A SAMPLING OF STATEMENTS REGARDING MRS. EDDY'S PLACE IN BIBLE PROPHECY
Which have been published by The Christian Science Publishing Society including the writings of Mrs. Eddy.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. MRS. EDDY'S PLACE 1
2. THE WOMAN IN THE APOCALYPSE 4
3. THE TWO WITNESSES 15
4. A RULER IN THE HEAVENLY KINGDOM 20
5. THE WOMAN WHO PUT THE LEAVEN IN THE MEAL 27
6. THE SECOND COMING OF THE CHRIST 30
7. INSEPARABILITY OF MESSENGER AND MESSAGE 40
8, THE WOMAN WHO BRUISED THE HEAD OF THE SERPENT 46
9. "A WOMAN SHALL COMPASS A MAN" 49
10. DANIEL'S DATES 54
11. THE REVELATOR OF TRUTH TO THIS AGE 58
12. INDEX 67
Author: The Christian Science Board of Directors
Source: The Christian Science Journal, July 1943
Page #: 412
MRS. EDDY'S PLACE
The position of The Mother Church as to Mary Baker Eddy's place in the fulfillment of Bible prophecy is clearly set forth in the following paragraphs. These conclusions are not new; they are confirmed by our Leader's writings, and the steadily unfolding fruitage of Christian Science bears witness to their truth.
1. Mrs. Eddy, as the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, understood herself to be the one chosen of God to bring the promised Comforter to the world, and, therefore, the revelator of Christ, Truth, in this age.
2. Mrs. Eddy regarded portions of Revelation (that is, Chapter 12) as pointing to her as the one who fulfilled prophecy by giving the full and final revelation of Truth; her work thus being complementary to that of Christ Jesus.
3. As Christ Jesus exemplified the fatherhood of God, she (Mrs. Eddy) revealed God's motherhood; she represented in this age the spiritual idea of God typified by the woman in the Apocalypse.
4. Mrs. Eddy considered herself to be the "God-appointed" and "God-anointed" messenger to this age, the woman chosen by God to discover the Science of Christian healing and to interpret it to mankind; she is so closely related to Christi-an Science that a true sense of her is essential to the understanding of Christian Science; in other words, the revelator cannot be separated from the revelation.
5. This recognition of her true status enabled her to withstand the opposition directed against her by "the dragon" (malicious animal magnetism); she was touchingly grateful to those who saw her as the woman of prophecy and who therefore trusted, obeyed, and supported her in her mission.
6. This same recognition is equally vital to our movement, for demonstration is the result of vision; the collecting of this indisputable evidence of our Leader's own view of herself and of her mission marks a great step forward; wisely utilized, this evidence will stimulate and stabilize the growth of Christian Scientists today and in succeeding generations; it will establish unity in the Field with regard to the vital question of our Leader's relation to Scriptural prophecy.
As we record these important facts, we remind
Christian Scientists of our Leader's words (Mis. 308), "The Scriptures and Christian Science reveal 'the way,' and personal revelators will take their proper place in history, but will not be deified.,'
--- The Christian Science Board of Directors
Author: W. Stuart Booth, CSB
Source: "Prophecy and Fulfillment", Christian Science Sentinel, November 2, 1946
Page #: 1893
Jesus also told the disciples that he had many things to tell them, which, however, they were not ready to receive; and then he again prophesied of the Comforter as the guide into all truth. Christian Science with its clear and convincing revelation and statement about God and His perfect spiritual creation, including individual man, certainly constitutes the fulfillment of this prophecy. The hearings which follow the study and application of Christian Science serve to verify the promises and prophecies of Christ Jesus most persuasively and satisfactorily.
Further evidence along this line is found in the Scriptural prophecies about the woman thought or expression of the Father-Mother God, notably in the twelfth chapter of Revelation. The Apocalypse may be said to be a revealing series of prophecies wherein symbolism is employed. Hence there was no actual or personal woman of the Apocalypse. Evidently, however, the Revelator was led to show that, as the Christ, Truth, had been presented by the man Jesus, who taught the fatherhood of God, so the motherhood of God should be presented by a woman. At the time of Jesus the world was not ready to hear of and accept the concept of God as Mother as well as Father, although the first chapter of Genesis clearly implies that spiritual fact, and the life and teachings of our great Master definitely support it.
This leads us to see that not only did the discovery of Christian Science constitute the fulfillment of Christ Jesus' prophecy about the Comforter, but the Discoverer of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, has her place in Scriptural prophecy in that she, in her spiritual thought and work, typifies the woman of whom the Revelator spoke.
It will be of interest to the great host of beneficiaries of Christian Science to learn that this subject had been considered by our Leader. Early issues of the Christian Science Journal when she was its Editor and later when she watched and supervised its contents, carry definite statements which indicate that Mrs. Eddy's place in Scriptural prophecy was apprehended and appreciated by her and her faithful followers.
In April, 1938, The Christian Science Board of Directors, after carefully considering this important subject, appointed a committee of six to ascertain what Mrs. Eddy considered herself to be in the light of Scriptural prophecies. The committee was composed of editors and former editors of The Christian Science Journal, Sentinel, and Herald. In addition to all our Leader's published writings, the committee was furnished from the archives of The Mother Church important pertinent statements by Mrs. Eddy, which, however, she had decided should not be published. After carefully and prayerfully considering the subject the committee unanimously arrived at certain conclusions which were submitted to the Directors. The publication of the main part of these conclusions in Christian Science Sentinel of June 5, 1943 was authorized by the Board of Directors of The Mother Church.
In concluding their report to the Directors the committee said, "We feel that what Mrs. Eddy warned against will require to be watched; namely, deification, an error which played havoc with our Master's true status in prophetic history."
(Note: the committee of six editors were Albert F. Gilmore, Judge Clifford Smith, W. Stuart Booth, Duncan Sinclair, Violet Ker Seymer, George Shaw Cook).
Author: Christian Science Board of Education
Source: Board of Education Newsletter, January 1972
Page #: 2
Mrs. Eddy's Place
It has been requested that the statement Mrs. Eddy's Place used by teachers in Primary class instruction be made more easily available to pupils. This statement was first published in The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel in 1943. It was reprinted in 1962 and also at different times in various editions of The Herald of Christian Science. It sets forth very clearly and simply our beloved Leader's place in the fulfillment of Bible prophecy and in bringing Truth to this age. Its use in Primary class instruction is heartily endorsed.
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THE WOMAN IN THE APOCALYPSE
Rev 12:1,2,5
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Page : 559:31-562:21
The twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse, or Revelation of St. John, has a special suggestiveness in connection with the nineteenth century. In the opening of the sixth seal, typical of six thousand years since Adam, the distinctive feature has reference to the present age.
Revelation xii. 1. And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.
Heaven represents harmony, and divine Science interprets the Principle of heavenly harmony. The great miracle, to human sense, is divine Love, and the grand necessity of existence is to gain the true idea of what constitutes the kingdom of heaven in man. This goal is never reached while we hate our neighbor or entertain a false estimate of anyone whom God has appointed to voice His Word. Again, without a correct sense of its highest visible idea, we can never understand the divine Principle. The botanist must know the genus and species of a plant in order to classify it correctly. As it is with things, so is it with persons.
Abuse of the motives and religion of St. Paul hid from view the apostle's character, which made him equal to his great mission. Persecution of all who have spoken something new and better of God has not only obscured the light of the ages, but has been fatal to the persecutors. Why? Because it has hid from them the true idea which has been presented. To misunderstand Paul, was to be ignorant of the divine idea he taught. Ignorance of the divine idea betrays at once a greater ignorance of the divine Principle of the idea-ignorance of Truth and Love. The understanding of Truth and Love, the Principle which works out the ends of eternal good and destroys both faith in evil and the practice of evil, leads to the discernment of the divine idea.
Agassiz, through his microscope, saw the sun in an egg at a point of so-called embryonic life. Because of his more spiritual vision, St. John saw an "angel standing in the sun." The Revelator beheld the spiritual idea from the mount of vision. Purity was the symbol of Life and Love. The Revelator saw also the spiritual ideal as a woman clothed in light, a bride coming down from heaven, wedded to the Lamb of Love. To John, "the bride" and "the Lamb" represented the correlation of divine Principle and spiritual idea, God and His Christ, bringing harmony to earth.
John saw the human and divine coincidence, shown in the man Jesus, as divinity embracing humanity in Life and its demonstration,-reducing to human perception and understanding the Life which is God. in divine revelation, material and corporeal selfhood disappear, and the spiritual idea is understood.
The woman in the Apocalypse symbolizes generic man, the spiritual idea of God; she illustrates the coincidence of God and man as the divine Principle and divine idea. The Revelator symbolizes-Spirit by the sun. The spiritual idea is clad with the radiance or spiritual Truth, and matter is put under her feet. The light portrayed is really neither solar nor lunar, but spiritual Life, which is "the light of men." In the first chapter of the Fourth Gospel it is written, "There was a man sent from God -to bear witness of that Light."
John the Baptist prophesied the coming of the immaculate Jesus, and John saw in those days the spiritual idea as the Messiah, who would baptize with the Holy Ghost,--divine Science. As Elias presented the idea of the fatherhood of God, which Jesus afterwards manifested, so the Revelator completed this figure with woman, typifying the spiritual idea of God's motherhood. The moon is under her feet. This idea reveals the universe as secondary and tributary to Spirit, from which the universe borrows its reflected light, substance, life, and intelligence.
The spiritual idea is crowned with twelve stars. The twelve tribes of Israel with all mortals,--separated by belief from man's divine origin and the true idea,--will through much tribulation yield to the activities of the divine Principle of man in the harmony of Science. These are the stars in the crown of rejoicing. They are the lamps in the spiritual heavens of the age, which show the workings of the spiritual idea by healing the sick and the sinning, and by manifesting the light which shines "unto the perfect day" as the night of materialism wanes.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Page 562:22-28
Revelation xii. 2. And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
Also the spiritual idea is typified by a woman in travail, waiting to be delivered of her sweet promise, but remembering no more her sorrow for joy that the birth goes on; for great is the idea, and the travail portentous.
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The Woman in the Apocalypse
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: The First Church of Christ, Scientist and Miscellany
Page : 14:14-9
My first writings on Christian Science began with notes on the Scriptures. I consulted no other authors and read no other book but the Bible for about three years. What I wrote had a strange coincidence or relationship with the light of revelation and solar light. I could not write these notes after sunset. A.11 thoughts in the line of Scriptural interpretation would leave me until the rising of the sun. Then the influx of divine interpretation would pour in upon my spiritual sense as gloriously as the sunlight on the material senses. It was not myself, but the divine power of Truth and Love, infinitely above me, which dictated "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." I have been learning the higher meaning of this book since writing it.
