Laura Sargent’s
contribution (We Knew Mary Baker Eddy Vol 1 Expanded Edition pp. 95-128) is very different from others. She seems to be quoting from notes
made at the time Mrs. Eddy shared inspirations with the workers in her home. It
is made up of metaphysical rather than personal anecdotes. It is a part of the
book that really needs to be studied with the Bible and Science and Health
at hand, for example, on page 96 --
July 12, 1896:
Mother was speaking to us of
the “[h]eaven that is right here when we understand it." Then she said, “And the
throne will be there and God will be there.” Then after a slight pause, she
said, “And the precious book will be there.”
After a few hours I opened the
Bible to find a verse, and my eye caught verses 11 and 12 of Revelation chapter
20.
And, on pages 118/9:
Mother called us and read Mark 7:15 and said mesmerism
from without cannot hurt you. Only that which is within is what we need to
watch against most and strive to overcome. Then that from without will find
nothing in us.
Page 116. On speaking to a
child Mrs. Eddy said,
“If I had a child in my arms, I would speak to it
mentally till it was old enough to know what I said. Then I should say to it,
‘You cannot sin. There is no sin; it is all love.’”
If we have stumbled over
“Desire is prayer” from the textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, we will be gladdened with this (page 116):
“… I
told her my one desire was to know the spiritual idea of Life, Truth and Love.
She said if you truly desire that, you will certainly obtain it, for one always
gets what one desires. If one desires evil, they get evil. Then she said if you
had a true sense of Life, it would be manifested in action and
you would find the other two (Truth and Love) included in it.”
Page 123.
Mother said the
inaudible word was more potent, and we are not to talk when she shows us what
there is to meet but to silently declare the [t]ruth. This is scientific
practice.
Joyce Voysey
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