Q&A

What questions are asked and answered in Eddy’s Message for 1900? There are just seven, and as we look at them, we might challenge ourselves to find our own answers before we read Eddy’s –

 

a)     P. 2 Here is a question to “the intermediate worker” who “works at times”: But what of the fruits of your labors?  The answer hits home: “I am not so successful as I could wish, but I work hard enough to be so.”

b)     P. 3 “Now, what saith Christian Science?” “When a man is right, his thoughts are right, active, and they are fruitful; he loses self in love, and cannot hear himself, unless he loses the chord.  The right thinker and worker does his best, and does the thinking for the ages….He improves moments; to him time is money, and he hoards this capital to distribute gain.”

c)      P. 3 “…the animus of heathen religion was not the incentive of the devout Jew—but has it not tainted the religious sects?”  [Animus - (i) strong dislike or enmity; hostile attitude; animosity (ii) purpose; intention; animating spirit (iii) in the psychology of Jung, the masculine principle, especially as present in women – contrasted with anima]  Eddy’s discussion here is about the sanctioning of idolatry (other gods) by the Israelites in Babylon during the period of captivity.

d)     P. 4 “The question as to religion is: Does it demonstrate its doctrines?”

e)     P. 4 continues the discussion of the previous question with this next query: “Do religionists believe that God is One and All?”

f)      P. 7 “Is there more than one Christ, and hath Christ a second appearing?  There is but one Christ.  And from everlasting to everlasting this Christ is never absent.”

g)     p. 9 Here the query is from Scripture “Why art thou come hither to torment me before the time?” and illustrates the response of many to the open secret of Christian Science i.e. right thinking and acting.  Who can be bothered right now….

 

Are we ready to think and act rightly, to accept that we have “the mind of Christ” right now?

 

Julie Swannell