With a
thought to present-day set up of Christian Science church web sites, it is
interesting to note what Robert Peel records that Mrs. Eddy wrote about photographs of churches:
“I
recommend to all churches to give no special publicity and particularly no
public pictures of their churches. It is too commercial, too cheap looking, too
little like things that come in course and to stay; and too like a surprise
that one can have a church edifice! These have always been my views on this
subject. I felt so even in regard to the Mother Church – although that is an
exception to all others.”
(See Mary Baker Eddy: Years of Authority, by Robert Peel, page 402.)
On a different tack, I love
what Edward Bates wrote about Eddy's Miscellaneous Writings,
“Two years ago you gave
us our impersonal Pastor* . . . and now you give us the Impersonal Teacher” (ibid, p. 104).
(*Eddy had made the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures pastor of the church.)
Joyce Voysey
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