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Show :AL Lecture Entitled "Christian Science: ItS Discovery and Demonstration'' Jal rnindedness which characterized ;hrist Jesus. Mrs. Eddy's first work following 1er healing Is best described in her 1wn v;ord~ found on page lO:J of her d H lth 'th Key )~O~e"Ssc~~t~~~r:;, .. "~:re s';:~ says: h ft di covery 'For t ree years a er my ' sought the solutiOn of this sproblPm' >f Mind·healmg, sea1ched the Scnp .. ures and read little else, kept aloof trom society, and uevoted tnne and mergies to discovenng a positive rule rhe search was sweet, calm, and buoy1nt with hope, not selfish nor deprr>sslug. I knew the Principle of all har· monious 1\Imd·action to be God, art! t hat cures were produced in pr!nuuve Christian healing by holy, upllftln~ faith; but I must know the Scitlnce ~t 1 lhis healing, and I won my way to absolute conclusiOns through dw•nll revelation, reason, and dernoustra· t!on." • f f' d elivered in Auditorium Un der AuspJces 0 ust an I Ond Ch UfC heS 0f SaIt La ke C1't y' SUn day' Mar • 21 ' 1926 BY W. Stuart Booth, C.S.B. of Denver, Colo. ~ member of the Board of T,ectureshlp of '.rhe )!oth<·r ('hurch, "he First Church of Christ, Scientist, In Boston, Mass . I . -~ c~·om ·.er~veft. no Now pl a1=:nre, profit, or peace the next time you are i . . ith thl 8 more pont . 10 connectiOn ': . ~asa of healing. Although :~s illness, appeared to be physical t IS young man. was healed through the study,of 'Science and Health," which study, of ~ourse, served to change and correct ~Is thinking. Certainly this wa:J what Paul meant v;hen he wrote to the l-tornans. "Be not conformed to this world (that IS, do not conform your thinkmg tn muterial theones and beliefs), but be ye transformed (formed. ~new) by the renev. mg of your mind." Now let us turn our attention to the teachmgs in "Sc1ence and Health" in order that we may learn somewhat of that which Mrs. Eddy saw and stated so clearly that the slck are healed by its study. All of the Christian Science 1 precepts and its practice are pred!· cated on the right concept of God; therefore we should naturally begin with a consideration of this most im· portant subject. You will find that with this, as with all other subjects, Christian Science makes its appeal to your sense of reason and justice, rather than to any emotional instinct. . • approaching a consideration of th1s [ great subject of Christian Science, et us bnefly trace the footsteps of ts Discoverer and Founder, Mary 3aker Eddy A consideratiOn of l\lrs l:ddy's experiences,' deductiOns, and lemonstrations will assist us iu gain· The Text-book ng an apprehension and appreciation It was not until 1875 that Mrs Eddy 1f her wonderful spiritual discovery Issued the Chnstian Science text·b1uk, Down To111n widz /Jessie The avail~bility of God's law to heal 'Science and Health w1th Key to tt.e md save had long been lost sight of; Scnptures." Durmg the mne year3 God he way of nght thinking and h;-Jng followmg her healing she had proved We know that the one primal Cause After one fine flop today, to say rod by our Master, Christ Jesus, and the propositions stated in Sc1enc<l anrl and Creator of the Infinite, eternal nothing of the embaras;;ment that ac- ies!gnated by him as the one and only Health by healing all manner of sick· universe must be good,-gooo in na· companied it, I decided I'd bet~r ;vay to find God, good,-this way had ness, ra1smg the dying, and reformmg ture and good in expression. Evil is 'or centuries been h1dden by the en· the smner, all in accord with and in not creative, but is ever destructive l ook f or some non-skids. I hurried angling growth of creeds, dogmas, venf1cation of Jesus' promise, "He tbllt Ill 1ts very nature and effect; therei nto Penney's store. I can always 1 urnan theories, and limiting matenal believeth on me, the wo1ks that I do fore God must be and is good. God, d epend upon them to gh e me just >eliefs. This spiritual pathway needed ,hall he do also." Just as a perso·1 the source of all that JB real and true, w hat I want. I was fitted with the o be discovered, cleared of the con· who prepares a book on arithmetic must be infinite, all-inclusl~e Truth. • Real t 'using ensnaring undergrowth, and cuttest pair of zippers! nea - · nade 'plain so that all rn 1ght discern ,nust prove every problem and rnle Furthermore, God, the all-wise and all· stated therein in order that his booK knowmg Father-Mother of the universe looking-and oh, so comfy and his. Chrh;t