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Show UTAH VALLEY NEWS 14, m good and to be eoaecloua of HU Infinite bleaalnga, for. la exaet worda, "Practice not her pip. feaalon, undera lauding not ballet 1 Lecture bare Jy. on rHRlSnAN SCIENCE Ptrtfc edlTl-eui- , Entitled wildlif, Christian Science: "x S he Healing Power of Spiritual W. gala the ear and right hand of omnipotence and they eall down . Infinite bleMlnl? W H. p. 11,. in thla iK. therefore, we are led to aee that "the great aacrlflce of material thlnga" which "muat precede thU advanced aplrltual understand- be Mt it reauIU Moreover, Hla infinitude Implies Hla perfection and Hla perfection Implies goodness, for that which 4a Infinite cannot bo Imperfect since imperfection meana that something la lacking, while Infinitude means completeness. Furthermore, perfection has no element of dsetructioa and accordingly la synonymous with goodness. The Anglo-Saxo-n tongue doubled tha vowel in the word God and called Him good, thua stating Hla essential nature. no aacrlflee rulliru at all,tU?' lone Os In oar becoming aware of having all we Kibe, could need and all that Men is Sidrltual by enlightCL B. B. ened aenae CHAINING, w wa b could ever aak for. What we have been For lira. Eddy refara to auch about God la revealed In saying of gun Francisco Chris,lf PWW, aplrltual underatandlng aa prayar tian Science as tha foundation Introduced by and declare! that "Such prayer upon which all true consciousness M" Offfe TM speaker I Adah Winter. The lecturer heala sickness. and muat deatroy rests, the bails for all right aa follows: eln and death" (S. H., y. reasoning and true intuition. The f substantially naked were tonight I If aplrltual yy0, tnd underatandlng u Christian Science textbook puts ot sattofy-ou- r thua the It this way: "To grasp the reality 0 power capable of our true object every request to name and the meana by which our nd order of being In Its Science, that we moat deelro, dally experience u muat begin by reckoning l( thing improved, you should be no more relue-o- r nvanlfeetly It will God aa the divine Principle of all ua to profit eonfuslon In our thought know more about aplrltual under- that really la" (S ft H, S7C: 14 11). there appeared to hr In the atandlng and how it U It la clear that once utillied. we understand the nature of the light of Solomon, the new, Spiritual underatandlng, by whoaa wlae which human I King of larael, conception, mater- creator we are In a position to la recorded ial U ply to that queetlon aenia, aeparated from Truth, deduee tha nature of creation, the Bible In the third chapter la the firmament," aaya the for like produces like. Once we Give Chriatlan Science if the flret book of Klnga. textbook, rtfer-rin-g understand God, we understand an under-luadln-g he Lord." o aald, to God'a creative command man. For, aa pointed out by the j, heart." Science (GeneaU I: ) "Let there be a Chrlatlan The correctneea of thla request, firmament In the mldat of tha (p. 447), Reasoning from cause why It waa fulfilled, watera, and let it divide the to effect In the Science of Mind, lh reaaon we begin with Mind, which muat tod the additional bleaalnga It watera from the watera. That ao Solomon which to aa he long separatee tha falalty of be understood through the Idea might true to hia aplrltual prompt human conception from the real- which expresses It and cannot be are aignlficant In the hint ity of all that God concelvea or learned from Its opposite, matSince God to Spirit, Hla iuy give of the true way to pray creates U, then, spiritual under- ter. Itios, eraation to spiritual. Solomon did not aak atandlng. lo God. amounts to saying that there to more ipecUlcally for anything Bourne no material man and no material the unilera tending, as the God, The The acquisition of thU spirt uni universe, for man. Including the iblical narrative ampllflea It, to the creation of God, to dlocern between good and understanding thU divine qual- universe, It Matter Spirit. being finite. that he ity bad," yet exposes the nothingness experienced the reeulta which follow our of human conception and recog- cannot ba Included In tha Infinite thla kind of prayer. God nises, discerns, and realises that God nor ba the offsprng or outIvin doea anawar the for God la tha father of man, includ- come of Him. That which la not Understanding 'od.h,, in i). . de-Ir- textbook This nt prayer jiptrltnal underatandlng, for auch i prayer cornea out ot aplrltual