Article January 15, 1921 Issue

Making Glad the Heart of History

WILLIAM RUFUS SCOTT

History has a new significance to the Christian Scientist who has learned that it is a record only of divine creation and spiritual man. Material haps and mishaps, commonly accepted as historic events, are seen to be unreal, and worthy of being recorded merely for estimating relative values in human experience, or for marking the progress toward the full consciousness of man as the son of God.

Keeping distinctly in thought the scientific definition of history, it is both permissible and requisite to note that the year 1921 is the centenary of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. To human apprehension her life began one hundred years ago on a New England farm. The year 1821 will more and more be emphasized in the history of our country, and of the world, for the beginning of the revelation of Christian Science. To-day we are enjoying the cumulative benefits of Mrs. Eddy's work, benefits which we believe are unlimited and will lead progressively and universally to the kingdom of God.

When misconceptions about her earthly existence were being spread abroad, Mrs. Eddy recognized the secondary function of history by approving a correct record of her activities, in "The Life of Mary Baker Eddy" by Sibyl Wilbur; but she expected her followers, and sooner or later all others, to gain a truer concept of her being than is obtainable from mortal data. Therefore the real history of Mary Baker Eddy is in her spiritual accomplishments. She indeed desired to be remembered for nothing else.

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