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MARY BAKER EDDY, 
 
 SON BUT ET SON OEUVRE 
 
 (Mary Baker Eddy, Her Purpose 
 and Accomplishment) 
 
 PAR 
 
 FREDERICK DIXON 
 
 Copyright, 1915 
 
 TKAITIT DE L'ANGLAIS ET PUBLIE PAR 
 
 THi: CHRISTIAN S< ii;\. K PUBLISHING SOCIETY 
 
 A BOSTON, KTATS-UNIS 
 

 MARY BAKER EDDY 
 
 HER PURPOSE AND ACCOMPLISHMENT 
 
 IT is impossible to contemplate the works of 
 Mrs. Eddy without being almost startled 
 by the vastness of the achievement. Forty-four 
 years ago no one had heard of Christian Science. 
 Today it is a vast organization, literally enfold- 
 ing the world. Then there was one still small 
 voice proclaming the gospel which was new, yet 
 old. Now the vast chorus of voices is proclaim- 
 ing that gospel from the snows of Alaska to the 
 Australian scrub, and from the pagodas of 
 China to the South African veldt. 
 
 Wendell Phillips once declared that "one on 
 God's side is a majority." Mrs. Eddy has 
 quoted this saying, and proved the truth of it. 
 Humanly speaking, she has had everything 
 against her. The world, when it has any per- 
 sonal end to gain, can be revolutionary in its 
 methods, but in ordinary circumstances it is 
 conservative in its prejudices. 
 
 Its leaders, especially its religious leaders, 
 had always been men, jitul it rebelled at the idea 
 
[Tir6 du "Cosmopolitan Magazine"] 
 
 MARY BAKER EDDY 
 SON BUT ET SON (EUVRE 
 
 ON ne peut contempler les ceuvres de Mrs. 
 Eddy sans etre saisi d'etonnement par les 
 ininienses resultats obtenus. II y a quarante- 
 cinq ans personne n'avait entendu parler de 
 la Christian Science; aujourd'hui c'est une vaste 
 organisation qui enveloppe litteralement le 
 monde. Alors, une seule voix douce et calme 
 proclamait le renouvellement de l'ancien evan- 
 gile; aujourd'hui, un puissant choeur de voix 
 le proclame depuis les neiges de 1' Alaska jus- 
 qu'aux broussailles de l'Australie, et des pa- 
 godes de la Chine au Veld de l'Afrique australe. 
 
 L'ecrivain Wendell Phillips a dit: "Etre seul 
 avec Dieu c'est une majorite." Ces paroles ont 
 6te citees par Mrs. Eddy, et elle en a prouve 
 la verite. En effet, humainement parlant, Mrs. 
 Eddy a eu tout contre elle. Les hommes, lors- 
 qu'ils ont un but personnel a atteindre, savent 
 Kre revolutionnaires dans leurs methodes, mais 
 en temps ordinaire ils sont conservateurs dans 
 leurs prejuges. 
 
 Jusqu'a present les chefs reconnus par eux, 
 surtout les chefs religieux, avaient toujours £t£ 
 
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3 MARY BAKEH EDDY 
 
 of "a Daniel come to judgment," when that 
 Daniel was a woman. For untold centuries its 
 wise men had thought along scientific lines, which 
 had certainly been modified from time to. time, 
 but always on a material basis, and it grew 
 almost passionate against the woman who came 
 questioning its very premises and wrecking its 
 first principles. It must be admitted that Chris- 
 tian Science was heterodox, according to the 
 popular way of looking at matters ; and yet, in 
 bringing a professedly Christian people back to 
 the theology and healing of primitive Christian- 
 ity, it was the only orthodoxy. 
 
 It was in Massachusetts, in February, 1866, 
 Mrs. Eddy has told us, in the little autobio- 
 graphy known as "Retrospection and Intro- 
 spection," that she discovered the science of 
 divine metaphysical healing which she afterward 
 named Christian Science. 
 
 To the world, Christianity and science had 
 become antithetical terms. That they are so 
 no longer is one of the results of Mrs. Eddy's 
 work. Yet there was never anything antece- 
 dently improper from an orthodox point of 
 view in the combination of the two terms. There 
 is a phrase used in the epistles which is trans- 
 
SON BUT ET SON CEUVRE 3 
 
 des hommes ; aussi, y eut-il revolte a la vue d'un 
 "Daniel venu pour juger," ce Daniel etant une 
 femme. De plus, comme depuis tant de siecles 
 les savants de ce monde s'etaient attaches a 
 certaines theories scientifiques, modifiees de 
 temps en temps il est vrai, mais toujours sur 
 une base materielle, leur courroux eclata contre 
 la femme qui mettait en doute les premisses 
 memes de leur science et reduisait a neant ses 
 principes fondamentaux. Du reste, si l'on se 
 place au point de vue habituel, il faut admettre 
 que la Christian Science est heterodoxe. Et 
 pourtant, ramener un peuple reconnu chretien 
 a la theologie primitive et aux guerisons operees 
 par le christianisme primitif, n'est-ce pas la 
 l'unique orthodoxie? 
 
 Ce fut aux £tats-Unis, dans le Massachu- 
 setts, au mois de fevrier 186G, nous dit Mrs. 
 Eddy dans la petite autobiographic connue sous 
 le titre "Retrospection and Introspection," 
 qu'elle decouvrit la science de la guerison m£ta- 
 physique divine, nommee ensuite par elle Chris- 
 tian Science. 
 
 Pour le monde, christianisme et science etaient 
 devenus des termes opposes, et si cette opposi- 
 tion n'existe plus, c'est grace a l'ceuvre de Mrs. 
 Eddy. II n'y avait cependant rien d'impropre, 
 a l'origine, dans la combinaison de ces deux 
 termes, au point de vue orthodoxe. Dans les 
 epttrei l« St. Paul et de St. Pierre se trouv< 
 
4 MARY BAKER EDDY 
 
 lated "knowledge of God," but which should, of 
 course, be translated full or exact, and so should 
 be "scientific knowledge of God;" that is, of 
 truth. The expression is used by Peter and 
 Paul, and in a way corresponds to the use of 
 the term "the truth" as opposed to that of mere 
 "truth," in the fourth Gospel, to distinguish 
 the absolute from the relative. The significance 
 of this was not lost on the medieval schoolmen, 
 who, with all their faults, at least strove to in- 
 troduce some measure of science into their study 
 of the Bible. The greatest of all these was 
 Thomas Aquinas, the man who has been de- 
 scribed by Huxley as possibly the most subtle 
 of the world's thinkers. In the "Summa," Aqui- 
 nas defines theology, which in its pure meaning 
 is simply the word of God, as the only absolute 
 science known, and dismisses every phase of 
 natural science as purely relative. A little later 
 Wyclif, the last of the great Oxford schoolmen, 
 as he was the first Protestant, translating the 
 well-known passage in Luke which in the King 
 James version runs, "to give knowledge of salva- 
 tion unto his people by the remission of their 
 sins," rendered it "to give science and health to 
 his people unto the remission of their sins." 
 Six centuries passed by — centuries of turmoil 
 
SON BUT ET SON CEUVRE 4 
 
 Fexpression "connaissance de Dieu" qui aurait 
 certainement du etre traduite par "connaissance 
 pleine ou exacte," "connaissance scientifique de 
 Dieu" c'est-a-dire de la verite. De "la verite" 
 dans son sense absolu ainsi que ce terme est 
 employe au quatrieme evangile en opposition au 
 simple terme "verite" pour distinguer l'absolu 
 du relatif. L'importance de cette signification 
 n'echappa point aux theologiens du Moyen Age, 
 qui, malgre les abus de raisonnement auxquels 
 ils se laisserent entrainer, s'efforcerent au moins 
 d'introduire un peu de science dans leur etude 
 de la Bible. Thomas d'Aquin, le plus grand 
 d'entre eux, et au dire du naturaliste Huxley le 
 plus subtil des penseurs peut-etre, definit dans 
 sa "Somme" la theologie (qui dans son sens pri- 
 mitif signifiait la parole de Dieu) comme la 
 seule science absolue que Ton connaisse, et ecarte 
 la science naturelle dans toutes ses branches 
 comme purement relative. Un peu plus tard 
 W vclif, le dernier des grands scolastiques d'Ox- 
 ford et le premier des reformateurs, traduisant 
 le passage de St. Luc, qui dans la version du roi 
 Jacques Ier d'Angleterre est concu en ces 
 termes: "afin de donner a son peuple la con- 
 naissance du salut par la remission de ses 
 jx'ches," l'exprima comme suit: "afin de donner 
 a son peuple la science et la sante* dans la remis- 
 sion de ses peches." 
 