aome judentanding itaelf of thla divine quality In human mind, aome jiko Mding of the human mind to lta g prteeace aa the Infinite of the divinely IntelU goat and perfect Spirit, God Hlm-iIt takea wladom to aak lor wiidom, and Solomon in uklng for it, waa. In the degree that he diacerned the aplrltual iiture of wladom, recognlxing the trio nature of hla own being and uklng to aee more of that iiture. Thla brought him, aa Bible reader! will remember, the (oomendation of God, which routined with him ao long aa ha vie true to hla high Ideal. Behold, " aald the heavenly Father, "I have given thee a wlae aid an underatandlng heart." And the divine Spirit further explained that hecauae Solomon had not aaked for rlchea and honor, nor to have hla enemlea dertroyed, but had aaked for the one true thing, he waa to have all of theae other thlnga aa the effect of hla right dealre; and If he voald but aerve God truly he waa alio to have long life la which under-jtuadin- el to aerve et Him. Ihe Puipoee and Effect of Prayer Ton and I, In our aearch for fill, rich, aatlafylng and uaeful Uvea, will do well to remember the lessons of that narrative and to utilise them with even greater fidelity than Solomon continued to do 75 ing the universe requires an answer to the foundational question: What Is God?" Already In this lecture we have been using the word Spirit aa a term for God. Spirit is one of the Scriptural names for God. Christ Jeaua, you will remember, told the Samaritan woman at tha well that "God la a Spirit; and they that worship him muat woahlp him lu spirit and In truth (John 4: 14). Surely It la the underatandlng of Oils Spirit, which muat be "In spirit and In worshipped truth," that constitutes tha spiritual understanding we muat attain. Spirit la not the only name for Deity used in Scripture and for that reason accepted by Christian Science aa a synonym for God. Ufa, Truth, Love are others. These words, with their Initial letter capitalised, are exalted to their high place In tha language of Christian 8clenea u names for God, both because of Biblical authority for this use and because reaaon and revelation Informed Mrs. Eddy that the creation of God la In the likeness of God, Its cause or source. Hence, since all that truly Uvea la the effect of God, lta source can be designated by the word Life (with the capital "L") aa a convenient synonym for God. So also the source of all that la true or, more properly, all that truly la, can be designated by the word Truth with a capital T". And the source of divine or spiritual Ideas la Spirit (with the capital "8), the animating, di- after he had grown older on the throne of IaraeL The vine Mind, Soul, aa Webster lint and moat Important of theae states it Soul la a synonym for Iwoona la that the purpoae of God because It is the source of true prayer la alwaya to gain conscious expression, or Ideas. and utUiie aplrltual undentand-iag- , Love, the creative, Inflnltely-attractlv- e source or the underatandlng of divine of all that nourishes and sustains God. the And Spirit, Mond la that the effect of auch and protects, is also a name for Piper, when lta purpoae la at- God. And to theae synonyms tuned, la alwaya Been In Im- Mrs. Eddy has, with great discernment added the name Prinproved human experience. after Solomon had ciple became, from its Latin In illuatratlng theae great root, it means the source of all truthi in aome degree, Chrlat that exists. Jerai, the divine aon of God, God, then, la defined clearly In tinted the rule In all lta perfecChrlatlan Science aa "Incorporeal, tion and demonatrated It In flaw- - divine, supreme, Infinite Mind, Soul, Practice. "Seek ye flret the Spirit Principle, Lfe, and kingdom of God, and hla right- - Truth,, Love (Science sourness," he urged, "and all Health, 444: I). It will bo obtheie thlnga," he promlaed, served that the first adjective hall be added unto you modifying theae terms la the God la In(Mathew :SS). And yeara after word "Incorporeal. that ,1s, without fhat, in the tullneaa of God'a own corporeal; time for mankinda diacernment material embodiment He la diconf Chrlat Jeaua complete mean- vine; that la, Godlike, not ing, came imperfections the taminated by Chrlatlan Science, of humanity. Ha Is supreme; that through lta divinely Inapired founder, and revelator, Is, above all, above even the apHa la InMary Baker Eddy, proclaiming pearance of mortality. fbt it la unaelfed love, a aplrlt-a- l finite; that