Article January 14, 1911 Issue

Whatever may be said of Mrs. Eddy by those who oppose...

Times

Whatever may be said of Mrs. Eddy by those who oppose her Science—and they are legion—it must be, and by fairminded persons it will be, admitted that the influence of her work has operated tremendously toward the ennoblement of the popular conception of life. Thousands of her disciples fail to understand what she taught; but there are many, many thousands who have managed, because of her, to come closer to divine Principle; to shake themselves free of the shackles of the grosser carnalism and sensualism that blind us to the beauties of Spirit; to glimpse, even though it be dimly and distantly, the glory of God.

It seems to us that, when stripped of the prejudice and the bigotry and the personalism and the mysticism and the ritualism that surround them, and when we reach their pure essence and vitalizing principle, all the great doctrines of spirituality that cognize the Christ-idea come to one. Form and formula and the selfishness of organization which so oft pervert the true expression of a vast idea are at the root of all human differences respecting the divine. It is impossible to energize the understanding of spirit without moving into the realm of metaphysics.

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