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                  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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 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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1	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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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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 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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 1	    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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 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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 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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 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 


18	                        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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 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." 


 6	                           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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 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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 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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 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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 1	                   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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 1	                          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 


18	                                       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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 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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 1	                      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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 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. 

15	                                                 MARY BAKER EDDY

  	CHESTNUT HILL, MASS.,
  	       February 7, 1910 


18	                               A  PAEAN  OF  PRAISE 

  	                           "Behind a frowning providence
  	                              He hides a shining face." 


21	    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. 
 
                                                         Miscellany                                   356


 1	    When will 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."
 

 9	                                                 MARY BAKER EDDY
 
  	CHESTNUT HILL, MASS., 
 	         April 20, 1910 


12	                      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. 

18	                                                    MARY BAKER EDDY
  	CHESTNUT HILL, MASS.,
  	          July 18, 1910 


21	                                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. 
27	    This simple statement of oneness is the only possible
  	correct version of Christian Science. God being infinite,
 
                                              A Letter by Mrs. Eddy                        357


 1	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 

27	Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson, New York City

  	    Beloved Student: — I have just finished reading your
  	interesting letter. I thank you for acknowledging me as
30	your Leader, and I know that every true follower of
 
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 1	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. 
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. 
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 
27	BOX G, BROOKLINE, MASS.,
  	          July 12, 1909 


  	                                      TAKE NOTICE 

30	    I approve the By-laws of The Mother Church, and
  	require the Christian Science Board of Directors to main-
 
                                              A Letter by Mrs. Eddy                        359


 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.,
15	 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. 
 
                                                         Miscellany                                   360


 1	It will be your destruction if you do not do this. Answer
  	this letter immediately. 

 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

  	         ¹The 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
33	 republished in the Sentinel of December 4, 1909, at Mrs. Eddy's request, with
  	 the words "in Truth" inserted after the word "Abide."	
 
                                                         A Telegram                             361


 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 


15	          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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 1	                                           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 


 9	           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, 
 
                                             Christian Scientist Association           363


 1	        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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 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. 

18	                                                 MARY BAKER EDDY


  	                [Christian Science Sentinel, February 15, 1908] 
  	           CONCORD,  N. H.,  TO  MRS.  EDDY,  AND
21	                          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
 
                                    Concord, N.H., to Mrs. Eddy                   365


 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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 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 

15	BOX G, BROOKLINE, MASS.,
  	        February 13, 1908

















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