Sacraments "Those
who attend the Christian
Science services will
note that the sacrament
is observed without the
material elements of
bread and wine which are
used in most of the
other Christian
churches. Its observance
in Christian Science is
explained by Mrs. Eddy
on page 35 of Science
and Health, where she
says, 'Our Eucharist is
spiritual communion with
the one God.' On the
same page she says, 'Our
baptism is a
purification from all
error.'"
Extract
from a
Sermon--MBE "If
God is Mind and fills
all space, is
everywhere, matter is
nowhere and sin is
obsolete."
"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.'"
Saved
from
Drowning
"I was going down for
the third time when
these words came clear
and distinct: "God is
all." I heard the waters
closing over me, but was
calm and happy. The next
thing I realized was
that I was on the bank,
my feet in shallow
water."
Smoking
Habit
Healed "Being
born in a southern state
I was reared among a
family of tobacco
smokers, and it seemed
as natural to use
tobacco as it was to
drink water."
"Christian
Unity"
From Christ and
Christmas
by Mary Baker Eddy
.
"Beloved,
that which purifies the
affections also
strengthens them,
removes fear, subdues
sin, and endues with
divine power; that which
refines character at the
same time humbles,
exalts, and commands a
man, and obedience gives
him courage, devotion,
and attainment. For this
hour, for this period,
for spiritual sacrament,
sacrifice, and
ascension, we unite in
giving thanks."
— Mary Baker
Eddy First Church of
Christ, Scientist,
p.
131
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
