Show Fi RISTIAN SCIENCE AND ANDt t i THE lift LifE LF IN ii if INFINITE MIND IS GOD St from letters eUers to a business busine s sI I by bj a Christian Scientist Reprint Ithe Christian Science Journal I by y system stem of human thou thought ht and andU U 1 cla claiming miD to bu bo a religion must be beS S t to e cr every phase of ot human liv- liv Sn n 1 order to make good it its claim We Ia a ri right bt to expect this thil from reli I and We wo may reasonably reject as any o. o asserted cd re eh revelation tion nth th tb which does not fulfil the these c conns con on ns DS Christ came crune to peek and nud to toI I at which was u-as lost to declare a salvation al While tho the great reat teacher ily lr J deprecated tho the merely commer- commer q ho bo showed by demonstration the Christ saves from every een form 1 Imitation and provides pro an of all that is needful iJ bus 18 taught that financial discord ck was a phase phae of error which be and must be corrected by boY the I understanding of ot mans man's complete Today Tod-av humanity presents peed of a a. whole bolo salvation of a dec dec- cion ion of the benevolent purpose e of to o 9 love To 10 tho business man mau stagg stag stag- i g under a a- load Joad of fear and a false falser a if r of personal endeavor or Christian Christiance Flee ice ce offers otters a salvation so simple in that t all aU may Ulay prove provo it it bu business ine 8 man has n a I natural rj right ht that his r religion li iou will be bo quite ablo in his relations with his fel fel- I on n work days dars as it is in church chinch jis certainly certainty true ue that wrong think think- s discord in tho realm of the lea and it is equally true that thatTO i TO p I thinking brings s a diseased cased conin con con- j in tho the realm calm of commerce It Ille t that at tho the undemanding of these and tho realization that there i is is is IS one of the reasons reat-ons why tho Titian Science movement mo is growing and is ii attracting to itself engaged cn a ed in largo large affairs airs who find religion on of Christ very simple vcr very land Jand very practical iC following extracts from letters to lines ine 3 man nian present some of the reas roI ro re- I as 8 of Christian to hi his i I teaches that the vork k is always within that wo we woJ J to be bo protected more from our Jand Hand and wron thou thoughts than from fromI tied ell evil cil influences c external to ouri our- our I 1 We e need not suffer for an- an i 1 man mans man's 8 wrong for wrong for another's t dishonesty a avarice a or selfish Idon ion But i if wo we make these claims and personal take them into our ht allow them to disturb to-disturb up us then tence ourselves We are Me free to toi Ij i suggestion estion of discord and I II I harmoniously in spite J bat at something or somebody ma may Edo to us Ir r results from a belief cf that there thero I thin somewhere re which can af- af s Whether or not the J wo wc fear ba has actual existence or orto orto mt to hurt us us is unimportant It It J belief in this thing c called evil il H does docs the dama damage c and wo we may i t nothing with power to hurt us us Jien en suffer sutTer from our self-created self f Job said eaid Tho The thing which I Ib b feared i is romp come upon me The Jg g truth which is needed to corar cor- cor tear ar and the tb discords which follow that there i is only one cause and r I feet ct both infinite infinito and both good treat great eat fact is not grasped at once but of it in- in I entirety a glimpse confidence and gives ive man a fool feel 1 I and of ability to meet tacks of that which to toh tois I ii h is not re- re reis e 0 is IS c certainly a wide wino difference fen in n the man who firmly believes I viI evil persons or evil influences trudo into his hiB business and the I ho rho knows that the great reat of the universe governs S I led d all his relations to men This an en n has no fear that anybody can I IB is business He enjoys tho the self- self 3 ion tion which is secured b by ri right ht I ug g on all aU subjects it pr r ir think danger danter disaster failure ion tion discord confusion ion if you want to have these conditions of J 1 at t manifested on your hod body or Af pr business You can have havo no fear feir k AJa e. e future if you are prayerfully t MR to to 5 satisfy y on the basis istian stian Science that every ery move moo jike ke every ery act you von perform every overy p you ent enter r into is in keep keep- th th the d demands of the one su au- su- su 1 intelligence int ence wo we call caB God This truth UA of the bU s matter auld and u d when U i of t b becomes comes filled with it it brin brings rs iCe confidence and peace l to error that is to toJ tot J t tho the temptation to assign dis- dis Ii results to persons r ons or to per per- 1 The first fir step in heal heal- ly 4 case casc I take it is to see nee the tho l' l J-jas J as n. n condition of 01 thon thought ht and of matter to regard it r or evil outside o of personal a but expressing sint its itself lf through h forms forms Then the next step be- be f Tasy sy which is the destruction in in r ought of a belief in the tho reality evil because you ou ar arc fully 6 lod od that God is one wand and infinite infinite- no e for the healing to appear is is ct t week or some timo time