Articles

Mary Baker Eddy's love for the Bible, her reliance on it as her only authority and her only textbook in revealing to mankind the Science of Christianity, is indeed an inspiration to all who take up the study of Christian Science. Throughout her writings, including her beautiful messages to The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, she uses numerous quotations from the Bible to enrich and strengthen her teachings.

Men everywhere are seeking and longing for peace. The world is torn and rent with disaster, with beliefs of lack, doubt, distrust, fear, uncertainty, hatred, dissension, and greed.

Mary Baker Eddy perceived that God, Love, is the Principle of all real being and that He works according to invariable law. Because His law is invariable we may apply Christian Science safely and successfully in every situation, whether it be one involving health, disturbed economic conditions, or some other difficulty.

No one with compassion in His heart will belittle the struggles that mankind must face before all disease and distress is routed out of human experience. Sympathy and encouragement are needed wherever we turn.

Divine Principle, infinite Love, is constantly saying: "I am All-in-all, the one Being, the only consciousness, the source of all identity. The spiritual idea and I are inseparable.

In her autobiography, "Retrospection and Introspection," Mary Baker Eddy writes ( pp. 90.

Mary Baker Eddy , the most intrepid of leaders and the deliverer of mankind in our time, says to us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 419 ), "Meet every adverse circumstance as its master.

The popular belief that death is the means of being translated to an ideal state of existence called heaven needs to be corrected. No material condition or place, here or hereafter, no matter how relatively pleasant it may be, can produce or impart substantive happiness, or bliss, because this quality inheres in God, Spirit, and in His perfect spiritual reflection, man.

In her book "Miscellaneous Writings" ( p. 339 ) Mary Baker Eddy asks, "Hast thou a friend, and forgettest to be grateful?" The word friend derives from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning to love; so it is natural that friendship should signify affection.

It is made plain in Christian Science, to the joy and great assistance of those who understand it, that any unsatisfactory condition is simply a false and illusory mental concept—a failure, in belief, to recognize the allness of good, or God, and the actual nature of man and the universe as His expression. It follows that the correction and disposal of unsatisfactory conditions comes through true enlightenment in accordance with Christ Jesus' statement ( John 8:32 ), "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.