Reminiscences
of Mrs. Eddy's
Classroom
"Hear what Bronson
Alcott said before one
of Mrs. Eddy's classes:
'You are taught all
there is worth knowing
in our institutions of
learning, and more than
they can ever furnish.'
"
Light
"We are told that when
Egypt was in deepest
darkness there was light
in the dwellings of the
Hebrews, and this light,
this symbol of the
divine presence, was
with them in their
desert journeyings as 'a
pillar of fire by
night.'"
Our
Present Sence of
Good "It
is our first duty to
recognize the good in
our present environment,
and earnestly to apply
our understanding of the
Principle of good to the
eradication of those
aspects in our position
which do not reflect
good."
"The
peace of
God"
" For the protecting
power of Christian
Science during the
recent hurricane in West
Palm Beach, Florida, I
wish to express my
gratitude. What we are
most grateful for was
the absence of fear: we
never before felt so
serene and so close to
God."
Injuries
Healed "
I was run over by a
truck, and error tried
to tell me that I was
going to
die."
"Christian
Unity"
From Christ and
Christmas
by Mary Baker Eddy
.
WHAT
OUR LEADER
SAYS
Mrs.
Eddy's
Reply
"You
can never demonstrate
spirituality until you
declare yourself to be
immortal and understand
that you are so.
Christian Science is
absolute; it is neither
behind the point of
perfection nor advancing
towards it; it is at
this point and must be
practised therefrom.
Unless you fully
perceive that you are
the child of God, hence
perfect, you have no
Principle to demonstrate
and no rule for its
demonstration. By this I
do not mean that mortals
are the children of God,
— far from it. In
practising Christian
Science you must state
its Principle correctly,
or you forfeit your
ability to demonstrate
it." —
Mary Baker Eddy
Miscellany,p.
242 ______
"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
