«Разные сочинения, 1883–1896»

slight sway over the fresh, unbiased thought.

Teach the children early self-government, and teach

them nothing that is wrong. If they see their father with [25]

a cigarette in his mouth—suggest to them that the habit

of smoking is not nice, and that nothing but a loathsome

worm naturally chews tobacco. Likewise soberly inform

them that “Battle-Axe Plug” takes off men's heads; or,

leaving these on, that it takes from their bodies a sweet [30]

something which belongs to nature,—namely, pure

odors.

[pg 241]

From a religious point of view, the faith of both youth [1]

and adult should centre as steadfastly in God to benefit

the body, as to benefit the mind. Body and mind are

correlated in man's salvation; for man will no more

enter heaven sick than as a sinner, and Christ's Christi- [5]

anity casts out sickness as well as sin of every sort.

Test, if you will, metaphysical healing on two patients:

one having morals to be healed, the other having a physi-

cal ailment. Use as your medicine the great alterative,

Truth: give to the immoralist a mental dose that says, [10]

“You have no pleasure in sin,” and witness the effects.

Either he will hate you, and try to make others do like-

wise, so taking a dose of error big enough apparently to

neutralize your Truth, else he will doubtingly await the

result; during which interim, by constant combat and [15]

direful struggles, you get the victory and Truth heals him

of the moral malady.

On the other hand, to the bedridden sufferer admin-

ister this alternative Truth: “God never made you sick:

there is no necessity for pain; and Truth destroys the [20]

error that insists on the necessity of any man's bondage

to sin and sickness. “Ye shall know the truth, and the

truth shall make you free.’ ”

Then, like blind Bartimeus, the doubting heart looks

up through faith, and your patient rejoices in the gospel [25]

of health.

Thus, you see, it is easier to heal the physical than the

moral ailment. When divine Truth and Love heal, of

sin, the sinner who is at ease in sin, how much more should

these heal, of sickness, the sick who are dis-eased, dis- [30]

comforted, and who long for relief!

[pg 242]

«Молитва и исцеление»

The article of Professor T——, having the above cap- [1]

tion, published in Zion's Herald, December third, came

not to my notice until January ninth. In it the Professor

offered me, as President of the Metaphysical College in

Boston, or one of my students, the liberal sum of one [5]

thousand dollars if either would reset certain dislocations

without the use of hands, and two thousand dollars if

either would give sight to one born blind.

Will the gentleman accept my thanks due to his gener- [10]

osity; for, if I should accept his bid on Christianity, he

would lose his money.

Why?

Because I performed more difficult tasks fifteen years

ago. At present, I am in another department of Christian [15]

work, “where there shall no signs be given them,” for

they shall be instructed in the Principle of Christian

Science that furnishes its own proof.

But, to reward his liberality, I offer him three thou-

sand dollars if he will heal one single case of opium-eating [20]

where the patient is very low and taking morphine powder

in its most concentrated form, at the rate of one ounce in

two weeks,—having taken it twenty years; and he is to

cure that habit in three days, leaving the patient well. I

cured precisely such a case in 1869. [25]

Also, Mr. C. M. H——, of Boston, formerly partner

of George T. Brown, pharmacist, No. 5 Beacon St., will

tell you that he was my student in December, 1884; and

that before leaving the class he took a patient thoroughly

addicted to the use of opium—if she went without it [30]

[pg 243]

twenty-four hours she would have delirium—and in [1]

forty-eight hours cured her perfectly of this habit,

with no bad results, but with decided improvement in

health.

I have not yet made surgery one of the mental branches [5]

taught in my college; although students treat sprains,

contusions, etc., successfully. In the case of sprain of the

wrist-joint, where the regular doctor had put on splints

and bandages to remain six weeks, a student of mine

removed these appliances the same day and effected the [10]

cure in less than one week. Reference, Mrs. M. A. F——,

107 Eutaw Street, East Boston.

I agree with the Professor, that every system of medi-

cine claims more than it practises. If the system is Science,

it includes of necessity the Principle, which the learner [15]

can demonstrate only in proportion as he understands it.

Boasting is unbecoming a mortal's poor performances.

My Christian students are proverbially modest: their

works alone should declare them, since my system of medi-

cine is not generally understood. There are charlatans [20]

in “mind-cure,” who practise on the basis of matter, or

human will, not Mind.

The Professor alludes to Paul's advice to Timothy.

Did he refer to that questionable counsel, “Take a little

wine for thy stomach's sake”? Even doctors disagree [25]

on that prescription: some of the medical faculty will

tell you that alcoholic drinks cause the coats of the stomach

to thicken and the organ to contract; will prevent the

secretions of the gastric juice, and induce ulceration,

bleeding, vomiting, death. [30]

Again, the Professor quotes, in justification of material

methods, and as veritable: “He took a bone from the

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side of Adam, closed up the wound thereof, and builded [1]

up the woman.” (Gen. ii. 21.)

Here we have the Professor on the platform of Christian

Science! even a “surgical operation” that he says was

performed by divine power,—Mind alone constructing [5]

the human system, before surgical instruments were

invented, and closing the incisions of the flesh.

He further states that God cannot save the soul without

compliance to ordained conditions. But, we ask, have

those conditions named in Genesis been perpetuated in [10]

the multiplication of mankind? And, are the conditions

of salvation mental, or physical; are they bodily penance

and torture, or repentance and reform, which are the

action of mind?

He asks, “Has the law been abrogated that demands [15]

the employment of visible agencies for specific ends?”

Will he accept my reply as derived from the life and

teachings of Jesus?—who annulled the so-called laws of

matter by the higher law of Spirit, causing him to walk

the wave, turn the water into wine, make the blind to see, [20]

the deaf to hear, the lame to walk, and the dead to be

raised without matter-agencies. And he did this for man's

example; not to teach himself, but others, the way of

healing and salvation. He said, “And other sheep I have,

which are not of this fold.” [25]

The teachings and demonstration of Jesus were for

all peoples and for all time; not for a privileged class or

a restricted period, but for as many as should believe in

him.

