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MISCELLANEOUS IN CHARACTER

Mrs. Eddy to Mr. Edward A. Kimball

The belief that scares you is your own hand uplifted against yourself. Put it down. The Truth that is good is your life, and doing good you sustain it, but fearing evil you lose it. Body and mortal mind are one. I know this and take no thought for the body. Look out that your thought is right and your stomach will be forgotten, for you have none in Truth. Stick to this Truth and all is well. If thy right hand offend, cast it from thee. Cast out your liver! God is your life and you are the liver and there is no other liver. This is casting out evils and these signs shall follow them that believe.

Mrs. Eddy to Mr. Edward A. Kimball

There is no liver, no pneumogastric nerve and no nerves, no solar plexus. Then stand, having done all, stand on this Rock. There is no matter, no substance but Spirit. Stand there, know it, draw all other physical conclusions from this one all Truth. Stay in Boston and vicinity always if you please. I know you can master it, the lie, there as well as elsewhere. To run before a lie is to accept its terms. This works like running before the enemy in battle. You will be followed, pursued, till you face about, trust in God and stand on Spirit denying and facing and fighting all claims of matter and mortal mind both one.

Read Science and Health 562:29-568:7. To know that the dragon is in truth but a mythical creation, saves us from it. If we make something of it, and attempt to destroy it, we will be vanquished every time. Only Truth and Love can destroy the dragon. What is it to love? To always see the man of God’s creation, and nothing else, and to separate from our thought of man any belief of fear, sin or disease. This is love. Let us strive more and more earnestly to reflect this love in our homes, where little errors so often tempt us to lose sight of the real child of God.

We each dwell in our own world of consciousness. We look out through the windows of this consciousness and behold the passing procession of mortal mind. Day after day we have been lured forth, have been pressed into the whirl, lost our individual peace and poise in divine Mind, and found ourselves dragged through the meanness, uncleanness, the pain of the procession. We seek to regain our own home of consciousness, wiser for the experience, thinking we will not again become part of error’s pageant: but here let the newer understanding of love guard well your door. Stay in your own home of demonstration. Keep your peace, for idle curiosity, criticism, or even false sympathy may lure you forth.

Logic. July l0, 1909. If a man says, "I lie," does he tell the truth or does he lie? The logical reply is: if he lies, he tells the truth and if he tells the truth, he lies. We ask, What is a lie? It is the absence of Truth, of reality, the absence of God, the absence of good, hence evil is a lie and a lie is not real, therefore evil is unreal. An evil-doer is losing his own selfhood; he is becoming a nonentity, harming himself more than he can harm any other person. What then is success in evil? It is downright defeat. The greater its success, the surer its defeat. Evil is self-destroyed. What is this destruction? It is the loss of selfhood, the loss of the power to do good and to realize the attainable power that is good. The most selfish mortal should heed the Scripture, "Do thyself no harm." Selfishness is the development of sin, sickness, disease, death. Soul is unselfed; it could not be immortal and be selfish. The most selfish man or woman is the most soulless, when selfishness consists in loving one’s self better than he loves his neighbor.

To Judge Septimus J. Hanna, who wrote asking whether a Christian Scientist should go into politics: There is more present good done by being in the midst of error and neutralizing the old with the new. The old bottle of dishonesty in politicians needs emptying, and it needs your purpose poured into it, the purpose to accomplish the most good for the largest number. If you are now sufficiently rooted and grounded in Christ, Truth, and all its sweet savors of patience, wisdom, grace to bear the strain, you can do more good by occasionally working among politicians than by taking yourself away from them. It will be a great strain upon your Christliness, but if you take it up as a cross, and bear it meekly, God will direct and sustain all such endeavors, and you will grow in the stature of Christ by all the things that await you.

Mortals may have a big belief of brain, but according to Christian Science, the claim that somebody thinks, blinds man to the fact that there is but one Mind, God, and consequently one real thinker and one thought. Isa.14:24: "The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand." When man begins to see himself as the reflection God, Mind, and recognizes that he has within himself the capacity to act as possessing all power from Him in whom we live, move and have our being, he has reached the highest of all endowments and fruitful of all good works. He who is obedient to Truth has immense power for service. The Truth frees him from ignorance of his capacities and privileges. It fortifies and sustains him under all circumstances. It is here and now. Pentecostal power is always present. It is the power of Mind enabling man to do the will of wisdom, for God’s biddings are always enablings. It is the power to think, to act, to speak so that life will be fruitful and joyous. It is the capacity every man possesses to act in harmony with divine power, and this is to preserve a scientific sense of being. Nothing is truth but the absolute. We do not know anything. Mind is the only source of power. Thought is the only force. Therefore those who have turned to the fountainhead of being for the solution of any problem, have brought such titanic force into intelligent activity that the results may seem incredible. Principle does not require time to become itself and find its true expression. Mind is causative. We reflect the ideas of Mind, interpret them to ourselves and objectify or bring out the fruit of thought. Therefore the word of God, spoken into consciousness, is the seed bearing fruit after its kind.

Now, my students, you go from this class with the intention of doing right. You will not willfully err. Let me tell you, only one of two things can hinder this intention or disturb you; that is fear or malice. When you follow my rules these cannot touch you. When you have treated a patient and have removed all envy, hatred and pride from your own thought, stand in the Truth, not a treatment but an attitude. Some say they have treated and worked and gone their way when in reality they have not given one helpful thought to their relief. Do not work, seek. Do not be anxious, knock and find, and stand in the consciousness of Truth. Do not look to matter to tell you your success but look up, for your harvest is right at hand. You know the Father’s love, trust it. Then when you hear a whisper, "Now you are a sinner, and so and so is your punishment, this suffering is the consequence," put it out; put it out. Animal magnetism says you are a sinner when you know you are not going deliberately to work to sin. Then empty your thought of fear and say, "I look to God, my Father, to see what I am. He alone shall tell me of myself." Never address the person or persons who err by treating them mentally or treating yourself against them. Never recognize the person in your argument. You must not, but take it up, the error only, and never doctor the error much, but make yourself so conscious of the opposite Truth that the error disappears. Know that nothing can come to you or go from you but what God sends, and therefore there is no mortal mind to influence you, for only one Mind exists and that is immortal Love. Overcome the evil mind with good, and do not feel that any other mind or person exists. This will deliver you. If you allow any belief of your own or another personality to dwell in thought, it will hinder you from overcoming personality in your healing or casting out sin. There is no personality, and this is more important to know than that there is no disease. Stop it and remember that you can never rid yourself of the erring effects of personality while holding in thought a personality. The way is to put it wholly out of thought and keep before you the perfect model.

Does the stupid ostrich protect his life by hiding his head from the hunter? Does yielding your purse to a robber prevent his making another demand on your treasures or your life? Becoming the servant of a hard master, whose tender mercies are cruel, will not save you from his lash. Conscious obedience to the open or secret demands of evil minds, ensures moral and physical death. Ignorant submission to these evil though inaudible demands is sure doom. Your eyes must be opened, that you may see and feel this hidden influence; for if you only understood its cause, you would besiege it with Science, until you compelled the city of evil to capitulate, and so saved yourself. Science is more exacting than sense; it abates not one demand. All possible progress in Christian Science is sacrificed by him who yields to the influence of animal magnetism. Knowing this, the envious mental malpractitioner, intent on reducing you to his standard, sends to you, mentally, his demoralizing arguments; but at the same moment he whispers into your thought: "I am not influencing you; it is such and such a one." (No and Yes, first edition.)

Sense and Soul’s Law by Mary Baker Eddy (never published). There is no law of sense making me forget what I should do or do it wrongly. There is but one law and this law is God’s making me remember what I should do and do it rightly.

Copy of notes of Mrs. Eddy’s in James A. Neal’s possession: There is no fear or effects from fear — no reversal. She (Mrs. Stetson) and her students cannot send any thoughts here. There is but one Mind and that is good. No evil spirits, no poison, no theosophy can come, no evil suggestions, no suffering coming here or sent here because of the court. Affirm without limitation the truth that perfect health is here, etc. Ps. 91. No reversal. You cannot make laws. Divine Love governs all. You are governed by divine Love; you feel no envy, no revenge, no hatred. All you feel is Love, peace, and Love fills your thoughts and makes you happy and satisfied.

The origin of evil is the problem of the ages; it confronts each generation anew; it confronts Christian Science; the question is often asked, if God created only the good whence cometh the evil? To this question Christian Science replies evil never did exist as an entity; it is but a belief that there is an opposite intelligence to God. This belief is a species of idolatry. The admission of the reality of evil perpetuates faith in evil, and the Scriptures declare that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are. This leading self-evident proposition of Christian Science — that good being real, its opposite is necessarily unreal — needs to be grasped in all its divine requirements.

Let your minds go out every two hours, all is peace, good will, love, etc. Say nothing of error, confine your thoughts to the right side.

No error can harm our Cause or a true Christian Scientist. Good is supreme, it is all, and evil is powerless. Our arguments cannot be reversed. Truth is not hindered, it brings forth.

Know and realize good is omnipotent; evil is impotent. There is but one Mind; there is no mortal mind.

You produce on yourself just what you are trying to produce on others. You reap what you sow and nobody else does, and you cannot change this law of Truth. You cannot help yourself, your students cannot help you, till you stop lying and trying to hurt others.

Evil is not power, not mind, and nobody has any power to accomplish evil of any sort (here stop and dwell on this argument till you realize this truth), then declare that Love is All and in all, in every thought, and all power is in Love. There is no other power. Evil is powerless; there is no evil. Hypnotism, theosophy, and esoteric magic have no power to do evil, and cannot reverse Truth — but Life, Truth, Love have reversed, and they have destroyed all evil. There are no false suggestions, lying arguments or hatred — these are illusions, they do not exist. I have no fear of them, I am not controlled by them. Divine Love is supreme and controls all I think, say, or do. Pray daily, twice at least, to divine Love to give you success, then realize for yourself that Love and Truth and action on your part (for Truth does not work for you unless you work) will give you the victory. Guard reversal. There is no law of hypnotism to reverse God’s law. Truth is unchangeable, and cannot be reversed.

There is nobody hurting you. You or your students cannot help yourselves by taking up others, for nobody is hurting you. God, Love, governs, and love is not overcome by hate. You cannot fight against God. God, good, is supreme and does govern. There must be an outpouring of love to meet this hour.

When you argue on all subjects that should end well, be a law to your own consciousness that what you say cannot be reversed and inverted and made to produce the very opposite of what you argue for. This is a late phase of theosophy and M. A. M. that needs to be met.

(Stetson) or anybody else that is trying to hurt her, cannot make laws. The lies they whisper hurt no one but themselves. Lies, hatred, revenge have no power but to destroy themselves, and they do destroy themselves every time they try to hurt anybody else. This is God’s law, it cannot be broken, and it cannot make anybody suffer because we tell you this. You cannot help yourself, and nobody can help you till you stop trying to hurt others. You can never prosper while you try to hurt others or make your students believe anybody is harming you, for nobody is doing this. Now you do see this and love God and man. Then turn to the right side in your own consciousness, and know this truth — God alone reigns, and all is Love.

Be careful not to use human will, but speak in the power of divine Love that is a law to human hate and destroys it.

This is the second coming of the Christ and it will be the last.

When Mr. Dickey was telling our Leader of Mrs. Dickey’s healing work in Kansas City (she was there and he was at the home), she said that she wanted to tell him something, and said that she could not give it out, and cautioned him not even to tell Mrs. Dickey until he thought she was ready for it. She said, "When any practitioner puts Science and Health in a patient’s hands, it is Science and Health that does the healing."

She said she hadn’t attained one millionth of what the book calls for. "It is a wonderful book and covers eternity," she said.

One day Mrs. Eddy touched Adam Dickey’s hand with her finger and asked him, "What is this?" He replied, "Matter," She said, "It is not; it is Spirit." Then another time she looked at him and said, "You are Spirit." And he said, "No, Mother, I am spiritual." She said in a very emphatic way, "You are Spirit." And he said, "Mother, I do not see that." She said, "You are Spirit," the third time, but he said he could not see it. When he was going to his room, he met Mrs. Sargent and he told her of the conversation with Mrs. Eddy, and she said, "Oh, Mr. Dickey, why did you say that! Mother was trying to give you her highest teaching."

