Article August 17, 1899 Issue

Positive Statements

M. O. F.

If there is one thing more than another in the writings of the Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy that has attracted my attention, it is the positiveness of her statements. After hungry and suffering mortals have turned in vain to materia medica for relief and strength, then have called on the clergy for spiritual comfort, and have received the cold consolation, "if God wills;" if then, when almost in despair, but still searching for light, some one gives them Science and Health to read, the first sentence their eyes rest upon attracts them because of its positiveness. With thoughts of past experiences coming up, they wonder if this is true. Then they read it again, and conclude the author speaks as one having authority, or as one having no doubts, and exclaim, What a sweet morsel! the first that has at all been satisfying. How eagerly they read on! Page after page is read; the reasoning is so clear that the statements no longer leave room for doubt. Before they hardly realize it, a new hope has sprung up in consciousness to be brought out in daily life, according to a fixed principle and rule. "Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."

I was one of those who were longing for something higher, better, and more permanent, and lo, I am finding it in the teaching of Christian Science.

M. O. F., Omaha, Neb.

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