The publication, A Sampling of Statements Regarding Mrs. Eddy’s Place in Bible Prophecy, appeared in 1993, and was compiled in support of Bliss Knapp’s book The Destiny of The Mother Church. It presented sixty-six pages of excerpts from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and from articles published by the Christian Science Publishing Society.
These excerpts show that the idea of Mrs. Eddy having a place in Biblical prophecy was not something solely derived from Mr. Knapp’s book, but was the established understanding of the Christian Science movement. Some of the authors of the excerpts include Mary Baker Eddy, Paul Stark Seeley, George Shaw Cook, Stuart Booth, Sue Harper Mims, and the Christian Science Board of Directors.
The following are excerpts:
Just as Jesus in the “first coming” revealed the fatherhood of God, so Mrs. Eddy in the “second coming” of the Christ revealed the motherhood of God. (Irving Tomlinson)
Without the recognition of its divine origin, the revelation of Christian Science would not be accepted and appraised at its full value. Mrs. Eddy must be known as appointed of God to be the revelator of Divine Science. The necessity was that her students should accord to her her rightful position. “When He commissions a messenger, it is one who is spiritually near Himself,” she writes in Science and Continue reading