way, walk therein, and ·,may nghtly be termed a scion• t{JC IS the one infinite Mind, the source w arm! They take only a minute to !hare its blessings. •extbook, so Mrs. Eddy earned for her then, of every true thought or idea. put on, and with the corrugated soles : book the title of the textbook for Smce God is good in His expression one needn't walk as though the stdeMrs. Eddy .. Christianly Scientific practice, because 1 as In His nature, it follows that God's w a lk were paved with eggs. A pair Mrs. Eddy was of a deeply religiOus of her demonstrations which servod thoughts, true ideas, are good. Thus of zipper.: is worth a gallon of heal- 1ature, inclined even as a child t.o .con· to verify and authenticate its teach· 1t is that Christian Science classifies · b 1 ~·ernplabon and study of sp1ntual lngs This book is, as its title iutfi· as error every thought and every thing m g a m. :hlngs She was reared in a sincere P-ates, the "key to the Scriptures " IV 1wh1ch does not express good. How • h 1 1·eligious atmosphere, where the B!Ole means of this key the B1ble storehouse fortTmate for men that Christian Sci· 1 1 1 B ea~ed bags. Aren t t ey ov_e .Y. t ~ras reverently regarded as the chart Booth s always show such exqms1te f l'f f all As a child she was so ' of spiritual truths has been opened so <nee classifies evil and all discord as . f h' AI J ' e or . n? ve Ities o t IS _nature. ways a ~rail that she was unable to attend that all may enter and avail them- error, and thus points the way for It d ifferent and a hit bette~ than .the lChool regularly, and gained her edu· ;elves of the bounteous blessings of to be dispelled or displaced; for if u sual. They are now showmg a mfty :atwn largely under private tutors health, happmess, and harmony, -which evil were true we could never be rid line of purses and bags to match any fhis condition of ill health continued 9.re prepared by God for all His chil· of evil, and our plight would indeed be hopeless. costume. Dad says that I spend so 1or many weary, long years; In fact dren. much on my purses anti Lags that I lhe was never well and strong until Through the study of "Science and It was qmte natural and appropriate n ever have anything to put _in them. ~fter her remarkable healing by spirit· Health" great numbers of people have that John, the beloved disciple, he Except a powder puff. ual power and means, which in turn been healed of physical disabilities, who was much loved because he loved led to her discovery of Cl1ristian while many others have gained free· much, should state his highest •concept "The most effective insurance I've Science. In addition to physical dis· dorn from and do.c.Jnion over sin and of God in the simple, though profound foun d for my school girl complexion 1 ~omfort and disease Mrs Eddy suf· .1ts debasing tende>Jcies and demoral- words, "God is Love." Christian Sciis W atson's Cream. I buy it at the rered many trials, tribulations, and izlng effects. It has been my privi· ence accepts this, as it does all of Midva le Drug, you know. And I've sorrows, all of which, however, only lege to know of many such cases, and the Scriptural designations for God, just annexed a pacqage of th:cee this 1 gerved to turn her thought away from for the purpose of lllustration I w1ll 1 pomtmg out that God must be Love, afternoon . Thev are muking a special! jependence upon material things, and relate one instance to you A young 1 because He is ever giving of His good· price this week. These March wmds I to turn her more to God and the Bible. man, whose home was in the Miss1s- t ness, abundantly and impartially, to · . Dur1'ng these years of invalidism Mrs. sippi valley, was placed under the all of His children. Christian Science are very trvmg on any complcxtJon b 't h j .1 t d th' ' 8ddy not only availed herself of every care and direction of physical cultur· 1 also teaches that we can become ac· 15 means and method that offered any sts when he was a mere lad with the 1 quainted With God, Love, only as we e 1 l'kc 00 gtlhr ohr no ' an "f cream eeps e c aps away 1 you k h t I ' nope of healing, b u t s h e carne d on hope t h at he might there b y b e so d e- re•#) ec t L ove b y expressmg t o our n ow w a mean. medical experiments as well, the ulti· 1 veloped physically as to ward off a neighbor such qualit1es of Love as mate effect of which was to prove to disease called tuberculosis, which had genlleness, compassiOn, purity, for· " Sleeves are taking on fnlls, there iler the utter