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Show THE. MURRAY EAGLK A called Lecture on Christian Science Entitled 'wned Christian Science: The j Science of Spiritual Causation Inter- he urn by ion. WILLIAM E. BROWN, C. of Los Angeles, California a S. mbfr of the Board of Lectureship of The Motner inurcii. The f irst Church of Christ, HcUutlat. in Boston, Massachusetts limaied" jLet ns rejoice together lit the which Is mine to your hring you the Christian Science the way be hat message of emancipation line, 01 at escape from the house of bondthe from of slavery materiality. ife, rirough the teaching and demon-itjatioof hristian Science we are Whon to understand the mean- iglnnlng erf" BK or tne words or Christ Jesus lie said to his alien eries fur verily I say unto you,disciples, That ur. 471 jfciny prophets and righteous men ikve desired to see those things fhlch ye see, and have not seen $em; and to hear those things fhlch ye hear, and have not heard n lem." I In order that I may present this ttihject to you in an orderly and dgical manner let me say that Christian Science is a deductive Klcneo, and that I shall follow the planner of the Scriptures; that Is, 0 'shall begin with the premise that 3od is infinite Mind, who created 10R.8E ill and pronounced nil very good. as you are well aware, this meth od of reasoning is quite the opposite it that employed in developing the material sciences. However,' even now, we are hearing the requiem Wtinded on many long accepted conclusions, often founded on empiri cal knowledge. For through tireless r Hall research and experimentation In the fields of physics, chemistry, and tie natural sciences In general, the physical scientists are proving the fallibility of many hitherto suppos-llfixed laws. Someone has wild that the discovery of radium made waste paper of whole libraries; the atom, felt to be fixed forever as tie final and Irreducible bit of matter, finds Itself broken into elecor Ions of energy; and now rent trons, amies the mathematical giant, Ein-teiired y who proposes to prove :ate and beyond cavil that gravity and electricity have a com-Bocause, and that an rjjR y uialhe-Batlcall- n Otie. Step by step, the world Is being the Science of all sciences, too Science of Christianity, whereby we recognize and demonstrate the ultimate truth regarding God and man ; whereby we establish through proof the religion of spirit-nu- l causation. J From the Scriptures we learn tint the Science of Christianity, as t tight by Jesus, U purely deductive, and this wan foretold by Isaiah, who, while referring to the coming of the Messiah, said, ". . . and lie kail not Judge after the sight of hjs eye, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: But with rtKhtcmmnem shall he Judge, . . ." led to D DUR It Is my desire to present this Object In the spirit of helpfulness to humanity; otherwise and Its presentation would be unhcoea-MryIt U not my Intention to appeal to mere faith or emotion, but rather to reason and logic. It has sometimes been said that Christian Brlenoe Is difficult to understand tnd that some of Its statement are but a we proceed I am Wire you will think otherwise. ) Naturally, In the discussion of any exact science the logical thing to do Is to consider first lis pretn-Im- , foundation, or principle; this. f course. In Christian Science- Is God. or to n Mr. Eddy's oft reand quallfyltifi eloquently peated term. Is Infinite Mind. . r rray dow-rlptir- e I IS continues, Elohistlc concept of the I AM who good and very good. And then note the sweeping repudiation of the Jehovistic concept given in Exodus, "And I unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of but by my name B. Clod Ahuigthy, JEHOVAH was I not known to 7 Their He Eloliliu." "Alsiut a century later these docu uutits were in some way compiled, and In many essentials these documents are directly contradictory." In the Jehovistic concept we have a tribal God who manifests the human qualities of linger, hatred, revenge, etc.; quite the opposite of the declared all to be ap-isur- them." A spiritual sense of the Scriptures plainly shows God to le omnipresent Spirit, filling all space and within which all things exist. This view Is sustained by the Scriptural declaration, "In him we live, and move, and have our being." In oth-- r words, God is not in us, but we are in Illm. Of this Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures, p. 331 ) ; "God Is Individual, incorporeal. He is divine Principle, Love, the universal cause, the only creator, and He there is no other is and Is reflected by nil that is real and eternal and by nothing else. He fills all space, and It is impossible to conceive of such omnipresence and individuality as infinite Spirit or Mind. Hence all is Spirit and spiritual." God then, or infinite Mind, l our starting point. With this premise lefore