and added:  “This Christian Science really is a return to the ideas of primitive Christianity.  It would take a small book to explain fully all about it, but I may say that the fundamental idea is that God is Mind, and we interpret the Scriptures wholly from the spiritual or metaphysical standpoint.  We find in this view of the Bible the power fully developed to heal the sick.  It is not faith cure, but it is an acknowledgment of certain Christian and scientific laws, and to work a cure the practitioner must understand these laws aright.  The patient may gain a better understanding than the church has had in the past.  All churches have prayed for the cure of disease, but they have not done so in an intelligent manner, understanding and demonstrating the Christ-healing.”

(The Reporter, Lebanon, Ind., January 18, 1895.)

EXTRACT.

DISCOVERED CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

Remarkable Career of Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Who Has Over 100,000
Followers.

Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, discoverer and founder of Christian Science, author of its textbook, “SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES,” president of the Massachusetts Metaphysical college, and first pastor of the Christian Science denomination, is without doubt one of the most remarkable women in America.  She has within a few years founded a sect that has over 100,000 converts, and very recently saw completed in Boston as a testimonial to her labors, a handsome fire proof church that cost $250,000, and was paid for by Christian Scientists all over the country.

Mrs. Eddy asserts that in 1866 she became certain that “all causation was mind and every effect a mental phenomenon.”  Taking her text from the Bible, she endeavored in vain to find the great curative principle—­the Deity—­in philosophy and schools of medicine, and she concluded that the way of salvation demonstrated by Jesus was the power of truth over all error, sin, sickness, and death.  Thus originated the divine or spiritual science of mind healing, which she termed Christian Science.  She has a palatial home in Boston and a country seat in Concord, N.H.  The Christian Science church has a membership of 4,000, and 800 of the members are Bostonians.

(N.Y.  Commercial Advertiser, January 9, 1895.)

The idea that Christian Science has declined in popularity is not borne out by the voluntary contribution of a quarter of a million dollars for a memorial church for Mrs. Eddy, the inventor of this cure.  The money comes from Christian Science believers exclusively.

(The Post, Syracuse, New York, February 1, 1895.)

DO NOT BELIEVE SHE WAS DEIFIED.

Christian Scientists of Syracuse Surprised at the News About Mrs. Mary
Baker Eddy, Founder of the Faith.

Christian Scientists in this city, and in fact all over the country, have been startled and greatly discomfited over the announcements in New York papers that Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the acknowledged Christian Science leader, has been exalted by various dignitaries of the faith....