Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896

Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896

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Mary Baker Eddy

A Timely Issue.

Love Your Enemies.

Christian Theism.

Christian Science In Tremont Temple.

Science And The Senses.

Extract From My First Address In The Mother Church, May 26, 1895

Address Before The Alumni Of The Massachusetts Metaphysical College, 1895

Address Before The Christian Scientist Association Of The Massachusetts Metaphysical College, In 1893

Communion Address, January, 1896

Message To The Annual Meeting Of The Mother Church, Boston, 1896

To The Mother Church.

To , On Prayer.

To The National Christian Scientist Association.

To The College Association.

To The National Christian Scientist Association. (2)

To The First Church Of Christ, Scientist, Boston.

To Donors Of Boat, From Toronto, Canada.

Address, Laying The Corner-Stone.

To The First Church Of Christ, Scientist, Boston (2)

The First Members Of The First Church Of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts

Extract From A Letter

To The Mother Church (2)

To First Church Of Christ, Scientist, In Oconto

To First Church Of Christ, Scientist, In Scranton

To First Church Of Christ, Scientist, In Denver

To First Church Of Christ, Scientist, In Lawrence

To Correspondents

To A Student (2)

Extract From A Christmas Letter

A Christmas Sermon

Editor's Extracts From Sermon

Extract From A Sermon Delivered In Boston, January 18, 1885

Sunday Services on July Fourth

Easter Services

" Thy Will Be Done "

" Put Up Thy Sword "

Scientific Theism

Mental Practice

Hints To The Clergy

Perfidy And Slander

Improve Your Time

Thanksgiving Dinner

Christian Science

" I've Got Cold "

" Prayer And Healing "

Veritas Odium Parit

Address On The Fourth Of July At Pleasant View, Concord, N. H.,

Well Doinge Is The Fruite Of Doinge Well

Advantage Of Mind-Healing

Things To Be Thought Of

Unchristian Rumor

Close Of The Massachusetts Metaphysical College

Malicious Reports

Loyal Christian Scientists

The March Primary Class

Obtrusive Mental Healing

New Commandment

Comparison to English Barmaids

A Christian Science Statute

Advice To Students

Deification Of Personality

Overflowing Thoughts

A Great Man And His Saying

Words Of Commendation

Church And School

Class, Pulpit, Students' Students

My Students And Thy Students

A Word To The Wise

Message To The Mother Church

Voices Of Spring

" Where Art Thou? "

True Philosophy And Communion

Truth Versus Error

Fallibility Of Human Concepts

Science And Philosophy

The Cry Of Christmas-Tide

" Christ And Christmas "

Sunrise At Pleasant View

Meeting Of My Departed Mother And Husband

The Mother's Evening Prayer

The Oak On The Mountain's Summit

To Mr. James T. White

Christ My Refuge

" Feed My Sheep "

Miscellaneous Writings

1883-1896

by

Mary Baker Eddy

Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science

and Author of Science and Health with

Key to the Scriptures

Published by the

Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy

Boston, U. S. A.

Copyright, 1896

By Mary Baker G. Eddy

Copyright renewed, 1924

Contents

Mary Baker Eddy

[pg vii]

Epigrams.

Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand,

To read it well; that is, to understand.

Ben Jonson: Epigram 1

When I would know thee ... my thought looks

Upon thy well made choice of friends and books;

Then do I love thee, and behold thy ends

In making thy friends books, and thy books friends.

Ben Jonson: Epigram 86

If worlds were formed by matter,

And mankind from the dust;

Till time shall end more timely,

There's nothing here to trust.

Thenceforth to evolution's

Geology, we say,—

Nothing have we gained therefrom,

And nothing have to pray:

My world has sprung from Spirit,

In everlasting day;

Whereof, I've more to glory,

Wherefor, have much to pay.

Mary Baker Eddy

Preface.

[Transcriber's Note: The original book includes line numbers throughout the text, for easy reference to the text by page number and line number. This transcription retains those page and line numbers; the numbers in [square brackets] at the right ends of lines are the original book's line numbers. The paragraphs are not adjusted as is customary for text in e-books, nor are words split by hyphens rejoined, so that the lines shown below have the same words as the lines in the original book.]