Are the discoverers of quinine, cocaine, etc., espe- [30]

cially the children of our Lord because of their medical

discoveries?

[pg 245]

We have no record showing that our Master ever used, [1]

or recommended others to use, drugs; but we have his

words, and the prophet's, as follows: “Take no thought,

saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink?”

“And Asa ... sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians. [5]

And Asa slept with his fathers.”

Veritas Odium Parit (Истина порождает ненависть)

The combined efforts of the materialistic portion of

the pulpit and press in 1885, to retard by misrepresen-

tation the stately goings of Christian Science, are giving [10]

it new impetus and energy; calling forth the vox populi

and directing more critical observation to its uplifting

influence upon the health, morals, and spirituality of

mankind.

Their movements indicate fear and weakness, a physi- [15]

cal and spiritual need that Christian Science should re-

move with glorious results. The conclusion cannot now

be pushed, that women have no rights that man is bound

to respect. This is woman's hour, in all the good tend-

encies, charities, and reforms of to-day. It is difficult [20]

to say which may be most mischievous to the human

heart, the praise or the dispraise of men.

I have loved the Church and followed it, thinking that

it was following Christ; but, if the pulpit allows the people

to go no further in the direction of Christlikeness, and [25]

rejects apostolic Christianity, seeking to stereotype infinite

Truth, it is a thing to be thankful for that one can walk

alone the straight and narrow way; that, in the words of

Wendell Phillips, “one with God is a majority.”

[pg 246]

It is the pulpit and press, clerical robes and the pro- [1]

hibiting of free speech, that cradles and covers the sins of

the world,—all unmitigated systems of crime; and it

requires the enlightenment of these worthies, through

civil and religious reform, to blot out all inhuman codes. [5]

It was the Southern pulpit and press that influenced the

people to wrench from man both human and divine rights,

in order to subserve the interests of wealth, religious caste,

civil and political power. And the pulpit had to be

purged of that sin by human gore,—when the love of [10]

Christ would have washed it divinely away in Christian

Science!

The cry of the colored slave has scarcely been heard

and hushed, when from another direction there comes

another sharp cry of oppression. Another form of inhumanity [15]

lifts its hydra head to forge anew the old fetters;

to shackle conscience, stop free speech, slander, vilify;

to invite its prey, then turn and refuse the victim a solitary

vindication in this most unprecedented warfare.

A conflict more terrible than the battle of Gettysburg [20]

awaits the crouching wrong that refused to yield its

prey the peace of a desert, when a voice was heard

crying in the wilderness,—the spiritual famine of 1866,

—“Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His paths

straight.” [25]

Shall religious intolerance, arrayed against the rights

of man, again deluge the earth in blood? The question

at issue with mankind is: Shall we have a spiritual Chris-

tianity and a spiritual healing, or a materialistic religion

and a materia medica? [30]

The advancing faith and hope of Christianity, the

earnest seeking after practical truth that shall cast out

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error and heal the sick, wisely demand for man his God- [1]

given heritage, both human and divine rights; namely,

that his honest convictions and proofs of advancing truth

be allowed due consideration, and treated not as pearls

trampled upon. [5]

Those familiar with my history are more tolerant; those

who know me, know that I found health in just what I

teach. I have professed Christianity a half-century; and

now I calmly challenge the world, upon fair investigation,

to furnish a single instance of departure in one of my [10]

works from the highest possible ethics.

The charges against my views are false, but natural,

since those bringing them do not understand my state-

ment of the Science I introduce, and are unwilling to be

taught it, even gratuitously. If they did understand it, they [15]

could demonstrate this Science by healing the sick; hence

the injustice of their interpretations.

To many, the healing force developed by Christian

Science seems a mystery, because they do not understand

that Spirit controls body. They acknowledge the exist- [20]

ence of mortal mind, but believe it to reside in matter

of the brain; but that man is the idea of infinite Mind,

is not so easily accepted. That which is temporary

seems, to the common estimate, solid and substantial.

It is much easier for people to believe that the body [25]

affects mind, than that the body is an expression of

mind, and reflects harmony or discord according to

thought.

Everything that God created, He pronounced good.

He never made sickness. Hence that is only an evil belief [30]

of mortal mind, which must be met, in every instance,

with a denial by Truth.

[pg 248]

This is the “new tongue,” the language of them that [1]

“lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover,” whose

spiritual interpretation they refuse to hear. For instance:

the literal meaning of the passage “lay hands on the sick”

would be manipulation; its moral meaning, found in the [5]

“new tongue,” is spiritual power,—as, in another Scripture,

“I will triumph in the works of Thy hands.”

Ложь

The Greeks showed a just estimate of the person they

called slanderer, when they made the word synonymous [10]

with devil. If the simple falsehoods uttered about me

were compounded, the mixture would be labelled thus:

“Religionists' mistaken views of Mrs. Eddy's book, ‘Sci-

ence and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” and the

malice aforethought of sinners.” [15]

That I take opium; that I am an infidel, a mesmerist,

a medium, a “pantheist;” or that my hourly life is prayerless,

or not in strict obedience to the Mosaic Decalogue,—

is not more true than that I am dead, as is oft reported.

The St. Louis Democrat is alleged to have reported my [20]

demise, and to have said that I died of poison, and bequeathed

my property to Susan Anthony.

The opium falsehood has only this to it: Many years

ago my regular physician prescribed morphine, which I

took, when he could do no more for me. Afterwards, [25]

the glorious revelations of Christian Science saved me

from that necessity and made me well, since which time

I have not taken drugs, with the following exception:

When the mental malpractice of poisoning people was

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first undertaken by a mesmerist, to test that malprac- [1]

tice I experimented by taking some large doses of mor-

phine, to see if Christian Science could not obviate its

effect; and I say with tearful thanks, “The drug had

no effect upon me whatever.” The hour has struck, [5]

—“If they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt

them.”

