The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-03-12
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
PRINCIPLES EXPLAINED

Christian Science has but one text
book, Science and Health With Key tc
the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy
1t is not book to be quickly read OF
hastily thumbed through as one would
a shallow novel. Nor is it to be ap.
preached with bias or prejudice if one
would share its riches; but it's truths
may be proved and in turn impaired
by child or sage who turns it's leaves
with an open mind. Only the open
flower it is that catches the dew and
yields it's honey to the bee.
1t has been asserted that Christian
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 care
fully, for on page 497 of Science and
Health are printed these words, the
first of series of tenets of our re-
ligion:
"As adherents of truth we take the
inspired Word of the Bible as our suf-
ficient guide to eternal life."
What more emphatic and explicit
manded?
The truths of Christian Science do
not originate in the book of 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 admira-
zion? Is the Book of books Less
precious to them than before2 The
answer is NO" On the other hand,
Science and Health. harmonizes many
seeming incongruities in the Bible
which have long perplexed human and
theologian; it explains apparent con-
tradictions; it discloses unexpected
riches; it gives new significance to
favorite passages, and brings neglect
ed ones into favor.
The study and application of it's
teachings by those who have had lit |
tie or no familiarity with the Scrip |
lures has made Bible students and BIZ |
BILE lovers. The one time atheist, the |
scoffer and the blasphemer are finding |
the Gospel treasure house of joy and |
whose untried doors had
been barred against them until I'M
ocked by the Key forged by the hands
If gentle woman who loved all man
Kind. No other book in modern times
las made so many Bible readers.
1t has fallen to my lot to have
Inown its author intimately in the last
ew years of her earthly activity. One
November day in 1908, Mrs. Eddy
allied me to her side from my home in
Colorado to become a member of that
historic household on Chestnut Hill
Which she once publicly designated F,
the happiest group of Christian Sci.
ntists on earth" | was privileged to :.
hare her daily counsels for more than !
wo years, and from the time of my
rst half hours heart-to-heart talk :
18th her, down to the afternoon, when
landing at her side, l saw her marvel .
us hands shape her last written r
ords, "God is my life," have never :,
avered in my conviction that she has
cen the chosen evangel of Truth, in ;,
listed with those good tidings OF
,eat JOY that have been waiting mans
since the days when Jesus
cd the dusty fields of Syria, and ;,
lied the blue waters of Galilee.
could by the hour recite to you in
dents of Mrs. Eddys wisdom and
gacity, of her courage and steadfast-
,ss, of her wit and humor, of her !,
We for little children and her delight
the beautiful, of the inexpressible y,
arm of her manner and the elo- =;
renee of her voice, but 1t is not OF =,
ese things she would have me speak. =,
It was her desire-almost daily ex- n
essed-that her followers should !.
sregard her personality and address w
cir thought to the things Of God >,
itch she had disclosed to them. She oe
,uld have us study her books and 90
t her personality. She would have -
know her by what she wrote and 4;
t by how she looked. Years ago she b,
,tructed her students to follow her
ly as she followed Christ, and ~
,ugh she was rare Leader she was -,
ideal follower of all that is truly "a
ID.
Mans comprehension Of the prob =
as of life is to be measured by his
of God. He holds to