The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-17

CHRISTIAN OLD lad1eS because Jney De-
lieve that millions of human beings
have been damned from all eternity,
1t is hard to understand why that law
should take away the liberty or the
money of Mrs. Eddy, because she
chooses to believe that eventually no.
body will be damned at all. In sub
stance, Mrs. Eddy's doctrines merely
take literally this verse from the
fourteenth chapter of John:
Verify, verify, l say unto you, He
that believeth on me, the works that
| do shall he do also; and greater
works than these shall he do; be-
cause | go unto my Father. John
XIV, 70.
1t is difficult to see why taking
literally statement which this ma
ton as whole endorses should be
construed into a hallucination.
Mrs. Eddy's mind is clear, her
health is good for an old lady of
eighty-six, her will is strong. She
is protected by very able and alb
solutely honorable man in the per-
son of her trusted lawyer, General
Streeter. She is cared for in her
home by women intensely devoted to
her. She is able to manage her af-
fairs as much as she may choose to
do, and If she were not, no greater
crime could be committed against
her than to take her from the sur
roundings that she loves and the
friends that make her happy. If the
law should deprive this venerable
lady of her fortune and her liberty,
there Is no reason why any woman
past threescore and ten, and having
accumulated some money, should not
be similarly treated. Very few
women of seventy have the business
intelligence, power of will, and earn
estness of thought possessed by Mrs.
Eddy at eighty-six.
The day after the interview, Mrs.
Eddy sent to the writer with a
friendly note her recent writings.
These Miscellaneous Writings" have
been studied with interest by this
writer, who is not a believer in
Christian Science, but a believer in
government, and in the absolute
lieve whatever they choose.
The preface of these miscellaneous
writings, which indicate much
thought, begins with this interesting
quotation from one of the old Tai
mudic writer's:
1.-The noblest charity is to prevent
a man from accepting charity; and
the best aims are to show and to en-
able man to dispense with aims.
Mrs. Eddy says this apothegm
suits my sense of doing good"
Mrs. Eddy answers the question
what do you think of marriage?"
as follows:
"That it is often convenient,
pleasant, and occasionally
a love affair. Marriage is susceptible
of many definitions. 1t sometimes
presents the most wretched condition
of human existence. To be normal,
it must be union of the affections
that tend to life mortals higher"
In sending the book Mrs. Eddy
marked for the writer some verses
by her on page $50. They are re-
printed here, because a great num-
Der of men and women that love Mrs.
Eddy and follow her teachings will
like to see the words that evidently
express Mrs. Eddy's feelings of con-
ISOLATION at this moment when, In her
old age and after life that has. CIV
en- great happiness and comfort to
many, she finds herself the object of
an attack from which her years alone
should suffice to protect her.
1.-THE Mothers Evening Prayer.
ooh! gentle presence, peace and JOY
and power
Oh! life divine, that owns each
waiting hour,
Thou Love that. guards the nest
ling's faltering flight!
Keep Thou my child on upward
wing tonight.
Love is our refuge; only with mine
eye
Can behold the snare, the pit. the
fall:
His habitation high is here, and
nigh
His arm encircles me. and mine,
and all.
"Oh. make me glad for every scald-
ing tear,
For hope deferred, ingratitude,
disdain!
Wait, and love more for every hate,
and fear
No ill--since God is good, and loss
is gain.
Beneath the shadow of His mighty
wing;
In that sweet secret of the narrow
way,
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