Article May 22, 1909 Issue

That Mrs. Eddy, by her years of unswerving loyalty and...

W. J. Bonnin

Southport (Eng.) Visiter

That Mrs. Eddy, by her years of unswerving loyalty and courage in the cause of a pure, practical, and sustaining Christianity, has enabled a great multitude to share in the peace and happiness and freedom that Christian Science stands for, is certainly true; and it is also true that there is, as a consequence, bestowed upon her a wealth of gratitude earned by but few in the history of the world. Christian Scientists know, however, that nothing beyond this is either desired or accepted; indeed the occasions have been by no means rare when a gentle, but none the less pointed, rebuke has been administered, where an exuberant gratefulness had induced a confusion of Principle with personality—that first step in the direction of apotheosis so fatal to many a good man and many a good cause.

Christian Science rests solely upon the basis of absolute and demonstrable truth, and as a demonstrable religion, and only as such, does it stand and does it hope to stand. It is turning people to the consideration of the real in place of the supposititious, the eternal in place of the temporal, the good in place of the evil. It will be seen that such a religion can no more truly be said to rest upon the personality of its discoverer than can wireless telegraphy be said to rest upon the personality of Marconi, or America to rest upon the personality of Columbus.

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