futility of dependence prevailed among the members of his giveness, and unselfishness Because are godets in the sk1rts, and other in- upon material means for healmg. arnily Apparently they had succeeded the Bible teaches that God is the dic ations in the new evenmg frocks fhGse medical expenrnents also served ,n their endeavor, for by the time this source of all reality, Is the one infi· tha t femminity is on the way back to to prove to Mrs Eddy the mental na man had reached maturity and was nite law creating and law-governing no rmalcy, or the eternal ferninine.J ture of all thmgs, and from these ex· ready for business he was a fine speci· power, fmdmg expression In harmony, All the new models are at Cooper's periments she also learned that rna men of physical manhood, and passed aud controllmg all things h'\rmoni· and a ll you girls who really like to terial medicine has no intrinsic power, an examination for Insurance. How· ously,- because of this, Christian be girls, will rejoice. There was a but seems to operate solely becauso Science deUnes God as divine Prin· ever, the physical culturists had not time not long ago when it looked like )f human fa1th in it. ~his 1s a fact eliminated the fear of disease, for the clple. To insure the right apprehen· we were gomg to have to give up whlch has smce been venfJed by- many ureaded trouble late-r made its appear· swu of this sp1rltual concept, and also all these lovely, fluffy things, and go 1 phyAicians, some of whom are suffi· mce, and m spite of all that the faith- because the terms are perfectly syn· in for men's wear. Don't fail to see ciently candid to acknowledge it. ful family physician could do the onymous, Mrs. Eddy frequently ern· this new line." Early in her search for health Mrs. young man became so depleted, that ploys the definitions divine Principle P:ddy appealed for help to a rnes· he was finally placed on a stretcher and Love together. For instance, in meriat, who, some misguided critics md sent to Colorado with the forlorn her explanation of Jesus' atonement as nave said, gave the ideas of Christian liope that the climate might be of the reconciling of man to God, Instead Science to Mrs Eddy. The absurdity of reconciling God to man, or placating ,orne benefit Just when the Colorado 3f this claim will be seen and acknowl· doctors had pronounced the death God, Mrs. Eddy writes, "Jesus aided odged by all when it is known that ~entence upon him his sister appeared, in reconciling man to God by giving th1s mesmerist was not religiOus, and bringing with her a copy of "Science man a truer sense of Love, the divine m !act disavowed any belief in God. Principle of Jesus' teachings, and this nd Health " She, a physician's w1fe, Chnstian Science is religion, that and truer sense of Love redeems man from l1ad been healed through Christmn tioth!ng else, and has nothmg in corn- Science treatment of a chronic and the law of matter, sin, and death by mon with mesmerism, as we shall see the law of Sp1nt, the law of divine ~evere case of rheumatism She joy· H O\V TO l\IAKE A KITE more deflmtely a little later. fully announced to her brother that Love." (S. & H. 19 ) These, although "Science and Health" explained the very briefly and Inadequately stated, J ames Anzick 8th Grade The Discovery spiritual law of God which Christ are some of the basic teachings about Mi{:vale School Miss Peterson In the year 1866 Mrs Eddy 'suffered A kite is a paper toy used to sail !1 severe accident, which it seemed Jesus understood and appl!ed in his ~~: ~!!~~h.are to be found in Science in the a ir, as a sport. Nearly every- might prove fatal. Calling for her healing work, and that he could gain Man d ay of a windy month, such as March precious Bible Mrs. Eddy asked to be an undorstandmg of this same, eYer· present, ever operative sp1ntual law, The Bible states that God made man you see many boys of different sizes left alone, and then opened to the and be healed thereby. Immediately m His own image and likeness, from sailmg their kites w1th great enjoy- mnth chapter of Matthew, and read he began to study to gain this under· which we natumlly and necessarily mrmt. L<>ts of boys know how to the second verse. What she sp!ntually standing; and w1thin a rema1 kably deduce the fact that man IS 11ke God, m ake kites with great ease, while l!scerned therein so uplifted her short space of time he was up, and like Mind, Spirit, Love, Truth. St. others do not. When VIe wish to thought that she was lnstantly healed, resumed his business activities Some make a kite, we take a walk into a 1ud, to the utter astonishment of t.me later this man appl!ed for add!