CHAPTER XXI
THE NEW POLICY—MRS. EDDY RESIGNS FROM PULPIT AND JOURNAL AND CLOSES HER COLLEGE—DISORGANISATION OF THE CHURCH AND ASSOCIATION—RECONSTRUCTION ON A NEW BASIS—MRS. EDDY IN ABSOLUTE CONTROL AND POSSESSION
Mrs. Eddy's retreat from the centre of Christian Science activities was the first step, as will be seen, in the new policy toward which she was slowly feeling her way. From her point of view it was wise to let Christian Science in Boston lie fallow for a time; to allow the plots and counterplots of the factions composing the remnant of her church to die out; and to secure for herself peace, and time to decide what next should be done. There is no doubt that during her visit to Chicago the year before, her eyes were opened to the strength of the general movement of Christian Science, and that it was in the larger field, and not in the local Boston church, that Mrs. Eddy now saw her opportunity.
Mrs. Eddy retired from the editorship of the Christian Science Journal, May, 1889.
In announcing Mrs. Eddy's retirement, the Journal of that date says:
. . . As our dear mother in God withdraws herself from our midst, and goes up into the Mount for higher communings, to show us and the generations to come the way to our true consciousness in God,
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