Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-03-27

authenticated by the written and
gned statements of those who We're
healed. She taught her discovery
to a large number OF students. and
they We're able TO heal through the
application Of the Principle as taught
to them by her. In this way Chris
tan Science grew very rapidly and
| everywhere its growth was the re
suit Of the healing CT the sick. Where
Yer the spiritual law discovered by
Mrs. Eddy was applied it oper ated
in the same manner and destroyed
both sin and disease
In 1875 she first published Sci
ence and Health with Key to the
Scriptures in which she stated the
spiritual law that she had discoy-
cred, and defined its operation. This
book dealt with subjects that We're
90 unfamiliar, and apparently so
uninteresting that no publisher coult
be found who would take the risk of
publishing it, and Mrs Eddy was O.
bhged to publish it herself. Accord
ing to all ordinary standards, for
Judging there was apparently 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 thru
one edition after another Instead
of appealing to no class of people, it
was found that it appealed to every
class.
Only thirty-six years have elaps-
ed since the book was first publish
ed, but in that comparatively short
time it has circulated in every Land,
and is perhaps today the most wide
-ly read book published in the En-
glish language next to the Bible. A
great reli gicus organization has form
ed around it's teachings and Chris
tan Science is now engaging the at
tention of thinking men and women
in every part of the world 1t has
been truly said that the remarkable
spread of Christian Science over the
earth is comparable to nothing in
history except to the spread of
Christianity in 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 of met
physics that eXerts and must con-
tirmle to exert more far-reaching
influence upon humanity than any
discovery ever made in the physical
realm. She has founded a religion
that has restored to mankind the
spiritlla healing as practiced by the
primitive cnurch Within the brief
space of one generation her teach
ings have so impressed themselves
upon the public that it would be diff
ficult TO find place where there
is not a Christian Science church
aoci ETY., or at least where there are
not some Christian Scientists.
/ shall never forget my impress
sions when 1 first heard the opera
ton of a Marconi Instrument. 1t
filled me with a sense OF awe when
| realized that there was going on
through the atmosphere about me a
conversation Of which my senses coult
take no ccgnizance. And yet the law
governing the transmission Of Wire
less messages has always existed. We
have lived and moved in it, but 1t
was not until some one discovered
So 1t is with the spiritual law of life
discovered by Mrs. Eddy. 1t has
always existed. We have lived and
moved and, had our being in it, as
Paul says, but it was not available
until it was apprehended.
Mrs. Eddy has, been assaiied by
critics, but that is not surprising.
There has never been a pioneer of
new and better things, a leader Of
thought, who has escaped from crit1-
cisn or whose ideals have been at
once accepted by all. Out of al the
criticism and mi understanding Of
Chris tian Science and it's Leader and
Founder, however, there stands the
fact that it has healed multitude
of people. Sooner or later every per
son will adopt that system of reh-
gious teaching which brings the
largest measure of help and hope
and consolation, and so long as any
happiess or sickness CT sin, Cribs
tan Science will offer to them a
sure means of finding divine help