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 Hail brother! fling thy banner Brave Britain, blest America! 
 
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 We proffer thee warm welcome Victorious all who live it,- 
 
 With our hand. though not our knees. The lovefor GOD and inan.ife^Arft^fc/fl'K 
 
 ONE GOD ONE JL.A.VV 
 
 Divmr DEMOCRACY UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD 
 
 The above shield, or escutcheon, arranged by Mrs. Augusta 
 E. Stetson, has been upon the fagade of her house since the 
 summer of 1917. 
 
 Definition of Shield: "The escutcheon upon which em- 
 blems of heraldry [spiritual] are depicted" (Standard 
 Dictionary). 
 
 Reproduced by permission of Mrs. A. E. Stetson.
 
 America Triumphant 
 
 Under God and His Christ 
 
 By 
 
 Kitty Cheatham 
 
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 New York and London 
 
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 Copyright. 1920 
 
 BY 
 
 KITTY CHEATHAM 
 
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 BY 
 
 JforetooriJ 
 
 The ages will outgrow symbols and will "look upon" man in 
 God's image, the Christ (Truth) man, and will be "lifted up" 
 to see the source and supply of their being, our Father-Mother 
 God, — Mind, Spirit. 
 
 <2 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw 
 
 i^ all men unto me. — Christ Jesus. (John 12: 32.) 
 
 >» 
 
 5 "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." 
 
 » (Exodus, 20, 3.) 
 
 . . . The divine Principle of the First Com- 
 mandment bases the Science of being, by which man 
 *■ demonstrates health, holiness, and life eternal. One 
 ^ infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; con- 
 § stitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfills 
 the Scripture, "Love thy neighbor as thyself"; 
 -J annihilates pagan and Christian idolatry, — what- 
 ^ ever is wrong in social, civil, criminal, political, and 
 » religious codes ; equalizes the sexes ; annuls the curse 
 « on man, and leaves nothing that can sin, suffer, be 
 "■^ punished or destroyed. {Science and Health with 
 i| Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, 
 ^ p. 340.) 
 
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 WirOitt <@ob mii ^is Cfjrtsft 
 
 A remarkable and divinely inspired edi- 
 torial, entitled "Our Fathers' Flag," ap- 
 peared in the Sun and New York Herald 
 of June 14, 1920. It opens by calling atten- 
 tion to the fact, that July 4, 1920, is the 
 144th anniversary of our independence, 
 and states, that 
 
 Amid the crashing of thrones and the transfor- 
 mation of states, it [the flag] remains the same. It 
 is now a beacon of hope for the world, and a life- 
 giving power to nations, old and new. ... If we 
 Americans, like our fathers, reject utterly the dic- 
 tum of Europeans, steeped in the traditions of 
 feudalism and kingcraft, that "all flag devising 
 should be in accordance with heraldic laws," it is 
 because we know our own history. . . . Our 
 
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 fathers knew what they were doing and they did 
 it wisely, even as the seal of time, set upon their 
 action, shows. No form of words, even of sacred 
 ritual, was more carefully watched and guarded for 
 the final record: "Resolved, that the flag of the 
 thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate 
 red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, 
 white in a blue field, representing a new constella- 
 tion. " . . . Contrast Old World flag lore and 
 language and that of Independence Hall. The 
 difference discovered is like that between a roving 
 planet and a fixed star. The one reflects borrowed 
 light. The other gives, but borrows none. 
 
 The editorial closes, by voicing the world- 
 wide yearning, that a leader should be raised 
 up, who will complete the great work which 
 was begun by the pioneers of America, 
 continued at the birth of our Republic and 
 which rose to its height of achievement by 
 the establishment of the Union in 1865. 
 America, in her conception, birth and un- 
 foldment, is the highest national symbolic 
 ideal the world has ever known. America 
 was founded on spiritual aspirations, de-
 
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 veloped by spiritual conviction, and will 
 continue to exist and advance under the 
 leadership of spiritual ideals. America's 
 imperishable covenants, the Declaration of 
 Independence, the Constitution and the 
 Monroe Doctrine, came forth under divine 
 impulsion, and are under the protection of 
 divine Providence, to whom recognition is 
 given throughout their pages. Her immor- 
 tal sovereignty of spiritual dominion was 
 founded upon the rock, Christ, Truth. "It 
 shall endure." 
 
 The word "nation" comes from a root, 
 meaning, "I am bom." As we rise spirit- 
 ually, symbols disappear, and the substance, 
 or spiritual reality of all things appears. 
 Abraham Lincoln put the last stone in the 
 great constructive building, which we may 
 call, America militant. His words, "This 
 nation, under God, shall have a new birth of 
 freedom, — government of the people, by the 
 people, for the people shall not perish from 
 
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 the earth," came forth in spiritual law and 
 order, as a second and final trumpet call, — 
 the first of which was sounded by Washing- 
 ton, when he said to the makers of the 
 Constitution, "Let us raise a standard, to 
 which the wise and honest can repair; the 
 event is in the hands of God." 
 
 This immortal demand, uttered by the 
 father of our nation against the insistence 
 upon certain fallacies being written in the 
 Constitution, followed upon Franklin's 
 earnest appeal, that the framers of the 
 Constitution "invoke the divine guidance 
 of the Father of Light upon our proceed- 
 ings," and he (Franklin) added. 
 
 The longer I live, and the more I know, the more 
 I believe that God governs in the affairs of men, and, 
 if the sparrow cannot fall without His notice, is it 
 probable that an empire can rise without His 
 assistance ? * ' Except the Lord build the house, they 
 labor in vain that build it. " I firmly believe this, and 
 I also believe, that without His concurring aid, we 
 shall succeed in our political building no better than 
 the builders of Babel. 
 
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 From that moment the makers of America 
 knelt in childhke humiHty, and asked God's 
 direction in all their activities. The result 
 was, is, and will continue to be the Constitu- 
 tion of the United States, under the law of 
 God. 
 
 Washington's burning desire for an in- 
 dividual, national and ever-uplifted stand- 
 ard of purity of purpose, which our Stars 
 and Stripes t3^pify, namely truth, justice, 
 righteousness, liberty, upon which America 
 was founded — this desire, or prayer, of 
 Washington, was answered by Lincoln's 
 prophetic utterance that, ^^ under God,'' the 
 standard of truth, justice, righteousness, 
 liberty, would continue to rise till Truth 
 should declare Her triimiph over all error. 
 Under God, America shall continue to pro- 
 gress spiritually until she attains maturity 
 and the law of God is revealed, acknowledged 
 and established, namely, "one God, one law, 
 divine democracy, imiversal brotherhood." 
 
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 "Under God," America continues to de- 
 mand obedience to the law of truth, justice, 
 righteousness, and Hberty. 
 
 "Truth's mighty arguments are rolling down 
 From inland mountain to seaboard town." 
 
 The demands of God are being recog- 
 nized and immutable Truth is compelHng 
 htimanity to accept and obey her mandates. 
 Abraham Lincoln spoke the last word to be 
 spoken through man, in that hour. He 
 struck the last note in the Liberty Bell of 
 America militant. A new tone, in divine 
 order, was sounding faintly, and the listen- 
 ing ear caught the harmony, the promise of 
 a triumphant America. 
 
 Names are of deep significance. Abra- 
 ham, to whom God gave His covenant, 
 typifies America's history and parental 
 mission among the nations. 
 
 . . . the Lord . . . said unto Abram, Get thee 
 out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from 
 thy father's house, unto a land [spiritual under- 
 
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 standing] that I will show thee : . . . I will make 
 of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and 
 make thy name great. ' 
 
 Abraham's immediate obedience to the 
 divine command, — his wilHngness to sacri- 
 fice himself for the fulfilhnent of God's 
 purpose, brought him his God-given mission 
 and "covenant." 
 
 ... I will make my covenant between me and 
 thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly . . , thou 
 shalt be a father of many nations. Neither shall 
 thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name 
 shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations 
 have I made thee ... I will establish my covenant 
 between me and thee and thy seed . . . for an 
 everlasting covenant. ^ 
 
 When Abraham's sublime test came, and 
 
 Isaac his first-bom of spirit was laid on the 
 
 altar, 
 
 . . . the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham 
 the second time, and said ... in multiplying I 
 will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, 
 and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy 
 
 'Genesis 12: 1-3. ^ Ibid., 17:2-7. 
 
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 seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; and in 
 thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; 
 because thou hast obeyed my voice. ^ 
 
 What picture have we in all biblical his- 
 tory, more tenderly and profoundly sig- 
 nificant, than this of the little lad of Israel, 
 Isaac, obeying with childlike faith, the 
 words of Abraham, his father, as he (Isaac) 
 brought to the altar the wood, which was to 
 kindle the sacrificial flames. Abraham, 
 with the same childlike trust, had obeyed 
 his Father — God — and laid his all — sacrificed 
 himself — his false or material senses — in 
 the consuming fires of omnipotent Truth 
 and Love. 
 
 The ''covenant" made with Abraham is 
 spoken of in every great event in the history 
 of the house of Israel, and the radiant "bow 
 of promise" given to Noah, in token of his 
 obedience to the divine demand to "build an 
 ark," was its precedent. Moses constantly 
 
 'Genesis 22: 15, 17, 18. 
 
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 held the "covenant" before the children of 
 
 Israel. His command to Israel applies to 
 
 America : 
 
 Now therefore, hearken, Israel, unto the 
 statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach 
 you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and 
 possess the land which the Lord God of your 
 fathers giveth you. . . . For what nation is there 
 so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the 
 Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him 
 for? And what nation is there so great, that hath 
 statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, 
 which I set before you this day ? . . . He declared 
 unto you his covenant, which he commanded you 
 to perform.' 
 
 The " separateness " of America is the 
 
 foundation-stone of her "covenant" with 
 
 God. In Moses' song we read : 
 
 The Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot 
 of his inheritance ... he led him ... he in- 
 structed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. 
 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her 
 young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, 
 beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did 
 lead him, and there was no strange god with him,^ 
 
 • Deuteronomy 4: i, 7, 8, 13. ' Ibid., 2,2: 9-12. 
 
