Significant Questions

MARY BAKER G. EDDY.

This article was later republished in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany: My. 228:11-229:18

Who shall be greatest? The great Master said: "He that is least in the kingdom of heaven"—that is, he who hath in his heart in the least the kingdom of heaven, the reign of holiness, shall be greatest.

Who shall inherit the earth? The meek who sit at the feet of Truth, bathing the human understanding with tears of repentance and washing it clean from the taints of self-righteousness, hypocrisy, envy—shall inherit the earth—for wisdom is justified of her children.

"Who shall dwell in Thy Holy Hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart."

Who shall be called to Pleasant View? He who strives, and attains—who has the divine presumption to say: "For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day" (St. Paul). It goes without saying that such a one was never called to Pleasant View for penance, or reformation; and I call none but genuine Christian Scientists, unless I mistake their calling. No mesmerist, nor disloyal Christian Scientist is fit to come hither, I have no use for such, and there cannot be found at Pleasant View one of this sort. "For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee" (Deuteronomy, 18).

It, is true, that loyal Christian Scientists called to the home of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, can acquire in one year the Science that otherwise might cost them a half century. But this should not be the incentive for going thither. Better far that Christian Scientists go to help their helper, and thus lose all selfishness, as she has lost it, and thereby help themselves and the whole world, as she has done according to this saying of Christ Jesus: "And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple."

Pleasant View, April 20, 1903.

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