la, boundless, without limitation of underatandlng of God, that institutes the prayer that heala any kind. When Christian Science the alck and reforma the alnner. makes Its great declarations about A great sacrifice of material God, that He la omnipotent,la that He thlnga," aaya Mre. Eddy (Science meaning everywhere nd Health. meaning a omnlpreaent, p.14: l), "muat pre-dthla advanced aplrltual un- present; and that He la omnisdemanding." in the phraae cient, moaning It follows thaaa dethla advanced aplrltual under their necessary to clarations tending," aha waa referring to If God la omnipotent. explanation ahe had prevlouely Bde that, to paraphraae her He can have no opponent and no cannot be orda, we can receive hollneaa opposition, for there the In ALL. ely ai we are fit for hollneaa, mors than nd fltneaa for hollneaa la at- way. If He la omnipresent, He from Hla uni tained through the eonatant cannot be absent can new Fefe of self - forgetfulneaa, rerae, which meana Ha And If Ha man. from absent PnHty, and affection. It takea be He cannot ba unboth practice and underatandlng, la omniscient. detan In he makee clear, to be heard of aware of the slightest creation. aplrltual God, to feel Hla perfect power Hla unfolding, Cen-tnrl- ee sue-tted- die-'Tr- er, material to aplrltual and partakes of the nature of spirit, or Mind. Hence, man, the offspring of divine Spirit or Mind, to spiritual. The offspring or eraation of Mind la Idea. Hence, man la spiritual Idea and extols aa Idea in the divine Mind. In arriving at this conclusion, let ua put aside the protestations of human sense that man to material and give no quarter to them. If our premise to correct that God to perfect, divine Mind or Spirit, then our conclusion to correct that man to perfect, divine, aplrltual Idea. And at this point Christian Science raises lta revolutionary banner and declares that anyone who realises that this to the truth will find evidence of lta truth In hla own consciousness and therefore In hla underexperience. "Spiritual atandlng, to quote the Christian Science textbook "by again, which human conception, material aenae, to aeparated from Truth, to the firmament" This definition supports our position, already arrived at, that aplrltual understanding to the divine quality that exposes the nothingness of human conception and recognises, discerns, and reallsea that God to the father of man, including tha universe. By thb underatandlng humanity to healed of lta discord, inharmony, and distress. By It It gives up Its material aenae only to find It replaced by a divine sense of truth and Joy. For has not Mrs. Eddy declared "Tha foundation of mortal discord to a falsa sense of man's origin" I) (8dence and Health, SIS: a declaration that obviously Implies that a right aenae of man's origin to the foundation of true harmony? S7-S- The' Bible Unfolds Tree Concept Sometimes there are those who would deny the Bible and the God It presents, and rule them out of their own affairs and those of others. Sometimes there are those who question the meaning of tha Bible but try to accept it only as a narrative of historical fact. Sometimes there are those who question not at all, but are nevertheless holding to mistaken Interpretations of its meaning that work no good In their Uvea. To any and all of these and to the world In which they live, Christian Science cornea with the greatest message of thla age to men. It la not an exhortation or a plea for sentimental goodness based on a hope that some power may by ehance observe and reward. It to a straightforward, direct, scientific message that your conceptions of Deity wlU control your experience. It to the revelation, baaed on demonstration, that the Bible presents the one true God and His unchanging law which, when understood, will make you conscious of good and not of evil. "The fool hath aald In hla heart. There to no God, cried the Pialmtot (Psalms 14: 1). That err to based upon the fact that the fool la merely fooling with the mesmeric suggestion that there to no substance, presence, power, or lav. In tha universe; and the tragedy of It to that it will be ao to him, In thaer IL What-evdegree that he believes our conception to of divine reality, that conception will operate la our eonadousnaaa to pro duce evidence of Its own nature. If the conception la divinely true. of It will reveal the evidence harmonious Truth In ua In terms of health, hollneaa, and lai mortality. If it to untrue. It wttl produce