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 David, in his song of thanksgiving before 
 the ark, sings: 
 
 Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word 
 which he commanded to a thousand generations; 
 even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, 
 and of his oath unto Isaac ; and hath confirmed the 
 same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an ever- 
 lasting covenant. ' 
 
 Isaiah emphasizes the "covenant" by con- 
 stant repetition, as well as Nehemiah, 
 Jeremiah, Daniel, Ezekiel, Haggai, and other 
 of the prophets. Mary and Elizabeth sang 
 of it in the Galilean hills. Jesus used it as 
 a refutation of mortality (material genera- 
 tion) . To the resistent Sadducees, who were 
 questioning him about the resurrection, 
 Jesus said: 
 
 Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the 
 power of God. ... As touching the resurrection 
 of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken 
 unto you by God saying, I am the God of Abraham, 
 and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God 
 is not the God of the dead, but of the living.^ 
 
 ' I Chronicles i6: 15-17. ' Matthew 22:29, 31, 32. 
 
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 Stephen began his defense before the 
 Sanhedrin, by holding before his accusers 
 the glory of the "covenant." Paul uses 
 Abraham as his highest exemplar of faith in 
 ''keeping the covenant.'' 
 
 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, 
 whose builder and maker is God. ^ 
 
 But Paul also speaks of a "new covenant," 
 in relating Abraham's experience with Mel- 
 chizedek, "to whom also Abraham gave a 
 tenth part of all. ' ' This ' ' king of peace ' ' was 
 
 Without [material] father, without [material] mother, 
 without descent, having neither beginning of days 
 nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God.' 
 
 God is the only Creator of man, whom He 
 <'God) made spiritual, like Himself, and 
 whom He governs through His law of eter- 
 nal life and love. 
 
 God is . . . Spirit; and they that worship him 
 must worship him in spirit and in truth. ^ 
 
 ' Hebrews II : 10. '/ftid., 7:3. 3john4:24. 
 
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 There is no other God, no other man, for 
 God is all, and man is made in His image, 
 and governed by His law of life and love. 
 
 The following sentence also appears in 
 the editorial, previously referred to, in the 
 Sun and New York Herald: 
 
 The Almighty had pointed the everlasting stars 
 in the skies to Abraham, as the symbols of prophecy 
 and increase; and our fathers read their Bibles. 
 
 On April 9, 1865, Abraham Lincoln called 
 his Cabinet together to annoimce the end 
 of strife at that hour, and the safety of the 
 Union. Those assembled knelt humbly and 
 gave thanks to God. Lincoln was hailed as 
 a liberator. From his great heart welled 
 the Christly qualities of tenderness, com- 
 passion, "malice toward none, charity to- 
 ward all." America militant had reached 
 the limit of her power, and the "covenant," 
 which God established with Abraham, 
 awaited revelation. This "covenant" is 
 the immutable fact, that man is mental, 
 
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 spiritual, deathless, indestructible, a re- 
 flector and emanation of Principle, Life, and 
 Love; a child of our Father- Mother God, 
 eternally co-existent with his Maker. Lin- 
 coln's prophecy, "This nation, under God, 
 shall have a new birth of freedom," was 
 approaching fulfillment. The new "coven- 
 ant, " found in the promised land of infinite 
 Life and Love, which America typifies, was 
 being imfolded to the hungry, awakened 
 "little ones of the new era, " who were being 
 gently, perhaps imknowingly, led to 
 
 Mount Zion^ and unto the city of the living God, 
 the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable 
 company of angels. '' 
 
 The angelic choir was heard by them, the 
 "little ones of the new era," chanting the 
 anthem of immortality, peace on earth, 
 good will (God's will) to men, and above all, 
 
 ' Definition of Zion : Spiritual foundation and superstruc- 
 ture; inspiration; spiritual strength. — Science and Health with 
 Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 599. 
 ^Hebrews 12:22. 
 
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 the listening ear caught the assuring pro- 
 phecy and promise, 
 
 The government shall be upon his [Christ's] 
 shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, 
 Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting 
 Father, The Prince of Peace. ^ 
 
 At this moment of spiritual unfoldment 
 and revelation, tmder divine law and order, 
 a woman, known to human apprehension as 
 Mary Baker Eddy, but spiritually endowed 
 to interpret the law of omnipotent Life and 
 Love, Spirit, God, sounded the clarion call 
 of spiritual emancipation, when in 1866 she 
 discovered and founded Christian Science. 
 This divinely inspired woman came forth, 
 in meekness and spiritual might, claiming 
 her royal prerogative to voice the word of 
 God to humanity, and, as God's child, to 
 represent her Creator, and thus to rise to her 
 divine mission of fulfilling the law of Love, 
 which conquers fear and death. Like her 
 
 ' Isaiah 9:6. 
 
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 Master, Christ Jesus, she will finally make 
 a demonstration of her teaching, ''There is 
 no death ....'" At that psychological 
 moment, 1866, under the omni-active law 
 of God and His Christ, America triiimphmit 
 was bom, and the foundation-stone in the 
 "house [nation] not made with hands, 
 eternal in the heavens, "^ was laid. 
 
 The stone which the builders rejected has [had] 
 become the head of the corner. ^ 
 
 To those who had the prophetic vision, the 
 spiritual nation, the spiritual structure, or 
 Church triumphant, began its unfoldment. 
 Mrs. Eddy gives the spiritual definition of 
 Church as ' ' the structure of Truth and Love ; 
 whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine 
 Principle."-^ Again she says, "Evidences 
 of progress and spiritualization greet us on 
 every hand. "^ Of this third stage of unfold- 
 
 ' Science and Health, p. 427. * II Corinthians 5:1. 
 
 3 Mark 12:10. * Science and Health, p. 583. 
 
 5 Science and Health, p. 158. 
 
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 ment, or fourth in the fullness of appearing, 
 as S3niibolically expressed by the pioneer 
 work of the Virginia colonists and the Pil- 
 grims, by the birth of the Republic, by the 
 abolition of physical slavery, and by the 
 discovery of Christian Science, the Science 
 of being, Mrs. Eddy says: 
 
 I saw before me the sick, wearing out years of 
 servitude to an unreal master, in the belief that the 
 body governed them, rather than Mind. 
 
 The lame, the deaf, the dumb, the blind, the sick, 
 the sensual, the sinner, I wished to save from the 
 slavery of their own beliefs and from the educa- 
 tional systems of the Pharaohs, who to-day, as of 
 yore, hold the children of Israel in bondage. I saw 
 before me the awful conflict, the Red Sea and the 
 wilderness; but I pressed on through faith in God, 
 trusting Truth, the strong deliverer, to guide me 
 into the land of Christian Science, where fetters fall 
 and the rights of man are fully known and ac- 
 knowledged. ^ 
 
 The Bible has inspired every symbol, 
 which represents America. As imder the 
 law of God, humanity rises spiritually, 
 
 ' Science and Health, p. 226. 
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 Christ, Truth, removes the symbols, and 
 reveals the radiant reaHty. Jefferson and 
 Franklin proposed as an original design for 
 the Seal of the United States, the Children 
 of Israel in the wilderness. Franklin's notes 
 read thus : 
 
 Moses standing on the Shore, and extending his 
 Hand over the Sea, thereby causing the same to 
 overwhelm Pharaoh who is sitting in an open 
 Chariot, a Crown on his Head and Sword in his 
 Hand. Rays from a Pillar of Fire in the Clouds 
 reaching to Moses to express that he acts by Com- 
 mand of the Deity. 
 
 Motto: Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to 
 God. 
 
 The reason given for the rejection of this 
 design was on account of its heraldic com- 
 plications. Mrs. Eddy further says: 
 
 God has built a higher platform of human rights, 
 and He has built it on diviner claims. These claims 
 are not made through code or creed, but in dem- 
 onstration of "on earth peace, good-will toward 
 men." Human codes, scholastic theology, material 
 medicine, and hygiene, fetter faith and spiritual 
 
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 understanding. Divine Science rends asunder these 
 fetters, and man's birthright of sole allegiance to his 
 Maker asserts itself. ^ 
 
 The history of our country, like all history, illus- 
 trates the might of Mind, and shows human power 
 to be proportionate to its embodiment of right 
 thinking. A few immortal sentences, breathing the 
 omnipotence of divine justice, have been potent to 
 break despotic fetters and abolish the whipping- 
 post and slave market ; but oppression neither went 
 down in blood, nor did the breath of freedom come 
 from the cannon's mouth. Love is the liberator. 
 
 Legally to abolish unpaid servitude in the United 
 States was hard; but the abolition of mental slavery 
 is a more difficult task. The despotic tendencies, 
 inherent in mortal mind and always germinating 
 in new forms of tyranny, must be rooted out 
 through the action of the divine Mind. 
 
 Men and women of all climes and races are still 
 in bondage to material sense, ignorant how to 
 obtain their freedom. The rights of man were 
 vindicated in a single section and on the lowest 
 plane of human life, when African slavery was 
 abolished in our land. That was only prophetic of 
 further steps towards the banishment of a world- 
 wide slavery, found on higher planes of existence 
 and under more subtle and depraving forms. ^ 
 
 Slavery is not the legitimate state of man. God 
 
 ' Science and Health, p. 226. ' Ibid., pp. 225-6. 
 
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 made man free. Paul said, " I was free born." All 
 men should be free. "Where the Spirit of the Lord 
 is, there is liberty." Love and Truth make free, 
 but evil and error lead into captivity. 
 
 Christian Science raises the standard of liberty 
 and cries: "Follow me! Escape from the bondage 
 of sickness, sin, and death ! " Jesus marked out the 
 way. Citizens of the world, accept the "glorious 
 liberty of the children of God," and be free! This 
 is your divine right. The illusion of material sense, 
 not divine law, has bound you, entangled your free 
 limbs, crippled your capacities, enfeebled your 
 body, and defaced the tablet of your being. * 
 
 In divine order, the spiritual standard of 
 Washington and Lincoln has asserted its 
 prerogative, "under God," to rule America 
 in righteousness, and the people are destined 
 to accept and be governed by this standard. 
 The platform admits of no compromise. 
 In 1866, Mary Baker Eddy discovered and 
 foimded the Science of being, and finally 
 proclaimed to longing humanity, Christ's 
 method of emancipation from materiality, 
 sin, sickness, and death, in the following 
 
 ' Science and Health, p. 227. 
 
