. These students were
obliged to pay a good stiff tuition, which fact made them appreciative.
In turn they went out and taught; all students paid the tidy sum of one
hundred dollars for the lessons, which fee was later cut to fifty.
Salvation may be free, but Christian Science costs money. The
theological genus piker, with his long, wrinkled, black coat, his collar
buttoned behind, and his high hat, has been eliminated.

Mrs. Eddy was manager of the best-methodized institution in the world,
save only the Roman Catholic Church and the Standard Oil Company. How
many million copies of "Science and Health" have been sold, no man can
say. What percentage of the money from the lessons went to Mrs. Eddy,
only an Armstrong Committee could ascertain, and really it was nobody's
business but hers.

That Mrs. Eddy had some very skilful helpers goes without saying. But
here is the point--she selected them, and reigned supreme. That the
student who paid fifty dollars got his money's worth, I have no doubt.
Not that he understood the lessons, but he received a feeling of courage
and a oneness with the whole which caused health to flow through his
veins and his heart to beat with joy. The lesson might have been to him
a jumble of words, but he lived in hopes that he would soon grow to a
point where the lines were luminous.

In the meantime, all he knew was that whereas he was once lame he could
now walk. Even the most bigoted and prejudiced now agree that the cures
of Christian Science are genuine. People who think they have trouble
have it, and it is the same with pain. Imagination is the only
sure-enough thing in the world. Mrs. Eddy's doctrines abolish pain and
therefore abolish poverty, for poverty, in America at least, is a
disease. Mrs. Eddy's chief characteristics were:

First, Love of Beauty as manifest in bodily form, dress and
surroundings.

Second, A zeal for system, order and concentrated effort on the
particular business she undertakes.

Third, A dignity, courage, self-sufficiency and self-respect that comes
from a belief in her own divinity.

Fourth, An economy of time, money, materials, energy and emotion that
wastes nothing, but which continually conserves and accumulates.

Fifth, A liberality, when advisable, which is only possible to those who
also economize.

Sixth, Yankee shrewdness, great commonsense, all flavored with a dash of
mysticism and indifference to physical scientific accuracy.

In other word