The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25

increase.
Mrs, Eddy has appeared in human
history in the light of prophecy and
fulfillment. Through the ages refer
ences have appeared to the coming
of a great, good, and noble woman,
Now Mrs. Eddy has appeared. Ma
thaniel Hawthorne in 1850 wrote,
"In heavens own time, a new truth
will be revealed. The angel and
apostle of the coming revelation
must be a woman indeed, but lofty,
pure, and beautiful; and wise"
Certain it is that Mrs. Eddy de-
serves the rating great woman" as
it concerns my human experience,
nv healing and salvation. After
years of intensive study of her writ
ings, after having witnessed the
fruits of her labor as manifested in
healed bodies, minds, homes, bust
nesses of the thousands who 'arise
I'D, and call her blessed" and as the
result of my own healing, after
medicine and surgery had failed, I
do not hesitate to state my honest
conviction that history does not re-
cord another woman who has given
so much and asked so little, n who
has served humanity so unselfishly
and so we'll. From the viewpoint
of character and achievement she
stands pre.eminent among the great
and good women of all time. My
earthly father, a physician of the
old school of general practitioner,
used his art and his skill in an
honest and sincere effort to minister
to my ailing body and disturbed
mind, but with no avail. Myself a
member of the surgical staff of one
of the leading medical schools and
hospitals, I received from the kindly
hearts and willing hands of my pro.
fessional associates the best and the
all that medicine and surgery had
to offer. 1t remained, however, for
Mrs. Eddy to give me, through
Christian Science, that CLEAN Of
light and truth which has enabled
me to touch, at least, the hem of
the garment of Christ, Truth, and
to begin the regenerative process of
spiritual healing, or being made
whole.
1t is right, beautiful, and necessary
that Christian Science should have
been discovered and founded by a
woman; and it is fitting and proper
that it should have as it's Leader a
woman. Christian Science owes it's
conception and inception, it's origin
and establishment, to a woman, and
the loyal Christian Scientists gladly
: pays merited tribute to this divinely
inspired woman Nineteen centuries
5 ago, a woman was good enough and
, pure enough to conceive and bring
forth the child Jesus, the personal or
human messenger of the Christ,
Truth; and in our own age a woman
: was good enough and pure enough
to conceive and bring forth the i'm.
t personal or spiritual message, Chris.
: tan Science.
Our Leader understood more thor.
oughly, embodied more completely,
S and expressed more fully the spirit.
/ ual qualities or attributes of God,
divine Mind. than did any other
: earthly inhabitant with the excep.
ton of the Master. OF the many
characteristics reflected by her l
shall speak of but one - moral
4. courage.
Moral Courage
I. 1t takes moral courage to speak
e the truth. This is rue today, here
r and now; but how much more was
it true when Mrs. Eddy stood alone,
: a pioneer in spiritual truth! In a
doubling and skeptical age, rank
!, with materialism and pharisaical
with scholastic theology, she, single.
f handed and alone with Principle,
e planted the Christianity of Jesus
upon the rock of spiritual under.
s standing and scientific demonstra.
j, ton, thereby establishing it on the
firm foundation of infinite, divine
. Science. She has made the Chris.
tan religion safe and secure for all
time and for all men. She has
saved it from the attacks of evil OF
every sort-from atheism, agnosti
cism, Hypocrisy, infidelity, pharisa.
ism, idolatry, within and without.
,, 1t is a fact worthy of note that the
span of the human experience OF
Mrs. Eddy parallels chronologically
that period in medical history known
:. as the Golden Age, hal period dur
\ ing which medical art and practice
is said to have reached it's high.
water mark of progress and develop.
ment. Mrs. Eddy combined the cour
age of a Daniel and a David in
that she, alone and unafraid, faced
the theological and medical systems
4 of her time; and, in the face OF
- their complexities and antiquities
q contradictions and uncertainties
presented the simplicity that is in
. Christ" - Christian Science. Mrs
. Eddy knew that "the battle is the
4 Lord's;' and she placed her hope,
her trust, and her Cause under the
shadow Of the Almighty God. The
Christian Science organization is
q the direct, natural, and inevitable
Il outcome of the prayers of faith and
4 the labors of love of this great
woman"
G My purpose in dwelling on the
life and the character of Mrs. Eddy
q is that we all may render unto her
the honor, respect, reverence, and
love due her. This is but a fair and
a just request of a fair and just peo
q pie. Mary Baker Eddy is the Discov
O erer, Founder, and Leader of Chris
tan Science, and the sole author OF
h it's original and only textbook, "Sci
ence and Health with Key to the
a Scriptures" 1t is as such that she
wished TO he known. and it is right