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 1	           CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN TREMONT TEMPLE 

  	    From the platform of the Monday lectureship in
 3	Tremont Temple, on Monday, March 16, 1885, as
  	will be seen by what follows, Reverend Mary Baker G. 
  	Eddy was presented to Mr. Cook's audience, and allowed
 6	ten minutes in which to reply to his public letter con-
  	demning her doctrines; which reply was taken in full by
  	a shorthand reporter who was present, and is transcribed
 9	below. 
  	    Mrs. Eddy responding, said: —  
  	    As the time so kindly allotted me is insufficient for
12	even a synopsis of Christian Science, I shall confine my-
  	self to questions and answers. 
  	    Am I a spiritualist? 
15	    I am not, and never was. I understand the impossi-
  	bility of intercommunion between the so-called dead and
  	living. There have always attended my life phenomena
18	of an uncommon order, which spiritualists have mis-
  	called mediumship; but I clearly understand that no
  	human agencies were employed, — that the divine Mind
21	reveals itself to humanity through spiritual law. And
  	to such as are "waiting for the adoption, to wit, the re-
  	demption of our body," Christian Science reveals the in-
 
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 1	finitude of divinity and the way of man's salvation from
  	sickness and death, as wrought out by Jesus, who robbed
 3	the grave of victory and death of its sting. I understand
  	that God is an ever-present hel...p in all times of trouble, — 
  	have found Him so; and would have no other gods, no
 6	remedies in drugs, no material medicine. 
  	    Do I believe in a personal God? 
  	    I believe in God as the Supreme Being. I know not
 9	what the person of omnipotence and omnipresence is,
  	or what the infinite includes; therefore, I worship that
  	of which I can conceive, first, as a loving Father and
12	Mother; then, as thought ascends the scale of being to
  	diviner consciousness, God becomes to me, as to the
  	apostle who declared it, "God is Love," — divine Prin-
15	ciple, — which I worship; and "after the manner of my
  	fathers, so worship I God." 
  	    Do I believe in the atonement of Christ? 
18	    I do; and this atonement becomes more to me since
  	it includes man's redemption from sickness as well as
  	from sin. I reverence and adore Christ as never before. 
21	    It brings to my sense, and to the sense of all who en-
  	tertain this understanding of the Science of God, a whole
  	salvation. 
24	    How is the healing done in Christian Science? 
  	    This answer includes too much to give you any con-
  	clusive idea in a brief explanation. I can name some
27	means by which it is not done. 
  	    It is not one mind acting upon another mind; it is
  	not the transference of human images of thought to
30	other minds; it is not supported by the evidence before
  	the personal senses, — Science contradicts this evidence;
  	it is not of the flesh, but of the Spirit. It is Christ come
 
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 1	to destroy the power of the flesh; it is Truth over error;
  	that understood, gives man ability to rise above the evi-
 3	dence of the senses, take hold of the eternal energies of
  	Truth, and destroy mortal discord with immortal har-
  	mony, — the grand verities of being. It is not one mortal
 6	thought transmitted to another's thought from the human
  	mind that holds within itself all evil. 
  	    Our Master said of one of his students, "He is a devil,"
 9	and repudiated the idea of casting out devils through
  	Beelzebub. Erring human mind is by no means a de-
  	sirable or efficacious healer. Such suppositional healing
12	I deprecate. It is in no way allied to divine power. All
  	human control is animal magnetism, more despicable
  	than all other methods of treating disease. 
15	    Christian Science is not a remedy of faith alone, but
  	combines faith with understanding, through which we
  	may touch the hem of His garment; and know that om-
18	nipotence has all power. "I am the Lord, and there is
  	none else, there is no God beside me." 
  	    Is there a personal man? 
21	    The Scriptures inform us that man was made in the
  	image and likeness of God. I commend the Icelandic
  	translation: "He created man in the image and likeness
24	of Mind, in the image and likeness of Mind created
  	He him." To my sense, we have not seen all of man;
  	he is more than personal sense can cognize, who is the
27	image and likeness of the infinite. I have not seen a
  	perfect man in mind or body, — and such must be the
  	personality of him who is the true likeness:  the lost
30	image is not this personality, and corporeal man is this
  	lost image; hence, it doth not appear what is the real
  	personality of man. The only cause for making this
 
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1	question of personality a point, or of any importance, is
  	that man's perfect model should be held in mind, whereby
 3	to improve his present condition; that his contemplation
  	regarding himself should turn away from inharmony, sick-
  	ness, and sin, to that which is the image of his Maker. 
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