 Six riedei se passerent — des siecles <!<• <\r-* 
 
5 MARY BAKER EDDY 
 
 from one end of Christendom to the other. The 
 old bands of orthodoxy, loosened by the coming 
 of Lollardy, gave way at the Reformation. The 
 revival of learning brought with it not merely 
 the recovery of the Greek tongue, and the insti- 
 tution of what may be termed textual criticism, 
 it brought with it a wealth of daring speculation 
 which developed, in time, into historic criticism. 
 
 The old superstitious regard for sacred things 
 began to be appraised by the standard of ra- 
 tionalism, and then came a century, after the 
 carnival of the "goddess of Reason," when the 
 efforts of scientific research seemed to be largely 
 directed to the attempted destruction of revela- 
 tion. It was at this moment, when the high 
 priests of natural science were building their 
 altars to their unknown gods, that Mrs. Eddy's 
 book "Science and Health with Key to the 
 Scriptures" was given to the world. 
 
 "During twenty years prior to my discov- 
 ery," she writes, on page 24 of "Retrospection 
 and Introspection," "I had been trying to trace 
 all physical effects to a mental cause; in the 
 latter part of 1866 I gained the scientific cer- 
 tainty that all causation was Mind, and every 
 effect a mental phenomenon. My immediate 
 recovery from the effects of an injury caused 
 by an accident, an injury that neither medicine 
 
SOX BUT ET SON CEUVRE 5 
 
 ordre pour toute la chretiente. Les anciennes 
 forces de l'orthodoxie, ebranlees par l'appari- 
 tion des Lollards, se desagregerent a la Reforme. 
 La Renaissance fit non seulement revivre l'etude 
 de la langue grecque et institua ce qui peut etre 
 nomine la critique des textes, elle produisit aussi 
 une riche eclosion d'audacieuses speculations 
 philosophiques qui, en se developpant, devinrent 
 la critique historique. 
 
 L'ancienne veneration superstitieuse pour les 
 choses sacrees commen9a a etre estimee d'apres 
 les donnees de la raison, et puis vint une epoque, 
 apres les fetes carnavalesques de la "deesse 
 Raison," pendant laquelle les recherches scien- 
 tifiques semblerent avoir surtout pour but de 
 tenter de detruire la revelation. C'est alors, 
 au moment oil les grandes pretres de la science 
 naturelle elevaient des autels a leurs dieux in- 
 connus, que Mrs. Eddy donna au monde son 
 thric "Science and Health with Key to the 
 Scriptures." 
 
 Void ce qu'elle dit a la page 24 de "Retro- 
 spection and Introspection" : "Pendant les vingt 
 annees qui ont precede ma decouverte, j'avais 
 essaye* de rapporter tous les effets physiques a 
 une cause mentale. Vers la fin de l'annee 1866 
 j'obtins la certitude scientifique que toute cau- 
 sality £tait en Dieu et tout effet un ph£nomene 
 mental. Ma gu^rison instantan^e des effets 
 (I'uiic lesion causee par un accident, lesion que 
 
I MARY BAKER EDDY 
 
 nor surgery could reach, was the falling apple 
 that led me to the discovery how to be well 
 myself, and how to make others so." 
 
 The year 1866 was the eighth centenary of 
 the Norman Conquest, but in it there occurred 
 an event of infinitely greater importance to 
 humanity than the landing of William of Xor- 
 mandy at Pevensey. That event was, as has 
 been said, the launching of the Christion Science 
 movement which was to restore the healing of 
 primitive Christianity to Christendom. In that 
 year Mrs. Eddy stood alone in the world with 
 her discovery. She was devoid of all the means 
 which are regarded as essential to the under- 
 taking of a successful crusade, but she had 
 found an understanding of divine Science which 
 no one could take from her, and she realized the 
 full import of her own words on page 99 of 
 "Miscellaneous Writings": "In no one thing 
 seemed Jesus of Nazareth more divine than in 
 his faith in the immortality of his words. He 
 said, 'Heaven and earth shall pass away, but 
 my words shall not pass away'; and they have 
 not." Christendom had read these words for 
 well-nigh twenty centuries, and had referred 
 them to some future life, some kingdom beyond 
 the clouds. Mrs. Eddy remembered that not 
 
SON BUT ET SON CBUVRE 6 
 
 ni la medecine ni la chirurgie ne pouvaient at- 
 teindre, fut pour moi comnie la pomme pour 
 Newton et m'amena a decouvrir comment mani- 
 fester la sante en moi-meme, et comment la 
 donner aux autres." 
 
 En cette annee 1866, huitieme centenaire de 
 la conquete de l'Angleterre par les Normands. 
 il se passa un evenement d'une importance infini- 
 ment plus grande pour Phumanite que le debar- 
 quement de Guillaume le Conquerant a Peven- 
 sey. Cet evenement fut le lancement du mouve- 
 ment de la Christian Science qui devait rendre 
 a la chretiente les guerisons operees par le 
 christianisme primitif. Cette annee la Mrs. 
 Eddy se trouvait seule au monde avec sa decou- 
 verte. Tous les moyens considered comme essen- 
 tiels pour entreprendre une croisade avec succes 
 lui manquaient, mais elle etait arrivee a la com- 
 prehension de la science divine, comprehension 
 que personne ne pouvait lui enlever, et elle con- 
 nut pleinement toute la portee de ce qu'elle 
 6crivit dans "Miscellaneous Writings," page 99 : 
 "En aucune chose Jesus de Nazareth ne sembla 
 plus divin que dans sa foi en l'immortalite de ses 
 paroles. 'Le ciel et la terre passeront* a-t-il 
 dit, 'mais mes paroles ne passeront point' — 
 et elles n'ont pas passe." Ces paroles, la chre- 
 tiente les lisait depuis pres de vingt siecles, les 
 rapportant a quelque roy&ume audi la del nua- 
 ges. Mrs. Eddy se souvint que non sculeim nt 
 
7 MARY BAKER EDDY 
 
 only had Jesus come that men might have lift- 
 abundantly, but that he had declared that the 
 kingdom of heaven was in their midst or within 
 them. She gave herself to the world to show 
 that now meant now, and not tomorrow, and 
 that practical Christianity meant a present sal- 
 vation from the ills which men are heirs to. 
 
 People frequently talk of Christian Science 
 as if it were nothing more than a mammoth 
 dispensary; as a matter of fact, that is an 
 almost ludicrous misconception of what its heal- 
 ing means. It means — the eradication from 
 the human consciousness of all those mental 
 causes which produce sin, disease, and death. 
 It means that in order to be healthier every 
 patient must become a better man. It aims not 
 merely at the destruction of sickness and pain, 
 but of sorrow and want, of misery and vice. 
 It is true that it lays stress on physical healing, 
 but it does this because it is the teaching of 
 Christ Jesus. If the records of the physical 
 healing were deleted from the Bible, an enor- 
 mous portion of the Gospels would be shorn 
 away. Jesus used his power to heal, not only 
 to lift the burdens of suffering humanity, but 
 
SOX BUT ET SON OZUVRE 7 
 
 Jesus etait vcnu pour que les hommes eussent 
 la vie plus abondamment, mais qu'il avait declare 
 aussi que le regne de Dieu est au milieu d'eux 
 ou au dedans d'eux. Elle se devoua au monde 
 pour prouver que maintenant signifie bien, 
 aujourd'hui et non demain, et que le christian- 
 bme applique libere l'homme, actuellement, des 
 niaux auxquels il est sujet. 
 
 On parle souvent de la Christian Science 
 comine si elle n'etait rien de plus qu'un gigan- 
 tesque dispensaire. En realite, c'est la une con- 
 ception erronee et presque grotesque de ce 
 qu'est la guerison due a la Christian Science. 
 Elk consiste a extirper de la conscience humaine 
 toutes les causes mentales qui produisent le 
 pec he, la maladie et la mort, et elle exige de 
 chaque malade qu'il devienne un homme meil- 
 leur pour devenir un homme bien portant. Cette 
 guerison n'a pas seulement pour but la destruc- 
 tion de la maladie et de la douleur, mais de 
 l'affliction, de I'indigence, de la misere et du 
 vice. II est vrai que la Christian Science 
 attache beaucoup d'importance a la guerison 
 physique, mais elle le fait parce que tel est 
 1 enseignement de Jesus-Christ. Si les remits 
 de guerisons 6taient supprimes de la Bible, les 
 i^iles seraient de beaucoup raccourcis. Je- 
 sus se servit de son pouvoir de guerison non 
 m ulcment pour enlever le fardcau qui pesc iur 
 rhumaniU souffranto. mail mssi pour donner 
 
8 MARY BAKBB EDDY 
 
 also as an object-lesson to prove the science of 
 his teaching. When the disciples of John came 
 to demand whether he was the Christ, it was his 
 works and not his words to which he pointed, 
 and when he sent out his own disciples to give 
 the gospel of good news to the people, he bade 
 them not alone to preach the gospel, but to heal 
 the sick. In this way he, and no other than he, 
 made the ability to, in some measure, perform 
 his works the test of genuineness of his pro- 
 fessed followers' claims to the title of Christian, 
 and it is a startling commentary on almost two 
 thousand years of religious education that the 
 one church which has accepted his test "in 
 spirit and in truth" should be the one assailed 
 by orthodoxy for its heretical teachings. 
 
