"A
great reform in our
ranks" "That
Mary Baker Eddy
recognized herself to be
the 'God-appointed' and
'God-anointed' messenger
to this age is clearly
shown by the following
excerpts from her
letters. To Ira Knapp
she wrote: 'I am
carrying on a great
reform in our ranks
through my
letters.'"
Human
Hypotheses
"How can the vision of
spiritual reality appear
by a theoretical
transfiguration of
material forms and
objects? Must we not,
rather, turn entirely
away from material
suggestions in order to
see spiritual
reality?"
Health
Contagious "If
we would make health
contagious, we must
radiate the light of
Truth and Love, with its
insistent demand for
purity and its rich
fruitage of fearlessness
and faith."
Protected
from a
Storm
"Sometime after midnight
I was awakened by the
sound of howling winds.
I got up and saw that a
hurricane and a tidal
wave seemed imminent.
Fear was taking hold of
me when I realized I was
not listening to the
voice of
Truth."
"Life
is real, and Death is
the
Illusion" "It
has been my custom to
read from Science and
Health or some of our
literature before going
to sleep, and one night
soon after calling upon
the practitioner to
treat me, I was awakened
with a sense of having
been close to the shadow
of death."
"Christian
Unity"
From Christ and
Christmas
by Mary Baker Eddy
.
WHAT
OUR LEADER
SAYS
"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."
—
Mary Baker Eddy
Miscellany, p.
210
______
Mary
Baker
Eddy's
Teaching
"Divinity
Embracing
Humanity"
The
Christian
Science
Standard
Vol. 14, No.
4
"The
more I
understand
true
humanhood,
the
more I
see it
to be
sinless,
-- as
ignorant
of sin
as is
the
perfect
Maker."
--
Mary
Baker
Eddy
_____
The
teaching of
"divinity
embracing
humanity" is
essential to
our salvation,
our
transfiguration,
in the endtime.
A
misunderstanding
of Mary Baker
Eddy's teaching
on this subject
impedes and
retards
individual and
collective
spiritual
growth. It
would prevent
Christian
Scientists from
understanding
and
demonstrating
the human and
divine
coincidence
which is the
way of escape
from the
material sense
of things.
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
