Show 1 ns Fro From the Christ Christian ln Science Sentinel Sentinel- I C- C ER NOW THY ORE CREA CEIA A- A JB w TOE TOR P. P Verrall conclusion vin g reached the was but vanity the wise on on of spirit f l Israel srael thus earnestly adI ad ad- I 11 Rising 3 rising generation of hi hiI his hig I member now thy Creator in f thy hy youth while the evil not nor the years draw ni nigh h fhy halt say eny I have no pleas pleas- I I when the keepers and the OUse huge use shall tremble hall bow themselves and 8 cease because they are arc few h hat t look out of the windows This vivid portrayal of I dW enuse and the inevitable dis- dis is the Ithe five dye physical senses set body of the discourse shows hant ant it is to commence while to discover the true house cape from this prison Ion ner of Israel many hers could no doubt In intrOdUCing the young d ad said Solomon my mya a one God hath chosen is fand and tender and the work is is the palace is not man elLord eLord God and how in in thanksgiving for the pros pros- reign he had deB deBoth deBoth de- de B Both th riches and honor come bId thou over all t am I and what is my I t we we should be able to offer offery y after this sort For all allS alle S e of f thee and of thine own fiven ven thee The books of ells l les s contain numerous other f the fidelity with which i and Solomon remembered ir r lD in the days of their youth count of their inability ty to flesh both failed in later old the standard which each l mo ie e of time the theilia ilia ho beT offspring of David anda and a and d morning star tar appeared 01 of the great teacher andus and us said My My meat is is to do Ih m that sent me and to torki work and again atrain Verily 1 nto you The son can do himself but what he seeth fd rdo for what things hese heie also the son like- like dj t the close of his he triumphantly ex- ex finished the work gayest me to do And now glorify thou mo me with thine thins nth lih the glory lory which h I had bad 1 All before oro the world was as of his public minis- minis U n s r once onee for forgot ot that the theL theca thelea lea ca L and saw sav which he exly exo ex- ex f. f o ly y was wis not his o own but um III the father His Ills ap ap- I I e 0 rn irn of th glory glor which ho he I clean clearly I lie fcc world was wa Jesus J sus lla had 1 a foreknow a on ion which ho hp 1 never ne for fort or t l. l his mental Speak- Speak II a pIes ples he said Raid They Sown own own surely that T came IC and have haye believed j I i I i send scud me i I 1 ii discovery of Christian i tidy dd in in our da day dav brings r all all things esus said eaid when on earths earth d es s p. p 36 she says d l conscious bein being never never I earth It abode foren for evon en while mortals be- be beI I ere lere He Ho on once onee e spoke e of I Iiii IIi In n Ii iii 13 23 3 as the son of j At Ate heaven II i lis is in e 0 showed that the same earns th which he was inserted inse- inse ed with the father was wasill J jl ill 11 mankind Ho Jie said jat at ate ye e despise not one of s. s for I say unto you yen vp their angels do always f of my father which is Bead Ead ad Solomons Solomon's warning m Kow ow th thy Creator in the Science we ice no lon longer er err si r picture of an n unknown ce e think of him as the universe on the ave ive been taught to stop atoj ny fly y graven raven ima ima image e or any LiLy LID thing that is is tn n heaven at aLie is i t. he earth beneath I the thc r under the earth earthen The The hour Hen jen en cometh the true worshipers worshiper a he father in spirit anc and hen Jesus said laid Call Can no BO upon the earth arth did 11 il warn mankind against iTa conspiracy against their salvation Surely a man have e two fathers can honestly servo serve fLet Let us choose therefore om oin we will serve the god od Id- Id or matter or the tho only nd 2 i. i p to this question Mrs aid ud Mind is the grand rand there can be no power ex ex- ii lich h is derived from mind rn ve jK e to io mind the glory ion and power everlasting everlasting- h holy ly name Science and 3 by y step in Chrisian Science uld safely lead us upward J ut ht t of the Egyptian bon ben rial nial sense into the glori lari- lari k tithe he children of God In Ler teachings s we wo may learn f ful p l and multiply and re- re earth rth not with concep- concep in inanity but l ideas in in the likeness of in ng the beauty of holi holi- king to mind as the auh au h her hr r of af uj every good gift gilt E Christian Science how now God that is how go 2 our membership in hi his 1 to experience the fact ent ent only in occasional ional jian an is is now perfect even i heaven is perfect John wrote Tote We shall not in- in j ignorant of him v vf ourselves of his friend friend- inting j out the true status statu dId uld of God Jesus Jesus' restores al l and points to ler tance Referring to his hisie l 1 ie said The son of man that which was lost I ig saving and saving and healing i all alI all point to the same ung namely to the fact never fallen from gracei grace gree i and always will wiIl be per per- father in whom we as asand asand asand and move and have our l ages not he is the the same today and for Tor ever find find this out by fhe h-e truth of being they snow DOW enow but live as if they u is now a son Bon of God ion ion over the earth