Article October 11, 1924 Issue

For many years prior to her discovery of Christian Science...

George C. Palmer, Committee on Publication for Saskatchewan, Canada,—Saskatoon

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For many years prior to her discovery of Christian Science in 1866, Mrs. Eddy was practically an invalid. She felt then, however, that from cover to cover of the Scriptures holy men of God destroyed sin and healed sickness through the power of spiritual understanding. She knew that the Bible authorizes the use of this power, and that the greatest of all teachers and healers said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." She was in quest of this power that had been lost to mankind for so long because of the dense materiality of its theories. After a fall on the ice in Lynn, Massachusetts, whereby she sustained injuries which a doctor said would prove fatal, she was healed instantaneously while reading the Scriptures.

Then for three years she gave herself up to discovering, from the Bible alone, the divine Principle that had restored her health. Thus she was enabled not only to define for the benefit of mankind the insidious practice of hypnotism or animal magnetism, but to clearly set forth the positive rule of Christian healing, which includes no taint of the carnal mind and is absolutely opposed to any and every humanly mental system of working. "Such theories have no relationship to Christian Science, which rests on the conception of God as the only Life, substance, and intelligence, and excludes the human mind as a spiritual factor in the healing work" (Science and Health, p. 185.)

I am grateful that when I first considered the subject of Christian Science I was not guided by spurious biographies, bitter sermons, magazine articles, and newspaper versions, but that I went straight to my Bible and then to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and searched for myself. The facts concerning Mrs. Eddy may be found in the only authentic "Life of Mary Baker Eddy" there is, namely, that by Sibyl Wilbur.

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