Spiritual
Vision "In
so far as the student of
Christian Science
understands that man as
God's idea is coexistent
with God, the divine
Principle of all, and
obeys God's loving
behests, just so far can
he prove the
omnipotence,
omniscience, and
omnipresence of the
divine Mind."
Cause
and
Effect
"What impressed me in
this occurrence was the
fact that the accident
was detected as a
condition in human
thought before it had a
physical expression, and
that a period of time
intervened between the
mental disturbance and
its physical
manifestation."
Man
Is
Spiritual "It
is argued by some who
admit the great
blessings which have
come to mankind through
Mrs. Eddy's discovery of
the Science of
Christianity, that there
is no need to go the
length of denying
materiality altogether,
that it is surely enough
to admit that matter is
subordinate to Spirit;
and they contend that
this position has the
support of a well-nigh
universal human
opinion."
Appendicitis
Healed "Ten
years ago I was taken
violently ill with
appendicitis, and though
every attention from the
most skilled physicians
was given me, they felt
I must go."
"Absent
from the body ...
present with the
Lord" "I
came to Christian
Science, as thousands of
others, in search of
health. A member of my
family had been
wonderfully benefited by
its teaching; and, after
a noted specialist in
New York had pronounced
my case beyond the reach
of material means, I
turned in my despair to
God."
"Christian
Unity"
From Christ and
Christmas
by Mary Baker Eddy
.
Mrs.
Eddy writes:
"In this age the earth
will help the
woman."
"Christian
Science is my only
ideal; and the
individual and his ideal
can never be severed. If
either is misunderstood
or maligned, it eclipses
the other with the
shadow cast by this
error." Mis
p. 105
"What
if the old dragon should
send forth a new flood
to drown the
Christ-idea? He can
neither drown your voice
with its roar, nor again
sink the world into the
deep waters of chaos and
old night.
In
this age the earth will
help the woman; the
spiritual idea will be
understood.
Those ready for the
blessing you impart will
give thanks. The waters
will be pacified, and
Christ will command the
wave." S&H
p. 570
"This
immaculate idea,
represented first by man
and, according to the
Revelator, last by
woman, will baptize with
fire; and the fiery
baptism will burn up the
chaff of error with the
fervent heat of Truth
and Love, melting and
purifying even the gold
of human
characte." S&H
p.
565 ______
"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
