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A Fair Observer
Famous for his sensible comments on many subjects, Edward S. Martin observes events of general interest from editorial positions. In the current Harper's Magazine, Mr. Martin, after referring to a contentious book about Mary Baker Eddy, continues thus: "The important thing about Mrs. Eddy is not so much her personal peculiarities as what she did and how she did it. Very likely she did not know; but there seem to be plenty of facts in Christian Science, and a certain, or perhaps uncertain, control of health and of physical well being, and also of mentality. Christian Science thought seems to be on a different basis from ordinary thought."
In behalf of all Christian Scientists, we acknowledge gratefully the fairness of the foregoing comment. We presume that Mrs. Eddy would have us do this, for she has said on page 303 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," "What I am remains to be proved by the good I do." In these words she accepted, and perhaps claimed the protection of, the test for all men set up by the one perfect Teacher: "A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good."
We agree that Mrs. Eddy did not, in the beginning of her discovery of Christian Science, know how she did what she did. For many years she had given attention to mental causation. Then she recovered wonderfully from an injury when she read an account of healing in the New Testament (Matthew 9:2-8). She attributed to divine agency the marvel wrought for her. She felt that there must be a law explaining the cures related in the Bible and explaining her own recovery, and she sought for this law until she found it in the Principle, rule, and practice of Christian Science. This unfolding in Mrs. Eddy's thought occupied years and went on for further years. Advanced by divine imparting, it was also advanced by prayer, study, practical use, and by the formative process incidental to expressing her discovery in words. In the result, therefore, Christian Science is available now and is doing what it is for the reason that Mrs. Eddy actually learned to know how she did what she did. Science, defined simply, is knowledge coordinated with law and made available for use.
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February 22, 1930 issue
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Following the Way-shower
GRETRUDE L. WHITMORE
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The Narrow Way
IDA MARIA HANSON
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The Spiritual Basis of Being
HARRY EDWARD DE LASAUX, JR.
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Spiritual Heights
GEORGENE L. MILLER
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The Church Manual, a Daily Guide
ARNOLD IRWIN RUMSEY
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Being "in" Christian Science
HORTENSE C. WOLFE
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Stilled
ELIZABETH B. CATE
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A minister recently referred to Christian Science, as...
Frank C. Ayres, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,
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In an article in your esteemed paper of June 12 I find...
Nils Lerche, Assistant Committee on Publication for Norway,
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On October 16 an article appeared in your paper reporting...
Orwell Bradley Towne, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,
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A few years ago a noted specialist delivered a lecture in...
W. Truman Green, Committee on Publication for the State of Florida,
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In reporting last Sunday's sermons, the minister of one...
Judge Herbert L. Standeven, Committee on Publication for the State of Oklahoma,
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As reported in your issue of Saturday last, a bishop said:...
Charles H. Parker, Committee on Publication for Cheshire, England,
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In a recent issue of the Daily News the writer of an...
John T. Ferry, Committee on Publication for Western Australia,
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A Fair Observer
Clifford P. Smith
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"Our daily bread"
Duncan Sinclair
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Acceptance
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Edgar M. Mattes
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My first healing in Christian Science occurred about...
Elmer Lincoln Fulton
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I am indeed grateful for Christian Science
Bertha L. Pechstedt
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I am very grateful for the happiness and love that are...
Charlotte T. Perry
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About seventeen years ago I experienced my first healing...
C. Pearl Hering
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It is with deepest gratitude for all that Christian Science...
Margaret Cassap
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The fact that to-day I am perfectly well, physically...
Johannes Müller
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Christian Science has meant a great deal to me for the...
Anna M. Anderson
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It is with a great sense of joy and gratitude that I bear...
Caroline H. Swartout
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Many years ago I testified of healings I had received...
Martha M. Arthur
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It is with great gratitude that I send this testimony
Estelle La Point
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Recognition
EDITH L. PERKINS
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Henry Kendall Booth, James Douglas, George Henry, Floyd W. Tomkins, Royal A. Symonds, John Milton Moore