More interesting quotes from Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy by Irving Tomlinson:
Page 172
On one occasion, Mrs. Eddy
said to a member of her household that the way to establish the Cause through
reason is through writing and preaching, teaching and lecturing. This is
temporal. But the way to establish the Cause through revelation is by healing,
and this is permanent.
Page 173 – Lecture note re delivering the same lecture in
various parts of the Field. Mrs. Eddy sent the author this recommendation:
“I suggest that you prepare a
lecture with a view to giving it to the reporters and so make one answer for
several places. Take the questions uppermost in the public mind and answer them
systematically in Science.”
Mrs. Eddy saw the value of the reporting of lectures in the
newspapers. Today we have many more lines of communication with the public;
more complications for the lecture committees.
Tomlinson has given us a whole chapter on home – "At Home"
On one occasion, as I recall, Mrs.
Eddy said to the members of her household: “Home is not a place but a power. We
find home when we arrive at the full understanding of God. Home! Think of it! Where
sense has no claims and Soul satisfies.” (My emphasis)
Mrs. Eddy said to the author (page 212):
“A home should be something more than four
walls. There should be about it noble trees, beautiful shrubbery, flowers,
vines clambering over the house, and a rose garden.”
Mrs. Eddy loved children and saw their innocence and purity
which she sometimes found lacking in the older folk. Tomlinson recounts (page 232):
One day at the dinner table
the story was told of a young boy of three whose mother was ill. He crept into
her lap and began to talk to her of Science. He had been told that he was
Love’s little boy, and he said, “… Mamma, say ‘the scientific statement of
being,’ repeat the Lord’s Prayer.” The mother obeyed and was soon well. Mrs.
Eddy said, “… We must all return to the simplicity, love, and gentleness of the
child.”
Joyce Voysey
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