MOTIVE (April 16, 1909)

We think before we speak, then if our thought is right our words will be as nearly right as our thoughts; but if our thoughts are wrong and our words are right, the result will follow the wrong direction. We may deceive man, but we cannot deceive God. He searcheth the heart and rewards or punishes the motive until the act follows in the right direction. Oh! Thou eternal Love, I leave my adopted children — and Thy children — to Thee who art wisdom, unfailing and unfaltering wisdom and Love, to guard them in this hour of the attempted reign of M. A. M., the reign and rule of all that is selfish, debased and unjust.

My beloved students: Enter into the closet of divine Love, and there in humility ask this ever-present power to shield and to defend you from the enemies of your souls and bodies, to defend you and guard you and guide you in the paths of righteousness, pleasantness and Truth.

Be not deceived; "God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." God knows your motive and will reward it or punish it according to His wisdom and justice, not yours. Not the so-called human, but the divine wisdom shall reign despite your mistaken human hopes, motives or acts. Examine your motives; ask if selfish desire governs them; or of in obedience to the divine command you are taking up your cross and following Him. Self-seeking will never result in Soul-finding — in finding divine wisdom and Love apart from self, and self swallowed up in a victory of Soul. There is but one way of salvation from sin, disease and death, and this way is to take up the cross in order to follow Christ; then God, who knows your motive, will reward your act according to that motive and not according to your words. Hear O Israel! You cannot succeed with a wrong motive, for it will result in a wrong act. Cleanse your hearts, ye doubleminded, and keep your account with God, for you shall be judged according to the Book of Life that registers motives, and records the impulses of Mind, not matter. Let thy tongue and thy pen be employed in the execution of right motives, then shall thy reward come from heaven, that overcometh the powers of earth, and wherein and whereby man deals justly, walks humbly.

To Edward A. Kimball

1893. For the world to understand me in my true light, and life, would do more for our Cause than aught else could. This I learn from the fact that the enemy tries harder to hide these two things from the world than to win any other points. Also Jesus’ life and character in their first appearing were treated in like manner. And I regret to see that loyal students are not more awake to this great demand in their measures to meet the enemies’ tactics.

To Edward A. Kimball

1893. I Have learned from bitter experience that the head instructed before the heart is ready, costs me and our Cause dangerous difficulties and sore defeats.

To Dr. Alfred E. Baker

There is no morphine of malice poison that puts to sleep — that is, to your own best interest — and causes dreams and illusions.

There is no strychnine of jealousy poison that contracts and keeps from seeing beyond one’s own self — that is, to make us voice error where we should voice truth.

There is no sulphur of hatred poison that always inflames — that is, we must watch this, that it does not open the door to the hatred of the world.

There is no arsenic of envy poison to swell and puff up.

There is no cocaine poison to cause depression.

There is no corrosive sublimate of worry poison that eats and gnaws.

Three Stages

1st. Good resolves.

2nd. Continual asking forgiveness.

3rd. Hardness of heart, resolve to take own course.

"Did not bargain to be a Christian."

We must recognize the claim of error and oppose it, or we are in danger of being blinded by it and becoming its victim.

Foreign nations are allied, but the United States stands alone in her glory. . . This little leaven of righteousness will finally leaven the whole lump of nations till armies and navies are not requisite, and the brotherhood of man is established on the Principle of one God and Father, and loving our neighbor as ourself.

Letter to Hannah A. Larminie, January 4, 1891. Your present to me is such a sweet reminder of yourself, your head and your heart — that I just love to look at your offering to my useless feet, useless I mean in the sense of material toil, and faster I hope than ever and more beautiful upon the mountains of Holiness and in the dwelling place of the Most High.

Dear one, I felt a little cloud no bigger than a man’s hand pass before my eyes, and the raindrop of a tear, as I read your letter. My heart goes out to you with a prayer "comfort ye my people," give her an abundance of love this year, and love so divine that a human sense of love would only mar it, and spoil its joy. Oh! Father, make her home here sweet, a resting place from the world, and where no memory of mortal joy or sorrow can come to cloud the immortal peace, for there is no peace, no pleasure, no bliss in mortal things. However dear they may be to sense, to Soul they are not permitted. Now my loved one, which do you choose, for both you cannot have? I would rather drink the cup of pain and anguish than sip the chalice of sensual pleasures in even their mildest and best forms. Why? Because they are God’s high tides that hourly waft us nearer and nearer the shore of eternal bliss.

"Where no arrow wounds the dove.

Where no partings are for love."

Even though the waves are dark and tumultuous in this heavenward course as we are reaching the sweet haven home, they will grow calm, and then Oh! then, it is home at last, and there is no night there and no more sea.

Lovingly ever thine,

Mary B. G. Eddy.

My beautiful slippers fit admirably, are plenty large.

Do we not all understand cowardice never conquers? To get rid of temptation of any sort or to get out of a difficulty, we are not passive and let the wrong rule the right, but we struggle and thus conquer. We should not avoid the things that hurt us, but repeat them and meet them as their superior. Disease is a coward that leaves when you are not afraid of it.

A RULE AT PLEASANT VIEW

No student can eat at my table who does not say a few words for God before he or she leaves the table. I was early educated to this. I always do it at my table because I cannot avoid doing it.

LETTER TO A STUDENT ABOUT TO TRAVEL

Remember that unless you travel mentally, that if you don’t traverse new lands spiritually, if you don’t cross metaphysical waters and reach shores hitherto unvisited in Soul, you have wasted your time, money, and effort, and you will get nothing out of it. Don’t do less Science, but more. May God enfold you in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake, where no evil, no accident, no allurements, no blame lies, claiming some world more dazzlingly beautiful than the radiance of divine Love, for straight is the gate and narrow the way thereto.

When animal magnetism has done its worst, it has done nothing.

When animal magnetism has howled and howled, it has done nothing.

PRAYER OF THE WATCHERS

The effect of this prayer is not reversed.

God, good, reigns; there is no other mind. Love reigns, there is no hatred, no envy, no revenge. All things are working together for good to those that love good. We do love good, God, and He gives us all our thoughts, motives, and governs all our acts. The divine Life preserves our life and health, and they cannot be taken from Christian Scientists, and Christian Scientists cannot be made sinful. We love God and God loves us and is guiding us every moment. This prayer cannot be reversed. This prayer bears fruit after its own kind, it does good, it blesses us and all others.

Prayer Sent To The Watchers

October 20, 1903 with the comment: "Charge them not to change, add to, or diminish this prayer. Something is out of tune. This will be a chord."

The thief is ready to rob and to steal all treasures. But our Master said that if the good man had watched, his house would not have been broken open. I beg you to watch and pray to this end. You are in danger unless you do. The more useful and prominent you become, the harder the mental robbers will work to rob you of good thoughts, a strong purpose and wise efforts to do God’s will.

One Mind, and loving others as we would be loved, is the panacea for all our wrongs, trouble and strife.

Truth cannot be reversed; it bears the fruit of health and holiness.

Life cannot be reversed; it bears the fruit of immortal harmony.

Love cannot be reversed; it destroys all fear and heals the sick and the sinful.

A treatment is never afraid that it will not work, for the declaration of Truth brings with it a consciousness of its sure and immediate effect.

WHAT IS THE ATONEMENT?

It is the self-sacrifice that finds the way for others through the experience that meets and overcomes error; then shows this way to others who have slept, to save them from a similar experience.

Love, overflowing, makes angels, is entitled to God’s care, governs fate, kindles all hearts with delight, and, as in Israel’s dream, it rises above earth to Heaven.

From The Christian Science Journal, March, 1897

Mentally treat yourself that nothing can govern your actions or come to your thought that is not from the divine Mind. Be strong there. So many sinister suggestions come to mind, watch! and each day commit yourself to the care of our one Parent, trust Him, turn to Him in all your ways for light to direct your footsteps and wisdom to enable you to separate the tares from the wheat — so that you can judge well between the human or the evil "suggestion" and the good or divine impulse.

To make too little of error is to ignore, evade, endure, excuse, and conceal it. To make too much of error is to love, hate, fear, honor, and drive it. Then error is not to be ignored, evaded, endured, excused, concealed, loved, hated, feared, honored, or driven.

The "liberty of the sons of God" is for each one to desire God, and for each one to desire for his mortal neighbor just what he desires for himself.

When asked by members of her household to tell them what was the most simple yet profound prayer that could be uttered, it is recorded that Mary Baker Eddy said, "Pray without ceasing: O God, show me Thy way and keep me in that way." See C. S. Sentinel, Vol XXXVIII, p. 998

All genius is sad in its youth. It is the precursor of mortal mind that discords — never harmonizes — with Life, Truth or Love. So dear young friend, cultivate joy, hope, faith. Life lies before you glorious. Banish the shadow, seize the substance thereof, and God, good, is with you alway.

This Cause must be carried morally by silent argument, just the same as you carry it physically. This is the great duty for Christians, that they must do or be accountable to God for leaving it undone.

Be wholly absorbed in the work of gaining daily more understanding of God. Then personal ambition, envy, desire to be in this or that place, cannot use you. Personal ambition has no place in a Christian’s thought or life. He is wholly occupied in the loving, humble purpose to do good, to be good, and to prove that good is all that can govern thought, action, condition, or being.

I have only to trust in God, for Love is destroying disease. I can’t do it. Truth and Love are at work and error and hate can’t stand before them. They are destroying sin, disease and death. I know this, and my faith in it cannot fail, and I cannot fear.

No one is loyal to Truth, to himself, to his God, or is worthy of heaven, who has not faith, pluck, and patience enough to endure, without fainting, apparent defeat and delayed rewards.

When holding no hate in thought and only Love, we are doing good to all and this continually.

Vigilance and victory are in Truth inseparable.

Be wise, calm, slow to judge, patient, pure, loving. These are the graces of Christian Science.

Mary Baker Eddy’s

DAILY MENTAL INVOCATION

as given to Dr. Edward French, July 10, 1907

Divine Love: Give me grace, meekness, understanding and wisdom for each hour of this day.

Whenever there seems to be a need or lack in your experience, this simply indicates the scientific fact that this seeming need is already supplied by God’s gracious abundance. Then give thanks with your whole heart because you have learned in Christian Science that God’s supply is ever at hand. (This was found in Mrs. Eddy’s Science and Health signed, after she had left us. See Christian Science Sentinel, Volume XI, Page 26.)

Love is safe in the divine Principle, and never safe out of it.

I am because Thou art. I am where Thou art. I am what Thou art. I am with Thee, O Thou infinite, I AM. I am good. I am holy. I am free.

On page 149 of the Christian Science Journal for November, 1885, is the following:

The fairest action of our human life

Is scorning to revenge an injury.

For who forgives without a further strife,

His adversary’s heart to him doth tie:

And ‘tis a firmer conquest, truly said,

To win the heart than overthrow the head.

Mary Baker Eddy marked this poem in her copy of the Journal and wrote in the margin: "To forgive your enemies is equivalent to having no enemies."

Argument for yourself: I am not hypnotized, not self-mesmerized to believe a lie. I am governed by God. I am not glamored. There is no hypnotism, no mortal mind, no presence, no power, in evil. God is All, and my only Mind. He gives me all my thoughts, governs all my thoughts, words and acts. He teaches me how to pray aright.

My dear student:

Love is a mighty spiritual force.

Mass. Metaphysical College, Boston, 1884

Heaven in the heart of one means heaven in the heart of all.

The Christian Science student’s affection, fidelity and devotion are born in the furnace and blossom in wisdom won by experience. This is the price and reward of taking one’s treasure out of material vessels.

(This sentence was originally included in the article in Miscellany 275:24.)

Defeat is to acknowledge defeat.

"God has not given us vast learning to solve all the problems or unfailing wisdom to direct all the wanderings of our brothers’ lives; but He has given to every one of us the power to be spiritual, and by our spirituality to lift and enlarge and enlighten the lives we touch." This quotation from the pen of Phillips Brooks was printed in the Christian Science Sentinel for January 6, 1906. When Mary Baker Eddy read this she wrote under it in pencil: "The secret of my life is in the above."

(See C. S. Sentinel, Vol XX, p. 1019)

Life understood spiritually is heaven here.

July 19, 1907

Everything must come out right when we trust in God.

Christian Science Sentinel, Vol. X, page 792.

