Testing
Times "In
the epistle to the
Hebrews we are told many
times of the tests
imposed upon the
humanity of Christ
Jesus, each one higher
than the last and more
conclusive in its
results for the whole
race. It is no doubt
difficult for us to
recognize the element of
joy in our testing
times, but unless we do,
the trial of our
strength is apt to be
prolonged and the final
result may even seem
uncertain."
Binding
Up the
Broken-hearted "'If
we would open their
prison doors for the
sick, we must first
learn to bind up the
broken-hearted.' Thus
writes Mrs. Eddy on page
366 of 'Science and
Health with Key to the
Scriptures.'"
Christian
Ordinances "While
to many Christian people
symbols seem necessary
to the observance of
Baptism and the
Eucharist, there comes a
time when outward rite
not only fails to meet
the deepest human need,
but when it tends to
obscure the spiritual
sense."
Abscess
Healed
"When a child of two
years old I had a
disease which left me
with an abscess in one
of my ears, from which I
suffered for more than
thirty years; then it
was healed through
Christian
Science."
Baby
Healed
"It is over two years
since we first heard of
Christian Science as a
method of healing.
Material means had been
exhausted for our six
months' old baby girl
and we expected her to
pass on at any
time."
"Christian
Unity"
From Christ and
Christmas
by Mary Baker Eddy
.
"O
Lord, thou hast searched
me, and known me. Thou
knowest my downsitting
and mine uprising, thou
understandest my thought
afar off. Thou
compassest my path and
my lying down, and art
acquainted with all my
ways. For there is not a
word in my tongue, but,
lo, O Lord, thou knowest
it
altogether."
—
Psalms
139:1-4
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
