Article January 18, 1930 Issue

Mary Baker Eddy did not claim to originate anything

Arthur G. Lothgren, Committee on Publication for British Columbia, Canada,—Vancouver

Morning Star

Mary Baker Eddy did not claim to originate anything. She discovered the fact that the law of God, when obeyed in this age, frees men from bondage in the same way as recorded in the Bible. The reason for the establishment of the Christian Science church is clearly set forth in the following words by Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, in the Church Manual of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts (p. 17):

"To organize a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing."

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