Annie Knott was
appointed as a lecturer and for some time was not being called on to give
lectures. Mrs. Eddy told her, “You must rise to the altitude of true womanhood,
and then the whole world will want you as it wants Mother” (We Knew Mary Baker Eddy vol 1 Expanded Edition, pp. 191-2). And, '“I would like
to know who has the most intellect, the man or the woman? And then she laughingly added, “There is
not any such thing as intellect, but I mean who reflects the most intelligence,
the man or the woman? Take Adam and Eve, was it not the woman who first
discovered that she was in error and was the first to admit it?”' (ibid p. 192). Mrs. Knott
found this to be a new definition of intelligence.
Are we willing today to
admit we have been in error on some matter?
Yes. Mrs. Knott started to
have calls to lecture.
Alfred Farlow tells us how
to interview Mary Baker Eddy - see page 211 of We Knew Mary Baker Eddy vol 1 Expanded Edition. Aren’t we, as members of Christian
Science churches, often to be found saying, “I wonder what Mrs. Eddy would
say”? The answers are all in the books.
And don’t we sometimes
berate ourselves for not being able to assimilate more of Science? Emma Newman
recorded Mrs. Eddy writing with thanks to Newman's father for a sermon of his which
was published in The Christian Science Journal, pp. 294-300, October 1893. Eddy's note read: “God bless you and every day show you a little more of Infinite
Love. Just your daily bread, more you will not digest” (WKMBE p. 240). Just enough bread
to digest at a time. How wise!
Now here is a condition
which one would think Mrs. Eddy would never talk about – hermaphrodite
mentality. At the time of the "Next Friends" suit, Hermann Hering says of the
work done in spiritual defence: ‘The trial was a very stubborn fight, and there
seemed to be no progress made and little indication that Truth would win out.
There was some very subtle work going on, and finally Mrs. Eddy sent word to
these workers, “You must know that there is no hermaphrodite mentality.” From
that time on things began to break. The power of evil was taken away, and very
soon the trial was ended’ (ibid p. 450).
The reader is not likely to
recognise that big word, I presume. But it is a condition much talked about in
our time. My dictionary defines it: A person or animal having both male and
female sex organs or other sexual characteristics, either abnormally (in the
case of some organism) or as the natural condition.
One stands in awe at Mrs.
Eddy discernment of the situation!
The
foregoing is the result of my having started to read our book of the month some
time before it was announced. I made notes in the back of the book and referred
to them for this writing. I am currently up to page 251 with Daisette McKenzie.
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