The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-02-23

Near the middle Of the last century
q 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
he 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 vale sof New Hampshire
Granite State,-possessing rare
personal charm. culture. and affection
for the best things CT life. She had
ever shown an unusual love for the
Bible teachings and early in life &C
copied implicitly it's wonderful prom
Uses of health With the years of
wOmanhood came sorrow, separation
from dear ones, and prolonged illness.
From every trial she turned the more
rcsolutely in search of that certain
law of healing which she believed
correct understanding of God would
bring. In this search the theories of
allopathy, or regular medicine, were
explored in vain. then homeopathy.
step away from mere drugs toward a
more mental form of healing, and aft
erwards 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 deepr and deeper
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
results could come.
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"
(Science and Health. page 313), max
ing available the stream of spiritual
knowledge for all mankind. 1t was in
1866 that Mrs. Eddy overcame a
serious injury through reliance on
spiritual, oo "AOAy SpoIG AIOhi
terial, law and became convinced of
the present availability of this law for
suffering humanity. For three years
thereafter she studied the Scriptures
r!ost diligently and from them deriv-
cd fuller understanding of this spirit
ual 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 given
to the world in 1875 through the
| Christian Science textbook, "Science
and Health with Key to the Scrip
tures," which has become, next to the
Bible on which it is founded, the most
widely read book in the Christian
world.
Cause and Effect
What, let US ask, was this water of
life, this spiritual truth or law which
has proven so potent to overthrow and
set at naught heretofore generally &C
copied material law. heal the sick. and
bring to multitudes lasting happiness
and good cheer? In her writings Mrs.
Eddy has made it plain that Christian
Science is founded upon correct I'M
Outstanding of the one universal
cause and of the effects proceeding
from and expressing that cause. This
cause men have most frequently call
ed God. while the universe and man
have been thought of as effect. Here
we're see that if correct concept of
these fundamentals can be gained the
true or scientific idea of life will be