"I am
convinced..."
DEAN WILLIAM E. MASTERSON
A thorough and unbiased study of
the life of Mrs. Eddy reveals a woman of great personal
charm, rare culture and learning, a purity of life and
purpose, unsurpassed unselfishness, and the profoundest
wisdom and spiritual discernment and understanding. . . . I
am convinced that she came according to prophecy and that
through her there has been revealed and restored to humanity
the comforter which St. John declared would be sent "from
the Father." Such a revelation could come only through the
noblest and purest type of womanhood. Subsequent to this
discovery, which she later named Christian Science, her life
was one unselfish and tireless effort to reduce to human
comprehension and to establish among men this science as a
practical and healing religion. This she did by means of her
teaching, her writings, and her church and the manifold
channels of its activity. Such was her unswerving devotion
to a cause in which her faith remained fixed and unshaken.
Only those who have observed the beneficial effects of the
application of this science to the lives of others or felt
its benign influence in their own lives can properly
appreciate Mrs. Eddy and her mission and justly appraise her
work in its relation to human welfare.
Dean William E.
Masterson
of the College of Law, University of
Iowa
Quoted in Mary
Baker Eddy, A Life Size Portrait
by Lyman P. Powell, pp. 33-34 (1930
Edition)
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