 The day when the cry of "Heretic !" was 
 potent to stir up the passionate superstitions 
 of unthinking crowds has passed away. The 
 world is recognizing that the heresy of yester- 
 day is always the orthodoxy of tomorrow. 
 The same spirit accused Jesus of blasphemy, 
 dismissed Paul as a pestilent fellow, decried 
 Wy cliff as a forger of lies, and claimed Luther 
 was a drunken friar. The criticisms of Chris- 
 
90N BUT RT SON (EUVRE 8 
 
 une lecon de choses qui prouve la science de son 
 enseignement. Quand les disciples de Jean- 
 Baptiste vinrent demander a Jesus s'il etait 
 vraiment le Christ, il ne leur donna pas comme 
 preuve ses paroles, mais ses ceuvres. Et lors- 
 qu'il envoja ses propres disciples annoncer la 
 bonne nouvelle au peuple, il ne leur enjoignit 
 pas seulement de precher l'evangile, mais de 
 guerir les malades. C'est ainsi que Jesus et 
 nul autre que lui, pour savoir si ceux qui pre- 
 tendaient etre ses disciples meritaient veritable- 
 ment le titre de chretiens, prit comme preuve 
 leur capacite a faire, au moins en partie, les 
 oeuvres que lui-meme faisait. N'est-il pas sur- 
 prenant d'observer qu'a notre epoque, apres 
 environ deux mille ans d'education religieuse, la 
 seule eglise ayant accepte cette preuve "en 
 esprit et en verite" soit celle que l'orthodoxie 
 accuse d'enseigner l'heresie. 
 
 Le temps n'est plus ou le cri : "a l'heretique" 
 avait le pouvoir d'exciter les passions supersti- 
 « s des foules inconscientes. Le monde re- 
 conn ait que l'heresie d'hier est tou jours l'ortho- 
 doxie de demain. Deja au commencement de 
 chr&ienne ce meme esprit etait a l'ceuvre, 
 accusant Jesus de blaspheme, expulsant Paul 
 con une un individu nuisible, qualifiant Wyclif 
 de forgeur de mensonges et Luther de moine 
 ivrogne. Tout aussi peu fondees que celles-la, 
 les critiques dirigees contre la Christian Sci- 
 
I MARY BAKER EDDY 
 
 tian Science, based on no more reasonableness 
 than this, are rapidly finding their way into 
 the repositories in which are preserved the cu- 
 riosities of theological vituperation, and the 
 world is beginning to see, in the life work of 
 Mrs. Eddy, the fulfilment of the wonderful 
 prophecy of Emerson, "When a faithful thinker, 
 resolute to detach every object from personal 
 relations, and see it in the light of thought, 
 shall at the same time kindle science with the 
 fire of the holiest affection, then will God go 
 forth anew into creation." 
 
 It has been truly said that if Christianity 
 is not scientific, or if science is not Christian, 
 one or the other is unnecessary. Mrs. Eddy 
 perceived this when she wrote, on page 313 
 of Science and Health, "Jesus of Nazareth was 
 the most scientific man that ever trod the 
 globe." From whatever point of view you ap- 
 proach his life you will be driven to admit 
 this, unless you are prepared to consign the 
 Gospels to the scrap-heap of mythology. He 
 wandered among the Syrian lakesides, over the 
 Galilean hills, and through the villages of 
 Judea, preaching the most absolute truth the 
 world had ever heard, the gospel of Christ, and 
 when the Pharisees and the Scribes, the fisher- 
 men and herdsmen recoiled alike at the truth 
 so fearlessly proclaimed to them, he fell back 
 
SON BUT ET SON CEUVRE 9 
 
 ence sont rapidement emportees et vont par- 
 tager le sort de tant d'autres curieux exemples 
 de virulentes censures theologiques. Le monde 
 commence a voir, dans la vie et Poeuvre de Mrs. 
 Eddy, Paccomplissement de cette merveilleuse 
 prophetie d'Emerson : "Quand un penseur fidele, 
 resolu a detacher chaque objet de toute relation 
 personnelle pour le voir a la lumiere de la pen- 
 see, pourra en meme temps communiquer a la 
 science elle-meme la flamme d'un saint amour, 
 alors Dieu paraitra de nouveau dans sa crea- 
 tion." 
 
 On dit avec raison que si le christianisme n'est 
 pas scientifique ou la science pas chretienne, 
 Pun des deux est inutile. C'est ce que Mrs. 
 Eddy comprit quand elle ecrivit: "Jesus de 
 Nazareth a ete Phomme le plus scientifique qui 
 ait jamais marche sur notre globe" (Science 
 and Health, p. 313). De quelque cote qu'on 
 considere la vie de J£sus on sera force d'ad- 
 mettre cette declaration, a, moins qu'on ne soit 
 dispose a releguer les evangiles au rang des 
 fables mythologiques. Jesus parcourut les 
 rivages du lac de Genesareth, par dela les col- 
 lines de Galilee, et traversa les villages de Judee 
 prechant la verite la plus absolue que le monde 
 ait jamais entendue: Pevangile du Christ. Et 
 quand les Pharisiens et les Scribes, les pecheurs 
 et les bergers eurent tous £galement recul6 avec 
 aversion devant la v^rit^ qui leur 6tait si cou- 
 
10 MARY BAKER EDDY 
 
 on the miracle, telling them that if they could 
 not believe for the word's sake, they must be- 
 lieve for the very work's sake, and so he made 
 these miracles the scientific and practical demon- 
 stration of the truth of his theory or theology. 
 To Jesus the miracle was nothing more or less 
 than the inevitable action of spiritual law, and 
 so, with marvelous spiritual perception, Mrs. 
 Eddy explains that the miracle is not a super- 
 natural occurrence, but a divinely natural one. 
 If any one questions this for a moment, it is 
 only necessary to turn to the test of the New 
 Testament. The words there translated "mira- 
 cle" have not and never had any supernatural 
 meaning until that meaning was grafted on to 
 them in the centuries immediately succeeding 
 Constantine. Even the Latin word miraculum, 
 which Jerome substituted for them, in his later 
 writings, was a simple scientific term in use 
 among the pagan philosophers. The simple 
 fact is that the primitive Church never ques- 
 tioned Jesus' command to heal the sick. It was 
 too near the days when he had said, "He that 
 believeth on me the works that I do shall he do 
 also," to make it possible, and the Epistle of 
 James makes this indisputably clear in that 
 terrific warning, "Faith without works is 
 dead." 
 
 In spite of this Christendom continued to 
 
SON BUT ET SON CEUVRE 10 
 
 rageu semen t annoncee', Jesus eut recours au 
 miracle, leur disant que s'ils ne pouvaient croire 
 en entendant ses paroles ils devaient croire a 
 cause de ses oeuvres. De cette facon, il fit de 
 ses miracles la demonstration pratique et scien- 
 tifique de la verite de sa theorie ou theologie. 
 Pour Jesus le miracle n'etait autre chose que 
 Pinevitable action de la loi spirituelle, et voila 
 pourquoi Mrs. Eddy, avec sa merveilleuse per- 
 ception spirituelle, a explique que le miracle 
 n'est pas un fait surnaturel, mais un fait divine- 
 ment naturel. Si quelqu'un mettait cela en 
 doute, il suffirait d'en appeler au Nouveau Tes- 
 tament. Les mots du texte primitif qui s'y 
 trouvent traduits par "miracle" n'ont jamais 
 eu cette signification surnaturelle. Elle leur fut 
 donnee dans les siecles qui suivirent Constantin. 
 Et meme le mot latin "miraculum" que Jerome 
 a employe dans ses derniers ecrits etait simple- 
 ment un terme scientifique en usage parmi les 
 philosophes paiens. En tout cas, ce qui est un 
 fait avere, c'est que l'eglise primitive ne mit 
 jamais en doute le commandement de J£sus de 
 guerir les malades. Le temps £tait trop proche 
 ou Jesus avait dit : "Celui qui croit en moi fera 
 les oeuvres que je fais" ; et Tepitre de Saint 
 Jacques le fait indiscutablement comprendre 
 dans cet avertissement terrible : "La foi sans les 
 oeuvres est morte." 
 