Is it too much to say that this book is leavening the whole lump of human thought? You can trace its teachings in each step of mental and spiritual progress, from pulpit and press, in religion and ethics, and find these progressive steps either written or indicated in the book. It has mounted thought on the swift and mighty chariot of divine Love, which to-day is circling the whole world.
I should blush to write of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" as I have, were it of human origin, and were I, apart from God, its author. But, as I was only a scribe echoing the harmonies of heaven in divine metaphysics, I cannot be super-modest in my estimate of the Christian Science textbook.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Miscellaneous Writings
Page : 39:11 the
... the Founder of genuine Christian Science has been all her years in giving it birth.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Miscellaneous writings
Page : 253:16-9
The Scriptural metaphors,--of the woman in travail, the great red dragon that stood ready to devour the child as soon as it was born, and the husbandman that said, "This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours,"--are type and shadow of this hour.
A mother's love touches the heart of God, and should it not appeal to human sympathy? Can a mother tell her child one tithe of the agonies that gave that child birth? Can that child conceive of the anguish, until she herself is become a mother?
Do the children of this period dream of the spiritual Mother's sore travail, through the long night, that has opened their eyes to the light of Christian Science? Cherish these new-born children that filial obedience to which the Decalogue points with promise of prosperity? Should not the loving warning, the far-seeing wisdom, the gentle entreaty, the stern rebuke have been heeded, in return for all that love which brooded tireless over their tender years? for all that love that hath fed them with Truth,--even the bread that cometh down from heaven, --as the mother-bird tendeth her young in the rock-ribbed nest of the raven's callow brood!
Author: Daisette D.S. McKenzie, CSB
Source: We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, First Series
Page #: 40-43 (pg. 121 in compiled version)
On one occasion, when we were visiting with our Leader, she asked if we had seen a painting which was then in her room in the original Church. It pictures a chair in which she sat when writing our textbook. Several sheets of manuscript were thrown on the floor beside it. "The picture is true to life," said Mrs. Eddy. "When the ideas of Truth poured into my thought, I was so careful not to miss anything, that I let my papers fall to the floor. When the moment of revelation passed, I gathered them up and arranged them.
From that time on she labored to array the child in fine raiment, to clothe the idea in language befitting its divine origin.
Author: Julia Michael Johnston, CSB
Source: Mary Baker Eddy: Her Mission and Triumph (1st edition)
Page #: 183
In the depths of her consciousness Mrs. Eddy knew that in her discovery of Christian Science was fulfilled the Bible prophecy of a woman who would bring forth a man child to rule all nations with the power of God (Rev 12:5) .... the woman divinely foretold fulfilled her mission.
Author: Bliss Knapp, CSB
Source: We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, First Series
Page #: 57 (pg. 184 in compiled version)
My father and mother were among Mrs. Eddy's early students. When they first took class instruction with her, Mrs. Eddy had not yet included in Science and Health her explanation of the twelfth chapter of the book of Revelation. However, she gave an oral explanation of that chapter to the class. The first verse reads as follows: "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars." As my father sat there listening to her explanation of that Scriptural verse, he exclaimed, "Thou art the woman." By this is meant that Mrs. Eddy, in her human experience, represented the woman of the Apocalypse, for as Mrs. Eddy states in Science & Health (p. 565) the Christ-idea was -"represented first by man, and, according to the Revelator, last by woman ....
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The Woman in the Apocalypse
Author: Clara Knox McKee, CSD
Source: We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Second Series
Page #: 75 (p. 195 in compiled work)
Of the ideal woman it is said in Proverbs 31:26, "She opened her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.'' This certainly is descriptive of our beloved Leader and friend, Mary Baker Eddy.
Author: Anonymous
Source: Pulpit and Press
Page #: 27
Another great window tells its pictorial story of the four Marys-the mother of Jesus, Mary anointing the head of Jesus, Mary washing the feet of Jesus, Mary at the resurrection; and the woman spoken of in the Apocalypse, chapter 12, God-crowned.
Author: Judge Septimus Hanna, CSD
Source: "Editor's Table", The Christian Science Journal, July 1695
Page #: 172-173
It is an unquestionable historical fact that heretofore most of revelation has come through men. Must there not have come a time, when in the eternal fitness of things, Woman should become a medium of divine revelation? That such a time must come is clear from the fact that God created man male and female. There can be no whole man without the female. Genesis is authority for our claim; but it by no means rests there. Revelation expressly declares the appearing of the Woman of the Apocalypse. The only possible question is to when this Woman shall appear. We cannot in this article, go over all the ground upon which we base our belief that this Woman has appeared, and is now with us. There are numerous indicia, both in the Scriptures, and outside of it, pointing to these as the times of her appearing. It is sufficient for our present purpose to point to that one indice which, to every Christian Scientist is evidence conclusive, and that is the coming to this age of our text-book, Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures. The wondrous results of this book in uplifting humanity and bettering the conditions of the race, sufficiently attest its divinely revealed origin. How could this book come? It must come through a person; and in the divine order above indicated, that person must be a female.
What then is our rational conclusion? what the logic of this latest revelation? That she who wrote the revelation is the Revelator! Surely the medium of the revelation must be the Revelator in every instance. It is upon this premise we declare that the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy is the divinely appointed instrument of the higher revelation which has come to us.
Our conclusion then is, that in so far as we understand and accept this revelation, and recognize the Revelator, we are attaining to true and lasting knowledge; knowledge which is above human premises, beyond human hypotheses, apart from the changing and shifting views which are born solely of human conceptions and are lacking the essential qualities of inspiration.
Author: Bliss Knapp, CSB
Source: "The Final Revelation" . The Christian Science Journal, December 1938
Page #: 465
Science and Health informs us that the twelfth chapter of Revelation is the lesson of today; that it is prophetic of events destined to appear during the nineteenth century (pp. 559, 560). The nineteenth century has come and gone, and Mary Baker Eddy is the only woman especially identified with Divine Science, and she is the one who has brought to completion the work described in the final revelation--namely, the writing of the "little book"; the establishment of the Church of Christ, Scientist, of which she says in the Manual of the Mother Church (p. 19) that it is designed "to reflect in some degree the Church Universal and Triumphant, including the writing of the Church Manual; and the completion of the holy city (Rev. 21:16), the fourth side of which is "divine Science." (S&H p. 575).
By completing the city's fourth side (S&H. p. 577), Christian Science is shown to be the final revelation of Truth. The corollary of this fact must be that Mary Baker Eddy is the final revelator of Truth, according to Scriptural prophecy.
The woman in the Apocalypse is described in Science and Health as a spiritual idea, variously portrayed. For example, she is described as a woman in travail; as a woman clothed in spiritual light; as generic man; besides revealing the motherhood of God (pp. 561, 562). These are but four points of view regarding the same idea; and to one who really understands the spiritual idea, they will all be found in agreement (p. 345:12-17). This spiritual idea is prophetic of events that came to pass late in the nineteenth century, and one must now look for the visible idea, rather than its symbol. In fact, Mrs. Eddy makes it plain that it is the visible idea which we must seek and find before we can correctly understand its divine Principle (p. 560).
Science and Health refers to the "immaculate idea," Christ, as "represented first by man and according to the Revelator, last by woman" (p. 565) . This latter statement points unerringly to the one who wrote Science and Health. Indeed, our Leader makes it evident in her writings that she understands herself to be the one who was commissioned by God to finish the work described in Revelation, thereby fulfilling prophecy and representing the woman in the Apocalypse (p. 565).
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The Woman in the Apocalypse
Author: Bliss Knapp, CSB
Source: "Impressions of Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy", Christian Science Sentinel, July 5, 1941
Page #: 881
Whether we know it or not, we today are being tested in regard to the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy. Are they from heaven, or of men? Those who think of her as just the daughter of Mark Baker might regard her as only another religious leader; but Mrs. Eddy explained her own place in Biblical prophecy, even as Jesus had explained his place in prophecy on the way to Emmaus.
We are familiar with Mrs. Eddy's statement (My. p. 120). "Those who look for me in person, or elsewhere than in my writings, lose me instead of find me.' But she also says (!bid., p. 133), "My book is not all you know of me." And why? Because the remainder of what we can know of her true selfhood must be found in the Bible, in both the Old and the New Testament.
Author: George Shaw Cook, CSB
Source: "Revelation and Revelator", The Christian Science Journal, August 1938
Page #: 278
It is possible that when St. John recorded with Oriental imagery, the series of visions which came to him on the Isle of Patmos, he believed that the second coming of Christ would occur in the immediate future. His symbolic description, contained in Revelation 12 and other parts of the Apocalypse, may, there-Fore, have referred to events that he believed near at hand. That -the predicted changes did not take place in the period in which John lived or in the next succeeding centuries does not, however prove his prophecy fallacious. The fact is that his prophetic vision is being fulfilled in the present age, and this is cause for rejoicing.
Author: Irving C. Tomlinson, CSB
Source: Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy
Page #: 218-219
No one could serve twelve years under Mrs. Eddy's counsel and instruction without realizing how clearly she recognized her position as prophesied by St. John the Revelator. With superb courage, she braved the severe encounters which the resistance and hatred of the carnal mind persistently enlisted against the spiritual idea presented in Christian Science, for she perceived the fulfillment of the Revelator's prophecy in her own life, and in Christian Science. This is evidenced by her own words: "The twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse, or Revelation of St. John, has a special suggestiveness in connection with the nineteenth century."
Through her fidelity to divine Principle, Mary Baker Eddy was enabled to open the seven-sealed book mentioned in Revelation by means of the spiritual idea revealed in Christian Science. The Apocalyptic vision she elucidated not only in written words, but also in living letters of fire in her own life experience.
As the years pass, Mary Baker Eddy' s true position will be more fully recognized and appreciated. As Jesus strove to turn the attention of his disciples away from his corporeality and to open their eyes to his real identity, so did Mrs. Eddy endeavor to turn the thought of her followers away from her personality and to reveal through her writings her true place in spiritual history.
The real identity of God's messenger to this age will be unfolded as mankind seeks to understand it through a study of the Bible and her writings.
Author: Mattie Bird Clarke
Source: "The Fulfillment of Prophecy", The Christian Science Journal, February 1906
Page #: 689
Some have said they do not believe that Christian Science is the truth, because there are no prophecies in the Bible concerning it. They admit its healing virtue, but consider it a human agency. Such an opinion can only be held because of an unwillingness to investigate Christian Science, for this would show it to be the fulfillment of prophecy.