The false report that I have appropriated other people's

manuscripts in my works, has been met and answered

legally. Both in private and public life, and especially [10]

through my teachings, it is well known that I am not a

spiritualist, a pantheist, or prayerless. The most devout

members of evangelical churches will say this, as well as

my intimate acquaintances. None are permitted to re-

main in my College building whose morals are not un- [15]

questionable. I have neither purchased nor ordered a

drug since my residence in Boston; and to my knowledge,

not one has been sent to my house, unless it was something

to remove stains or vermin.

The report that I was dead arose no doubt from the [20]

combined efforts of some malignant students, expelled

from my College for immorality, to kill me: of their mental

design to do this I have proof, but no fear. My heavenly

Father will never leave me comfortless, in the amplitude

of His love; coming nearer in my need, more tenderly to [25]

save and bless.

Любовь

What a word! I am in awe before it. Over what

worlds on worlds it hath range and is sovereign! the un-

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derived, the incomparable, the infinite All of good, the [1]

alone God, is Love.

By what strange perversity is the best become the most

abused,—either as a quality or as an entity? Mortals

misrepresent and miscall affection; they make it what [5]

it is not, and doubt what it is. The so-called affection

pursuing its victim is a butcher fattening the lamb to

slay it. What the lower propensities express, should be

repressed by the sentiments. No word is more mis-

construed; no sentiment less understood. The divine [10]

significance of Love is distorted into human qualities,

which in their human abandon become jealousy and

hate.

Love is not something put upon a shelf, to be taken

down on rare occasions with sugar-tongs and laid on a [15]

rose-leaf. I make strong demands on love, call for active

witnesses to prove it, and noble sacrifices and grand

achievements as its results. Unless these appear, I cast

aside the word as a sham and counterfeit, having no ring

of the true metal. Love cannot be a mere abstraction, or [20]

goodness without activity and power. As a human quality,

the glorious significance of affection is more than words:

it is the tender, unselfish deed done in secret; the silent,

ceaseless prayer; the self-forgetful heart that overflows;

the veiled form stealing on an errand of mercy, out of a [25]

side door; the little feet tripping along the sidewalk; the

gentle hand opening the door that turns toward want and

woe, sickness and sorrow, and thus lighting the dark

places of earth.

[pg 251]

Address On The Fourth Of July At Pleasant View, Concord, N. H., Before 2,500 Members Of The Mother Church, 1897

My beloved brethren, who have come all the way from

the Pacific to the Atlantic shore, from the Palmetto to the [5]

Pine Tree State, I greet you; my hand may not touch

yours to-day, but my heart will with tenderness untalkable.

His Honor, Mayor Woodworth, has welcomed you to

Concord most graciously, voicing the friendship of this

city and of my native State—loyal to the heart's core to [10]

religion, home, friends, and country.

To-day we commemorate not only our nation's civil

and religious freedom, but a greater even, the liberty of

the sons of God, the inalienable rights and radiant reality

of Christianity, whereof our Master said: “The works [15]

that I do shall he do;” and, “The kingdom of God cometh

not with observation” (with knowledge obtained from

the senses), but “the kingdom of God is within you,”—

within the present possibilities of mankind.

Think of this inheritance! Heaven right here, where [20]

angels are as men, clothed more lightly, and men as angels

who, burdened for an hour, spring into liberty, and the

good they would do, that they do, and the evil they would

not do, that they do not.

From the falling leaves of old-time faiths men learn a [25]

parable of the period, that all error, physical, moral, or

religious, will fall before Truth demonstrated, even as

dry leaves fall to enrich the soil for fruitage.

Sin, sickness, and disease flee before the evangel of

Truth as the mountain mists before the sun. Truth is [30]

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the tonic for the sick, and this medicine of Mind is not [1]

necessarily infinitesimal but infinite. Herein the mental

medicine of divine metaphysics and the medical systems

of allopathy and homœopathy differ. Mental medi-

cine gains no potency by attenuation, and its largest [5]

dose is never dangerous, but the more the better in every

case.

Christian Science classifies thought thus: Right thoughts

are reality and power; wrong thoughts are unreality and

powerless, possessing the nature of dreams. Good thoughts [10]

are potent; evil thoughts are impotent, and they should

appear thus. Continuing this category, we learn that

sick thoughts are unreality and weakness; while healthy

thoughts are reality and strength. My proof of these

novel propositions is demonstration, whereby any man [15]

can satisfy himself of their verity.

Christian Science is not only the acme of Science

but the crown of Christianity. It is universal. It ap-

peals to man as man; to the whole and not to a por-

tion; to man physically, as well as spiritually, and to all [20]

mankind.

It has one God. It demonstrates the divine Principle,

rules and practice of the great healer and master of meta-

physics, Jesus of Nazareth. It spiritualizes religion and

restores its lost element, namely, healing the sick. It [25]

consecrates and inspires the teacher and preacher; it

equips the doctor with safe and sure medicine; it en-

courages and empowers the business man and secures

the success of honesty. It is the dear children's toy and

strong tower; the wise man's spiritual dictionary; the [30]

poor man's money; yea, it is the pearl priceless whereof

our Master said, if a man findeth, he goeth and selleth

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all that he hath and buyeth it. Buyeth it! Note the [1]

scope of that saying, even that Christianity is not merely

a gift, as St. Paul avers, but is bought with a price, a great

price; and what man knoweth as did our Master its

value, and the price that he paid for it? [5]

Friends, I am not enough the new woman of the period

for outdoor speaking, and the incidental platform is not

broad enough for me, but the speakers that will now ad-

dress you—one a congressman—may improve our

platforms; and make amends for the nothingness of [10]

matter with the allness of Mind.