In supposition, to that ektent, the mesmeric evidence of tnharmony and discord. Man canto not escape hla relationship God as spiritual Idea expressing the perfection of divine Principle, Love. If the spiritual fact of this relationship to permitted to dwell lu consciousness, the human mind will yield to It, and the clear proof of Its truth wlU be made apparent by the operation of divine law. Bight Concept of God Heala I recall with gratitude that I have often witnessed the operation of this law In my own exOn one occasion a perience. member of my household, very dear to me, became 111 with a disease, which, besides being very painful, brought on Inactivity and was said by soma to have a possibly fatal termination. Although we were Chrlatlan Scientists la our household, we permitted ourselves to be seised with fear, anxiety, and a aenae of personal responsibility. We watched and hoped during the day and then pent sleepless .nights expecting to hurry the next morning to the bedside of the loved one to make sure that nothing tragic or disastrous had happened. Weary and worn after a period of such thinking we suddenly discovered what was wrong with our prayers. We ware laboring under wholly erroneous concepts of God, aa evidenced unmistakably by the conduct wo were pursuing. We were believing that God Is sometimes separated from man, at least temporarily, else why were wo hoping that He would come back and restore tha loved one to health? We were agreeing that Gods law of good could occasionally eease to operate, else why were we laboring to bring It Into operation again? We were believing that God had momentarily dropped His responsibility for the perfection of tha man Ha made, else why were we assuming restless responsibility for the goodnaea of His creation? Promptly we set to work to correct these views, to restore In our own thought the right concept of God and His law. God to divine, intelligent, o Love. He made His man out of that which Intelligently, conadoualy, spiritually expresses Love, the divine Principle, which to God Himself. His law la tha divine decree that His unchanging presence as everwctlve, divine, unfolding Love shall never for a moment cease to bo expressed by the man Ho made. No Individualised expression of this Principle, ever Love, could, therefore, cease to carry out Its destiny as a witness to the eternallty of God, good. The rethe responsibility ' Is Gods; sponse to Hla government and His goodnesa la man's. With the restoration to our consciousness of this right sense of being, our conduct changed for the better, as conduct always will when such restoration occurs. Anxiety and worry lessened to the vanishing point. We rested peacefully that night, and In the morning witnessed the beginning of the end of the disease. Our loved one waa shortly restored to perfect health In an atmosphere of calm assurance that God never eeasee to govern. In this experience, I had seen the power of spiritual understanding overwhelm tha spurious claim to power which false conceptions of Deity, or divine realty, had seemed to assert. I had witnessed the operation of that great spiritual law of healing which Christ Jssus exemplified with glorious perfection and which Christian Science to now stating in Its entirety and demonstrating again for mankind. Right here let me make It clear that the assertion and proof offered by Christian Science that spiritual healing la as available today as ever It was at the Instance of Christ Jesus himself to no arrogant or unauthorised claim of lta own. That assertion and proof to Included In Christianity Itself. Christ Jesus himself to authority for it, so emphatically ao that It to difficult to see how one can be a Christian without accepting both the possibility and the necessity for Christllke works. Including spiritual healing, hero and now. After going up and down Palestine, making manifest the presence of God by healing the sick, regenerating the sinful and replacing material death with a sense of spiritual life, he not only promised his followers that they could do all that he did, but he commanded them to do it over-operativ- e aver-actlv- ever-prese- . Jesus, the Great Example Jesus moved among man Just as you and I move among men, but hla every thought had Its source In God. His consequently expanding demonstration of hla the divine Impulsion, ss distinown salvation from mortal concepguished from Jesus, the perfect tions of God and of his ability to