To have founded a faith which has its followers wherever there is civilization, and counts them by the hundred thousand, is of itself title to such fame as few men, and fewer women, earn.
It is not correctness of opinion that constitutes rightness, but that condition of mind which, as a matter of course, causes it to move along the lines of truth and duty—the life going forth in motion according to the law of light: this alone places a nature in harmony with the central Truth.
While
writing to a dear friend of the fact that Christian Science had made a wonderful demonstration for me, not only physically but spiritually, a beautiful thought came to me.
There
is an old saying that "charity begins at home," which in its common interpretation may be taken to mean that we should give what we have to spare to the needy ones connected with the family before seeking to bestow our gifts upon strangers.
I remember
well, when we first began to receive copies of the Journal, the Sentinel, and later the Monitor, how jealously they were guarded and filed away to be reread.
It
is safe to say that a great number of those who turn to Christian Science for healing are in some way or other victims of the belief that there is a law of heredity; that is to say, they are considered to have inherited physical or moral defects from their progenitors.
The
following incident is offered with the hope that it may be of help to some who are young in Christian Science, enabling them to see that, even when expressed in the old phraseology, the truth may be rightly understood and accepted in Christian Science.
Whatever may be the judgment of history concerning this remarkable woman and the great organization which she was largely instrumental in building up, this much at least must be said now: Mrs.
