“Upheld by
divine Love man can make himself perfect but he must not attempt this too
rapidly with his neighbor.”
The same page (199) quotes Mrs. Grace A. Greene:
She would often say to me, “I make my pumpkin pies thus and so,” or “I
make puddings like this.” One day I said, “Mother, can you really
make pies and puddings?” She replied, “Of course I can.” And then
she told me of making herself a bonnet and dress when she was too poor to hire
them done, although she had never done such a thing in her life before.
She finished by saying, “If you are an ordinary cook, dressmaker, or
milliner, Christian Science will make you perfect in any of these
lines, and everyone should seek to perfect himself wherever he is,
or whatever his
calling.”
And what does Jesus the Christ say? “Be ye therefore
perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect” (Matt. 5:48).
Is not this the Science of Being which we are to demonstrate?
On page 207 I find something which was a new fact to me – Mrs.
Eddy had seen that there was a need to preserve the teaching of Christian
Science in Class Instruction and be kept pure and unadulterated for future
generations. She had Mrs. Adams and Mrs. Webster of Chicago form a committee
of her old students and compile a set of by-laws in connection with teaching.
And on page 212 Powell defines democracy: “Democracy is
impulsive. Democracy resents privacy. Democracy wants to know it
all.” One thinks of the ‘muckraking’ of Mrs. Eddy’s day and the
effects of radio and television in ours.
Joyce Voysey
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