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the sick, in the destruction of error, and
in the raising Of the dead. Is not Chris
tian Science, therefore. both logical and
Scriptural in its assertion that sin, bodily
sickness, error and death are of mortal,
not divine origin, and constitute the
works of the devil or evil in human
affairs?
The Christian Science movement, its
church, institutional life and reformatory
and healing work is seltevidently the out
growth OF the life work of Mary Baker
Eddy. Mrs. Eddy is without doubt the
greatest religious reformer Of the nine
teenth century and the greatest woman
leader in the history Of religion. The
divine character Of her message to
humanity is abundantly proved in the
good that it accomplishes in the allevia-
ton of human suffering, in the intensity
ing of the moral and spiritual life of all
who accept its teachings and in the heal
ing OF organic and functional diseases.
Childhood, youth and age unite in loving
gratitude to this selfess philanthropic
woman for the great good that hascome
into the world and into their lives
through the agency of her Christian
career and womanly achievements in the
realm of ethics and Christian philosophy.
To know her is to love her. To under
stand her teachings is to understand her
life work. To consider impartially her
claims as "a willing disciple at the heav-
enly gate, waiting for the Mind OF
Christ" is to rid ones self of blind preju-
dice against her work and teachings.
Thousands upon thousands OF men,
women and children offer up perpetual
Psalm of Thanksgiving to the eternal
God for the great good that has come to
humanity through the career of this
God-governed woman. Intelligently,
prayerfully and humbly deem it priv
lege to speak my gratitude to her for
what her teachings have done for me in
restoring me to health and in making
plain the upward, illumined, heavenward
Christ.way.
Christian Science was the greatest dis
covery of the nineteenth century. The
Christian Science text book was the
greatest book of the nineteenth century.
Love, not creeds, will be the keynote of
twentieth. century Christianity. Scien-
| tifc religion will take the place of dog
| matte mysticism, and spirituality,
genuine and natural, will displace ma
teriality and mortal speculation. Works
| rather than mere belief will crown Chris
tan activity. Christ will be, more than
ever before, the central figure in all re-
| formatory and healing work. Health
will become contagious and disease occa-
| u
| Christendom will be reunited under the
spiritual leadership Of Christ Jesus, but
all civilization will become essentially
Christian, and Christ will be in deed and
Truth the Light of the world. Wars will
cease, mammon be dethroped, sin, dis
ease and death will, by steady degrees,
be made the vanquished enemies of the
race. Immortality will be reduced to or
comprehended as demonstrable divine
Science. Brotherhood will be established
| through brotherly love and unsel6shness,
and the animal instincts inherent in
human nature will by sure degrees be
overcome and destroyed by the acquisi-
ton of the Godlike, Christlike Mind,
The divine democracy OF true Chris.
tianity will supersede all conditions and
theories that tend to class legislation or
despotic government. Christianity will
be synonymous with true Science, true
ethics, true law, true government, true
industrial integrity, true health. The
white stone in the forehead of it's repre-
sentatives will be pure love, compass
sionate, forgiving, retormatory and heal
ing. The world will be baptized into
the spiritual or divine Science of Christ!
teachings, metaphysically understood
and Christian Science will become thu
law OF life.