A certain apothegm of a Talmudical philosopher [1]

suits my sense of doing good. It reads thus: “The

noblest charity is to prevent a man from accepting

charity; and the best alms are to show and to enable a

man to dispense with alms.” [5]

In the early history of Christian Science, among my

thousands of students few were wealthy. Now, Christian

Scientists are not indigent; and their comfortable fortunes

are acquired by healing mankind morally, physically,

spiritually. The easel of time presents pictures—once [10]

fragmentary and faint—now rejuvenated by the touch

of God's right hand. Where joy, sorrow, hope, disap-

pointment, sigh, and smile commingled, now hope sits

To preserve a long course of years still and uniform, [15]

amid the uniform darkness of storm and cloud and

tempest, requires strength from above,—deep draughts

from the fount of divine Love. Truly may it be said:

There is an old age of the heart, and a youth that never

grows old; a Love that is a boy, and a Psyche who is [20]

ever a girl. The fleeting freshness of youth, however,

is not the evergreen of Soul; the coloring glory of

perpetual bloom; the spiritual glow and grandeur of [1]

a consecrated life wherein dwelleth peace, sacred and

sincere in trial or in triumph.

The opportunity has at length offered itself for me to

comply with an oft-repeated request; namely, to collect [5]

my miscellaneous writings published in The Christian

Science Journal, since April, 1883, and republish them

in book form,—accessible as reference, and reliable as

old landmarks. Owing to the manifold demands on my

time in the early pioneer days, most of these articles [10]

were originally written in haste, without due preparation.

To those heretofore in print, a few articles are herein

appended. To some articles are affixed data, where these

are most requisite, to serve as mile-stones measuring the

distance,—or the difference between then and now,— [15]

in the opinions of men and the progress of our Cause.

My signature has been slightly changed from my

Christian name, Mary Morse Baker. Timidity in early

years caused me, as an author, to assume various noms

de plume. After my first marriage, to Colonel Glover [20]

of Charleston, South Carolina, I dropped the name of

Morse to retain my maiden name,—thinking that other-

wise the name would be too long.

In 1894, I received from the Daughters of the American

Revolution a certificate of membership made out to Mary [25]

Baker Eddy, and thereafter adopted that form of signature,

except in connection with my published works.

The first edition of Science and Health having been [1]

copyrighted at the date of its issue, 1875, in my name

of Glover, caused me to retain the initial “G” on my

subsequent books.

These pages, although a reproduction of what has [5]

been written, are still in advance of their time; and are

richly rewarded by what they have hitherto achieved for

the race. While no offering can liquidate one's debt of

gratitude to God, the fervent heart and willing hand are

not unknown to nor unrewarded by Him. [10]

May this volume be to the reader a graphic guide-

book, pointing the path, dating the unseen, and enabling

him to walk the untrodden in the hitherto unexplored

fields of Science. At each recurring holiday the Christian

Scientist will find herein a “canny” crumb; and thus [15]

may time's pastimes become footsteps to joys eternal.

Realism will at length be found to surpass imagination,

and to suit and savor all literature. The shuttlecock of

religious intolerance will fall to the ground, if there be

no battledores to fling it back and forth. It is reason for [20]

rejoicing that the vox populi is inclined to grant us peace,

together with pardon for the preliminary battles that

With tender tread, thought sometimes walks in memory,

through the dim corridors of years, on to old battle- [25]

grounds, there sadly to survey the fields of the slain and

the enemy's losses. In compiling this work, I have tried

to remove the pioneer signs and ensigns of war, and to [1]

retain at this date the privileged armaments of peace.

With armor on, I continue the march, command and

countermand; meantime interluding with loving thought

this afterpiece of battle. Supported, cheered, I take my [5]

pen and pruning-hook, to “learn war no more,” and with

strong wing to lift my readers above the smoke of conflict

into light and liberty.

Mary Baker Eddy

Concord, N.H.
January, 1897

Chapter I. Introductory.

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