Rounding The Gospel Of Grace

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It was my honor to be a friend to David James Nolan,
and he to me. I think right up there with anyone he knew
more about and helped others learn Christian Science
history.

Mr. Nolan passed away April 7, 2008.

He was instrumental in freeing the Christian Science textbook,
"Science and Health With Key To The Scriptures", by
Mary Baker Eddy. Due to his work along with his organization,
United Christian Scientists, and especially we must name,
Lucille Place, in September, 1987, the textbook moved into
the public domain where it was then safe from any further
alterations by those who remained here after Mrs. Eddy's
Deeds of Trust already were violated by those who should
have honored them the most.

Three new Deeds of Trust recently have been discovered
from the New Hampshire archives. It was in fact Mr. Nolan who advised
me and
others that answers would be realized only in New Hampshire.

We wait now upon the laws of the land to uphold those
Deeds of Trust initiated by Mrs. Eddy's lawyers and which
at long last reveal that by law, her church was established
as a private trust, and not as a charitable public trust as successive
Boards of
Directors of the church in Boston
have misled others for years to believe. And why did she do
this?

Well, I feel safe to say that Mr. Nolan would be the first
to point out that never would our Leader, who was so firm
in *not* compromising conscience, never would she trust what
she had birthed, both the textbook and her church, - never
would she have left it unprotected or apt to ever be put in
a position where decisions would be made by those willing
to make such unsanctioned compromises.

While loving our neighbor as oneself, it is safe
to say that Mrs, Eddy would never have used the Golden
Rule to beat the drum of ecumenicalism so popular with
today's Boston bunch. This was because Mrs. Eddy's
God-given and revealed view on the Christ differs
substantially from that of mainstream Christianity.

Mrs. Eddy wrote right in the Preface to the Christian
Science textbook, "Science and Health With Key To The
Scriptures", Page X:11,

"The author has not compromised conscience to
suit the general drift of thought, but has bluntly
and honestly given the text of Truth."

In the midst of religious persecution against
herself and against her followers, Mary Baker Eddy
wrote the following in a message to her church, found
now in Prose Works,"Message for 1902", Page 2: 4-28:

"To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or
recognition; to wait on divine Love; to write truth first
6 on the tablet of one's own heart, - this is the sanity
and perfection of living, and my human ideal. The Science
of man and the universe, in contradistinction to all error,
9 is on the way, and Truth makes haste to meet and to wel-
come it. It is purifying all peoples, religions, ethics, and
learning, and making the children our teachers.
2 Within the last decade religion in the United States has
passed from stern Protestantism to doubtful liberalism.
God speed the right! The wise builders will build on the
5 stone at the head of the corner; and so Christian Science,
the little leaven hid in three measures of meal, - ethics,
medicine, and religion, - is rapidly fermenting, and en-
8 lightening the world with the glory of untrammelled truth.
The present modifications in ecclesiasticism are an out-
come of progress; dogmatism, relegated to the past, gives
21 place to a more spiritual manifestation, wherein Christ
is Alpha and Omega. It was an inherent characteristic
of my nature, a kind of birthmark, to love the Church;
24 and the Church once loved me. Then why not remain
friends, or at least agree to disagree, in love, - part fair
foes. I never left the Church, either in heart or in doc-
27 trine; I but began where the Church left off. When the
churches and I round the gospel of grace, in the circle of
love, we shall meet again, never to part."