in the tho un un- future but hut noW now- c appears s in legitimate busi- busi 0 discord or confusion or lack is is c 2 e and may be bc removed without i suffering Buffering to the business itself mr lr words whatever comes romes up i id in inU jiLl U as per person on or general situation r disrupts harmony whatever to rob us be it expressed by ity or by a tr trade do condition it ural unlawful and untrue and 4 j jo removed without disturbing l I r parts of the business It wi wirt will rt by bv being transformed or by f and expelled this is us J stable law of good active ever Ie eC C I the tho direct direction on of or infinite wis wis- n cannot in fail l A thousand enterprises governed by the tho thoman R. R i uman man mind min DUl- DUl may DUlbe be ship ship- et and ten thousand bu business b 11 n guided only by th their ir own ROman soman soman so- so man minds may unite unito in dehat de de- LeId hat business b s i is bad but to tho the bu kin king conscious consciously under divine b this is not true All things blo 10 o to the consciousness which jI ta power from God No under- under t tuo io o great treat for the real man if bo legitimate WB m uv- uv of commerce the laws govI gov- gov e. e business world orld I arc ale many of cious tyrannical unjust A 1 tor Jor never flOver made made- them and vc e t to harmony in spite of it rca reasonable to suppose that ejI t adrift in the universe and 1 his living and that there are arc d upon hun him a merciless pack park 10 rf r the tho 1 operation of which tends tim t hun burn J from getting his living enable to believe as w we have Popular fancy whims t toe ne c state tate of politics any anyone one i elements are arc able to ruin a mau mau's maus s bu business ho h stands helplessly by hr and doesn't know enough even to make an inte intelligent protest protest pro pro- test 1 Governed Go by hv Science e. e we ore are arc independent independent inde inde- pendent of hu human favor or or r disfavor for God Godt good alone alon is if the master of our Y and ho lie scud s us s only good Under Under Under Un Un- der his guidance we wo arc aro to tn decide edde for ourselves than i is any one else to decide for us m. This Thi sense of I superiority does doe Ot's not hrin bring with it an any arrogance ance WP We T sim simply l know beyond a doubt that divine ine intelligence acting through its idea is equal to any emer enier- gency Let us be bo suro sure we arc right that we arc are not being controlled by error er or- rori then let us go ahead calmly for forwe forwe forwe we are arc certain of success S Try to realize for yourself j that be- be causo man is a son sou ou of God you on possess all un the intelligence necessary uy to conduct your business Its Its' Is quits quite trw true that when tho human mind is if called upon to decide bi big questions ous thinking Jt it is going going go go- goin in ing to do the work it may hesitate deterred de do- by a a. sense of great reat t 13 but the man who bc begins ins to tHC see the great scientific truth that all an his acts arc are directed by bJ the mind which is able to govern overn the vastness of immensity that man has a power and coura courage c which arc c afraid of no lel legitimate legitimate- task The healing truth which h destroys lestro's the belief in many conflicting minds is that in reality there is but ono one infinite perfect per per- feet mi mind d In business as in other things oneness and md ri Tightness rightness of all aU the parts is essential Self seeking s interest resistance to right right these these go godown godown 0 down before tho the m mind n which is is God Infinite intelligence is working out bis his purposes through h man From Prom the Christian Science Sentinel Copyrighted i KNOWLEDGE VS BELIEF William Lloyd Why do Christian Scientists ts when asked t their heir reli religious ious belief re refer re- re for fer inquirers to their text-book text Science ence enre and Health with Key to tho the Scriptures Scriptures Scrip Scrip- tures by bJ Mrs Irs n Recently a criticism c. c cism sm in line lino with tho above question caused mo to ponder It is certainly truo that wo we do this It is ig also certain that one may mRY ask a n member of almost any other religious ous denomination what hat I he believes and obtain a prompt an an- I Then why not from a Christian Scientist 1 In reasoning the matter out outI I J became convinced that the difference in the answers given ginn is just the difference difference differ lifer ence erice between know Tc knowledge and belief A creed or belief helie can be easily memorized and repeated whereas positive tive tivo knowle knowledge e is gained only by stu study y often arduous and tho the utts Ul obtained are more an n individual understanding of how to do than of how hov to sa say The dictionaries dictionaries dic die define aC science enco as as knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- cd edge o therefore Christian Science is Christian risti n knowledge and a Christian Scientist is onn ono who has studied the teachings of Christ Chrit J Jesus in exactly the same sarno way that a mathematical scientist ad- ad st is iR one ono who has studied mathe matics One is in tho the full futI sense of tho the word a demonstration of Christianity the other a a. demonstration of mathe