Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-10-14
Mr., Seeley said:

Mr.. Seeley said:
When John G. Patton went as mis-
sionary to the New Hebrides group OF
islands some years ago he found the
natives to be savages. He made his
home on the island of Aniwa. Here he
found no spring or well, the natives
relying on the rainfall for their water
supply. AS the rain was very limited
during more than nalf the year drink
ing water became very scarce and
often unobtainable for long periods,
with consequent suffering. Doctor
Patton determined to dig well. When
the natives learned his purpose they
ridiculed him, saying that water did
not come from the earth but from the
sky. They even believed that he had
gone insane and refused him any aid.
For days and weeks he labOred with
no assistance, but received only ridi-
Guile. Finally the ground at the bottom
of the hole became moist. He sum-
moned the native chiefs, dug little
deeper, and was rewarded with a
strong flow of clear, fresh water which
he offered to the unbelieving pOpulace.
Now no one need be athirst on the
isle of Aniwa.
Near the middle of the last century
a high-minded gentlewOman of New
England, Mary Baker Eddy, found her
self mentally alone on a desert isle,
as it were, where there appeared to be
no water to quench her thirst for
health and happiness. She was the
child of Puritan parents, and had
grown to womanhood among the hills
and wales of New Hampshire,-the
Granite State,-possessing rare per-
sonal charm, culture, and affection for
the best things of life. She had ever
shown an unusual love for the Bible
teachings and early in life accepted
implicitly its wonderful promises of
health. With the years of womanhood
came sorrow, separation from dear
ones, and prolonged illness. From
every trial she turned the more reso-
lutely in search of that certain law of
healing which she believed a correct
understanding of God would bring. In
this search the theories of allopathy,
or regular medicine, were explored in
vain, then homeopathy, a step away
from mere drugs toward more men
tai form of healing, and afterwards
hydropathy.
Mrs. Eddy recognized after years of
investigation and experiment that this
certain law of healing was not to be
found in any of the accepted systems,
and she then turned away from the
material and human to the spiritual
and divine. She dug deeper and deep
er beneath the crust of materiality.
through and beyond the strata of ma
terial ignorance, false education, and
prejudice and in a direction from
which those about her said no good re-
suits could come They like the ma
tives of Aniwa believed that no relief
was to be found apart from the gen.
orally accepted. though wholly mad
equate, methods.
Not for days and weeks but for
years this God-loving woman pursued
her quest tirelessly and alone. AS she
has written of Christ Jesus so it may
be repeated of her. for she plunged
beneath the material surface of things.
and found the spiritual cause
tScience and Health, page S1S). MAX
ing available the stream of piritual
knowledge for all mankind. 1t was in
1866 that Mrs Eddy overcame a SER
ious injury through reliance on spir-
itual, as wholly apart from material,
law and became convinced of the pres
ent availability of this law for suf-
fering humanity. For three years
thereafter she studied the Scriptures
most diligently and from them derived
fuller understanding of this spiritual
law OF life and its applicability TO
every need of men. The results of
these and the preceding years of con-
secrated study and research were Civ
en- to the world in 1875 through the
Christian Science textbook, Science
and Health with Key to the Scrip
lures" which has become, next TO the
Bible on which il is founded. the most
widely read book in the Christian
world. AS Doctor Patton made the
material waters available to the I'M
believing natives of Aniwa, waters
which had ever been within their
reach though in the opposite direction
from which they had been looking. so
Mrs. Eddy has made available that
water of life lying beneath the mater
ial surface or things. the water which
alone satisfies the thirst of men for
the truth of being.
Clara Barton, founder of the Ameri-
can Red Cross, wrote of Mrs. Eddy
with profound admiration. Love" she
says, 'permeateS all the teachings of
this great woman-So great. believe.
that at this perspective we can scarce
~ realize how great-and looking into
her life history We see nothing but
self-sacririce and SelfiessneSs. Mrs.
Eddy should have the respect, admira-
tioa and love of the whole nation, for
she is its greatest woman"
CAUSE AND EFFECT
What. let us ask. was this water of
life, this spiritual truth or law which
has proved so potent TO overthrow and
set at naught heretofore generally &C
eepted material law, heal the sick. and
bring TO multitudes lasting happiness
and good cheer? In her writings Mrs.
Eddy has made il plain that Christian
Science is founded upon a correct IN
Outstanding OF the one universal cause
and OF the effects proceeding from and
expressing that cause. This cause