⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker EddyA reminder of what goes into Retrospection & Introspecton Note:

⇉ Handshift:UnknownA Remeniscence.

August 3, 1907.

Being in a remeniscent mood this afternoon, our Leader, the Rev. Mary Baker G, EddyEditorial Note: Retrospection and Introspection by Mary Baker Eddy, first published in 1891., said, when talking with us about the Court case in progressEditorial Note: This is a reference to the “Next Friends Suit.”: -- "When I had tried every thing else in vain for healing, and had investigated everything that purported at that time to be religion, not excepting spiritualism, I even went into that in order to find out whether it had any foundation, and was falsely charged with being a spiritualist for it, when, I say, I had looked into everything there was, and when medicine had failed to heal me of my sickness, hearing og of Quimby, I tried him, as a healer, and because he seemed to help me for the time, and had a higher ideal than I had heard of up to that time, I praised him to the skies, wrote him letters, -- they talk of my letters to Quimby, as if they were something secret, they were not, I was enthusiastic, and could'nt say too much in praise of him; I actually loved him, I mean his high and noble character, and admired him, and was literally unstinted in my praise of him, but when I found that Quimbyism was too short, and would not answer the cry of the human heart for succor, for real aid, I went, being driven thence by my extremity, to the Bible, and there I discovered Christian Science; and when I had found it, I deserted Quimby and his scheme of healing just as I had in turn deserted everything else in its turn, academical orthodoxy, religion, medicine, spiritualism and all the other etceteras of the day, and I have built Christian Science upon the Petra of the Scriptures, the bed-rock of the Christ Truth, against which the gates of all hades cannot prevailMatt 16:13 ¶When Jesus came into the coasts of C
æsarea
Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? Matt 16:14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others,
Jeremias, or one of the prophets. Matt 16:15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Matt 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Matt 16:17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar–jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. Matt 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. ."