0.0 – Christian Science – 16 Books by Mary Baker Eddy – Bk 6 – Retrospection and Introspection – Chpt 13 – First Publication

                      FIRST PUBLICATION 

 1	    In 1870 I copyrighted the first publication on spirit-
  	ual, scientific Mind-healing, entitled "The Science of
 3	Man." This little book is converted into the chapter on
  	Recapitulation in Science and Health. It was so new — 
  	the basis it laid down for physical and moral health was
 6	so hopelessly original, and men were so unfamiliar with
  	the subject — that I did not venture upon its publication
  	until later, having learned that the merits of Christian
 9	Science must be proven before a work on this subject
  	could be profitably published. 
  	    The truths of Christian Science are not interpolations
12	of the Scriptures, but the spiritual interpretations thereof. 
  	Science is the prism of Truth, which divides its rays and
  	brings out the hues of Deity. Human hypotheses have
15	darkened the glow and grandeur of evangelical religion. 
  	When speaking of his true followers in every period, Jesus
  	said, "They shall lay hands on the sick, and they  shall
18	recover." There is no authority for querying the authen-
  	ticity of this declaration, for it already was and is demon-
  	strated as practical, and its claim is substantiated, — a
21	claim too immanent to fall to the ground beneath the stroke
  	of artless workmen. 
  	    Though a man were girt with the Urim and Thummim
24	of priestly office, and denied the perpetuity of Jesus' com-
 
  
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 1	mand, "Heal the sick," or its application in all time to
  	those who understand Christ as the Truth and the Life,
 3	that man would not expound the gospel according to
  	Jesus. 
  	    Five years after taking out my first copyright, I taught
 6	the Science of Mind-healing, alias Christian Science, by
  	writing out my manuscripts for students and distribut-
  	ing them unsparingly. This will account for certain pub-
 9	lished and unpublished manuscripts extant, which the
  	evil-minded would insinuate did not originate with me.SHOW ALL