Among the prophecies in Revelation which have special reference to Christian Science, that concerning the "little book" is very significant. its meaning is made clear by our Leader in the chapter of Science and Health called "The Apocalypse." To the Christian
_ Scientist this revelation is crowned with the glorious promise of salvation. It is a message from God, illuminating mortal consciousness as the sun illumines the earth; consuming all error as fire consumes stubble. The revelation of Truth to this age clears up all mystery, as was promised where John says, "In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets."
Can anyone doubt that Christian Science is the Comforter, revealed through the spiritual illumination and travail of woman; denying reality in aught but Spirit, God, and His reflection in spiritual ideas?
Author: Robert J. Golder
Source: "Our Beloved Leader", The Christian Science Journal, December 1955
Page #: 635
At this hour of the twentieth century, rich in its promise of greater spiritual development and unfoldment, it is helpful to discern clearly the place of our beloved Leader in the fulfillment
of Bible prophecy and her relationship to the Church of Christ, Scientist, and the Christian Science movement. In 1866 in fulfillment of prophecy, Mary Baker Eddy discovered the operative power of the Christ, Truth, in its full and final revelation. This spiritually minded woman discerned the demonstrable Science underlying the teachings of Christ and has made it available once more to bless us all.
On pages 559 and 560 of the textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mrs. Eddy says: "The twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse, or Revelation of St. John, has a special suggestiveness in connection with the nineteenth century. In the opening of the sixth seal, typical of six thousand years since Adam, the distinctive feature has reference to the present age." Mrs. Eddy presented in her discovery the woman in the Apocalypse, where it is recorded (Rev. 12:1), "There appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun and upon her head a crown of twelve stars." Mrs. Eddy's place in Christian history was to reveal- the Comforter promised by Christ Jesus. The Master taught God's fatherhood, and in her revelation Mrs. Eddy presented the motherhood of God.
Our beloved Leader is God's messenger to this age; -the woman who, in fulfillment of divine prophecy, discovered the science of Christian healing and presented it to mankind.
Author: John Randall Dunn, CSB
Source: "The Woman God-Crowned", Christian Science Sentinel, September 18, 1943.
Page #: 1609
Prophets, poets, the deep thinkers of many peoples and times, have envisioned, longed for, hoped for, the dawn of a happier day for the human family. The early Scriptures abound with the promises of a liberating Messianic dispensation. Christ Jesus definitely foretold the coming of a Comforter which would abide with men forever; and the beloved disciple John, on the isle of Patmos, beheld the appearing of "a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars."
Then he saw that this woman was to bring forth "a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne." In our time is this Scripture fulfilled; at this moment mankind stands at the threshold of a material and mental overturning--a renaissance unparalleled in human history.
Until one begins the study of Christian Science, his attention has possibly never been directed to the fact that in several places
the Bible distinctly sets forth in prophetic vision the coming of greater light through the spiritualized woman thought. The fifty-fourth chapter of Isaiah, for instance, contains such references. Jeremiah foresees the creation of "a new thing in the earth"--that a woman shall compass a man;" in other words, the inspired woman thought shall grasp the wonder of God's man, spiritual, harmonious, triumphant. Then John's vision in the Apocalypse completes the beautiful picture of woman's place in prophecy.
In 1866, a woman "forsaken and grieved in spirit," who from her childhood had been unusually spiritually-minded, and a seeker after Christian healing, found herself raised from what was thought to be her deathbed by -her prayers. Again and again it came to her that this unusual experience could not be traced to blind faith or to a miraculous intervention of Deity, but indicated the operation of a hitherto unknown spiritual law. After intensive study of the Scriptures to discover and understand more of this law, she put her findings to the test, and healed cases of disease as they had not been healed since the days of Jesus and the apostles. Next she undertook the laborious task of committing to the pages of a book her sublime discovery; and thus did Mary Baker Eddy fulfill Scriptural prophecy; thus today in her revelation of provable, spiritual law may we find the realization of Isaiah's dreams, of Jeremiah's vision, and John's apocalyptic promise. Blessed indeed. are the eyes from which have dropped the blurring scales of materialistic scholastic theology--eyes which can catch the glory of the message of Mrs. Eddy's book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
Someone may ask, Is there not danger in the years to come that the followers of Mary Baker Eddy may yield to the error of worshipping her personality? Not if the students truly understand her mission, her works, and her place in this great plan. When the Christian Scientist sees in Christ Jesus' advent the unquestioned fulfillment of Biblical prophecy, he cannot stop there and worship the personality of the Master. His heart, of course, will overflow with gratitude to the great Wayshower; but he must know more of the Christ, the healing truth which Jesus taught and exemplified, if he would be a disciple indeed. The personal Jesus was not the truth, but he presented and demonstrated the truth that makes men free. Mary Baker Eddy without doubt typifies the woman in the Apocalypse, but is not the woman here mentioned, like the Christ, more than a human identity? In Science and Health (p. 561) Mrs. Eddy writes: "The woman in the Apocalypse symbolizes generic man, the spiritual idea of God; she illustrates the coincidence of God and man as the divine Principle and divine idea.,' Then she adds farther on, "The spiritual idea is clad with the radiance of spiritual Truth, and matter is put under her feet." What a glorious thought! Mrs. Eddy has unlocked one of the great mysteries of the book of Revelation, and has explained the woman God-crowned, the spiritual idea which here and now can bring into our lives that truth which will silence sin, still pain, and comfort sorrowing hearts. This transcendent spiritual idea; Divine Science, brings to human consciousness the understanding of God's motherhood as well as His fatherhood; brings the long-hidden understanding that the real man--the "male and female" of Genesis 1:27--embraces every heavenly quality of the masculine and feminine thought, and therefore is an individually whole, complete, harmonious expression of the whole, complete, harmonious Father-Mother God. This glorious idea, with the moon-time, space, relativity--under her feet, is destined to save the race and usher in the reign of law and Principle.
Is it any wonder that Christian Scientists love and are grateful for the inspirational seer, or gracious Leader, who in this age has brought into our lives the true understanding of the woman of John's vision? of this woman she writes in Science and Health (p. 55): "Truth's immortal idea is sweeping down the centuries, gathering beneath its wings the sick and sinning." And on the same page she concludes, "This Comforter I understand to be Divine Science."
Author: L. Ivimy Gwalter, CSB
Source: "Mary Baker Eddy: Her Prophecies"; The Christian Science Journal, December 1966
Page #: 617
Prophecy as understood in Christian Science is the discernment of spiritual reality and its inevitable fulfillment in human experience. The thread of prophecy gleams in the first chapter of Genesis where it is affirmed that God created man in His own image, male and female, and commanded him to replenish and subdue the earth. It runs through the Old Testament. It shines resplendent in the earthly life of Christ Jesus, the masculine representative of Truth. It glows in the book of Revelation. And, as this series of articles has indicated it comes to glorious fulfillment in -the advent of Mrs. Eddy, who, in her fulfillment of prophecy, typifies the spiritual idea symbolized by the woman in the twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse.
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THE TWO WITNESSES
Zech 4:11-14
Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof? And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves? And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord. Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.
Rev 11:3-6
And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in -this manner be killed. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Page : 517:8
The ideal man corresponds to creation, to intelligence, and to Truth. The ideal woman corresponds to Life and to Love. In divine Science, we have not as much authority for considering God masculine, as we have for considering Him feminine, for Love imparts the clearest idea of Deity.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Message for 1902
Page : 10:24-27
The old and recurring martyrdom of God's best witnesses is the infirmity of evil, the modus operandi of human error, carnality, opposition to God and His power in man.
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The Two Witnesses
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: The First Church of Christ, Scientist and Miscellany
Page: 346:18-5
MRS. EDDY'S SUCCESSOR
In a recent interview which appeared in the columns of the New York Herald, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, stated that her successor would be a man. Various conjectures having arisen as to whether she had in mind any particular person when the statement was made, Mrs. Eddy gave the following to the Associated Press, May 16, 1901:--
"I did say that a man would be my future successor. By this I did not mean any man to-day on earth.
"Science and Health makes it plain to all Christian Scientists that the manhood and womanhood of God have already been revealed in a degree through Christ Jesus and Christian Science, His two witnesses. What remains to lead on the centuries and reveal my successor, is man in the image and likeness of the Father-Mother God, man the generic term for mankind."
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Christ and Christmas
Page 53:49-52
As in blest Palestina's hour,
So in our age,
It is the same hand unfolds His power,
And writes the page.
Author: Irving C. Tomlinson, CSB
Source: "True Estimate of God's Messenger", The Christian Science
Journal, October 1927
Page #: 349
The Bible and our Leader's writings show that there are two witnesses and no more. The first witness, Christ Jesus, reveals the fatherhood of God, good, and the omnipotence of Truth. The second witness, the discovery of Mary Baker Eddy,---Christian Science,--reveals the motherhood of God and the omnipresence of divine Love, with its complete protection for the offspring of Love. The first witness testified to the spiritual idea of Truth, which liberates man from bondage to the flesh and overcomes every material law. The second witness revealed the spiritual idea of Love, which brings the new spiritual birth, explains the law, and preserves from every attack of error. He who sees that Christian Science bears witness to the final and complete revelation of the Science of Being, who knows also that he himself can witness to the truth Mrs. Eddy has revealed, cannot fail to form a true estimate of God's messenger.
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The Two Witnesses
Author: Irving C. Tomlinson, CSB
Source: Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy
Page #: 214
Just as Jesus in the "first coming" revealed the fatherhood of God, so Mrs. Eddy in the "second coming' of the Christ revealed the motherhood of God.
Author: Albert F. Gilmore, CSB
Source: "The Second Coming", The Christian Science Journal, November 1939
Page #: 408
Christian Scientists agree unequivocally that Jesus exemplified the fatherhood of God. No less assuredly do they accept Mrs. Eddy as having revealed the motherhood of the Godhead. Did God possess only the qualities or attributes of the Father, He could scarcely be the creator of man as both male and female. His fullness includes both--all--and this allness has its two witnesses--the one who named the Christian era and the other who came in the fullness of time to complete the revelation.
The record in Genesis has its counterpart in the Apocalypse. In the "new heaven" and "new earth," which the spiritually prepared perceive, is the woman of the Apocalypse--"the spiritual ideal as a woman clothed in light, a bride coming down from heaven, wedded to the lamb of Love" (S&H p. 561). This "spiritual ideal" was humanly represented in this age by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and 0 Founder of Christian Science.
