Article November 1, 2013

The Christian Science movement

Carol Norton

Originally published in the New York Sun, and reprinted in the 1905 pamphlet titled “The Christian Science movement”

Never in the history of Christian Science has the movement been so much talked about as it is to-day. It has become marked not only in its home, America, but all over the world. When asked to give a review of the work and character of the Founder, the Reverend Mary Baker G. Eddy, and to tell something of the scientific and curative basis of the movement and of its religious work, the following statement was written.

To write of the great influence of Christian Science upon the world of religious thought, and of the revolution it is steadily effecting in medical practice, scientific thought, literature, business methods, and social condition, necessarily demand that the character, individuality, and leadership of its Discoverer and Founder be impartially reviewed as a fitting preface to the presentation of the practical operation of the system. While such a review can give but an imperfect outline of the interesting character and work of Mrs. Eddy, it will serve in a degree to acquaint thought with a unique and wholly original and consecrate career pursued for the uplifting of humanity, the alleviation of human suffering in all its forms, and the restoration of the simple and practically demonstrable religion of the great Teacher of Palestine.

Mrs. Eddy is a Purist in the larger meaning of the word. She stands foremost among religious teachers and reformers for purity of spiritual thought, ethics, language, and works. Simplicity of thought and teaching, and the logic of Truth are her weapons of peace.

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