[Christian Science by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookChristian Science CHAPTER XV 52/77
She is aware of that.
I will say a further word about the museum presently. Further down the column, her memory is unfaithful again: "I believe in...
but one Mother Mary, and know I am not that one, and never claimed to be." At a session of the National Christian Science Association, held in the city of New York on the 27th of May, 1890, the secretary was "instructed to send to our Mother greetings and words of affection from her assembled children." Her telegraphic response was read to the Association at next day's meeting: "All hail! He hath filled the hungry with good things and the sick hath He not sent empty away .-- MOTHER MARY." Which Mother Mary is this one? Are there two? If so, she is both of them; for, when she signed this telegram in this satisfied and unprotesting way, the Mother-title which she was going to so strenuously object to, and put from her with humility, and seize with both hands, and reserve as her sole property, and protect her monopoly of it with a stern By-law, while recognizing with diffidence that it was "not applicable" to her (then and to-day)--that Mother--title was not yet born, and would not be offered to her until five years later.
The date of the above "Mother Mary" is 1890; the "individual, endearing title of Mother" was given her "in 1895"-- according to her own testimony.
See her By-law quoted above. In his opening Address to that Convention of 1890, the President recognized this Mary--our Mary-and abolished all previous ones.
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