In opening out to humanity vistas of freedom of which it had never dreamed, freedom from every phase of fear to which mortality is prey, Mary Baker Eddy lifted up a standard not only of intellectual and spiritual greatness but of unsurpassed grace and tenderness.
On page 341 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," speaking of "Freedom to worship God" which her ancestors of New England had won and which she had inherited, she writes, "I have one innate joy, and love to breathe it to the breeze as God's courtesy."
In bringing to mankind the truth which should make it free, with what graciousness, with what power, dignity, and compassion, did Christ Jesus bear witness to its source and inspiration. "For the law was given by Moses," we read in the first chapter of John, "but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ."