· Paul recogmzed this spiritual, et~rnal field, an d look around for long, thin waiting friends walked forth and told t10nal insurance, and was referred to fact about man; and so when he was sticks which are the most impoitant them that God had healed her. Mrs ~is old family doctor for ex.munation. .tddress!ng the Athcniaus, who eviof the whole kite. When this f!:ddy speaks of this experience as the Before rnakmg the examination this dently believed man to be a physical done, we take the sticks and put fali!ng apple that led her to the dis· loctor and another physiCian reviewed Pntlty dwelllng In a material body, he t hem together at the center,·then tie covery of how to be well herself, and he charts v, hl( h J1ad h en made be· said to them with the desire to correct their false concept, that man hoVI to make others so. (Retrospec· t hem and bind the edges of the tion and IntrospectiOn, p. 24.) We do ore this man had been sent to Colo· lives, and moves, and has h1s being sticks with some strmg. Now we not know, of course, just what im ·ado aud which JnclJcated the bad con· Ill God, in Mind. Xow, since you live have ~ frame of a kite. . I pressed Mrs Eddy so powerfully In It tion of his lungs at tl~at t;me. The m Mind, in Spirit, as the Bible states, Nex~, we cove~ the one s1de of the 1 this Bible verse, but we may well octors then exarnmed h1rn, and to you must be and are a spiritually f r ame and glue It together. To bal- 1 pause a moment to see what it has hmr utter amazement they could find mental being, an individual conscious· 10 trace of the old trouble, nor even ness. If you will but admit that you the k1te, we get some old rags for us of spiritual and practical import ~ scar to indicate that It had ever are an individual consciousness you tear them into long narrow strips 10 connectiOn with our cons1deratwu >een present. Please note that this cau perceive your at-one-ment with which we attach to the kite. This )f ChnstJan Science. First, we note nan studied "ScJellce and Health" God, Mind, for all that is true with w e call the "tail." We need some- that Jesus observed the mental state .vith the prime motive of attaining thing to let the kite up and hold it, 3f patients instead of the physical: pintual understandmg, and not merely vou as an individual consciousness s o we get some more string, and he ne saw their fa1th Then the M~stSI to gam physical ease. If you were in must be the true Ideas or thoughts i t to the two corners of the lower sa1d to the sick of the palsy, "Son, be 1 dark room, and desire<l to be rid of which ongmate m, proceed from, and express divine, infmite Mind 01 Truth end. of good cheer." What a wondeFful he disturbing shadows you would not If you Will but accept that standard T here we have a kite! A plaything antidote for and rebuke to the fear, h·ork against the darkness, but you o r a toy is always used for some pur· ulscouragernent, and condemnatiOn Nould work for the light, kuowmg Jf right thinking and be true to it, p ose but a kite will always be use 1 under which th1s man wafl labonng! hat the ll~ht would nullify the dark· ''OU can begm at once to prove the by ;, boy. t And let us remember that the Christ .Uvine Principle and rule of Chr!stiau is ever voicing that same liberating, 1ess. Thull th1s young man found that Science by controlling your thmk!ng he dist1 easing shadows of disease Ever catch yourself · l' healmg message to all who are bur .vere dispelled by t11e incommg of the aright. You certainly have no room signa mg dened by fear and bowed down w1tb in your thought for a lle when you "stop" down your private drrveway condemnatiOn, for the w1iter of the tght of spmtual understanding The 1 ecogn!ze its real nature or rather its at the garage door at night, no one epistle to the Hebrews speakrJ of 3ible states that "God Is light, and in unreal nature. Chnstian SCience within a dozen blocks of you? If Chnst as "the same yesterday, and ,l!m is no darkness at all." Since makes It plain that any thought that have, fine! You've learned the today, anrl forever" Therefore th1s 'God Is light," we are certamly just!· speaks contrary to the omnipotence game, and are not likely to have an word of cheer has not been silenced 1ed in classifying as darkness v. hat of God, good, contrary to harmony, of your own. That proves nor has the power of God which v1tal :ver Is uHiike God, such as SICkness, peace, and nght activity, IS not from well-grounded in the fun- 1tzed and enforced the message d1min· ,in, sm row, dPath, and all dJscoru dtvine Min.