It is not self-hardening but humility under trouble, that makes us ripe for deliverance. They who are conscious of integrity never shun a trial. It is a hard task to forgive injuries without reluctance, but to rejoice in the fall of an enemy is malicious and murderous. The greatest provocation will never justify our revenge.

If you have so much to meet, just think how much you have to meet it with.

To Julia Field-King

July 12, 1897. You need not discontinue giving those private written directions to any and all your students who need them. I do foresee that the handling of serpents wisely and harmlessly is the pending need of the period. I have taught mine privately how to do this as I could not publicly, inasmuch as the symptoms or seeming effects demand different arguments and according to the hour. The 1st Commandment is the full remedy. Possess yourself of good, and dispossess yourself of any other mind, and all the mystery of iniquity beateth in vain against your house.

Now I lay me down to sleep;

I trust in Truth my thoughts to keep.

I die to error every day,

And think and step the heavenly way.

I live in Love — the heaven that’s here,

Of God, — Father-Mother — dear,

‘Tis my home; I have no fear

To lay me down, for God is here.

Trust in God — God is Life — God is infinite, therefore if we are the image and likeness of infinity, we have no beginning and no end, and are His image and likeness; that is my life insurance.

Right must triumph because it is part of the divine plan.

(The above caption headed the editorial page of the Christian Science Monitor dated September 15, 1908 which was printed as a sample to show to Mary Baker Eddy, but was not sold.)

Neither space nor time can separate genuine Christian Scientists.

(See Christian Science Sentinel, Volume 8, page 296.)

Because I have put my trust in good, I have no responsibility whatever. My home is in God. I partake of the bounties of God’s table, spread with the milk and honey of His kingdom. I give no heed to what I shall say, to what I shall wear, or wherewithal I shall pay my debts. Whatsoever I shall speak, God speaks through me. His word is for the healing of the nations. He clothes me with white garments of His own weaving — the robe of righteousness eternal and indestructible. Truth is my income, is ever-present, and has wiped out all my indebtedness. Truth and Love flow freely without price.

O God, I have taken hold of Thy hand, of Thine omnipotence. Thou hast taken my feet from the mire and clay and established them upon the rock. I am not afraid for I know thou hast lifted me above the world, its erroneous illusions and temptations. I know them henceforth no more forever.

Wherein lies the wisdom of the serpent? To hide itself. Therefore hide yourself in the understanding of Christian Science. Be it small or great, we have in some way needed the experience we have had. Never be found as a Christian Scientist mourning over an experience; it is a thing of the past; but not so the manifold power and presence of God resulting therefrom.

If you rise spiritually, you lose your sense of "I" in matter and gain your selfhood in Spirit. This brings the divine health which is not dependent upon the body, but is of the Father, forever the same.

Is poverty crying aloud in the land? Then we should know the purpose of God is rich in blessing to the poor — in Spirit. The fullness of the earth belongs to the healthful circulation of honesty, virtue and progress in the footsteps of Truth. (It is said that Mrs. Eddy gave this to Wm. Johnson, Clerk of The Mother Church, to send out in a letter to the field when The Mother Church was being built.)

I have taken you up into the Mount and showed you the Promised Land, but you will have to walk every step of the way to get there.

Self-depreciation is not humility but the meanest kind of pride because it admits a sense of self apart from God.

Letter to Miss Prime found in her Science and Health.

We understand as Christian Scientists that our varied experiences are things of the past; not so the marvelous sense of God’s presence resulting therefrom! God has placed us all in our orbit, and like the stars we are held there by His power. One does not interfere with another and we cannot fall out. Also, God is abundance. God giveth the only abundance. Mental malpractice or error cannot rob us of that abundance, either mentally, morally, physically, or intellectually. This demonstrated proves the power of Life, Truth and Love for every human need.

Concord, N. H., Oct. 11, 1891

Your tender night vision and thoughts by day are indications of pure desires to be clothed in white robes.

"And not a sparrow falleth" without due observation. Your desire to be Christly will be satisfied, not in its fullest, but in its meekest want.

Yes, He who clothes the lilies will tend you and gird you with strength in Truth and Love, and so establish the labor of your hands in His vineyard. Never distrust, never doubt the All-Love, for it never faileth. As your day, so shall your strength be. Be patient, let faith grow stronger and stronger each day of this pilgrimage.

Question. How do mortals grow into immortals?

(S.&H. p. 292:27. Old Edition.)

Answer. As darkness grows into light by the darkness disappearing. St. John the Revelator caught the true vision of man and the universe; in it there was no night, no matter, no mortal mind. This state of being is the reality of all scientific consciousness, and it is here and now. Jesus said the kingdom of heaven is already within you and in proportion as the mortal (which is mortal — even sin, sickness and death) disappears until the immortal appears. Mortals grow into immortals in the sense only that the mortal is found nothing, and the immortal the only thing, fact, and mode of being.

This is Science in contradiction to Kant’s philosophy, that nature makes mortals and in turn mortals make nature.

Keep your joy! This is the hour of demonstration, dominion and power, gratitude and glorification; for even with faults man is still Love’s idea.

I love to be where God wants me to be; I love to do what God wants me to do — without asking how, when, or why. I have my place in Principle; I have my work in Principle; I have my reward in Principle; and there is no law of mental malpractice that can act through any condition or circumstance to hinder or obstruct the perfect and complete manifestation of God’s plan for me here and now.

To my view, the idea of race is superior to the idea of sex. Indeed may we not look forward to a human condition where perfection is near, wherein neither male nor female shall be known, and the race may produce itself otherwise than now?

The Science of Mind uncovers to Scientists secret sin, even more distinctly than so-called physical crimes are visible to the personal senses; crime is always veiled in obscurity, but Science fastens guilt upon its author through Mind with the certainty and directness of the eye of God Himself.

To Rev. Easton

I found it essential when the pastor of this church to lead them by my own state of love and spirituality. By fervor in speaking the Word, by tenderness in searching into their needs, and especially by feeling myself uttering the spirit of Christian Science — together with the letter.

O, may the God of all grace and peace and joy and love give you wisdom to feed this dear flock, and He will if you trust Him and obey Him. These are His only conditions.

To the Rev. D. A. Easton

I feel it my duty to state to you the spiritual need of my old church in that city. It is in short a revival, an outpouring of love, of the Spirit that beareth witness. I found it essential . . . One more candid hint. Have your sermons not at all commonplace, but well chosen, eloquent and adapted to the Boston high culture. To this end you need much study and contemplation.

To Rev. Easton

Unless we have better healers, and more of this work than any other is done, our Cause will not stand and having done all stand. Demonstration is the whole of Christian Science, nothing else proves it, nothing else will save it and continue it with us. God has said this — and Christ Jesus has proved it.

Preaching and teaching are of no use without the proof. I find that the teachers and preachers are the poorest practitioners.

To Rev. D. A. Easton, Boston, March 26, 1889

Allow me my dear student to say — if you will make a study of S. & H. for one month and go through the book as you would any textbook in college, it will be of great advantage to you.

Mrs. Eddy said to a student who had a case that was not being healed: "I would do three things: (1) Rise to a higher sense of the nothingness of matter. (2) Know there is one Mind and it governs you and your patient. (3) Know that no ignorant or malicious malpractice can interfere with you or your patients."

The healing will grow more easy and be more immediate as you realize that God, good, is all, and God is Love. You must gain Love and lose the false sense called love. You must feel the Love that never faileth — that perfect sense of divine power that makes healing no longer power, but grace. Then you will have the Love that casts out fear, and when fear is gone, doubt is gone and your work is done. Why? Because it never was undone.

God bless you and every day show you a little more of infinite Love. Just your daily bread; more you will not digest.

To Rev. Easton, October 18, 1893

The edition of S. & H. revised, is now finished. May the light God has set upon its pages illumine my students and all mankind.

Error wants to be let alone, but we are not going to let it alone. Rather will we continue our effort at right thinking until the absurd and illegitimate argument that man is flesh and bones — organized matter — is met and the ideas of God manifested.

On the 27th of June, 1909, Mrs. Eddy had been reading the Sentinel of the day before, and often commenting upon some one getting results from declaring his divine sonship, etc. She said: "No such experiences ever come to me. I reach the results without intermediate steps. If any one was said to be ill in the next room, I wouldn’t have to treat, I would just know the Truth about them and they would seem to be no more sick or dead than you are. I cannot tell you how I do it, but I have none of the experiences recorded by others, though I enjoy reading them."

Answer to question asked Mrs. Eddy: The time will come when Christian Scientists will not have offices downtown and sit and wait for sick people to come and be healed.

Injustice clogs the channels of Love — clear it away that they may flow.

One more candid hint I will throw out on things less sacred, but very requisite. Give the mesmerists no points to your disadvantage. The wicked horde of this class in Boston exceed any other place. Never name (and caution your family also) any belief of sickness in the past or present, no private experiences of any sort, unless they are good and true.

Put away all selfishness out of your thoughts, such as thinking you have been wronged or any sense of ingratitude or injustice from others. Bury it out of sight forever and let love pour in where that has seemed to be. Forgive as you expect to be forgiven.

Mrs. Eddy turned to Isa. 30:8 and knew this as a leading to write S.& H.; to Isa. 62:10 which directed her to start the Monitor. At Pleasant View, during a terrible storm, thunder and lightning, fear possessed the members of the household and Mrs. Eddy turned to Jer. 29:7-20 and read it to the household; the fear was healed and the storm ceased at once.

To Rev. Easton

God is giving each of us the experience best adapted to lead us to Him.

In answer to Rev. Easton’s inquiry, should he perform wedding ceremonies of Scientists, Mrs. Eddy wrote, "I hope you will not have to perform such a ceremony. The marriage problem presents before the world a question, the most critical belonging to Christian Scientists. I dread the ordeal through which it must pass, and we with it."

571 Columbus Avenue,

Boston,

January 2, 1885

My dear Student:

Your interesting letter should have been answered sooner but this is my very first chance to reply. Yes dear, a case of deafness from fracture of the drum is as readily cured on the Principle of Mental Science as the simple earache. All that hinders your finding it so is the reality you make of matter. The false teaching of so-called mental healing is fastening the belief in matter, and this fastens the belief in disease, and the only way it can be cured after that, is through belief and willpower, which leaves the so-called cure worse than the disease. Why? Because a stronger belief had to master the weaker. . . The basis of Metaphysical Healing is Mental Science and this Science has nothing to do with matter, only to say and to establish in the back of mind that there is no matter. See this and you heal all cases of belief since all are founded on matter.

Ever truly,

M. B. G. Eddy

Your spiritual qualities are sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity, activity.

Mrs. McDonald said that Mrs. Eddy said that the four rivers (in Genesis) were the order of Truth’s unfolding to the human consciousness. Pison — Gihon — Hiddekel — Euphrates. Read S.&.H. 593:3; 587:3; 588:5; 595:16.

Mrs. Sargent asked Mrs. Eddy how she did her marvelous healing in the early days, and she replied after being silent a moment — with a smile — "I just got out of God’s way."

The Christian Scientist’s Prayer

There is no matter and no mortal mind. God is All-in-all. All is harmony, health, holiness. This is the prayer "unceasing" to be used on all occasions and at all times. It lays the axe at the root of unreality, materiality (that forbidden tree) and cuts it down. Preserve a sacred silence on this subject of prayer.

Signed, Author of Science and Health.

God never leaves us without light enough to take one step. Do not stop walking until the light gives out.

The irresistible law of God puts me in the right place at the right time, maintains my success, and gives me individual freedom.

The more spiritual one is, the more conscious to him is an error of belief.

We experience a recurrence of evil and suffering because we do not forget them. We are often deterred from undertaking things because of the remembrance of past failures.

Self-knowledge gives us a knowledge of others.

De-personalize self. To personalize thought limits spiritual growth.

The right thing done at the wrong time ceases to be the right thing. There is as much in when a thing is done as in what is done.

If you fight, you make a fight.

What you are doing is not sacrifice, but offering.

The strongest tie I ever had, aside from God, was love of home.

Remember to keep your own doorstep clean. Always keep your medicine chest in order. The greatest blessing you can bestow on anyone is to know God governs him. It is more difficult to demonstrate over the personal sense of a patient than to heal the disease.

Mrs. Eddy was asked once why a patient was not healed.

"You did not feel love enough. Feel love! Feel love!" was the answer.

