Page 6. The paragraph beginning “She
represented” speaks of woman’s place in a Christian church: a woman remained
silent in church and she was not invited to read the Scripture lesson or offer up
the prayer at family devotions. But she thought, she felt, she influenced
– like “the gentle dew and cheerful light.” In her own subversively
simple way she might "undermine the curse on Adam’s issue.”
I had made
a note in the margin: “Christian Science has transformed all of the Christian
religions.” How different the Protestant churches are to-day, maybe even
the Catholic ones. This, it seems to me, is the direct effect of Mrs.
Eddy’s discovery of the Science of Christianity.
Which makes me wonder about Islam: does it need a Mary
Baker Eddy to free it from tradition?
Joyce Voysey
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