}, Truth, and is therefore and not on the keen edge 1!shed tn the least. When Jesus next !'he light of sp1ntual unrlerstandmg, a lie. Mrs Eddy had the daect author· new chances to take. It's rather saul to the sick man, "thy sms be md that alone, Will dispel all sh.u1{)ws, 1ty of Christ Jesus for this teaching, broad assertion, but in my opmion forgiven thee," he defmitely Indicated 10 matter how real, substantial, and because he defined the devil or evil one who does not acquire that de- the relationship between sickness and terr1fymg they may seem. The light as a liar and the father of lies. Let of unconscious control of him- sin. and he also plainly showed that >f spiritual understanding imparted by us suppose, for instance, that you have and his car should be allowed they are both healed or d-:stroyed by Christian Science Will displace what- been accepting the thought of worry drive. ' the same spiritual means and method war appears to darken or becloud our as your own, perhaps for so long that In other words, to Chn t Jesus stck· :Jense of the ornmpresence and omm· you have pinned on you a mental tag potence of God, good, whether that which indicates that you are a natural T he old-fashioned woman who I netJ» w.1s hB cl.:arly a state of thought becloudmg sens(l be called a fear of herself on her cooking ~:~ objectifJt>d on he material body as and sense of s1d.ness or a tendency to worrier and an expert at it. You was tiln, and both slckne:a1 ant sin probably do not enjoy worrying, and a d aug h ter who uses a can openwE're O\"ei'<.1Jll1 , :m1l11ied by the sp1rlt· sin. Let us note and consider one it is certain that those around you I I I I I I I I I d~sabihty I !less, a: or discouragement, enter heaven sick any more than aa a :1.s limitation or lack, your freedom is I sinner. t->rnpte•l to wony about anything stop to be attained In just one wny,-that right there and challenge that wrong ls, by knowmg the truth. Prayer lhou<>ht Ask yourself whence is this The Christian Science teaching reChristian Sc!en~e teaches us not garding prayer d•f!os from the uleaa fho~ht. of worry? I~ 1t from God, mly the truth about God and man, but or prayer lntrrtalned by many, e-Truth or ill It from Satan the liar? Does thiS thought spe~k to 'you of the 1Iso the truth about the spec1al prob· 1 cause thor concept of God is di!ferent ommpotence and everpresence of God lem to be solved, and how th1s truth from tlu•t Whtch has jUt!t be n pre"OOd, or does It clai'm that evil is' Is to be applied. !!'or instance, let us , sented to you as the ChrlstJUn Science mightier than God? You need not ~onsider the case of the man \\ho was concept denved from thE' Bible "God Yield to the temptation to worry any tJorn blind and came to Christ Jesus is not a man," the Bible states, and Th dfsclples, liaving yet how many people have prayed to more than you need yield to the temp· 'or healing !earned of the mental ong!n of disease God as if II' were a man, whimsical tation to steal. When you worry you and of the frequent association of sin and changcahle, cer;J.blo of helng angry 11Istrust God, because v,orry is predi· with sickness, asked the Master who and rever.:geful' W!•h P"OJJiu having cated on the false assumption that had sinned. this man or his parents, God Is not ever present and ornni· any such conue pt of God the GVJde:nt that he was born blind Evidently mtent of 11rayer. is to change God or potent. Jesus discerned that the specifiC fa~se to alter God's plan, purJ:,ose, and "'ill Mental Nature of All Things belief wh1ch needrd to be handled, re-- m certain dlrec.t!'>ns. CiJrlstian SclAs a result of her investigatiOns and buked, or disproved, was the belief in enctJ teaches that God is good, is Love, experiments together v. 1th f!piritual heredity, which Is simply a belief in always g1vmg of good to His children; revelation and demonstration 1\Irs. another creator than God, Splnt. It points out that God is divine PrinEddy was led to the mevitable con· Turnmg his thought to God as the Ciple, unchang-eable, Impartial, govelusion that the material human body only Father-Mother, the only parent, erning all tbings harmoniously, and Is but a mental concept of the so· and to man as God's sinless. perfect "is no respecter of persons," as Peter called human or carnal mind, that the expression, he said, "Neither