us, the first logical deduc tion is that God, infinite Mind, le-in- g the only Cause or Creator, the universe must be like Its cause, I would like to fix this mental. baHic fact firmly in your consclous-ues- , because when one grasps the fact that the universe la a thought universe, the rest of the road Is comparatively easy. My meaning Is well Illustrated in a statement made by Professor J. A. Fleming, who declares, "The physical universe Is a thought rather than a thing." At this Juncture we are face to face with the chief stunihlingblock which causes the materialist to say that while "Christian Science can cure mental troubles It cannot cure physical troubles. Tills Is because he does not yet' understand that man Is wholly a mental being; In other words, he mistakenly thinks that man Is pnrt matter, a theory now largely discredited by eminent physicists. It Is evident that since the universe Is wholly mental mankind Is also wholly mental, and from this It will be seen that any agency which Is truly remedial In one Instance will le equally efficacious In every Instance. ex-ee- ciirist jEsrs The methods of Christ Jesus, the Great Physician, did not claasify disease Into functional and organic divisions calling for different His record modes of treatment. shows that he cured all manner of disease and discord, ranging from financial lack to the death of Lazarus, and he did these works by one and the same method through an understanding and an application of divine Principle. Permeating the teaching of Jesus Is the basic truth that God Is All and that God des not lpow, cause, nor iiormlt disease of any kind. This Is Illustrated by his declaration that a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit. Deduelble from this Is the fact that Gods perfect universe could not deteriorate In any Here someone may say, way. "Supitose that all Is perfect from God's viewpoint, If I do not know Ir, or cannot know It. what good doe your logical statement of fact do me!" Ahl but you can see It ami know It If you know how, and It Is the mission of Christian Science to show you how. Your question reolves Itself Into this. How can one become conscious of God's PTMit nn I terse? This Is accomplished br acquiring the Mind of Chrlt. acquire the Mind of; me tell you: right here, today, you ran begin to acquire that Mind: In other word, the knowledge of how to Ihlnk as Christ Jet-uthought. Are you weary and heavy laden? Then turn, as Nicodcmus was hidden to turn away from Ihe contemplation of man as mortal. Are you sorrowing, or Is there Illness In your family? Itrt idl what Jesus did for Ihe woman when he healed her demoniac daughter; first he ascertained that site was firm In her purpose to receive heallag from this dhlne source. In short alio w turnlig to the CJirlst Mind, and with this ascertained, the henllnt rame Immediately. iMyoU lark sup ply? In th Sermon on the Mount Ihe Msster admonished lis to seek th kingdom of fM first, and he promised tbst when we did thlf all eUe should he added to tu; and he pro'od his precept when he fed the multitude. But Chrlt? god i The terms employed by Christian t.ienoe to define the nature of God. Such as Mind and Principle, enable as to conceive of nn Infinite G1 Ind to enlarge the limiting aonao how let s as personal. A view which tral)y prohibits a right understand-!r.of God as omnipresent and omnipotent. Ttie term personal, a Centrally nwl, Includes the eonorpilon f form or outline, and It Is to cnncHve of an Infinite irorm or person. ''ere M me rati your attention to most nirtsnt and Interest in aattr. All Bible students ape aware that In the of Genesis there exist two separate and distinct accounts of creation; one hlch refer to lb Creator a O'sl. and the "brr referring to the Creator a lord God. or Jehovah. In considering the character of Q It will bo helpful to know the d'i!n lions made In His fharscter The Importance of gaining a spiracBy those accounts. In the first count God U described as ALU the itual tindemtandlrg of the Scriptaflnlte I AM s In the second acrount ture Is revealed In (lirlstlan Sci0d l represented as a Iritml deify. ence and Is shown In lt Interpre-tfltof the life and mllon of Of tbeso separate account of Jcuw- - an Interpretation whbli ror-rm- t Warwfck Pr U.n. Jame writes In his work. The line peA": thoe fsl and 'pn1ar which prevent seekview T5 B. "About the year the from en so Jsbtist trr-ln- ti roiiowing tne rmmsnns appeared, of Ihe Master, To Illustrate: the UxJ Is called Jnbvc, or Of God Syro-phenbla- n rk 7 itk C hc-sus- Je-ktva- Al-ou- le - t ?.V ElobUt trrslen, B. C iirarol Uod 1 word alonctnmt I irrerHy to rvfer to Jesua death on Ihe cross, whereby he is supixied to have atoned for the sins of the world, and that the world was saved by his death. Christian Sci ence maintains that this concep tion is erroneous, and Mrs. Eddy defines