Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-29

a thoughtful reading. / shall not
try to sum it up here, but will quote
what was said of Mrs. Eddy by one
who observed ner in her youth.
From the time when she was a girl
of Is until she married at the age OF
%, Mrs. Eddy resided with her par
ents at Tilton, New Hampshire,
where the Rev. Enoch Corser was
pastor of the Congregational church.
He received her into this church
when she was II, and five years later
officiated at her wedding. Mean
while he was her pastor and to some
extent her tutor. Himself a man of
mature years and liberal culture, his
contemporaneous evidence is of
course entitled to much weight.
| In these circumstances Mr.. Corser
once said of Mrs. Eddy to his son,
Bartlett Corser, with such earnest
ness and emphasis that the words
were preserved for history: Bright.
good, pure, aye, brilliant. l never
before had a pupil with such depth
and independence of thought. She
has some great future, mark that.
| She is an intellectual and spiritual
genius"
Showing this promise in her youth,
Mrs. Eddy had reached the age of 45
when she discovered Christian Sci
ence and entered upon her larger ca
reer of service to mankind. Spiritual
growth and scientific attainment had
in the meantime prepared her to re-
ceive and impart this comprehensive
view of divine reality.
Mrs. Eddy was fully aware of the
Importance of Christian Science. No
one foresaw it's healing and saving
efficacy so well as she. 1t was there
\ fore but natural that she should
cherish the right to be known as its
Discoverer. But the only token
which she desired for her labor in
behalf of humanity was a truthful
record of her life; and the only de-
mand which she made on her follow
ers was that they should make good
use of her discovery; that they
should preserve and promote the un-
derstanding of genuine, operative
Christian Science, so that the So
called human mind may increase in
goodness until the claim of a mind
separate from God disappears.
This being the case. there is not
the slightest reason for regarding
Mrs. Eddy with either emotional
ecstasy or personal worship; but
there is abundant reason why man
kind in general, and Christian Sci
entists in particular, should feel and
express for her the utmost gratitude.
love and reverence.
Mrs. Eddy never sought a personal
following. The Church of Christ.
Scientist, has gained members only
as those who have come to Christian
Science have gained a better life.
Surely there can be no cause for Of
Tense in this. 1t is the object of all
churches, and none of them need feel
loss when man finds in Christian
SCI nee what he could not, or even
did not, find elsewhere. The spirit
ual vitality of this Science is proved
Dy what 1t has already accomplished:
but this is only foretaste of the
Deneflts that will accrue to humanity
as 1t is more widely understood and
practised.
To the wise of this time Christian
Science healing is the sign of mans
complete dominion over evil. It sig
nifies that no ill or evil-no harm
full event or conditions either law
ful or natural; none is inevitable:
none but what can be overcome with
the law and power of God. Christian
Science simply makes practical the
ideal of worship and service set forth
by Isaiah: ITO loose the bands of
wickedness, to undo the heavy bur-
dens, and to let the oppressed go
Tree. and that ye break every yoke, "
Christ Jesus once said: every
plant, which my heavenly Father
hath not planted, shall be rooted up. :"
In other words, that only is real ane
enduring of which God is the author.
All evil, whether called moral, men
tai or physical, is Elusive, destructi-
Die and unreal because it is contrary
to the nature of the only cause and
creator. This is the basis on which
true healing is accomplished; there
lore every case of healing wrought
by the divine Principle on which
Christian Science is founded not only
gives reason for hope in other cases.
put 1t advances the time when the
last vestige of evil will be expelled
from human experience and the great
Teacher's declaration will be fulfilled
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