and ande e e apostle tells us is ime Zinc ime behold now is the ion ian Then shall shaH be the saying ayin that is writ writ- fallowed u n pin victory i God will wipe away I ISail Sail al l faces and the re re- 1 1 1 buke of his people shall he tal take e awa away off aff all the earth for far the lord hat hath spoken it THY rHY F FAITH HATH MADE THEE WHOLE LOUIS A. A GREGORY It sometimes happens that the pas passages sa sages es of the Bible which we have studied stud stul- iod most will suddenly present to us a now meaning unfold a thou thought ht we wo had hadnot hadnot hadnot not discovered discover d' d before and teach a new and b beautiful lesson The ninth chapter chap ter ten of Matthew which contains an account account ac so- count of the healing healin of the woman who touched the tho hem hein of Christs Christ's robe was such a passa passage e for me A recent reading read read- in lug ing of this chapter impressed upon me ins methe methe the ever presence of God good and the naturalness and reasonableness of Truths Truth's s 's manifestation in in every phase of human experience as it had never done before When I read how the the- woman was able to pet get close ou h to the Messiah Messiah Mes Mes- siah slab to touch his robe and how that touch healed her physical ailment the first firt thought was how blessed was the woman that she lived lived Jived at a time when hen she could come into physical contact wi with th Jesus and thus be instantly healed But as s I read farther I found how mistaken the tho first thought had been for Christ Jesus told the tho woman that it was her faith which had bad made her whole It was not therefore the physical presence of Jesus nor the touch of his robe that effected the healin healing but it was the faith I of the woman in inthe inthe the power of God and her appreciation of the fact fad that the Christ was present I to demonstrate the supremacy of God Godas as infinite good As it was the faith of the tho woman in Christ Jesus' Jesus works I and her appreciation of the import of his teachings that healed her then she I had no advantage e that any anyone one does not have o who reads tho the story of her expo expo- I I f nence today oday for all may be healed as as was this woman through the attainment attainment attainment attain attain- I ment of sufficient faith We have llave the benefit of her experience which should I add to our faith the true knowledge of t 1 I 1 I I God This story has another lesson viz this that the works of Jesus and the deeds which are bein being done today in inthe inthe I the emulation of his bis example are not I miraculous in the sense that they are ar aril special dispensations or man manifestations of the power of God The thought that I this was a special manifestation of the power of God peculiar to the time or orI I circumstance not something which is isI equally practicable and applicable today today today to to- I day is a mistake In spite of a partial appreciation of the beauty and truth or of the tho incident I still clun clung to the orthodox orthodox orthodox or or- I notion that the healing was the result of the physical presence of Jesus and contained no practical lesson for far forthe the reader today The Tho scientific understanding under under- standing of the incident removes that misconception If the faith of the tho woman made her whole then the same caine sameI faith when coupled with the understanding understanding under- under standing which enables one even fi figuratively figuratively figura figura- ura- ura t el to touch the hem of Christs Christ's robe that robe that is to get et into harmony even evento evento evento to a degree with the teachings and i works of Christ Jesus will Jesus will heal instantaneously instantaneously in in- as the woman was healed It was not a dead faith that healed the woman She of all the throng had hadi hada ii a i faith that was active enough to cause her to reach out and touch the hem of the robe As the people crowded around Jesus it is probable that many were touched by his robe as he passed Others Others Oth Oth- ers ens may mav have reached out in curiosity and to touched ched him But the one who reached out aut in faith was the tho one to be healed When we wo open our eyes to the reality of bein being we see all around us the repetition of this so-called so miracle We Wesee Wesee Wesee see those who have had the faith to put aside material beliefs press through the crowd of errors ani and ana false claims until they touch the living Truth and we see that in the attainment of a small measure of the knowledge of Truth they are arc he healed led Capt Geoffrey Wilkinson in the Onlooker Onlooker On On- looker Mrs Eddy has stated that the Bible wa wad her only ony text book and any anyone one who has lIas gained gamed even a slight demonstrable demon understanding of Christian Science Science Science I ence has no reason to doubt her ber statement statement state state- ment meat for he can see sec how absolutely her teaching has 1 been een drawn from i iThe it I IThe The fact is that if you rou start with the I scriptural teaching that God is all that I I God is good goad and that God is Spirit or Mind the rest of Mrs Eddys Eddy's teaching teaching teach teach- ing lag follows as a J. J matter of course