30. The Christian Scientist writer quoted in the American Jour- nal of Psychology, vol. X, p. 436, declares with great emphasis: "The only text-book of genuine, unadulterated Christian Science is Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures, by Rev. Mary Baker Eddy." Mr. Bailey, editor of the Christian Science Journal,
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wrote that he considered " the Bible and Science and Health as one book — the sacred Scriptures."
31. Science and Health, 1899, p. 4.
32. Christian Science Journal, January, 1901: cf. Miscellaneous Writings, p. 311: "The words I have written on Christian Science contain absolute Truth. ... I was a scribe under orders, and who can refrain from transcribing what God indites?"
33. In the Christian Science Journal, April, 1895, Mrs. Eddy abolished preaching and ordained that the service should be as here described. "In 1895," she says, "I ordained the Bible and Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures, as the Pastor, on this planet, of all the churches of the Christian Science denomination" {McClure's Magazine, May, 1908, p. 25).
34. This was not the original order, but was subsequently in- troduced.
35. Mrs. Eddy says in the Christian Science Journal for March, 1897: "The Bible, Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures, and my other published works are the only proper instructions for this hour. It shall be the duty of all Christian Scientists to circulate and to sell as many of these books as they can."
36. G. C. Mars, The Interpretation of Life, in which is shown the relation of Modem Culture and Christian Science, 1908. It is related that Mrs. Eddy herself, with, no doubt, a rare display of humor, said once that Bronson Alcott, on reading Science and Health, pro- nounced that no one but a woman or a fool could have written it {McClure's Magazine, August, 1897, p. 47).
37. The Dublin Review, July, 1908, vol. CXLIII, p. 62.
38. P. N. F. Young, The Interpreter, October, 1908, vol. V, p. 91.
39. So say many of the readers of the book with serio-comic emphasis; see three such expositions of the effect of trying to read it given in Stephen Paget's The Faith and Works of Christian Science, pp. 205 ff.
40. McClure's Magazine for October, 1907, p. 699.
41. God, says Mrs. Eddy, in Science and Health, ed. 1875, "is Principle, not Person"; God, she says, in ed. 1881, I, p. 167; II, p. 97, "is not a person, God is Principle"; God, she says still in No and Yes, 1906, "is Love, and Love is Principle, not person." In later editions of Science and Health the asperity of the assertion is somewhat softened without any change of meaning, e. g., ed. 1899, p. 10: "If the term personality applied to God means infinite per- sonality, then God is personal Being — in this sense, but not in the lowest sense," i. e., in the sense of individuality {cf. what is said on the supposition that God should be spoken of as person on p.
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510). The entry in the Index referring to this passage (p. 10) is phrased simply, "Person, God is not"; and throughout the text God is represented not as "Person" but as "Principle." To ap- proach God in the prayer of petition is to "humanize" Him. "Prayer addressed to a person prevents our letting go of person- ality for the impersonal Spirit to whom all things are possible" (ed. 1875). The whole foundation of Mrs. Eddy's theory and prac- tice alike was denial of the personality of God; see the curious deposition printed in McClure's Magazine, 1907, p. 103, bearing that this denial was made by Mrs. Eddy the condition of entrance into her classes. "There is really nothing to understand in Science and Health," says Wiggin truly, "except that God is all." That is the beginning and middle and end of Mrs. Eddy's philosophy. Accordingly, the writer in the Christian Science Sentinel for Septem- ber 25, 1907, p. 57, quoted by Powell, Christian Science, p. 242, is quite right when she declares: "principle and not personality is the only foundation upon which we can build safely."
42. Ed. 1875; in ed. 1899, p. 3: "the divine Mind and idea"; cf. p. 8: "In Science Mind is one — including noumena and phe- nomena, God and His thoughts," i. e., everything. Accordingly, C. H. Lea, A Plea for . . . Christian Science, p. 23, says: "The individual man is a part of God, in the sense that a ray of light is a part of the sun."
43. Ed. 1905, p. 331.
44. Ed. 1899, p. 7. 45- Op. ciL, p. 23. 46. P. 74.
47- P. 81.
48. P. 412.