 Malgre" cela la chretiente continua a vouloir 
 
11 . MARY BAKER EDDY 
 
 attempt to part the seamless garment. It more 
 and more set apart a priesthood to preach the 
 gospel, while handing over the healing of the 
 sick to the medical profession, which might be 
 purely infidel. 
 
 It was called upon necessarily to defend its 
 deviation from the clear message of the gospel, 
 and it has done so in the extraordinary con- 
 tention that the growth of Christianity is to 
 be traced in the growth of hospitals. No state- 
 ment could possibly have been farther from the 
 truth. It is the temporary failure of the Chris- 
 tian church which the growth of hospitals has 
 stamped on the face of Christendom. The 
 hospital was originally a temple in which pagan 
 worship was at last combined with the minis- 
 trations to the sick. That those ministrations 
 took the form of the grossest superstition we 
 know, nor when men took to less occult and 
 more purely material remedies was the change 
 very much for the better. 
 
 The Christian era saw the hospitals in the 
 temples of Asklepios transferred to the monas- 
 teries, and then finally severed from religious 
 institutions, but it witnessed, if anything, a 
 
SON BUT ET SON CEUVRE 11 
 
 partager la tunique sans couture du Christ, et 
 s'appliqua de plus en plus a constituer un corps 
 sacerdotal distinct pour precher Pevangile, 
 tandis que la guerison des malades 6tait aban- 
 donnee a un corps medical qui pouvait etre 
 entierement compose d'incredules. 
 
 Naturellement la chretiente se trouva dans 
 Pobligation de justifier cette deviation au mes- 
 sage si clair de Pevangile, et, pour decider la 
 question, elle arriva a cette conclusion extra- 
 ordinaire, que les progres du christianisme pou- 
 vaient se mesurer a la multiplication des hopi- 
 taux. Aucune conclusion ne pouvait etre plus 
 eloignee de la verite, et c'est Pechec temporaire 
 de Peglise chretienne que la multiplication des 
 hopitaux a grave sur le fronton de Pedifice chre^ 
 tien. A Porigine, Phopital etait un temple dans 
 lequel se celebrait non seulement le culte pai'en, 
 mais ou a la longue les malades purent aussi 
 recevoir des soins. Nous savons que ces soins 
 prenaient la forme de la plus grossiere supersti- 
 tion, et que plus tard, lorsque les hommes eurent 
 recours a des remedes moins occultes et plus 
 foncierement mateViels, le changement ne fut 
 guere pour le mieux. 
 
 Quand vint Pere chretienne, les hopitaux qui 
 se trouvaient dans les temples d'Esculape furent 
 transfers dans les monasteres, puis finalement 
 s£par£s completement des institutions reli- 
 gieuses: mais la me<iecine n'en devint que de 
 
12 MARY BAKER EDDY 
 
 deepening of material views of medicine. Grad- 
 ually, however, there grew up an orthodox medi- 
 cal profession as there had grown up an orthodox 
 church. So that already in medieval times we 
 find a court physician treating a royal prince 
 for smallpox by draping him in red cloth, and 
 an unfortunate irregular practitioner being set 
 in the pillory for hanging a piece of cardboard 
 round a woman's neck. The appalling pre- 
 scriptions mentioned by Pliny had scarcely 
 been improved upon at the Renaissance, and the 
 prescriptions of the Renaissance were not more 
 objectionable than those of the beginning of the 
 last century, a fact which should not be lost on 
 the critics who demand why the world should 
 have had to wait all these centuries for the 
 discovery of Christian Science. 
 
 "God's in His heaven," says a great poet, 
 "all's right with the world," but God was in his 
 heaven when the pagan priests were exhibiting 
 their serpents in the temples of Cos just as 
 much as when Christ Jesus was healing the sick 
 in the streets of Capernaum, and just as much 
 when the Elizabethan physicians were scraping 
 powder off mummies or the Georgian ones try- 
 ing to expel smallpox by innoculation. Jesus, 
 speaking of his spiritual selfhood, the Christ, 
 declared, "before Abraham was I am," while, 
 
SON BUT ET SON CEUVRE 12 
 
 plus en plus materielle dans ses vues. Peu a 
 peu, cependant, il se forma une profession medi- 
 cale orthodoxe, comme il s'etait forme une eglise 
 orthodoxe. De sorte que, deja au Moyen Age, 
 nous trouvons un medecin de cour soignant un 
 prince royal atteint de petite verole en Penvelop- 
 pant de drap rouge, tandis qu'un malheureux 
 praticien non-gradue fut mis au pilori pour 
 avoir attache un morceau de carton autour du 
 cou d'une femme. Les terrifiantes ordonnances 
 medicalcs mentionnees par Pline ne s'etaient 
 guere bonifiees a la Renaissance, et les ordon- 
 nances de la Renaissance n'etaient pas plus 
 mauvaises que celles du commencement du siecle 
 dernier, ce que ne devraient pas oublier les 
 critiques qui se demandent pourquoi le monde 
 a du attendre pendant tant de siecles la decou- 
 verte de la Christian Science. 
 
 Un grand poete a dit: "Dieu est dans son 
 ciel et tout va bien sur la terre." Mais Dieu 
 (tait tout autant dans son ciel quand les pre- 
 paieiu cxhibaient leurs serpents dans les 
 templet de Cos que lorsque Jesus-Christ gueris- 
 >ait U s inaladi -s dans les rues de Capernaum et 
 que les medecins de la reine Elizabeth grattaient 
 del momics pour en extraire de la poudre ou 
 que les medecins du roi Georges essayaient d'ex- 
 r la petite verole par l'inoculation. J£sus, 
 p ■ i -lant de son identite spirituelle, le Christ, 
 (l.'( l.ir lit : "Avant qu'Abraham fut, je suis," et 
 
II MAHY BAKER EDDY 
 
 later again, at the moment of the ascension, 
 he declared, still speaking of the Christ, "Lo, 
 I am with you alway, even unto the end of the 
 world." Though God was in his heaven, though 
 Christ is eternal, the world had to wait many 
 centuries to learn from Jesus what God, and 
 heaven, and Christ really were, and when in 
 the long night which followed the time of Con- 
 stantine it forgot its lesson, it had to wait for 
 Mrs. Eddy to rediscover and again make prac- 
 tical the teaching of "the most scientific man 
 who ever trod the globe." 
 
 This does not mean that in all those cen- 
 turies of darkness the fact that God was in His 
 heaven was entirely hidden from the world. 
 Again and again, both before and after the 
 Christian era, men had arisen who, in moments 
 of intense spiritual perception, had grasped the 
 omnipotence of spiritual truth sufficiently to 
 be able to heal the sick, and stay the hand of 
 death. The voices of such men were, however, 
 voices crying in the wilderness of doubt and 
 animality, and their lives were like solitary 
 stars making almost clearer the darkness of 
 the night, whereas the coming of Christ Jesus 
 was the rising of the sun of righteousness with 
 healing in its wings. Such pioneers, in the cen- 
 turies of the Christian era, were Stephen Hard- 
 ing and Sebald, Luther, Fox, and Wesley. 
 
SOX BUT ET SON CEUVRE 18 
 
 plus tard encore, au moment de son ascension il 
 disait, parlant aussi du Christ: "Voici, je suis 
 avec vous tous les jours jusqu'a la fin du monde." 
 Bien que Dieu fut dans son ciel, bien que Christ 
 soit eternel, il fallut que le monde attendit bien 
 des siecles pour apprendre de Jesus ce que Dieu, 
 le ciel et le Christ sont reellement. Et quand, 
 pendant la longue nuit du Moyen Age, le monde 
 oublia sa lecon, il dut attendre que Mrs. Eddy 
 decouvrit de nouveau et rendit de nouveau ap- 
 plicable Penseignement de "l'homme le plus sci- 
 entifique qui ait jamais marche sur notre globe." 
 Cela ne veut pas dire que durant ces siecles 
 d'obscurite le monde ait absolument ignore que 
 Dieu etait dans son ciel. Maintes et maintes 
 fois, aussi bien avant qu'apres Fere chretienne, 
 des hommes ont surgi qui, en des moments de 
 perception spirituelle intense, ont saisi suffisam- 
 ment la toute-puissance de la verite spirituelle 
 pour etre capables de guerir les malades et 
 d'arreter la main de la mort. Pourtant la voix 
 de ces hommes n'a ete que la voix qui crie dans 
 le desert du doute et de la sensuality, et leurs 
 vies furent comme des £toiles solitaires dans 
 l'obscurite" de la nuit, tandis que la venue de 
 Jesus-Christ fut le lever du soleil de justice qui 
 porte la gueVison sous ses ailes. Au nombre de 
 ces pionniers dans les siecles de l'ere chretienne 
 furent, entre autres, Stephen Harding et Se- 
 bald, Luther, Fox et Wesley. Ces hommes accom- 
 
n MARY BAKER EDDY 
 
 These men, however, achieved all they did by 
 reliance on divine Love, in spite of the fact 
 that they believed human suffering to be the 
 dispensation of Providence, and plagues and 
 wars the visitations of God. 
 