November 13, 1910. Manna must fall from your lips every day to help some mortal mind for time and eternity.

August 21, 1910. Keep hold of the hand of God.

July 13, 1910. Not wearing out, you mean wearing in.

O! May you feel the touch of the spiritual idea that is the light in your path!

February 10, 1895. I walk right up to death, and I don’t find anything more.

February 2, 1898. There is no overaction, inaction, stoppage or clogging to the heart, for the heart is Love.

February 7, 1898. There is nothing to change of life. (Mrs. Eddy never saw anything of periods after she came into Christian Science.)

January 28, 1898. The only trouble is we limit God’s power. We could even raise the dead from the grave if we did not limit Him. Jesus would not have passed on if the disciples had watched with him as requested.

Ingratitude is the original sum total of evil, and its only remedy is gratitude, the highest human quality its destruction.

Declare there are no accidents, no disease, no old age, no death and we know it.

The tares and wheat appear to grow together until the harvest; then the tares are first gathered, that is, you have seasons of seeing your errors . . . and afterwards by reason of this very seeing, the tares are burned, the error is destroyed. Then you see Truth plainly and the wheat is gathered into barns; it becomes permanent in the understanding. You are growing. The Father has sealed you, and the opening of these seals must not surprise you. The character of Christ is wrought out in our lives in just such processes.

Mrs. Eddy said to Mrs. Annie Knott: "Rise to the altitude of true womanhood and the world will want you."

In the spirit of meekness and humility, affirm and reaffirm the allness and absolute supremacy of the one and only God.

Every leaf of every tree declares perpetually that God is Love.

Demonstrate your way out of wanting or needing money and you will have it.

We lose nothing by giving. God pays back a scientific giver.

To Rev. D. A. Easton

My life, my cup, my teaching are all distinct from that of my students in their immature degrees of growth.

On the flyleaf of The Book of Presidents, "Upheld by divine Love, man can make himself perfect, but he must not attempt this too rapidly with his neighbor."

Definition of spiritual senses:

Sight — spiritual discernment.

Hearing — spiritual understanding.

Feeling — divine consciousness.

Smell — intuition of character.

Taste — relish of Truth.

A little boy said to his mother, "If Mrs. Eddy should say a blossom would come out, wouldn’t it?" His mother said, "No, not at this time of the year" (in winter). Some days later Mrs. Eddy said to the boy, "I will tell you something if you will not tell anyone." He asked if he could tell his mama. Mrs. Eddy said, "No, not anyone." He said, "Well, I will not." Then Mrs. Eddy said, "You see that apple tree?" He said, "Yes." She said, "Now watch that tree every day and you will see a blossom come on it." He did so and in three days there was a blossom and she had him pick it.

Jerry, the horse, was limping, and Mrs. Eddy said to Mr. Frye, who was driving, "Stop!" She put her head out of the window and said to Jerry, "You go right along about your own business and do not pay any attention to anything said to you; you listen to me," and that was the end of Jerry’s limping.

Given by Mrs. Eddy to a student: You must know M. A. M. cannot gain or assert power or action through any mortal or mortals, and if you know it, it cannot touch you or make you afraid. The word that you need is: "It is I, be not afraid" — "Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him." There never was a moment when evil was real. There are no mortals who can reflect evil upon the earth, and you must disown the claim of personality to make room for the dear Love which destroys malpractice. There is no mortal you that can be touched by malicious minds. If God is all, you need not be afraid. Anything that you can be afraid of is unreal, and the fear both useless and senseless. Abide in the 91st Psalm and know that such abiding is treatment and protection. There is nothing that can make laws or influence you. There is but one Mind and that is Love. Do not give life to evil by attaching it to a person or thing. It cannot live without a body. Man is immortal, one. There is but one infinite manifestation. No error can attach itself to man, and so why deceive ourselves by thinking it can do so? Every manifestation of life is ever-present and omnipresent good, and this carries within itself all healing, sustaining. Know that the kingdom of heaven is within you, and this is your armor.

May 1, 1889. To run and not be weary — to run — to rise spiritually and not react — not be weary — to rest in divine Love and not relapse.

In reality there is no disease, and it is a Christian duty to make this appear.

Most Christian Scientists add a dream about Christian Science to their dream of life in matter, just as they formerly dreamed of medicine or orthodoxy. Christian Science cannot be tacked to anything else, but must be used to reform and transform out of matter and its dreams. To accomplish this end, the Sentinel has been provided.

To Mrs. Conger on Vaccination

I would take the point of Spirit whose edge is Truth, and prick the human affections, then inoculate with divine Love, circulating through the system of thought, and the liability of contagious disease, sin, or sickness will cease.

Let us wait on God. He will prepare the thoughts and minds of men for whatever He has to reveal.

Every working Scientist ought to handle the claim of mortal mind attraction between man and woman every day of his or her life.

Never yield for a moment to doubt or dismay. God is perhaps trying you as He has tried all His own, and if you stand the test, all at once you will come into the kingdom of our Lord, a clear and abiding sense of your power to heal. . .

Disease is only a thought of matter, but there is no matter, and man’s entire substance is Spirit . . . We must see that we reflect Him — reflect the divine power. It is He who heals — worketh through us.

This is God’s spiritual household. Nothing can enter it to annoy or disturb. Nothing can enter it to manifest sin, sickness or discouragement, for God, good, fills this household with a perfect love and peace and governs every member of it. There can be no will-power, obstinacy or animal magnetism to darken the atmosphere of my home, for God does in very deed dwell on earth with men, and governs every event. There is no evil condition of thought that can argue or suggest, or make a law to dominate or control me, or intimidate me, or crush me, or bring any evil to pass upon me, or shut out of my consciousness any good. There is no law of failure — want, poverty, lack or limitation. There is no law but the divine law, which is plenty, abundance, harmony and dominion. No mortal mind or minds or mediumship can touch me, or anyone within the radius of my thought this day, for God, good, governs every member of this household in perfect love. If you but knew the infinite capacities of your being, the sublimity of your hope, the grandeur of your outlook, you would let error kill itself. It comes to you to give it life, and you give it all the life it has. (Alternate reading of part of above. No mortal mind or minds, good, bad or indifferent, individual, collective or universal, can touch me or anyone within the radius of my thought this day, for God governs me and every member of this household with perfect peace and love.)

God made them male and female from the beginning, but His creation was not physical. He made qualities, and formations of character shall ever remain thus, as the reflections of God, the Father and Mother of the universe; not that God is male and female in person, two in form, but as including in Himself all qualities of Mind. When we understand this, we shall have no outlined personality, but shall have mental individuality all the same. This is absolute Science, wherein there is but one Mind in the unity of masculine, feminine and neuter as Mind, as infinite Mind and not finite; here is the union again of man and woman, not personal but impersonal, not physical but mental, not finite but infinite. This must be so in the reflection of God, for He is neither finite nor physical, and if we would reflect God, we must become like Him in our consciousness.

Faith and obedience before understanding is required to show us that it is God, not man, that directs our steps in Christian Science; even the intelligent, all-wise Principle of man’s being — one Father-Mother, God.

The purest stirs the depths of dirtiness in the hells of mortal mind.

God is abundant and supplies only abundance. A. M., error, cannot impoverish us, spiritually, mentally, physically, or financially. The demonstration of this is an abundance of light, Love, Truth, and intelligence for all material needs. I AM is the law of I AM, because I AM. I can express Love, patience, Truth, because I AM.

The argument of theosophy is: "Fill the mind that is negative with error and reversed views of what should be done, and through that mind, others are reached." I know that this is the case in belief. Now guard yourselves thus: When a sensitive [mind] such as his has relations with you, take yourselves up that he cannot influence or touch your thought; and hold steadfastly to God; and go to no personality but Him, the ever-present help, to show you the way. But each time, wipe off the dust of M. A. M. as a contagious thing.

The mental act of thanksgiving carries one far beyond the reign of doubt, into that atmosphere of Truth and faith where all things are possible. Go not back to asking, but continue to give thanks that you have received.

A belief of personal sense governed by Truth is a true belief. A true belief governed by Truth is spiritual sense. Jesus in the silent tomb spiritualized his personal, corporeal sense of body, and then he was able to eat and drink with his disciples. I always spiritualize as Jesus did.

S. & H. is changing the belief that heart is matter and sustains life, to the understanding that "God is our Life," that, "In Him we live, move, and have our being." This change of heart would deliver man from heart disease and advance Christianity a hundredfold.

There is another heart in us that needs to be changed; namely, the human affections. Changed from selfishness to benevolence and love for God and man; changed so as to have but one God and to love Him supremely, and our brother man as ourselves. This change of heart will have its effect physically as well as spiritually, and heal disease sooner than burnt offerings or drugs. It is a good thing to mentally remind yourself daily that God is the only law-maker for man, morally, spiritually, and physically.

Do not attack hypnotism; do not take Scriptural authority for its identification, but allude to it briefly when you do speak of it, as you would to a ghost story. This will check its spread more than any other way would.

The temptations that beset all Christians, are either to feel too sharply the burdens borne or to try to lay them down.

To George H. Kinter

Life is the law of health, and you are the manifestation, the embodiment of this law. Know this, feel it. The ways of God are often hard to determine, but Love is preparing us all for a great work.

M. B. Eddy

January 12, 1908

To George H. Kinter

Yes dear, you are right. We must go to the Scriptures always and often, for in them we go to God. Mother only wished you to understand the letter of the Science in its larger sense. I know of Mrs. X. God will mete out and measure to her for, "With what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again," says the Scripture. Beloved, do not let this effort of the evil one enter your thought to disturb you, for nothing shall enter there that worketh abomination or maketh a lie.

Mother

January 26, 1907

To George H. Kinter

Trust your God, our God, in divine Science. There is no other way than for us to trust always. This I have proven consistently for forty years. Can you, will you, do the same, my beloved student? Remember this, and live continually in the thought and attitude of trust, confident expectation of good. Nothing else can do for you what this can.

M. B. Eddy

December 2, 1901

To George H. Kinter

My word to you at this time is that of the Scripture. "Rejoice and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven." Gladness and rejoicing are divine in essence and their reward is manifold in its effect.

M. B. Eddy

October 14, 1908

To George H. Kinter

Yes, come at once. Mr. Frye has written you for me as to what to bring with you. God is leading you into a blessed privilege, a wonderful opportunity. May He in His infinite mercy grant that you be kept right, sound in mind and body, free from the A.M., "The sin that doth so easily beset us." Notify me immediately upon your arrival in Concord.

Lovingly,

July 7, 1903 M. B. Eddy

Keep your eyes wide open to the fads of sin; read "No and Yes," beginning at last paragraph page 39. Integral calculus is no part of Science, when weighed in the balance of God. To human sense and pagan philosophy it might seem otherwise, but did Jesus teach it? No, a thousand times no. It is only a weak form of evolution harnessed to Christian Science.

Do not tell the truth regarding a lie too often. Insist on obeying the Ten Commandments, especially the first and eighth, which the Christian Scientists are most prone to disobey.

When a student loses the true sense of me, and what I do, he is at the threshold of the plunge so many make into darkness, believing that darkness is a greater light.

Will eternity be long enough in which to praise the everlasting good? God is your Shepherd. You are in no danger from aught but the "kiss," and if you read motives as Jesus did, you will understand this, and it will lose its claim.

You have infinite Truth at your tongue’s end. Our Cause is rushing on, on pinions of Love.

I can do you most good by pointing the path, showing the scenes behind the curtain. The united plans of the evil doers are to cause the beginners either in lecturing or teaching or in our periodicals, to keep Mrs. Eddy as she is (what God knows of her and revealed to Christ Jesus) out of sight, and keep her, as she is not (just another white-haired old lady) constantly before the public. This kills two birds with one stone. It darkens the spiritual sense of students, and misguides the public. Why? Because it misstates the idea of divine Principle that you are trying to demonstrate, and hides it from the sense of people.

Keeping the truth of her character before the public will help the students, and do more than all else for the Cause. Christianity in its purity was lost by defaming and killing its defenders. Do not let this period repeat this mistake. The truth in regard to your Leader heals the sick and saves the sinner. The lie has just the opposite effect, and the evil one that leads all evil in this matter knows this more clearly than do the Christian Scientists in general.

