Article November 15, 1930 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Mary Burt Messer, G. P. Putnam's Sons, W. Livingston Larned, Robert Hutchison, W. G. Sibley

[Miss Mary Burt Messer, in "The Family in the Making," G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London]

In the United States, breaking through the entire scheme of accepted values, and carrying its methods into all quarters of the world, the movement of Christian Science stands forth as a conception of the Christian religion drawn from woman's insight, quietly advancing woman to a position of equality with man in the Christian church, and conceiving the spiritual or creative Principle in feminine as well as in masculine terms. The maternal attribute of the divine is thus advanced in connection with the paternal attribute—not as in the poetic overtones of virgin worship, but the living potencies of an operative truth, a conception intimately associated with the restoration to Christianity of its lost power of healing. ...

Continually dependent upon its striking "works," its enterprise has been the direct expression of an active Principle, the discovery of its Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, whose "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," however baffling to scholars, has commanded the attention of an enormous—and increasingly enormous—public for over half a century. An international newspaper bearing the name of the movement and founded by its Leader is valued by enlightened readers throughout the world, and is even conceded to have influenced all journalism in the direction of its ideals. ...

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