Author: Paul Stark Seeley, CSB
Source: Mary Baker Eddy: A Centennial Appreciation
Page #: 45; 39-44
Hers was the God-ordered mission -- symbolized in Revelation as a woman clothed with the sun, the radiance of spiritual truth--inspired by deific Mind to proclaim the message which, Christ Jesus said, will guide you into all truth."
Micah and Zechariah foresaw that two messengers would appear to further and fulfill this divine purpose. The first, Christ Jesus I by the spoken word and mighty proofs of the healing power of God's Word.... That the divine purpose demanded a subsequent revelation of truth the Master made clear in these prophetic words: "I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever." John, in the twelfth chapter of Revelation, reiterates Micah's prophecy that she who travaileth shall bring forth that revelation of eternal truth which shall rule all peoples.-
This second appearing of revealed truth was made available to humanity in 1875 with the publishing of Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy.
Christ Jesus, the first of Truth's great messengers to mankind, foretold by the prophets, spake to men as no man had ever spoken ....
Mrs. Eddy, who had made his teaching her own, through years of study, prayer, and self-immolation, became qualified to be the subsequent messenger of Truth, foreseen by the prophets, to complete Truth's revelation by defining the wisdom-revealed rules for its application to the solutions of all human needs.
Author: Bliss Knapp, CSB
Source: "Church Organization". Christian Science Sentinel, January 26, 1924
Page #: 423
In the account of the fourth day of creation, as given in the first chapter of Genesis, two great lights are mentioned, whose office it is to rule: one to rule over the night, and the other to rule over the day. In the prophetic vision of Micah, one of these two "that is to be ruler in Israel" was to be a man and the other a woman. The Revelator also describes one of these divinely appointed witnesses as a woman, whose child "was to rule all nations with a rod of iron." Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, does not hesitate to name these two witnesses as Christ Jesus and Christian Science (see Miscellany, p. 347) . She further pictures them in Christ and Christmas (p. 41) as a man and a woman, the latter bearing the scroll of Christian Science. Moreover, she declares, in Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures (p. 565), that "Christ, God's idea, will eventually rule all nations and peoples--imperatively, absolutely, finally--with divine Science."
Author: The Earl of Dunmore
Source: "Prophecy: Fulfillment: Revelation", The Christian Science Journal, March 1907
Page #: 716
And now it rests with us today to accept or reject that "Spirit of truth" which has come to guide us into all truth,--the Christ-idea, which heals and saves. Just as the Jews were taught by their prophets to expect the advent of one who was to be called the Messiah, so have we lived in expectation of the Master's promises concerning the Comforter: "And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin. . . . howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: . . . and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you." These promises are being fulfilled anew today; this Comforter, this "spirit of truth," has come to the world to guide mankind into all truth, and it has come through the revelation of Christian Science.
Thus does history repeat itself in the fact that today, nineteen hundred years after the birth and ministry of Jesus, the Christ-idea has been presented again,--revealed to the world through one who was near enough to God to understand both Melchizedek and Jesus, our revered Leader, Mrs. Eddy; and it is through her teachings and example that the world is gaining the true idea of the Christ, the "Son of God."
Author: Irving C. Tomlinson, CSB
Source: Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy
Page #: 216
The primal cause of all that is, we know, is God, divine mind, eternal Truth. This primal cause, as clearly indicated, includes fatherhood and motherhood, the masculine and feminine states of consciousness which are typified by the two witnesses, Christ and Christian Science, Christ being made manifest through the manhood of Jesus and Christian Science through the womanhood of Mary Baker Eddy. It is significant that according to Hebrew law at least two witnesses were required to establish a fact.
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A RULER IN THE HEAVENLY KINGDOM
Gen 1:14-18
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament o@ the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was SO. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament-- of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
MICAH 5:2,3
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Page : 146:23
Divine Science derives its sanction from the Bible, and the divine origin of Science is demonstrated through the holy influence of Truth in healing sickness and sin. This healing power of Truth must have been far anterior to the period in which Jesus lived. It is as ancient as "the Ancient of days." It lives through all Life, and extends throughout all space. (Note: Marginal Heading reads, "Christian Science as Old as God.")
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Miscellaneous writings
Page : 167:1-4,12-15,20-26
The material questions at this age on the reappearing of the infantile thought of God's man, are after the manner of a mother in the flesh, though their answers pertain to the spiritual idea, as in
Christian Science:--
How old is he?
of his days there is no beginning and no ending.
what is his name?
Christ Science.
Is he heir to an estate?
"The government shall be upon his shoulder!,' He has dominion over the whole earth; and in admiration of his origin, he exclaims, "I thank Thee, 0 Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes!"
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Message for 1902
Page : 4:3
I again repeat, Follow your Leader, only so far as she follows Christ.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: The First Church of Christ, Scientist and Miscellany
Page : 358:30-5
I approve the By-laws of The Mother Church, and require the Christian Science Board of Directors to maintain them and sustain them. These Directors do not act contrary to the rules of -the Church Manual, neither do they trouble me with their difficulties with individuals in their own church or with the members of branch churches.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Miscellaneous Writings
Page : 148:7-21
The Rules and By-laws in the Manual of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, originated not in solemn conclave as in ancient Sanhedrin. They were not arbitrary opinions nor dictatorial demands, such as one person might impose on another. They were impelled by a power not one's own, were written at different dates, and as the occasion required. They sprang from necessity, the logic of events,--from the immediate demand for them as a help that must ,.be supplied to maintain the dignity and defense of our Cause; hence their simple, scientific basis, and detail so requisite to demonstrate genuine Christian Science, and which will do for the race what absolute doctrines destined for future generations might not accomplish.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: The First Church of Christ, Scientist and Miscellany
Page : 30:1,9
Notwithstanding the sacrilegious moth of time, eternity awaits our Church Manual, which will maintain its rank as in the past, amid ministries aggressive and active, and will stand when those have passed to rest.
This church is impartial. Its rules apply not to one member only, but to one and all equally. of this I am sure, that each Rule and By-law in this Manual will increase the spirituality of him who obeys it, invigorate his capacity to heal the sick, to comfort such as mourn, and to awaken the sinner.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: The First Church of Christ, Scientist and Miscellany
Page : 51:29-2
Adhere to the teachings of the Bible, Science and Health, and our Manual, and you will obey the law and gospel.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Miscellaneous Writings
Page : 140:28-9
Built on the rock, our church will stand the storms of ages: though the material superstructure should crumble into dust, the fittest would survive,--the spiritual idea would live, a perpetual -type of the divine Principle it reflects.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, our prayer in stone, will be the prophecy fulfilled, the monument upreared, of Christian Science. It will speak to you of the Mother, and of your hearts' offering to her through whom was revealed to you God's all-power, all-presence, and all-science. This building begun, will go up, and no one can suffer from it, for no one can resist the power that is behind it; and against this church temple "the gates of hell" cannot prevail.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Miscellaneous Writings
Page : 310:18-19
To continue one's connection with this church, or to regain it, one must comply with the church rules.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Pulpit and Press
Page : 7:24
1 have ordained the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," as pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston,--so long as this church is satisfied with this pastor. This is my first ordination. "They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy house; and Thou shalt make them drink of the river of Thy pleasures.
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A Ruler in the Heavenly Kingdom
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: The First Church of Christ, Scientist and Miscellany
Page 60:20-22
Abide in fellowship with and obedience to The Mother Church, and in this way God will bless and prosper you.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Poems
Page #: 76
Laus Deo,--on this rock
(Heaven chiseled squarely good)
Stands His church,--
God is Love, and understood
By His flock.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Miscellaneous Writings
Page : 108:31
what should be thought of an individual believing in that which is untrue, and at the same time declaring the unity of Truth, and its allness? Beware of those who misrepresent facts; or tacitly assent where they should dissent; or who take me as authority for what I disapprove, or mayhap never have thought of, and try to reverse, invert, or controvert, Truth; for this is a sure pretext of moral defilement.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Miscellaneous Writings
Page 264:32-26
If a teacher of Christian Science unwittingly or intentionally offers his own thought, and gives me as authority for it; if he diverges from Science and knows it not, or, knowing it, makes the venture from vanity, in order to be thought original, or wiser than somebody else,--this divergence widens. He grows dark, and cannot .,regain, at will, an upright understanding. This error in the teacher also predisposes his students to make mistakes and lose their way. Diverse opinions in Science are stultifying. All must have one Principle and the same rule; and all who follow the Principle and rule have but one opinion of it.
Whosoever understands a single rule in Science, and demonstrates its Principle according to rule, is master of the situation. Nobody can gainsay this. The egotistical theorist or shallow moralist may presume to make innovations upon simple proof; but his mistake is visited upon himself and his students, whose minds are, must be, disturbed by this discord, which extends along the whole line of reciprocal thought. An error in premise can never bring forth the real fruits of Truth. After thoroughly explaining spiritual Truth and its ethics to a student, I am not morally responsible for the misstatements or misconduct of this student. My teachings are uniform. Those who abide by them do well. If others who receive the same instruction, do ill, the fault is not in the culture but the soil.
Author: Ella W. Hoag, CSB
Source: "The resuscitating law of Life", Christian Science Sentinel, March 26, 1927
Page #: 591
The Christian Scientist, who recognizes Mrs. Eddy as God's chosen revelator of the truth to this age, knows not only that her statements are always demonstrable, but that it is God's purpose that every individual shall prove them to be so.
Author: Duncan Sinclair, CSB
Source: "Christian Science: The Final Revelation", Christian Science Publishing Society pamphlet "A Prophet With Honor"
Page #: 23
We regard Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, as the revelator of Christ, Truth, in this age. We are convinced of this because we understand, and have proved for ourselves in some measure, the truth of her revelation. This acknowledgment is but to give our Leader her rightful place in religious history.
Author: Daisette D.S. McKenzie, CSB
Source: We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, First Series
Page #: 40 (pg. 119 in compiled version) -
Some have believed that our Leader had, to some degree, relinquished her leadership of our movement, but instead her leadership rises today more grandly than ever. Christian Scientists are adding to the reverent appellation, "Our Leader," the grander concept of her spiritual leadership of the world. Through -the discovery of Christian Science, God is proclaiming His own government of the universe, and in resistance to this sublime government we hear one human voice after another crying, "I shall rule the world." This clamor will cease, and out of the fire shall emerge a purified consciousness more ready to learn the way to live. Our Leader encourages us to seek and find her in her writings. The hostility of mortal mind endeavors to separate her from he-- writings and so keep us from more intimate communion with her.
