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this gift of G.o.d to the race, I am the debtor.

In the latter half of the nineteenth century I discov- ered the Science of Christianity, and restored the first patient healed in this age by Christian Science. I taught the first student in Christian Science Mind-healing; was [15]

author and publisher of the first books on this subject; obtained the first charter for the first Christian Science church, originated its form of government, and was its first pastor. I donated to this church the land on which in 1894 was erected the first church edifice of this denomination [20]

in Boston; obtained the first and only charter for a metaphysical medical college,-was its first and only president; was editor and proprietor of the first Christian Science periodical; organized the first Christian Scientist a.s.sociation, wrote its const.i.tution and by- [25]

laws,-as also the const.i.tution and by-laws of the National Christian Science a.s.sociation; and gave it _The Christian Science Journal_; inaugurated our denom- inational form of Sunday services, Sunday School, and so the entire system of teaching and practising Christian [30]

Science.

In 1895 I ordained that the Bible, and ”Science and

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Health with Key to the Scriptures,” the Christian Science [1]

textbook, be the pastor, on this planet, of all the churches of the Christian Science denomination. This ordinance took effect the same year, and met with the universal ap- proval and support of Christian Scientists. Whenever [5]

and wherever a church of Christian Science is established, its pastor is the Bible and my book.

In 1896 it goes without saying, preeminent over igno- rance or envy, that Christian Science _is founded by its_ _discoverer_, and built upon the rock of Christ. The el- [10]

ements of earth beat in vain against the immortal parapets of this Science. Erect and eternal, it will go on with the ages, go down the dim posterns of time unharmed, and on every battle-field rise higher in the estimation of thinkers and in the hearts of Christians. [15]

CHAPTER XI. POEMS

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Come Thou

Come, in the minstrel's lay; [2]

When two hearts meet, And true hearts greet, And all is morn and May. [5]

Come Thou! and now, anew, To thought and deed Give sober speed, Thy will to know, and do.

Stay! till the storms are o'er- [10]

The cold blasts done, The reign of heaven begun, And Love, the evermore.

Be patient, waiting heart: Light, Love divine [15]

Is here, and thine; You therefore cannot part.

”The seasons come and go: Love, like the sea, Rolls on with thee,- [20]

But knows no ebb and flow.

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”Faith, hope, and tears, triune, [1]

Above the sod Find peace in G.o.d, And one eternal noon.”

Oh, Thou hast heard my prayer; [5]

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