Article April 7, 1917 Issue

For many years before her discovery of Christian Science...

Lloyd B. Coate

Urbana (Ohio) Citizen

For many years before her discovery of Christian Science Mrs. Eddy was a semiinvalid. When about forty-five years old she met with an accident which her physicians thought would prove fatal, but through the power of God she was healed. This led to her discovery of Christian Science. She lived to see the cause of Christian Science permanently established and churches of her denomination in every division of the globe.

Mrs. Eddy never claimed she would not pass through "the valley of the shadow of death." In her work "Unity of Good" she wrote: "The achievement of this ultimatum of Science, complete triumph over death, requires time and immense spiritual growth. I have by no means spoken of myself, I cannot speak of myself as 'sufficient for these things.' I insist only upon the fact, as it exists in divine Science, that man dies not, and on the words of the Master in support of this verity,—words which can never 'pass away till all be fulfilled.' Because of these profound reasons I urge Christians to have more faith in living than in dying. I exhort them to accept Christ's promise, and unite the influence of their own thoughts with the power of his teachings, in the Science of being" (p. 43).

Christ Jesus said to Martha before raising Lazarus from the tomb: "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?" Christ Jesus was the greatest teacher of eternal life the world has ever known. Mrs. Eddy strove to emulate his example, teaching that man can be saved only through Christ,—"through Truth, Life, and Love," she writes on page 497 of Science and Health, "as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death."

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