I have erased your verities because they are spoken two soon; wait for growth. The textbooks contain it all, but so arranged as to require growth before it is spoken by those who have not grown to it. The letter killeth. It is the Spirit, understanding behind the words, which maketh alive . . . There is an axe to be used and laid at the root. This axe is the first Hebrew Commandment as explained in my works . . . Wield this weapon every spare moment. Do some cutting each time, then the lie will topple down.

Wait patiently on the Lord, as I wait on students.

God bless you; God keep your eyes open to the movements of evil, so that your good will be effectual and not diluted. Every truth you promulgate, every good and ardent thought you entertain, though it expose you to the aim of evil, makes you healthier, wealthier, wiser, and longer lived — evidence of the senses to the contrary notwithstanding. Go on in this path — and your immortality is brought to light.

Take your troubles to God; (Christian Science operates as if it were a personal God) error is impersonal evil. Pray to be delivered from the monster of human will. No one is free from it. This tendency darkens us and dims our windows of receptivity.

Pray for divine government, divine leading. We must live amicably on earth and not a saint among us. Love your way out of hell into heaven. Be patient. Stop making much ado about little things. It is the devil that quarrels.

Sit still and let God talk — let Him do something. No family relations or human associates can dispossess me of the Truth, or interfere with my success.

A treatment is never afraid that it will not work, for the declaration of Truth brings with it a consciousness of its sure and immediate effect. The mental act of thanksgiving carries one far beyond the reign of doubt, into that atmosphere of Truth and faith where all things are possible.

After making your affirmations of good and denial of error, until your thought is clear and true, go farther and give thanks that while you did wait, you did receive what you asked. Go not back to asking, but continue to give thanks that you have received.

To Dr. Baker

"The earth brought forth food for man’s use." Do not say there is no intelligence in food, but instead, strive for the intelligence that sees what both earth and food are.

Adhere to the statement that divine intelligence directs man, and governed by it, eats, sleeps, walks, and talks harmoniously.

There is no anger, hence no pain.

There is no hate, hence no poison.

There is no fear, hence no death.

In class: Can our errors be met and overcome other than by crucifixion? No, there is no other way, else Jesus would not have been crucified. Each one must pass through Gethsemane and up Calvary’s height to the cross. After the crucifixion the resurrection.

In Mrs. Eddy’s library was a book entitled, "Selections from the Old Testament, Authorized Version, compiled by Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Concord, N. H., 1896." It contained Genesis I and II, Exodus XX, Isaiah complete, and Malachi complete.

Handle with every treatment, reversal through mesmerism and hypnotism; know there are no mortal minds to interfere or obstruct or delay the healing of yourself or your patients, for God governs every case and situation.

Know for yourself constantly, that no mortal mind so-called can hurt you nor cause you to believe that you cannot heal your patient; there is no malice or envy, or willpower.

Argue this clearly.

Live Christian Science; mind your own business, and keep your mouth shut for God’s sake.

To Judge Hanna. August 26, 1902

Whoever opens most the eyes of the children of men to see aright and to understand aright that Idea on Earth that has best and clearest reflected by word or deed the divine Principle of man and the universe, will accomplish most for himself and mankind in the direction of all that is good and true.

You do not heal the sick; it is your faith that heals.

In treating patients, do not repeat words over and over, as it has the effect of morphine, soothing syrup or mesmerism. Christian Science treatment is prayer, but we do not plead with God to do what He has already done, but know His work is finished and man is His perfect idea. Ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free.

Have you had much experience with malpractice? There is none. The way I meet it is by keeping the First Commandment. Know there is no evil mind to intercept God and you.

When I asked Mrs. Eddy why Christian Scientists were not more grateful to her, she replied, "Because they have not grown to it. Two plants will be growing side by side; one will blossom and the other won’t. Don’t mention this hour to anyone"

To Victoria Sargent

Let God do it. Do not allow that thought of the person who has tried to injure you enter your thought! Destroy in your thought all envy, jealousy, and hate, and other errors, and the light will shine in your thought and heal you and very likely the other person also.

Mrs. Eddy once went into a house and saw a woman weeping in the hallway. The woman said, "My daughter is dying of consumption. The doctor has just left and he told me he could not do more for her." Mrs. Eddy asked if she might go up and heal the daughter. The mother consented, and Mrs. Eddy went upstairs to the bedroom. The father, who was very antagonistic to Mrs. Eddy, was standing by the bed; but Mrs. Eddy felt that, having the mother’s permission to help the girl, it was right for her to go ahead, so she said to the sick girl, "Get up and come for a walk." The girl got up, and Mrs. Eddy helped her dress and they went out of the house for a walk together. The father followed them, secretly as he thought, dodging behind trees and watching around corners, expecting every moment to see his daughter drop dead. Mrs. Eddy knew that he was following, but that did not interfere with her demonstration, for when they returned from the walk the daughter was completely healed.

Mrs. Eddy was living on Columbus Avenue and enjoyed seeing a little baby who lived across the street. She missed the smiles of the little one and wondered what had happened. One morning she noticed the doctor’s carriage leaving the home of the child. Mrs. Eddy went over to the house, spoke with the mother and asked to see the child. The mother said the child had passed on while the doctor was there. Mrs. Eddy went and sat beside the child, realizing the truth of being as no one else has since the time of Jesus, and the child was healed. Instead of gratitude being expressed by the mother, she took the child and expressed ugliness toward our Leader. The child remained healed.

Miss Julia Bartlett recalled that Mrs. Eddy’s eldest sister, Abigail Tilton, was very much opposed to Christian Science. But when her little daughter lay dying, she called Mrs. Eddy or told her what the situation was by messenger, and permitted her to see the child. Mrs. Eddy asked her sister to leave the room and in a short time healed her niece, got her out of bed and dressed, and had a romp around the room with the child, "to get the child’s thought back to normal" as Miss Bartlett expressed it. When the mother came in and saw them playing she said, "It is the work of the devil."

Miss Bartlett recalled that in the early days the Scientists had no trouble in healing. They could sit and work at their knitting and think of their patients and heal them. But after awhile, it got so they could not heal, and the people in Lynn said they were losing their healing power. Mrs. Eddy saw that it was Kennedy and others with him who were mentally interfering with them, so she called them together, told them what the matter was, and showed them how to protect themselves against it.

In one of Mrs. Eddy’s classes, there was a woman who had a strong sense of resentment and condemnation toward her husband, who was very immoral. Mrs. Eddy said to her that Jesus healed the Magdalene by condemning the sin, but not the woman. The lady answered, "Yes, but I have not the consciousness that Jesus had." Our Leader instantly rebuked this by saying that she could claim the Christ-consciousness, for otherwise she could not heal a single case of sin or sickness. The student’s consciousness was so illumined that her state of mind completely changed toward her husband, and when she returned home, she found him healed.

There was in an asylum past which Mrs. Eddy used to drive, a mentally deranged man who had a sore on his leg. Every day when he saw Mrs. Eddy’s carriage coming, he would run to the gate and pull down his sock so our Leader would see his sore. Mrs. Sargent told us that one day when she was at Pleasant View, she heard Mrs. Eddy tell the former’s sister that this man had been healed of the sore and of the insanity.

One of Mrs. Eddy’s students told me that one time a mother brought her dead baby to Mrs. Eddy and placed it on her lap. Our Leader asked her to come back in an hour, and began to treat the child. She realized that Life is Love, and that Love is right here, and Love is Life, and kept on realizing this more and more clearly. After awhile the felt something moving on her lap, (she had forgotten the baby); she looked down and saw the child looking up at her, smiling and kicking its feet.

At the time the church at Concord was being built, Mrs. Sweet went into the building and slipped on a board and hurt herself. Some workers at Pleasant View tried to help her, but without much success. Mrs. Eddy asked them what was the matter with Mrs. Sweet. They answered that she was all right. Mrs. Eddy said, "She is not all right." She then asked Mrs. Sweet what the trouble was, and the latter replied that it was being met. Mrs. Eddy said, "It is not being met." Then our Leader asked her how she was working. Mrs. Sweet answered that she was knowing that there was no accident in Mind. Mrs. Eddy replied, "That would not heal you. You were brought here to help me. You are one of my best workers." She then pointed out that the only trouble was an argument to interfere with her usefulness to the Leader. By the time Mrs. Eddy finished talking to her, Mrs. Sweet was healed. Mrs. Eddy said to her, "I will say for your comfort that if you were brought here with every bone broken in your whole body, you would respond to my treatment."

Mrs. W. went with Mrs. Eddy to a furniture shop to help her select some chairs. The clerk who was waiting on them wore a bandage over one eye. Mrs. Eddy seemed absorbed in thought while they were being shown the chairs, paying very little attention to them, and when pressed as to which she liked best, she said, "Any that we can sit on." Mrs. W. was annoyed at Mrs. Eddy’s indifference, and told the clerk that they would come back the next day and give a decision about the chairs. They were on the second floor of the shop, with two doors opening out, one into a stairway, the other to a chute for sliding boxes down to the sidewalk. Mrs. Eddy opened one door, and went down stairs. Mrs. W. in her perturbation opened the other door and stepped on the chute, and slid down to the sidewalk, where Mrs. Eddy arrived in time to see her picking herself up. Mrs. W. reproached our Leader for her lack of attention to the business in hand, and Mrs. Eddy replied, "Could I think of chairs when the man was suffering?" When Mrs. W. went the next day to see about the chairs, the clerk said, "Who was that lady with you yesterday? I had an abscess on my eye, and when she went out, I took the bandage off, and there was not a sign of it left."

One time some of the workers at Pleasant View were sitting in front of a window working against a storm which was approaching; suddenly Mrs. Eddy came up behind them and said, "You are not meeting it because you are mesmerized by the appearance." Then she swept them aside, took up the case herself, and in a short time they saw the blue sky appear through the center of the storm cloud.

In one of Mrs. Eddy’s classes a clergyman who was very elderly, had a belief of partial blindness, and asked our Leader if it could be cured. She answered, "Yes, if you only touch the hem of His garment." And the man was healed during class.

A well-known actor was healed physically and his testimony appeared in the Journal. Afterwards, one day he was walking along a street in Concord with a big cigar in his mouth. Mrs. Eddy passed in her carriage and looked at him. He took the cigar out of his mouth and threw it away, and was healed of the desire to smoke then and there.

One day Mrs. Eddy was going out for her afternoon drive when a tall, gaunt man, who appeared far gone in consumption, came up to her gate, held out his hands to her and shouted, "Help me!" Mrs. Eddy said a few words to him out of the carriage window; talked to him for about two minutes and then drove on out of the gate. On her return she exclaimed, "What a need that man had!" Next day they received a letter from the man telling Mrs. Eddy that he was conscious he had been healed as soon as the carriage drove on.

Mrs. Eddy drove into Concord one day and stopped at the Christian Science Hall, and Mr. Frye went in with a letter, leaving the carriage door open. A gentleman was standing in front of the hall who had called at Pleasant View earlier in the day to see Mrs. Eddy, but was told that she could not see him and that an appointment or an opportunity might be arranged later. As he went away from the house he was very discouraged and said, so that a worker heard him, "There may not be any later." This man stepped to the carriage, took off his hat, and said, "Mrs. Eddy?" Our Leader said, "Yes." "May I ask you one question?" he asked. "Certainly!" she said. Then he said, "Can you tell me about God, who is He, where is He, and what is He?" Mrs. Eddy told him that God was his Mind, his Life, and continued talking just three minutes. Then the man looked at the clock, which they could both see, and said, "I have learned more in these three minutes about God than I have in all the rest of my life." He raised his hat and said good-bye and the carriage drove off. Mrs. Eddy afterwards told her students that she saw he was suffering from jaundice and that as she talked with him she saw the unhealthy color fade from his face like the shadow of a cloud vanishing away and his face become perfectly normal. She added, "He was healed, but he did not recognize it while we were talking." Next day the man wrote he was completely healed and that he took the train home that same night.

There was a Scientist staying with friends who lived in Concord, and one day Mrs. Eddy called to see these friends, who told her that the lady was ill in their house with diphtheria. Then Mrs. Eddy said, "Tell her to have no fear whatever, as God is taking care of her, and Mother is praying for her." After she left the house, the message was given to the woman at once. In a few minutes, the bad conditions were removed. The student breathed easily, and the next morning rose in perfect health, with heartfelt gratitude to God and to our dear Leader whose demonstration it was.

