Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-03-17


book, Science and Health with Key
to the Scriptures" giving the sub
stance of her discovery to the public
in concrete and understandable form
Menmay differ in their understands
ing of inspiration and revelation and
may haggle over their being present.
day possibilities, They may even
deny to woman the spiritual percep-
tion acceeded to man, but neither
wrangling nor disputations nor denials
have ever brought to poor humanity
the roses of healthier the fragrance OF
gratitude. The book, Science and
Health. has done both in gracious
profusion.
1t has fallen to my lot 10 have
known its author intimately in the
last few years OF her earthly activity.
One November day in 1908, Mrs.
Eddy called me TO her side from my
home in Colorado to become mem
ber of that historic household at
Chestnut Hill which she once public
" designated 1.-THE aappiest group OF
Christian Scientist on earth. was
privileged to share her daily counsels
for more than two years, ana from
the time of my first half hours hes'rt-
to-heart talk with her, down TO the
afternoon, when standing at her side
7 saw her marvellous hands shape iier
last written words. God is my lie,
| have never wayered in my conylc-
ton that she has been chosen evangei
of Truth. intrusted with those good
tidings of great JOY that have been
waiting mans readiness since the
DAYS when Jesus trod the dusty helds
of SYRIA. and sailed the blue waters OF
Galilee.
The establishment OF great rellg-
ious organization whose 1900 growing
branches left the globe. the lnstalla-
ton of simple form of serTice which
fills those churches twice each week
with throngs of worshippers who are
drawn neither by music, eloquence,
nor sensational sermonizing: the build
ing UP of efficient agencies and instl-
tutions for the dissemination and pro-
lection of a radically new system OF
ethics: and the launching OF great
METROPOLITAN daily in the interests OF
clean Journalism whose success mas
set a new mark in the newspaper
world-these things or any OF them
would give eminence to the life-work
of the most ambitious of men. 10 a
modest woman, Mary Baker Eddy,
belongs the credit of them all.
But these achievements, grand as
they are. weighed little with her
compared with the fruits OF her con-
secrated endeavors to bring more and
more of peace on earth and good will to
men. and to guide us to a clearer and
more practical understanding of the
Fatherhood of God and the brother
hood of man. The applause of men,
like their abuse and condemnation,
she brushed aside as cobwebs when
she was once assured of the approval
of God.
/ could by the hour recite to you In
cidents of Mrs. Eddy's wisdom and
sagacity, of her courage and stead
fastness, of her wit and humor, of
her love for little children and her de-
light in the beautiful, of the mex
pressible charm of her manner and
the eloouence OF her voice. but 1T is
not of these things that sne would
have me speak.
1t was her desire almost daily ex-
pressed-that her followers should
disregard her personality and address
their thought to the things of God
which she has disclosed TO them. She
would have us study her books and
not her personality. She would have
us know her by what she wrote and
not by how she looked. Years ago
she instructed her students to follow
her only as she followed Christ. and
though she was rare Leader she
was an ideal follower Of all that is
truly good.
GOD As PRINCIPLE
Mans comprehension of the prob
lens of life is to be measured by his
understanding of God. He holds to
contrary and widely divergent beliefs
about Coz and hence his interpreta-
tions of life are conflicting and dis
cordant. If he comedies to God, the
primal cause of all being, illimitable
r-Omnipotence- and illlmitable
owledge-Omniscienc and in the
next breath attributes to Him the
Affections and disasters of human ex-
perience, he is setting up q god of
good and evil, of beneyoleace and
cruelty, whom he may try to love but
is bound to fear.
The anthropomorphic idea of God
as man-like being of human attri-
butes and qualities enormously mag
nitied, heritage of mythology
handed down to us through genera
tions of orthodoxy, is repudiated in
Christian Science. For its definition
of God, Christian Science consistently
turns 20 the Script Tres.
In our contemplation of Deity, we
are thus led to lift our thought from
affect r.. cauce. from the tbinr createG
to the creator: from idea to principle
Thus we come to understand God to
be the infinite Personality without
corporeality, the Principle of all true
being, the supreme good. the same
yesterday, today and forever, lin
whom there is no variableness neither
shadow of turning"
In contemplating God as, infinite