ago that it is now. Benedict had
to fight inertia, selfishness and incipient paranoia, just as does the
man who tries to introduce practical socialism today. A few extracts
from this very remarkable Book of Rules will show the shrewd Connecticut
wisdom of Benedict. To hold the dowdy, indifferent, slipshod and
underdone in their proper places, so they could not disturb or destroy
the peace, policy and prosperity of the efficient, was the task of
Benedict.

Benedict says: "Written and formal rules are necessary only because we
are all faulty men, with a tendency towards selfishness and disorder.
When men become wise, and also unselfish, there will be no need of rules
and laws."

The Book of Rules by Benedict is a volume of more than twenty thousand
words. Its scope reveals an insight that will appeal to all who have had
to do with socialistic experiments, not to mention the management of
labor-unions. Benedict was one of the industrial leaders of the world.
His life was an epoch, and his influence still abides.

[Illustration: MARY BAKER EDDY]

MARY BAKER EDDY

The chief stones in the temple of Christian Science are to be found
in the following postulates: that Life is God, good and not evil;
that Soul is sinless, not to be found in the body; that Spirit is
not and can not be materialized; that Life is not subject to death;
that the spiritual real man has no consciousness of material life
or death.

--_Mary Baker Eddy_

MARY BAKER EDDY

Let the fact be here stated that Mary Baker Eddy was the founder of
Christian Science. This woman lived long and well.

She was alert, earnest, highly intelligent, receptive. She was ever
discovering. We know this because she put out a new message every little
while, or modified an old one, having come in the meantime into a
position to get a nearer and clearer view of the fact. The last edition
of "Science and Health" is a different book from the first one.

Christian Science is not a fixed, formed, fossilized, ossified
structure. Possibly it may become so. But the probabilities are it will
grow, expand, advance. Life and growth consist in eliminating dead
matter and evolving new tissue. The institution, commercial, artistic,
social, political, religious, that has ceased to grow has begun to
disintegrate.

Christian Scientists do not flee the world, renouncing and denouncing
it. As a people they are well, happy, hopeful, enthusia