No and Yes   By: Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910)

by

MARY BAKER EDDY

Author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

Published by The Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy Boston, U.S.A.

Authorized Literature of The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts

1919

PREFACE

It was the purpose of each edition of this pamphlet to benefit no favored class, but, according to the apostle's admonition, to "reprove, rebuke, exhort," and with the power and self sacrificing spirit of Love to correct involuntary as well as voluntary error.

By a modification of the language, the import of this edition is, we trust, transparent to the hearts of all conscientious laborers in the realm of Mind healing. To those who are athirst for the life giving waters of a true divinity, it saith tenderly, "Come and drink;" and if you are babes in Christ, leave the meat and take the unadulterated milk of the Word, until you grow to apprehend the pure spirituality of Truth.

MARY BAKER EDDY

CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

DISEASE UNREAL

SCIENCE OF MIND HEALING

IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE OF THE SAME LINEAGE AS SPIRITUALISM OR THEOSOPHY?

IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE FROM BENEATH, AND NOT FROM ABOVE?

IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PANTHEISTIC?

IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BLASPHEMOUS?

IS THERE A PERSONAL DEITY?

IS THERE A PERSONAL DEVIL?

IS MAN A PERSON?

HAS MAN A SOUL?

IS SIN FORGIVEN?

IS THERE ANY SUCH THING AS SIN?

IS THERE NO SACRIFICIAL ATONEMENT?

IS THERE NO INTERCESSORY PRAYER?

SHOULD CHRISTIANS BEWARE OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE?

NO AND YES

INTRODUCTION

To kindle in all minds a common sentiment of regard for the spiritual idea emanating from the infinite, is a most needful work; but this must be done gradually, for Truth is as "the still, small voice," which comes to our recognition only as our natures are changed by its silent influence.

Small streams are noisy and rush precipitately; and babbling brooks fill the rivers till they rise in floods, demolishing bridges and overwhelming cities. So men, when thrilled by a new idea, are sometimes impatient; and, when public sentiment is aroused, are liable to be borne on by the current of feeling. They should then turn temporarily from the tumult, for the silent cultivation of the true idea and the quiet practice of its virtues. When the noise and stir of contending sentiments cease, and the flames die away on the mount of revelation, we can read more clearly the tablets of Truth.

The theology and medicine of Jesus were one, in the divine oneness of the trinity, Life, Truth, and Love, which healed the sick and cleansed the sinful. This trinity in unity, correcting the individual thought, is the only Mind healing I vindicate; and on its standard have emblazoned that crystallized expression, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

A spurious and hydra headed mind healing is naturally glared at by the pulpit, ostracized by the medical faculty, and scorned by people of common sense. To aver that disease is normal, a God bestowed and stubborn reality, but that you can heal it, leaves you to work against that which is natural and a law of being. It is scientific to rob disease of all reality; and to accomplish this, you cannot begin by admitting its reality. Our Master taught his students to deny self, sense, and take up the cross. Mental healers who admit that disease is real should be made to test the feasibility of what they say by healing one case audibly, through such an admission, if this is possible. I have healed more disease by the spoken than the unspoken word.

The honest student of Christian Science is modest in his claims and conscientious in duty, waiting and working to mature what he has been taught. Institutes furnished with such teachers are becoming beacon lights along the shores of erudition; and many who are not teachers have large practices and some marked success in healing the most defiant forms of disease.