atonement as "the exempli fication of man's unity with God, whereby man reflects divine Truth, Life, and Love." She continues, "Jesus of NasMireth taught and dem onstrated man's oneness with the Father, and for this we owe him endless homage. Ills mission was !oth individual and collective. He did life's work aright not only in justice to himself, but In mercy to mortals, to show them how to do theirs, but not to do it for them nor to relieve them of a single respon(Science and Health, p. sibility" IS). This Is not an arbitrary definition by Mrs. Eddy, but is also shown by the eminent philologist, Richard Trench, when he declares that the true meaning of the word atonement Is Christian Science emphasizes that It Is the life of Jesus which is the essential thing and not his death. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE With the wonderful record of accomplishment left by Christ Jesus In overcoming sin, disease, and death, and all of their various ramifications, together with his assur ance that all who truly understand and follow him will be endowed with his ability to do the Mime works, it was inevitable that someone would arise who would fulfill his requirements and would demonstrate how to duplicate his achievements. Such a one was Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, its Reve-latto this age. This revelation came to her, as it did to Paul, who declared of the gosiel preuched by him, "For I neither received It of man, neither was I taught it, hut by the revelation of Jesus Christ." Herein Paul emphasized the difference between mere Intellectuallsra and spiritual understanding, and established the fact that revelation Is superior to human reason. Christian Science may attract the attention of the wise and philosophical, but only the Christian can understand It. Hero arises a most Important point: most of those who criticize. Christian Science are not really acquainted with it. Only the one who understands Christian Science and can demonstrate its teachings Is conqietent to pass Judgement on it Christian Science conies to the world In the manner descrlb-blaul. "not with excellency of speech or of wisdom . . . but in demonstration af the Spirit and of power." EVIL or y All thinking persons who have had presented to them the spiritual facts of the allness of God are confronted with the question, Whut about evil? Perhaps I can answer this question If you will let me talk to you for a few minutes atsiut dreams. Did you ever ex;er-lenc- e a troubled dream and awak en the next morning with gratitude that It was only a dream? I want to have you realize dearly the inv. isibilities of such dream as It will help me In elucidating what I shall tell you of the Hlnslon-arnature of evil. In dreams mortals suffer, enjoy, and participate In exerleni-esimilar to those of on waktheir waking hours; yet ing they are aware that these events hnve never taVon place. In like manner Christian Science teaches and proves that the evils of human existence have no more actuality than the experience of the night dream. The position of Christian Science Is proved through demoiMtratlon of Its the allness of God; and proml the allness of God surely means no less than Ills omnlpoicncu. omniscience, and omnipresence. Dies not this triad automatically shut out the Nlhllity of evil having Intelligence, place, or power? The question Is frequently asked. How ran Christian Scientists he sure that evil la unreal? Because they prove It; every healing In Christian Science proves the unof Inasmuch ns the evil. reality healing work Is wholly based on (he prvmNe of ihe bIIik-- ji of a supremely good God, A simple bit of logic will show that evil Is purNH'oM and causeless: If we assume that God permit or create evil, we are forced tioti the untenable platform of as miming that an all wIm God, after cresting a iiniverM which lie wholly Immediately priooodod to let !o upon Ills work a malign jower which promptly began o destroy It. Ktil tew not create anything; Its whole purjwse Is to dostroy; It then-forcould hot have cxis'od before creation, and with an Infinitely good God creator It certainly rould net have come Into exigence after It stands, logically, In Ihe same relation as does disorder to order. It Is Ji'aln that order must hate existed prior to disorder, otherwise there would have !oon nnthln for the latter to dlnrrange. KvlL therefore, Is hot an entity, but merely an argument of the car-nI mind. It prwnts Its tbilm to consciousness through temptations of tarlotis kinds, the it miration to be angry Is akin to the tempta-- , 111. Christian Science tion to r exis-rleiices- y s d d e rrr-atlo- o e teaches that true redemption does not consist merely in refraining false and sinful desires from (which is, to be sure, a preliminary step) ; true redemption goes much farther and Includes the loss of false