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 words : ' ' Spirit is infinite ; therefore Spirit is 
 all. There is no matter.'" This was the 
 quickening call, — the "fixed star," which 
 blazed forth with full radiance, and which 
 Mrs. Eddy describes in the following verse: 
 
 Thou gentle beam of living Love, 
 
 And deathless Life ! 
 Truth infinite, — so far above 
 
 All mortal strife. 
 
 The star of Bethlehem is the light of all ages — 
 is the light of Love, to-day christening religion un- 
 defiled, divine Science; giving to it a new name, and 
 the white stone in token of purity and permanence. ^ 
 
 A special despatch from Boston to the 
 New York Trihwie of June 20, 1920, an- 
 notmces that "Harvard astronomers are 
 watching with keen interest an event that 
 occurred more than two hundred thousand 
 years ago. A celestial conflagration that 
 took place so far away from earth that the 
 light rays are just reaching here." 
 
 ^Miscellany, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 357. 
 =» Miscellaneous Writings, p. 320. 
 
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 The attention of the Harvard scientists 
 was attracted to the matter by a message 
 from the Lick Observatory in Cahfomia, 
 which states that the new blue-white eagle 
 star (Nova Aquila), which appeared two 
 years ago in the constellation known as 
 Aqtiila (eagle), is increasing in diameter, is 
 reappearing in increased radiance. The 
 illumination and speed of the light (186,000 
 miles a second) is incomprehensible to finite 
 sense. Immediately after the transmission 
 of the message, the press stated that ' ' Cali- 
 fornia is shaken by a series of earthquake 
 shocks." 
 
 All phenomena ak-e the expression of 
 thought. Spiritual thought expresses spirit- 
 ual phenomena, the "love, joy, peace of the 
 Holy Spirit. ' ' ' Material thought is manifest 
 in the phenomena of sin, sickness, and death. 
 
 "To be carnally minded is death; but to be 
 spiritually minded is life and peace. "^ 
 
 ' Galatians 5 : 22. ' Romans 8 : 6. 
 
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 To those who are reading the signs of the 
 times, this second appearing of the eagle 
 star and the attendant earthquakes, portend 
 the imminent revelation of a great influx of 
 spiritual light, which will once more produce 
 the experience, precedent to the resurrec- 
 tion, as recorded by Matthew: 
 
 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in 
 twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did 
 quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were 
 opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept 
 arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrec- 
 tion, and went into the holy city, and appeared 
 unto many. ^ 
 
 The martyrdom of Jesus was the culminating sin 
 of Pharisaism. It rent the veil of the temple. It 
 revealed the false foundations and superstructures 
 of superficial religion, tore from bigotry and super- 
 stition their coverings, and opened the sepulchre 
 with divine Science, — immortality and Love. ^ 
 
 These phenomena will not be understood 
 by those who remain in the material senses, — 
 who are overtaken while ' ' eating and drinking 
 
 ' Matthew 27: 51-53. 
 
 * Science and Health, p. 597, excerpt from definition of " veil. " 
 
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 with the drunken," who are asleep in the 
 darkness of belief of life, truth, intelligence, 
 and substance in matter and who are drunk 
 with pride of place and power, greed, hypoc- 
 risy, fear, and the qualities of the carnal mind, 
 with its resultant phenomenon, — death. 
 
 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: 
 they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, 
 but not with strong drink. For the Lord hath 
 poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and 
 hath closed your eyes. . . . And the vision of all 
 is become unto you as the words of a book that is 
 sealed. . . . Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch 
 as this people draw near me with their mouth, and 
 with their lips do honour me, but have removed 
 their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is 
 taught by the precept of men : Therefore behold, I 
 will proceed to do a marvellous work among this 
 people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for 
 the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the 
 understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. ^ 
 
 Mrs. Eddy says, "Every object in ma- 
 terial thought will be destroyed. "^ By those 
 
 ' Isaiah 29: 9-1 1, 13, 14. ' Science and Health, p. 267. 
 
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 who will be found thinking materially, — 
 putting their trust in material man, material 
 government, and a material universe, the 
 phenomena recorded by John the Revelator 
 will be experienced. 
 
 And, lo, there was a great earthquake .... 
 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled 
 together; and every mountain and island were 
 moved out of their places. And the kings of the 
 earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and 
 the chief captains . . . hid themselves in the 
 dens and in the rocks of the mountains; and said 
 to the mountains and rocks. Fall on us, and hide 
 us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, 
 and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great 
 day of his wrath is come ; and who shall be able to 
 stand ? ^ 
 
 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it 
 shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; 
 and I will give it him. ^ 
 
 And they [the opposers of Christ] shall go into 
 the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the 
 earth, for fear of the Lord, — [Christ, at his second 
 coming], and for the glory of his majesty, when he 
 ariseth to shake terribly the earth. ^ 
 
 ' Revelation 6: 12, 14-17. 
 
 »Ezekiel 21 : 27. 3lsaiah2:i9. 
 
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 To genuine Christian Scientists who are 
 building on a " wholly spiritual foundation ' ' ' 
 and demonstrating the life and teachings of 
 Christ Jesus, viz., — the power of spiritual 
 understanding, the second coming of Christ 
 is imminent. Referring to the opposition 
 which Christian Scientists meet from the 
 materially minded, Mrs. Eddy says: 
 
 If one would not quarrel with his fellow-man for 
 waking him from a cataleptic nightmare, he should 
 not resist Truth, which banishes — yea, forever 
 destroys with the higher testimony of Spirit — the 
 so-called evidence of matter. ^ 
 
 The government was, is, and forever will 
 be, upon the shoulder of Christ, theideal man, 
 the son of the living God, who is the creator 
 of spiritual man and the spiritual universe; 
 and there is no other God. There is no 
 other man and no other universe, since there 
 is but one God, eternal Life and Love, who 
 is over all, and in all, that is real and eternal. 
 
 ' Miscellany, p. 357. ' Science and Health, p. 128. 
 
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 This infinite logic is the infinite light — uncom- 
 prehended, — yet forever giving forth more light, 
 because it has no darkness to emit. ^ 
 
 America, America, thou gavest birth 
 To light that lighteth all the earth. 
 
 God keep it pure ! 
 We love that onward leading light; 
 We will defend it with our might ; 
 
 It shall endure!^ 
 
 There would be opportunity for dwelling 
 at length upon Mary Baker Eddy's con- 
 stant reference, throughout her writings, 
 to her full realization of the significance — 
 in type — of the history of America, with the 
 discovery of Christian Science. She quotes 
 the words and deeds of Washington, Frank- 
 lin, Jefferson, and others, to illustrate vital 
 metaphysical points, and rings out her pure 
 Americanism in these words: 
 
 I believe strictly in the Monroe Doctrine, in our 
 Constitution, and in the laws of God. ^ 
 
 ' No and Yes, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. i6. 
 ' From the National Anthem Otir A merica. Words by Alice 
 Morgan Harrison, music by Augusta E. Stetson. Published 
 ^ Miscellany, p. 282. hy 0. ?c;h:rt;;t-r, y.cw Vorl: 
 
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 And again, of February 22, Washing- 
 ton's birthday, in connection with an event 
 of Christian Science record, Mrs. Eddy says: 
 
 Memorable date, all unthought of till the day had 
 passed! Then we beheld the omen, — religious 
 liberty — the Father of the universe and the father 
 of our nation in concurrence, ^ 
 
 And again she states: 
 
 Like our nation, Christian Science has its De- 
 claration of Independence. God has endowed man 
 with inalienable rights, among which are self- 
 government, reason, and conscience.^ 
 
 In Pulpit and Press, by Mary Baker Eddy, 
 p. 67, we read : 
 
 It was exactly one hundred years ago from the 
 date of the Declaration of Independence, when on 
 July 4, 1876, the first Christian Science Association 
 was organized by seven persons, of whom the fore- 
 most was Mrs. Eddy. 
 
 Of her "little church in the wilderness" 
 is recorded : 
 
 As the Pilgrims felt the strangeness of their new 
 » Miscellany, p. 148. » Science and Health, p. 106. 
 
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 home, the vast gloom of the mysterious forests, and 
 knew not the trials before them, so this little band 
 of pioneers, guided by their dauntless Leader and 
 teacher, starting out on their labors against the 
 currents of dogma, creed, sickness, and sin, must 
 have felt a peculiar sense of isolation. . . . This 
 was indeed the little church in the wilderness, and 
 few knew of its teachings, but those few saw the 
 grandeur of its work, and were willing to labor for 
 the Cause. ^ 
 
 In Miscellaneous Writings,^ Mrs. Eddy 
 records her divine perception of the Ameri- 
 can and Christian idea: 
 
 The day we celebrate reminds us of the heroes 
 and heroines who counted not their own lives dear 
 to them, when they sought the New England shores, 
 not as the flying nor as conquerors, but, steadfast 
 in faith and love, to build upon the rock of Christ, 
 the true idea of God — the supremacy of Spirit and 
 the nothingness of matter. When first the Pilgrims 
 planted their feet on Plymouth Rock, frozen ritual 
 and creed should forever have melted away in the 
 fire of love which came down from heaven. The 
 Pilgrims came to establish a nation in true freedom, 
 in the rights of conscience. 
 
 I Miscellany, p. 50. ' ' Page 176. 
 
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 And in Pulpit and Press, "^ Mrs. Eddy says: 
 
 Rome's fallen fanes and silent Aventine is glory's 
 tomb; her pomp and power lie low in dust. Our 
 land, more favored, had its Pilgrim Fathers. On 
 shores of solitude, at Plymouth Rock, they planted 
 a nation's heart, — the rights of conscience, imperish- 
 able glory. No dream of avarice or ambition broke 
 their exalted purpose, theirs was the wish to reign 
 in hope's reality — the realm of Love. 
 
 This "nation's heart," — typifies the great 
 heart of Christ, upon whose shoulder, 
 unseen by the materialist, rests the govern- 
 ment of America triumphant. This "na- 
 tion's heart" is correlated by Mrs. Eddy 
 with her discovery of Christian Science, and 
 recorded in the comer-stone of her church. 
 The Mother Church in Boston, which, spirit- 
 ually interpreted, is "the structure of Truth 
 and Love," not a material edifice or symbol. 
 On page 144 of Miscellaneous Writings 
 appear these words : 
 
 On this memorable day there are laid away . . . 
 [the Holy Bible] your textbook, Science and Health 
 'Page 10. 
 