 The first person to see the impossibility of 
 this, the first person to recognize the infinite 
 goodness of God, not as an occasional experi- 
 ence, but as an immutable law, was Mrs. Eddy, 
 and grasping this, she grasped the science of 
 being. "I knew," she writes, on page 109 of 
 "Science and Health with Key to the Scrip- 
 tures," "the Principle of all harmonious Mind- 
 action to be God, and that cures were produced 
 in primitive Christian healing by holy, uplift- 
 ing faith; but I must know the Science of this 
 healing, and I won my way to absolute conclu- 
 sions through divine revelation, reason, and 
 demonstration." In the face of all these cir- 
 cumstances Mrs. Eddy was compelled to begin 
 her work by teaching, but her teaching was 
 essentially scientific, and so could in no way 
 be divorced from demonstration. She explains, 
 herself, on page 9 of the preface of "Science 
 and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that 
 her "first pamphlet on Christian Science was 
 copyrighted in 1870; but it did not appear in 
 print until 1876, as she had learned that the 
 Science must be demonstrated by healing, be- 
 
SON BUT ET SON CEUVRE 14 
 
 plirent toutes leurs oeuvres en s'appuyant sur 
 PAmour divin, en depit du fait qu'ils croyaient 
 que la souffrance humaine est une dispensation 
 de la Providence et que les epidemies et les 
 guerres sont des chatiments de Dieu. 
 
 La premiere personne qui vit l'impossibilite de 
 cette dispensation du mal, la premiere personne 
 qui reconnut la bonte infinie de Dieu comme une 
 loi immuable et non une chose exceptionelle, ce 
 fut Mrs. Eddy. Ayant compris cela, elle avait 
 compris la science de l'etre. "Je connus que le 
 Principe de toute action harmonieuse de Pintel- 
 ligence supreme c'est Dieu, et que des guerisons 
 ont ete operees dans la chretiente primitive par 
 une foi sainte et elevee; mais je voulus connaitre 
 la Science de cette guerison, et j'arrivai a des 
 conclusions absolues grace a la revelation divine, 
 la raison et la demonstration" (Science and 
 Health, p. 109). Mrs. Eddy fut forcee de 
 commencer son oeuvre par Penseignement, un 
 enseignement, essentiellement scientifique, et, 
 comme tel, il ne pouvait en aucune facon 
 etre separe de la demonstration. Elle ex- 
 plique elle-meme, a la page ix de la preface 
 de "Science and Health with Key to the 
 Scriptures" qu'elle prit des droits d'auteur 
 pour sa premiere brochure sur la "Christian 
 Science" en 1870, mais qu'elle ne la fit publier 
 qu'en 1876, car l'auteur avait compris que la 
 Science Chretienne devait avoir ete* demontree 
 
lfi MARY BAKER EDDY 
 
 fore a work on the subject could be profitably 
 studied." The works, therefore, of physical 
 healing went steadily on, but they did not in 
 any way detract from the teaching. From first 
 to last the command to preach the gospel and 
 lieal the sick was steadily adhered to. 
 
 From the first moment Mrs. Eddy perceived 
 that the movement she had founded could only 
 be built up by the elimination of personality. 
 She had taken deeply to heart that pregnant 
 saying of Christ Jesus, "The Son can do noth- 
 ing of himself, but what he seeth the Father 
 do: for what things soever he doeth, these also 
 doeth the Son likewise." "There was never," 
 she wrote in her article on "Personal Conta- 
 gion," "a religion or philosophy lost to the cen- 
 turies except by sinking its divine Principle in 
 personality." In fixing the final form of ser- 
 vice for the Christian Science churches her wis- 
 dom was manifested not alone in choosing a 
 form which gave no scope for human ambitions, 
 but in selecting one of extraordinary simplicity 
 which could be read simultaneously throughout 
 the entire field. 
 
 The fact is that, like everything else in Chris- 
 
SON BUT ET SON CEUVRE 15 
 
 par la guerison avant qu'un ouvrage sur ce 
 sujet put etre etudie avec profit." Par conse- 
 quent, Fceuvre de guerison physique continua 
 tou jours sans pourtant porter aucun prejudice 
 a Penseignement. Depuis le commencement, et 
 sans relache, le commandement de precher 
 Pevangile et de guerir les malades fut fidele- 
 ment observe. 
 
 Des le debut Mrs. Eddy comprit que Pceuvre 
 qu'elle fondait ne pouvait etre etablie que par 
 Pelimination de la personnalite. Elle etait pro- 
 fondement penetree de cette parole si pleine de 
 promesses de Jesus-Christ: "Le fils ne peut 
 rien faire de lui-meme; il ne fait que ce qu'il 
 voit faire au Pere; et tout ce que le Pere fait, 
 le fils aussi le fait pareillement." Dans un 
 article intitule "Personal Contagion," elle ecrit : 
 "Aucune religion ou aucune philosophic ne s'est 
 jamais perdue dans la suite des temps que pour 
 avoir laisse* sombrer son principe dans la per- 
 sonnalite." Aussi, en fixant la forme definitive 
 du culte dans les eglises de la Christian Sci- 
 ence, la sagesse de Mrs. Eddy ne se manifesta 
 pas seulement par le choix d'une forme ne don- 
 nant pas prise aux ambitions humaines, mais en 
 Itablissant la forme definitive d'une extraordi- 
 naire simplicite, qui put etre adoptee simul- 
 tan£ment sur tous les points de la sphere d'acti- 
 vit£, de la Christian Science. 
 
 Ces services, ainsi que tout ce qui fait partie 
 
Hi MARY BAKER EDDY 
 
 tian Science, the services are designed to have 
 a healing and not an artistic or emotional ef- 
 fect. The reading of the Bible and "Science 
 and Health with Key to the Scriptures" heals 
 the mind and so the body, for did not Jesus 
 declare, "Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins 
 be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?" 
 The therapeutics of Jesus were spiritual. He 
 never, in the whole course of his ministry, made 
 use of a material remedy, and he declared that 
 he was "the way." 
 
 The occasion of his anointing the eyes of the 
 blind man with clay has been used as an argu- 
 ment in support of material remedies, but this 
 only proves how desperate is the case of those 
 who, in the words of Mrs. Eddy, on page 78 of 
 "Science and Health with Key to the Scrip- 
 tures," would "hold spirit in the grasp of 
 matter." 
 
 That the man who stilled the tempest, walked 
 on the water, and raised the dead by the simple 
 realization that God heard him always, and that 
 the spiritual law was always available by those 
 who knew how to apply it, could not heal a case 
 of blindness without resort to the medical 
 methods of the men who attempted to destroy 
 blindness with charred viper's flesh or the blood 
 of red he-goats is in itself a sufficiently amazing 
 argument. 
 
 It is this note of healing which rings inces- 
 santly throughout the entire movement, in its 
 
SON BUT ET SON OZUVRE 16 
 
 de la Christian Science, sont destines a produire 
 un effet curatif et non un effet artistique ou 
 sensationnel. La lecture de la Bible et de 
 "Science and Health with Key to the Scrip- 
 tures" guerit Pesprit aussi bien que le corps. 
 Jesus n'a-t-il pas dit: "Lequel est le plus aise, 
 de dire: tes peches te sont pardonnes, ou de 
 dire: leve-toi et marche?" La therapeutique de 
 Jesus etait spirituelle. Pendant tout le cours 
 de son ministere, il ne fit jamais usage d'un 
 remede materiel et il declara qu'il etait "le 
 chemin." 
 
 Cependant le fait que Jesus a oint les yeux 
 de Paveugle-ne avec de la boue a servi d'argu- 
 ment en faveur des remedes materiels, mais cela 
 ne fait que prouver combien est desespere le cas 
 de ceux qui veulent "maintenir Pesprit sous 
 Petreinte de la matiere" (Science and Health, 
 ,,. 78). 
 
 Ce serait un argument par trop suprenant 
 de soutenir que Phomme qui calma la tempete, 
 marcha sur les eaux et ressuscita les morts, 
 parce qu'il avait la conviction que Dieu Pen- 
 tendait tou jours et que la loi spirituelle etait 
 toujours effective pour qui savait Pappliquer, 
 ait du recourir aux methodes medicales qui ten- 
 taient de guerir les aveugles avec de la peau de 
 vipere carbonisee ou du sang de boue rouge. 
 
