Eddyism, Commonly Called “Christian Science” 157 itual breakfast . . . in the bright morning hours” (p. 34, “Science and Health”). ‘No cross, no passion, and a resur rection, not from the dead, but from sleep, or a swoon! The so-called “Communion Service” used to be held once a year; but in 1908 it was abolished from the Mother Church in Boston, because the crowd was inconvenient. That was the reason assigned, but in her order Mrs. Eddy decreed: “There shall be no more communion season in the Mother Church that has blossomed into spiritual beauty, communion universal and Divine.” Thus this “dead rite,” as she called it, was done away with. “ resurrection ” I t is important to note what Mrs. Eddy has to say about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. “The lonely precincts of the tomb gave Jesus a refuge from His foes”, where “He met and mastered, on the basis of Christian Science, all the claims of medicine, surgery and hygiene” (p. 44, “Science and Health”). “But it was not a supernatural act” (p. 34, “Science and Health”). “His disciples believed Jesus dead while He was hidden in the sepulchre; whereas He was alive, demonstrating within the narrow tomb the power of Spirit to over-rule mortal, material sense” (p. 34, “Science and Health”). When “Jesus’ students . . . saw Him after His crucifixion,” they “learned that He had not died” (p. 46, “Science and Health”). Mrs. Eddy speaks of His condition “after what seemed to be death,” and she quotes Paul in this fashion, “we were reconciled to God by the (seeming) death of His Son” (p. 46, “Science and Health”). Now the public does not know all this, or any small part of it, indeed. No follower of Mrs. Eddy, so far as I have discovered, ever mentions these wholesale and outrageous de nials of New Testament truth. They never refer to these things either on the platform or in their newspaper corre-
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