In the early days, it was hard for Mrs. Eddy to find patients to heal, and one day she went out on the street to see if she could find someone. She saw the doctor’s gig tied in front of a house nearby. When the doctor drove away, Mrs. Eddy went to the door, and asked a tear-stained woman who came to the door if there was anyone sick in the house. The lady said her daughter had just died. Mrs. Eddy asked if she could go in and see the daughter. The woman at first demurred, but finally let her go in where the body lay. In a little while the mother heard voices, and looking into the room she saw that her daughter was sitting up in bed and talking to Mrs. Eddy. Mrs. Eddy said that " a wordless flood of life filled her consciousness and the girl was raised from the dead." Mrs. Eddy asked the mother to bring the daughter’s clothes, and the amazed mother asked why. She answered that she wanted to take the girl out for a walk. The mother said, "You don’t know what you are asking. My daughter has been ill for months with consumption and could not go out if she wanted to." Mrs. Eddy reassured the mother and told her that no harm should come to her daughter through anything that she should do, and finally the mother brought the girl’s clothes. She then took the girl out and walked her up and down for about half an hour, the mother and father following behind to see what was being done. The girl’s color came back as she was not only alive, but healed of the disease. When they got back to the house, the mother took off her diamond ring and gave it to Mrs. Eddy, and this ring, she always wore.

The following is from the Christian Science Monitor of May 11, 1914.

Mrs. Mosher went to the office where Mrs. Eddy and a student were at work and was treated by the student. She saw there a girl who was afflicted with dumbness, whom a student had not been able to heal. At last she asked Mrs. Eddy to help. Mrs. Mosher was present when Mrs. Eddy walked up to the dumb girl and said, "God did not send this upon you. You can speak. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth I command you to speak!" The girl shrank back, crying out, "I can’t and I won’t!" and fled out of the room. But she was able to speak ever after.

Know divine Love thinks my thoughts and I cannot forget.

There are many members of my church who should not be, and sometime there will be a sifting in my church.

Promptness is a virtue of my household, my household god.

Mary Eaton brought a horse back to life. When she told Mrs. Eddy about it, she said the horse had passed out, and Mrs. Eddy said, "Passing on, dear. There is no life in matter to pass out and do not put any into it, will you? Excuse me for correcting you."

For three days the doves came to Miss Eaton’s window in formation, and the last day a dove came that was crippled and she healed it. Then when she told Mrs. Eddy about it, she said, "You have brought me peace, my dear," and she pinned a dove of pearls on her dress.

In January 1902, Mrs. Eddy said to Mary Eaton, "Christian Science is nothing personal with me; it is a revelation from God."

Someone in the room said to her, "You cannot deny that you are a Leader in this age," and she replied, "I cannot deny that, but I can only be a Leader inasmuch as I allow God to lead me, whereas others allow self to lead."

To the class of November, 1898: You shall run and not be weary; to run — to rise higher spiritually and not to react, and not be weary, but rest in divine Love and not relapse.

You can demonstrate wealth. If you stand before the mirror your reflection is instantaneous, and just so you reflect God in all your ways. All are yours and ye are Christ’s and Christ’s is God. As a man thinketh so is he. Seek first God, and all things shall be added.

She said when she first came into Christian Science and had given all her money for the Cause, she stood in front of the window of a fruit store one day, but had no money to buy any.

All the children know that I love them for they always stop and bow to me on the street.

Do not say to error, "You cannot harm me," but declare that God protects me from all the attacks of error.

Martha Morgan used to be afraid about her bread raising. She did not want anyone to walk across the kitchen floor. Mrs. Eddy said, "Let God make your bread."

Mrs. Eddy rebuked Calvin Frye for being too plethoric. She said, "I cannot understand why you students become so plethoric when each day you deny matter. It is because Science brings you a human sense of harmony."

"Laura, remember I shall still work in this same chair."

Mrs. Eddy said, "I feel like telling my students to hurry up."

Mrs. Eddy said: "Lydia, I cannot kiss you any more. We cannot kiss matter, you know." This made Lydia very sad, and Mrs. Eddy detected it and said, "Lydia, which do you think this will be hardest for, you or me?"

One day Mrs. Eddy went up in her attic and found a tinsel crown in an old trunk. She said, "I wonder how I would look in a crown?" She tried it on and at once her demeanor changed, and she came down from the attic and went to work.

When Mrs. Dunbar’s sister died, Mrs. Eddy said, "So the saintly sister has gone higher. She is not dead, but lives. Consumption never killed her. To-day she is free from this belief. When we are on the same plane of consciousness, we know and can converse with another."

Christian Science Journal, Vol. 4, page 60. When we have done our work here so well that it needs not to be done over again, the death-change increases all our joys and our means of advancement.

Man reflects the divine perception, intelligence and memory.

In the presence of death, declare Life is spiritual, that Life is present, that Life is my life. Life is God, so life cannot lapse, collapse or relapse, for God is divine Principle.

Every lying argument of hypnotism, theosophy, esoteric magic, etc., is reversed in its effects. Guard this statement of truth by knowing that it cannot be reversed. Their arguments bless us and do us good because the reverse of them does us good. All things shall work together for good to those that love God.

The qualities of mental malpractice: a stolid moral sense; great lack of spiritual sentiments; the desire to subjugate; unsurpassed secretiveness masked by innocence and youth.

Pray that your flight be not in the winter or the sabbath day; that is, pray for divine energy and watch against human apathy.

Never notice publicly an error if it can be avoided. Never rejoice in victory over it nor lament. It gives power where it does not belong. Evil is not something. Then wherefore give it the honor of noticing it further than to remove it? Then let the dead bury their dead. Have no funeral knell or trumpet blast over nothing, otherwise you will make it something and consistency is especially most desirable in dealing with nothingness. To talk of evil is as inconsistent as to talk of sickness unless it be to untalk it and put it out of mind forever.

There is no fatal mistake; there is no unforgivable wrong; there is no unpardonable sin; there is no permanent injury; there is no incurable disease; there is no such thing as too late.

October 10, 1890

Matter and personality are your gods.

When will you turn from your idols? Unless you do, leave me out of your thoughts.

Mind. There is but one infinite Mind and that Mind is my Mind and governs me. All my thoughts come to me from this Mind and return to their source. In this Mind, there is no material sense, no other mind, no mortal mind to tempt, to harm or control. Know this, realize it, and you are the master of the occasion of yourself and of others.

The students were waiting for Mrs. Eddy to return from Vermont after Dr. Eddy passed on, expecting to find her in the depths of despair, and she broke the news by reading to them the following poem by Mrs. Hemans:

Come to me, dreams of heaven, my fainting spirit bear

On your bright winds by morning given up to celestial air,

Away, far, far away from bowers by tempests riven;

Fold me in blue still cloudless day, O blessed dreams of heaven.

Come but for one brief hour, sweet dreams, and yet again

O’er burning thought and memory shower your soft effacing rain.

Waft me where gales divine with darkly clouds, ne’er have striven;

Where living founts forever shine, O blessed dreams of heaven.

I love everyone and everyone loves me. Show me what love is and how to love.

The pneumogastric nerve is to the body what the equator is to the earth.

According to the Dictionary of Dental Science, published by Harris in 1849, which belonged to Mrs. Eddy’s second husband, Dr. Patterson, Rhus Toxicondendron is the poison oak, or sumach. It is used in homeopathy.

There is no arsenic, mercury, morphine, rustox, or ether that can cause any inflammation of the pneumogastric nerve thereby affecting the sympathetic nerves causing any inflammation of the head, stomach or bowels. There is no pneumogastric nerve, materially or in belief.

Truth’s argument written by Frye at Mrs. Eddy’s dictation to the members of her household: Right cannot be reversed. I cannot be made to think wrong or do wrong. I cannot go opposite to what Mrs. Eddy needs in any way nor in anything I do. I do not believe she is unjust nor unmerciful and I will never find her so. I am not mistaken in her and I know I am not. And when I know this then I will prosper and never till then. I can help her, I can. I cannot and will not afflict her in anything I do. I can help by doing what you say and just as you say, and I can do what she tells me.

Mrs. Eddy’s definition of animal magnetism was Neh. 9:36,37.

Mrs. Linscott asked Mrs. Eddy if it was right to kill chickens for food. Mrs. Eddy replied, "You do not take life, do you?"

Mrs. Eddy asked the practitioners how many patients they were treating. Some said as many as thirty. She said, "You cannot do it properly and handle so many. You may do it all right and handle that many now, but you are not giving, and cannot do yourself justice, because you are burning your own oil too low. This is the way the enemy robs you."

The law of divine Life, Truth and Love is a law of instant and complete expulsion and elimination of all poisons and impurities from the system. Why? Because the flood-tides of divine Life, Truth and Love are pouring and surging through consciousness uplifting, purifying, nourishing, healing, elevating, sustaining and energizing mankind.

Adhesion and cohesion are qualities of Mind, and work together for good. In weather conditions, these properties cannot be reversed to harm or retard man.

Mrs. Eddy said that the seven devils to be overcome were self-righteousness, self-condemnation, self-pity, self-love, self-will, self-praise, self-justification, and make it all God.

Mrs. Eddy’s sister-in-law was Mary Baker. She was suffering from cancer. She declared that Mrs. Eddy had always been kind to her, but that she did not want mental treatment from her. Mrs. Eddy remarked of her, "Poor thing, the evil of her disposition is eating her up."

You students can go along together, but I have to go alone.

Talking does not do any good. You must live the truth and demonstrate it. A student then asked if they could give it to another then. Mrs. Eddy replied, "Yes, you can."

To Miss Minnie Weygandt

December 31, 1905. My dear Minnie: You have been a long time at work without a vacation and now you can have one and get well and rested. True, you do not need this for God, divine Mind, rests you and heals you; matter cannot do this, and the Scripture bids us to come to Christ, Truth, and find rest in these words of Christ, "Come unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." Working for the good of others is not hard work, it is a burden that is light. You have worked for me to help me many years and it has not hurt you for it cannot. Doing good helps us all; it has carried my life on forty years and it will sustain yours. Do not feel you must come back to work till you believe you are rested and able to do so.

With love,

M. B. G. Eddy

We awaken in others the attitude which we hold of them.

Mrs. Eddy once went to call on a patient. After she looked at the sick one, she turned her back on him and went and looked out the window, saying, "Dear heavenly Father, forgive me for looking at matter." The patient was healed.

Do not blame anyone. It is the confusion.

Mrs. Eddy asked in class, "How old are you?" and the question went nearly around the class each one giving their material age.

Mrs. Eddy asked in the class room, "Do you know that Christian Science is the truth?" they hesitated and did not answer. Mrs. Eddy repeated the question forcefully; then a person said, "I believe," then faltered. Mrs. Eddy abruptly said, "Why do you not say, ‘Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief’?" The person answered, "I do say that most earnestly." Mrs. Eddy interrupted quickly, "I know that Christian Science is the truth."

Any claim that says you cannot do it, is self-mesmerism. Go and do it.

Mr. Frye fell down the stairs. The students worked for him, but they were frightened and believed he had broken his neck, because his head wobbled so. Mrs. Eddy sensed the situation and appeared on the scene. She declared in a commanding way from the top of the stairs, "Calvin Frye, come up here." After calling him three times, she turned her back on the situation and he rose up and followed her.

Whatever my need is, it is met now — God rules.

Occultism cannot know to hinder the work of God, good. Occultism cannot embody itself mentally or physically. It cannot rob, steal, persecute, annoy, or destroy me or mine, for there is no occultism.

You must know that malicious animal magnetism cannot gain or assert power or act through any mortal or mortals — and if you know it, it cannot touch you or make you afraid. The word you will need is, "It is I, be not afraid. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him."

There never was a moment when evil was real. There are no mortals who can reflect evil upon the earth. And you must disarm the claim of personality to make room for the dear Love which destroys malpractice. There is no mortal that can be touched by malicious minds. God is All. You need not be afraid of anything. Anything you can be afraid of is unreal, and the fear both senseless and useless.

Abide in the 91st Psalm and know that such reliance is treatment and protection. There is nothing that makes laws or influences you. There is but one Mind and that is Love.

Mother said, "Can you all hear the wonderful tone that has just been struck, — a tone never before heard in human consciousness?" Then she said, "Could you, my dear ones, but see the grandeur of your outlook, the sublimity of your hope, and the infinite capacity of your being — you would do what? Let error kill itself. It comes to you for life and you give it the only life it has — in belief."