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A Ruler in the Heavenly Kingdom
Author: Helen M. Mullen
Source: "Our Duty to Our Leader", The Christian Science Journal, February 1939
Page #: 596
In the Manual of The Mother Church Mrs. Eddy writes, "It shall be the duty of every member of this Church to defend himself daily against aggressive mental suggestion, and not be made to forget nor to neglect his duty to God, to his Leader, and to mankind." This is a By-law to which every alert Christian Scientist gives much consecrated thought. What constitutes our duty to God, to our Leader, and to mankind?
The second obligation is to understand our Leader's teaching; to understand her life and her revelation; to acknowledge her place in prophecy, and to live her teachings through obedience. Obedience is not mere talking, but doing. Obedience means conforming to Principle, not merely carrying out another's personal wish or command. This is what Christian Scientists are striving to do-conform their thinking to divine Principle, as revealed in Christian Science. The message and messenger are inseparable. What greater duty to our Leader could any student fulfill than to understand her teaching and labor to exemplify it in his practice? There-fore, to comprehend the revelation and conform consistently to its requirements is to honor the revelator.
Mrs. Eddy's revelation of God as Mother, as well as Father, has brought out a new and spiritual idea of womanhood. The warmth of divine Love melts the -frozen ground of sin and materiality. The scepter of spiritual peace wins the hearts of mankind from the paths of war. in this era the Revelator's prophecy has come to pass, "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars." When one begins to contemplate what the revelation of Christian Science means to the world, it is as if he were viewing the rising of a great light beyond the light of day--the light of Spirit--which disperses the darkness of materiality.
Author: Bliss Knapp, CSB
Source: "Church Organization", Christian Science Sentinel, January 26, 1924
Page #: 423
Within the broad channels of the Christian Science church organization are provided all the essentials for that complete understanding of the Christ-idea which brings salvation to all. When one turns aside from this organization, claiming for himself an advanced revelation, or that organization is no longer necessary, he is being blinded to his own disobedience and unwillingness to observe the discipline essential to his own spiritual growth in the organization. He should remember, moreover, that the two witnesses whose office it is to rule or govern were ordained simultaneously with creation. Those Christian Scientists who are willing to acknowledge the woman in the Apocalypse will have respect for the church founded by Mary Baker Eddy, and will the more readily obey its rules of government. Mrs. Eddy says, "Church laws which are obeyed without mutiny are God's laws" (Miscellany, p. 203) . Then it will be understood why the Founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist, must be a woman bearing the message of Christian Science that is sweet to the taste, but bitter to the digestion.
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THE WOMAN WHO PUT THE LEAVEN IN THE MEAL
MATT 13:33,35
Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened..
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Page : 117:29-9
Jesus bade his disciples beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees, which he defined as human doctrines. His parable of the "leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened," impels the inference that the spiritual leaven signifies the Science of Christ and its spiritual interpretation,--an inference far above the merely ecclesiastical and formal applications of the illustration.
Did not this parable point a moral with a prophecy, foretelling the second appearing in the flesh of the Christ, Truth, hidden in sacred secrecy from the visible world?
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Page 317:1
Jesus uttered things which had been "secret from the foundation of the world,"--since material knowledge usurped the throne of the creative divine Principle, insisted on the might of matter, the force of falsity, the insignificance of spirit, and proclaimed an anthropomorphic God.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: The First Church of Christ, Scientist and Miscellany
Page 4:10
We follow Truth only as we follow truly, meekly, patiently, spiritually, blessing saint and sinner with the leaven of divine Love which woman has put into Christendom and medicine.
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The Woman Who Put the Leaven in the Meal
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Miscellaneous Writings
Page : 166:10-26
And what of this child?--"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder.,'
This child, or spiritual idea, has evolved a more ready ear for the overture of angels and the scientific understanding of Truth and Love. When Christ, the incorporeal idea of God, was nameless, and a Mary knew not how to declare its spiritual origin, the idea of man was not understood. The Judaean religion even required the Virgin-mother to go to the temple and be purified, for having given birth to the corporeal child Jesus, whose origin was more spiritual than the senses could interpret. Like the leaven that a certain woman hid in three measures of meal, the Science of God and the spiritual idea, named in this century Christian Science, is leavening the lump of human thought, until the whole shall be leavened and all materialism disappear.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Miscellaneous Writings
Page : 174:30
The leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, is Divine Science; the Comforter; the Holy Ghost that leadeth into all Truth; the "still, small voice" that breathes His presence and power, casting out error and healing the sick. And woman, the spiritual idea, takes of the things of God and showeth them unto the creature, until the whole sense of being is leavened with Spirit. The three measures of meal may well be likened to the false sense of life, substance, and intelligence, which says, I am sustained by bread, matter, instead of mind. The spiritual leaven of divine Science changes this false sense, giving better views of Life; saying, Man's Life is God; and when this shall appear, it shall be "the substance of things hoped for."
Author: Dr. John M. Tutt, CSB
Source: Mary Baker Eddy: A Centennial Appreciation
Page #: 99-100
There was a strong element of prophecy in Christ Jesus' parable of the kingdom of heaven likened to "leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened."
The leaven of Spirit is the influence Mrs. Eddy hid in the measure of meal called material medicine.
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The Woman Who Put the Leaven in the Meal
Author: Sue Harper Mims, CSD
Source: "The Progressive Revelation of the Immaculate Concept", The Christian Science Journal, May 1908
Page #: 68
As the consummate annunciation of human history, in the 10th chapter of Revelation a majestic voice from heaven commands, "Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth." Thus is proffered to mankind the revelation of divine Science. Further in the fullness of revelation, we read, "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: ... And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron."
This declaration of the full stature of the man child--the divine ideal--as the offspring of the Father-Mother God, forever inseparable from the divine Principle ... is the divine leaven that is working a mighty revolution in human consciousness to-day. Above the din, the storm of conflict, on the highest peak of spiritual vision and attainment stands our revered leader, declaring again for the new birth,--the appearing of the Christ-idea in every human consciousness.
Author: Robert Ellis Key
Source: "The Leaven at Work", The Christian Science Journal, May 1954
Page #: 261-262
Someone has defined the meaning of the word "parable" as "an earthly story with a heavenly meaning," and probably every student of Christian Science would agree with this definition. We remember, for instance, our Master's parable of the leaven as recorded in the Gospel of Matthew (13:33)- "The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened."
Christian Science is the leaven reaching to every corner of the earth and revealing the heavenly Truth in place of the earthly fiction.
The housewife in Palestine was the baker of bread. She placed the leaven in the dough, confident it would do its work to leaven the whole lump and make bread fit for consumption. our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, with absolute trust in God placed the leaven of Truth in the trough of world thought, in the three measures of science, theology, and medicine.
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THE SECOND COMING OF THE CHRIST
John 14:16-18,26
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 15:26
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
John 16:7,8
Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Page: 565:6-28
Revelation xii. 5. And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to His throne.
Led on by the grossest element of mortal mind, Herod decreed the death of every male child in order that the man Jesus, the masculine representative of the spiritual idea, might never hold sway and deprive Herod of his crown. The impersonation of the spiritual idea had a brief history in the earthly life of our Master; but "of his kingdom there shall be no end," for Christ, God's idea, will eventually rule all nations and peoples--imperatively, absolutely, finally--with divine Science. This immaculate idea, represented first by man and, according to the Revelator, last by woman, will baptize with fire; and the fiery baptism will burn up the chaff of error with the fervent heat of Truth and Love, melting and purifying even the gold of human character. After the stars sang together and all was primeval harmony, the material lie made war upon the spiritual idea; but this only impelled the idea to rise to the zenith of demonstration, destroying sin, sickness, and death, and to be caught up unto God,--to be found in its divine Principle.
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The Second Coming of the Christ
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Page : 55:27
In the words of St. John: "He shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever. This Comforter I understand to be Divine Science.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Page : 583:10
CHRIST. The divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Retrospection and Introspection
Page 70:20
The second appearing of Jesus is, unquestionably, the spiritual advent of the advancing idea of God, as in Christian Science.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Miscellaneous writings
Page : 320:9-12 next page
The star that looked lovingly down on the manger of our Lord, lends its resplendent light to this hour: the light of Truth, to cheer, guide, and bless man as he reaches forth for the infant idea of divine perfection dawning upon human imperfection,---"',at calms man's fears, bears his burdens, beckons him on to Truth and Love and the sweet immunity these bring from sin, sickness, and death.
This polar star, fixed in the heavens of divine Science, shall be the sign of his appearing who "healeth all our diseases;" it hath traversed night, wading through darkness and gloom, on to glory. It doth meet the antagonism of error; addressing to dull ears and undisciplined beliefs words of Truth and Life.
The star of Bethlehem is the star of Boston, high in the zenith of Truth's domain, that looketh down on the long night of human beliefs, to pierce the darkness and melt into dawn.
The star of Bethlehem is the light of all ages; is the light of Love, to-day christening religion undefiled, divine Science; giving to it a new name, and the white stone in token of purity and permanence.
The wise men follow this guiding star; the watchful shepherd chants his welcome over the cradle of a great truth, and saith, "Unto us a child is born," whose birth is less of a miracle than eighteen centuries ago; and "his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."
My heart is filled with joy, that each receding year sees the steady gain of Truth's idea in Christian Science; that each recurring year witnesses the balance adjusted more on the side of God, the supremacy of Spirit; as shown by the triumphs of Truth over error, of health over sickness, of Life over death, and of Soul over sense.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Miscellaneous Writings
Page : 168:3-20
Go, and tell what things ye shall see and hear: how the blind, spiritually and physically, receive sight; how the lame, those halting between two opinions or hobbling on crutches, walk; how the physical and moral lepers are cleansed; how the deaf--those who, having ears, hear not, and are afflicted with "tympanum on -the brain"--hear; how the dead, those buried in dogmas and physical ailments, are raised; that to the poor--the lowly in Christ, not the man-made rabbi--the gospel is preached. Note this: only such as are pure in spirit, emptied of vainglory and vain knowledge--, receive Truth.
Here ends the colloquy; and a voice from heaven seems to say, "Come and see."
The nineteenth-century prophets repeat, "Unto us a son is given." The shepherds shout, "We behold the appearing of the star!"--and the pure in heart clap their hands.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Miscellaneous Writings
Page : 105:20
Christian Science is my only ideal; and the individual and his ideal can never be severed. If either is misunderstood or maligned, it eclipses the other with the shadow cast by this error.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Miscellaneous Writings
Page : 33:7
All clergymen may not understand the illustrations in "Christ and Christmas;" or that these refer not to personality, but present the type and shadow of Truth's appearing in the womanhood as well as in the manhood of God, our divine Father and Mother.