 C'est ce theme de guerison qui vibre constam- 
 iik -nt dans le mouvement scientiste tout entier, 
 
17 MARY BAKER EDDY 
 
 church service, in its literature, and on its lec- 
 ture platforms, just as much as by the bedside 
 of the sick. In the first half century of the 
 movement the incessant efforts of the great 
 leader have been devoted without stint to ful- 
 filling the vision she describes on page 226 of 
 "Science and Health with Key to the Scrip- 
 tures," "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 educational systems of the Pha- 
 raohs, who today, as of yore, hold the children 
 of Israel in bondage." In order to do this it 
 was necessary, too, for Mrs. Eddy to educate 
 her followers in Christian Science. In about 
 the year 1867 she opened the first school of 
 Christian Science Mind-Healing, with a solitary 
 student, in Lynn, Massachuestts. Fourteen 
 years later she obtained the charter for the 
 Massachusetts Metaphysical College, in which, 
 during the following seven years, she taught 
 upward of four thousand students. In this 
 way "the Grand Army" of Christian Science 
 was first enlisted, and enlisted, in her own 
 words, on page 450 of "Science and Health 
 with Key to the Scriptures," "to lessen evil, 
 disease, and death." Wherever this army 
 marches it carries with it its banners on which 
 are inscribed the words "Slavery is Abolished," 
 not the mere slavery of men's bodies alone, 
 but the more remorseless slaverv of men^ 
 
SON BUT ET SON CEUVRE 17 
 
 dans son culte, dans sa litterature et ses confe- 
 rences, tout autant qu'au chevet des raalades. 
 Pendant les cinquante premieres annees de ce 
 mouvement, les efforts incessants de notre grand 
 guide ont ete diriges sans reserve vers la reali- 
 sation de la vision decrite ainsi par elle: "J'ai 
 voulu delivrer les boiteux, les sourds, les muets, 
 les aveugles, les malades, les sensuels, les pe- 
 cheurs, de l'esclavage de leurs propres croyan- 
 ces et des systemes d'education des Pharaons 
 d'aujourd'hui, qui, comme autrefois, retiennent 
 les enfants d'Israel en servitude" (Science and 
 Health, p. 226). Pour y arriver, il fallait que 
 Mrs. Eddy instruisit ses disciples dans la Sci- 
 ence Chretienne. Elle ouvrit done vers l'annee 
 1867, a Lynn, Massachusetts, une premiere 
 £cole de guerison mentale par la Christian 
 Science avec un seul eleve. Quatorze ans plus 
 tard, elle obtint un acte legal autorisant son 
 college metaphysique de Massachusetts, dans 
 lequel pendant les sept annees qui suivirent, elle 
 instruisit plus de 4000 etudiants. Ainsi fut 
 enrolee "la grande Armee de la Christian 
 Science qui s'engageait "a diminuer le mal, la 
 maladie et la mort" (Science and Health, p. 
 450). Partout ou marche cette armee, elle 
 porte ses bannieres sur lesquelles brille Inscrip- 
 tion: "L'esclavage est aboli;" non seulement 
 l'esclavage du corps, mais l'esclavage bien plus 
 impitoyable de l'esprit humain soumis aux lois 
 
18 MARY BAKER EDDY 
 
 minds, to the laws of custom, belief, and 
 disease. 
 
 Among Mrs. Eddy's provisions for the rescue 
 of humanity was the Christian Science Board 
 of Lectureship, an organization which in its 
 inception carries one back to the days of primi- 
 tive Christianity. In this conception what 
 Monsieur Jusserand has so beautifully termed 
 "La Vie Errant" has found its resurrection. 
 The Christian Science lecturer can scarcely be 
 said to have a home. He may, at any moment, 
 be called upon to take up his abode in some city 
 far from his native land. At the request of 
 those who need his help he sails for China or 
 Australia, just as the early workers loosed 
 from Troas, or sailed unto Cypress. All coun- 
 tries are alike to them. They mingle with men 
 of every nationality and every temperament, but 
 wherever they go they preach, saying, the king- 
 dom of heaven, the reign of harmony on earth, 
 is at hand, and so bind up the broken-hearted, 
 and bring peace to the weary and heavy laden. 
 The platform of the Christian Science lecturer 
 is not designed to rival the Roman rostrum, but 
 to imitate, however feebly, the boat anchored 
 by the shore of Galilee. 
 
SON BUT ET SON (EUVRE lb 
 
 de la coutunie, des fausses croyances et de la 
 maladie. 
 
 Parmi les mesures qu'a prises Mrs. Eddy 
 pour assurer le salut de Phumanite se trouve 
 Pinstitution du comite des Conferences de la 
 Christian Science, organisation qui, des ses de- 
 buts, rappelle les premiers jours du christian- 
 isme, et fait revivre ce que Monsieur Jusserand 
 a qualifie du beau terme de "Vie errante." En 
 effet, le conferencier de la Christian Science 
 n'a, pour ainsi dire, pas de foyer. D'un moment 
 a Pautre, il peut etre appele a fixer sa demeure 
 dans quelque ville eloignee de son pays natal. 
 Sur la demande de ceux qui ont besoin de son 
 aide, il s'embarque pour la Chine ou PAustralie, 
 de meme que les premiers apotres quittaient 
 Troas ou s'embarquaient pour Chypre. Pour 
 eux, tous les pays se valent. lis sont habitues 
 a se meler avec des hommes de toutes les natio- 
 nality, de tous les temperaments. Mais partout 
 ils prechent, disant: le royaume de Dieu, le 
 regne de Pharmonie sur la terre est proche, et 
 ainsi ils consolent les coeurs brises et apportent 
 la paix a ceux qui sont travailles et charges. 
 Ne croyez pas, cependant, que la tribune du 
 conferencier de la Christian Science doive riva- 
 li« r avec les rostres romains, elle est simple- 
 ment destinee a rappeler, quoique bien faible- 
 ment — la barque de Jesus, a Pancre pres du 
 ■ de (i ililee. 
 
19 MARY BAKEH EDDY 
 
 As it is with the lectures, so it is also with 
 the literature. In April, 1883, in order to meet 
 the ever-broadening requirements of the move- 
 ment, Mrs. Eddy started the monthly Journal 
 of Christian Science, of which she was at first 
 not only editor, but publisher, and some years 
 later the weekly paper, known as The Christian 
 Science Sentinel. The object of these periodi- 
 cals was not only to provide a wider exercise for 
 the energies of Christian Scientists, it was to 
 carry Christian Science healing to a greater 
 public ; and not a single issue of these now well- 
 known periodicals has ever gone out from the 
 publishing house which has not carried to its 
 readers some story of healing through Christian 
 Science. 
 
 Meantime, in spite of all these Herculean 
 labors, Mrs. Eddy was steadily adding to the 
 list of her own writings. The greatest, the 
 most famous of all these is, of course, the text- 
 book of Christian Science, "Science and Health 
 with Key to the Scriptures"; "the precious 
 volume," as she has herself termed it, the book 
 which has attained the greatest circulation of 
 any book ever known during the lifetime of its 
 author. This was, however, only the most vital 
 of her writings. In her ninetieth year she pub- 
 lished her last volume, the beautiful little edi- 
 tion of her collected poems, one stanza of which 
 
son BUT BT SON CEUVRE iy 
 
 Des le mois d'avril, 1883, pour faire face 
 aux besoins tou jours grandissants du mouve- 
 ment, Mrs. Eddy fonda "The Christian Science 
 Journal," revue mensuelle dont elle fut a la fois 
 le redacteur en chef et Fediteur. Quelques an- 
 nees apres, elle fit paraitre la "Christian Science 
 Sentinel," journal hebdomadaire. L'objet de 
 ces publications periodiques n'est pas seulement 
 de fournir aux energies des Scientistes chretiens 
 un champ d'action plus vaste, mais aussi de pre- 
 senter la guerison par la Christian Science a 
 un public plus nombreux. Et pas un seul nu- 
 mero de ces publications maintenant si repan- 
 dues ne sort de chez l'editeur sans apporter a 
 ses lecteurs le recit de quelques guerisons ope- 
 rees par la Christian Science. 
 