hath this saw and stated Obviously then God matenal body is never self-actmg or man sinned, nor his parents " Thus uoes not need changing; God's will self-governed, but is always the serv· Christ Jesus knew the truth about God and plan for man is always good, and aut of the thought iu \\ llich it is ern- and man, and the sense of blindness we do not have to pray that It ~'he so. braced. This, too, was verified to which had bound this man was dis· The evident x:,urpose of prayer, then. Mrs. Eddy by the words and the works pelled,-he was made free. is to change the human mind, to brine of Chnst Jesus. You will recall that man into conformity to and in harChrist Jesus he said plainly that it is not what a mony with tl!vlne Mind. It is plain That which clothed Jesus with. such man eats that defiles (or disturbs) that the ht\Ulan w111 has no pl:..rt in marvelous spiritual power and authorhim, but rather is his troubte due to tty was the Christ, regardmg which such prayer, for the sure effect of the thoughts of evil or the evil Mrs Eddy wntes in "Science and right prayer is to replace the human thon.l,!hts which he believes in, accepts Health" (page 333), "Christ expres<~es will with the divine. will as the con· as true, a.:.d then either fears or God's spiritual, eternal nature. The trolling and dornmating Influence in serves. If you have been suffering name is synonymous with Messiah, man's motives, alms, desires, and acf from what appeared to be stomach and alludes to the spirituality wh1ch tions. trouble, and you have been told by! ls taught, illustrated, and demonI am led at this point to speak of physiCians to avoid certain kinds of strated in the life of which Chnst and warn all honest seekers for truth food, ask yourself this question: Who Jesus was· the embodiment." Much against certain counterfot teachings am I to accept as authority on this :.>f the confusion In human thought re· which purport to be the same as subject, the materially minded doctor, gardmg Christ Jesus is due to a lack Christian Science or even In advance who, if he is honest, admits that much of discernment and understanding of of it. Some few p!>ople have investiof his diagnosis and treatment 1s but the Master's own teaching::; on this gated Christian Science who have guess-work and experimentation, or subject. Referring to the human Jesus been attracted by sonie of its t ch· Christ Jesus, tho one physician who h.e said, "I, of mine own self, can do !ngs, but who have not been ready to never lost a case? If you desire to nothing." Again, referring to the yield their human will to the d1vine. accept Christ Jesus as your authority Christ, the divine mamfestation of Some of these, fmding the spiritual you will find the sure, safe, and satis· God which he understood, lived, an.d and moral demands of Christian Scifying explanatiOn of his teachings and demonstrated, he said, "I and my ence too high and too exacting. for method of healing stated simply, but Father are one." And when he said, them, have attempted to start systems fully in the Christian Science text- "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto of the1r own, in the presentatiOn of book. the end of the world," he obVIously which they have used certain expresreferred to the Christ, uot to the sions found in "Science and Health" Jesus knew that everything in our human Jesus. This Christ, the spintual to mislead the unwary, but they have human experienctl is primarily and 1dea of God, had previously appeared always departed radically on some wholly mental, whether it be a condi· to all those who were prepared to per- essential pomt from the pure and ex, t10n of body or of busmess, and so he To Abra· act teachmgs of "Science and Health.• ceive and receive Christ. said explicitly, "Take no thought for ham, the Christ had appeared as Therefore beware of any of these soyour life, what ye shall eat, or what l\Ielchizedek. Jacob had some glimpse called easier v.ays. Recently I saw ye shall drmk; nor yet for your body, of the Christ during his struggle with an advertisement of one of these what ) e shall put on. Is not the life the false material sense of self at counterfeit teachings, which read more than meat, and the body than Peniel, when his nature was changed. somethmg like this: "Come, and raiment? • • • But seek ye first the Moses and the prophets l!kew1se learn how to get what you want." kingdom of God, and His righteous- caugllt wonderful glimpses of the That is nothing other than a bland