Author: Irving C. Tomlinson, CSB
Source: Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy
Page #: 209-210
A true appraisal of a great character in history is not always happens that considerable time must elapse gained at once. It often for the world to reach a state of understanding sufficient to perceive true greatness. But if the world is to receive the message of Christian Science which Mrs. Eddy brought, then it must obtain a true estimate of the messenger. Christian Scientists are convinced that just as the advent of Jesus proved the "first coming" of the Christ, so are they certain that Mary Baker Eddy's discovery of Christian Science fulfilled the prophecy of the "second coming.,, And there is ample Biblical authority to substantiate the conviction that Mrs. Eddy was God's messenger to this age through whom the message of the "second coming" was revealed to the world.
Author: Irving C. Tomlinson, CSB
Source: Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy
Page #: 213
For centuries, theologians, Bible students, and Christians of all denominations have been in a state of eager expectancy regarding what is usually referred to as the "second coming." According to popular belief, the "second coming" is generally interpreted as the reappearance of Jesus on earth, and Mrs. Eddy is the first person in history to controvert this theory. She has shown conclusively that the "second coming' refers not to the reappearance of the human Jesus, but to the discovery of the Christ, "The divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error."
Author: Irving C. Tomlinson, CSB
Source: Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy
Page #: 214
Jesus manifested the "first coming" of the Christ to mankind, and Mary Baker Eddy's discovery of Christian Science (the Comforter) has completely fulfilled the Biblical prophecy of the "second coming."
Author: Judge Septimus Hanna, CSD
Source: "Editor's Table", The Christian Science Journal, July 1898
Page #: 292
A second coming is as clearly prophesied as was the first coming. The Old Testament writers foretold it, Jesus plainly prophesied it, and the apostles reiterated these prophecies. The only question among believers in the Bible has been as to the time and manner of the coming. In respect to this there has been, and yet is, much disputation, speculation, and controversy. A personal coming is generally believed in, and the only personality that will at present meet the general expectancy of Christendom is the identical personality of Jesus as he appeared nineteen hundred years ago.
Only, as yet, a comparatively small part of mankind are ready to accept the larger coming comprehended in a re-establishment of the religious regime which Jesus inaugurated. This small part of mankind are satisfied that the second-coming has commenced and is now manifesting itself in the works which Jesus taught should be the evidence of the fact that the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand. while this coming is, in a sense, general, presaging a universal Kingdom, it is, in another sense, individual. As units make millions and trillions, so individuals make an aggregate. Individuality, therefore, leads to universality. Individuality, in its best sense, includes personality. Not the false personality of mortal sense, but the true personality, which, in its individuality, reflects the Divine character. From this point of view Christian Scientists believe in a personal second-coming.
God has ever manifested himself, in a large measure, through persons and individuals. Through the Biblical writers, and through Moses, Elijah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and many others, He manifested Himself in a sense above and beyond that of the average of their contemporaries or the generality of those who preceded them. In Christ Jesus, He manifested himself in the largest sense of all and in ways apart from all. Yet, as we have said, notwithstanding the wonderful and striking character of such manifestations, the material perception of that age and generation could not accept them as of God. The "remnant" only could see and accept. It has been so in a relative sense ever since.
In the declaration in Genesis that God created man in His own image, male and female, we recognize the divine Fatherhood and Motherhood. That Fatherhood and Motherhood must logically express itself in the male and female. Otherwise there were no true, full "image and likeness." That would not be a complete second-coming which did not express the "fulness of the Godhead bodily." In other words, there must be a personalized or individualized expression of the male and female of God's creation before there is a full revelation of God to mankind.
By common belief of all Christians, Christ Jesus represented the spiritual type or male-hood of God. Is it not reasonable to assume that a full or completed revelation includes God's spiritual type of female-hood? If God is male only, it seems that he would embrace within Himself but a half of Being or Individuality; and it would be impossible to reconcile such a conception with His own declaration in Genesis that out of His selfhood He created "male and female."
Christian Scientists believe in a full Godhead; and thus believing they believe also in a full manifestation of that Godhead to humanity. To their understanding the Woman of the Apocalypse stands in type for the spiritual idea of God's creation spoken of in Genesis. They see in spiritual vision or perception the "spiritual ideal as a woman clothed in (reflecting) light, a bride coming down from Heaven, wedded to the Lamb of Love." The Apocalypse is indeed a "revelation" to their thought, and in it they see a "new heaven and a new earth," even as the "new tongue" referred to in the gospel.
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The Second Coming of the Christ
Author: Helen Wood Bauman, CSB
Source: "Scriptural Prophecy and Its Fulfillment", The Christian Science Journal, August 1947
Page #: 358
Prophecy and its fulfillment are of profound interest to this age, inasmuch as it has witnessed unquestionable fulfillment of Scriptural prophecy in the appearing of the Comforter as revealed to Mary Baker Eddy and given to the world in her writings. The question is often asked, Why did Mrs. Eddy discover Christian Science and write the Christian Science textbook? Why did not some other individual --- a man, perhaps --- bring this final revelation to mankind? The answer lies in the fact that God appoints His corn messengers through law: that is, God inevitably declares His Word through the consciousness most ready to accept and proclaim it ...
She (Mrs. Eddy) reveals in her works generic man, the incorporeal, complete manifestation or idea of divine Life. She unveils the motherhood of God, bringing the healing, mother touch of Love into the experience of countless multitudes. And our Leader's experience typified the woman in travail, the human messenger of Truth to this age, suffering, but suffering with joy in her presentation of the final revelation of real being to Soul-hungry humanity.
Author: Duncan Sinclair, CSB
Source: "Christian Science: The Final Revelation", Pamphlet "A Prophet with Honor"
Page #: 24
Jesus revealed the Christ, demonstrated the Christ, to mankind, as no other had ever done, but the Science which supported his revelation and demonstration remained to be discovered and elucidated by the one--Mary Baker Eddy--who, by the purity of her life, her study of the Scriptures, and the inspiration which came to her direct from God, as God's messenger, was fitted to do so.
Christian Science, the Comforter promised by Christ Jesus, is thus the final revelation of Truth to men. We should not have a trace of doubt about this. And more, we should understand and acknowledge Mrs. Eddy's rightful place in religious prophecy as in religious history. The Christ has never been absent from the world: it is ever present as the manifestation of God, even as God is ever present. Abraham proved this; so did Moses and Elias and the prophets; and Christ Jesus demonstrated this fact. But the comforter had yet to come; and in the fulness of time it did come, and through a woman. Religious prophecy has thus been fulfilled.
... the Christ has been revealed in all its perfection by our Wayshower, Christ Jesus, and our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.
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The Second Coming of the Christ
Author: Albert F. Gilmore, CSB
Source: "Whom say ye that I am", Christian Science Sentinel, July 9, 1938
Page #: 883
In her many efforts to convince humanity of the value of her revelation, Mrs. Eddy was in no wise actuated by the desire to exalt her human personality. She invariably urged her students to follow not her human self, but the Christ she so effectually revealed. She was, however, thoroughly convinced that her position as revelator and Leader should be fully recognized.
Without the recognition of its divine origin, the revelation of Christian Science would not be accepted and appraised at its full value. Mrs. Eddy must be known as appointed of God to be the revelator of Divine Science. The necessity was that her students should accord to her her rightful position. "When He commissions a messenger, it is one who is spiritually near Himself," she writes in Science and Health. God spoke through her as surely as He spoke through the Founder of Christianity, for Christian Science supplements and completes the revelation of Jesus. It provides the scientific significance of what he said and did, making Christ, Truth, available to all ready to accept and utilize it.
Only through prayerful study of the Scriptures in their relation to the second appearing of the Christ will an adequate understanding of Mrs. Eddy's revelation be gained. And it follows with no degree of uncertainty that the revelation will not be understood in the breadth and depth of its precious import without an understanding and recognition of the Discoverer and Founder in her relation to prophecy.
Author: Albert F. Gilmore, CSB
Source: "The Second Coming", The Christian Science Journal, November 1939
Page #: 407
The Christ, the full expression of the Godhead, has forever been available to the receptive heart. Two who were prepared to receive and entertain and witness to this most welcome of all visitors, two who could interpret this spiritual visitor to a needy world, were Jesus, the revelator and demonstrator of God's presence and the power of His Christ, and Mary Baker Eddy, who has given to the world the Science and art of that which Jesus first revealed and demonstrated. Mrs. Eddy has interpreted the significance of his words and works, and through Christian Science has supplemented and completed the revelation of the fullness of the Godhead. The revelation of the divine presence, therefore, is forever complete in this "second coming" of Christ. Truth in its infinity has been revealed, and the "second coming" of Christ is the advent of Christian Science.
As Jesus' advent marked what may be designated the "first coming" of the Christ, so no less certainly Mary Baker Eddy's discovery of Christian Science fulfilled the prophecy of the "second coming." Thus, the oneness of the Christ now stands revealed in its completeness, for the blessing and salvation of all humanity.
Her works furnish positive proof of her position as the revelator --- the woman representative --- of the Christ in this age, through whom the prophecy of the "second coming" is fulfilled.... There is abundant proof that Mrs. Eddy was aware of her unique work in relation to revelation ....
Convinced that her discovery, Christian Science, is the leaven of Truth, she could scarcely fail to recognize the spiritual position of its Discoverer ....
Author: Joshua Bailey
Source: "Christian Science and its Revelator", The Christian Science Journal, April 1889
Page #: 1
If Science and Health be a Revelation of God, the person through whom it has been given is a Messenger of God. The Voice of God to this age is a mediator between the present state of human consciousness and that higher God-thought to which it is introduced by the New Revelation ...
Now a word about the horror many good people have of our making the Author of Science and Health 'equal with Jesus' ...
The function of Jesus, his place in human consciousness, is his by acquisition and consummation; that of the Author of Science and Health, and every mortal who follows him, both in the spirit and letter of divine Science, is in the course of achievement ...
Today Truth has come through the person of a New England girl, born of God-fearing parents, in the middle walks of life; from her birth a frail, suffering invalid in the flesh, reared with only the education that all the daughters of New England share, gifted with the fullness of spiritual life and giving from the cradle indications of a divine mission and power, that caused her mother to "ponder them in her heart."
Author: T. Hale
Source: The Christian Science Journal, August 1883
Page #: 3
THE LONG EXPECTED DAY
The day for which I have watched, and prayed, and waited long, has come with healing on its wings--the church, of dispensation of the Spirit. The Father's Age, in which Abraham was the representative father, has passed. Abraham and Isaac represented the Father and Son in two persons. Isaac showed forth the Son, the promised seed which was to come. At the close of this reign the Father and Son appeared in one person as Authority and Submission-Christ Jesus. But now in the "fulness of time" comes the Spirit age, leading into all Truth; the understanding dispensation; the "second coming" of Messiah, revealing the Motherhood of God, Divine Science, "without sin unto salvation;" three-fold fullness-Authority, Submission, Understanding.
