The St. Joseph observer., 1922-10-07

alone the road of her bereavement,
came Jesus the Christi "Mary!" he
cried, and. awakened from the mes
| merism Of the tragedy on Calvary, she
| breathed with rapture: "Rabbonl!"
| And so Christ came to a Mary of our
| day. frail woman, her body pros
| trate from an accident, confronted
| with the physlcian's verdict of death,
| Mary Baker Eddy, always deeply re-
| ligious, turned from matter to Spirit,
and was instantly restored.
| Do you wonder that this modern
| Mary loved the Scriptures and search
| ed them as few have done? There
! she found her full salvation; there she
| found the Christ; there she attained
| the spiritual apprehension Of Truth
! which she carried thencefUrth
! throughout her evangelistic way.
The greatest thing I'm the world is
| TO be useful To Mary Baker Eddy,
| to live was to give To all mankind
| impartially she gave the riches OF her
! experience, the treasure of her self
| conscious communion with God"
| (Sciencc and Health, p. 29). She gave
| without measure her time energy,
| devotion. Her loving heart was open
! toward humanity, and aggrieved be-
| cause of the woes of mankind. From
| her pen. dipped deep in that heart,
| came the supreme gift, her book,
| Science and Health with Key to the
| Scriptures" This book, Immediately
| conceived and brought forth in the
| agony Cf life-purpoSe misunder-
| stood, has survived the HerodS of its
| day, and has brought salvation to the
people. Today this book, aflame with
/ divine Love and Truth literally Is
| teaching and healing all nations, the
| evauScl of good tidinps of great joy"
| Mary Baker Eddy was an ambitious
| woman, But she was ambitious to be
| only what she was and is today, the
] a
| Of scientific Christianity. the author
! Of the Christian Science textbook, the
! Founder of the Christian Science
| movement. with ell its activities. the
| inspired Leader Of "A true evangelism.
| Mrs. Eddy ospircd TO no place to
which God had not called her She
! followed an inspired program. Her
sole ambition was to fulfill her divine
commission. To that end, she slcri-
iiced hcr earthly all and gained Christ
and Christian Science. Mrs. Eddy de-
lighted TO do what was hers TO do.
She loved humanity. She was single
of purpose. She oDcyel the heavenly
/ vision.
OF this great teacher and Leader,
Of this daughter of David history
! must write She who brought good
tidincs To carth's bound and stricken
was q gentle, tender-hclrted woman.
! Humanity considered, Mrs. Eddy was
intensely human, but her Gelflcss de-
Votion to God and to man gave a
spiritual radiance to her humanity.
/ Those to whom sh0 has brought the
, healing and saving Christ could never
doubt that her mission was divine, and
those who knew her best loved her
most. only such a woman could say:
MY heavenly Father will never leave
| me COmfurtless, in tho amplitude Of
| His love; coming nearer in my need.
more tcnderly to save ana bless"
(M,sccllaneous Writings, p. 249.
THE CHURCH EVANGELICAL
Notwithstanding Mrs. Eddys ex-
| pressed love for the church, her rev.
clation of Truth was rejected by pro-
| fesscd Christians. Whereupon she
sought divine guidance that the Cos-
| pei of the kingdom might not again
be lost to humanity. Thus she was
| led TO- establish a church based upon
fpurc idcalism and yet practically
! adapted to- the needs Of humanity.
1t was inevitable that Mrs. Eddy
should found The First Church OF
Christ, Scientist, and call il 1.-The
| Mother Church" Did the mother
church originate thus in Boston? No
it originated in Jerusalem. In its
pristine purity # was strictly spiritual
IT denied matter and exalted Spirit
II did many wonderful works Of heal
ing and saving. The mother church
in Jerusalem did the work of cvangel-
ism and it made fun proof OF its min
istry. And then matter laid siege to
the organization, and the mother
church seemed to go out in the trag-
edy of a spiritual deCadencc. In all
the long night Of materialism that
followed, there remained one bright
spot The star of bethlehem still
shone through the blackness. Con-
turtles came and went, and then, be-
cause lone woman saw the star. The
Mother Church revived. Mrs. Eddy
has said: THE star Of Bethlehem is
the star OF Boston" miscellaneous
Writings. y. 320). The founding of
The Mother Church in Boston was the
supreme achievement OF evangelism.
1t revived primitive Christianity and
has placed il upon enduring founda-
! tions. against which no assaults can
eYerp revail. There is nothing within
nor without this church that can fall
ter 1t. There is nothing within the
! organization itself that sustains and
propcls IT, but, rich in divine purpose.
| upheld by divine care, The Mother
Church is the gift OF God TO humanity
OF The First Church Of Christ,
Scientist, Mrs. Eddy has written that
she was not aware, when through di-
| vine direction she instituted its gov
crnmcnt and provided for its branches,
| that she was so closely paralleling the
original mother church in Jerusalem.
| Later she found these lines in a book
! published by Benjamin Wills Newton:
1.-THE churoh Mt Jerusalem. like
! sun in the ocntre Of It's system. had
! other churches, like 50 many planets,
| revolving around il. 1t was strictly
/ mother and n ruling church" (Mis-
| cellany, p. 49,. And so The Mother
| Church in Boston. one with it's
| Branches. carries on a world evangel-
ism. under permanent dispensation.
| The nature OF Christian Science Is to
multiply itself. The purely spiritual
| Church Of Christ, Scientist, must in
! crease, and no weapon that IS formed
! against her can prosper. God shall
| have her foes in derision. Wei may
this Church evangelical this Church
universal. sing with the psalmist, for
! God is In the midst OF her; she shall
not be moved"
THE EVANGELTZED SELF
1.-THE human self must be evangeliz-
ed" (Science and Health p. 254). so
writes Mrs. Eddy. out of a higher,
clearer order OF thinking must come a
better. cleaner order OF living. God Is
| not revealed to the materially ed.
| A little girl l love had gone down to
the shadow with a disease that strikes
terror TO the hearts OF parents, and
had come up out OF the valley in trl-
! lTnpl through the rninistratiopa Of