"I
have declared,
and have saved,
and I have
shewed, when
there was no
strange god
among you:
therefore ye
are my
witnesses,
saith the Lord,
that I am
God." —
Isaiah
43:12.
"From
sense to
Soul" "To
reach the foothills is
only an urge to the
mountains beyond. So why
should we wish to linger
in the sense-valleys,
when the wondrous
heights of Soul are all
about us, to be enjoyed
whenever we are willing
to make the effort to
climb?"
Finding
One's
Self "When
one gives up the false
belief that he is both
material and spiritual,
and that he has a mind
separate from God, he is
ready to know his own
true being with all its
divinely bestowed
capacities to be and to
do."
"The
Friend of
God" "To
be the true friend of
anyone is to set his
interests above one's
own. It is to be so
closely acquainted with
all that is grand and
true in his nature that
no least breath of
defamation, of unjust
criticism, shall be
allowed to blow upon his
name."
Smoking
Habit
Healed "Being
born in a southern state
I was reared among a
family of tobacco
smokers, and it seemed
as natural to use
tobacco as it was to
drink water."
"A
better and happier
existence"
"When
a boy in the teens I
became very despondent
over my prospects in
life, and lost all
interest in everything,
becoming somewhat of a
recluse. The despondency
grew from year to year
until it developed into
suicidal melancholia . .
."
"Christian
Unity"
From Christ and
Christmas
by Mary Baker Eddy
.
"We
must learn that God is
infinitely more than a
person, or finite form,
can contain; that God is
a divine Whole,
and All, an
all-pervading
intelligence and Love, a
divine, infinite
Principle; and that
Christianity is a divine
Science. This newly
awakened consciousness
is wholly spiritual; it
emanates from Soul
instead of body, and is
the new birth begun in
Christian Science."
—
Mary Baker Eddy Miscellaneous
Writings, p.
16
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