Author: Agnes G. Smith
Source: "The Signs of the Times; An Age of Understanding", The Christian Science Journal, November 1902
Page #: 478
Well may Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures be called the greatest book of the nineteenth century, and discovery and founding of Christian Science by its author, Mary Baker G. Eddy, the second coming of the Christ.
Author: John Randall Dunn, CSB
Source: "The Leader Who Followed Christ", Christian Science Sentinel, October 13, 1945
Page #: 1617
The student of Christian Science who has not clearly discerned Mrs. Eddy's God-ordained place as the revelator of Truth to this age cannot understand the revelation. Does one not see in the spiritual teachings of this system the work of a brilliant human intellect, of a remarkable organizer? Does one consider Christian Science Mrs. Eddy's invention? Then one understands neither revelator nor revelation.
This Christian woman literally walked and talked with God; she listened for His voice; the inspirational messages she received from Truth were as definitely the manifestation of God's word as when the prophets of old declaimed, "Thus saith the Lord!" The proof of this assertion lies in the fact that the truths set forth in Mrs. Eddy's writings, especially her textbook, Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures, have healed innumerable cases of sickness, sin, and discord of every name and nature. No human being invented the spiritual facts about God and man, any more than a mortal invented the proposition that one and one are two.
Christ Jesus, beholding the world's inability to grasp the deep spiritual import of his teaching, foretold the coming of "the Spirit of truth" which would "guide . . . into all truth" (John 16:13). And in the book of Revelation, the Apostle John saw the coming of the man-child "who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron" (Rev. 12:5). Surely in this age are these prophecies being fulfilled.
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The Second Coming of the Christ
Author: Irving C. Tomlinson, CSB
Source: Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy
Page #: 215
By her works Mary Baker Eddy stands before the world as the one through whom the prophecy of the "second coming" is fulfilled. This "final revelation," coming through Mrs. Eddy, is "without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God." (Heb. 7:3)
Just as Jesus was well aware of his divine mission and supremely confident that his words would endure throughout -time, so is there abundant proof that Mary Baker Eddy was thoroughly cognizant of her God-ordained appointment.
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INSEPARABILITY OF MESSENGER AND MESSAGE
Mark 9:39 Jesus (to 1st ) 39 there
Jesus said ... there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
Matt 10:32,33
Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Retrospection and Introspection
Page : 75:10
Life and its ideals are inseparable, and one's writings on ethics, and demonstration of Truth, are not, cannot be, understood or -taught by those who persistently misunderstand or misrepresent the author. Jesus said, "For there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me."
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Page 464:9
Others could not take her place, even if willing so to do. She therefore remains unseen at her post, seeking no self-aggrandizement but praying, watching, and working for the redemption of mankind.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Retrospection and Introspection
Page : 70:14
No person can take the individual place of the Virgin Mary. No person can compass or fulfill the individual mission of Jesus of Nazareth. No person can take the place of the author of Science and Health, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Each individual must fill his own niche in time and eternity.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Miscellaneous Writings
Page : 336:8-11,16-17 (to :)
Do you love that which represents God most, His highest idea as seen to-day? No! Then you would hate Jesus if you saw him personally, and knew your right obligations towards him.
You cannot demonstrate the Principle of Christian Science and not love its idea:
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Inseparability of Messenger and Message
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Message for 1901
Page 31:11-12
Has God entrusted me with a message to mankind?--then I cannot choose but obey.
Author: Daisette D.S. McKenzie, CSB
Source: We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, First Series
Page #: 40 (pg. 119 in compiled version)
In a letter written in 1899, our Leader wrote: "All the people need to love and adopt Christian Science, is a true sense of its founder. In proportion as they have found it, will our cause advance."
Perhaps we sometimes read Science and Health without a thought of the author. May we not rather realize that we are not only reading the word of God, but that our communion with Him is through the message written by His chosen scribe? (She told me), "it was not myself, but the divine power of Truth and Love, infinitely above me, which dictated Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures.
The prophecy of the Apocalypse was fulfilled --- a woman had brought forth a child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron, unchanging Principle.
Author: L. Ivimy Gwalter, CSB
Source: Mary Baker Eddy: A Centennial Appreciation
Page #: 109-110
Mrs. Eddy's discovery was not the product of human reason but of divine revelation. She speaks of herself as a scribe whose orders came from heaven (Mis. 311). But she was more than a person transcribing a heavenly message. Her spiritual stature transcends mortal measurement. She is one with the revelation; through her the revelation speaks.
Author: Sue Harper Mims, CSD
Source: We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Second Series
Page #: 55 (pg. 137 in compiled version)
There is not a day of my life that I do not declare at least once, often twice, that malicious animal magnetism cannot blind me to her. We must fix our gaze on Principle, think of God, and yet we must recognize who she is.
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Inseparability of Messenger and Message
Author: Mary Stewart, CSB
Source: We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Second Series
Page #: 64 (pg. 149 in compiled version)
Only as we recognize the revelator can we understand and obey the revelation. As the prophecies of Jesus and of John were fulfilled through her, so must we, her followers, do our part in fulfilling her prediction for the twentieth century.
Author: Annie Louise Robertson, CSB
Source: We Knew Mary Baker Eddy (First Series)
Page #: 2 (pg. 102 in compiled version)
Mrs. Eddy admonishes us in the Christian Science textbook, Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures, that the "goal is never reached while we hate our neighbor or entertain a false estimate of anyone whom God has appointed to voice His word" (P. 560). Now if we share with our Leader the revelation that God gave to he--, and which she has imparted so generously to others, it is important that we understand some of the human footsteps which led to the present prosperity and stability of our Cause, and at least catch a glimpse of her true womanhood.
Sometimes a healing has been delayed because of a misunderstanding of our Leader's character; and on the other hand, often a great victory has been won through a sincere appreciation of her service to humanity.
Author: Willis F. Gross
Source: "The Message and the Messenger", The Christian Science Journal, October 1905
Page #: 421
In the fullness of time the Science of Christianity was discovered by one who was sent of God to proclaim once again the gospel of salvation from sickness and sin. This messenger, Mary Baker G. Eddy, though not of herself, but of the wondrous message she had received, and the suffering and sorrowing ones to whom it was sent. Many have heard and believed. These have been healed of their physical infirmities and have learned how to forsake their wicked ways and unrighteous thoughts. Is it strange that their hearts are filled with love and gratitude for the one who brought them the message? They realize that it is the message of Truth and Love which they have received and that it has brought them blessings without number, but they also realize that a debt of gratitude is due the messenger, and they would lovingly pay the debt. They would first love and honor God, and this they do by honoring His messenger. Their expressions of love and appreciation are not "personal worship," they are but an honest recognition of what God has done, of the means He has employed to bless His people. We love God more when we love the individual through whom God has worked to save humanity. "He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?"
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Inseparability of Messenger and Message
Author: Russell D. Robinson
Source: "Discoverer, Founder, Leader," The Christian Science journal, May 1964
Page #: 227
Christ Jesus was insistent that his followers recognize him and his mission. He asked his disciples (Matt. 16:15), "Whom say ye that I am?" and he commended Peter's reply, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." It was important to him that his mission be recognized and understood.
Mrs. Eddy likewise insisted that her students recognize the meaning and significance of her lifework and her inseparable relationship with the Cause. A right understanding and appreciation of her threefold mission are imperative for all who would take the name of Christian Scientist. One cannot accept her discovery and not accept the Church she founded, nor can he accept her discovery and not accept her continuing Leadership.
Throughout her writings Mrs. Eddy points to herself as fulfilling a God-appointed and God-anointed mission. Her revelation of Christian Science was in fulfillment of Bible prophecy. It was the full and final revelation of the Science of the Christ, which the world is privileged to learn and demonstrate. Even as -the divinity of the Christ was evident in the life of Jesus, so the divinity of Christian Science was manifest in Mrs. Eddy's life. Mrs. Eddy can no more be separated from Christian Science than Jesus can be separated from the Christ.
No one can feel the healing, saving power of Christian Science without feeling profound gratitude to her through whom the revelation came. But no Christian Scientist would deify his Leader any more than he would deify Jesus. Their examples are his inspiration. Their lives testify to the eternal presence of the Christ, made plain today through Science.
Author: John Randall Dunn
Source: "The Revelator and Her Revelation," Christian Science Sentinel, September 9, 1944
Page #: 1458
Let us suppose that a school teacher finds herself in a backward community among sadly ignorant people. Without doubt she will be able in time, by example and precept, to banish some of the prevalent mental darkness. It is also reasonable to suppose that after a while many of her beneficiaries will manifest great love for her and gratitude for her labors. What would be difficult to picture would be another group refusing to study with her, advancing as their reason the notion that her students expressed too much love for and appreciation of the teacher!
Strangely enough this very argument is raised, again and again, by many people who sadly need the joyous, health-bringing message of Christian Science. The stock objections are that Christian scientists give undue praise to the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, and that her name is mentioned too frequently at the Sunday services and with too much affection at the Wednesday meetings in our churches. Some unfortunately biased individuals even recur to the antiquated cavil that Christian Scientists worship their Leader. Let us examine, fairly and dispassionately, these stumbling blocks which ignorant or malicious mortal mind would place in the path of the seeker after a demonstrable truth.
When I first became interested in Christian Science, I announced to a friend that I was eager to attend a church service of this denomination. The friend replied that she was a Christian Scientist, but was not a follower of Mrs. Eddy. I did not know what she meant by that, but accepted her invitation to attend a meeting with her. We went to a house where were gathered a few earnest people. During the meeting I listened expectantly for some message about Christian Science, but did not hear the name mentioned. Shortly thereafter I recounted this experience in a letter to my mother, and stated that very evidently Christian Science did not have much of a following in this city. Promptly came a reply from my mother. She had heard of a thriving Christian Science church in that field, and felt that I had not been rightly led.
She asked me if I had heard readings from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mrs. Eddy. I replied that I had not. Back came this sound counsel: "Until you hear a Reader announce that his church or society is a branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, and that he will read from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, you have not found genuine Christian Science." Since that moment, whenever I hear Mrs. Eddy's name announced in a Christian Science church, I experience the sense of satisfaction one has when he finds stamped upon a piece of silver the hallmark of sterling.
