Article February 11, 1911 Issue

Mrs. Eddy's text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,"...

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Mrs. Eddy's text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," accepted the statements of the Bible that God made all, and all He made was good; that He was Spirit; and then concluded that, being Spirit, He could create nothing so unlike Himself as matter, and further, He being Spirit, man made in His likeness and image must be spiritual. She also rested her case on the other statement that God, while all wise, all powerful, and all present, was of purer vision than to behold evil, and she contended that evil was only a lie from the father of lies, a negation, the absence or denial of good, or maybe ignorance of good.

Mrs. Eddy's church, in the forty years of her ministry and leadership, probably grew faster than any other religious body in the same time, and it is a monument to her that its membership embraces people of culture and of the best type of citizenship, in the ordinary affairs of life. As to her doctrine or her interpretation of the Scriptures, it is difficult to see how her carrying the inconsequence of the mateiral to the ultimate of its actual non-existence, could be other than helpful to civilization, as all wars, large or small, between different nations, or the frictions of individuals, are over the possession and enjoyment of the material, because in the world of Spirit there is no limitation or lack. One man's unlimited possessions in the field of Spirit in no sense diminish any other man's possessions. On the material plane, every man's holdings in some degree diminish other men's holdings.

Mrs. Eddy finally won her way to the respect of the country, of the world, among believers and non-believers particularly, so far as this could be learned from expressions of the press. As to the attitude of her following, probably no other leader has attained such distinction of unqualified deference and influence, not only on their professions and outer conduct, but on their lives.

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