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has healed the sick in every age, and
it does this just as certainly today in
Christian Science.
Christian healing did not end with
the apostles, but continued to mark
the efforts of the early Christians for
nearly three hundred years Gibbon
History of Rome relates how the dead
were frequently raised by the prayers
of the Christians, until near the close
of the second ntdry.
Today the Con forter, or spirit of
Truth in Christian Science, is leading
us away from materialism to the spir-
itual ideal which brings about re-
turn of primitive Christian healing
Because the spirit of humility and
spiritual teachableness were so native
to Mrs. Eddy's consciousness, she was
lifted from d bed of pain by this same
Comforter, and restored to perfect
health. after she had been given up
as helpless sufferer. This was in
the year 1866 From that moment
she sought to lay hold of this Com
forter or spirit of Truth, that she
might understand the fundamental
law of Christian healing. Instinct.
lively turning to her Bible, she sought
it there; and, for three years, she
energy. Then she began to write the
book Science and Health with Key
to the Scriptures, which was first
published in 1878.
Meeting with but a modest recogni-
tion at first, the demand for this book
has rapidly increased. Indeed, com
plete edition of a thousand volumes
each is now regularly sold on an aver
age every seven or eight days. This
vast output of books is not purchased
entirely by Christian Scientists. Pro
fessional men, ministers, and doctors
are reading it. Lawyers, business
men, and laymen are seeking to learn
more about God from its pages. De-
vout women are proving vhey under
stand its teachings by healing them
selves and others. All this is going
on quietly, in the secret of the home
circle. But the Comforter has come,
and the world is fast finding this out.
Since the divine Principle of Chuis-
tan Science is forever established,
Mrs. Eddy has leligiously excluded
any mere opinions upon this subject,
and adhe. ed strictly to living and de
claring This Principle of absolute
Truth. The result is that everything
within Science and Health may be,
said to deal with this Principle, to-
gether with its human application.
Thus the true idea of God has been
presented, not empirically or expert
mentally, but scientifically; with the
result that people are healed from
sickness and sin from the simple read
ing OF Science and Health. Far from
rect obedience to the ScIiptural de-
claration that the Truth shall make
you free
As for the world estimate of her,
Notwithstanding the old saying that
"A prophet is not without honor save
in his own country the aople of
her own city welcome ey, y oppor-
tunity to evidence their appreciation
of her. Mayors of her own city and
governors of her state have been
pleased to honor her Moreover the
world at large is beginning to recog
nize in her benefactor to the race,
as the direct result of her spiritual
and redemptIve teachings. Never in
truding her personality upon anyone,
not even in her writings, Mrs Eddy
claims nothing more than to be the |
discoverer and founder of Christian |
Science. In fact she has charged us
to Follow your Leader, only so far
as she follows Christ"
True, there have been different the |
ories about Christ, and therefore about |
Christianity, because men have been
unable to answer the Masters own |
question, Whom do men say that |
am?' To be sure, the subject has /,
not lacked in serious deliberation.
But in accordance with the purity OF