CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13052, 11 March 1911, Page 4

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS.

"RESURRECTION" OF MRS, EDDY

The Christian scientists of America aro anticipating the resurrection in the semblance of the human form of Mrs Eddy, and the declaration of Mrs Augusta Stetson on the subject is accepted as tli© official statement, writes a London correspondent. Mrs Stetson occupies a unique position among Christian Scientists. She is- a woman of considerable learning and much administrative ability, thoroughly conscientious, and for a time ranked almost with Mrs Eddy herself as'the inspired loader. She was the presiding official of the First Church and the Christian Scientists in New York, and then jealousies intervening, she was excommunicated. . Mrs Stetson declares that the triumph over death is of the essence of Christian Science. She says: "I am watching and waiting for the demonstration by Mrs Eddy of herself in the semblance of a human form. It may be to-day; it may be next week ; jt may nqt be unti] twenty years from now'; but ev-en for twenty, years -I will wait', confident In the ultimate proof by her of her triumph over death. I know it will coma. I know it must oome. Nobody but Mrs Eddy, who is now one with the truth, could be the logical person to demonstrate in this hour. I believe that when the undying mind loses the earth-thought, or thct body, as you would say, it passes slowly from the fleshl- concept to the purely spiritual. I believa that Mrs Eddy will demonstrate herself before she has made this transition. Than she will still have the. aßßrepiable aspeut qf the material; so that she can be seen by the eyes of men.- Those who haye sufficiently elsvated a themselves so as nearly to approach the spiritual, leaving the material concepts-behind them, will be the first to see .Mrs Eddy, but the whole world shall b^ a witness tp. her demonstration in thq endI.'!* : "' ' '

When Mrs Stetson was asked if she objected to the stationing of four armed guards about the receiving vault in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston, where Mrs Eddy's body lies, shc< answered, "Oh, not in the least. Do thy not help: to call the attention of the world "to this aoiit, pq icempiijlqiigly hnpprta.nt in this hour ? These gua-njs ma" themselves brj witnesses to Mrs JEjjdy's, demonstration*"

Asked H ihesw i^e^s wer.e shared by others, Mrs Stetson ' replied: "Jl'hpre are many, many Christian Scientists, now dazed and confounded, who will welcome this belief as the true light. My message will be of tremendous import to, them." . '.'