What
are body and
Soul? "Even
according to the
teachings of natural
science, man has never
beheld Spirit or Soul
leaving a body or
entering it. What basis
is there for the theory
of indwelling spirit,
except the claim of
mortal belief?"
Expansion "If
the chick were willing
and content in
cultivated submission to
stay within its narrow
limits, it would thereby
withhold from itself a
broader and wider sphere
of life. But the
struggle within its
narrow sphere gives it a
vigor and growth which
enables it to burst its
limitations, and attain
a greater sphere of
activity and freedom."
Humility "Are
we willing that 'the old
man with his deeds'
shall be put off, and
the 'new man' put on?
Are we willing that the
world should know the
motive of all our
actions and of all we
say? Are we willing to
cease the strife for
personal recognition and
be accounted 'least in
the kingdom'?"
Grateful
for
Healing "With
that profound gratitude
of a human father for a
son's life spared, and
the unfailing, available
method, I am trying to
give this experience to
all, with thanks to God
for sending to us Christ
Jesus, the Way-shower,
and Mrs. Eddy, whose
teaching enables us all
to subdue the fear and
have the faith to rely
on and apply this proved
healing
truth."
"Christian
Unity"
From Christ and
Christmas
by Mary Baker Eddy
.
"The
salvation of the
righteous is of the
Lord: he is their
strength in the time of
trouble. And the Lord
shall help them, and
deliver them: he shall
deliver them from the
wicked, and save them,
because they trust in
him."
—
Psalms
37:39,40
The
Christian
Science
Standard, Vol.
19, No.
1
"The
Bible
prophesies
two
appearings
of the
Christ
in the
flesh.
Christendom
has
waited
2,000
years
since
the
first
appearing
for
the
return
of
Christ
as
a
man;
however,
Christ Jesus
himself
revealed to St.
John in
Revelation 12
that the second
appearing would
come as a
woman. The
recognition and
acknow-ledgment
of these two
individuals is
essential to
the salvation
of mankind in
'these latter
days.'"
In
Volume 4 we
read,
"How do drugs
and hygiene and
animal
magnetism heal?
They don't
heal. It is
only the faith
in them which
brings about a
result
which
they call healing. In
reality they only
exchange a belief in
disease for another
belief called health.
Materia medica
classifies health as the
absence of disease from
the body. Mrs. Eddy
tells us that 'Health is
the consciousness of the
unreality of pain and
disease; or, rather, the
absolute consciousness
of harmony and of
nothing else.' (Rud.
11:13-15)"
"Whatever
may be the
prevailing
opinion as to
the tenets of
her faith and
its lasting
benefit to the
great cause of
religion,
none
can deny that Mrs. Eddy
was a remarkable
personality, one of the
great characters which
stand out in bold relief
in the history of the
nineteenth century in
spiritual
affairs."
"As
mortals gain more
correct views of God and
man, multitudinous
objects of creation,
which before were
invisible, will become
visible. When we realize
that Life is Spirit,
never in nor of matter,
this understanding will
expand into
self-completeness,
finding all in God,
good, and needing no
other
consciousness.
"Spirit
and its formations are
the only realities of
being. Matter disappears
under the microscope of
Spirit. Sin is
unsustained by Truth,
and sickness and death
were overcome by Jesus,
who proved them to be
forms of error.
Spiritual living and
blessedness are the only
evidences, by which we
can recognize true
existence and feel the
unspeakable peace which
comes from an
all-absorbing spiritual
love."
—
Mary Baker
Eddy
".
. . In the secret of His presence / All
the seeming fades away, / All the shadows,
all the dreaming, / As we wake to God's
own day — / Wake to man as His
reflection, / Safe in Love, reality; / In
the secret of His presence / We shall find
eternity." — Mabel A.
Birdno
