Mrs. Eddy and the Sermon on the Mount

[MaryBeth]

In Volume 1 of the book “Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Precepts” by Gilbert Carpenter, Mrs. Eddy examines the question “What it really means to be a Christian Scientist?” She answers some of this question by referring to passages from the Sermon on the Mount, which are cited in this week’s lesson. It is a very helpful examination. For instance, “If you spiritually take less thought of what appetite craves or desires, about what you eat, or drink, then you will drink water instead of coffee, tea or stimulants, and save much expense in cooking and groceries. Your clothing will abide, instead of pass away. Your thought will so replenish yourself with wearing apparel that your clothing will be like the widow’s oil, rather than the fashionable ladies’ wardrobe from Parisian models and much time saved for usefulness instead of being expended on shopping, and selecting and fitting garments.” (page 162)

[MaryBeth]

Mrs. Eddy emphasizes the importance of this Sermon time and again in many of her other writings. She states in Miscellaneous Writings page 12 “Every man and woman should be to-day a law to himself, herself, – a law of loyalty to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount.” And in Message from 1901 page 11, “To my sense the Sermon on the Mount, read each Sunday without comment and obeyed throughout the week, would be enough for Christian practice.”

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