BOOK II - CHAPTER VI - THE SACRED POEMS

When Mrs. Eddy's "sacred revelations" (that is the language of the By-
laws) are read in public, their authorship must be named. The By-laws
twice command this, therefore we mention it twice, to be fair.

But it is also commanded that when a member publicly quotes "from the
poems of our Pastor Emeritus" the authorship shall be named. For these
are sacred, too. There are kindly people who may suspect a hidden
generosity in that By-law; they may think it is there to protect the
Official Reader from the suspicion of having written the poems himself.
Such do not know Mrs. Eddy. She does an inordinate deal of protecting,
but in no distinctly named and specified case in her history has Number
Two been the object of it. Instances have been claimed, but they have
failed of proof, and even of plausibility.

"Members shall also instruct their students" to look out and advertise
the authorship when they read those poems and things. Not on Mrs. Eddy's
account, but "for the good of our Cause."

Read next: BOOK II#CHAPTER VII - THE CHURCH EDIFICE

Read previous: BOOK II#CHAPTER VI - THE NEW INFALLIBILITY

Table of content of Christian Science



GO TO TOP OF SCREEN

Post your review
Your review will be placed after the table of content of this book