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 with Key to the Scriptures, and other works written by 
 the same author, your teacher, the Discoverer and 
 Founder of Christian Science; without pomp or 
 pride, laid away as a sacred secret in the heart of a 
 rock, there to typify the prophecy, "And a man 
 shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a 
 covert from the tempest; ... as the shadow of a 
 great rock in aweary land"; henceforth to whisper 
 our Master's promise, "Upon this rock I will build 
 my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail 
 against it." 
 
 The 144th anniversary of American In- 
 dependence, and 300th anniversary of the 
 landing of the Pilgrims, is momentous as 
 type. It S3rmbolizes fullness, completeness, 
 spiritual unfoldment, appearing. The Bible 
 and Mrs. Eddy's writings note the spiritual 
 signification of numbers. One hundred and 
 forty-four represents nine times sixteen, or 
 twelve times twelve. Sixteen symbolizes 
 four-square. Nine represents three times 
 three; the number three expresses com- 
 pletion. In speaking of her discovery of 
 Christian Science, — and Mrs, Eddy defines 
 
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 Christian Science as the Science of Christ, 
 or Truth,' — she says: 
 
 My conclusions were reached by allowing the 
 evidence of this revelation to multiply with mathe- 
 matical certainty and the lesser demonstration to 
 prove the greater, as the product of three multiplied 
 by three, equaling nine, proves conclusively that 
 three times three duodecillions must be nine duo- 
 deciilions, — not a fraction more, not a unit less. ^ 
 
 The number twelve expresses infinity, 
 oneness; tv^elve times twelve, therefore, 
 expresses the fullness of fullness, — the pure, 
 radiant effulgence of light, hitherto unper- 
 ceived. 
 
 The symbolic number seven (7) was "early ac- 
 counted sacred." — Webster. 
 
 The Infinite is One, and this One is Spirit ; Spirit 
 is God, and this God is Infinite Good. 
 
 This simple statement of Oneness is the only 
 possible correct version of Christian Science. ^ 
 
 ' The Standard Dictionary gives the following definition of 
 "science " : "Knowledge gained and verified by exact observa- 
 tion and correct thinking." 
 
 » Science and Health, p. 108. 
 
 3 Miscellany, p. 356. 
 
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 That Mrs. Eddy saw, as did the Revela- 
 tor, the number 144, pregnant with light 
 and harmony, is shown by her conception 
 of the Hghting of the original Mother 
 Church : 
 
 A sunburst in the center of the ceiling takes the 
 place of chandeliers. There is a disc of cut glass 
 . . . covering one hundred and forty-four electric 
 lights, in the form of a star, which is twenty-one 
 inches from point to point, the center being a pure 
 white light, and each ray under prisms which reflect 
 the rainbow tints. ^ 
 
 Here we have the completion of the 
 number 21, 3 times 7, leading up to the 
 source of the light. From Science and Health , 
 page 508, we read: 
 
 The third stage in the order of Christian Science 
 is an important one to the human thought, letting 
 in the light of spiritual understanding. This period 
 corresponds to the resurrection, when Spirit is 
 discerned to be the Life of all, and the deathless 
 Life, or Mind, dependent upon no material organi- 
 
 ' Pulpit and Press, p. 25. 
 
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 zation. Our Master reappeared to his students, — 
 to their apprehension he rose from the grave, — on 
 the third day of his ascending thought, and so 
 presented to them the certain sense of eternal Life. 
 The numerals of infinity, called seven days, can 
 never be reckoned according to the calendar of time. 
 These days will appear as mortality disappears, 
 and they will reveal eternity, newness of Life, in 
 which all sense of error forever disappears, and 
 thought accepts the divine, infinite calculus. ' 
 
 "The divine infinite calculus, " is summed 
 up in Mrs. Eddy's quotation of the twenty- 
 third Psalm with her interpretation, as 
 follows: "I will dwell in the house [the con- 
 sciousness] of [Love] for ever.'"' 
 
 Mary Baker Eddy, the feminine repre- 
 sentative of the Motherhood of God — to 
 human apprehension seen as a woman — 
 will demonstrate this "glorified spiritual 
 idea of the everpresent God, "^ and will 
 appear "clothed with the sim [spiritual light, 
 eternal substance] and upon her head a 
 
 ' Science and Health, p. 520. 'Ibid., p. 578. 
 
 2 Message for 1902, p. 16. 
 
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 crown of twelve stars.'" As Christ Jesus 
 represented to human sense the Fatherhood 
 of God, so at his second appearing the 
 Motherhood of God will be apprehended. 
 This appearing of the compound spiritual 
 idea, the eternal man of God's creating, is 
 imminent. 
 
 The twelve tribes of Israel with all mortals, — 
 separated by belief from man's divine origin and the 
 true idea, — will through much tribulation yield to 
 the activities of the divine Principle of man in the 
 harmony of Science. These are the stars in the 
 crown of rejoicing.* 
 
 During this purifying process of yielding 
 to the activities of Spirit, which involves 
 mighty wrestlings with false mortal 
 thoughts, the sealing of the "one hundred 
 forty and four thousand of all the tribes of 
 the children of Israel, "^ is taking place. 
 
 'Revelation 12: i. 
 
 ' Science and Health, p. 562. 
 
 3 Revelation 7 : 4. 
 
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 Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, 
 till we have sealed the servants of God in their 
 foreheads. ^ 
 
 This sealing, renaming, and reappearing of 
 God's man, whom He made in His own 
 image and likeness, spiritual and eternal, or 
 the Christ (Truth) man, was prophesied by 
 the Revelator after the "four angels, stand- 
 ing on the four comers of the earth, holding 
 the four winds of the earth, "^ had appeared. 
 
 Spiritual definition of "Angels": 
 
 God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual intui- 
 tions, pure and perfect, the inspiration of goodness, 
 purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, 
 sensuality, and mortality. ^ 
 
 Spiritual definition of "Earth": 
 
 A sphere; a type of eternity and immortality, 
 which are likewise without beginning or end . . . 
 a compound idea.'* 
 
 ' Revelation, 7 : 3. 'Ibid., 7: i. 
 
 3 Science and Health, p. 581. *Ibid., p. 585. 
 
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 Spiritual definition of "Wind": 
 
 That which indicates the might of omnipotence 
 and the movements of God's spiritual government, 
 encompassing all things. ^ 
 
 The sublimity, purity, spiritual beauty, 
 and significance of this metaphysical picture 
 with its complete type in numerals, — four 
 times three equals twelve, — typifies the 
 imminent revelation (through woman, 
 known to humanity in this age as Mary 
 Baker Eddy), points to the fulfilling of the 
 law of Love, and the appearing of the spirit- 
 ual idea, — ^man in God's image, whom God 
 endowed with spiritual dominion, which will 
 destroy forever the claim of sin, sickness, 
 and death, and will reveal God and His 
 perfect universe, governed by the law of 
 eternal Mind, Life, and Love. 
 
 In an address delivered on July 4, 1897, at 
 Pleasant View, Concord, New Hampshire, 
 
 ' Science and Health, p. 597. 
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 before members of The Mother Church, 
 Mrs. Eddy said: 
 
 Christian Science is not only the acme of Science, 
 but the crown of Christianity. It is universal. . . . 
 It is the pearl priceless, whereof our Master said, 
 "If a man findeth, he goeth and selleth all that he 
 hath, and buyeth it."' 
 
 Definition of "Science": 
 
 Knowledge gained and verified by exact obser- 
 vation and correct thinking. ^ 
 
 It is nearly two thousand, years since 
 John's radiant vision of the royally crowned 
 woman burst upon him, which is chronicled 
 in the book of Revelation (chapter 12: i). 
 Mrs. Eddy's spiritual discernment has re- 
 corded this fact in the following words : 
 
 Progress is spiritual. Progress is the maturing 
 conception of divine Love; it demonstrates the 
 scientific, sinless life of man and mortal's painless 
 departure from matter to Spirit, not through death, 
 
 ^ Miscellaneous Writings, p. 252. 
 ' Standard Dictionary. 
 
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 but through the true idea of Life, — and Life not in 
 matter but in Mind. ' 
 
 To-day the "crown of twelve stars" adds 
 to its radiance of eternity and Light, the 
 ' ' pearl priceless, ' ' and reveals thirteen jewels. 
 The number twelve is America's foimdation 
 number, and the thirteenth State was added 
 later. The twelve tribes of Israel became 
 thirteen, through the forcing of Manasseh, 
 — Joseph's first bom, — into the last or thir- 
 teenth place. By Jacob's act in adopting 
 Ephraim as the elder, Manasseh, through ex- 
 perience and persecution, through his resist- 
 ance to autocracy and his willingness to meet 
 and conquer, with spiritual understanding, 
 the brutal qualities of "aggression, oppres- 
 sion, and pride of power," which Ephraim 
 possessed and exercised, — through his (Man- 
 asseh's) obedience to the law of God, 
 Manasseh gained the spiritual "dominion" 
 with which God endowed man whom He 
 
 ' Miscellany, p. i8i. 
 
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 made in His own image and likeness. The 
 "man-child," is the first-bom to whom the 
 Revelator refers. John saw the inseparabil- 
 ity of the Fatherhood and Motherhood of 
 God, expressed in the man-child, the spirit- 
 ual idea or Christ, — who was to "rule all 
 nations and peoples — imperatively, abso- 
 lutely, finally — with divine Science.'" It is 
 interesting to recall that Mrs. Eddy speaks, 
 in Retrospection and Introspection,'' of the 
 parable of the "Prodigal Son." The prodi- 
 gal son symbolizes the coming of Ephraim 
 (Great Britain) to Manasseh, who represents 
 the fullness of the reflection of divine Love, 
 in its more infinite meaning. This is the 
 drawing together to the outstretched arms 
 of divine Love, all of God's little ones, who 
 have wrestled with and overcome, through 
 spiritual power, belief of life, truth, intelli- 
 gence, and substance in matter, which belief 
 
 » Science mid Health, p. i8i. 
 
 ' Retrospection and Introspection, p. 91. 
 
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 is opposed to the law of God, who is infinite 
 Life and Love. Thus is the covenant 
 
 . . . made with Abraham . . . become an oath 
 unto Isaac, confirmed unto Jacob for a law, and to 
 Israel for an everlasting covenant. ^ 
 
 Spiritual definition of "Abraham": 
 
 Fidelity ; faith in the divine Life and in the eternal 
 Principle of being. 
 
