I shall treasure my
loving-cup with all its sweet |
| 21 |
associations.
[Special
contribution to "Bohemia." A symposium]
FUNDAMENTAL CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
|
| 24 |
Most thinkers concede that Science is the
law of God;
that matter is not a law-maker; that man is not the
author
of Science, and that a phenomenon is chimerical, |
| 27 |
unless it be the manifestation of a fixed
Principle whose
noumenon is God and whose phenomenon is Science.
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348
|
| 1 |
My discovery that mankind is absolutely
healed of so-
called disease and injuries by other than drugs,
surgery, |
| 3 |
hygiene, electricity, magnetism, or
will-power, induced a
deep research, which proved conclusively that all
effect
must be the offspring of a universal cause. I sought this |
| 6 |
cause, not within but ab extra, and
I found it was God
made manifest in the flesh, and understood through
divine
Science. Then I was healed, and the greatest of all ques- |
| 9 |
tions was solved sufficiently to give a
reason for the hope
that was within me.
The religious
departure from divine Science sprang from |
| 12 |
the belief that the man Jesus, rather than
his divine Prin-
ciple, God, saves man, and that materia medica
heals him.
The writer's departure from such a religion was based upon |
| 15 |
her discovery that neither man nor
materia medica, but
God, heals and saves mankind.
Here, however, was
no stopping-place, since Science |
| 18 |
demanded a rational proof that the divine
Mind heals
the sick and saves the sinner. God unfolded the way, the
demonstration thereof was made, and the certainty of its |
| 21 |
value to the race firmly established. I had
found unmis-
takably an actual, unfailing causation, enshrined in the
divine Principle and in the laws of man and the universe, |
| 24 |
which, never producing an opposite effect,
demonstrated
Christianity and proved itself Science, for it healed the
sick and reformed the sinner on a demonstrable Principle |
| 27 |
and given rule. The human demonstrator of
this Science
may mistake, but the Science remains the law of God -
infallible, eternal. Divine Life, Truth, Love is the basic |
| 30 |
Principle of all Science, it solves the
problem of being;
and nothing that worketh ill can enter into the
solution
of God's problems.
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349
|
| 1 |
God is Mind, and divine Mind was first
chronologi-
cally, is first potentially, and is the healer to whom
all |
| 3 |
things are possible. A scientific state of
health is a
consciousness of health, holiness, immortality - a con-
sciousness gained through Christ, Truth; while disease |
| 6 |
is a mental state or error that Truth
destroys. It is self-
evident that matter, or the body, cannot cause
disease,
since disease is in a sense susceptible of both ease and |
| 9 |
dis-ease, and matter is not sensible. Kant,
Locke, Berke-
ley, Tyndall, and Spencer afford little aid in
understand-
ing divine metaphysics or its therapeutics. Christian |
| 12 |
Science is a divine largess, a gift of God
- understood
by and divinely natural to him who sits at the feet of
Jesus clothed in truth, who is putting off the hypothesis |
| 15 |
of matter because he is conscious of the
allness of God -
"looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith."
Thus the great Way-shower, invested with glory, is under- |
| 18 |
stood, and his words and works illustrate
"the way, the
truth, and the life."
Divine modes or
manifestations are natural, beyond |
| 21 |
the so-called natural sciences and human
philosophy,
because they are spiritual, and coexist with the God of
nature in absolute Science. The laws of God, or divine |
| 24 |
Mind, obtain not in material phenomena, or
phenomenal
evil, which is lawless and traceable to mortal mind -
human
will divorced from Science.
|
| 27 |
Inductive or deductive reasoning is correct
only as it
is spiritual, induced by love and deduced from God,
Spirit;
only as it makes manifest the infinite nature, |
| 30 |
including all law and supplying all the
needs of man.
Wholly hypothetical, inductive reasoning reckons creation
as its own creator, seeks cause in effect, and from atom
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350
|
| 1 |
and dust draws its conclusions of Deity and
man, law and
gospel, leaving science at the beck of material
phenomena, |
| 3 |
or leaving it out of the question. To begin
with the
divine noumenon, Mind, and to end with the phenom-
enon,
matter, is minus divine logic and plus human hy- |
| 6 |
pothesis, with its effects, sin, disease,
and death. It was
in this dilemma that revelation, uplifting human
reason,
came to the writer's rescue, when calmly and rationally, |
| 9 |
though faintly, she spiritually discerned
the divine idea
of the cosmos and Science of man.