desirns. This genuine redemption can le gained only through a knowledge of the unreality of evil, as taught In Christian Science. ed Christiana do not seem to be answered. The failure to receive the blessings prayed for Is due to e s.iin misapprehension as to the of prayer, for It Is certain thnt our heavenly Father is not one who grants the petitions of some and re fuses to grant the prayers of others equally sincere. Confronting this perplexing question Christian Science conies rend ering humanity a most important service in teaching it how to pray aright, and in accordance with theS instruction of Jesus, who said. "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them," supplemented by the warning of James, who reminds that when we a.--k aud do not receive, it is because we ask amiss, to consume it upon our lusts. The Instruction of the Master clearly shows thnt true prayer Is one of realization, rather than petition, and silent prayer, as taught in Christian Science, makes jHisslble obedience to the command that we pray without ceasing a constant affirmation expressed in life practice, that Is infinite and ever present. Whut u sense of weariness must come to any observer who stands In u library and realizes that It would take more than the average span of life to read even a small proiortlon (if the books contained there! In contradistinction, how grateful must the Christian Scientist be to know that through the discovery of Christian Science he has lieen given a spiritual underHEALING standing of the One Rook, which Someone has wisely said that comprises within Itself all the real there Is one lest way to do everywisdom of the ages. It Is related thing,' and this of course applies to that when Sir Walter Scott, after healing ns well ns to all other aca lifetime of making books requesttivities. In all alncere efforts to ed his friend and comimnlon to read are constantly achieve, mortals to him, and his friend asked him the seeking for perfect model, and what book be should read, the fnm-u- s there are found in all worth-whil- e author replied, "Need you ask, human undertakings authorities to there Is but one." whom they look for help and InspiThe world has longed for nn inration. So there Is in Christian fallible guide: for a universal Science a perfect model, or authormeasure of rectitude, and how the ity, Christ Jesus, from whom the ''lirlstlan Scientist rejoices that he true of be learned. healing may way Is now In possession of It, for he He never lo:-'- t a case, and yet he :iow has learned how to utilize the knew absolutely nothing alwit the Bible through the light which modern theories of germs, vaccines, Christian Science sheds upon It. or any of the modern medical Through misinterpretation and misdiscoveries. Of his method, understanding the Iilhle has been and discovered by 'argely discredited as a practical Baker the Eddy, Mary following ,'iiide In the affairs of life, but has MAN niedicnl authorities have now been restored to humanity with Said "The of : Pope, said proer study the Key, Science and Health, which Dr. Richard Cnliot, professor of mankind is man." But what Is man? makes Its teachings of practical to the man According clinical medicine aud professor of Scriptures, service. Is the Image and likeness of God, social ethics of Harvard Univers Christian Science Is now ity: "The good effects of Christian having dominion over all. However. men again to the Bible and turning giving Science I see on all sides. I have It is not amiss to call attention to them added to understand ability man what Is and Is what man not. not the slightest doubt that It does ami use it. It is a veritable guide-hoo-k good, that It cures disease, organic Concerning the man whose origin Is to heaven and shows that the In considered the second chapter of as well as functional" exMTlencea of the Bible characters, Is who Genesis, to said have been Dr. Charles Hunter, assixinte when spiritually understood, are a professor of clinical medicine, I'n created from dust, Isaiah warns great aid In working out one's salwhen he us, says substantially that lversity of Manitoba : "Christian vation, faience nas noipeu many persons we must cease from man whose Christ Jesus understood the suffering from diseases, which to breath Is In his nostrils; but as to of giving his disciples a the medical practitioner had defied that which man really Is we are correct of the Serli-tureunderstanding In told the book of Eeelcslastea, diagnosis. . . . Christian Science, Is related that on their It for furthermore, has brought relief to "Fear God, and keep his command- walk to Emmaus he expounded the Individuals who were victim of or ments: for this Is the whole duty to them until their of man." Now this word "duty" Scriptures . ganic disorder." hearts hunted within them. Paul does uot npiear In the original In a general way