mathe- ma matics tice If one were ere to ask a demonstrator o of mathematics to explain briefly his belief belief belief be be- lief in in algebra to one who cannot understand understand understand un un- un- un how ho he works put out sums with letters of tho the alphabet instead of fi figures figures fig fig- ures ure the mathematician would undoubtedly un un- un- un reply I do donot not believe in algebra I understand it I know it because I 1 I have studied and demonstrated demonstrated demonstrated demon demon- it but I cannot explain its workings in 10 a few words You must get the text book an and study it If you vou study tudy it faithfully you 1 0 can surel surely demonstrate its teachings as ts I can for YOU s-eu will m then understand it D as I do A Christian Scientists Scientist a position is is identical and his bis answer would be practically practical the same The physical ph-ical healing in in Christian Science e is a small mall part for the once it is used in the healing of sickness s it is is used a 1 hundred times in iii the every day affairs of If the average Christian an Scie cien- This continual looking for or strength rth counsel help from tho the aimi al almighty almighty al- al mi mighty ht e present ever nt God as 88 the Mind who rules all not all not part but hut nil the all the affairs af af- af fairs of m men n gives gives eFt a confidence and uplift up up- lift that it is quite quito impossible to describe de do- e- e scribe and that can only be experienced This knowledge then theu is an un tin- in place of a moro more belief belier m in God and His law This understand understand- in is to all dl not open to tho the immediate immediato followers of Jesus only onty not to you or orme orme me mc but to all It is a clarion cry co like liko that in iii Isaiah II Ito Hol every o on ono one that come como ye to the tho waters It should be he remembered however that this understanding is only for those who bo are arc willing to study and anft to try tr to live the truth which Christ Jesus taught If Ii you ask aek Is th this s required require study and effort worth while let two contrasting experience answer When tho the writer was WM about twelve years ol olan old an and one of a large fever fc a family a en entered en- en his hill home homo Details are aro but there thero were weeks of suffering suffering- doctors a n trained nurse the tho death of a loved s sister then sister then months of conva conva- Tho The mother was is-as n a sincere Christian and anxious t tb servo God but hut h her r rel religion tion was a belief only onh A year ear ago ato the sanie disease ase broke broko out i ir in the school attended by three of the family Camily There Thero wore were ero so 50 many man cases that on a Thursday the tho school was closed and fumigated The following in Sunday afternoon ono one of m my children was taken with the disease the tho tho s toms being co so o pronounced that there was not Dot a n. moments moment's hesitation as to what had to be bo met Wo We retired to a t room alone but hut in this instance armed with understanding instead of belief with confidence gained by hr past proofs and no shadow of doubt entered my thoughts as to the outcome Three times wo s-o r retired tired to together that after after- noon noon resting resting our case with ith confidence eneo in in tho knowledge of Gods God's allness power and love loe knowin knowing that no sin I having been committed no suffering was I possible for such sueh would bo be contrary to Gods God's law Ease was at once obtained and tho child chUd rested quietly that after after- noon Monday the symptoms were ivero still pre present nt but hut so reduced that sho aho was able to resume her studies without discomfort dis dis- comfort The treatment treatment treatment-or or as I pro fer to call it our realization of ot th the truth or prayer was prayer was continued and on Tuesday every trace of the tho disease ha had vanished This ended tho matter matter the tho falso false claim of a power opposed to God good being destroyed nothing else de- de Did this p pay py for Cor tho study and anil effort now ITow could roud L r I briefly explain in words the method of its attainment to one oue it ig of Jf the steps leading ther thereto to when refer inquirer inquirers to our text book Science and Health wo we refer them to tho the pure head fountain of truth so plainly written that the most roost i ignorant can understand if ho be is willing to give give tho the same time a and rl effort required for forthe forthe forthe the mastery of any of or the bi higher ber berI I studies In addition to this study of the their l' l text hook Christian Scientists ts arc aro aroI arcI I to strive and required require watch pray t for that Mind to ho bo in inIS us IS which was also in Christ Jesus Jeu to lo love lovo one ono another an- an other and to be meek just and pure Science ann and nd Health p. p I Wi I Is it any wonder that we as a family are arc grateful First to God for His 1118 I 1 loin loving carp care an and protection from all barm harm for His law Jaw that is ever e if we wc choose to avail ourselves of itI it i I secondly lr to Chri Christ t Jesus lesus who proe proved j I what Gods God's law when hen lived liVel accomplishes pUshes and thirdly to our Loader |