Хорошее дело — плод хорошего поступка

Herrick

This period is big with events. Fraught with history,

it repeats the past and portends much for the future. [15]

The Scriptural metaphors,—of the woman in travail,

the great red dragon that stood ready to devour the child

as soon as it was born, and the husbandmen that said,

“This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the in-

heritance may be ours,”—are type and shadow of this [20]

hour.

A mother's love touches the heart of God, and should

it not appeal to human sympathy? Can a mother tell

her child one tithe of the agonies that gave that child

birth? Can that child conceive of the anguish, until she [25]

herself is become a mother?

Do the children of this period dream of the spiritual

Mother's sore travail, through the long night, that has

opened their eyes to the light of Christian Science? Cherish

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these new-born children that filial obedience to which the [1]

Decalogue points with promise of prosperity? Should not

the loving warning, the far-seeing wisdom, the gentle entreaty,

the stern rebuke have been heeded, in return for

all that love which brooded tireless over their tender [5]

years? for all that love that hath fed them with Truth,—

even the bread that cometh down from heaven,—as the

mother-bird tendeth her young in the rock-ribbed nest of

the raven's callow brood!

And what of the hope of that parent whose children [10]

rise up against her; when brother slays brother, and

the strength of union grows weak with wickedness?

The victim of mad ambition that saith, “This is

the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance

may be ours,” goes on to learn that he must at last [15]

kill this evil in “self” in order to gain the kingdom

of God.

Envy, the great red dragon of this hour, would obscure

the light of Science, take away a third part of the stars

from the spiritual heavens, and cast them to the earth. [20]

This is not Science. Per contra, it is the mortal mind

sense—mental healing on a material basis—hurling

its so-called healing at random, filling with hate its

deluded victims, or resting in silly peace upon the

laurels of headlong human will. “What shall, therefore, [25]

the Lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy

the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto

others.”

[pg 255]

Маленькие боги

It is sometimes said, cynically, that Christian Scien-

tists set themselves on pedestals, as so many petty deities;

but there is no fairness or propriety in the aspersion.

Man is not equal to his Maker. That which is formed [5]

is not cause, but effect; and has no underived power.

But it is possible, and dutiful, to throw the weight of

thought and action on the side of right, and to be thus

lifted up.

Man should be found not claiming equality with, but [10]

growing into, that altitude of Mind which was in Christ

Jesus. He should comprehend, in divine Science, a

recognition of what the apostle meant when he said:

“The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that

we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; [15]

heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.”

Преимущество ментального исцеления

It is sometimes asked, What are the advantages of your

system of healing?

I claim for healing by Christian Science the following [20]

advantages:—

First: It does away with material medicine, and rec-

ognizes the fact that the antidote for sickness, as well

as for sin, may be found in God, the divine Mind.

Second: It is more effectual than drugs, and cures [25]

where they fail, because it is this divine antidote, and

metaphysics is above physics.

[pg 256]

Third: Persons who have been healed by Christian [1]

Science are not only cured of their belief in disease, but

they are at the same time improved morally. The body

is governed by Mind, and mortal mind must be corrected

in order to make the body harmonious. [5]

Карточка

While gratefully acknowledging the public confidence

manifested in daily letters that protest against receiving

instruction in the Massachusetts Metaphysical College

from any other than Mrs. Eddy, I feel, deeply, that of [10]

necessity this imposes on me the severe task of remaining

at present a public servant: also, that this must prevent

my classes from forming as frequently as was an-

nounced in the October number of the Journal, and

necessitates receiving but a select number of students. [15]

To meet the old impediment, lack of time, that has oc-

casioned the irregular intervals between my class terms,

I shall continue to send to each applicant a notice from

one to two weeks previous to the opening term.

Mary Baker G. Eddy

Дух и Закон

We are accustomed to think and to speak of gravitation

as a law of matter; while every quality of matter,

in and of itself, is inert, inanimate, and non-intelligent.

The assertion that matter is a law, or a lawgiver, is [25]

anomalous. Wherever law is, Mind is; and the notion

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that Mind can be in matter is rank infidelity, which either [1]

excludes God from the universe, or includes Him in every

mode and form of evil. Pantheism presupposes that

God sleeps in the mineral, dreams in the animal, and

wakes in a wicked man. [5]

The distinction between that which is and that which

is not law, must be made by Mind and as Mind. Law is

either a moral or an immoral force. The law of God is

the law of Spirit, a moral and spiritual force of immor-

tal and divine Mind. The so-called law of matter is an [10]

immoral force of erring mortal mind, alias the minds of

mortals. This so-called force, or law, at work in nature

as a power, prohibition, or license, is cruel and merciless.

It punishes the innocent, and repays our best deeds

with sacrifice and suffering. It is a code whose modes [15]

trifle with joy, and lead to immediate or ultimate death.

It fosters suspicion where confidence is due, fear where

courage is requisite, reliance where there should be

avoidance, a belief in safety where there is most

danger. Our Master called it “a murderer from the [20]

beginning.”

Electricity, governed by this so-called law, sparkles

on the cloud, and strikes down the hoary saint. Floods

swallow up homes and households; and childhood, age,

and manhood go down in the death-dealing wave. Earth- [25]

quakes engulf cities, churches, schools, and mortals.

Cyclones kill and destroy, desolating the green earth.

This pitiless power smites with disease the good Samari-

tan ministering to his neighbor's need. Even the chamber

where the good man surrenders to death is not exempt [30]

from this law. Smoothing the pillow of pain may infect

you with smallpox, according to this lawless law which

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dooms man to die for loving his neighbor as himself,— [1]

when Christ has said that love is the fulfilling of the

law.

Our great Ensample, Jesus of Nazareth, met and abol-

ished this unrelenting false claim of matter with the [5]

righteous scorn and power of Spirit. When, through

Mind, he restored sight to the blind, he figuratively and

literally spat upon matter; and, anointing the wounded

spirit with the great truth that God is All, he demon-

strated the healing power and supremacy of the law of [10]

Life and Love.