Christian Scito referred this lmortant work ns text, therefore the definition of ence teaches that health Is assurthe real man Is olaillenee to God, the "vail which Is done away In ed by spiritual understanding and in other words, man Is the expres- Christ." The Importance of this living, and that disease Is caused of the understanding sion of God. It may lie said that one spiritual by sinful habits and practice. Here In culminated the vision Scriptures let me answer a question which understands the real man In the of John on the Island of Patmos, In he that proportion expresses the which he usually arises at this point: It Is divine beheld a new heaven and qualities. a new earth. frequently asked, If that which has In contemplating the dust man been said about the cause and cure which Isaiah tells us to reject, It HUMANITY'S GOAL of disease is true, why does the Is discernible Immediately that he In the rush of everyday activities sorrowing saint frequently suffer is a slave, dwelling continuously In It will be more than does the sordid sinner? helpful to pause occasionthe house of bondage. How much The answer Is: That the sorrowand ask ourselves whence and ally longer shall we, who have been whither. In this mad rush for coming saint Is frequently Influenced that we are the offspring mercial Kinross' and achievement taught by the belief that he la suffering of Adam, or the dust man, sit down lieoauso God wills or permits it. we nre apt to lose sight of the real In our chains? How long are we to and that It Is his duty to submit In life. In answer to the stand by and submit to puqiose fundamental question. What am I? patiently to the divine will. Then the claimshelplessly of the carnal mind. the question Is asked about little which Is ever demanding an answer. and death? Who told Mrs. sin, disease, children who are not sinners, but Eddy gives us this scientific us that these conditions are ineswho frequenty suffer In many ways. "I am able to Impart resiMinso, Did God or Christ Jesus This Is because the child Is em- capable? and happiness, and truth, health, us this Information? No! No! braced In the thought or mentality give this Is my rock of salvation and my a thousand times, no! On the con of hU parents and is governed and reason for existing" (Miscellany, p trary Klirlst Jesus did emphatically lik'.). controlled by the parents fears. In addition to the disease caus- show, by precept and jmrahle, that To the ever recurring questions such conditions do not proceed ed by sin and wrong living and whence, why. and whither Christfrom God. and with equal emphasis ian Science replies that we are all which thinking there nre tho admonishes us that it Is our busi the sons of God ; that we exist for arise from what Is termed race ness to annihilate them. the puristse or the MIefs which prevail of expressing God; It Is high time to arouse ourIn the general human consciousness, that we are on our way to an un-such as epidemics, contagion, etc. selves hUrh time to assert our derstanding of the universe as God son ship aud dominion. Such diseases Itelong to the class spiritual understands It. Keep In mind, revelation of Christian the Through desorltied by Job when he said, therefore, Ihe real business of life; "The thing which I greatly feared Scieuv ihe Satanic claim of a car- namely, to express God. Do not Is come upon me." As a simple II nal mind which attributes (n nn ommisled by the modern discus lustration of ran beliefs may le nipresent God of love .Its hideous slotis of fundamentalism, evolution, cited the condition of fatigue. For program of sin, disease, and death. etc., which nre but so many blind centuries mortals have lieen taught Is proved lo lie atwolutcly false. alleys, leading one nway from the Christian Science shows the un- consideration of the real Ibat strength reslih In the body, purpia In laws of life to similar to a storage battery; when reality of all the the divine nature express this strength Is exhausted, the the carnal mind; take, for Instance, In everyday life. the law of heredity. How b dy, like the battery, has to lie It Is a helpful sign to realize we bi'eii have mesmerized by this that the Tills Is attempted In great commercial leaders Illusion! How we have feared It; ure many ways: by r'st, food, stimubeginning lo reoognlste thnt bustrembled It. and yielded In iness and commons are but means lants, and other forms of recuperation. The student of Christian abject submission to an unholy and t an eiid- - the attainment of huScli'tu-knows this to lie a fallacy unmvcs"ary doom! Yet our guide- - man happiness; for Ihe tendency of I and that strength docs not originate look to eternal Life has lccn telling business activity In the past has us all the time that this supMsd lieen to consider Ihe sneoes'-fu- l In nor reside in the body, but is law Is null and void. The eighteenth