The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-01-31
:idence that the world would rejoice
20 know of her discovery, and hasten
20 accept it, was found to be misplaced.


:idence that the world would rejoice
20 know of her discovery, and hasten
20 accept it, was found to be misplaced.
The churches coldly closed their doors
t.p3n and her. The press laughed
at it. Mataria medica fought it. Some
CT her carly followers were even fined
ind imprisoned, and her own life was
threatened. But, undaunted, she
p1a-Scd on, animated by one supreme,
&c lerving purpose, to restore to
CIR 5tianity it's lost element of heal
ing,
We love Mrs. Eddy, but we do not
worship her. And why should we not
love her? Have you ever seen her
birthplace, or pictures of it? 1t is just
q typical New England farmhouse CT
TIE better sort, quite away from the
5aaten road, with only grass-grown
-aGon-tracks leading past the door.
Not many travellers, it would seem,
Gre wont to pass that way. Yes in the
interval between that time and this,
-cill.ons Of feet, fguratively speaking,
tired, weary feet, have w;rn q pail
g-ay to her door. Today the church she
'ounded, The Mother Church, The
First Church of Christ, Scientist, in
Goston, Massachusetts, has an ediice
capable Of seating five thousand per-
cons, while its many branches, of which
this is one, extend not only throughout
this country, but to foreign lands as
we'll. When something Of this sort hap
pens, when from so humble and I'M
csten5a 5.ous beginning Cause can
G.oadily grow for seventy years, and
can continue to grow, in the face of
all opposition, it is time for every in
telligent person to ask himself, Why?
There must be reason.
This bool. which | hold in my hand
is the reason. Jesus said, "My words
shall not pass away" and they have
not. How we'll his early followers I'M
derstood them is proved by the fact
that for three hundred years after he
LETT the earth, they healed the sick
and raised the dead. The secular his
tor.an, Josephus, mentions this as
fact, and it was evidently regarded as
a perfectly natural and inevitable
part of. their religion. After a while,
however, various disintegrating ele-
r7c-1ts crept in, as it grew and became
popular" until finally the primitive
purity of those early teachings was
lost. Gradually the healing clement
fell into disuse. Then came that period
in the worlds history rightly called the
Darl, Ages, and in these centuries of
dense materiality the pure words of
Jesus, the Christ, were largely for
gotten. 1t would almost seem that they
were gone forever, but there they lay,
unseen, vet still vibrant and untouched,
lust waiting until human hearts should
once more be ready to receive them.
And then-a woman came, and they
are now in such form that they can
never again be lost.
Some very good. and conscientious
par3cns, however, may hesitate to read
this book, Science and Health, because
tAey have been told that it denies the
divinity OF Christ. That is not true,
We do not deny the divinity of the
Christ, and we love and revere Jesus
even more than do some others, for
we believe in keeping all of his COM
mands, and not just a part. When ne
told those who believed on him to
"Draach the gospel ard "heal the
- we believe that he meant Just