Editorial January 6, 1951 Issue

CHRISTIAN UNITY

Richard J. Davis

"The lame, the deaf, the dumb, the blind, the sick, the sensual, the sinner, I wished to save from the slavery of their own beliefs and from the educational systems of the Pharaohs, who to-day, as of yore, hold the children of Israel in bondage. I saw before me the awful conflict, the Red Sea and the wilderness; but I pressed on through faith in God, trusting Truth, the strong deliverer, to guide me into the land of Christian Science, where fetters fall and the rights of man are fully known and acknowledged" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 226, 227). In these words Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, expresses the God-inspired purpose that impelled her to labor unremittingly through many years to bless and help mankind.

Mrs. Eddy loved humanity with the compassionate love of the Christ —an impersonal love that took into tender consideration the people of every race and religious sect. She recognized the mental and spiritual darkness by which incorrect concepts of God and man have through the ages held the human race in bondage, and her revelation and discovery broke the fetters of false theology and established the understanding of man's forever inseparability from God.

In spite of devotion to the noblest of ideals, Mrs. Eddy's motives and character have been the object of continued misrepresentation and opprobrium. Many books have been written and sermons delivered completely distorting her life and teaching. Nevertheless the Church which she founded stands, and the healing, which is the irrefutable proof of the truth of her revelation of the Christ Science, goes on.

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