When Mrs. Eddy turned the pastors out of all the Christian Science churches and abolished the office for all time as far as human occupancy is concerned—­she appointed the Holy Ghost to fill their place.  If this language be blasphemous, I did not invent the blasphemy, I am merely stating a fact.  I will quote from page 227 of Science and Health (edition 1899), as a first step towards an explanation of this startling matter—­a passage which sets forth and classifies the Christian Science Trinity: 

“Life, Truth, and Love constitute the triune God, or triply divine Principle.  They represent a trinity in unity, three in one—­the same in essence, though multiform in office:  God the Father; Christ the type of Sonship; Divine Science, or the Holy Comforter. . .

“The Holy Ghost, or Spirit, reveals this triune Principle, and (the Holy Ghost) is expressed in Divine Science, which is the Comforter, leading into all Truth, and revealing the divine Principle of the universe —­universal and perpetual harmony.”

I will cite another passage.  Speaking of Jesus—­

“His students then received the Holy Ghost.  By this is meant, that by all they had witnessed and suffered they were roused to an enlarged understanding of Divine Science, even to the spiritual interpretation . . . . . of His teachings,” etc.

Also, page 579, in the chapter called the Glossary: 

“Holy ghost. Divine Science; the developments of Life, Truth, and Love.”

The Holy Ghost reveals the massed spirit of the fused trinity; this massed spirit is expressed in Divine Science, and is the Comforter; Divine Science conveys to men the “spiritual interpretation” of the Saviour’s teachings.  That seems to be the meaning of the quoted passages.

Divine Science is Christian Science; the book “Science and Health” is a “revelation” of the whole spirit of the Trinity, and is therefore “The Holy Ghost”; it conveys to men the “spiritual interpretation” of the Bible’s teachings and therefore is “the Comforter.”

I do not find this analyzing work easy, I would rather saw wood; and a person can never tell whether he has added up a Science and Health sum right or not, anyway, after all his trouble.  Neither can he easily find out whether the texts are still on the market or have been discarded from the Book; for two hundred and fifty-eight editions of it have been issued, and no two editions seem to be alike.  The annual changes—­in technical terminology; in matter and wording; in transpositions of chapters and verses; in leaving out old chapters and verses and putting in new ones—­seem to be next to innumerable, and as there is no index, there is no way to find a thing one wants without reading the book through.  If ever I inspire a Bible-Annex I will not rush at it in a half-digested, helter-skelter way and have to put in thirty-eight years trying to get some of it the way I want it, I will sit down and think it