Your issue of February 15 carried a report of a meeting...

Oscar R. Porter, Jr., Committee on Publication for the State of North Carolina,—Rocky Mount

Evening Telegram

Your issue of February 15 carried a report of a meeting of the Belles Lettres Club. At this meeting a paper on "Great Teachers" spoke in a kindly way of Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science. I respectfully ask space to present the following facts with reference to the teaching of Christian Science and the cause of the following that Mrs. Eddy inspired.

Mary Baker Eddy was the child of devout Christian parents. Early in her life her mother inculcated trust in the goodness of God. At an early age, while suffering from a fever, her mother bade her lean on God's love. In obedience to her mother's behest, she prayed to her heavenly Father and was healed. She continued to search the Scriptures, and as she grew in the understanding of God naturally manifested more of the fruit of the Spirit, which Paul tells us in his epistle to the Galatians "is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance."

In the year 1866, while suffering from the effects of a supposedly incurable accident, she opened her Bible and read of the healing by Jesus of the palsied man. The healing truth flooded her consciousness and she saw that the same beneficent divine law which enabled Jesus to perform his mighty works was just as available to her. The realization of this truth healed her.

After this experience she healed many persons of sin and so-called incurable diseases, submitting her discovery to the broadest practical tests before writing her textbook.

Finally, in 1875, the first edition of "Science and Health with to the Scriptures" was published. In speaking of her discovery, Mrs. Eddy says (p. 126): "I have set forth Christian Science and its application to the treatment of disease just as I have discovered them. I have demonstrated through Mind the effects of Truth on the health, longevity, and morals of men, and I have found nothing in ancientor in modern systems on which to found my own, except the teachings and demonstrations of our great Master and the lives of prophets and apostles. The Bible has been my only authority. I have had no other guide in 'the straight and narrow way' of Truth."

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