WHITHER?
|
| 12 |
Father, did'st not Thou the dark wave
treading
Lift from despair the struggler with the sea?
And heed'st
Thou not the scalding tear man's shedding, |
| 15 |
And know'st Thou not the pathway glad and
free?
This weight of anguish which they blindly bind
On earth,
this bitter searing to the core of love; |
| 18 |
This crushing out of health and peace,
mankind -
Thou all, Thou infinite - dost doom above.
Oft mortal
sense is darkened unto death |
| 21 |
(The Stygian shadow of a world of glee);
The old foundations of an early faith
Sunk from beneath man, whither
shall he flee?
|
| 24 |
To Love divine, whose kindling mighty rays
Brighten the horoscope of crumbling creeds,
Dawn Truth delightful,
crowned with endless days, |
| 27 |
And Science ripe in prayer, in word, and
deeds.
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351
A
LETTER FROM OUR LEADER
With our Leader's
kind permission, the Sentinel is |
| 3 |
privileged to publish her letter of recent
date, addressed
to Mr. John C. Higdon of St. Louis, Mo. This letter
is
especially interesting on account of its beautiful tribute |
| 6 |
to Free Masonry.
Beloved
Student: - Your interesting letter was handed
to me duly. This is my
earliest moment in which to |
| 9 |
answer it.
"Know Thyself," the
title of your gem quoted, is
indeed a divine command, for the morale
of Free Masonry |
| 12 |
is above ethics - it touches the hem of
his garment
who spake divinely.
It was truly
Masonic, tender, grand in you to remember |
| 15 |
me as the widow of a Mason. May you and I
and all
mankind meet in that hour of Soul where are no part-
ings, no
pain. |
| 18 |
Lovingly yours in Christ,
MARY BAKER
EDDY
PLEASANT VIEW, CONCORD, N.
H., |
| 21 |
February
9, 1906
TAKE NOTICE
I have not read
Gerhardt C. Mars' book, "The Inter- |
| 24 |
pretation of Life," therefore I have not
endorsed it, and
any assertions to the contrary are false. Christian
Scien-
tists are not concerned with philosophy; divine Science |
| 27 |
is all they need, or can have in reality.
MARY BAKER EDDY
BOX G, BROOKLINE,
MASS., |
| 30 |
June 24,
1908
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352
RECOGNITION OF BLESSINGS
REVEREND MARY BAKER
EDDY, |
| 3 |
Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Beloved
Leader: - Informally assembled, we, the
ushers
of your church, desire to express our recognition of the
|
| 6 |
blessings that have come to us through the
peculiar priv-
ileges we enjoy in this church work. We are prompted
to
acknowledge our debt of gratitude to you for your |
| 9 |
life of spirituality, with its years of
tender ministry, yet
we know that the real gratitude is what is proved
in
better lives.
|
| 12 |
It is our earnest prayer that we may so
reflect in our
thoughts and acts the teachings of Christian Science
that
our daily living may be a fitting testimony of the efficacy |
| 15 |
of our Cause in the regeneration of
mankind.
THE USHERS OF THE MOTHER CHURCH
BOSTON, MASS., October 9, 1908
Mrs. Eddy's Reply
Beloved Ushers of The Mother Church of
Christ, Sci-
entist: - I thank you not only for your tender letter
to |
| 21 |
me, but for ushering into our church the
hearers and the
doers of God's Word.
MARY BAKER EDDY
|
| 24 |
BOX G, BROOKLINE, MASS.,
October 12, 1908
MRS. EDDY'S THANKS
|
| 27 |
Beloved Christian Scientists: -
Accept my thanks for
your successful plans for the first issue of The
Christian
Science Monitor. My desire is that every Christian
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353
|
| 1 |
Scientist, and as many others as possible,
subscribe for
and read our daily newspaper. |
| 3 |
MARY BAKER EDDY
BOX G, BROOKLINE, MASS.,
November 16,
1908
|
| 6 |
[Extract from the leading Editorial in
Vol. 1, No. 1, of The
Christian Science Monitor, November 25,
1908]
SOMETHING IN A NAME
|
| 9 |
I have given the name to all the Christian
Science
periodicals. The first was The Christian Science Jour-
nal, designed to put on record the divine Science of |
| 12 |
Truth; the second I entitled
Sentinel, intended to hold
guard over Truth, Life, and Love; the
third, Der Herold
der Christian Science, to proclaim the universal
activity |
| 15 |
and availability of Truth; the next I named
Monitor,
to spread undivided the Science that operates unspent.
