I have never seen such slipshod work, bar the ten that interpreted for the home market the "sell all thou hast." I have quoted one "spiritual" rendering of the Lord's Prayer, I have seen one other one, and am told there are five more.

Yet the inspirer of Mrs.Eddy the new Infallible casts a complacent critical stone at the other Infallible for being unable to make up its mind about such things.

Science and Health, edition 1899, page 33: "The decisions, by vote of Church Councils, as to what should and should not be considered Holy Writ, the manifest mistakes in the ancient versions: the thirty thousand different readings in the Old Testament and the three hundred thousand in the New--these facts show how a mortal and material sense stole into the divine record, darkening, to some extent, the inspired pages with its own hue." To some extent, yes--speaking cautiously.

But it is nothing, really nothing; Mrs.Eddy is only a little way behind, and if her inspirer lives to get her Annex to suit him that Catholic record will have to "go 'way back and set down," as the ballad says.

Listen to the boastful song of Mrs.Eddy's organ, the Christian Science Journal for March, 1902, about that year's revamping and half-soling of Science and Health, whose official name is the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, and who is now the Official Pastor and Infallible and Unerring Guide of every Christian Science church in the two hemispheres, hear Simple Simon that met the pieman brag of the Infallible's fallibility: "Throughout the entire book the verbal changes are so numerous as to indicate the vast amount of time and labor Mrs.Eddy has devoted to this revision.