In the spiritual Genesis of creation, all law was vested

in the Lawgiver, who was a law to Himself. In divine

Science, God is One and All; and, governing Himself,

He governs the universe. This is the law of creation: [15]

“My defense is of God, which saveth the upright in

heart.” And that infinite Mind governs all things. On

this infinite Principle of freedom, God named Him-

self, i am. Error, or Adam, might give names to itself,

and call Mind by the name of matter, but error could [20]

neither name nor demonstrate Spirit. The name, i

am, indicated no personality that could be paralleled

with it; but it did declare a mighty individuality,

even the everlasting Father, as infinite consciousness,

ever-presence, omnipotence; as all law, Life, Truth, and [25]

Love.

God's interpretation of Himself furnishes man with

the only suitable or true idea of Him; and the divine

definition of Deity differs essentially from the human.

It interprets the law of Spirit, not of matter. It explains [30]

the eternal dynamics of being, and shows that nature

and man are as harmonious to-day as in the beginning,

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when “all things were made by Him; and without Him [1]

was not any thing made.”

Whatever appears to be law, but partakes not of the

nature of God, is not law, but is what Jesus declared

it, “a liar, and the father of it.” God is the law of Life, [5]

not of death; of health, not of sickness; of good, not

of evil. It is this infinitude and oneness of good that

silences the supposition that evil is a claimant or a claim.

The consciousness of good has no consciousness or knowl-

edge of evil; and evil is not a quality to be known or [10]

eliminated by good: while iniquity, too evil to conceive

of good as being unlike itself, declares that God knows

iniquity!

When the Lawgiver was the only law of creation, free-

dom reigned, and was the heritage of man; but this [15]

freedom was the moral power of good, not of evil: it

was divine Science, in which God is supreme, and the

only law of being. In this eternal harmony of Science,

man is not fallen: he is governed in the same rhythm

that the Scripture describes, when “the morning stars [20]

sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.”

Исцеление Истиной

The spiritual elevator of the human race, physically,

morally, and Christianly, is the truism that Truth dem-

onstrates good, and is natural; while error, or evil, [25]

is really non-existent, and must have produced its own

illusion,—for it belongs not to nature nor to God. Truth

is the power of God which heals the sick and the sinner,

and is applicable to all the needs of man. It is the uni-

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versal, intelligent Christ-idea illustrated by the life of [1]

Jesus, through whose “stripes we are healed.” By con-

flicts, defeats, and triumphs, Christian Science has been

reduced to the understanding of mortals, and found able

to heal them. [5]

Pagan mysticism, Grecian philosophy, or Jewish reli-

gion, never entered into the line of Jesus' thought or

action. His faith partook not of drugs, matter, nor of

the travesties of mortal mind. The divine Mind was

his only instrumentality and potency, in religion or medi- [10]

cine. The Principle of his cure was God, in the laws

of Spirit, not of matter; and these laws annulled all other

laws.

Jesus knew that erring mortal thought holds only in

itself the supposition of evil, and that sin, sickness, and [15]

death are its subjective states; also, that pure Mind is

the truth of being that subjugates and destroys any sup-

positional or elementary opposite to Him who is All.

Truth is supreme and omnipotent. Then, whatever

else seemeth to be intelligence or power is false, delud- [20]

ing reason and denying revelation, and seeking to dethrone

Deity. The truth of Mind-healing uplifts mankind, by

acknowledging pure Mind as absolute and entire, and

that evil is naught, although it seems to be.

Pure Mind gives out an atmosphere that heals and [25]

saves. Words are not always the auxiliaries of Truth.

The spirit, and not the letter, performs the vital func-

tions of Truth and Love. Mind, imbued with this Science

of healing, is a law unto itself, needing neither license

nor prohibition; but lawless mind, with unseen motives, [30]

and silent mental methods whereby it may injure the

race, is the highest attenuation of evil.

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Again: evil, as mind, is doomed, already sentenced, [1]

punished; for suffering is commensurate with evil, and

lasts as long as the evil. As mind, evil finds no escape

from itself; and the sin and suffering it occasions can

only be removed by reformation. [5]

According to divine law, sin and suffering are not

cancelled by repentance or pardon. Christian Science

not only elucidates but demonstrates this verity of be-

ing; namely, that mortals suffer from the wrong they

commit, whether intentionally or ignorantly; that every [10]

effect and amplification of wrong will revert to the wrong-

doer, until he pays his full debt to divine law, and the

measure he has meted is measured to him again, full,

pressed down, and running over. Surely “the way of

the transgressor is hard.” [15]

In this law of justice, the atonement of Christ loses

no efficacy. Justice is the handmaid of mercy, and show-

eth mercy by punishing sin. Jesus said, “I came not to

destroy the law,”—the divine requirements typified in

the law of Moses,—“but to fulfil it” in righteousness, [20]

by Truth's destroying error. No greater type of divine

Love can be presented than effecting so glorious a purpose.

This spirit of sacrifice always has saved, and still saves

mankind; but by mankind I mean mortals, or a kind

of men after man's own making. Man as God's idea [25]

is already saved with an everlasting salvation. It is impossible

to be a Christian Scientist without apprehend-

ing the moral law so clearly that, for conscience' sake,

one will either abandon his claim to even a knowledge

of this Science, or else make the claim valid. All Science [30]

is divine. Then, to be Science, it must produce physical

and moral harmony.

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Dear readers, our Journal is designed to bring health [1]

and happiness to all households wherein it is permitted

to enter, and to confer increased power to be good and

to do good. If you wish to brighten so pure a purpose,

you will aid our prospect of fulfilling it by your kind [5]

patronage of The Christian Science Journal, now enter-

ing upon its fifth volume, clad in Truth-healing's new

and costly spring dress.

От сердца к сердцу

When the heart speaks, however simple the words, [10]

its language is always acceptable to those who have

hearts.

