MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS 1883-1896 BY MARY BAKER EDDY AUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES Registered U. S. Patent Office Published by The Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy BOSTON, U. S. A. Authorized - Literature of THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST I Boston, Massachusetts Copyright, iSg6 BY MARY BAKER G. EDDY Copyright renewed 1924. All rights rf served PRINTED IN TUB WITEI flTATKB O TO LOYAL CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS IN THIS AND EVERY LAND I LOVINGLY DEDICATE THESE PRACTICAL TEACHINGS INDISPENSABLE TO THE CULTURE AND ACHIEVEMENTS WHICH CONSTITUTE THE SUCCESS OF A STUDENT AND DEMONSTRATE THE ETHICS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MARY BAKER EDDY PRAY thee, take care, that takst my book in hand, To read it well that is, to understand. BEN JONSON Epigram i. 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, Theres nothing here to trust, Thenceforth to evolutions Geology, we say, Nothing have we gained therefrom, And nothing have to pray My world has sprung from Spirit, In everlasting day Whereof, Ive more to glory, Wherefor, have much to pay. MARY BAKER EDDY. PREFACE A CERTAIN apothegm of a Talmudical philosopher i suits my sense of doing good. It reads thus The noblest charity is to prevent a man from accepting 3 charity and the best alms are to show and to enable a man to dispense with alms. In the early history of Christian Science, among my 6 thousands of students few were wealthy. Now, Christian Scientists are notindigent and their comfortable fortunes are acquired by healing mankind morally, physically, g spiritually. The easel of time presents pictures once fragmentary and faint now rejuvenated by the touch of Gods right hand. Where joy, sorrow, hope, disap-12 pointment, sigh, and smile commingled, now hope sits dove-like. To preserve a long course of years still and uniform, i 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 18 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 ever a girl. The fleeting freshness of youth, however, ax is not the evergreen of Soul the coloring glory of x PREFACE i perpetual bloom the spiritual glow and grandeur of a consecrated life wherein dwelleth peace, sacred and 3 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 6 my miscellaneous writings published in The Christian Science Journal, since April, 1883, and republish them in book form, accessible as reference, and reliable as 9 old landmarks. Owing to the manifold demands on my time in the early pioneer days, most of these articles were originally written in haste, without due preparation 12 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 15 distance, or the difference between then and now, in the opinions of men and the progress of our Cause. My signature has been slightly changed from my 18 Christian name, Mary Morse Baker. Timidityin early years caused me, as an author, to assume various norns de plume. After my first marriage, to Colonel Glover 2i 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...
