Article September 27, 1941 Issue

Mary Baker Eddy did not "formulate" Christian Science...

Luther K. Bell, Committee on Publication for the State of Connecticut,—New Haven

Evening Register

Mary Baker Eddy did not "formulate" Christian Science. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" she states (p. 107): "In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science." Following the inspired teachings of the Bible that God is the only cause and creator, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and that man is His image and likeness, she defined God as follows (ibid., p. 465): "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love." Of man she writes (ibid., p. 475): "The Scriptures inform us that man is made in the image and likeness of God." "Man is spiritual and perfect; and because he is spiritual and perfect, he must be so understood in Christian Science."

Mrs. Eddy instructed her students to follow her only so far as she followed Christ. Since 1866, countless thousands throughout the world, coming from many faiths—and no faith—have found in Christian Science a practical way in which to obey Paul's admonition, "Take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand."

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