I just want to say, I thank you, my dear students, who

are at work conscientiously and assiduously, for the good

you are doing. I am grateful to you for giving to the [15]

sick relief from pain; for giving joy to the suffering and

hope to the disconsolate; for lifting the fallen and strength-

ening the weak, and encouraging the heart grown faint

with hope deferred. We are made glad by the divine

Love which looseth the chains of sickness and sin, open- [20]

ing the prison doors to such as are bound; and we should

be more grateful than words can express, even through

this white-winged messenger, our Journal.

With all the homage beneath the skies, yet were our

burdens heavy but for the Christ-love that makes them [25]

light and renders the yoke easy. Having his word, you

have little need of words of approval and encouragement

from me. Perhaps it is even selfish in me sometimes to

relieve my heart of its secrets, because I take so much

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pleasure in thus doing; but if my motives are sinister, [1]

they will harm myself only, and I shall have the unself-

ish joy of knowing that the wrong motives are not yours,

to react on yourselves.

These two words in Scripture suggest the sweetest [5]

similes to be found in any language—rock and feathers:

“Upon this rock I will build my church;” “He shall

cover thee with His feathers.” How blessed it is to

think of you as “beneath the shadow of a great rock in

a weary land,” safe in His strength, building on His [10]

foundation, and covered from the devourer by divine

protection and affection. Always bear in mind that His

presence, power, and peace meet all human needs and

reflect all bliss.

О чем стоит задуматься

The need of their teacher's counsel, felt by students, [16]

especially by those at a distance, working assiduously for

our common Cause,—and their constant petitions for

the same, should be met in the most effectual way.

To be responsible for supplying this want, and poise [20]

the wavering balance on the right side, is impracticable

without a full knowledge of the environments. The

educational system of Christian Science lacks the aid

and protection of State laws. The Science is hampered

by immature demonstrations, by the infancy of its dis- [25]

covery, by incorrect teaching; and especially by unprin-

cipled claimants, whose mad ambition drives them to

appropriate my ideas and discovery, without credit, ap-

preciation, or a single original conception, while they

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quote from other authors and give them credit for every [1]

random thought in line with mine.

My noble students, who are loyal to Christ, Truth, and

human obligations, will not be disheartened in the midst

of this seething sea of sin. They build for time and eter- [5]

nity. The others stumble over misdeeds, and their own

unsubstantiality, without the groundwork of right, till,

like camera shadows thrown upon the mists of time, they

melt into darkness.

Unity is the essential nature of Christian Science. Its [10]

Principle is One, and to demonstrate the divine One,

demands oneness of thought and action.

Many students enter the Normal class of my College

whom I have not fitted for it by the Primary course.

They are taught their first lessons by my students; hence [15]

the aptness to assimilate pure and abstract Science is

somewhat untested.

“As the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.” As mortal

mind is directed, it acts for a season. Some students

leave my instructions before they are quite free from [20]

the bias of their first impressions, whether those be cor-

rect or incorrect. Such students are more or less subject

to the future mental influence of their former teacher.

Their knowledge of Mind-healing may be right theo-

retically, but the moral and spiritual status of thought [25]

must be right also. The tone of the teacher's mind must

be pure, grand, true, to aid the mental development of

the student; for the tint of the instructor's mind must

take its hue from the divine Mind. A single mistake in

metaphysics, or in ethics, is more fatal than a mistake in [30]

physics.

If a teacher of Christian Science unwittingly or inten-

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tionally offers his own thought, and gives me as authority [1]

for it; if he diverges from Science and knows it not, or,

knowing it, makes the venture from vanity, in order to

be thought original, or wiser than somebody else,—this

divergence widens. He grows dark, and cannot regain, [5]

at will, an upright understanding. This error in the

teacher also predisposes his students to make mistakes

and lose their way. Diverse opinions in Science are

stultifying. All must have one Principle and the same

rule; and all who follow the Principle and rule have but [10]

one opinion of it.

Whosoever understands a single rule in Science, and

demonstrates its Principle according to rule, is master

of the situation. Nobody can gainsay this. The ego-

tistical theorist or shallow moralist may presume to [15]

make innovations upon simple proof; but his mistake

is visited upon himself and his students, whose minds

are, must be, disturbed by this discord, which extends

along the whole line of reciprocal thought. An error

in premise can never bring forth the real fruits of Truth. [20]

After thoroughly explaining spiritual Truth and its ethics

to a student, I am not morally responsible for the mis-

statements or misconduct of this student. My teachings

are uniform. Those who abide by them do well. If

others, who receive the same instruction, do ill, the fault [25]

is not in the culture but the soil.

I am constantly called to settle questions and disaf-

fections toward Christian Science growing out of the

departures from Science of self-satisfied, unprincipled

students. If impatient of the loving rebuke, the stu- [30]

dent must stop at the foot of the grand ascent, and there

remain until suffering compels the downfall of his self-

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conceit. Then that student must struggle up, with bleed- [1]

ing footprints, to the God-crowned summit of unselfish

and pure aims and affections.

To be two-sided, when these sides are moral oppo-

sites, is neither politic nor scientific; and to abridge a [5]

single human right or privilege is an error. Whoever

does this may represent me as doing it; but he mistakes

me, and the subjective state of his own mind for mine.

The true leader of a true cause is the unacknowledged

servant of mankind. Stationary in the background, this [10]

individual is doing the work that nobody else can or will

do. An erratic career is like the comet's course, dash-

ing through space, headlong and alone. A clear-headed

and honest Christian Scientist will demonstrate the Prin-

ciple of Christian Science, and hold justice and mercy as [15]

inseparable from the unity of God.

Нехристианские слухи

The assertion that I have said hard things about my

loyal students in Chicago, New York, or any other place,

is utterly false and groundless. I speak of them as I feel, [20]

and I cannot find it in my heart not to love them. They

are essentially dear to me, who are toiling and achieving

success in unison with my own endeavors and prayers.

