Article March 18, 1911 Issue

While Mrs. Eddy is no longer with us in the flesh, who...

William S. Mattox

Los Angeles (Cal.) Examiner

While Mrs. Eddy is no longer with us in the flesh, who shall deny that the gentle influence of her selfless life is a real and substantial presence in the world, working, as she always did in person, for the amelioration of sin and disease, comforting them that mourn and pointing the way to the kingdom of heaven.

When the question of Mrs. Eddy's demise has been debated by the public, those who knew her best declared that she would be succeeded by her writings, that she would have no personal successor as the head of the Christian Science church. The great spiritual movement embodied in the Christian Science church had its inception in Mrs. Eddy's thought. She organized the first Christian Science church and has faithfully, lovingly, and successfully guarded and guided each step of progress up to the present. Today Christian Science is an undeniable force for good in the world. Thousands bear grateful testimony to improved lives because of its ministrations. Those who understand Christian Science know that its real vitality, its power and authority, reside not in creed or ritualism, nor yet in the multitude of adherents, nor in elaborate organization, but rather in the divine Spirit which is exemplified in its healing works and which makes one on God's side a majority.

Mrs. Eddy said in one of her messages, "Follow your Leader only so far as she follows Christ" (Messages to The Mother Church, p. 78). Christian Scientists still have the impersonal Christ to guide them, and they will prove their devotion to Mrs. Eddy by a steady progression toward the goal of spiritual being which she constantly pointed out to them.

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