achievement of great projects the spiritually and flows eternof E.t kiel says In the sec- all chapter w! o God. from ally swings the spirImportant thing, and Ihe Indl itual or real universe forever ond and third verses, "What menn vldnals oonmrted therewith, cogi that ye use this proverb con in Ihe whirl lo lie A through sjvico. knowledge of this ye, replaced when fact Is the on'y real cure for fa- cerning the land of Israel, wiylng. useless, even as the Pyramids of The fathers have eaten sour grajies, tigue. Egypt overshadowed their builders Freedom from disease comes from and the children's teeth are sot on This materialistic supremacy loses n knowledge of the truth; It Is edge? As I live, salth the Iird sight of the spiritual fact of man Cod. ye hhall not have occasion made In the image and llkem-s- s of knowing which counts, and anmcotie nnv more to use this proverb In has said thnt one does not have to God, who was given dominion over Israel." all. Through Ihe revelation and struggle, nor to strive, one simtri'yj Have we wvopted the licllef that has to know. of Christian Scbiiee this prnctli-normal life Is limited to thrs score condition of bondage Is Nlng re In Monklt)g of the effects of evil years and ten? Then we have the terse! and man Is regaining his dothinking all are more or less famil- blessed privilege of repudiating to- minion, and in mi doing Is bringing iar with the effects which evil night, this lying claim and of reto all creation. Thl thoughts produce In fai-e- , carriage, joicing that, through the rrent desideratum Is lielng brought conduct, and demeanor. One could Cbrl-ilsn Scigiven us by Into the cxinTb-mof men through go on Indefinitely quoting Instances ence, we have the to annihi- lie retilUatlott of the facts of ability l to rorrolxirate further the fact that late the claims of old age, decn-t- l and ihls renll.ttlon Is disease has a mental origin: every Mug. Hide, and death, thus to cMnhlUh case healed under (lirlstlan Science Mng eniablUhed I brooch love. the fact that we an huh-ethe Mrs. establishes I't mo show joti how slmp'e and treatment this fact. sons of Gx. Ibis method Is when tin practical Eddy advises her students to take Man Mlcvlng himself to be a dcrstood : In my early days of InpoHMMston of their liodles and dicImrn but to die, Is dwelling vestigation of ( brlMt.m SHciice a tate the terms which shall govern Mortal, In the house of Umdage; hut when, them. Here It will e well to re. prai UUoiier said lo ine, "Ioe l the teachings of Christian the inemtier that true healing, wrnin-nen- t through fulfilling of Ihe law, This he Is Informed that In Science, my attention and I replied, healing, must lie predicated truth he Is the sn of he Is In If that Is so, It Is a hi(t Im"Well, a I'm' of (1ml. the truth upon the to begin Ihe work of nns-luportant thing, a mighty Inth: anyof which the seem- position to lie a mortal. This he does thing which ran fulfill Ihe law ! ing ratiM of the trouble about which the trail ml Ion that he Is a solution of Ihe niiire through we hate Just boon talking. It Is also problem of a spiritual being, and this realisaliving.' Cnllnntrig. I said. "I wish Important to know the difference tion raues the dream of mortality between disease canned by sin or jmi wmld fell me what It tnesns I" lo dlnpiiir. love. In CJirlsilsn H ience." She wrongdoing and that which Is the The mlson of (lirHlan Science S Icmv Christian that of race Mlcfs. replied result was aptly defined by a street car teaches and proves that front Gnd' luotormnn. whose car !ptod lit PRAYER all Is perfect, and thnt viewpoint In spiritualty Students of the Bible are aware afront of a large auditorium where its practice eotilM Christian Science leinre was I hat alt and epmlng this dl are frequently exhorted to diwrrnlng about to ! given. A passenger ak-e- l tine pray and expect results, the maninfection; that this Is him where all of the people were l ifold lilo1hcs which are promised by lotlngthat to the faithful. In fact they are going, anil he replied that they knowing that trnlh alwoit a Christian SietnT and evry other Ihlng rrofdure rotiiniahdist lo pray without eras-Inc- . were going lo There can be ho doubt that lecture. The pasxehgi-- said. "What This practice will manlf-- M itw'f In N Chrlstinn Science? and Ihe a hriitdty .1erl1.ed hy a Chi multitude have striven and are Sclemc "Christian replied. adUre friend, who. tijun being akel striving to comply with those Is telling jirnip'e who Ibey are." If In had frad Ihe gojel of Jesus monitions regarding prayer, and fvsd BIHLE that he had the question Is frequently eked ChrM, ns talk a few mlnutca bIkkjI It. hut he had seen It. He said I ! why the prayers of some consecrat books. na-lur- n well-know- n le-lief- s. e under-s'andln- uplr-ttua- (!. la-lu- yrelf n It trid nt knew a uiau, a neighbor of mine, who was all that he