Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-07-14

govern the members Of her church
and to provide for its orderly and con-
unuOuS extension. These rules or
"by-laWs,' together with certain other
important matter, are contained in
the church Manual" The provisions
Of this Manual" are jealousy guard
ed by Christian Scientists because
they consider that it embodies the es-
sentIal requirements for guiding them
individually and collectively and in
surfing the ultimate understanding and
acceptance of Christian Science by
the world at large. In fact. some
Christian Scientists believe that this
manual is designed to identify and
| protect the progressive minority in
each successive stage of the develop
ment Of the church body and to slim
uiate the more rapid embodiment of
each advancing footstep in the line of
spiritual evolution. Some also be-
lieve that system that will insure
the successful Accomplishment of
these results when honestly and intel
Iigently applied to a collective body
or community, means far more than
at first appears on the surface; in
fact, that Mrs. Eddy has evolved a
scientific system which will ultimately
affect all human government and or
ganizatiOn and insure the worlds
progress on a definite and practical
basis by impelling the more rapid
lawn of each succeeding stage of pro-
gressive embodiment and the elimina-
ion of the long and bitter struggles
Which have always INSTRUCTED human
tvs advancing footsteps.
In the ~ years since her first church
vas organized, Mrs. Eddy's teachings
nave spread throughout the world,
through approximately two thousand
distinct organizations, and have be-
'Ome a powerful influence in the lives
IF millions of people The Christian
| Science publications, including the
hristan Science Monitor, a daily
newspaper of universally recognized
Excellence, carry their messages
| throughout the. world
The earthly pilgrimage OF the ven
erable Founder Of this great religious
movement came to a close on Deem
Der 3, 1910, and on that occasion ap-
)eared in the press Of the world a re-
variable. tribute to the york of this
great religious figure. Agreement or
! disagreement with her teachings had
lOthing to do apparently with the sin
| ere appreciation expressed on every
sand that this gentle American Wom-
IN had lifted up a standard of conduct
md character that had worked vastly
the Improvement of the moral stan
| lards of the world. AS an indication
If the estimate in which she was held
! ~ those who knew her best, the city
| council of her home city, Concord, N.
/ H.. on this occasion passed a formal
! resolution declaring that by the death
| If the Rev Mary Baker Eddy the
world has suffered an irreparabe loss
and the citizens of Concord the loss
! If an hOnored and a devoted friend Of
our city whose motto was TO injure
10 man, but to bless all mankind"
That the citizenship of Mary Baker
! Eddy was of high order may per-
]
lfshed in a Boston paper many years
ago when Mrs. Eddy was asked for
! her political beliefs: 81 have none in
reality. other than to help support a
righteous government, to love God SUI
premely, and my neighbor as myself.
When one has climbed the green
clad hills of Bow rising from the beau
tiful waters of the Merrimack, he
teaches the rolling uplands where
stood the Baker homestead. Marking
the birthplace today, like a silent, i'm
movable sentinel, stands a great gran
ite pyramid memorial heWn from the
largest block of granite ever quarried
in New Hampshire 1t seems to APP
propriately symbolic the life work
of Mary Baker Eddy which Christian
Scientists believe to have been the dis
covery that principle is God and that
Christianity and Science are in reality
identical. On one of the bronze tab
lets on this memorial appear these
words, quoted from Mrs. Eddy's writ
ings:
This truth is the rock which the
builders rejected. but the same is be-
come the head of the corner This
is the chief corner stone, the basis
and support of creation, the interpre-
ter of one God, the Inftnity and unity
OF good .