Dedication
of Mrs. Eddy's
Gift "'The
general thought chiefly
regards material things,
and keeps Mind much out
of sight. The Christian,
however, strives for the
spiritual; he abides in
a right purpose, as in
laws which it were
impious to transgress,
and follows Truth
fearlessly."
"What
think ye of
Christ"
"For long centuries
mortals have been asking
their fellowmen what
they thought concerning
Christ, whether they
accepted the dogmas of
some particular church
or denied
them."
Daily
Overcoming "The
bugle-call to spiritual
advancement, from
Genesis to Revelation,
is
overcoming."
Blessed
by Turning to
God "The
dark days are
remembered, not with
bitterness, but only
with thanksgiving,
because they forced me
to find God, who, in
place of causing evil,
as I had believed,
blesses His children
when they turn to
Him."
From
Darkness to
Light "Hoping
my testimony will
benefit someone who is
seeking the light, I
should like to tell how
I was led and guided in
my mental journey from
the darkness of night to
the marvelous light of
day."
"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.
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