ought not to be, an unkind husband, an Im- provident father, a dishonest business man, an undesirable citizen. Through nn awakened Interest in Christianity this man was transformed into a loving husband, a considerate parent, an honest business mai an upright and honored cltiwn. No, I have not read the gosMd of Jesus (Tirist, but I have seen It." MRS. EDDY While 1 was lecturing In England, a gentleman who Introduced me at one of (lie lectures, In speaking of the happy relationship existing lietween England and America, made gracious and loving reference to Mrs. Eddy's achievement thus: It was England who gave the world the King James Version of the Bible but it was America who gave It the Key. In speaking of the coming of truth to the world, Mrs. Eddy wrote, "Christian Science has overshadowed all human philosophy and being Is understood In startling contradiction of human hypotheses; a nd Socrates, Plato, Kant, Locke, Darwin and Berkeley, Tyndnll, Silencer sit at the feet of Jesus" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 301). Mrs. Eddy's discovery Is being attested by recent conclusions of scientists in various parts of ihe world. In her "scientific statement of lielng," written In 1870, Mrs. Eddy makes the following revolutionary declaration, "All Is Infinite Mind and Its Infinite manifestation, for God Is (Science and Health, p. 4W). For years this fundamental statement was considered by a materialistic world to be absurd and Illogical. Notwithstanding, this premise has reientedly demonstrated to be true by healing the alck by Its means, ever since Its utterance by Mrs. Eddy. Now as a corroboration of this statement. "All is Infinite Mind and Its Infinite manifestation." I ask you to consider the following declaration by an eminent authority of Borden P. Bowne, professor of philosophy in Boston T'nlverslty, who writes in his book, "Metaphysics, A Study In First Principles": "All things depend In some way tiimn one basal ladng which atone la The Infinite must lie viewed as the sole and determining ground of the system of things. It Is the source of all law, of all manifestation In the system." It Is Interesting to note that the major trend of the most reirnt conclusions Is toward the endorsement of Mrs. Eddy's discovery of a universe which Is an emanation of God. Infinite Mind. To Illustrate: consider Mrs. Eddy's discovery of the perfect creation as related In the first chapter of Genesis, and her logical that all of Cod's Ideas aro spiritual, liuhitruct-Ible- , and created after .their kind. Evolution, of course, has repudiated the Scriptural theory nnd In so doing has wrought much havoc In the religious holier of mankind. Now In supKirt of Mrs. Eddy's discovery conn's Henry Fairfield a biologist known on Isjth sides of the Atlantic, who divlares that there Is no evidence thnt men came from airs or from a lower order of creation. Y'ott are many of you aware, doubtless, of the declaration of Dr. Austin II. Clark, biologic of the Culled Stndw National Museum. In uieiijjiig of the origin of animal life In gi neral and of mankind In particular, he writes: "Then Is not Ihe slightest eldeinr that any of Ihe major groiqis arose from any other group . . . np)snrlng, there " fore, as a sjst lal and distinct cm-'ne- nt ls-e- epoch-makin- to-da- y, t. Os-Isir- crea-lion.- The Importance of Mrs, Eddy's dlwsivery of ihe true spiritual creation Is Illustrated In Ihe eierl I'tiif of a friend of mine who said Hint one day. a number of years ago. n fellow khopiiHite, fur tci apparent reason. I.egan lo tell him of Mrs. Eddy's discovery of the perfect creation, ns recorded In the first chapter of Genesis. Ite said that as he istcind lo Ihe story he was 'iistSI'lly healed of the difire fur tnhsccit, wlibh was so Intense lhat V often arose nt midnight lo light "ils be n I mi snld Ihnt he l.wf bis desire fur aViihotic drinks nt ihe snnie lime, e was so surprlmsl M Ibis thnt he went home and I old his wife, who Immediately d's hired that a story so (silent must be a true story, and t1ioretnin, Ibey ! snti the si tidy of Christian Si bmr. As lo Mrs. Eddy's discovery concerning ihe mental mns' and cure nld that a r,f itiwflv. It may U tree Is known by Its fruits. Ibdifiton Is adding Its testimony through the rejsirt of a com. nit tee to the Getieral itivn1on of He Proletant FjilinrjOTl Churrh. whbh declared. "Chris! Ian healing f has ftw-Ihe stag and Us value ranm-- l pf qoesf loood " The coin tn,. drawn sfter tlds committer sit year of study, snd the report Vs Ihe Genetfll Convention to "th.ttikfuny rocegjibe ihe of the splrltUiil life of the church which rini copie throneh Ihe grow Irg roroeh1tbn of the healing power of God." Fails are slulNon things, end r Wbrn they confront theories Ihe are Immediately either estsbllsh-e- l or extinguished. This point la pit: ali d e e 1st-tr- ((.Vntlnued on s(re |