The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-16

ming of the fox can avail to divert or
suppress its tidings of comfort ana
joy.
| Scientists place their textbook above
the Bible as the guide to righteous
ness. No one can honestly make this
| allegation who has read the book
carefully, for on page 497, of Science
and Health are printed these words,
the first of a series of tenets of our
AS adherents of Truth we take the
| inspired Word of the Bible as our
sufficient guide to eternal Life
What more emphatic and explicit
negation of such a charge could be
demanded?
not originate in the book Science and
Health. They find expression there
but their origin is in God. They have
always existed and will forever exist.
What effect. then, it may be asked,
does the study of this book have upon
those who have previously been Bible
students? Does it supplant the Bible
in their reverence and admiration? Is
the Book of books less precious to
them than before? The answer is
No. On the other hand Science and
Health haNmonizes many seeming in
congruities in the Bible which have
long perpIexed layman and theolo-
gian; it explains apparent contradic-
tons; it discloses unexpected riches;
it gives new significance to favorite
passages, and brings neglected ones
into favor.
1.-The study and application OF its
teachings by those who have had little
or no familiarity with the Scriptures
has made them Bible students and BIZ
BILE lovers The one time atheist, the
scoffer and the blasphemer are finding
the Gospel a treasure house of joy
and consolation whose untried doors
had been barred against them until
unlocked by the key forged by the
hands of gentle woman who loved
ali mankind. No other book in mod
ern times has made so many Bible
readers.
The textbook of Christian Science
was given to the world not to exploit
a theory, but to relate a discovery. not
to upset religions, but to establish
salvation; not to confound materia
medica, but to simplify healing; not to
condemn the sinner, but to turn him
away from his wickedness, that he
might live.
1T comes bringing liberty, not bond
age; liberation, not bigotry; it tells lit
tie Of hell, but much of God and love.
From cover to cover it contains not
one threat; not one word of defama-
ton, detraction or villification of any
mans medicine or any mans religion.
Its pages TEEN with love for God and
man.
mo man can read it with an open
heart, and not be better man for the
reading; no sorrowing one need miss its
message of comfort; none tortured by
pain or enfeebled by disease need close
it in despair. The simple may gather
from it wisdom; the wise may gain
from it simplicity.
1T was written in solitude by a
woman whose spiritual hearing was
acute enough to catch the words that
God has been speaking aloud to dull
cared mankind ever since time began.
The message that rang in her ears was
not for her alone, but for all her fellow
men, living and to live, and she could
no more smother it into silence than
the trees can knot their eager leaves
when they have the message of spring
to unfold.
Emerson says in his essay on Char
acter,' There was a time when Chris
tfanity existed in one child and it car
be likewise said that there was a time
when Christian Science existed in one
devoted woman. But she was faithful
to her trust and before giving her
discovery to the world she tested it
critically. She became a Christian Sci
ence practitioner, the only one in all
the world, and put her science to the
touchstone of healing the sick. 1t
showed as pure gold.
Then followed the writing of her
rock, Science and Health with Key
to the Scriptures giving the substance
OF her discovery to the public in con-
n.
Men may differ in their understand
ing of inspiration and revelation and
may haggle over their being present
day possibilities They may even deny !
to woman the spiritual perception ac- |
coded to man, but neither Wranglins
nor disputations nor deniaIs have ever |
brought to poor humanity the roses of |
neaith or the fragrance of gratitude
The book, Science of Health. has
done both in gracious profusion.
1t has fallen to my lot to have
known its author intimately in the last
few years of her earthly activity. one
November day in 1905 Mrs. Eddy
called me to her side from my home
in Colorado to become a member of
mat historic household at Chestnut
Hill which she once publicly designated
the happiest group of Christian
scientists on earth. [ was privileged
10 snare her daily counsels for more
than two years, and from the time of
my first half hours heart-to-feart talk
with her, down to the afternoon. when
at her side I saw her mar
velous hands shape her last written I
words, God is my life'' 1 have never
been the chosen evangel of Truth in ]
trusted with those good Tidings of
great JOY that have been waiting mans
readiness since the days when Jesus .
trod the dusty fields of Syria, and ;
sailed the blue waters of Galilee !
THE establishment of a great re- !
igious organization whose 1900 grow !
ng branches belt the globe, the in !
stallation of a simple form of service :
which fills those churches twice each
week with throngs of worshipers wLo
are drawn neither by music, eloQuence
nor sensational sermonizing; the build
ng up of efficient agencies and institu-
ions for the dissem nation and proIcc-
ion of a radically new system of eth
cs and the launching of great met
-opolita~l daily in the interests of clean
ournaFsm whose success has set a new
mark in the newspaper worId-these
.hings or any of them would give {
sminence to the lfe-work of the most
ambitious of men. To a modest wOrn-