Show f OPERATION i or Of LA or Of l c WORLDS WORLD'S NEED ND I Fro l the Christian Science Sen Sentinel linel righted Copyrighted BY CLARENCE W. W CHADWICK rf t I 1 Kindness Kindne is the golden chain by byI f I which society bound together Goethe fr V Obedience to the law of kindness Is isI I the Christians Christian's only stronghold Godliness Godli- Godli I ness and br brotherly kindness go hand in hand since there is no godliness that is not kind and no kindness that is not God V not I like liko He that loveth not V God for God is love If there is any anyone anyone one thing needed today in the wo ld it itis is 15 the scientific operation of the tho law of 1 kindness Wherever it becomes operative operative opera opera- V tive in Individual consciousness behold a better man or woman I Humanity is absolutely dependent upon up on it iL for foi its salvation from the besetments beset beset- t ments of sin arid and d disease ease Why is this I 4 sol sot Because it is the law of God the law JaW through h which whiSh he makes make himself known to his children Wc We c witness aDall on aD ona a all sides sad results from trying to see 1 k J God good through tho the lons lenses s of s selfish selfishness ness coldness indifference malice envy y and hatred It is not net stran strange e that a at I. I t humanized sense of Deity should supplant supplant sup up i. i plant pl nt tho ho true idea of God in the minds V of those thos-e who i entertain such unlovable qualities Only through h the I t tion of these and kindred errors does docs the the- law Jaw of God become practically operative operative op- op t. t in the hearts harts of men Si Christian Science is here bere to in instruct c humanity both by prece precept t and example h how wt to understand that Rod God is love lo and aud audr r- r that love loe is expressed only through h the theIa law Ia w of kindness It defines the nature i i. i of f love lo and ins explains in a 8 thoroughly l j practical manner the modus of its oper oper- JJ f Simply to believe in a God of oft fc t love and not to understand or S t tICO tice the law or rule by which love Jove opt op op- t crates is is to misunderstand the nature 1 e ef of the infinite Thousands upon thousands thou thou- sands of the worlds world's best people prof profess es esto sr to and even en go o so far as to tol f l pay EaY that he is omnipotent and omni i present preE-ent but the tho moment Christian jL I ence nce appears upon tho the scene scone and dem- dem c. c l the available activity of the law of love lo in the healing of disease the they say ay they do not believe it f. f 1 It i is ic the he operation of any law that brin in with its brings us in touch principle r V The healing which results from an un F t demanding of Christian Science is simply sim sim- tJ J ply ly the operation of law and the stu stu- i dont of Christian Science knows v lively that this law is the law of kindi kind kind- C i ness and that love loye is its principle In fJ P common with all aU other Christians he has 1 abundant scriptural evidence to encourage encourage I age him in believing that the great groat reat r maSt master r healed the tho sick thron through h the operation op op- operation op- op e ration of this same law and when through his misunderstanding of Christian Christian Chris Chris- tian Science he applies the rule of healing heal heal- healing ing and the evidence of disease disappears disappears pears ears ho then that tho the law of j love is ever operative and available 1 and to him this becomes the most important important im imI im- im I I discovery of his bis life It means that ho has hris found God God the the infinite infinites c I i father father and and that God has made mado himself s V V known wn through h the law lav of kindness the law of love lo He now has proof positive tive that God does docs not send disease di or suffering but that obedience to his law lawI lawm ij I will m remove all aU trace of them that God GodI I is a God of peace not of confusion that k I he ho is not riot in the whirlwind nd not in any I of the death dealing forces of the imi im im- f T i 11 mortal human mind that he is not an any g S1 ry with his children inflicting them themi i J with all manner c of at torments torments-a a they theory the the- y ory which was once very generally bei be be- f i V. V If for no other one thing the tho world i. i owes Mr Mr rr Edd Eddy a 8 deep sense of gratitude ati- ati 4 J tude tudo for her ber practical and convincing V V proof of this important all proposition c that divine love bye punishes nothing but butI j I J sin Bin See Science and Health p. p i Tho The understanding of the tho law of kindness kind kind- V ness has made this possible sible at the present pres pre ent Vent hour and already the world is IS awakening from its terrible fear and dread of coming face to face with God It is learning to master hatred envy malice and anel many other related thoughts that would obscure and obstruct to hu human human hu- hu man consciousness the comin coming of Christ It is be beginning nning to see sec that Christ has not como come to the ind individual who hates bis his brother man and who does not accord accord ac ac- ac cord to him the same samo rights and privileges i leges le es that he claims for himself It is be beginning to got get in touch with the tho law of kindness which enables human thou thought ht to reach out hopefully and joyfully joyfully joyfully joy joy- fully for an