Mary Baker Eddy's Challenge To The World Accepted And Answered

MARY BAKER CHALLENGE TO THE WORLD Accepted and Answered By ARTHUR E. OVERBURY And THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH By WILLIAM McAFEE GOODWIN, L. B., C. S. Published and For Sale By ARTHUR E. OVERBURY Monrovia, California 3 CONTENTS 1ST SECTION Pages Foreword 7-15 Concerning the question of Authority and Jurisdic tion 17-86 2ND SECTION Did Mary Baker Eddy or Dr. P. P. Quimby first dis cover the Science of Christian Meta-physics. . 89-114 3RD SECTION Eeprinted portions from The Christian Science Church by William McAfee Goodwin, L. B., C. S, Christian Science Practitioner, Teacher and Lecturer 115-157 A CHALLENGE MARY BAKER EDDY CHALLENGES THE WORLD under heading VERITAS ODIUM PARTIT and says I have professed Christianity a half - century and now I calmly challenge the world, upon fair investigation, to furnish a single instance of departure in one of my works from the high est possible ethics See Miscellaneous Writings, p. 247, y Mary Baker Eddy. MARY BAKER EDDYS CHALLENGE ACCEPTED BY ARTHUR K OVERBURY Author-Translator of THE TRIUMPHANT CHRIST VERSION of THE NEW TESTAMENT A translation that presents true Christianity from an absolutely impersonal standpoint and from a strictly Scientific and Re ligious aspect and recognizes both Healing and Teaching as component parts of all true Christianity. FOREWORD AUTHORS MOTIVE IN TAKING UP THIS CHALLENGE The sole object and aim of the author is to be INSTRUCTIVE, CONSTRUCTIVE, and HELPFUL in rectifying a great wrong that affects all humanity, and this in accord with the following statement which was made by Mary Baker Eddy, in her Communion Address of June 6, 1899, to The Mother Church The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Bos ton, Mass., whichreads A LIE LEFT TO ITSELF IS NOT SO SOON DESTROYED AS IT IS WITH THE HELP OF TRUTH TELLING. And with her instruction in her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 452, which reads WHEN ERROR CONFRONTS YOU, WITHOLD NOT THE REBUKE OR THE EXPLANATION WHICH DESTROYS ERROR. As individual spiritual children of God, in Truth are we not Gods freedmen, as exemplified by Jesus, entitled Christ, with transcendent possibilities, or are we mere puppets and sycho phants of some self-exalted personality or man-made ecclesias tical institution This all-important question, dear reader, is put fairly and squarely up to you to answer each for himself as in the very presence of God, and regardless of what another may have said or what you have heretofore believed. Before proceeding to designate a specific instance or instances where Mary Baker Eddy has been guilty of departing from the highest possible ethics, a word of explanation undoubtedly would be welcomed. The gravity of the charges being made unquestionably calls for the selection of specific instances of such major importance as are sufficient to warrant and justify the taking of such drastic action as is involved in challenging the word of Mary Baker Eddy, a world renowned character, and bringing the matter to public attention. The Author of this Thesis wishes to make it as plain as words can convey that he is taking this drastic step solely to bring about a much needed change in the Christian Science Church Hierarchy and its By-laws, particularly as the errors Foreword involved relate to the assumption and usurpation of authority to exercise jurisdiction over the spiritual lives and actions of Chris tian Truth-seekers, bothinside and outside the Church. A mat ter so far-reaching that it vitally concerns the welfare of all hu manity, and not merely a matter of difference of opinion con cerning minor matters of Church organization and policy, nor in any spirit of carping or wanton criticism of a marvelous woman and her lifework...