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Know divine Love thinks my thoughts and I cannot forget.  Mary Baker Eddy

(Carpenter, Gilbert, Collectanea Of Items By and About Mary Baker Eddy

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Meet animal magnetism without a fight.  There is no animal magnetism that can reverse the currents of Truth in my conscious­ness by irritation or inflaming the mucous lining.  Mary Baker Eddy

(Carpenter, Gilbert, Fragments Gathered From Unpublished Items, p.55)

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No mortal man or woman ever will, or can, take Jesus’ place, or again fulfill his earthly mission. His work is already accom­plished, and needs no duplication. What will be developed through Christian Science, and is now unfolding itself, is the purer idea and spiritual manifestation of the Christ character, in word and deed. The personal appearance of the Master was but once, and for all time.  Mary Baker Eddy

(Carpenter, Gilbert, Essays On Christian Science, p.36)

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Someone in the room said to her, “You cannot deny that you are a Leader in this age,” and she replied, “I cannot deny that, but I can only be a Leader inasmuch as I allow God to lead me, whereas others allow self to lead.”  Mary Baker Eddy

(Carpenter, Collectanea Of items By and About Mary Baker Eddy, p.55)

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In view of the different sects, Gnostic, Stoic, esoteric, Pharisee, Sadducee, and Gentile, our Master said, Many shall come in my name, and shall deceive many. Today this prophecy is ful­filled. The inclination of mortal mind is towards the mental poles, the long night and sunless day, the flitting drifting snows, and that mighty mass, the icebergs of intellect.  Whereas Christianity turns thought to the tropics, to the central warmth and verdure, luxuriance, and glow of divine Love, holding man forever in his orbit, by the forces, by the omnipotent centrifu­gal and centripetal power of Truth.   Mary Baker Eddy

(Carpenter, Gilbert, Fragments Gathered From Unpublished Items, p.54)

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Mrs. Eddy once said this very thing to Laura Sargent who wrote it down as follows:  “Mother said in the old way mortal belief had one devil; now it had many, but we must not call it they, but evil.  She said when we take up our watch, we do not help her with our thought; we simply clear our own thought of the belief of evil, and this is getting rid of our thought and getting out of God’s way so the light can shine through, and this blessed light helps us and all in its shining.  This is the blessed, blessed way from sense to Soul.”  Mary Baker Eddy

(Carpenter, Gilbert, 500 Watching Points, #206)

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[Boston Globe, November 29, 1900]

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE THANKS – 2

      It signifies that the Science of Christianity has dawned upon human thought to appear full-­orbed in millennial glory; that scientific religion and scientific therapeutics are improving the morals and increasing the longevity of mankind, are mitigating and destroying sin, disease, and death; that religion and materia medica should be no longer tyrannical and proscriptive; that divine Love, impartial and universal, as understood in divine Science, forms the coincidence of the human and divine, which fulfils the saying of our great Master, “The kingdom of God is within you;” that the atmosphere of the human mind, when cleansed of self and permeated with divine Love, will reflect this purified subjective state in clearer skies, less thunderbolts, tornadoes, and extremes of heat and cold; that agriculture, manufacture, commerce, and wealth should be governed by honesty, industry, and justice, reaching out to all classes and peoples. For these signs of the times we thank our Father-Mother God.   (Eddy, Mary Baker, The First Church Of Christ, Scientist and Miscellany, p. 265:14-32)

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5 – [Boston Globe, November 29, 1900]

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE THANKS – 1

     On the threshold of the twentieth century, will you please send through the Globe to the people of New England, which is the birthplace of Thanksgiving Day, a sentiment on what the last Thanksgiving Day of the nineteenth century should signify to all mankind?

Mrs. Eddy’s Response

     New England’s last Thanksgiving Day of this century signifies to the minds of men the Bible better understood and Truth and Love made more practical; the First Commandment of the Decalogue more imperative, and “Love thy neighbor as thyself’” more possible and pleasurable.

     It signifies that love, unselfed, knocks more loudly than ever before at the heart of humanity and that it finds admittance; that revelation, spiritual voice and vision, are less subordinate to material sight and sound and more apparent to reason; that evil flourishes less, invests less in trusts, loses capital, and is bought at par value; that the Christ-spirit will cleanse the earth of human gore; that civilization, peace between nations, and the brotherhood of man should be established, and justice plead not vainly in behalf of the sacred rights of individuals, peoples, and nations.  (Eddy, Mary Baker, The First Church Of Christ, Scientist and Miscellany, p. 264:7-265:13)

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Beloved Students: - May this, your first Thanksgiving Day, according to time-tables, in our new church edifice, be one acceptable in His sight, and full of love, peace, and good will for yourselves, your flock, and the race. Give to all the dear ones my love, and my prayer for their health, happiness, and holiness this and every day.   (Eddy, Mary Baker, The First Church Of Christ, Scientist and Miscellany, p.167:14-21)

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And the baby! Why, he made a big hole, with two incisors, in a big pippin, and bit the finger presumptuously poked into the little mouth to arrest the peel! Then he was caught walking! one, two, three steps, – and papa knew that he could walk, but grandpa was taken napping. Now! baby has tumbled, soft as thistle-down, on the floor; and instead of a real set-to at crying, a look of cheer and a toy from mamma bring the soft little palms patting together, and pucker the rosebud mouth into saying, “Oh, pretty!” That was a scientific baby; and his first sitting-at-table on Thanksgiving Day – yes, and his little rainbowy life – brought sunshine to every heart. How many homes echo such tones of heartfelt joy on Thanksgiving Day! But, alas! for the desolate home; for the tear-filled eyes looking longingly at the portal through which the loved one comes not, or gazing silently on the vacant seat at fireside and board – God comfort them all! we inwardly prayed – but the memory was too much; and, turning from it, in a bumper of pudding-sauce we drank to peace, and plenty, and happy households.  (Eddy, Mary Baker, Miscellaneous Writings, p.231:16-4)