My life is a manifestation of divine Life from which I derive all moral and physical health. Therefore, my life should be beyond the reach of accidents as the divine Life is.

Neither I, my source of or means of supply, nor Christian Science, is the subjective state of any mortal malicious or demoniacal thought, error, or limitation. Infinite, omnipotent wisdom is the source of all purpose, law, power, means and results, and endlessly blesses man — there is no cause of aught else.

Mental malpractice and malicious animal magnetism are utterly without power and cannot voice error to me in the nature of arsenical, mercurial, electric, opium or any other poison or overwhelming soporific influence, mentally, physically, morally or in any other way, for I am panoplied in divine Love where human hatred cannot reach me. Love, not hate; Truth, not error, govern man.

The following notes (an exception to the rule that no notes should be taken in her classes) were taken in the Normal Class of April, 1889, taught by Mary Baker Eddy.

Ever-present Love is the very nearest thing to me at all times. It is the nature of God to bless and care for me. I never reach out for Him in vain. He is always available. He is never beyond our understanding. He never delays. God will remove our sins from us as far as the east is from the west as soon as we are ready to give them up.

Neither I, nor my source of supply, nor my demonstration of Christian Science is subject to any malicious mortal thought or limitation. There never was a moment when evil was real. There are no mortals who can reflect evil on the earth, and I must disargue the claim of personality to make room for the dear Love which destroys malpractice. There is no mortal me that can be touched by malicious minds. If God is All, I need not be afraid. Anything of which I seem to be afraid is unreal. Abide in the 91 Psalm. Inasmuch as I am God’s child, spiritual and not material, I must be perfect. I am whole; I am free; I have all that I need; I live in Spirit and not in matter. I am without care and without anxiety.

No one can hurt me nor take from me anything that is good. I know no such thing as sin, suffering, want or disease, for I am a reflection of Life, Truth and Love. I am never disappointed. The harmony of my being cannot be disturbed, because I live in the Infinite.

I am an unresisting channel through which Love shines with its full healing force. In the reality of being is all I can ever want, need, desire or long for. In fact, I have perfect satisfaction. It includes more than I can possibly now discern or desire in the measure of happiness, and the completion of every wish or prayer that is wholesome or right for me to have. All other longings are destroyed in this realization. I must work to know that the definition of man in Science and Health applies to me. I am God’s image and likeness, reflecting a full, perfect image of Life, Mind, action, and so forth. I am not under any material law of limitation. There is no material plane. We live, move, and have our being in God, and we cannot pass out of that. There is a continuous demand for everything I have to offer. Neither malicious animal magnetism nor any erroneous mortal thought can hinder me from meeting those who desire to get what I have to give. No malicious animal magnetism, no self-mesmerism, nor any erroneous mortal thought, opinion, or judgment can hide, hold, or take from me those persons who can help, elevate, or benefit me.

It is just as erroneous to believe in passing out as it is to believe in death. Break the law that says all must die, knowing that it is not God’s law. His law is life-giving and life-sustaining eternally. Being good and doing good sustains life.

Every treatment according to Science is a law of God which overcomes all mortal laws. Unscientific thinking can be destroyed in its effects by knowing that Truth annuls all statements of error.

Treat to know each treatment, that this treatment is effectual, a good treatment and that nothing can reverse it.

CAUSE OR PROFESSION — WHICH?

"He anointeth my head with oil, my cup runneth over" means, the action of Mind on our consciousness. Water corresponds to unconscious mind. All unconscious thought is in solution; when it comes to the surface, it is dry land. The Red Sea, spoken of in the Scriptures, is the figuration of fear in unconscious mind. Error, sin, sickness and death, are sown and commence in the unconscious mind of your patients, and yourself; your patients, through ignorant fear; your own, through neglect, or willful sin. "Baptism by fire" corresponds to fear in mortal mind. All our suffering is from fear. We have got to pass through the furnace heated seven times hotter than it was wont to be. Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity. The remedy for the trials of our hour, hatred, fear, etc., is love. How shall I meet this heated hatred, this envy, this malice, this poison of thought? is the question with the Christian Scientist. The answer is, by the exercise of Love, which chasteneth the evil doer. Evil hath its own reward. The law in Israel today is — What you say or do to cause another to suffer, shall cause you, not him, to suffer. Because we do not observe this law, is the reason we do not succeed. That the spirit of revenge in mortal mind may not prevail, students should see the necessity of, and strive to attain a clearer understanding of the law of Love.

There is only one way to meet this rule of sin. Would we entertain a guest that was spoiling our house? Now, instead of entertaining that guest that says, "You cannot heal! old beliefs are re-established; you feel your patient’s beliefs, etc.," it is your duty to eject it at once. Your first movement should be to put him out. No man can enter into a strong man’s house and spoil his goods except he first bind the strong man, and then he will spoil his house. You can make your house — the body — just what the mind is. The discouragement brought to you, you are able to expel as an unwelcome guest. This is the ground on which all must work. Watch just what your thoughts are, and labor there until success greets your efforts. If you think you haven’t time to attend to it, say "I have"; or if you think you need help, prove it otherwise. There is no one who can help you like yourself. There are no conditions hindering. They are only what you admit. Whenever you take this position, you go up higher. The opposite position is that of "I don’t care." Let me tell you something for your encouragement. The one who has met the most and conquered it, is the nearest heaven, harmony. Students are morally responsible to meet any error in themselves, and then it will disappear from the patient. It is not the patient. It is some moral wrong in the student. Never allow error (the use of medicines) indirectly to be used — not merely from fear that they injure your patient, for they have no virtue, but for the reason that God would not get all the glory of the healing.

(Delivered at meeting of the Christian Scientists’ Association, February, l889)

(From Wm. Johnson’s History of the Christian Science Movement Vol. 1, page 29l. See C. S. Journal Vol. VI, p. 642.)

He, Jesus, healed the young man then and there, and he neither prayed nor fasted as men interpret those words today. Is it not reasonable to suppose, therefore, that the fasting (denial) meant the denial of the reality of any such thing as fits, or lunacy, and that the prayer meant the affirmation of the all-presence and the all-power of God wherein there is no possibility of either fits or lunacy? These are the essential features in the Christian Science prayer of today, and by it thousands are being healed every month. See John Gillespie, Scriptural References Sustaining the Doctrines of Christian Science p. 27. (Christian Science Publishing Society, 1907)

Good is infinite. If we limit good and concede power to evil, how can we expect to escape that which we believe has power to hold us in bondage? The First Commandment forbids us to believe in a power apart from God. There is no error of any name or nature in my consciousness that can resist, hide, or escape the Truth. The light of Truth and Life and Love shines straight through my belief of evil and banishes it, chasing it into its native nothingness.

My desire is to know and obey God’s law, to be filled with all the fullness of Spirit, knowing only the consciousness of God, good.

My health, strength, life, intelligence, action, etc., are subject to the governing and controlling power of the divine Mind, and to nothing else, for there is no other power.

There is no insufficiency of any kind in Truth, in infinite Love.

Good is ever-present, and is the only reality of existence; this renders evil obsolete.

There is nothing present or has power apart from God, which has any reality.

Error cannot strangle, smother or choke the Truth or its manifestation, and the Truth cannot be reversed.

There is no belief of evil in the bodily senses which has any reality, and that is the Truth, and it cannot be reversed.

Impersonal error is obsolete, absolutely obsolete, in the presence of Truth, of God, of the Christ, or the spiritual idea, of Life, Love, Spirit, Mind, Soul.

The law of my so-called mortal mind, concerning my body or any part of it, is unreal, nothing, rendered null and void by God’s law.

No mesmeric law of my conscious or unconscious thought can formulate any inharmonious condition in my body that has any reality in the presence of God, LOVE.

Malicious animal magnetism can’t work through materia medica to hinder my work in Christian Science.

The mesmerism of the patient’s own thought regarding materia medica has no reality.

No law of evil of any name or nature can separate my thought from the function of my real being in the Truth.

God is ever-present and is the only reality of existence.

Love is perfect circulation.

Show me thy Love, show me how to love, show me how to use it.

The power men possess to annoy me, I give them. (Emerson).

My mental concept of brain cannot hide, resist, or escape the Truth.

The law of divine Life, Truth, and Love does supersede the so-called law of my mental concept of brain, my belief of brain.

There is nothing present or has power apart from divine Life, Truth, and Love as infinite Mind, that can possibly control or confuse my thought, obscure my spiritual perception, or hinder my progress in Christian Science spiritually, mentally, morally, physically, financially, or any other way.

God’s will is all good, always — it is harmony, perfection. The will of God is health, gladness, all good, Life. His will is the consciousness of divine ever presence, of Life eternal. It is to know what it is to act in conformity with the divine purpose and to be wholly governed by God.

There is no physical law that has any reality to operate through my personality to harm me, to separate me from my true spiritual being in the Truth, to separate me from the love of God in Christ Jesus, to separate me from harmony.

I have no belief that matter, brain, can control, derange, or confuse my thought, or can suffer or cause suffering in the Truth, in Life, in Love.

Look away from body to Spirit. My being is spiritual, my life, my intelligence, are spiritual; my senses are spiritual; my life is hid with Christ in God, and there is no other existence.

The Christ, or Truth, the manifestation of God, does supersede my belief that my true being, that real life and intelligence, are in matter. We have immortality now, not shall have.

There is no life in fire.

There is no fear, conscious or unconscious that can restrain the power of divine Love to heal.

Animal magnetism is the opposite of Christian Science in effects upon the senses; in pleasure and pain, passion and appetite, pride and envy, malice and hate; and is readily removed by Christian Science if the cause of the effect is understood. See the chapter called "The Chief Delusion," in the first edition of Retrospection and Introspection, for item beginning, "Animal magnetism is . . ."

There is only one heart; that is the great heart of divine Love. It is beating for all mankind, and it is beating for you.

God is the only surgeon. Love is the only operation. Spirit is the only substance.

To the sore question, "What are the workingmen’s rights?" Science answers: Mercy and justice, wherein the financial, civil, social, moral, and religious aspect of all questions reflect the face of the Father; and this question will not rest until both the employer and the employee are actuated by the spirit of this saying of the meek and mighty Son of God, "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them."

Mrs. Eddy once asked a student if she had made a visit to see a lady who was reported ill. Upon the admission that she had not, Mrs. Eddy said, "If you had called upon her, she would be with us today."

Shut all error out of your thought and drink in the springtide glories of Truth.

We can have no Science apart from our brother.

It is not enough to live good moral lives. Life must be spiritualized.

Martha Morgan gained Mrs. Eddy’s consent to treat a lady that lived nearby who was becoming interested in Christian Science. After her visit, she told her about her experience, how she directed the lady to take off the poultice from her hand. Mrs. Eddy said, "Martha, why did not you let God remove the poultice?"

Dear Minnie:

Do not think of me; keep your mind fixed on God. Take no thought about my food. It only wastes thought to dwell on matter.

Affectionately,

M. B. Eddy

Those in this period who overcome error with divine Truth, will not have to go through the hate period, but will be redeemed through divine Love.

Watch Prayer for the Whole Household

All is love, peace and harmony. Heaven is right here. Truth reigns. There is no strife. Love has destroyed all hate. All is peace, love and joy. Run and not be weary. The need of the hour is simplicity, meekness and obedience. Beloved Father-Mother God, give me wisdom to meet all the problems that may have to be met today; give me understanding to rebuke error and moral courage to speak the truth. Give me grace to remain silent when not necessary to speak.

To Irving Tomlinson (l897): Our Cause is immortal; it rests on nothing temporal; it is the cause and effect of all that really exists. What more is left us to desire than its acknowledgement and the unfolding of God, infinite Life, Love! I rejoice that the young folks, yea, the children, are its supporters, embrace it, love it, and will learn to live it.

To Miss Lydia B. Hall, June 22, 1905

I cannot answer you as to the morrow. I am God’s servant and know not what I shall be bidden to do in the future. If I have to call you back, you will haste to come. Let us wait on Him, wait on divine Love that should direct all our ways, and Love said, "Take no thought for the morrow. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

God moves in a mysterious way — to the human sense, but to the spiritual it is plainly Love that guides and directs in obedience to Love all that we commit unto Him.

