Fallibility
of Human
Concepts--MBE "If
one asks me, Is my
concept of you right? I
reply, The human concept
is always imperfect;
relinquish your human
concept of me, or of any
one, and find the
divine, and you have
gained the right one
and never until
then."
The
Ever-operative Law of
God
"All the rules of
Christian Science are
based on the divine law
which Jesus utilized
the law of
perfect cause and
perfect effect, perfect
Mind and perfect idea,
spiritual substance and
spiritual
manifestation."
Eternal
Life "The
trouble is that humanity
has too long judged
itself unworthy of
eternal life as Christ
Jesus presented the
idea, and has chosen
rather a mutilated
counterfeit of it, one
in which death is given
a prominent
part."
Broken
Hip
Healed "During
my first great joy at
this revelation I was
healed of a broken hip,
proving, much to the
doctor's astonishment,
that the laws of time
and lameness, which had
been pronounced, were
null and void.
"
Healing
of
Illness
"When first I read the
precept, "Love your
enemies," I regarded it
merely as a beautiful
ideal, but when I began
to study the Christian
Science textbook,
"Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures"
by Mary Baker Eddy, I
understood that it must
be practical; and I
should like to tell how
this teaching was made a
reality to
me."
"Christian
Unity"
From Christ and
Christmas
by Mary Baker Eddy
.
What
Our Leader
Says
MARY
BAKER EDDY
"Beloved
Christian Scientists,
keep your minds so
filled with Truth and
Love, that sin, disease,
and death cannot enter
them. It is plain that
nothing can be added to
the mind already full.
There is no door through
which evil can enter,
and no space for evil to
fill in a mind filled
with goodness. Good
thoughts are an
impervious armor; clad
therewith you are
completely shielded from
the attacks of error of
every sort. And not only
yourselves are safe, but
all whom your thoughts
rest upon are thereby
benefited.
"
The self-seeking pride
of the evil thinker
injures him when he
would harm others.
Goodness involuntarily
resists evil. The evil
thinker is the proud
talker and doer. The
right thinker abides
under the shadow of the
Almighty. His thoughts
can only reflect peace,
good will towards men,
health, and
holiness."
The
First Church of Christ,
Scientist, and
Miscellany, p.
210
"Advanced
scientific
students are
ready for
Christ and
Christmas" Mary
Baker
Eddy
Miscellaneous
Writings, p.
308
The
Christian
Science
Standard
Vol. 13, No.
1
"Christ
and
Christmas
illustrates
and
interprets
Mary
Baker
Eddy
as the
representative
of the
second
coming
of
Christ."
_____
The
following
Standard
is an exegesis
of the first
four plates in
Christ and
Christmas,
Mary Baker
Eddy's
undeniable
confession of
herself as the
second
appearing in
the flesh of
the Christ,
presented in
Scriptural
texts,
illustrations,
and verses.
"Christ and
Christmas
was an
inspiration
from beginning
to end. The
power of God
and the wisdom
of God was even
more manifest
in it and
guided me more
perceptibly, as
those of my
household can
attest, than
when I wrote
Science and
Health."
(Johnson,
History of
the Christian
Science
Movement,
v.2,
p.448)
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)"
"In
this age the
earth will help
the woman; the
spiritual idea
will be
understood."
--
Mary
Baker Eddy,
Science and
Health, p.
570
_____
The
very real, but
unrecognized questions
agitating the world in
this endtime are not
those issues and events
reported in the press.
Rather, they are those
questions relating to
the second coming of
Christ and the place of
Mrs. Eddy in Scriptural
prophecy.
"Health
is not a condition of
matter, but of Mind; nor
can the material senses
bear reliable testimony
on the subject of
health. The Science of
Mind-healing shows it to
be impossible for aught
but Mind to testify
truly or to exhibit the
real status of man.
Therefore the divine
Principle of Science,
reversing the testimony
of the physical senses,
reveals man as
harmoniously existent in
Truth, which is the only
basis of health; and
thus Science denies all
disease, heals the sick,
overthrows false
evidence, and refutes
materialistic
logic."
Mary Baker
Eddy
"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."
".
. . 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