The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to |
| 18 |
bless all mankind.
MARY BAKER EDDY
ARTICLE XXII, SECTION 17
|
| 21 |
MRS. EDDY'S ROOM. - SECTION 17. The room
in
The Mother Church formerly known as "Mother's
Room" shall hereafter
be closed to visitors.
|
| 24 |
There is nothing in this room now of any
special in-
terest. "Let the dead bury their dead," and the spiritual
have all place and power. |
| 27 |
MARY BAKER EDDY
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354
TO
WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
In view of
complaints from the field, because of alleged |
| 3 |
misrepresentations by persons offering
Bibles and other
books for sale which they claim have been endorsed by
me, it is due the field to state that I recommend nothing |
| 6 |
but what is published or sold by The
Christian Science
Publishing Society. Christian Scientists are under no
obligation to buy books for which my endorsement is |
| 9 |
claimed.
MARY BAKER EDDY
BOX G, BROOKLINE, MASS., |
| 12 |
April 28,
1909
EXTEMPORE
JANUARY 1,
1910
|
| 15 |
I
O blessings infinite!
O glad New
Year! |
| 18 |
Sweet sign and substance
Of God's
presence here.
II |
| 21 |
Give us not only angels' songs,
But
Science vast, to which belongs
The tongue of angels |
| 24 |
And the song of songs.
MARY BAKER
EDDY
[The above lines were written
extemporaneously by |
| 27 |
Mrs. Eddy on New Year's morning. The
members of her
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355
|
| 1 |
household were with her at the time, and it
was gratifying
to them, as it will be to the field, to see in her
spiritualized |
| 3 |
thought and mental vigor a symbol of the
glad New Year
on which we have just entered. - EDITOR Sentinel.
MEN IN OUR RANKS
|
| 6 |
A letter from a student in the field says
there is a grave
need for more men in Christian Science practice.
I have not
infrequently hinted at this. However, if |
| 9 |
the occasion demands it, I will repeat that
men are very
important factors in our field of labor for Christian
Science. The male element is a strong supporting arm |
| 12 |
to religion as well as to politics, and we
need in our ranks
of divine energy, the strong, the faithful, the
untiring
spiritual armament. |
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MARY BAKER EDDY
CHESTNUT HILL, MASS.,
February 7, 1910
A
PAEAN OF PRAISE
"Behind a frowning
providence
He hides a shining face."
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The Christian Scientists at Mrs. Eddy's
home are
the happiest group on earth. Their faces shine with
the
reflection of light and love; their footsteps are not |
| 24 |
weary; their thoughts are upward; their way
is onward,
and their light shines. The world is better for this
happy
group of Christian Scientists; Mrs. Eddy is hap- |
| 27 |
pier because of them; God is glorified in
His reflection
of peace, love, joy.
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Whenwill mankind awake to know their
present owner-
ship of all good, and praise and love the spot where
God |
| 3 |
dwells most conspicuously in His reflection
of love and
leadership ? When will the world waken to the privilege
of
knowing God, the liberty and glory of His presence, |
| 6 |
- where
"He plants
His footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm."
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MARY BAKER EDDY
CHESTNUT HILL, MASS.,
April 20, 1910
A
STATEMENT BY MRS. EDDY
Editor Christian
Science Sentinel: - In reply to in-
quiries, will you please state that within the last five |
| 15 |
years I have given no assurance, no
encouragement nor
consent to have my picture issued, other than the
ones
now and heretofore presented in Science and Health.
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MARY BAKER EDDY
CHESTNUT HILL, MASS.,
July 18, 1910
THE WAY OF WISDOM
No man can
serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or
else he will hold to the one, and despise the |
| 24 |
other. Ye
cannot serve God and mammon. - MATTHEW 6: 24.
The infinite is one, and
this one is Spirit; Spirit is
God, and this God is infinite good.
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This simple statement of oneness is the
only possible
correct version of Christian Science. God being infinite,
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357
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He is the only basis of Science; hence
materiality is wholly
apart from Christian Science, and is only a "Suffer
it to |
| 3 |
be so now" until we arrive at the spiritual
fulness of God,
Spirit, even the divine idea of Christian Science, -
Christ, born of God, the offspring of Spirit, - wherein |
| 6 |
matter has neither part nor portion,
because matter is the
absolute opposite of spiritual means, manifestation,
and
demonstration. The only incentive of a mistaken sense |
| 9 |
is malicious animal magnetism, - the name
of all evil, -
and this must be understood.