 En meme temps, malgre ce labeur herculeen, 
 Mrs. Eddy ajoutait constamment de nouveaux 
 ouvrages a la liste de ses oeuvres. Le plus im- 
 portant, le plus fameux de tous est naturelle- 
 ment, le manuel de la Christian Science intitule 
 "Science and Health with Key to the Scrip- 
 tures." Ce "precieux volume," ainsi, qu'elle Fa 
 qualifie elle-meme, est de tous les livres connus 
 celui qui a atteint la plus grande circulation du 
 vi\;int meme de son auteur. C'est la le plus 
 vital mais non le dernier, de ses ouvrages, car 
 dans sa quatre-vingt-dixieme annee, elle fit pa- 
 raitre son dernier volume, la belle petite Edition 
 de son recueil de poemes, dont Fune des strophes 
 
■0 MAUV BAKER KDDV 
 
 illustrates so perfectly her attitude to tin- 
 world : 
 
 Beneath the shadow of His mighty wing; 
 In that sweet secret of the narrow way, 
 Seeking and finding, with the angels sing: 
 "Lo, I am with you alway: — watch and pray." 
 
 Of all Mrs. Eddy's literary labors, however, the 
 one which will probably continue to strike the 
 public with most astonishment is the foundation 
 of The Christian Science Monitor. In publish- 
 ing this paper she fulfilled, at eighty-seven, a 
 plan she had never lost sight of for twenty- 
 seven years. The conception of it, the name, 
 the motto, all were her own ; and at her bidding 
 her devoted followers performed what to the 
 world was a miracle, when within three months 
 of her request they cleared the ground, built 
 the offices, equipped, and brought into existence 
 a daily paper, which in two years has acquired 
 a unique circulation which extends entirely 
 round the globe. Its mission is to bring healing 
 to mankind, not by reporting what is worst of 
 men and nations, but what is best; not by 
 relying on sensationalism, but on a sober regard 
 and examination of facts; not by standing for 
 a party, but always for the state. 
 
 In this way it is fulfilling the destiny marked 
 out for it in the motto selected by its founder, 
 
SOX BUT ET SON CEUVRE 20 
 
 depeint si parfaitement Pattitude de Mrs. Eddy 
 vis-a-vis du monde: 
 
 A l'ombre de Son aile puissante; 
 Dans ce doux mystere du chemin dtroit, 
 Cherchant et trouvant, chantez avec les anges: 
 "Voici, je sui3 avec vous pour toujours: veillez 
 et priez." 
 
 Cependant, de tous les travaux de Mrs. Eddy 
 celui qui continuera probablement a paraitre le 
 plus surprenant, c'est la fondation du journal 
 quotidien, "The Christian Science Monitor." 
 En lancant ce journal a Page de quatre-vingt- 
 sept ans, elle mit a execution un projet caresse 
 depuis vingt-sept ans, et dont Pidee premiere, 
 le nom, la devise, tout etait d'elle. Sous ses 
 ordres, ses disciples devoues accomplirent ce 
 qui aux yeux du monde sembla miraculeux. En 
 moins de trois mois, Pemplacement fut deblaye, 
 les bureaux bat is, agences, et un journal cree. 
 Dans Pespace de deux ans, ce journal a obtenu 
 une circulation unique et penetre dans le monde 
 entier. II a pour mission d'apporter la guerison 
 a Phumanite* en divulguant non ce qu'il y a de 
 plus mauvais parmi les hommes et les nations, 
 mais ce qu'il y a de meilleur; en ne s'appuyantU< 
 Mir ce qui est sensationnel, mais en examinant 
 les faits avor attention et moderation; en repre- 
 nt non un parti, mais touiours P^tat. 
 eettc f;icon "The Monitor" remplit la 
 destinle que lui n tracee sa fondatrice dans la 
 
21 MARY BAKER EDDY 
 
 "First the blade, then the ear, then the full 
 grain in the ear." 
 
 The unerring wisdom of Mrs. Eddy in nurs- 
 ing and directing the energies of the movement 
 she has founded has been briefly summarized, but 
 her efforts did not cease here. In the Commit- 
 tees on Publication, which have their offices in 
 every corner of the globe, she has built up a 
 great bulwark of defense, the strength of which 
 it would be difficult to exaggerate. The motto 
 of these committees might be said to be "de- 
 fense, not defiance." Their duty is not to at- 
 tack the opinions of other people, it is to defend 
 their own cause, and to do this by firmly yet 
 temperately working to see that the truth and 
 nothing but the truth shall be circulated on 
 any particular point. It is here that the wis- 
 dom of Mrs. Eddy has been peculiarly appar- 
 ent, and with this wisdom necessarily her love 
 for humanity. While nearly all other move- 
 ments are dissipating much of their strength 
 in attacking the opinions of their neighbors, 
 Christian Scientists are giving every moment 
 of their time to patiently demonstrating the 
 truth of their own. There is an old saying that 
 a grain of proof is worth a pound of argument, 
 and the proof of Christian Science is a living 
 proof, walking about the lanes and cities of the 
 
SON BUT ET SON CEUVRE 21 
 
 devise: "D'abord la feuille, puis Pepi, et enfin 
 le grain dans Pepi." 
 
 Nous venons d'exposer brievement avec 
 quelle infaillible sagesse Mrs. Eddy encou- 
 ragea et dirigea les energies du mouvement 
 qu'elle a fonde. Mais ses efforts ne s'arre- 
 terent pas la. Par la creation de Comites 
 de Publication siegeant sur tous les points 
 du globe, elle a eleve un important rempart 
 de defense, dont il serait difficile d'exagerer 
 la force. La devise de ces comites pourrait 
 etre formulee ainsi: "Defense et non defi." 
 Leur devoir n'est pas d'attaquer les opinions 
 des autres, mais de defendre leur propre cause 
 d'une maniere ferme et moderee, pour que la 
 verite et rien que la verite circule partout. 
 C'est en cela que la sagesse de Mrs. Eddy est 
 particulierement apparente, et avec cette sa- 
 gesse, son amour pour Phumanite. En effet, 
 tandis que dans presque tous les autres courants 
 d'idees les adeptes dissipent une grande partie 
 de leurs forces a attaquer les opinions du pro- 
 chain, les SnYntistes chr£tiens, au contraire, 
 < nnsacrent chaque instant de leur temps a de- 
 montrer patiemment la verity de leurs propres 
 opinions. Un vieux dicton dit qu'un grain de 
 pnuve vaut mieux qu'une livre d'arguments. 
 Eh bien, les preuves ne manquent pas a la Chris- 
 tian Science, et ce sont des preuves vivantes 
 parcourant les chemins et los villes du monde 
 
22 MARY BAKER EDDY 
 
 whole world in the shape of men and women 
 rescued from pain and sorrow, from disease and 
 from the grave. The opponents of Christian 
 Science may shake their heads, may explain 
 with unwearying perseverence that the patients 
 were not so bad as they thought themselves, or, 
 as a last resort, that the medical diagnosis was 
 wrong, and that the sufferers would have got 
 well anyhow. They may convince those who 
 were convinced before, but on the patients them- 
 selves, on their families, to whom they have been 
 given back, or on their relatives and friends 
 who have witnessed what has been accomplished, 
 these arguments amount to Vox et prccterea 
 nihil. Who can undertake to say how bad a 
 man may have thought he was, and if the diag- 
 noses of the medical profession are wrong in all 
 these cases, then there is more need for Chris- 
 tian Science than Emerson's "man in the street" 
 has ever dreamed of. History repeats itself: 
 these were the very arguments used by the Jew- 
 ish doctors to the man who was born blind. 
 First they attemped to suggest through his pa- 
 rents that the history of the disease had not been 
 fully established; then, failing in this, they at- 
 tempted to destroy the credit of the "healer of 
 Gennesaret," with the sole result that there has 
 come ringing down the centuries the half-con- 
 temptuous and wholly triumphant answer of 
 the ^ick man, "One thing I know, that, whereas 
 I was blind, now I see." 
 
SON BUT ET SON (EUVRE 22 
 
 entier sous la forme d'hommes et de femmes 
 delivres de la maladie et de la mort. Que les 
 adversaires de la Christian Science hochent la 
 tete et alleguent avec une infatigable perse- 
 verance que les malades gueris n'etaient pas si 
 atteints qu'ils le pensaient, ou en dernier ressort 
 que le diagnostic etait faux et que les malades 
 se seraient retablis dans tous les cas. lis con- 
 vaincront peut-etre ceux qui etaient convaincus 
 d'avance, mais pour les malades eux-memes, 
 pour leurs families auxquelles ils ont ete rendus 
 ou pour leurs parents et amis temoins de ce qui a 
 £te accompli, ces arguments ne comptent pas. 
 "Vox et prceterea nihil.'* Du reste, qui pour- 
 rait se permettre de dire a quel point une per- 
 sonne s'est sentie malade, et certifier que le 
 diagnostic etait faux dans tous les cas dont il 
 est question? L'histoire se repete elle-meme. 
 N'etaient-ce pas la les arguments memes dont 
 se servirent les docteurs juifs au sujet de 
 Paveugle-ne? D'abord ils essayerent de faire 
 prouver par les parents de Paveugle que l'his- 
 torique de son infirmite avait ete mal etabli, puis 
 6chouant en cela, ils tenterent de perdre la 
 reputation de celui qui guerissait a Genesareth. 
 Et pour tout resultat, ils obtinrent de Paveugle 
 cette r£ponse, dont Pironie et le triomphe re- 
 sonnent a travers les ages: "Je ne sais qu'une 
 chose, c'est que j'^tais aveugle et que mainte- 
 nant je vois." 
 
