Editorial December 12, 1908 Issue

"TO BLESS ALL MANKIND."

Archibald McLellan

That the world is becoming more and more willing to admit the magnitude and importance of Mrs. Eddy's work for humanity, and to applaud it, is shown by the following extracts from an editorial in the Denver Republican of Nov. 27:—

Two days ago in Boston, the "hub of the universe" now as in the days of the ethereal Emerson, appeared the first issue of a daily newspaper accredited to the Christian Science Cause. As a foreword Mrs. Eddy wrote, "The object of The Christian Science Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind." To this we would say, Amen! ...

It is not for us to enter into the metaphysics of Christian Science, its outer manifestations are of sufficient interest. We would place the Founder of the religion on a high plane, one of the potent factors in modern thought. If imitation be the sincerest of flattery, then Mrs. Eddy has been flattered in her lifetime as no religious teacher has been flattered and imitated in modern times. ... Even the medical profession, which had nothing but scorn for the doctrine that "tubercles, inflammation, ... are waking dream-shadows," has been prevailed on to change base and admit that mind is a factor often equal to if not greater than materia medica. Mrs. Eddy blazed the way. She broke down many prejudices. She was the pioneer in a world of materialism. ...

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