I have crowned The
Mother Church building with the |
| 12 |
spiritual modesty of Christian Science,
which is its jewel.
When my dear brethren in New York desire to build
higher,-to enlarge their phylacteries and demonstrate |
| 15 |
Christian Science to a higher extent, -
they must begin
on a wholly spiritual foundation, than which there is
no
other, and proportionably estimate their success and |
| 18 |
glory of achievement only as they build
upon the rock of
Christ, the spiritual foundation. This will open the
way,
widely and impartially, to their never-ending success, - |
| 21 |
to salvation and eternal Christian
Science.
Spirit is infinite;
therefore Spirit is all. "There is no
matter" is not only the axiom
of true Christian Science, |
| 24 |
but it is the only basis upon which this
Science can be
demonstrated.
A
LETTER BY MRS. EDDY
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MRS.
AUGUSTA E. STETSON, NEW YORK CITY
Beloved Student: - I have just
finished reading your
interesting letter. I thank you for acknowledging me
as |
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your Leader, and I know that every true
follower of
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358
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Christian Science abides by the definite
rules which de-
monstrate the true following of their Leader;
therefore, |
| 3 |
if you are sincere in your protestations
and are doing as
you say you are, you will be blessed in your
obedience.
The Scriptures say,
"Watch and pray, that ye enter |
| 6 |
not into temptation." You are aware that
animal mag-
netism is the opposite of divine Science, and that this
opponent is the means whereby the conflict against |
| 9 |
Truth is engendered and developed. Beloved
! you need
to watch and pray that the enemy of good cannot separate
you
from your Leader and best earthly friend.
|
| 12 |
You have been duly informed by me that,
however
much I desire to read all that you send to me, I have not
the
time to do so. The Christian Science Publishing |
| 15 |
Society will settle the question whether or
not they shall
publish your poems. It is part of their duties to
relieve
me of so much labor.
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| 18 |
I thank you for the money you send me which
was
given you by your students. I shall devote it to a worthy
and
charitable purpose.
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| 21 |
Mr. Adam Dickey is my secretary, through
whom all
my business is transacted.
Give my best wishes
and love to your dear students |
| 24 |
and church.
Lovingly your
teacher and Leader,
MARY BAKER EDDY
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| 27 |
BOX G,
BROOKLINE, MASS.,
July 12, 1909
TAKE NOTICE
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I approve the By-laws of The Mother
Church, and
require the Christian Science Board of Directors to main-
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359
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| 1 |
tain them and sustain them. These Directors
do not
act contrary to the rules of the Church Manual, neither |
| 3 |
do they trouble me with their difficulties
with individ-
uals in their own church or with the members of branch
churches.
|
| 6 |
My province as a Leader - as the Discoverer
and
Founder of Christian Science - is not to interfere in
cases of
discipline, and I hereby publicly declare that I |
| 9 |
am not personally involved in the affairs
of the church in
any other way than through my written and published
rules, all of which can be read by the individual who |
| 12 |
desires to inform himself of the facts.
MARY BAKER EDDY
BROOKLINE,
MASS., |
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October
12, 1909
A
LETTER FROM MRS. EDDY
In the
Sentinel of July 31, 1909, there appeared under |
| 18 |
the heading "None good but one," a number
of quota-
tions from a composite letter, dated July 19, which had
been
written to Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson by twenty-four |
| 21 |
of her students who then occupied offices
in the building
of First Church of Christ, Scientist, of New York, and
were known as "the practitioners." This letter was for- |
| 24 |
warded to Mrs. Eddy by Mrs. Stetson with
the latter's
unqualified approval. Upon receipt of this letter Mrs.
Eddy wrote to Mrs. Stetson as follows: -
|
| 27 |
My Dear Student: -Awake and arise
from this temp-
tation produced by animal magnetism upon yourself,
allowing your students to deify you and me. Treat your- |
| 30 |
self for it and get your students to help
you rise out of it.
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It will be your destruction if you do not
do this. Answer
this letter immediately.
