Article June 19, 1943 Issue

We rejoice that "Keep Trying"...

R. Ashley Vines

The Age

R. Ashley Vines, Committee on Publication for Victoria, Australia The Age, Melbourne

We rejoice that "Keep Trying" found his experiences in the application of Christian Science so happy and effective. However, there is one fact about which none of us should be loose in our statement or confused in our thinking. Christian Science was not founded in 1866, as was asserted. It is one thing to discover a spiritual law of healing which has been used spasmodically throughout the ages; it is another to found a religious movement and establish a church "which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing" (Church Manual, p. 17). Mary Baker Eddy did both.

The latter achievement took her many years of consecrated work. The former was the genius of spiritual revelation. To quote the words of Mark Twain: "Christian Science is humanity's boon.... She [Mrs. Eddy] has organized and made available a healing principle that for two thousand years has never been employed, except as the merest kind of guesswork. She is the benefactor of the age."

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