Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-05-07


 pie that was understood and practic-
 ed by Jesus, by means of which he performed his works. It is the same
 principle that he taught to his dis ciples, and which they in turn taught
 to their disciples. Whenever it has i been understood and applied it has 1 been found to operate a5 law o1
 annhilation to sin, disease and death, and to supersede so-called
 mortal laws.
 Mrs. Eddy discovered this law in i the year 1866 as the result Of her own healing from an injury that those around her believed would prove fla ! tai. She turned to God for help and l through spiritual means. as the result of prayer, she was immediately restor-
 ed to health. She knew that it had been the power of God that had heal i ed her, but she wanted to know whether it had been a miraculous eX- i hibition of divine power or had been f law that might De understood She has told us that she was fully con- i vinced that her healing had occurred l through the operation of some law. and if she could discover the law it would be possible for others to be healed by means of it. She worked for T of hn, time to the study of the Scriptures, and at the end of that time she an- nounced that she had discovered the spiritual law by means of which Jesus healed the sick.
 At first people were skeptioal, and | refused to believe, but she met their skepticism by actually healing such cases as were brought to her. She reduced her discovery to writing, but before having it published, she tells us that she subjected it to the broad est practical tests. She healed many chronic and supposedly incurable cases of sickness which have been authenticated by the written and signed statements of those who were healed She taught her discovery to a large number of students, and they were able to heal through the appli- aation of the Principle as taGght to them by her. In this way Christian Science grew very rapidly and every where it's growth Nas the result of the healing of the sick. Whenever the spiritual law discovered by Mrs Eddy was applied it operated in the same manner and destroyed both sin and disease.
 In 1875 she first published Science and Health with Key to the Scrip tures," in which she started the S ]iri- defined it's operation. This book dealt with subjects that were so unfamiliar, and apparently so uninterestinS that TO publisher could be found who would take the risk of publishing it, and Mrs. Eddy was obliged to publish it herself. According to all ordinary standards for judging there was ap- parently no class of people to whom it would appeal
 Notwithstanding these facts, how ever there was an immediate demand for the book, and it ran rapidly through one edition after another. In- stead of appealing to no class of peo- yle, it was found that it appealed to every class.
 Only thirty-six years have elapsed since the book was first published, l but in that comparatively short time 1 it has circulated in every land, and is perhaps today the most widely read book published in the English langu- age next to the Bible A great relig ious organization has formed around it's teachings, and Christian Science is now engaging the attention of thinking men and women in every | part of the world. It has been truly l said that the femarkaOle spread Of Christian Science over the earth is comparable to nothing in history eX cept to the spread of Christianity ill the early centuries of the present era.
 When viewed from any point Mrs. Eddy stands as one of the great char acters of this age. She has made a discovery in the realm ofmetaphysics that eXerts and must continue to eX- ert a more far-reaching influence up on humanity than any discovery ever made in the physical realm. She has founded a religion that has restored to mankind the spiritual healing as practised by the primitive church. Within the brief space of one genera 1 l. !