The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-03

Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures She founded the Chris tian Science Journal, of which she was the first editor and proprietor She founded the Massachusetts Metaphysi- cal college, of which she is president. She has written numerous published books and papers on the subject of Christian science. These evince a re- markable literary genius, and are char acterized throughout by irrefragible logic, high spiritual and humanitarian thinking, and an integrity of utterance which never shrinks nor swerves from its direct path in order to propitiate or 
 Like every great spiritual and moral reformer whom the world has ever known, she has been the target of en- venomed assaults. But her irreproach- able life. and the loftiness and purity Of her purposes have made all these assaults vain and intellectual She stands preeminent as the foremost woman and public benefactor of the age: for she has given to the world what all it's gold and silver could not give. Her discovery of the science and the practical working doctrine of the Christ-healing and her success as a reasoner and writer in putting 1t before the world, as a practical and trust worthy science, will be gratefully rec ognized by the future generations of our race She has made one of the great religious epochs in history And to-day she is loved and revered by null titudes of men and women throughout the earth, whose lives and homes have been the benehciaries or her teachings.
 Her discovery of the practical sci ence of Christian healing, after it's obstruction for centuries, may be aptly compared with the discovery of this western continent by Columbus. This continent had remained hidden from the knowledge of the civilized world by the mysterious Atlantic with it's wide wilderness of storms and waters. History now has found that it had once been discovered by the adventurous Northmen, centuries be- fore Columbus. But the discovery had been forgotten, and the very existence of this western world had passed from a vague and discredited tradition. The genius and courage of Columbus dis covered this continent anew and he receives therefor the undying gratitude of his race.
 So the healing ministry of Christian ity became lost to the world during weary and waiting centuries. Finally the hour struck, and the genius and courage of a woman discovered 1t far more precious than all the treasures which the Spainards coveted, even far more precious than the fabled fountain of youth if 1t had been found by the adventurous Ponce De Leon, is the dis covery given to the world by Mary Baker Eddy for in addition to ''heal- ing the sick,' Christian science upllfts, fortifies, and purifes the thoughts and lives of it's followers.
 Too frequently ingratitude has re- warded the beneficarles of our, race. Prison chains and @ disgraced name awaited Columbus on his return to Spain His old age saw the undeserved chains stricken from his limbs, but he did not live to see his name restored to it's purity. Posterity had to perform that act of justice Mary Baker Eddy, although she has been called upon to drink the cup of ingratitude for a time, now stands up a loved and rever- ed figure, crowned with years and hon. ors and surrounded and defended by the pure incense of gratitude arising from the hearts of hundreds of thous- ands throughout the earth. A pure and immaculate life, gifted and good woman, with long years of unfalter- ing devotion to the high cause with which her name will be associated through coming history, she now stands in the sunlight of an assured triumph. Misunderstood, misrepresen- ted, reviled, she was sustained during long years by the consciousness that she was working for God and hu- manlty. Calumny's ammunition has now been exploded, its powder burned and Its force expended; and there is not dent in the armor in which she has waged for over thirty years, and is still waging, "the good fight" Mary Baker Eddy is one of those rare figures appearing now and then during the ages, to whom humanity lifts it's dazed vision for time and then takes an- other step forward and upward
 We read in the Bible the declaration made by one of the apostles of Jesus that "the prayer of faith shall save the sick" Every well informed Christian be- liever understands, of course, that he cannot consistently doubt or deny the utility and efficacy of prayer, and that there is nothing in the Bible which limits in any way the universal utility and efficacy of prayer.
 Christian scientists sometimes ara, asked to explain the mode of operation, or modus operandi, by which the pray CT of faith can affect the body so as to overcome physical sickness.
 First, let me say that when any pro- cess can be recognized as an accom- 'plished fact, any failure fully to compre- bend or explain it's mode of operation does not tend, in the least to falsify such fact,
 For example, MT. Edison admits that he is so far short of satisfying ex- planation of the nnarvels accomplished through his electrical inventions that he is wholly unable to tell us even what electricity Is.
 He finds that what we call electricity works along certain lines in certain ways; and he employs his inventive genius accordingly. He invents or dis covers a process; and it becomes a boon to humanity notwithstanding that he may be unable to explain it's