if you will only be logical and do not as aa others have done throw logic to the winds when faced with the testimony of the physical senses The essential point which has differentiated Mrs Eddy from every great teacher since the days of the Galilean prophet is the intense intense intense in in- tense spiritual discernment which has enabled her to see and demonstrate the unreality of evil iI in its many forms thereby breaking away anay from rom that inca mes I I of sense sens which has lain like a apall apall apall pall on Christendom for eighteen cen cen- tunes The healing of Christian Science Science Sd- Sd ence enco follows naturally from the understanding understanding under under- standing of the truth of being before befaro which the tho errors of sens sense flee as aa darkness darkness darkness dark dark- ness before the light for truth is of God and has the tho divine divino ener energy y behind it and where truth appears error disappears dis die appears appears forever Once let the student of mathematics grasp the fact that four foul times four arc are sixteen and he can no nolon lon longer er be led astray by the supposition that they are arc twenty or even thirty- thirty two Such is the nature of absolute truth The critic seems to havo ignored the fact that the tile mystical aud and ascetic elements in Christian Science are not nat only the tho natural conclusions from Mrs Eddys Eddy's premise of the allness of God Spirit good but also the commonplaces ox ot primitive Christian doctrine Should any anyone one doubt this let him bun familiarize himself with the teachings of the New I Testament and realize that these teach teach- ings were meant to be practiced not Dot teach teach-I to be regarded as too transcendental for i imitation by ordinary mortals In the I same way Sirs Irs Eddys Eddy's teachings as to I tho the overcoming of death and aud on certain I social questions are not only the tho logical logical logi log cal conc conclusions mom from her bel premise but identical with the teachings of the tho New Testament Thus when our critic I wrote that Christian Science has a much longer pedigree than recent writers Titers seem to have realized he be was saying a good deal more than he in in tended The fact is that Christian Science is the outcome of Mrs Eddys Eddy's continuous and devoted study of tho Bible Bibe as illumined by the singular spirituality of her thought and her teaching caching has succeeded in making of the hc Bible Bibe the most interesting and ana practical practical book hook in an the world Anna Fie Frie in the Spectator Portland Portland Port Port- land Or The movement to live as Jesus lived lived lived- I to o do what Jesus would do ilo-ap ilo do appeals strongly ly to Christian Scientists The The purpose and motive to live ari aright ht can cano bo be o gained pained today This point won you have be begun begun-at un at the numeration table of if Christian Science Science says Bays the Christan Christian Christ- Christ ian fan an Science text nook book Science e and Health p. p How to advance be be- t yond the numeration table is the I lem Can we live a divine life on a human basis a spiritual life on a maI material material ma ma- basis basis' I might say For two weeks s T J shall I live jive as Abraham Lincoln lived I shall paint as Raphael painted I shall play playas I as an Beethoven played shall write as Shakespeare wrote But how without the genius enin without the spirit that ani animated animated mated these men meni 1 And how achieve the infinitely greater reater feat of livin living as Jesus lived without the mind that was in Christ Jesus 7 This is the very ery instruction in in- instruction we find Paul instilling into the early Christians the beginners in Christian livin living This mind is 15 perfect love of which Paul makes the the astonishing aston ishin statement that we can give ie our bodies to be he burned and yet ot Jot have haveit it that we can bestow all c cr c- goods upon the poor and yet not have it The study of the mind which was also in Christ Jesus rightly named the science of mind forms the tho subject matter of this text book Our experience I is that in proportion as we grasp rasp its meaning we wo do what Jesus did did did- heal the sick and the sinning and our ourI human life is ma magnified more nearly to approach the divine We count not I ourselves to have apprehended but we press forward toward the mark The founder of Christian Science still proclaims proclaims pro pro- claims herself a a willing disciple at atthe atthe atthe the heavenly gate rate waiting for the mind I of af Christ Science and Health Prof p. p ix ir I I I I f I I I t 1 I TESTIMONIES OF HEALING In II 1895 I attended an informal gathering gathering gath gath- ath- ath erin ering of Christian Scientists and heard hearda a lady give ive her experience and also answer some questions which were asked her I had no na preconceived notions of Christian Science for I had never heard of it until that day but I was imI impressed im urn- pressed only with what seemed to me rae raeto to be the unreasonableness of the teach teach- ings From that time on I was ready to criticize and condemn conceitedly imagining that I knew what Christian Science taught Then years later a dear friend who wha had bad been given ven |