Written by Mrs. Eddy on the flyleaf of a copy of Science and Health sent to Admiral Dewey: First in war, first in peaceful conquest; first in the love of his country; and the first shall be last to make war, last to lose an opportunity, last to surrender.

Lydia Hall showed Mrs. Eddy a motto called The House Beautiful. She asked her where she got it. Lydia said a friend bought it for her. She said, "Do not buy another and tell the lady not to buy any more. It is all contained in my books and what is the thought behind it? To make money."

At a time when there was a debating club being started in New York City among the Christian Scientists, Mrs. Eddy discouraged it. She said, "Avoid a movement within a movement."

Mrs. Eddy asked her dressmaker, Miss Eveleth, if she took herself up each day. She replied, "God is my protection from every false mental argument." Mrs. Eddy replied, "Then you know how to make my dresses."

For a time, Miss Eveleth did the buying for Mrs. Eddy. She knew that the moment mortal mind knew that a thing was for Mrs. Eddy, shoes, dresses, anything, it was always wrong, and they had a great deal of trouble in getting anything right. Mrs. Eddy gave Miss Eveleth the following Scripture to use in her buying. Ecc. 3:ll.

Mrs. Eddy told Mrs. Gragg that she always trod lightly when she passed a dog kennel. She also said: "Do not shuffle by a bulldog’s den; tiptoe by."

Mrs. Eddy was showing Mrs. Gragg and three other students a beautiful quilt that had been made for her by loving hands. She turned to them saying, "I thank you for it." Mrs. Gragg said, "But Mother, we were not privileged to help make this for you." "Yes you were, dear, yes you were," was the reply.

Mrs. Eddy said about dealing with patients, "Walk with them to Emmaus, but treat them from the housetops."

In treating a claim, never become discouraged if it reappears; but go to work and keep on treating it each time, and each time it will appear in a milder form; finally it will disappear forever.

Do not become discouraged if you do not heal a case instantaneously. Some go out only by prayer and fasting.

A member of Mrs. Eddy’s household had an appointment with the dentist, and Mrs. Eddy needed her just when the appointment was scheduled and would not let her go. She said that if she had, she would have been allowing mortal mind to rob what should be sacrificed for the whole world’s good. The need was met without the dentist, and the tooth filled with substance.

Lydia Hall had been suffering with a cold and sore throat all day and did not want Mrs. Eddy to find it out. When she went to her room that evening she found a note from Mrs. Eddy waiting for her, and when she finished reading it, she found herself at once free. "There is no fear and no thoughts of poison can come. There are no such thoughts. There is no arsenic and no opiates producing any effect on anyone in this house and no one can be made to believe there is. Love reigns here. Truth and Life eternal reigns here and nothing else can come here. There are no evil suggestions, no hypnotism, theosophy, no electro-magnetism. God is All, etc. M.B.E."

Supply

We gather as we sow.

My income is the incoming of right ideas. It comes instantly, constantly, continually day and night. It is my God being.

Mrs. Eddy named her Messages in her own books as follows:

l899. Purification of the church.

l900. What the Spirit saith unto the churches—Revelation.

l90l. Infinite personality — My best.

Beloved Father-Mother God, give me wisdom to meet the problems I may have to meet today; give me understanding to deny error and proclaim the truth. Give me grace to keep silent when speech is unnecessary. There is no strife for Truth, risen Truth, will destroy error of every sort. And heaven is right here. God gives abundance of intelligence and opportunity. I cannot be impoverished mentally, physically, spiritually or financially. God is substance, and I reflect that substance. Realize to yourself daily more than once that the fields are white and ready for harvest, that divine Love always has met every human need, and that Mind is ever active and you reflect that activity. Realize that the source of supply supplies every need; that there is plenty of work for us all, and mine belongs to me and comes direct to me and the supply is abundant and know all the time that this is so. Never let a sense of lack stay a moment with you; it is rank error and brings all sorts of difficulties and disease. Trust in God and He will direct thy path. God is beside us at all times and in our daily work. Realize the ever-present Love and rejoice. Error cannot rob us of our abundance — the demonstration of this abundance of light and love and intelligence even for all our material needs. I CAN is the son of I AM because I AM is I CAN. I can express love, patience, truth, because I AM. Declare against the sense of limitation and realize that nothing can hinder my progress in advancing and getting employment. There is nothing to hinder my success or progress. I am honestly ready to see what God wants me to do.

Everyone in this house is better every hour, every half-hour, every moment they are getting health and holiness — all things work together for good to those that love God, etc. Mrs. Eddy says all things are possible with God, and it is He that worketh with us both to will and to do of His own good pleasure. This is the rule for healing.

A lady came to the door at Pleasant View with a box of American Beauty roses and begged Lydia to accept them and give them to Mrs. Eddy, and say that she would call in the afternoon to see Mrs. Eddy. The roses were accepted. Mrs. Eddy dearly loved this kind of rose. Lydia waited until dinner-time and brought them in to Mrs. Eddy and showed them to her. With a wave of her hand, she said, "Take them away; what a mockery!" The maid took them to the kitchen. All day long the maid suffered severely, and Mrs. Eddy apparently knew it. As night drew on and Lydia was tucking Mrs. Eddy into her swing on the front veranda, no amount of tucking in seemed right, and she had to come back constantly to do it over. Mrs. Eddy finally said, "Lydia, you are suffering and have been suffering all day." She replied saying, "Yes, Mother." Then Mrs. Eddy said, "What have you done with those roses?" "I took them to the kitchen, Mother." "Are they destroyed?" "No." "Go to the kitchen immediately and take the roses and put them in the fire." Lydia said that this was a most difficult thing for her to do. However she complied with Mrs. Eddy’s wish. Immediately she was released from the pain and was her normal self again. As she came in about an hour later to make preparations for the night, Mrs. Eddy said to her, "You are free?" "Yes, Mother, I am." "Lydia, do you know what that means? That was theosophy. They believe that if they can get something into your hands, they can use you as an avenue. Now be on your watch."

Mrs. Eddy said to Lydia Hall, "There was a time when I could rise above everything and was lord of all I surveyed, but I had to come down and teach malicious animal magnetism to my students, and now look at my hands and my feet." (They were very thin.)

Lydia Hall’s own father was jealous of Mrs. Eddy, because Lydia preferred to live with her Leader, rather than to stay at home with him. When he died and Lydia went home, she suffered greatly. Mrs. Eddy said that it was the sense of jealousy that had not been met which was still present to be met, even though her father had passed on. She told Lydia that she should have gone to work right then and there to know that the good would neutralize it and destroy it.

Mrs. Eddy was indignant when she learned that the Whitcomb family had worked for their father three days after he had passed on to bring him back. She said, "What! You kept that dear man in the vestibule three days?"

Mrs. Eddy asked one how his branch church was coming along and he replied that everything was running very smoothly. She said, "That’s too bad. If you were making progress, things would not be so harmonious."

March 24, l896. Mrs. E. S. Davis. My precious child: Yes you are that. As I read your letter, the mother heart yearned for you and said, "How long, O Lord, how long?" I thank you deeply for the oranges received from you. They are excellent and I think of you as I eat them. Dear indeed are your words of wisdom on the subject of theatres. I disapprove of them and all other alluring amusements, but more especially the sensual theatre. You have contributed shining lights to our church communion. I shall write to dear Mrs. Eastaman to receive gladly the names of all applications that you endorse. When to prop weakness or foster conceit, the taunt comes, "You are not Mrs. Eddy’s student" — I give you liberty to repeat my words. Yes, you are my student more emphatically than are those who have more of the letter than the spirit of Christian Science. I would endorse you for a teacher of this Science as soon as I would some of my normal class students. I have not had time to read your MSS, but will read it when I can get the moments requisite. Now dear one, rejoice and be glad, for great is the reward of a pioneer of Christian Science in the far West, such as you have been. Your name is very dear to me as a staunch spirit-filled Scientist. I love the thought that sometime I may have you in a class of my own.

Lovingly,

Your Mother in Israel

If we do not control our possessions with the understanding that they are spiritual, they will control us with the belief that they are material.

When the ability of Mind to detect what mind is doing becomes general, it will be all that is required for self-protection. After this manner, the mental medieval age that has to conflict with this demonology will find its remedy and can deprive it of all power.

Denial must include the presence of any belief of substance that can be diseased.

Mrs. Eddy said, "If you say, ‘I’ll go to work,’ you will always be working. God says seek and it shall be opened."

Love is the uric acid solvent. Materia medica says uric acid is poison. It is identical with the venomous poison of the snake. All claims of disease are the result of vegetable, animal or mineral poison, and act as cancer eating away, having the quality of irritability, or fretting and vexation. Poison affects mainly the nervous system, having principally the quality of irritability or ugliness, we learn in Science founded on self-righteousness. The vegetation of Mind will express life and beauty. The minerals of Mind will reflect brilliancy and utility. The animals of Mind will change into sublimity and pure affection of Life, Truth and Love.

Go about and all over the house within and without, but you will not then have seen the house wherein I dwell — but you will see it. (C.S. Journal, Vol. l5, page 532.)

Mrs. Eddy said of Science and Health, "Great power comes from opening this book."

I speak to the whole of human consciousness, and if you do, everyone will hear you.

Humility — yielding to God, willingness to learn all things rightly.

True rest is refuge from the elements of earth. Love-giving Life destroys the last enemy, death.

Body is the embodiment of right ideas. Watch your beliefs, rather than your body.

The problem may be universal, the solution is individual. Hell is a state of forgetting or neglecting God.

In the real organization of work, there is time for everything, rest, work, play, study, etc., etc.

Be not a self-appointed judge in Israel. Supply we gather as we give. Mental power is the Saviour. To know is to be.

Baptism is mental cleansing. Bread is the true idea or understanding of God. Ascension of thought reveals infinite and eternal progression. Ideas fitly joined together are never severed. — What God hath joined . . . .

No belief of transference or mental suggestion through a manometer can touch God’s child with a belief of sensuality.

Material birth. Handle universal belief and universal consent.

Mrs. Eddy once said to Lydia Hall, "Lydia, did you know that the malpractitioner can argue ether, liquor or any other poison, and it has the same effect upon the body as if it were taken individually? The mental poisons: Ether, cyanide of potassium arsenic. Poisons the effect of which is violent pain: Calcium, hellebore and aconite. Poisons that produce stupefaction and paralysis: Opium, hemlock, prussic acid. Poisons that produce violent convulsions and delirium: Strychnine and belladonna."

Mrs. Eddy said in class, "God is impartial, impersonal, universal, pure."

Mrs. Eddy told Lydia Hall that she always started her handling of error by the following method: "There is no animal magnetism; there is no hate, no electro-magnetism, no esoteric magic, black art, hypnotism, etc., for God is All-in-all."

God, good, Spirit, is ever-present and man is His image and likeness. This is a rule that will solve any problem.

You are guarded, guided, governed, uplifted, upheld, and sustained by divine Love. There is no mortal mind-reading. Mortal mind cannot see or know what I am doing, for I am working in the one Mind and error cannot trace its uncoverings.

They cannot be swayed by malicious hypnotism. They are governed and guided by the one Mind and say and do according to the divine government and guidance. God governs it; justice, Truth and Love govern it, and nothing else can or does affect it in the least.

To Julia Field-King: Trust in God and leave evil to do its own work of self-destruction. Always overcome evil with good. Never descend to the warfare between evil and human will trying to do God’s will. But forgive all offences and love every enemy you may think you have.

To Calvin C. Hill: The less mortal mind the better for us all.

To Calvin C. Hill: We never can know who is in reality a Christian Scientist until he is tested under fire; then what is left are dregs unfit for use till purged and purified, or they are qualities that evil cannot destroy and are held by the power of God.

A student went to Mrs. Eddy after having worked on a problem and asked her why she did not receive her results. Why had her work not been rewarded by demonstration? Mrs. Eddy replied, "You have done everything rightly, but you have failed to do one thing and that is to stick to it. Error has an end. Truth is eternal."

Mrs. Eddy sent Joseph Mann out to hoe potatoes. He thought it was a form of punishment and let his thought drop. Soon she sent for him to come in to do some very important mental work. But he had let his thought drop and was not prepared to do it. The lesson he learned was that he should never let his thought drop because of the outward task he was called upon to do, no matter how menial it