Author: Ethel Munro Goss
Source: "Our Leader and Her Life Purpose", The Christian Science Journal, July 1944
Page #: 385
From her childhood Mrs. Eddy was actuated by an unselfish desire to serve humanity. Future ages will rank her as a great spiritual genius, as the greatest spiritual thinker of modern times. The life of anyone who has labored unselfishly for the good of mankind is an inspiration to all. To study the life of our Leader is an exalting experience, but to understand its purpose, one must recognize the significance of her message as a divine revelation, and her place in Scriptural prophecy.
In The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany Mrs. Eddy writes: ','In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God' (St. John) . This great truth of God' s impersonality and individuality and of man in His image and likeness, individual, not personal, is the foundation of Christian Science. There was never a religion or philosophy lost to the centuries except by sinking its divine Principle in personality." Mrs. Eddy saw that the failure to distinguish between the man Jesus and the Christ, Truth, which he taught and demonstrated, had hindered the religious progress of mankind for many ages. Accordingly she endeavored to safeguard her church against a repetition of this mistake.
She recognized that she was the revelator of divine Science to this age, and she understood the distinction made by Science between human personality and the impersonal Christ, Truth. This recognition of her place as the revelator of Christian Science is essential to our demonstration of Christian Science.
Hatred of the Christ-idea crucified the man Jesus, but the everlasting Christ, Truth, continued to be preached and practiced by the Apostles and early Christians. Material sense again tried to crucify the Christ by deifying the man Jesus, and creed and dogma obscured for a time the healing and saving Christ. And so Truth had to reappear, and, as prophetically foretold in the vision of the Apocalypse, through a woman. Everywhere in her writings Mrs. Eddy has denounced the errors of personal sense and its deification of personality, and has revealed the spiritual individuality of man made in God's image and likeness.
Author: Irving C. Tomlinson, CSB
Source: Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy
Page #: 211-212
In the fourth chapter of Luke we read: "Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country." This was the state of thought which confronted Jesus; this, too, in certain instances, was the problem which Mary Baker Eddy had to face. To those who had known Mary Baker on her father's farm at Bow and watched her grow from childhood to maturity, it was difficult for them to acknowledge her as the Discoverer, Founder, and Leader of a great religious movement. And even though her daily life and conduct compelled them to acknowledge her goodness, patience, and love, many of her closest acquaintances and relatives failed to understand her God-ordained mission. Although there is Biblical precedent for this state of human consciousness, the fact remains, however that it is absolutely essential to the understanding and demonstration of Christian Science to see its Discoverer aright, to recognize her unique position as the revelator of Truth to this age. For it is beyond a doubt true that if we do not understand the revelator we cannot correctly understand the revelation.
How necessary it is for Mrs. Eddy's followers to understand her divine office! Not for her glorification or distinction, but solely because seeing her correctly is a necessary-step to seeing Truth correctly.
The fact that Mrs. Eddy did not wish her followers to see God's messenger as a corporeal being, did not mean that she refused to be seen as a distinct individuality, or a defined status, as witness her emphasis on her place as Discoverer, Founder, and Leader of Christian Science.
And to those with eyes to see, there is abundant Scriptural testimony clearly showing Mrs. Eddy's place in Bible prophecy. She made it plain to the members of her household and to all Christian Scientists that it was the truth revealed by her by divine Mind and which found expression through her, that was the Leader of the Christian Science movement, and not a corporeal personality.
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THE WOMAN WHO BRUISED THE HEAD OF THE SERPENT
Gen 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Christian Healing
Page : 10:1-8
The dragon that was wroth with the woman, and stood ready "to devour the child as soon as it was born," was the vision of envy, sensuality, and malice, ready to devour the idea of Truth. But the beast bowed before the Lamb: it was supposed to have fought the manhood of God, that Jesus represented; but it fell before the womanhood of God, that presented the highest ideal of Love.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Miscellaneous Writings
Page : 210:15
He who has faith in woman's special adaptability to lead on Christian Science, will not be shocked when she puts her foot on the head of the serpent, as it biteth at the heel.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Unity of Good
Page : 45:3-7
Bruise the head of this serpent, as Truth and "the woman" are doing in Christian Science, and it stings your heel, rears its crest proudly, and goes on saying, "Am I not myself? Am I not mind and matter, person and thing?"
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Page : 570:18-23
What if the old dragon should send forth a new flood to drown the Christ-idea? He can neither drown your voice with its roar, nor again sink the world into the deep waters of chaos and old night. In this age the earth will help the woman; the spiritual idea will be understood.
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The Woman Who Bruised the Head of the Serpent
Author: E. Vera Gorringe Plimmer, CSB
Source: "Handling Animal Magnetism in Healing", The Christian Science Journal, October 1969
Page #: 505
We know our Leader's revelation of Truth means the complete destruction of animal magnetism in all its forms. But animal magnetism, symbolized from the beginning as the serpent, still tries to bite the heel of the woman, its destroyer, because its suppositions subtle instinct tells it that the woman, the spiritual idea of Love, will bruise its head, will utterly destroy its so-called intelligence. Therefore, in our healing work it is essential to deal with malpractice against Mrs. Eddy, who represented the divine idea, as an important part of our counteracting the animal magnetism operating against the healing Truth itself. I am deeply convinced that bringing our Leader's name and place more into the front line of our practice and handling the world's resistance against her divine mission can do more to facilitate good and quick healing than any other single factor.
Author: Anonymous
Source: The Christian Science Journal, February 2, 1884
Page #: 5
TO THE READERS OF "SCIENCE AND HEALTH" AND THE "JOURNAL OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE"
Dear Friends -- Time and again I have read the records of your success in applying the "Truth" you have gathered from these two sources, the book and the Journal, and rejoiced that so many have so well received the Word into waiting fertile soil that it has sprung up good seed towards the "healing of the nations."
But do you ever suspect what you miss of the spirit of that Word by not listening to it as it falls directly from the lips of its living and only interpreter, Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, the author of "Science and Health," and the editor of this Journal? ...
... Only one of all the earth hath mastered it, and only one of all the earth can teach it ...
... If you are seeking Truth go where it is taught--to the fountain head--to "the seed of the woman" which, in these latter days, is bruising the head of the wily serpent error, and bringing Love and Good home to the nations.
- A New Year's Student, Boston, MA, Jan 10, 1884
Author: John Randall Dunn, CSB
Source: "Lest We Forget", The Christian Science Journal, July 1946
Page #: 347
The red dragon of the Apocalypse, the mesmerism of animality, of personal sense, would strive to devour "the man child," the Science of Christ, which Mrs. Eddy has revealed; but the dragon is "cast out into the earth, 11 is rendered impotent by the obedience, selflessness, and consecration of everyone who names the name of Christian Science.
Author: John Randall Dunn, CSB
Source: "The Duty to Our Leader", The Christian Science Journal, August 1943
Page #: 478
Alert, obedient members of The Mother Church are ever mindful of that important By-Law in the Church Manual by Mary Baker Eddy which reads: "It shall be the duty of every member of this Church to defend himself daily against aggressive mental suggestion, and not be made to forget nor to neglect his duty to God, to his Leader, and to mankind. By his works he shall be judged,--and justified or condemned."
The purpose of this editorial, therefore, is to consider that portion of the Manual By-Law relating to the Christian Scientist's duty to his Leader--our beloved friend and revelator of Truth, Mary Baker Eddy.
Why, someone may ask, should it have been necessary to include this provision in this most vital and far-reaching By-Law? Does it not go without saying that the earnest student of Christian Science loves and reveres the God-anointed messenger who has brought to humanity the long-forgotten tidings of Christian healing? In the twelfth chapter of Revelation, that remarkable word picture which reveals beyond a peradventure the coming of Christian Science to this age, we read of a "great red dragon" waiting to devour the child--the spiritual, saving idea--which the woman "clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet" is to bring forth. Then later the dragon is said to persecute the woman, and is "wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."
Now Christian Science teaches that the "red dragon" typifies the malicious workings of the carnal mind, and therefore the dragon, which is plainly a form of anti-Christ, would endeavor to "persecute the woman"--to rob her, if possible, of her rightful place as the God-directed revelator of the healing Christ, Truth, in this age. Failing to destroy or stop the revelation, the dragon must needs strike at the revelator. Thus was not Mrs. Eddy divinely led to protect her child--this glorious spiritual understanding of God and His Christ--by the inclusion of this wise By-Law in her Manual?
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"A WOMAN SHALL COMPASS A MAN"
JER 31:22
... the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Page : 268:11
In this revolutionary period, like the shepherd-boy with his sling, woman goes forth to battle with Goliath.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Retrospection and Introspection
Page : 26:17-4
Jesus of Nazareth was a natural and divine Scientist. He was so before the material world saw him. He who antedated Abraham, and gave the world a new date in the Christian era, was a Christian Scientist, who needed no discovery of the Science of being in order to rebuke the evidence. To one "born of the flesh," however, divine Science must be a discovery. Woman must give it birth. It must be begotten of spirituality, since none but the pure in heart can see God,--the Principle of all things pure; and none but the "poor in spirit" could first state this Principle, could know yet more of the nothingness of matter and the allness of Spirit, could utilize Truth, and absolutely reduce the demonstration of being, in Science, to the apprehension of the age.
I wrote also, at this period, comments on the Scriptures, setting forth their spiritual interpretation, the Science of the Bible, and so laid the foundation of my work called Science and Health, published in 1875.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Page : 534:5
This enabled woman to be first to interpret the Scriptures in their true sense, which reveals the spiritual origin of man.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Unity of Good
Page 51:13-17
What say you of woman?
man is the generic term for all humanity. Woman is the highest species of man, and this word is the generic term for all women; but not one of all these individualities is an Eve or an Adam.
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"A Woman Shall Compass a Man"
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Miscellaneous Writings
Page : 126:27-6
God hath indeed smiled on my church,--this daughter of Zion: she sitteth in high places; and to deride her is to incur the penalty of which the Hebrew bard spake after this manner: "He that sit-teth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
Hitherto, I have observed that in proportion as this church has smiled on His "little ones," He has blessed her. Throughout my entire connection with The Mother Church, I have seen, that in the ratio of her love for others, hath His love been bestowed upon her; watering her waste places, and enlarging her borders.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: Miscellaneous Writings
Page : 140:28-9
Built an the rock, our church will stand the storms of ages: though the material superstructure should crumble into dust, the fittest would survive,--the spiritual idea would live, a perpetual type of the divine Principle it reflects.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, our prayer in stone, will be the prophecy fulfilled, the monument upreared, of Christian Science. it will speak to you of the Mother, and of your hearts' offering to her through whom was revealed to you God's all-power, all-presence, and all-science. This building beg