example, who supplied the true save others from them to yours model of man forever yielding to and mine to follow. Tou and X this divine Impulsion. Tou will are under the divine law which yield to It too, my friend, for It demands demonstration of perfect to Truth Itself. It will never spiritual manhood and we shall cease to be Truth and will thereattain It, now or ultimately, only fore never cease to assert Itaelf In the way marked out for us by In your thought, for It Is divine our perfect Exemplar, Christ Jesus. Ha was Infinitely resourceful, because he hnew no other Mind save that which la God In which dwell all the spiritual Ideas, the Infinite rasourcee of mas, supplied by the heavenly Father. This enabled him to know Instantly where to find a coin with which to pay the taxes and to feed, 'without confusion, five thousand hungry mouths on the desert place la Galilee. His spiritual understanding of the capacity of the Infinite, divine Mind of man was manifest In theae results, operating as a law of destruction to material suggestions that divine resources ware absent or limited. He waa Independent of matter or. In other words, because ho understood ' and relied upon his divine Principle, Love or Spirit, which encompasses and governs all true being. This enabled him to disappear from bis enemies when material obstructions challenged his escape, and to reappear among friends or enemies whenever his progressive demonstration of the presence of God required him to do so. It enabled him to still the tempest at sea when It threatened the g of his disciples. It enabled him to go through the crucifixion and to prove at the end that the divine Life he expressed was unscathed. Ha waa Intelligent beyond human comprehension, because he - understood the divinity and Infinitude of his Principle or source which to God. This . enabled him to confound his adversaries when they sought to match Intellectual argument against divine understanding. And it also enabled him to heal sickness, sin, and all manner of discord. For divine intelligence, or spiritual understanding, seae through and exposes as false any and every material, finite conception of divine Love, God, thus dispelling the effect of such misconceptions and replacing them with true spiritual Ideas manifest In holiness, harmony, and health. He was humble, for he ascribed all power to God and never let the false suggeetlons of timidity, hesitation, or limit the etfectlveneea of his outstanding talent for expressing God'S power. This enabled him to say to the Centurion who pleaded for help for his servant who waa 111, I will come and heal him" (Mark I: 7), and to follow the word with the healing. It enabled him to speak spiritual truth to tha officers sent to arrest him so that they made no arrest but reported In wonderment to their superiors, "Never man spake like this man" (John 7: 44). well-bein- Christ, the Power for Salvation It will be observed from what has been said here that Jesus to our Example because he utilised perfectly the spiritual understanding of God for the healing and salvation of mortals. We cannot honor Jesus too much nor follow his example too reverently. But It to Important to you and me, striving to follow hla example by utilising hla power, to recognise that he waa not himself the power he used. His power was the spiritual understanding of God, the right Idea of mans divine source the Christ, with which Jesus waa endowed beyond measure and which Is available to you and me for doing the works ho did and the greater works ha promised. Jesus and the Chrslt are Inseparable, yet distinct. For Christ to the divine Idea of sodshlp to God and to Inseparable from the true aplrltual man. The Christ dispels falsehood. It destroys In the human misconconscousness material ceptions of Deity and the discord, disease, and death which attend them. "Christ, says the Christian Science textbook, "expresses God's spiritual, eternal nature" (Science and Health, p. IBS: As the activity of God 410). for salvation, the Christ has a divine offlee, and Jesus as tbs Saviour fuflllls the offlee of the Christ But this office to not an ending, vanishing or terminated one. It to ever present as tbs healing and saving activity of tbs Mind which Is God, the Mind which St Paul says was In Christ Jesus and which he exhorted you and mo to permit to operate In us. This healing and saving activity of God, operating lu tbs human consciousness to destroy the misconceptions