s. Eddy's ideas about dress, housekeeping, business, food,
health, the management of servants, the care of children--all are
blended into a composite, and this composite is the Christian Scientist
as we see and know him.

The fact that Mrs. Eddy was methodical, industrious, economical,
persevering, courageous, hopeful, helpful, neat in her attire and
smiling, makes all Christian Scientists exactly so. She did not play
cards and indulge in the manifold silliness of so-called good society,
and neither do they. Indeed, that one thing which has been referred to
as "the plaster-of-Paris smile," the one feature in Christian Science to
which many good people object, is the direct legacy of Mrs. Eddy to her
pupils. "Science and Health" says nothing about it; no edict has been
put forth recommending it; but all good Christian Scientists take it
on--the smile that refuses to vacate the premises. And to some it is
certainly very becoming. Mrs. Eddy's self-reliant, silent, smiling
personality has given the key to conduct for the hundreds of thousands
of people who love her and revere her memory.

Mrs. Eddy was a rare good listener. She did not argue. Once upon a time,
indeed, she was guilty of waving the red flag of wordy warfare; but the
passing of the years brought her wisdom, and then her only answer to
impatience was the quiet smile. As for eating, her table always had
enough, but it stopped short of surfeit; the service was dainty, and all
these things are now seen in the homes of Christian Scientists. Always
in the home of a good Christian Scientist the bathroom is as complete as
the library, and both are models of good housekeeping, seemingly always
in order for the inspection committee.

Mrs. Eddy did not say much about hot water, soap and clean towels; but
the idea, regardless of the non-existence of matter, is fixed in the
consciousness of every Christian Scientist that absolute bodily
cleanliness, fresh linen and fresh air are not only next to godliness,
but elements of it. All of which you could never work out of "Science
and Health with Key to the Scriptures" in a lifetime of study, any more
than you could mine and smelt the Westminster Catechism out of the
Bible.

The vital truths of right living come to us as a precious heritage from
the character of this great woman. She, herself, perhaps may not have
known this; but before she wrote her book and formulated her religion,
she lived her life. Her book was an endea