Meeting Of My Departed Mother And Husband
Love
Woman's Rights
The Mother's Evening Prayer
June
Wish And Item
The Oak On The Mountain's Summit
Isle Of Wight
Hope
Rondelet
To Mr. James T. White
Autumn
Christ My Refuge
"Feed My Sheep"
Communion Hymn
Laus Deo!
A Verse
Chapter XII. Testimonials
Footnotes

DEDICATION.

To
Loyal Christian Scientists
In This And Every Land
I Lovingly Dedicate These Practical Teachings
Indispensable To The Culture And Achievements Which
Constitute The Success Of A Student
And Demonstrate The Ethics
Of Christian Science

Mary Baker Eddy

EPIGRAMS.

Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand,
To read it well; that is, to understand.

BEN JONSON: _Epigram_ 1

When I would know thee ... my thought looks
Upon thy well made choice of friends and books;
Then do I love thee, and behold thy ends
In making thy friends books, and thy books friends.

BEN JONSON: _Epigram_ 86

If worlds were formed by matter,
And mankind from the dust;
Till time shall end more timely,
There's nothing here to trust.

Thenceforth to evolution's
Geology, we say,--
Nothing have we gained therefrom,
And nothing have to pray:

My world has sprung from Spirit,
In everlasting day;
Whereof, I've more to glory,
Wherefor, have much to pay.

MARY BAKER EDDY

PREFACE.

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A certain apothegm of a Talmudical philosopher [1]
suits my sense of doing good. It reads thus: "The
noblest charity is to prevent a man from accepting
charity; and the best alms are to show and to enable a
man to dispense with alms." [5]

In the early history of Christian Science, among my
thousands of students few were wealthy. Now, Christian
Scientists are not indigent; and their comfortable fortunes
are acquired by healing mankind morally, physically,
spiritually. The easel of time presents pictures--once [10]
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