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| 3 |
As ever, lovingly your teacher,
MARY BAKER EDDY
BROOKLINE,
MASS., |
| 6 |
July 23,
1909
A
LETTER BY MRS. EDDY (1)
TO THE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES, FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST |
| 9 |
NEW YORK
CITY
Beloved
Brethren: - In consideration of the
present
momentous question at issue in First Church of Christ,
|
| 12 |
Scientist, New York City, I am constrained
to say, if I
can settle this church difficulty amicably by a few words,
as many students think I can, I herewith cheerfully |
| 15 |
subscribe these words of love: -
My beloved brethren
in First Church of Christ, Sci-
entist, New York City, I advise you with
all my soul to |
| 18 |
support the Directors of The Mother Church,
and unite
with those in your church who are supporting The Mother
Church Directors. Abide in fellowship with and obedi- |
| 21 |
ence to The Mother Church, and in this way
God will
bless and prosper you. This I know, for He has proved
it to me
for forty years in succession. |
| 24 |
Lovingly yours,
MARY BAKER EDDY
BROOKLINE, MASS., |
| 27 |
November
13, 1909
A
LETTER BY MRS. EDDY
My Dear
Student: - Your favor of the 10th instant
is |
| 30 |
at hand. God is above your teacher, your
healer, or any
(1) The
text here given is that of the original letter as sent by Mrs. Eddy, and
published in the Christian Science Sentinel of November 20, 1909. This
letter was
republished in the Sentinel of December 4, 1909, at Mrs.
Eddy's request, with
the words "in Truth" inserted after the word "Abide."
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361
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| 1 |
earthly friend. Follow the directions of
God as simplified
in Christian Science, and though it be through
deserts |
| 3 |
He will direct you into the paths of
peace.
I do not presume to
give you personal instruction as
to your relations with other students. All
I say is stated |
| 6 |
in Christian Science to be used as a model.
Please find
it there, and do not bring your Leader into a personal
conflict.
|
| 9 |
I have not seen Mrs. Stetson for over a
year, and have
not written to her since August 30, 1909.
Sincerely
yours, |
| 12 |
MARY BAKER EDDY
BROOKLINE, MASS.,
December
11, 1909
A
TELEGRAM AND MRS. EDDY'S REPLY
[Telegram]
MRS. MARY BAKER
EDDY, |
| 18 |
Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Beloved
Leader: - We rejoice that our church has
promptly made its
demonstration by action at its annual |
| 21 |
meeting in accordance with your desire for
a truly demo-
cratic and liberal government.
BOARD OF
TRUSTEES,
|
| 24 |
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST,
NEW
YORK, N. Y.,
CHARLES DEAN, Chairman, |
| 27 |
ARTHUR O. PROBST, Clerk
NEW YORK, N. Y.,
January 19, 1910
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362
Mrs. Eddy's
Reply
CHARLES A. DEAN, CHAIRMAN BOARD of
TRUSTEES, |
| 3 |
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, NEW
YORK CITY
Beloved Brethren: - I rejoice with
you in the victory of
right over wrong, of Truth over error. |
| 6 |
MARY BAKER EDDY
CHESTNUT HILL, MASS.,
January 20, 1910
A
LETTER AND MRS. EDDY'S REPLY
MRS. MARY BAKER
EDDY,
Chestnut Hill, Mass.
|
| 12 |
Revered Leader, Counsellor, and
Friend: - The Trustees
and Readers of all the Christian Science
churches and
societies of Greater New York, for the first time gath- |
| 15 |
ered in one place with one accord, to
confer harmoniously
and unitedly in promoting and enlarging the
activities
of the Cause of Christian Science in this community, as |
| 18 |
their first act send you their loving
greetings.
With hearts filled
with gratitude to God, we rejoice in
your inspired leadership, in your wise
counselling. We |
| 21 |
revere and cherish your friendship, and
assure you that
it is our intention to take such action as will unite
the
churches and societies in this field in the bonds of Chris- |
| 24 |
tian love and fellowship, thus
demonstrating practical
Christianity.
Gratefully yours,
|
| 27 |
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST,
SECOND CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST,
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THIRD CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST,
FOURTH CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, |
| 3 |
FIFTH CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST,
SIXTH CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST,
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST,
Brooklyn, |
| 6 |
FOURTH CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST,
Brooklyn,
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, Staten Island,
CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE SOCIETY, Bronx, |
| 9 |
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY, Flushing, L.
I.,
By the Committee
NEW YORK,
N. Y., |
| 12 |
February
5, 1910
Mrs. Eddy's Reply
This proof that sanity and Science govern
the Christian |
| 15 |
Science churches in Greater New York is
soul inspiring.