If I correct mistakes which may be made in teaching or

lecturing on Christian Science, this is in accordance with [25]

my students' desires, and thus we mutually aid each other,

and obey the Golden Rule.

The spirit of lies is abroad. Because Truth has spoken

aloud, error, running to and fro in the earth, is scream-

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ing, to make itself heard above Truth's voice. The [1]

audible and inaudible wail of evil never harms Scientists,

steadfast in their consciousness of the nothingness of

wrong and the supremacy of right.

Our worst enemies are the best friends to our growth. [5]

Charity students, for whom I have sacrificed the most

time,—those whose chief aim is to injure me,—have

caused me to exercise most patience. When they report

me as “hating those whom I do not love,” let them re-

member that there never was a time when I saw an op- [10]

portunity really to help them and failed to improve it;

and this, too, when I knew they were secretly striving

to injure me.

Тщеславие

Comparisons are odorous.—Shakespeare

Through all human history, the vital outcomes of [16]

Truth have suffered temporary shame and loss from

individual conceit, cowardice, or dishonesty. The bird

whose right wing flutters to soar, while the left beats its

way downward, falls to the earth. Both wings must be [20]

plumed for rarefied atmospheres and upward flight.

Mankind must gravitate from sense to Soul, and human

affairs should be governed by Spirit, intelligent good.

The antipode of Spirit, which we name matter, or non-

intelligent evil, is no real aid to being. The predisposing [25]

and exciting cause of all defeat and victory under the

sun, rests on this scientific basis: that action, in obedi-

ence to God, spiritualizes man's motives and methods,

and crowns them with success; while disobedience to

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this divine Principle materializes human modes and con- [1]

sciousness, and defeats them.

Two personal queries give point to human action: Who

shall be greatest? and, Who shall be best? Earthly

glory is vain; but not vain enough to attempt pointing [5]

the way to heaven, the harmony of being. The imaginary

victories of rivalry and hypocrisy are defeats. The Holy

One saith, “O that thou hadst hearkened to My com-

mandments! then had thy peace been as a river.” He

is unfit for Truth, and the demonstration of divine power, [10]

who departs from Mind to matter, and from Truth to

error, in pursuit of better means for healing the sick and

casting out error.

The Christian Scientist keeps straight to the course.

His whole inquiry and demonstration lie in the line of [15]

Truth; hence he suffers no shipwreck in a starless night

on the shoals of vainglory. His medicine is Mind—

the omnipotent and ever-present good. His “help is

from the Lord,” who heals body and mind, head and

heart; changing the affections, enlightening the mis- [20]

guided senses, and curing alike the sin and the mortal

sinner. God's preparations for the sick are potions of

His own qualities. His therapeutics are antidotes for

the ailments of mortal mind and body. Then let us not

adulterate His preparations for the sick with material [25]

means.

From lack of moral strength empires fall. Right alone

is irresistible, permanent, eternal. Remember that hu-

man pride forfeits spiritual power, and either vacillating

good or self-assertive error dies of its own elements. [30]

Through patience we must possess the sense of Truth;

and Truth is used to waiting. “Commit thy way unto

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the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to [1]

pass.”

By using falsehood to regain his liberty, Galileo vir-

tually lost it. He cannot escape from barriers who commits

his moral sense to a dungeon. Hear the Master [5]

on this subject: “No man can serve two masters: for

either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he

will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot

serve God and mammon.”

Lives there a man who can better define ethics, better [10]

elucidate the Principle of being, than he who “spake as

never man spake,” and whose precepts and example have

a perpetual freshness in relation to human events?

Who is it that understands, unmistakably, a fraction

of the actual Science of Mind-healing? [15]

It is he who has fairly proven his knowledge on a Chris-

tian, mental, scientific basis; who has made his choice

between matter and Mind, and proven the divine Mind

to be the only physician. These are self-evident proposi-

tions: That man can only be Christianized through Mind; [20]

that without Mind the body is without action; that Science

is a law of divine Mind. The conclusion follows that the

correct Mind-healing is the proper means of Christianity,

and is Science.

Christian Science may be sold in the shambles. Many [25]

are bidding for it,—but are not willing to pay the price.

Error is vending itself on trust, well knowing the will-

ingness of mortals to buy error at par value. The Reve-

lator beheld the opening of this silent mental seal, and

heard the great Red Dragon whispering that “no man [30]

might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name

of the beast, or the number of his name.”

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We are in the Valley of Decision. Then, let us take [1]

the side of him who “overthrew the tables of the money-

changers, and the seats of them that sold doves,”—of

such as barter integrity and peace for money and fame.

What artist would question the skill of the masters in [5]

sculpture, music, or painting? Shall we depart from the

example of the Master in Christian Science, Jesus of

Nazareth,—than whom mankind hath no higher ideal?

He who demonstrated his power over sin, disease, and

death, is the master Metaphysician. [10]

To seek or employ other means than those the Master

used in demonstrating Life scientifically, is to lose the

priceless knowledge of his Principle and practice. He

said, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His right-

eousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” [15]

Gain a pure Christianity; for that is requisite for heal-

ing the sick. Then you will need no other aid, and will

have full faith in his prophecy, “And there shall be one

fold, and one shepherd;” but, the Word must abide in

us, if we would obtain that promise. We cannot depart [20]

from his holy example,—we cannot leave Christ for the

schools which crucify him, and yet follow him in heal-

ing. Fidelity to his precepts and practice is the only pass-

port to his power; and the pathway of goodness and

greatness runs through the modes and methods of God. [25]

“He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.”

Соединения

Homœopathy is the last link in material medicine.

The next step is Mind-medicine. Among the foremost

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virtues of homœopathy is the exclusion of compounds [1]

from its pharmacy, and the attenuation of a drug up to

the point of its disappearance as matter and its manifesta-

tion in effect as a thought, instead of a thing.

Students of Christian Science (and many who are not [1]

students) understand enough of this to keep out of their

heads the notion that compounded metaphysics (so-called)

is, or can be, Christian Science,—that rests on oneness;

one cause and one effect.