ness, and all these things s~all be Christ which enabled them to see, say, expression o~ human will How dit· added unto you." Expressed in mod· and do things wh1ch were beyond ferent from Christian Science, whkh ern English this saying means that, mere human understanding. Tjle says, come and learn how to conform 3mce you live In the realm of thought, Christ found full and perfect expres· your des1res to Gods will, and as you your life IS not dependent upon nor ~IOn in and with Jesus because of his do this you will find that all your governed by food or anything ma- full and perfect understanding of needs will be met Jesus spoke of 1m terial; therefore your first concern Christ, the spiritual Idea of God such counterfeit claims as thieves and should be to have your thinking gov\VIthout doubt the advent of Chris- robbers, for he knew that departure erned by and expressive of divine tian Science is the second coming of from the right way would rob men of :\'Iind, God, and as your thinkmg is the Christ, foretold by Jesus, not as the light of spintual understanding. thus rightly governed, then everything a person, but as "the spirit of truth" The Science of Christiamty 1s plainly m your experience, your body, your Referring to tho promised comforter, and completely stated m "Science and busmess, your home and social rela- Jesus said, "he shall teach you all Health." We need only to qbey Its tiOns, will quite naturally express the Lh!ngs, and bnng all things to your rules, and then 1t can be demon· harmonious state of your thought. You remembrance, whatsoever I have sa1d strated. will recall that whan Jesus was ques· unto you." (John 14;1G, 17, 2G.) This Christian Science is not a mere tioned regardmg the kingdom o! God promise and prophesy have been and he said: "The kmgdorn of God cometh are being literally fulfilled in and by metaphysical system for curing sick· not with observation: neither shall Christian Science. ness and solving business problems. they say, lo here! or, lo there! for Christian Sc1ence is genuine, oper· Present Salvation behold, the k!ngdoni of God is within ative, practical Christianity. It is the you," In other words, the kingdom Whereas men haTe had preached to of Cod Is nothing more nor less than them a post-mortem and problematical very essence of Christianity, and the government of God, good, m your salvation, Christian Science comes, Christianity is ito Yery ei>scnce It is thmk!ng and therefore in your hv!ng. brmging to our remembrance and joy· due to this fuc t that Chnstian Science is accompanied by and clothed Wt!h fully proclaiming the words of the the spiritual power which proves its Overcoming Fear Mrs. Eddy learned through .observa· Master, "the kingdom of heaven is at precepts. tlon, study of the Bible, and demon· hand." \Vhen Christ Jesus eujoluod Just anoth€.'r word about prayer In strat10u that one of the greatest dis- llis followers to preach the gospel, he, Christian SliSTJCfl. You remen er turbers of man's peace and happiness m the same breath, gave command to that Paul said "L<'t th''l 'mind be in Is fear And, what IS of more impor- heal the sick. The unity of that in· you which W< s al o In Chrl~t Jesus," tance to us, she learned bow fear is junction was apparently forgotten, but v. hich evidently means that we should to be rnastereu, and told us this plamly ChristJUn Science has brought that think the thoughts that Christ Jesus in her wntings There are many Bible also to the remembrance of men, and would •think under similar circum• verses winch dt?nounce fear, but we has shown them how It is to be ob- atances. As wo do thts we will be have all been too much like a friend served and obeyed. It is noteworthy thlnkinJS aright, a"'d we will be pray of mine, a preacher in a Protestant lug arigh•. In thus endeavoring to denommation whom I met one day that Chnst Jesus did not indicate that think as Chr!