0.0 – Christian Science – 16 Books by Mary Baker Eddy – Bk 16 – The First Church of Christ Scientist and Miscellany – Chpt 0 – Title page, Foreword, Table of Contents

Foreword 

 1	                     Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet;
  	                     Lest we forget — lest we forget! 
 3	                                                                — Kipling's Recessional 

  	    In these stirring times of church building, when the
  	attention of the whole world is  fixed on Christian Sci-
 6	ence, when the growth and prosperity of the Cause are
  	matters of general wonderment and frequent comment,
  	when the right hand of fellowship is being extended to
 9	this people by other Christian denominations, when pop-
  	ularity threatens to supersede persecution, it is well
  	for earnest and loyal Christian Scientists to fortify them-
12	selves against the mesmerism of personal pride and self-
  	adulation by recalling the following historical facts: —  
  	    1. That Mary Baker Eddy discovered Christian Sci-
15	ence in 1866, and established the Cause on a sound basis
  	by healing the sick and reforming the sinner quickly
  	and completely, and doing this work "without money and
18	without price." 
  	    2. That in 1875, after nine years of arduous prelimi-
  	nary labor, she wrote and published the Christian Sci-
21	ence textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the
  	Scriptures;" that over four hundred thousand copies of
  	this book have been sold — an unparalleled record for
24	a work of this description; that it has healed multi-
  	tudes of disease and has revealed God to well-nigh
 
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 1	countless numbers — facts which prove, (1) that Science
  	and Health does not need to be interpreted to those who
 3	are earnestly seeking Truth; (2) that it is not possible
  	to state truth absolutely in a simpler or more pleasing
  	form. 
 6	    3. That no one on earth to-day, aside from Mrs.
  	Eddy, knows anything about Christian Science except
  	as he has learned it from her and from her writings; and
 9	Christian Scientists are honest only as they give her full
  	credit for this extraordinary work. 
  	    4. That Mrs. Eddy organized The First Church of
12	Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., devised its church
  	government, originated its form of public worship, wrote
  	its Church Manual and Tenets, and always has been
15	and is now its guide, guardian, Leader, and wise and
  	unerring counsellor. 
  	    5. That Mrs. Eddy founded The Christian Science
18	Journal in 1883, was its first editor and for years the
  	principal contributor to its columns; that she organized
  	The Christian Science Publishing Society, which in 1898,
21	with its assets valued at forty-five thousand dollars,
  	she made over to trustees under agreement to pay all
  	future profits to her church; that at the same time she
24	presented to her church the property at 95 and 97
  	Falmouth Street, then occupied by the Publishing So-
  	ciety and valued at twenty-five thousand dollars, reserv-
27	ing for herself only a place for the publishing of her
  	works; that she established the Christian Science Sentinel
  	and authorized Der Herold der Christian Science, both of
  
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1	which, together with The Christian Science Journal, are
  	the property of the Publishing Society. 
 3	    Strive it ever so hard, The Church of Christ, Scientist,
  	can never do for its Leader what its Leader has done
  	for this church; but its members can so protect their
 6	own thoughts that they are not unwittingly made to de-
  	prive their Leader of her rightful place as the revelator
  	to this age of the immortal truths testified to by Jesus
 9	and the prophets. 
  	    Deeds, not words, are the sound test of love; and
  	the helpfulness of consistent and constant right think-
12	ing — intelligent thinking untainted by the emotionalism
  	which is largely self-glorification — is a reasonable service
  	which all Christian Scientists can render their Leader. 

15	              — The Christian Science Journal, May, 1906SHOW ALL