They should take our magazine, work for it, write for [10]

it, and read it. They should eschew all magazines and

books which are less than the best.

“Choose you this day whom ye will serve.” Cleanse

your mind of the cobwebs which spurious “compounds”

engender. Before considering a subject that is unworthy [15]

of thought, take in this axiomatic truism: “Trust her

not, she's fooling thee;” and Longfellow is right.

Закрытие Массачусетского метафизического колледжа

Much is said at this date, 1889, about Mrs. Eddy's [20]

Massachusetts Metaphysical College being the only

chartered College of Metaphysics. To make this plain,

the Publishing Committee of the Christian Scientist

Association has published in the Boston Traveler the

following:— [25]

“To benefit the community, and more strongly mark

the difference between true and false teachers of mental

healing, the following history and statistics are officially

submitted:—

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“Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy obtained a college charter [1]

in January, 1881, with all the rights and privileges per-

taining thereunto (including the right to grant degrees)

under Act of 1874, Chapter 375, Section 4.

“This Act was repealed from and after January 31, [5]

1882. Mrs. Eddy's grant for a college, for metaphysical

purposes only, is the first on record in history, and no

charters were granted for similar colleges, except hers,

from January, 1881, till the repealing of said Act in

January, 1882. [10]

“The substance of this Act is at present incorporated

in Public Statutes, Chapter 115, Section 2, with the fol-

lowing important restrictions: In accordance with Statutes

of 1883, Chapter 268, any officer, agent, or servant of any

corporation or association, who confers, or authorizes [15]

to be conferred, any diploma or degree, shall be pun-

ished by a fine not less than five hundred dollars and

not more than one thousand dollars.

“All the mind-healing colleges (except Rev. Mrs.

Eddy's) have simply an incorporated grant, which may [20]

be called a charter, such as any stock company may ob-

tain for any secular purposes; but these so-called char-

ters bestow no rights to confer degrees. Hence to name

these institutions, under such charters, colleges, is a fraud-

ulent claim. There is but one legally chartered college [25]

of metaphysics, with powers to confer diplomas and de-

grees, and that is the Massachusetts Metaphysical College,

of which Rev. Mrs. Eddy is founder and president.”

I have endeavored to act toward all students of Chris-

tian Science with the intuition and impulse of love. If [30]

certain natures have not profited by my rebukes,—

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some time, as Christian Scientists, they will know the [1]

value of these rebukes. I am thankful that the neo-

phyte will be benefited by experience, although it will

cost him much, and in proportion to its worth.

I close my College in order to work in other directions, [5]

where I now seem to be most needed, and where none

other can do the work. I withdraw from an overwhelm-

ing prosperity. My students have never expressed so

grateful a sense of my labors with them as now, and

never have been so capable of relieving my tasks as at [10]

present.

God bless my enemies, as well as the better part of

mankind, and gather all my students, in the bonds of

love and perfectness, into one grand family of Christ's

followers. [15]

Loyal Christian Scientists should go on in their pres-

ent line of labor for a good and holy cause. Their insti-

tutes have not yet accomplished all the good they are

capable of accomplishing; therefore they should con-

tinue, as at present, to send out students from these [20]

sources of education, to promote the growing interest in

Christian Science Mind-healing.

There are one hundred and sixty applications lying on

the desk before me, for the Primary class in the Massa-

chusetts Metaphysical College, and I cannot do my best [25]

work for a class which contains that number. When

these were taught, another and a larger number would

be in waiting for the same class instruction; and if I

should teach that Primary class, the other three classes—

one Primary and two Normal—would be delayed. [30]

The work is more than one person can well accomplish,

and the imperative call is for my exclusive teaching.

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From the scant history of Jesus and of his disciples, [1]

we have no Biblical authority for a public institution.

This point, however, had not impressed me when I opened

my College. I desire to revise my book “Science and

Health with Key to the Scriptures,” and in order to do [5]

this I must stop teaching at present. The work that

needs to be done, and which God calls me to outside

of College work, if left undone might hinder the progress

of our Cause more than my teaching would advance it:

therefore I leave all for Christ. [10]

Deeply regretting the disappointment this will occa-

sion, and with grateful acknowledgments to the public

for its liberal patronage, I close my College.

Mary Baker G. Eddy

Злонамеренные сообщения

Truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.—Isaiah lix. 14.

When the press is gagged, liberty is besieged; but

when the press assumes the liberty to lie, it discounts

clemency, mocks morality, outrages humanity, breaks

common law, gives impulse to violence, envy, and hate, [20]

and prolongs the reign of inordinate, unprincipled clans.

At this period, 1888, those quill-drivers whose consciences

are in their pockets hold high carnival. When news-

dealers shout for class legislation, and decapitated reputa-

tions, headless trunks, and quivering hearts are held up [25]

before the rabble in exchange for money, place, and

power, the vox populi is suffocated, individual rights

are trodden under foot, and the car of the modern In-

quisition rolls along the streets besmeared with blood.

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Would not our Master say to the chief actors in scenes [1]

like these, “Ye fools and blind!” Oh, tardy human

justice! would you take away even woman's trembling,

clinging faith in divine power? Who can roll away the

stone from the door of this sepulchre? Who—but God's [5]

avenging angel!

In times like these it were well to lift the veil on the

sackcloth of home, where weepeth the faithful, stricken

mother, and the bruised father bendeth his aching head;

where the bereft wife or husband, silent and alone, looks [10]

in dull despair at the vacant seat, and the motherless

little ones, wondering, huddle together, and repeat with

quivering lips words of strange import. May the great

Shepherd that “tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,”

and binds up the wounds of bleeding hearts, just comfort, [15]

encourage, and bless all who mourn.

Father, we thank Thee that Thy light and Thy love

reach earth, open the prison to them that are bound, con-

sole the innocent, and throw wide the gates of heaven.

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