 This patriarch illustrated the purpose of Love to 
 create trust in good, and showed the life-preserving 
 power of spiritual understanding. ^ 
 
 Spiritual definition of ' 'Children of Israel" : 
 
 The representatives of Soul, not corporeal sense; 
 the offspring of Spirit, who, having wrestled with 
 error, sin, and sense, are governed by divine Science; 
 some of the ideas of God beheld as men, casting out 
 error and healing the sick; Christ's offspring. ^ 
 
 Spiritual definition of "Jacob": 
 Inspiration; the revelation of Science, in which 
 
 ' I Chronicles i6: i6, 17. 
 
 => Science and Health, p. 579. ^ Ibid. , p. 583. 
 
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 the so-called material senses yield to the spiritual 
 sense of Life and Love. ^ 
 
 America, America, in thee is found 
 Manasseh's tribe, to Ephraim bound 
 
 By Israel's vow, 
 Whose destiny is heaven-sealed ; 
 Far spreading vine in fruitful field, 
 
 God's planting, thou !^ 
 
 I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, 
 that thou hast hid these things from the wise 
 and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. 
 — Jesus. ^ 
 
 Lest we forget, it is highly important to 
 hold before us always the fact that our 
 national childlikeness has been the corner- 
 stone of America triumphant. Washington, 
 at Valley Forge, knelt as a little child, and 
 "talked with God," asking for divine 
 guidance at that crucial hour. Lincoln 
 was always guided by the same confident 
 trust in an ever-present Father-Mother 
 God. The utmost simplicity, spontaneous 
 
 ' Science and Health, p., 589. 
 
 'Our America. 3 Luke 10: 21. 
 
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 childlike joy, purity, beauty of rhythm, in- 
 spired our first national expression in music, 
 which was a little song entitled, "My Days 
 Have Been So Wondrous Free," which was 
 written for and dedicated to "the young, as 
 a study for the clavecin." The composer, 
 Francis Hopkinson, was a signer of the 
 Declaration of Independence, and an active 
 member of the Convention of 1787 which 
 formed the Constitution of the United 
 States. He was a close friend of Washing-' 
 ton, to whom the first copy of the song was 
 sent. Washington's flute now rests tenderly 
 at Mt. Vernon on the little spinet of Nellie 
 Custis. The song sings of the birds, trees, 
 brooks, zephyrs, and ends with a dainty, 
 delicate dance movement, which suggests 
 the purest rhythm and grace. This spiritual 
 sense of grace and rhythmic joy is at the root 
 of all creation, and all true art expresses it. 
 "The fruits of the spirit are love, peace, and 
 joy." (Paul.) 
 
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 We quote the following from The Chris- 
 tian Science Monitor: 
 
 Washington, alike statesman, soldier, and patriot, 
 stands alone. He was not only the greatest Ameri- 
 can ; he was also one of the greatest men the worid 
 has ever known. Few centuries and few countries 
 have ever seen his like. Among the people of Eng- 
 lish stock there is none to compare with him, unless 
 perhaps Cromwell, utterly different though the 
 latter was. Of Americans, Lincoln alone is worthy 
 to stand even second. ' 
 
 Mrs. Eddy says: 
 
 Eternal Life must be brought to light by the 
 understanding that there is no death, as well as by 
 other graces of Spirit. ^ 
 
 To discern the rhythm of Spirit, and to be holy, 
 thought must be purely spiritual.^ 
 
 Spiritual man is a mental being, an 
 emanation of Spirit, Mind, Life, Truth, and 
 Love. This divine rh3rthm and harmony 
 of purely spiritual thinking is beautifully 
 
 ' Theodore Roosevelt. 
 
 ' Science and Health, p. 429. 3 Ibid., p. 510. 
 
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 touched upon by Mrs. Eddy in The Great 
 Discovery^: 
 
 As sweet music ripples in one's thoughts of it, 
 like the brooklet in its meandering midst pebbles 
 and rocks, before the mind can duly express it to 
 the ear — so the harmony of divine Science, first 
 broke upon my sense, before gathering experience 
 and confidence to articulate it. Its natural mani- 
 festation is beautiful and euphonious, but its written 
 expression increases in power and perfection under 
 the guidance of the great Master. The divine hand 
 led me into a new world of light and Life, a fresh 
 universe — old to God, but new to His "little one." 
 
 It is also helpful to know that the first 
 expression in music of the Anglo-Saxon 
 consciousness, through written song, "Sum- 
 er is I-Cumen In," breathed of the birds 
 and springtime. This was written a cen- 
 tury before Chaucer. The English language, 
 with its marvelous vitality and structural 
 beauty, typifies "the new tongue" of the 
 spiritual universe. Wholly spiritual think- 
 
 ' Retrospection and Introspection, p. 27. 
 
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 ing will be demanded by mankind in the 
 near future, and the demonstration and 
 phenomenon of wholly spiritual thinking 
 will reveal man as God's child, idea or son, 
 and the imi verse as spiritual and eternal, 
 peopled with God's perfect ideas and gov- 
 erned by Christ. In this spiritual universe, 
 the language of Spirit is the "new" tongue,' 
 and the "new heaven and the new earth, ""^ 
 are the phenomena. 
 
 After my discovery of Christian Science, most of 
 the knowledge I had gleaned from schoolbooks 
 vanished like a dream. Learning was so illumined 
 that grammar was eclipsed. Etymology was divine 
 history, voicing the idea of God in man's origin and 
 signification. Syntax was spiritual order and unity. 
 Prosody, the song of angels, and no earthly or in- 
 glorious theme. ^ 
 
 The phenomenon of the winning of the 
 thirteenth series of the yacht races on the 
 twenty-seventh day of the seventh month, 
 
 ' Mark i6: 17. ' Revelation 21:1. 
 
 3 Retrospection and Introspection, p. 10. 
 
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 at eight o'clock in the evening, by the 
 American boat Resolute, symbolizes not only 
 that the cup of blessing must, logically, 
 remain with Manasseh (America), but em- 
 phasizes the fact that grace, delicacy, 
 fieetness, spiritual alertness, expressed in 
 beauty of conception, of form, outline, and 
 color, are divinely triumphant qualities of 
 spiritual leadership. The press spoke of 
 the Resolute as a "bright beacon, holding 
 true" ; as "a white flier, due west, and sailing 
 directly into the burning eye of the setting 
 sun, glowing like a vast, incandescent orb"; 
 and again, as a "starry banner, shining 
 through the storm," as "a white fairy," as 
 "the white hope, with grace of a white swan, 
 turning around like a lilypad"; again, as 
 "a great White Bird . . . she seemed to 
 fly — to run home like a living thing, with 
 the rosy sun's light, suggesting a rainbow." 
 These excerpts are from the Sun mid New 
 York Herald and the New York Tribune. 
 
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 These concepts of the Resolute are of 
 beautiful significance, and correlate the 
 tender types which Jesus used in his parables 
 to illustrate his mighty truths. For in- 
 stance, the lilies of the field, the tiny mus- 
 tard seed, the fowls of the air, the little fishes, 
 the pearl of great price, the lambs, and little 
 children. Most potent of all is the indissol- 
 uble relation, in type, to the consciousness 
 of the first-bom of Spirit, which Manasseh 
 typifies, and the restitution, redemption of 
 the blessing, through Manasseh to Joseph, 
 which, in Jacob's far-seeing wisdom, seemed 
 to have been denied him, until, through 
 persecution, and demonstration of the law 
 of brotherly, or spiritual love, he should 
 redeem his birthright, and prove his right 
 to rule in spiritual understanding of God's 
 Law. 
 
 Spiritual definition of "Joseph": 
 
 Ptire affection blessing its enemies.* 
 ' Science and Health, p. 589. 
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 America is the Manasseh, the first-bom 
 of Joseph, and will redeem his birthright. 
 Mrs. Eddy says: 
 
 Beloved, that which purifies the affections also 
 strengthens them, removes fear, subdues sin, and 
 endues with divine power; that which refines 
 character at the same time humbles, exalts, and 
 commands a man, and obedience gives him courage, 
 devotion, and attainment. For this hour, for this 
 period, for spiritual sacrament, sacrifice, and 
 ascension, we unite in giving thanks. For the body 
 of Christ, for the life that we commemorate and 
 would emulate, for the bread of heaven whereof if a 
 man eat, "he shall live forever," for the cup red 
 with loving restitution, redemption, and inspiration 
 we give thanks. The signet of the great heart, 
 given to me in a little symbol, seals the covenant of 
 everlasting love. May apostate praise return to its 
 first love, above the symbol seize the spirit, speak 
 the "new tongue" — and may thought soar and 
 Soul be. ' 
 
 On Jtily 1 6, 1920, Resolute gained her first 
 victory. 
 
 On the evening of the fifteenth day of 
 
 ' Miscellany, p. 131. 
 
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 July, 1920, — the day on which the races 
 began — a festival of sacred and secular 
 song was given on the deck of the United 
 States battleship, Tennessee, by the Oratorio 
 Society of the New York City Christian 
 Science Institute. It concluded with the 
 triumphant strains of the ''Hallelujah 
 Chorus, " (accompanied by the ship's band) 
 which rang out with conscious spiritual 
 dominion over the waters. Our America 
 was sung, also accompanied by the band. 
 
 America, America, on-pressing van 
 Of all the hopes of waking man, 
 
 We love thy flag! 
 Thy stately flag of steadfast stars, 
 And white, close held to heart-red bars, 
 
 Which none shall drag!' 
 
 From the chorus rang out the triumphant 
 words. 
 
 Hallelujah ! for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. 
 The kingdom of this world is become the kingdom 
 
 ^ Our America. 
 
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 of our Lord and of His Christ; and He shall reign 
 forever and ever. King of kings, and Lord of 
 lords. Hallelujah ! 
 
