Article October 11, 1900 Issue

Recognition at Last

Willard S. Mattox

Buffalo (N. Y.) Commercial

Editor of the Buffalo Commercial:— It is a matter of no little gratification to notice that at last is coming the recognition of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy's efforts and life work. This is instanced in a recent issue of your valuable paper, in which you refer to her visit to the Concord State Fair. Mrs. Eddy is indeed a busy woman, and improves every opportunity to benefit mankind.

Jesus said: "Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" Mrs. Eddy has been about her Father's business for many years, and an appreciation, though tardy, of her noble, selfless life, is pleasant. Loyal Christian Scientists are trying to follow this Leader, and they, too, are striving to emulate Jesus, who knew what was His Father's business. This "business" the world is coming to understand, as do the Christian Scientists. It is to heal the sick: cast out sin and evil of every kind: make pure the individual life, and thereby benefit the whole human race. For a long time, people have thought that their chief business was to pamper and indulge the body, and then, after abusing it, to nurse and feed it with drugs. Jesus taught differently. While he was doing the will of God, he was cleansing man from self and sin, the cause of all disease.

Mrs. Eddy has been about her Father's business, and in giving to the world "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she has enabled many thousands to walk more meekly in the steps of the lowly Nazarene, who healed all manner of disease, and left this word as a comfort and a promise, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do."

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