98 MARY BAKER EDDY 
 
 It was for the purpose of giving the public 
 the opportunity of hearing these testimonies 
 of healing first hand, that the Wednesday eve- 
 ning testimony meetings were established by 
 Mrs. Eddy. These meetings constitute one of 
 the most marvelous factors in the chain of evi- 
 dence which is binding Christian Science round 
 the hemispheres. Every Wednesday evening, 
 at about eight o'clock, these meetings begin, 
 and as the sun travels west, or seems to travel 
 west, across the sky, they follow it, through 
 every country and amidst every people, until 
 the story of Christian Science healing has been 
 told round the entire earth. In those twenty- 
 four hours a minimum probably of five thousand 
 testimonies of the healing power of the Christ 
 have been given ; and, in another week, the chain 
 of Christian Science healing will be stretched 
 right around the earth. 
 
 It is thirty-one years since The Mother 
 Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, 
 was established in Boston, when, on the 19th of 
 April, 1879, Mrs. Eddy and a handful of her 
 students met, in the words of "Retrospection 
 and Introspection," on page 44, "to organize a 
 church to commemorate the words and works of 
 our Master, a mind-healing church, without a 
 creed, to be called the Church of Christ, Scien- 
 ist." In those thirty-one years hundreds upon 
 
SOX BUT ET SON CEUVRE 23 
 
 Enfin, c'est pour donner au public l'occasion 
 d'entendre sur les guerisons des temoignages 
 directs que les reunions du mercredi soir ont 
 ete etablies par Mrs. Eddy. Ces reunions, ou 
 meetings, constituent Tun des plus merveilleux 
 facteurs dans la chalne de preuves qui relie 
 la Christian Science autour des hemispheres. 
 Chaque mercedi soir a huit heures environ ces 
 reunions commencent, et a mesure que le soleil 
 avance vers POccident ou semble avancer vers 
 l'Occident, les reunions se succedcnt de pays 
 en pays et de peuple en peuple, jusqu'a ce que 
 l'histoire des guerisons par la Christian Sci- 
 ence ait ete racontee autour de la terre entiere. 
 Pendant ces vingt-quatre heures un minimum de 
 cinq mille temoignages du pouvoir guerisseur du 
 Christ auront ete donnes; et une semaine plus 
 tard le fil se renouera et de nouveau la chaine 
 des guerisons par la Christian Science s'etendra 
 tout autour de la terre. 
 
 II y a trente-deux ans que l'^glise Mere, 
 La Premiere £glise de Christ, Scientiste, fut 
 etablie a Boston a la date .du 19 avril 1879. 
 Ce jour-la Mrs. Eddy et une poignee de 
 ses Aleves se reunirent pour organiser une 
 eglise commemorant les paroles et les oeuvres 
 <lu Maitre, Eglise guerissant mentalement, 
 n'ayant pas de credo et devant etre nommee 
 "6glise de Christ, Scientiste" ("Retrospection 
 and Introspection," p. 44). Pendant ces 
 trente-deux annees, ainsi qu'un tronc puissant, 
 
24 MARY BAKER EDDY 
 
 hundreds of branch churches and societies have- 
 grown from the parent stem, and weekly in the 
 meetings of these churches and societies, by the 
 wise provision of the leader of the movement, 
 the story of Christian healing is told by men 
 and women whose gratitude impels them to give 
 words of help and encouragement to those who 
 attend the services. 
 
 There is an expression to which everyone is 
 accustomed that when there is fighting to be 
 done it is the man behind the gun who counts. 
 The Christian Science movement is a militant 
 movement, though it wrestles "not against flesh 
 and blood, but against principalities, against 
 powers, against the rulers of the darkness of 
 this world." All Mrs. Eddy's care and wisdom 
 would have been wasted if she could not have 
 found the man behind the gun, the genuine 
 Christian Scientist. Of course she had to train 
 the army of Christian Science, to try to instil 
 into its soldiers something of the selfless love 
 for humanity she herself felt. She had to teach 
 them to strive to den} r themselves, and to begin 
 to live for the world ; she had, in a word, to teach 
 them Christian Science. In this as in every- 
 thing else she has been so successful that she 
 has trained a great body of workers, which is 
 
SOX BUT ET SON CEUVRE 24 
 
 P£glise s'est ramifiee en centaines et en mil- 
 liers d'eglises et de soci£tes. Et chaque semaine, 
 dans les reunions de ces eglises, de ces societ£s, 
 par la sage prevoyance du guide de ce mouve- 
 ment, l'histoire de la guerison chretienne est 
 racontee par des hommes et des femmes que la 
 reconnaissance oblige a prononcer des paroles 
 d'aide et de reconfort pour ceux qui assistent 
 a ses services. 
 
 On connait cette expression: a, la bataille, 
 Phomme qui compte c'est celui qui charge le 
 fusil. Or, le mouvement de la Christian Sci- 
 ence est un mouvement militant, bien qu'il ne 
 s'attaque ni a la chair ni au sang, mais aux 
 "principautes, aux puissances, et aux maitres 
 de ce monde de tenebres." 
 
 Et certes, tous les soins, toute la sagesse de 
 Mrs. Eddy eussent ete perdus, si elle n'avait 
 trouve Phomme prepare a cette lutte sainte, le 
 veritable Scientiste chretien. Aussi Mrs. Eddy 
 dut-elle discipliner Parmee de la Christian Sci- 
 ence pour inculquer a ses soldats un peu de 
 cet amour desinteresse qu'elle ressentait elle- 
 meme pour Phumanite. Elle leur enseigna a 
 faire Peffort n^cessaire pour renoncer a soi et 
 vivre pour son prochain ; en un mot, elle eut a 
 leur enseigner la Christian Science. En cela 
 comme en tout le reste elle a si bien r£ussi, 
 qu'elle a forme une nombreuse arm£e de travail- 
 leurs qui vont dans tous les pays porter la 
 
2fi MARY BAKER EDDY 
 
 carrying the mind-healing which the original 
 Christian Science Church was organized to 
 demonstrate, into every land. This is why the 
 future of Christian Science is assured, because 
 Mrs. Eddy has pointed her followers steadfastly 
 to principle and not to person. "What went 
 you out for to see?" she asks in "Personal Con- 
 tagion," "a person or a Principle? Whichever 
 it be determines the right or the wrong of this 
 following." 
 
 No Christian Scientists, toiling along the 
 road from sense to soul, could ever stray from 
 the path if they would only remember the con- 
 cluding words of her article "Pond and Pur- 
 pose," on page 207 of "Miscellaneous Writ- 
 ings": "As you journey, and betimes sigh for 
 rest 'beside still waters,' ponder this lesson of 
 love. Learn its purpose ; and in hope and faith, 
 where heart meets heart reciprocally blest, drink 
 with me the living waters of the spirit of my 
 life-purpose — to impress humanity with the 
 genuine recognition of practical, operative 
 Christian Science." 
 
SOX BUT ET SON OZUVRE 25 
 
 guerison mentale que Peglise de la Christian 
 Science a pour mission de demontrer. L'ave- 
 nir de la Christian Science est assure* parce 
 que Mrs. Eddy a donne a ses disciples une 
 orientation constante non vers la personnalite, 
 raais vers le Principe. "Qu'etes-vous alles 
 voir?" demande-t-elle dans "Personal Contag- 
 ion," "une personne ou un principe? Votre 
 choix dessinera pour vous Pavenir soit en bien 
 soit en mal." 
 
 Aucun Scientiste chretien, gravissant penible- 
 ment la route qui mene de la matiere a PEsprit, 
 ne pourra jamais s'egarer, s'il veut se rappeler 
 les derniers mots de Particle de Mrs. Eddy 
 "Pond and Purpose" a la page 207 de "Mis- 
 cellaneous Writings": "Tandis que vous suivez 
 votre chemin, si parfois vous aspirez au repos 
 'pres des eaux paisibles' m£ditez cette lecon 
 d'amour. Apprenez-en l'objet; et, la ou les 
 coeurs pleins d'esperance et de foi ne se rencon- 
 trent que pour se benir, buvez avec moi des 
 eaux vives de PEsprit qui a inspire le but de 
 ma vie, et qui nous donnera le pouvoir d'amener 
 Phumanite* a reconnaitre sincerement la Chris- 
 tian Science efficace et applicable." 
 
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