 The following day, Resolute upheld 
 America's standard. The sea has played a 
 vital part in America's history. On Jidy 
 30, 1 6 19, was held the first meeting of the 
 first representative assembly in America, 
 when the Council and House of Burgesses, 
 elected by the three colonies in Virginia, 
 gathered in the little wooden church at 
 Jamestown, to transact the business of the 
 new community, with a Governor of liberal 
 ideas. It marks the beginning of the whole 
 legislative system. It was a new departure 
 in "government of the people, by the people, 
 for the people." This stone was placed in 
 the temple of American liberty, by the small 
 band of fighters against autocracy and 
 despotism, a year before the Pilgrims landed 
 on Plymouth Rock. From The Christian 
 Science Monitor we quote the following, 
 
 50
 
 which indicates the fraternal recognition of 
 England (Ephraim) for America (Manas- 
 seh) — Brothers John and Jonathan : 
 
 The Women's Freedom League seems to feel that 
 while England and America are vying with each 
 other to do honor to the Pilgrim Fathers, too little 
 has been said about the Pilgrim Mothers. They 
 are, therefore, commemorating these women who 
 sailed in the Mayflower, by a festival in the grounds 
 of Lord Leverhulme's house at Hampstead, which 
 he has lent for this purpose. 
 
 In his efforts to plant Christianity on 
 these shores, the Norseman, Lief Ericson, 
 in the year looo, planted his standard in 
 New Bedford, on the Massachusetts coast.' 
 
 Christopher Columbus, almost five him- 
 dred years later, landed at San Salvador. 
 Thus the discovery of America militant, 
 
 ' "The Scandinavians, after having colonized Iceland in 
 875 A.D. and Greenland in 983, had by the year 1000 discovered 
 America as far down as 41 degrees 30 minutes north latitude, 
 a point near to New Bedford, in the State of Massachu- 
 setts. " — Chambers's Encyclopedia. 
 
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 under spiritual law and order, remained 
 Anglo-Saxon. 
 
 Thus has the great heart of Love, — the 
 Motherhood of God, — ever brooded over 
 and protected the destiny of this nation, 
 America. 
 
 The bird of hope is singing 
 A lightsome lay, a cooing call, 
 And in her heart is beating 
 A love for all. 
 
 " 'Tis peace not power I seek, 
 'Tis meet that man be meek. " 
 
 — Mary Baker Eddy. ' 
 
 The Mayflower covenant was formulated 
 by the second little flock of fighters for "life, 
 liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," on 
 disturbed waters, which reflected the con- 
 flict aboard. The record states, that the 
 
 , , . day before we came to harbor, observing 
 some not well affected to unitie and concord, but 
 
 ' Miscella7ty, p. 341. 
 
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 gave some appearance of faction, it was thought 
 good that there should be an association and agree- 
 ment that we should combine together in one body. 
 
 The covenant is then stated to be "under- 
 taken for the glory of God and advancement 
 of the Christian faith." 
 
 In metaphor, the dry land illustrates the absolute 
 formations instituted by Mind, while water sym- 
 bolizes the elements of Mind. ' 
 
 When the "elements of Mind," or the 
 true concord of unity of purpose and right 
 thinking, was established by the little band 
 of Pilgrims, and discord was eliminated, the 
 ''dry land,'' or spiritual reality — "the abso- 
 lute formations instituted by Mind" — the 
 rock of spiritual tmderstanding (America) 
 appeared. 
 
 Mrs. Eddy defines the true United States 
 of America, a people united in the demon- 
 stration of truth, justice, righteousness, and 
 liberty when she speaks of the 
 
 ' Science and Health, p. 507. 
 
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 . . . children of one common Parent, — wherein 
 and whereby Father, Mother, and child are the 
 divine Principle and divine idea, even the divine 
 "Us," — one in good and good in One.' 
 
 This divine "Us" — or trinity of numbers 
 — has its highest expression in the reverse 
 of our Seal, the "All-Seeing Eye," which is 
 intentionally enclosed in a triangle, at the 
 apex of the pyramid. This sjnnbol expresses 
 the conviction of the founders of America, 
 that God knew the hour for the revelation 
 of the capstone, which is His glory, — man 
 in His image and likeness. This phenome- 
 non, this pyramid or capstone, appears on 
 First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York 
 City, corner of 96th Street and Central 
 Park West. It is the first-born branch 
 church of The Mother Church, Mrs. Eddy's 
 Church, The First Church of Christ, Scien- 
 tist, Boston, Massachusetts, and was built 
 
 ^Miscellaneous Writings, p. i8. 
 54
 
 by Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson, C. S. D., a 
 student of Mrs. Eddy. 
 
 Spiritual definition of "Church": 
 
 The structure of Truth and Love. ^ 
 
 Mrs. Eddy wrote to Mrs. Stetson as 
 follows : 
 
 ... I entrust you with another momentous 
 move namely Our memorial of Christian Science, 
 that the ages will look upon and be lifted up. ^ 
 
 (Facsimile letter from Vital Issues in Christian 
 Science, p. 375- ') 
 
 Mrs. Eddy entrusted her student, 
 Augusta E. Stetson, C. S. D., with a "mo- 
 mentous move" when the "our memorial of 
 Christian Science" was erected in 1899, and 
 externalized in Concord granite with the 
 following inscription : 
 
 ' Science and Health, p. 583. 
 
 ' Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 
 
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 America ^riumpJjant 
 
 First Church 
 
 OF 
 
 Christ Scientist 
 
 New York City 
 
 Erected 
 
 Anno Domini MDCCCXCIX 
 
 A Tribute 
 
 OF 
 
 Love and Gratitude 
 
 To Our 
 
 Leader and Teacher 
 
 The Reverend 
 
 Mary Baker Eddy 
 
 Discoverer and Founder of 
 
 Christian Science 
 
 AND Author 
 
 OF its Text Book 
 
 Science and Health 
 
 With Key to the 
 
 Scriptures 
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 and with the following letter from Mrs. 
 Eddy, laid in the comer-stone : 
 
 Pleasant View, Concord, N. H. 
 
 To Mrs. A. E. Stetson: 
 
 Beneath this corner-stone, in this silent, sacred 
 sanctuary of earth's sweet songs, psans of praise 
 and records of Omnipotence, I leave my name with 
 thine in unity and love. 
 
 Mary Baker G. Eddy. 
 
 November 30, 1899. 
 
 The structure, or edifice, costing one 
 million two hundred and fifty thousand 
 dollars, and paid for as soon as com- 
 pleted, was indeed a "momentous move" 
 with which to entrust one student, who 
 was to erect this "memorial" without 
 the aid of any but herself and her own 
 students. 
 
 It is the only church in the world in 
 which Mrs. Eddy has placed her name 
 in a comer-stone with a student. This 
 is a well-known and established fact in 
 
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 Christian Science history. In a letter, 
 sent to Mrs. Stetson's church, by Mrs. 
 Eddy, on the occasion of the dedication of 
 the church, November 29, 1903, America's 
 foundation, in type, is touched upon in 
 these words: 
 
 In this lofty temple, dedicated to God and 
 humanity, may the prophecy of Isaiah be fulfilled : 
 "Fear not; I have called thee by thy name; thou 
 art mine." Within its sacred walls may song and 
 sermon generate only that which Christianity 
 writes in broad facts over great continents — 
 sermons that fell forests and remove mountains, 
 songsof joy and gladness. . . . The tender memor- 
 ial engraven on your grand edifice stands for 
 human self lost in divine light, melted into the 
 radiance of His likeness. It stands for meekness 
 and might, for Truth as attested by the Founder of 
 your denomination and emblazoned on the fair 
 escutcheon of your church. ^ 
 
 The builder of this "tender memorial," 
 Augusta E. Stetson, C. S. D., bought the 
 
 ^Miscellany, p. 193. 
 
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 "pearl priceless," and obtained the "crown 
 of Christianity." 
 
 Buyeth it ! Note the scope of that saying, even 
 that Christianity is not merely a gift, as St. Paul 
 avers, but is bought with a price, a great price; and 
 what man knoweth as did our Master its value, and 
 the price he paid for it ? ^ 
 
 Augusta E. Stetson "paid for it" in bear- 
 ing the cross and drinking the cup of which 
 Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy drank 
 to gain their spiritual dominion and crown 
 of immortality. 
 
 Know ye not that they which run in a race run 
 all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye 
 may obtain. ^ 
 
 The obtaining of this prize is the result of 
 the struggle for the Mind of Christ — the 
 striving to bring every thought into obed- 
 
 ' Miscellaneous Writings, "Fourth of July Address," p. 253. 
 » I Corinthians 9: 24. 
 
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 ience to Truth. This strife and victory 
 reveal the immortaUty, vision, strength, 
 and capacity to soar, which the eagle, on oiir 
 national Seal, typifies. 
 
 America, America, thy seer-graved seal 
 Foretells the perfect Commonweal 
 
 Of God-made men; 
 Its eagle with unwearied wings 
 Is symbol of the thought-seen things 
 
 Of prophets' ken. * 
 
 The reason for the adoption of the eagle 
 as the obverse of the Seal, can be found 
 throughout the Bible. On Mount Sinai, 
 Moses prophesied the revealing of America 
 triumphant, and the eagle as its symbol. 
 
 And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord 
 called unto him out of the mountain, saying: Thus 
 shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the 
 children of Israel; Ye have seen what I did unto the 
 Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, 
 and brought you unto myself. Now therefore, if 
 
 'Owr America. 
 
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 ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my cove- 
 nant, then shall ye be a peculiar treasure unto me 
 above all people : for all the earth is mine. ^ 
 
 John, the Revelator, speaks of the woman, 
 to whom was given "two wings of a great 
 eagle "^ typifying America among the na- 
 tions and also the spiritual interpretation of 
 the Scriptiires by Mary Baker Eddy, in 
 Science and Health with Key to the Scrip- 
 tures. 
 
 The "tender memorial," First Church of 
 Christ, Scientist, New York City, also 
 typifies, at this hour, the spiritual ark which 
 "went upon the face of the waters," and 
 which the waters "bare up. "^ Spiritual 
 definition of "Ark": 
 
 Safety; the idea or reflection of Truth, proved 
 to be as immortal as its Principle. . . God and 
 man co-existent and eternal. '^ 
 
 'Exodus 19:3-6. 
 
 * Revelation 12: 14. 
 3 Genesis 7: 17, 18. 
 
 * Science and Health, p. 581. 
 