~t Jesus would think we tho test of Ch11stian discipleship was '3howmg g1 eat anxwty and fear over need to rememb r that He always the illness of his son. .When I told whether a rnau accepted and avowed based hl:s thinking upon the sp1rltual him of Paul's v.ord to Timothy, "God belief in certain creeds and dogmas or fact that God, good, Is tho only Cause hath not given us the spirit of fear; observed any form of ritual or soand C1 eator, that divine Principle, hut of power, and of love, and of a called religwus rites. The teRt of Love, is the only law·crc~tmg and law· sound mmd," he could hardly believe Christian discipleship stated by Jesus governing power, that Spu·lt is the it was in the Bible He was not ready was, "By their fru1ts ye shall know only attraction and influence. Thereto cease reliance upon material means, them:' and he definitely stated that fore, In order to have ihe mind that and trust h1s son to God's care, but the frmts he expected of his followers was in Chnst Jc ,uq, in order to think he went his way repeating that verse, were the same healing works as were as he would, we too must hase all ol encouraged and comforted by 1ts as- wrought by him. 1\Irs. Eddy early our tlnnkmg upon these tmths about surance that fear is illegitimate be- recognized the legitimacy of this Chns· God, and have aU of our thlnkmg coTJ· tJan demand that healing by spiritual cause it is not from God. means and power should accompany .;i!!tent tllP.rewith It Is !ndc<d a bla Sickness Not from God and verify the preaching of the gos- task, but the rewl'rd is great, and we It is Interesting and !lluminatlng to pel, and she earnestly desired to know should turn our artontwn to the task note that Jesus definitely stated that how such healings might be wrought. !lt once We know that no one can :;Jckness is a mental state or condi· With the discovery of Christian Scl- obtain the correct answer to a prob• tion, and is from Satan, the liar, and ence her earnest de!!lre or prayer was lern m arithmetic unless he conforms is not from God, Truth After healing answered; and it is now possible for his thinking to the rules. Similarly, a woman v. ho had been bov. ed to- any and every sincere, honest child, we will find th0 proper solution to all gether for eighteen years "so th~ she woman, and rnau to become so well or our life problE:mn as wr conform could m no w1se !1ft up herself," Jesus acquainted with God through Chns- our thinkmg to divine Principle, a.a saJd that Satan had bound her. With- tlan Science as to echo the glad song did Jesus, and in no other way. «ut doubt she belleved that her bonds nf David· "Bless the Lord, 0 my Conc 1 usltln had been material, the muscles of her soul, and forget not all Ills benefits; bal!k, perhaps. But Jesus knew bet- who forgiveth all thme mlquit1es; who Thus we see that we all must needs ter than that, he did not touch her b.ealeth all thy diseases." follow the foot'! c I" of '\1 r~;. Eddy as !.Jack, but his spir1tual understanding j she followrd <'hrlst J c;sns in our Chris· of the omnipotence of God, good, re- 1 Healing tlan Sc1enc 1 JOUrr EY out of tlw land buked the false belief that evil and Perhap some of you are now thin],. of fear and d stress, of di!lease and matter are real and powe1 ful, v. hlch lng that. since we have talked so much death, in'o tiHl r r'lmit: >d J"nd of har· belief, accepted by the woman, had about ChnstJan healing, 1ts poss!b1l· mony, health, an'! 1 oli'less, We too bound her. Are you In bonclage to lty and its necess'ty, you would like muf!t Jearn the In. dequacy, the ma· any condition of duot!ase, discord, m· to know something of how it Is bility yes, the noth1rgn<s cf tl .rna· ability or imperfection? The way of to be accomplH;h('d. The answer is tenal; we must set tile mental natur liberation IS at hand In Christian simple. ChiJshan Science healing is of all conditions and things lu order Science, and the rules to be under- W!"ought through prayer. Christian that we may p1 DP rly apply the Sci· stood and obeyed are clearly stated Science treatment is scientific Chns- ence of dfv!ne !\lind, Christian Science, in the Bible and its key, "Science and tlan prayer. But, say you, we have to the solution of our problems. AIJ: d Health." Jesus said, "If ye continue known of good Chdstian pe<>IJle who so, as we read in "Science and In my word (my way of thinking), have prayed for years for healing, but Health," "Let us accept Science, re· then are ye my disciples indeed· and without avail. Yes, I have known or • llnquish all theories bas.ed on sense ye shall know tho truth, and tho truth several such dear, quite saliJtly char- testimony, give up Imperfect modele shall make you free." According to acters, whose usefulness • and hap pi· n.nd !llumve Ideal" and so let us have these wo1 ds we see that, no matter ness have been sadly hampered by one God, one 1\Iind, and that one per· what your bondage may seem to be, lllness. Such a condition is ano- teet, produc1rg H1s own models of ex· whether It be expressed as sin or sick- malous, for it is plain that one cannot cellence." (page 249) I ,_ • .. .. • |