understanding of at divine ino love and to become obedient to its de de- de mands inanda The Tho very glimpse of God as infinite love loves lovet who th no evil I has a aCo ac c Co healing influence beyond words works words to ex ex- plain Why vh has the Christian world not Dot awakened to this true concept of God Godi 1 Why is it that conn countless ties thou thousands Bands sands are holding to the belief of a n manlike God Godi Because they ha have havo e accepted accepted ac ac- ac tho the testimony of th the physical senses censes an ant and have havo U worshipped and the creature more than the erea ere ere- 4 alar a tor ator Thoy They have declared that it is perfectly natural for man to express s malice envy and hatred perfectly natural natural natural nat nat- ural and even lawful f for r him to manifest mani maul fest lest the very opposite of divine love Then Thea has followed another most danger ous oua and disastrous admission that admission that because because be be- cause human hate is natural and lawful lawful law law- ful it must of course emanate from Go God This unscientific material reasoning reasoning reason reason- in ing has only resulted in confusing human human hUeman hu hUe hu- hu man thou thought ht and leading leadin it away from the tho true id idea ide i of God Coil as as love It has practically divorced it from any nay proper concept of tho the law of kindness and so 50 left it free to ro look for the manifestation of God in innumerable called so-called material material mate mate- rial laws lawa which science proves pro to be he not laws at all but simply the tho erroneous concepts of mortals Only through the activity of the law Jaw lawf f of kindness can ean humanity ever understand under under- stand lit and rightly the tho punishment and for for- forgiveness of sin en So long bug as malice and Hatred ate are believed in and indulged ed th tho tha chastening influence of divino divine love lovo cannot cannot can can- not be practically understood and humanity humanity hu hu- hu m manity ity will will willbe be fo fond t nd tr-in tr trying to c con conquer n I I quer one wrong wit with another substituting tut in lag ing human devices for the divine cor cor- If all religious t chers could tho the practical import of Gods God's forgiveness of sin they would cheerfully cheerful cheerful- ly abandon their efforts to frighten ten pen pea people pl i into to the tho kingdom kindom of heaven and V would gladly undertake to prove to toV V and si sin sick sick humanity that the heavenly k kingdom n dom lies within the tho con con- of if every individual by reS rethe re- re S course to the tho law of kindness through divine lovo love operates spiritually toV to V destroy tho evidence c of sin Bin sin and death 2 The Tho moment tho the individual grasps the tho ri ht idea of ot divino divine love who is IC not not Swilling swilling that any should perish II but that t a all sho should 1 como come to a kno knowledge led e of ft 7 I I I I the truth he begins to partake of a new sense of life Old things pass a away a and he hc has bas a new and higher her standard of thought Many an cases of healing healin have havo resulted from destroying the patients patient's a fear feu and 1011 perverted sen souse o of eternal punishment pun pun- Only through tho the law of kindness kindness kind kind- ness can the frightened sense of earths earth's countless sufferers bo be destroyed and loves love's sweet st peace pence be still be ushered ush ush- ered cred into consciousness The individual who imagines th that t God is conscious of anger and hatred may believe himself to be upright honorable and Just but without tho the law of kindness to lead him to God for spiritual wisdom strength and understanding the counterfeit claim of human selfishness is a apt to manifest itself in a 3 hundred different ways wave The home is not the only place whore where love and kindness should hold sway They are arc needed just as ns much in the world of business The close dose of each ch days day's work in tho thousands sands of business establishments establishments establishments es es- es- es prevalence of dishonesty greed reed and injustice of sel eel selfishness selfishness 8 sensuality and e even en n cruelty all because th the law of kindness is is not understood Until this law In is understood in the light ht of Christian Science mans man s 5 inhumanity to man will continue to permeate to a greater or less de degree co ev e every ev- ev cry ery human activity Not until t it becomes becomes be be- comes practically operative will vi the mighty conflict between capital and labor la Ia- bor cease Not until employer and employee both grasp the satisfying all idea of God as infinite love whereby they can acknowledge edge edze the universal brotherhood of manVill man will Vill the labor problem be solved The I various social civil and economic economic problems problems problems lems i nih ill find no satisfactory solution except through h the laws of kindness the only law that uncovers and defines the unreality and lawlessness of human sel eel selfishness and leads thought to the God who is love lo Lord Burleigh once said slid Kindness infuses the greatest energy into both bod body and soul ouI and creates that spirit of f self self abandonment abandonment to the general good which annihilates selfish considerations and binds all classes in inthe inthe inthe the bonds of f peaceful and ho holy ho- brother brother- hood |