of God, which largely constitute that consciousness. Is the Christ. It to the right Idea In whose presence wrong notions cannot exist any more than darkness can dwell with light. It has Impelling force. It may be described as thousand could understand it, Massachusetts, with branches through receiving and eating all which have since spread throughthe bread and fish they needed. out tha clvUlsed world. And she founded Christian Science la tho Bplritaal Guidance consciousness of man where It Important In these demonstra- will be as the Rock that to Christ, tions of tho power of spiritual overturning and overwhelming understanding to the guidance raise concepts ot Deity and blinkand direction which accompanied ing to light spiritual truth which them. God always leads and will ultimately, surely usher lu Life unfolding the understanding guides Hla man, or Idea, for the God's kingdom on earth. In the seventy-tw- o of Its own reality. It to forever wisdom to take the steps that we years since to us under her discovery, tho world has felt making headway In the recesses need to take appears we to when need take her Influence profoundly. No of human thought, sometimes prayer d lessons them. Jesus knew to send his longer to the "mentalislng of the through the sometimes disciple to find the needed tax objects of sense," as It may bo of our mistakes, Ho called, a reluctant through the light It sheds and money In the fish's mouth. procoduro In which we happily let In without knew to go back to Bethany to the world. Leaders of bosun the scourge of resistance. It will reetora hto friend Lazarus to a thought, distinguished men of presently or ultimately remove sense of life at Just tho right physical science, are beginning to from human thinking every false, time to glorify God moat, aa the accept the mental nature of tho material theory, hypothesis, and healing to recorded In the Gospel universe as a clue to ' niimHfie . of John. So will you know, my truth. It wu just seven yean notion about the friend, and so shall I; so will ago when a distinguished British and creator, beneficent, perfect reveal man as the spiritual sou tha business man, tha cultured General, Jau C. Smuts, than of God, Inheriting the Infinite scholar, the practoner, and the head of a society for Ua adhealth or wboleneaa of divine workman. If wo cultivate tha vancement of science, declared Life, wxpreaalng the perfect har- Mlad that was In Christ Jesus; befora that society that "scienand, knowing, wo shall act on tific discoveries point to evidenmony of divine Love and knowwe know; for action, tho ces that the material what of eternal the permanence ing objects activity of divine Ideas, la in- recognised by man's senses are. Truth. cluded lu every demonstration of In their origin, aa immaterial as Human CounrlouaaMB the power of God. True prayer thought or mind." Another disto action. It to not merely asking Regimented tinguished British scientist, Blr What Is this human conscious- God to make us good; It to being Arthur Edlngton, known far end ness which the Christ, or spiritual good. It to not merely askng for wide for hto writings on physics wisdom; It to being wise. It to and utronomy, stated Just four understanding of God, persistently saves from Itself? It to the not merely asking for splritur years ago before a group of apparent mind ,of humanity de- underatandlng ; It Is using It. Is it students at Cornell Unlvenlty ceptively seeming to bo a mixture right to petition for wisdom? that "we must not attempt to of mortal notions about God and Tea, wo can and should desire answer tba question 'What Is the of right Ideas which the Christ la It desire to hnow ourselves as mystery of existence all about?' revealing. Right Ideas and wrong reflecting tho wisdom of God. by looking only at that part of notions cannot truly mix, al- - But In desiring wisdom we have experience which cornu to us though they may seem to exist already begun to use It, and tba through certain sensory organs side by side In Individual human use of It brings Its own right and saying: 'It to about a unithought, like the tares and tha effects. "The fear of tha Lord," verse of atoms and chaos; It to wheat But the error which sayu the Bible, "to the beginning about a universe of fiery globes seems to mingle with truth In the of wisdom (Proverbs 1: 7), a rolling on to Impending doom.' human mind Is one with passage which might be trans- Rather It to a spirit, within which the