Bible
Lessons--Mary Baker
Eddy "Therefore
I take pleasure in
infirmities, in
reproaches, in
necessities, in
persecutions, in
distresses for Christ's
sake. — 2 COR. xii.
10. The miracles
recorded in the
Scriptures illustrate
the life of Jesus as
nothing else can; but
they cost him the hatred
of the
rabbis."
The
Bible and
Healing "As
we read in the book of
Acts and in Paul's
epistles we find rest in
the sweet naturalness of
his entire experience;
and even when we read of
the trials and
tribulations which he
encountered along the
way, we also find the
assurance that he
counted these things as
nothing so that he might
'win Christ, and be
found in
him.'"
According
to Our
Faith "Because
we gain quickly a
certain intellectual
grasp of the letter of
Christian Science, we
are tempted to call this
spiritual understanding.
Using this letter, even
though with commendable
zeal, we may find our
efforts failing to bring
the healing we so long
to have
manifested."
Blindness
Healed "Christian
Science came to me in
the darkest hour of a
mother's life —
when the discovery was
made that my baby was
born blind."
Ailments
Healed
"About five years ago I
was indeed at man's
extremity, but it proved
to be God's opportunity;
for an understanding of
man's relationship to
God came to me through
the reading of the
Christian Science
literature."
"Christian
Unity"
From Christ and
Christmas
by Mary Baker Eddy
.
"Admit
the existence of matter,
and you admit that
mortality (and therefore
disease) has a
foundation in fact. Deny
the existence of matter,
and you can destroy the
belief in material
conditions."
—
Mary Baker Eddy Science and
Health, p.
368
Mary
Baker
Eddy's
Teaching
"Divinity
Embracing
Humanity"
The
Christian
Science
Standard
Vol. 14, No.
4
"The
more I
understand
true
humanhood,
the
more I
see it
to be
sinless,
-- as
ignorant
of sin
as is
the
perfect
Maker."
--
Mary
Baker
Eddy
_____
The
teaching of
"divinity
embracing
humanity" is
essential to
our salvation,
our
transfiguration,
in the endtime.
A
misunderstanding
of Mary Baker
Eddy's teaching
on this subject
impedes and
retards
individual and
collective
spiritual
growth. It
would prevent
Christian
Scientists from
understanding
and
demonstrating
the human and
divine
coincidence
which is the
way of escape
from the
material sense
of things.
In
Volume 4 we
read,
"How do drugs
and hygiene and
animal
magnetism heal?
They don't
heal. It is
only the faith
in them which
brings about a
result
which
they call healing. In
reality they only
exchange a belief in
disease for another
belief called health.
Materia medica
classifies health as the
absence of disease from
the body. Mrs. Eddy
tells us that 'Health is
the consciousness of the
unreality of pain and
disease; or, rather, the
absolute consciousness
of harmony and of
nothing else.' (Rud.
11:13-15)"
"In
this age the
earth will help
the woman; the
spiritual idea
will be
understood."
--
Mary
Baker Eddy,
Science and
Health, p.
570
_____
The
very real, but
unrecognized questions
agitating the world in
this endtime are not
those issues and events
reported in the press.
Rather, they are those
questions relating to
the second coming of
Christ and the place of
Mrs. Eddy in Scriptural
prophecy.
"Health
is not a condition of
matter, but of Mind; nor
can the material senses
bear reliable testimony
on the subject of
health. The Science of
Mind-healing shows it to
be impossible for aught
but Mind to testify
truly or to exhibit the
real status of man.
Therefore the divine
Principle of Science,
reversing the testimony
of the physical senses,
reveals man as
harmoniously existent in
Truth, which is the only
basis of health; and
thus Science denies all
disease, heals the sick,
overthrows false
evidence, and refutes
materialistic
logic."
— Mary Baker
Eddy
"Whatever
may be the prevailing
opinion as to the tenets
of her faith and its
lasting benefit to the
great cause of
religion,
none
can deny that Mrs. Eddy was a
remarkable personality, one of
the great characters which stand
out in bold relief in the history
of the nineteenth century in
spiritual affairs."
".
. . In the secret of His presence / All
the seeming fades away, / All the shadows,
all the dreaming, / As we wake to God's
own day — / Wake to man as His
reflection, / Safe in Love, reality; / In
the secret of His presence / We shall find
eternity." — Mabel A.
Birdno
