The daily tribune., 1907-09-14

infantile steps in this direction, for
we are only babes ON the shore Of in
finite, divine possibilities. Our work
at this hour is to make the little we
know practical. not forgetting the
sublime Ultimate.
Mrs Eddy points us to Jesus,
who came in the power Of the
Spirit, and before this power every
form Of sin, disease, storm, tempest
and death itself. vanished into its
native nothingness. For several
centuries the application Of the power
Of Spirit to overcome human ills
characterized the primitive Christian
church.
Gradually the naturalization of
the age obscured the glorious light,
as the world took possession of the
church instead of the church taking
charge of the world. To Paul, the
metaphysician, this power was the
mind Of Christ destroying the illu-
sions Of the mind of the flesh. St.
John, rising to high spiritual sense,
called this power divine Love, the
love that is God, that destroys all
fear, that is life, makes perfect; and
Mrs. Eddy. in Science and Health,
page 14o, line 20, gives definition of
Deity which shows divine love to be
universal and eternal.
Mary Baker G. Eddy Is
Discoverer of Secret
Less than 40 years ago, in lofty
spiritual isolation, there stood wo-
man, Mary Baker Eddy, on the noun
tain-top Of vision, kissed by the ris-
ing sun Of righteousness with healing
in its beams.
Solitary as the great explorer who
stood on lonely peak in Darien. an
unknown continent to the north and
south, and a vast ocean on either side,
Mrs. Eddy SAW behind her the vast
sea of human thoughts swelling and
raging in tumultuous struggle. and
before her the peaceful Pacific, an
ocean of spiritual understanding and
love. She saw the awful unreaiity
of the finite senses which witness to
sin, disease and death, the evil that
deceiveth the whole world; the en-
forced, self-infiicted sorrow and
slavery of men through human illu-
sion.
She saw also the omnipotence
and reality Of God, good, and the in
finite possibilities Of men endued
with true knowledge of God. She
discovered anew the spiritual laws of
life and harmony, and their applica-
tion to human needs, as Jesus taugh
and proved the spiritual Canaan
where man, free and fearless, in his
true selfhood, Transparent walks the
earth like some holy being'-and she
named her discovery Christian Science
because it deals with eternal laws
which always were, and are, and will
be-the laws OF God and the universe.
What, then, do we not owe to her
who has 30 bravely stemmed the tide
Of human opinions and held aloft
the banner Of primitive Christianity
and its demonstrations Of the power
Of the Spirit which can work no i'll,
that is eternal and unchanging good
aye, very good that law Of love to
which every knee must bow.
Many Lifted From Sin
and Ignorance BY Her
1T is my happy privilege to speak
Of Mrs. Eddy from my own personal
knowledge Of the beauty Of her life,
inspiration Of her presence, the grace
OF her personality. Born Of an old
and intellectual family, associated
intimately with the scholarly men of
her native state, and surrounded by a
pure spiritual atmosphere. she was
adequately fitted for her high destiny.
Educated in part by her elder broth
or, one of New HamIshire's most
brilliant sons, she acquired an &C.
complished education.
'This brother. Hon. Albert Baker,
was law student ana partner OF
President Franklin Pierce. Mrs.
Eddy WAS both intellectually and
spiritually endowed. and WAS a we'll
known and gifted authoress even in
early life.
-"Of her philanthropy and her un.
selfish work for humanity, words are
inadequate to express its fulncss.
No other person, perhaps, in all this
modern world. has no lived and loved
that many thousands have been lifted
out Of sin. disease and poverty, ms
thcy have been through her sweet
ministry. As the evil Of misconcep-
tion is removed that blinds the world
to Its great spiritual leaders her life
gives forth n radiant light. she CON-
mAnds tho admiration Of the world.