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 The most striking type regarding this 
 edifice is the obeHsk, with the capstone, a 
 pyramid in form. Thus this church sym- 
 boHzes man. It is a " memorial of Christian 
 Science, that the ages will look upon and be 
 lifted up. " (Mary Baker Eddy.) Christ, at 
 His first appearing, said : 
 
 And I, if I be lifted up . . . will draw all men 
 unto me. ^ 
 
 This "memorial of Christian Science, 
 that the ages will look upon and be lifted 
 up" as thought is spiritualized, was built 
 by Mary Baker Eddy, Augusta E. Stetson, 
 and her students. It declares that man is 
 spiritual. At Christ's second appearing, as 
 compound idea, reflecting Life and Love, the 
 Fatherhood and Motherhood of God, the 
 nations will be "lifted up." They will 
 "look upon" this "memorial" and "be 
 lifted" above matter, above material type 
 
 'John 12: 32. 
 
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 and symbol, to God, man, and the spiritual 
 universe. 
 
 Over the great organ in this church, First 
 Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City, 
 is the "triumphal arch of Truth and Love,'" 
 whose sixteen words, 
 
 God is Love and He that Dwelleth in Love 
 dwelleth in god and god in him. ^ 
 
 with the word "Love" at the keystone 
 of the arch — typify the city foursquare. 
 
 This city of our God has no need of sun or satel- 
 lite, for Love is the light of it, and divine Mind is 
 its own interpreter. ^ 
 
 Thus "Love . . . designates, and leads 
 the way, ""^ to the ark of the new "covenant," 
 the "church of the first-bom, written in 
 heaven,"^ whose "bow of promise" indi- 
 
 ' Science and Health, p. 40. s Hebrews 12: 23. 
 
 *I John 4: 16. 
 
 3 Science and Health, p. 577. 
 
 ^Ibid., p. 454. 
 
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 cates that idea is "as immortal as its 
 Principle.'" 
 
 Just here it is interesting to note, that the 
 editorial on "Our Fathers' Flag," which 
 inspired this article, touches upon certain 
 astronomical facts which are of deep and 
 significant interest. When the signers of 
 the Declaration of Independence sat in 
 Independence Hall, they looked out upon 
 an astronomical observatory, a small plat- 
 form of wood. They were constantly 
 protesting against old world astronomi- 
 cal literature, as all new discoveries were 
 named in honor of kings and autocratic 
 dignitaries. 
 
 David Rittenhouse, of Dutch origin (the 
 first American astronomer) was a patriot, — 
 a man versed in science, and proclaimed by 
 Jefferson as the first in genius. Rittenhouse 
 made all his astronomical discoveries from 
 the little wooden platform. The Declara- 
 
 ' Science and Health, p. 581. 
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 tion of Independence was read from this 
 wooden observatory in Independence Square, 
 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and also all 
 the thirteen colony flags on June 15, 
 1777, with the new Stars and Stripes above 
 all of them, were raised from the same 
 platform. 
 
 In the dedicatory address, which was 
 delivered by Mrs, Augusta E. Stetson at 
 the dedication of First Church of Christ, 
 Scientist, New York City, on November 
 29, 1903, are found these pregnant words in 
 connection with the footsteps which un- 
 folded this church: 
 
 As we look back to the little hall, where I 
 preached my first sermon in New York City to an 
 audience of about twenty, and recall the pine table 
 upon which was an improvised desk made of a dry- 
 goods box, and covered with red cambric, we grate- 
 fully acknowledge the guidance of divine Love, 
 which supplied us with strength and courage in 
 hours of trial, necessity, persecution, fear, and dis- 
 couragement; which led us outward, onward, up- 
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 ward — ever shielding us, and furnishing us " a table 
 in the wilderness"; causing waste places to bud 
 and blossom as the rose, until we have been 
 brought into this "house exceeding magnifical," 
 into this sanctuary which God's hands have 
 established. 
 
 These words appear on page 144 of 
 Reminiscences, Sermons, and Correspondence^ 
 by Augusta E. Stetson, C. S. D. 
 
 The true Declaration of Indep^idence, 
 or spiritual emancipation, was "signed and 
 sealed," its clarion call was sounded, — its ef- 
 fulgent light was revealed in New York City, 
 from this little dry -goods box — the spiritual 
 astronomical observatory, and the spiritual 
 understanding, or standard of demonstrable 
 Christian Science, then and there raised, has 
 never been lowered. The editorial heretofore 
 mentioned states, that notwithstanding the 
 European insistence upon the heraldically 
 incorrect conception of our flag, 
 
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 . . . nevertheless the banner of the stars and 
 stripes is a correct conception, according to history, 
 and a true prophecy of that which is to come. It 
 was made in conformity with exact science, real 
 events, and deliberate conviction and choice. It is 
 life, not theory. Its stripes record the past, its stars 
 point to the future. 
 
 The spiritual conception and divine unf old- 
 ment of First Church of Christ, Scientist, 
 New York City, represents the operation 
 of the law of Love, and the demonstration 
 of ' ' exact science, " — true Christian Science, 
 as discovered and founded by Mary Baker 
 Eddy, and taught and demonstrated by 
 Augusta E. Stetson, C. S. D. 
 
 On January i6, 1909, Mrs. Eddy wrote 
 the following letter : 
 
 When my dear brethren in New York desire to 
 build higher, — to enlarge their phylacteries, and 
 demonstrate Christian Science to a higher extent, — 
 they must begin on a wholly spiritual foundation, 
 than which there is no other. . . . 
 
 Spirit is infinite, therefore Spirit is all. ' ' There is 
 
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 no matter" is not only the axiom of true Christian 
 Science, but it is the only basis upon which this 
 Science can be demonstrated. ^ 
 
 The instant obedience and compliance 
 with this request, to begin to build "on a 
 wholly spiritual foundation," to strive more 
 earnestly to attain a higher understanding, 
 which will reveal the Church Triumphant, 
 where "Spirit is infinite, therefore Spirit is 
 all,'' — re-sealed and made eternally invul- 
 nerable the "covenant" made with Abra- 
 ham.' It has become an "oath imto Isaac," 
 and to-day the "covenant" is confirmed 
 "unto Jacob* for a law, and to Israel* for an 
 e verl as ting covenant . " ^ 
 
 It is significant that our Seal is without 
 supporters. According to its designer, ' ' God 
 is our support." 
 
 ' Miscellany, p. 357. 
 
 » See definitions of Abraham, Children of Israel and Jacob, 
 p. 21. 
 
 »I Chronicles 16: 17. 
 
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 The Science of being gives back the lost likeness 
 and power of God as the seal of man's adoption.^ 
 
 This Truth is the rock which the builders re- 
 jected; but "the same has become the head of the 
 comer." This is the chief comer-stone, the basis 
 and support of creation, the interpreter of one God, 
 and infinity and unity of good. ^ 
 
 The stamp and Seal of our coinage is "In 
 God We Trust." Mrs. Eddy's last words 
 spoken at Pleasant View to her Church 
 members assembled there, were: 
 
 I would present a gift to you to-day, only that 
 this gift is already yours. God hath given it to all 
 mankind. It is His coin, His currency; it has His 
 image and superscription. This gift is a passage of 
 Scripture; it is my sacred motto, and it reads thus: 
 "Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou 
 dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed." 
 . . . Trust in Truth, and have no other trusts. ^ 
 
 She concludes by quoting the prophecy of 
 Isaiah : 
 
 ' Miscellaneous Writings, p. 184. 
 
 " No and Yes, p. 38. » Miscellany, p. 170. 
 
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 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and 
 come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon 
 their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and 
 sorrow and sighing shall flee away. ^ 
 
 And from No and Yes,'' let us continue 
 to quote Mrs. Eddy: 
 
 The question now at issue is; Shall we have a 
 practical, spiritual Christianity, with its healing 
 power, or shall we have material medicine and super- 
 ficial religion? The advancing hope of the race, 
 craving health and holiness, halts for a reply; and 
 the reappearing Christ, whose life-giving under- 
 standing Christian Science imparts, must answer 
 the constant inquiry: "Art thou he that should 
 come ? " Woman should not be ordered to the rear, 
 or laid on the rack, for joining the overture of angels. 
 Theologians descant pleasantly upon free moral 
 agency; but they should begin by admitting in- 
 dividual rights. 
 
 The author's ancestors were among the first 
 settlers of New Hampshire. They reared there the 
 Puritan standard of undefiled religion. As dutiful 
 descendants of Puritans, let us lift their standard 
 higher, rejoicing, as Paul did, that we are free born. 
 
 ' Isaiah 35 : lo. ' Page 46, 
 
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 Mary Baker Eddy's platform — or stand- 
 ard — 
 
 Spirit is infinite; therefore Spirit is all. "There 
 is no matter,"^ 
 
 has been accepted and will be demonstrated, 
 by all who follow and obey the teachings of 
 Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy. As 
 she comes forth, representing the compound, 
 ideal man of God's creating, those who have 
 risen with her, through spiritualization of 
 thought and demonstration of Truth and 
 Love, will stand on the Horeb height of 
 divine, omnipotent Love, singing the song 
 of the redeemed, and the ' ' paeans of praise "^ 
 which Mary Baker Eddy has foretold. 
 
 Washington, at Valley Forge, had a vivid 
 illumination which remained long with him, 
 of woman's prophetic vision and great 
 
 ' Miscellany, p. 357. 
 
 ^Reminiscences, Sermons, and Correspondence, facing page 
 34- 
 
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 mission. As Mary Baker Eddy's inspired 
 thought was leavening universal conscious- 
 ness, it found expression, at that stage of 
 spiritual unfoldment, in the campaign song 
 of 1864, "We're Coming, Father Abraham, 
 Three Hundred Thousand Strong." The 
 Revelator saw the "woman clothed with the 
 sun"; heard a 
 
 . . . new song . . . the voice of many angeis round 
 about the throne . . . and the number of them was 
 ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands 
 of thousands; saying with a loud voice, "Worthy 
 is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and 
 riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and 
 glory, and blessing."' 
 
 Mary Baker Eddy sings the final and 
 crowning song of victory and rejoicing, in 
 Science and Health: 
 
 For victory over a single sin, we give thanks, and 
 magnify the Lord of Hosts. What shall we say of 
 
 •Revelation 5: 12. 
 