MARY BAKER EDDY
[The Christian Science Journal,
July, 1895. Reprinted in Christian |
| 18 |
Science Sentinel, November 13,
1909]
TO
THE MEMBERS OF THE CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST ASSOCIATION
|
| 21 |
My address before the Christian Scientist
Associa-
tion has been misrepresented and evidently misunder-
stood by
some students. The gist of the whole subject |
| 24 |
was not to malpractise unwittingly. In
order to be
sure that one is not doing this, he must avoid naming,
in
his mental treatment, any other individual but the |
| 27 |
patient whom he is treating, and practise
only to heal.
Any deviation from this direct rule is more or less
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364
|
| 1 |
dangerous. No mortal is infallible, -
hence the Scrip-
ture, "Judge no man."
. . .
|
| 3 |
The rule of mental practice in Christian
Science is
strictly to handle no other mentality but the mind of
your
patient, and treat this mind to be Christly. Any |
| 6 |
departure from this golden rule is
inadmissible. This
mental practice includes and inculcates the command-
ment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." |
| 9 |
Animal magnetism, hypnotism, etc.,
are disarmed by
the practitioner who excludes from his own conscious-
ness, and that of his patients, all sense of the realism |
| 12 |
of any other cause or effect save that
which cometh
from God. And he should teach his students to defend
themselves from all evil, and to heal the sick, by |
| 15 |
recognizing the supremacy and allness of
good. This
epitomizes what heals all manner of sickness and dis-
ease,
moral or physical.
MARY BAKER EDDY
[Christian
Science Sentinel, February 15, 1908]
CONCORD, N. H., TO MRS. EDDY, AND MRS. EDDY'S REPLY
THE ESTEEM
IN WHICH MRS. EDDY IS HELD IN CONCORD HAS
BEEN OFFICIALLY EXPRESSED IN THE
FOLLOWING PREAMBLE |
| 24 |
AND
RESOLUTIONS, WHICH WERE UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED BY
THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN AND
COMMON COUNCIL OF THAT
CITY AND THUS HAVE BECOME A PART OF CONCORD'S
RECORDS
|
| 27 |
Concord, New Hampshire, to Rev. Mary
Baker G.
Eddy
Whereas, Rev. Mary Baker G.
Eddy has decided to |
| 30 |
make her home in Massachusetts, after a
residence of
nineteen years in Concord, and
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365
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| 1 |
Whereas, her residence here has been
the source of so
much good to the city, and
|
| 3 |
Whereas, the most kindly and helpful
relations have
ever existed between Mrs. Eddy and Concord and Con-
cord
people,
|
| 6 |
Be It Resolved, That the City of
Concord, through its
Board of Aldermen and Common Council, in joint
convention, convey to Mrs. Eddy,
|
| 9 |
1. Its appreciation of her life in its
midst,
2. Its regrets over her departure, and
3. The hope that though
absent she will always |
| 12 |
cherish a loving regard for the city, near
which she was
born, and for its people, among whom she has lived for
so
many years.
|
| 15 |
Be It Resolved, That the Mayor and
City Clerk be
authorized and instructed to sign and attest this testi-
monial in behalf of the City Council.
|
| 18 |
Done this tenth day of February, nineteen
hundred
and eight.
CHARLES R. CORNING, Mayor |
| 21 |
Attest: HENRY E. CHAMBERLAIN, City
Clerk
Mrs. Eddy's Reply
TO THE HONORABLE
MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL, |
| 24 |
CONCORD, N. H.
Gentlemen: -
I have not only the pleasure, but the
honor of replying to the City Council
of Concord, in |
| 27 |
joint convention assembled, and to Alderman
Cressy,
for the kindly resolutions passed by your honorable
body, and
for which I thank you deeply. Lest I should |
| 30 |
acknowledge more than I deserve of praise,
I leave their
courteous opinions to their good judgment.
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366
|
| 1 |
My early days hold rich recollections of
associations
with your churches and institutions, and memory has a |
| 3 |
distinct model in granite of the good folk
in Concord,
which, like the granite of their State, steadfast and
enduring, has hinted this quality to other states and |
| 6 |
nations all over the world.
My home influence,
early education, and church
experience, have unquestionably ripened into
the fruits |
| 9 |
of my present religious experience, and for
this I prize
them. May I honor this origin and deserve the con-
tinued
friendship and esteem of the people in my native |
| 12 |
State.
Sincerely yours,
MARY BAKER
G. EDDY
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| 15 |
BOX G,
BROOKLINE, MASS.,
February 13, 1908
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