Substance "It
does not require any
very exhaustive study of
the New Testament to
recognize that
throughout its pages the
endeavor is persistently
made to instruct mankind
as to the true nature of
substance."
"The
stone which the builders
rejected" "Christian
Scientists have become
quite familiar with the
argument that healing by
spiritual means is not a
vital element of
religion; indeed some
people insist that it is
wrong to attempt it,
although it was
practised by Christ
Jesus and his apostles."
The
Handling of
Error "Occasionally,
Christian Scientists are
heard to say: It is
'old-fashioned' to
handle error; it is no
longer necessary to do
it; what we need to do
now is to dwell in the
absolute truth."
Harmony
in the
Home "After
reading the textbook I
knew I had found the
truth. I wrote to a
practitioner and asked
for help, and can now
say that my home has
been changed from
discord to
harmony."
Safety
in a Collapsed
Building
"When news of the
theater disaster reached
us, we knew that our
daughter was probably
buried in the ruins . .
."
"Christian
Unity"
From Christ and
Christmas
by Mary Baker Eddy
.
"The
master Metaphysician
understood omnipotence
to be All-power:
because Spirit was to
him All-in-all, matter
was palpably an error of
premise and conclusion,
while God was the only
substance, Life, and
intelligence of
man."
—
Mary
Baker Eddy Miscellaneous
Writings, p.
200
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
