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                              Preface

 1	    This volume contains scintillations from press and
  	pulpit — utterances which epitomize the story of the
 3	birth of Christian Science, in 1866, and its progress
  	during the ensuing thirty years. Three quarters of a
  	century hence, when the children of to-day are the elders
 6	of the twentieth century, it will be interesting to have
  	not only a record of the inclination given their own
  	thoughts in the latter half of the nineteenth century,
 9	but also a registry of the rise of the mercury in the glass
  	of the world's opinion. 
  	    It will then be instructive to turn backward the tele-
12	scope of that advanced age, with its lenses of more
  	spiritual mentality, indicating the gain of intellectual
  	momentum, on the early footsteps of Christian Science
15	as planted in the pathway of this generation; to note
  	the impetus thereby given to Christianity; to con the
  	facts surrounding the cradle of this grand verity — that
18	the sick are healed and sinners saved, not by matter, but
  	by Mind; and to scan further the features of the vast
  	problem of eternal life, as expressed in the absolute
21	power of Truth and the actual bliss of man's existence
  	in Science. 

  	                                                   MARY BAKER EDDY 
24	February, 1895