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The Origin of Christian Science.

holds that Jesus is divine as all men are but that he came to the highest possible understanding of truth for his age and on as far as ours when she herself favors humanity with the complete development of his system and the finality of revelation. Christian Science presents to us a trio of great revelators, Moses,[1] Jesus, Eddy, each emitting light according to his time and place in the upward march of the race. Now according to the logic of evolution, the last is greatest.

This makes it plain, I repeat, how Mrs. Eddy with the serenity of an angel of light can take a seat by the side of, if not above, Jesus of Nazareth.

Mrs. Eddy says: “No person can compass or fulfill the individual mission of Jesus of Nazareth. No person can take the place of the author of Science and Health, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science;”[2] “He (Jesus) expressed the highest type of divinity, which a fleshly form could express in that age;”[3] “The Ego is revealed as Father, Son and Holy Ghost, but the full Truth is found only in Divine Science where we see God as Life, Truth, and Love;”[4] “If the author of the Christian Science text-book call on this Board (of Directors of the First Church of Christ Scientist, in Boston, Mass.) for household help, or a handmaid, the Board shall immediately appoint a proper member of the Church therefor,