Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-08

that every. real effect was mental and not material. Her recovery from an accident through the realization of the power of God gave her the clue or all spiritual healing, and proved to her the normal and natural character of the works done by Jesus and his fol- lowers in Bible times. She studied the Scriptures as her only textbook, and in 1875 published the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"
 Tn her desire to make this discovery available to all mankind. Mrs. Eddy founded The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. She estab- 1ished a Metaphysical college, and the different periodicals issued by The Christian Science Publishing society and now distributed to all parts of the world She instituted board of lec- tureship, a committee on publication, and reading rooms connected with the Christian Science churches. She wrote a church manual, a goodly number of hymns which breathe the atmosphere of inspiration and of healing, and pro- duced number of important volumes besides her chief work, the Christian Science textbook. Mrs. Eddy's lit erary activity was unusual, and her style is particularly suited to the maj jesty of her theme.
 While it is thus possible to record some of the conspicuous steps in Mrs. TEddy's career, no one but herself could know the full cost of discovering Christian Science and placing it be- fore a world which though harassed by evil was yet largely unwilling to adopt the means she offered for it's liberation. What moral heroiSm this task required in the midst of mis-
 understanding, loneliness and isola- ton, can only be surmised. Some in- | dications of the struggle can be gath cred from Mrs. Eddy's own writings, | but there~is in them no tone of com piaint, no sense of grievance, only | a little wonder at times that the world was 50 unwilling to be saved. For the rest, there shines through her writ | ings the positive assurance of truth, | the spiritual beauty of holiness, and | the joyous consciousness of the victory | of truth over error of every sort.
 God is Love.
 It is reported of a certain lawyer | that he asked the Master, What shall
 I do to inherit eternal 1ife?' To this | the Master replied: Thou shalt love | the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul. and with all | thy strength, and with all thy mind i; | and thy neighbor as thyself." In these | words the Master linked eternal life | with love. setting down love for God | and mar as a necessary step toward | -he attainment of eternal life. John, | Chc beloved disciple. who defined God | IS love, also stated, He that 1oveth | not his brother abideth in death" Mrs Eddy has brought out this same es- sential connection between life and | love by the statement in her work | The First Church of Christ, Scientist, | and Miscellany''f (p. 185): Life is the spontaneity of love, inseparable l from love"
 To conceive of love as being spon- 1 faneous immediately brings +he con- | cept of life into Thought. therefore ! the consideration of God first ss mind l without an opposite mind, then as life 1 without life in matter, leads directly l and inevitably to the glorious percep- | ion of God as love. as universal dnd l impartial in character an dincapable
 of being perverted with jealousy
 latl ed, or the desire for revenge. Tn
 his understanding of God as love E1u- | -nanity may rest with the full assur-
 lnce that this definition is final and Ill inclusive. More cannot be asked
 if the power governing the universe | If the creator. of the father, mother
 if the original source of all being, thar
 s comprised in the word love.
 Since God is love, there is no neeC
 70 dread the past or fear the future
 Since God is love, sin, sickness suf, fering, want and woe, apprehension
 They cannot be true. real or essentia
 n His eternal realm. They must b,
 mistaken. illusion. error and faIsehood
 Ience they are not obligatory The, are not enforced by divine law. The.