completely unregenerate men- lated as "the love of the Lord to truth hss Its shrine, with poten-tlalltlof la lta tality called mortal mind, and is the beginning of wisdom. This, therefore aa unreal as mortal then, to tho 'modes operand! ruponse to buuty and ngnt.' mind, whether It masquerades In of divine, spiritual healing and Christian Science, The Comforter the guise of good or to blandly salvation. Spiritual understandinharof morStatements Ilka than from Ining aids tha resolving unregenerate and evil. For tal mind to always unreal; It monious conditions Into false tellectual leaders show plainly claims to be a place where the thought Spiritual understand- that the resolving of things Into Christ does not work, and this ing reveals the right, or spiritual, thoughts Is arresting their attclaim exposes this mind Idea which displaces and re- ention si a possible explanation aa a myth, for Christ, bo It re- places false thought The right of the mystery of life. This to a step, a first membered, Is the activity of God, or spiritual Idea entertained In and there can be no place where consciousness as true In other move Id the right direction. The God, divine Life, la not Infinitely words, realised or accepted as discoverer of Christian Science active. Thus, whatever appears real operates as a law of heal- knew, and her followers' also as mortal mentality in the ing, of harmony, of restoration to know, that tho only true and human mind to, let me re- Ilfs and peace In human ex- final way to the divine way which demands "exchanging tha objects peat, a myth, and must be so perience. of sense for the Ideas of BouL seen to be destroyed; and whatGod's Love Tha resolving of things Into ever shines forth in tha human Healing Proves mind as divinely good to real and Healing Is not physical. It to thoughts, to so to spuk, part of the love of truth. Christian Science leads on t(ie, for goodness that to divine the manifestation In consciousness. Into all truth. For Christian Is of God. It to the belief in tba God restored presence or existence of mortal Tha Christian Science textbook 8clenee to the divine Comforter, consciousness, . appearing as hu- begins its statement ot the doc- so accepted by its discoverer and with her followers as the fulfillment man (bought, that to being dis- trine of Christian Science pelled by the Christ; and this to tho declaration that "divine Love of the prophecy of tha Master the process of salvation. It will cannot be deprived of its mani- Christian that the Comforter festation, or object" (Science would coma and lead Into all go on "until mortality Is swal144: tho full and complete lowed up of Immortality," as 8L and Health. 10). Tho truth, Paul puts It, until all belief In Chrlat, the divine idea of God, to truth, as Christian Scientists unt, without beginning, derstand it that God creates a dying, suffering, limited. Ignorant mentality to crowded out of but the dull eyes and ears of man as Hto spiritual Idea and for centuries that God is the only creator. supposititious existence, and the humanity had Let me emphasise here, lost divine Mind, Life, Soul, Principle, caught only faint glimpses of this Spirit, Truth, and Love, to seen spiritual Truth. In this situation there be misunderstanding, that to occupy tha whole ground qf of need, the love of God was such the practice of Christian Science, His own creation, man and tha that Jesus appeared, for Jesus to no mere Intellectual wrestling universe, consisting of spiritual wss necessary In order that the without the support of goodneu effects of tha Christ might be and purity. Indeed, purity and Ideas. seen and heard, and human sense goodness and like qualities are The Hpiritually which taught and enlightened by the the gateways through Metaphysial Bale spiritual idea. Hence, In Bibli- spiritual understanding appears In pointing the way for rising cal language, "God so loved tho in consciousness to do the work above material and physical world, that he gave his only be- of Christ. Moral goodness is not tho healing power, but there can seeming, and making the salva- gotten Son, that whosoever in him should not perish, be no true healing power that to tion of mortals from sin, sickhere but have everlasting life" (John not accompanied and supported ness, and death apparent and now, the Christian 8clence I. 14). It will always be thus by a genuine striving after and textbook gives many a rule of di- wherever tho spiritual Idea to