Article February 18, 1911 Issue

Whatever may be the individual opinions respecting that...

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Whatever may be the individual opinions respecting that which Mary Baker Eddy professed, the fact stands out beyond the boundaries of dispute that she gave the world a confession of faith that has brought wondrous peace and happiness to mankind. To have made the world better for having lived in it is an accomplishment of which the greatest of men and women may feel proud, and that Mrs. Eddy did this will be generally admitted. Religionists have attacked Christian Science as being neither Christian nor scientific. Scandal-mongering publications have sought to destroy her hold upon her followers by old women's tales of her early life. Alleged impartial investigators have tried to prove that she borrowed her ideas from others and evolved her philosophy of life here and to come from the writings of eccentrics of a bygone period. Yet during all this time the Christian Science church has gone ahead, increasing its membership, multiplying its activities, and extending its benign influences.

All of which proves that, whatever the source of her inspiration or of her ideas, it was Mrs. Eddy's genius and her power that made of it a faith that appealed with tremendous force to many thousands of men and women. The mind that clings to dogma can never accept her ideas or beliefs; in fact, intelligences like that never get beyond the shell of any great principle. For centuries mankind has been groping in the dark after the great truths of existence, here as well as hereafter. Many prophets and leaders have risen up to point the way. If their doctrine embodied hope, they have found followers. If the light shone with steady radiance, their sects endured. Mrs. Eddy pointed out a way of relief from sin, sickness, and disease, and many have followed it with marvelous results. She banished a specter that haunts many lives, she made existence endurable to thousands groaning beneath its burdens, she made smoothe the pathway of life to countless others.

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