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 the mighty conquest over all sin? A louder 
 song, sweeter than has ever before reached high 
 heaven, now rises clearer and nearer to the 
 great heart of Christ; for the accuser is not there, 
 and Love sends forth her primal and everlasting 
 strain. ^ 
 
 At this one hundred and forty-fourth 
 anniversary of American independence, all 
 signers of the spiritual Declaration of In- 
 dependence — "an hundred forty and four 
 thousand, having his [their] Father's name 
 written in their foreheads,'"" — will stand 
 on Mount Zion with Christ at his second 
 appearing, and will be heard singing the 
 "new song before the throne." Its har- 
 monies are voiced by the people of God, 
 in song and sermon, throughout the uni- 
 verse. 
 
 The "fixed star" in the spiritual astro- 
 nomical heavens is bringing the "wise men" 
 
 ' Science and Health, p. 568. 
 » Revelation 14: i. 
 
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 to the "city which hath foundations, 
 Mount Zion, 
 
 having the glory of God: and her light was like 
 unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper 
 stone, clear as crystal; And had a wall great and 
 high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve 
 angels, and names written thereon, which are 
 the names of the twelve tribes of the children of 
 Israel. ^ 
 
 The completeness of this symbolic vision 
 is clearly seen. 
 
 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And 
 let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that 
 is athirst come. ^ 
 
 I am the root and offspring of David, and the 
 bright and morning star. ^ 
 
 O blessings infinite ! 
 
 O glad New Year! 
 Sweet sign and substance 
 
 Of God's presence here. 
 
 ' Revelation 21 : 12. 
 
 ^Ibid., 22: 17. ilhid., 22: 16. 
 
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 Give us not only angels' songs, 
 
 But Science vast, to which belongs 
 
 The tongue of angels 
 And the song of songs. ^ 
 
 Mary Baker Eddy. 
 
 The last appearing of Truth will be a wholly 
 spiritual idea of God and man, without the fetters 
 of the flesh, or corporeality. This infinite idea of 
 infinity will be, is, as eternal as its divine Principle. 
 The day star of this appearing is the light of Chris- 
 tian Science — the Science which rends the veil of 
 the flesh from top to bottom. The light of this 
 revelation leaves nothing that is material; neither 
 darkness, doubt, disease nor death. The material 
 corporeality disappears; and individual spirituality, 
 perfect and eternal, appears, — never to disappear.^ 
 
 To-day the watchful shepherd shouts his ^'t^I-^ j^je 
 over the new cradle of an old truth. This truth has 
 traversed night, through gloom to glory, from cradle 
 to crown. To the awakened consciousness, the 
 Bethlehem babe has left his swaddling-clothes 
 (material environments) for the form and comeli- 
 ness of the divine ideal, which has passed from a 
 corporeal to the spiritual sense of Christ, and is 
 winning the heart of humanity with ineffable 
 
 ' Miscellany, p. 354. 
 
 » Miscellaneous Writitigs, p. 165. 
 
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 tenderness. The Christ is speaking for himself and 
 for his mother, Christ's heavenly origin and aim. 
 To-day the Christ is, more than ever before, "the 
 way, the truth and the life, " — "which lighteth every 
 man that cometh into the world," healing all sorrow, 
 sickness and sin. ... At this immortal hour, all 
 human hate, pride, greed, lust, should bow, and 
 declare Christ's power, and the reign of Truth and 
 Life divine should make man's being pure and 
 blest.' 
 
 Mrs. Eddy was asked, who would be her 
 successor? Her reply was, 
 
 What remains to lead on the centuries and reveal 
 my successor, is man in the image and likeness of 
 the Father-Mother God.' 
 
 This "man" has already been revealed in 
 Christian Science. The Christian Scientists, 
 who have attained the spiritual understand- 
 ing and vision, which the teachings of Christ 
 Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy, if obeyed and 
 demonstrated, impart, know that the Christ, 
 
 ' Miscellany, p. 257. ' Ibid., p. 347. 
 
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 at his second appearing, in the image and 
 likeness of God, will succeed the human 
 Mary, just as the Christ, at his first appear- 
 ing, succeeded the human Jesus. 
 
 Christ at his first appearing was not long 
 visible to his disciples, whose spiritual vision 
 was not equal to retaining their great 
 Teacher. Christ, the real "man, " declared, 
 
 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it 
 were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare 
 a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for 
 you, I will come again, and receive you unto my- 
 self; that where I am, there ye may be also.^ 
 
 A Christian Scientist, who is building on a 
 "wholly spiritual foundation" (Mary Baker 
 Eddy), will gain the spiritual vision, which 
 will reveal the risen Christ, at his second 
 triumph over the false material sense of 
 "man," the first demonstration having 
 been made over the Adam belief -man. The 
 
 'John 14:2, 3. 
 
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 second appearing of Christ will destroy the 
 belief of life and intelligence in so-called 
 material woman, and the real "man," the 
 compoimd idea, reflecting the Fatherhood 
 and Motherhood of God, will appear, — the 
 perfect image of a perfect Principle, Mind, 
 Spirit, God. 
 
 Thus Christ's great and final victory will 
 be made over the ' ' dragon ' ' — the belief of a 
 material man and a material woman, who 
 claim to be creators, the result of which 
 false claim is a mortal man and a material 
 universe, expressed in sin, sickness, and 
 death. This dream-man and dream-uni- 
 verse, evil calls God's creation. 
 
 The real "man" — the Christ, reflects the 
 creative Principle of Being, Life, and Love. 
 
 The Truth-man is the "man" of God's 
 creating. This "man" is revealed to the 
 spiritual sense of the Christian Scientists, 
 and "unto them that look for him [through 
 spiritual sense] shall he appear the second 
 
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 time without sin,'" without a material, 
 fleshly embodiment, but with a spiritual 
 "image " in the likeness of God, perfect and 
 immortal, God's glorified substance man. 
 
 This "man, " who is to succeed Mrs. Eddy, 
 Christian Science reveals to the Christian 
 Scientists, who are building on a "wholly 
 spiritual foundation" in response to Mrs. 
 Eddy's letter to her "dear brethren in New 
 York."^ 
 
 Spiritual sense reveals this "man" and 
 interprets Mrs. Eddy's teaching of the 
 " Christ-spirit which governed the corporeal 
 Jesus, "^ the masculine representative of the 
 Fatherhood of God. 
 
 It was the Christ-spirit which governed 
 Mary Baker Eddy, the feminine representa- 
 tive of God's Motherhood. 
 
 When the human material sense called 
 Jesus, and the human material sense called 
 
 ' Hebrews 9: 28. ' Miscellany, p. 357. 
 
 3 Science and Health, p. 141. 
 
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 Mary Baker Eddy, is dissolved by God's 
 "man," Christ, the ideal man of God's 
 creating, then Mrs. Eddy's words, which 
 are as follows, will be understood by the 
 spiritual builders in Christian Science, who 
 are rising with Christ, and who will recog- 
 nize and reign with him. Of this man, Mrs. 
 Eddy says: 
 
 For this Principle there is no dynasty, no ecclesi- 
 astical monopoly. Its only crowned head is immor- 
 tal sovereignty. Its only priest is the spiritualized 
 man. ^ 
 
 The material senses can not grasp this 
 spiritual fact of Scientific Being. To spirit- 
 ual sense, the coming of Christ is imminent. 
 
 Paul, through having suffered out of the 
 material senses, having carried the cross and 
 drunk the cup of the Master Metaphysician, 
 understood that he would behold the ' ' man, ' ' 
 Christ, at his second and final appearing, 
 
 ' Science and Health, p. 141. 
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 and he left this legacy of hope, to all who 
 siiffer with Christ, that they may reign with 
 him. 
 
 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear [be 
 manifest] then shall ye also appear [be manifest] 
 with him in glory. ^ 
 
 Spiritual vision illumined Mrs. Eddy 
 when she, the scribe of Spirit, chronicled 
 her vision in the following words . 
 
 The chaos of mortal mind is made the stepping- 
 stone to the cosmos of immortal Mind. ^ 
 
 The ' ' chaos of mortal mind ' ' indeed seems 
 to have reached its limit of ' ' confusion worse 
 confounded, " and portends the self-destruc- 
 tion of evil — viz., material sense, material 
 organization, material government, and 
 finally material generation. Verily, the 
 belief and claim of a power opposed to Life, 
 Truth, and Love, is fast reaching its acme of 
 self-annihilation. 
 
 • Colossians 3:4. ^ Unity of Good, p. 56. 
 
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 The "man, " Christ, who was the "succes- 
 sor" of the human Jesus, will be the "suc- 
 cessor" of the human Mary. Thus will God 
 establish or reveal His dominion, through 
 His son, or the Christ-man, the divine man 
 of His creating, the compound idea who 
 reflects the Fatherhood and Motherhood, 
 the Life and Love, the Principle of all real, 
 eternal being, the one God. Christ is the 
 head of the body. 
 
 So-called material history, material law, 
 and material government, is fast drawing to 
 a close. Man is God's image and likeness. 
 Christ, the executor of God's law, is fulfill- 
 ing the Scripture. 
 
 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trum- 
 pet among the nations, prepare the nations against 
 her, . . . And the land shall tremble and sorrow: 
 for every purpose of the Lord shall be performed 
 against Babylon.^ 
 
 . . . the government shall be upon his shoulder : 
 and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, 
 
 'Jeremiah 51:27, 29. 
 
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 The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The 
 Prince of Peace. 
 
 Of the increase of his government and peace 
 there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, 
 and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish 
 it with judgment, and with justice from henceforth 
 even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will 
 perform this. ^ 
 
 Let me conclude with the words of the 
 Pilgrim Fathers, as they put in writing their 
 pledge to one another, before they left the 
 Mayflower and stepped upon the shores of 
 the land where they were to establish the 
 worship of one God, obedience to whose law 
 of Truth and Love would result in "life, 
 liberty, and pursuit of happiness." These 
 are their immortal words: " In the name of 
 God, Amen." 
 
 Brave Britain, blest America! 
 
 Unite your battle-plan; 
 Victorious, all who live it, — 
 
 The love for God and man. * 
 
 — Mary Baker Eddy. 
 
 ' Isaiah 9: 6, 7. ' Miscellany, p. 338. 
 
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 America, America, the God of love 
 Whose name is ev'ry name above, 
 
 Is thy defence. 
 'Tis thou must lead the longing worid 
 From phantom fears to Love's unfurl'd 
 
 Omnipotence. ^ 
 ^Our America. 
 
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