en- attainment of moral goodness. vine metaphysics ("meta, the tertained In consciousness. What Mrs. Eddy gives this tact lta proGreek prefix, meaning beyond, appears to human sense as chang- per Importance when In her book Rndlmental Divine Science," and the whole word meaning ed physical conditions, harmonibeyond or above physics, or mat- ously adjusted, will accompany she begins her log and enlightenter.) "The categories of meta- tha aplrltual awareness of the ing answer to the question: "How sbould I undertake to demonphysics, It explains on page 144, love of God for man. strate Christian Bclenee in heal"rest on one basis, the divine Dtacoverer ing tha sick?" with tho simple Mind. And then It states the Mrs. Eddy, command: "Be honest, be true to It says, Ail Fonder rule. Metaphysics," this thyself, and true to others; then Is this a new concept "resolves things Into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of recognition of the mental nature it follows thou wilt be strong In sense for the Ideas of 8ouI. On of existence in all Its aspects? God, the eternal good. the basis of all that has been Tea, it to new to the unenlightenPeace, Through Healing of Bta said here tonight, this divinely ed thought. It was so new whan The purpose of Christian Inspired rule for healing and sal- Christ .Jesus practiced it ou tho vation ought to be clear to us all. bores of Galilee that men called Science, as we have seen. Is to let me quote hto works miracles, although blot out the myth of mortal mind, "Metaphysics, Into they were tho divinely natural that supposititious mentality that "resolves things again, to untouehedby tho Christ Out thoughts, and exchanges tha ob- effects of divinely natural law. jects of sense for the Ideas of It was so new, so revolutionary of that illusory mentality, like a Soul." Can you resolve a thing In 1444 when Mrs. Eddy, through hypnotic dream, comes tho thing Into a thought? Well, the Illness spiritual purity and fitness, dis- called sin, the belief that man of my loved one about which I covered the divine Principle of can have a mind wholly the optold you a few moments ago waa those works, that she had to posite of God and that he has resolved Into a thought when I demonstrate, against great op- power to act apart from the Imsaw that this Illness was present- position from the worlds thought, pulsion of the Christ The healwhich she ing of sickness to but an attestaing Itself to my observation In that her discovery, conjunction with a misconception named Christian Slence, could be tion of the fact that sin can bo of God. And the healing ap- founded and established In tha and has been healed. The healto accomplished by perpeared when I exchanged the world. 'Nevertheless, she per- ing of sin notion of God's separation from severed, healed tho sick, regen- sistent employment of elplritusl man, of the suspended operation erated the sinner, and taught understanding whereby the diof His perfect law, for the Ideas others to do tho healing work for vine Mind to demonstrated to be of Soul which corrected these which she herself had been taught the only Mind, and man the notions. Christ Jesus resolved a of God. Her extraordinary love conscious expression of that Mind. eomes like the thing Into a thought when he saw for humanity was dictated by her Such healing that the hunger of the five boundless love for God. It con- awakening from a sleeping dream thousand was Identical with a tributed towards marking her si and demonstrates the nothingnotion that God, the one Mind, the greatest benefactor of tbs ness of sla by showing that man could wander from Hla nourish- age. She wrote her great book, has no power to sin for he has "Science and Health with Key to no mind with which to do it. ment, and tha law of His nature could eease to tho Scriptures," which, as has This to the true forglvenese of tho demonstration of operate. He exchanged this ob- been previously remarked In this slu made maniject of sense for an Idea of Soul lecture, to the textbook of Chris- mans perfection her fest In human experience as the Science, organised when he demonstrated tho divine tian awareness of Church, and founded It as The forsaking of sin. It is the InMind's Its sustenance and mads this Idea Mother Church, The First Church finite mercy of God appearing In manifest In the way the five of Christ, Scientist, In Boston, (Continued on Following Page) hard-earne- es hu-m- an ed ever-presen- th . ever-prese- nt s " |