Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-06

worthy objects Of Christian and phiian-
thropio effort In other directions, OF
which little has been known, outside OF
the ranks of the recipients. And now,
in very recent months, has come an
other gift, that of one million dollars to
found an institution to aid in extending
the educational work OF Christian
Science by assisting those who are
needy and worthy, in gaining its teach
ings.
Mrs. Eddy has had this project in
mind for years, and has been looking
forward to the time when she would
have the means fifty to endow 1t. IN
doing this she gives away all her ac-
cummulations, except her real estate,
which consists of her homo at Chestnut
Hill and the former home at Concord.
Now all this is history, and absolute
ly incompatible with any superstition
of avarice on the part of the leader or
Christian Science. To repeat what we
have noted before, 1t is notorious that
avarice grows by what 1t feeds on, and
one who for years has made the quest
leading aim, would never, in the ripe
ness Of years that has come to Mrs.
Eddy, give away her all.
Life Of UnseIfIshness
Christian Scientists are not greatly
tion, nor as to the effects of any such
charge as that of an unworthy and
ayaricious motive. Christian Scientists
know, and the world is rapidly coming
to know, that Mrs. Eddy's whole ca
reer has been one of unselfish devotion
to the cause of Christian Science; that
she has spared no effort, shrunk from
no sacrifice, faltered at no obstacle, In
this which she has felt to be her SER
vice to God and humanity. The world
is today rendering to Christian Sci
ence an acknowledgment that 1t Is a
movement that has wrought and is
working nightly for good, and that the
spirit and effort of Christian Scientists
Is inspired b. good. But the entire
growth, and the work of Christian Sci
ence. as it exists today. is the. outcome
of Mrs. Eddy's teachings and efforts,
and vet falls far below the standard
she exhorts of her followers. No such
work could have been established by
one whose motives were selfish or in
sincere.
And now there is another side to all
this. Mrs. Eddy has been rendering a
supreme service to humanity in estab-
fishing and enforcing the recognition
that, in Jesus words, "the laborer Is
worthy Of his hire" as an essential Of
Christian teaching. NO one can or VIII
question but that all service, all effort,
bv which any man serves his fellow
men. should be duly recompensed. And
in a general way 1t is recognized that
the higher ths order Of service. the
Greater should be the recompense. But
at the point of the highest service of
all. the ministration. Of noble thoughts
record of letting It's choicest lights
spend their years in unrequited toll,
ana the recognition of the worth of
what the philosopher, the artist, the
noet. the prophet, has wrought, is
given bv the generations that follow.
Mrs Eddy has believed In her teach
i1as and in her work. and she has con-
sistently insisted that a respectable
price should be paid for her books, and
for the services of Christian Scientists.
In ali this she has been establishing
the precedent and inculc ting the doc
trine which, honestly applied, will
make it impossible for the worlds