Editorial July 4, 1908 Issue

ALLEGED EARLY MANUSCRIPTS

Archibald McLellan

We have been asked about certain unpublished manuscripts said to have been written by Mrs. Eddy in the early years of her discovery of Christian Science. All we can say is, that if these manuscripts are genuine, they are probably what she refers to in the Preface of Science and Health. On pages viii. and ix. she writes: "As early as 1862 she began to write down and give to friends the results of her Scriptural study, . . . but these compositions were crude, — the first steps of a child in the newly discovered world of Spirit." "Before writing this work, Science and Health, she made copious notes of Scriptural exposition, which have never been published. This was during the years 1867 and 1868. These efforts show her ignorance of the great subject up to that time, and the degrees by which she came at length to the solution of the stupendous Life-problem; but she values them as a parent may treasure the memorials of a child's growth."

Archibald McLellan.

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