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"He that cometh to God " saya the th o J u d a1c Jesus . God ! ance, protection, government, proto tures" by Ma'ry Baker Eddy, the Dis- apostle, "must believe t~t he is." well therefore that 1 coverer and Founder o.f Christian All religions have taught this. All meant the on.ly po~r and ability to vidence, of God; tha:t he cannot be, :.ectm·e Delivered in the Salt Lake Auditorium Under the AusScience, her other writings, and the have also taught :that God is omni- be.,-.the Prine. iple. of n.·ght being. Bu.t ! nor become, impaired or sick, and City, Lake Salt of Scientist, Christ, of h Church piees of Secoacl authorized Christian Science literaneedful present, omni'SCient, and <>mnipotent, wis mg to ~~!ltt!y h1m~elf, he ~a1d · th~t he ca.nnot lack any t eachin.gs beto led be should one No ture. Friday Evening, December 10, 1926, by Charles I. Ohren-meaning that God, good, is every· unto ,J,,esus, And who 18 my netgh- '· thing. It 1s by the true 1 Then Jesus told tihat won- . as to what we really are, that Chrishour . stein, C. S. B., of Syracuse, New York, a Member of th~e righteousness," -and cease from hold- ieve otherwise by the many physo- where present all-knowing all-pow1 now being promul- erful. But ha~e they tau•ht that be- dro.us par.able. of the. g.oo{) Samaritan, tian Science e. ncc>urages and. spurs methods logical matter, to subject themselves ing 0 c1 1 1 1 Boanl of Lecturship of ,.he Mother Church, The First Church non-4ntelligence in any form what- gtated and represented as synonym()US ll 1 h h 1ve ~nti 1b esson shal us on to re a1m and to .regal~ ourgreat and all-important w 1C WI this of cause should nor Scienee,· Christian wtth teachthe accept who those To ever. This parable, as all selves. It D.()t only promises ; 1t fulof Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusett s, truth evil is non-existent and there· be learned. · fill 8 L" f wfu f tell k ' sugthat believe to led be one any in Chrilltiazw-this 0 ings of Jesus-to to it a~d obeying fts Isterung • i rom went ? man a. s now, admit wm All power? without fore any in auto8uggest.ion or gestion to some e:!dent at least. itself should be sufficient to establi11h recognize, hlgiher, b&ome .. mount be we now may demands, pe()ple peace, of A great many the nature and the magnitude of the conclusively the lact that Christian guise baa anything in common with that they have not. F-or this rea80n Jeru:sal.em, mea~mg the city free; and more di- to lencho, which means !J'aiTance, more able, and to know something about Christ- Science discovered and founded by 1 Science, which teaches ·Mind, Ged, to it. All these methods are .self-avow- their teaching has been a house vided against itself that canno• and thus, fia-uratively at least, the r thr<mgth complete obedien-ce to its Science. 'l'hey know that many senses, as beachings can that complete freedom Mrs. Eddy. I trust that it has pre- be the only cause and man to be .t he edly products of t!he fle&hly or car- stand an<! cannot do the Christi~ pleasure or delight of the been healed by it; that many pared you to appreciate the fact that reflection, the idea of Min<!, .subject nal mind and depend for their re- heali~g of wlrich th'"'re ts such ur- indeed Jericho was; for it wa!! the for which we long, the kingdom of'· 1 ·" mind, which •·m~ve been made more useful men and Christian Science is the knowledge , only to Mind, is truly founded upon suits upon this so-called easure seekers, a place God on earth, be gained. P of l."eSSIrt is 'bhat God to come To need. gent cannot and God" again~t "enmity is laince becoming Christian which constituted the Christianity of ! the teachings of the Chriat,-esJecia Perfection a Divine Demand which for sport of al~ kinds, and thus also If any one of these to come to the one true God. ~BcieJltiliJts· better husbands wives Jesus; that it is nothing less than ! ly so, since, -like Jesus, it demon- know this, some may oojettt1, a:eBut d~and robbers, thieves, of haunt the infinite be necessarily •God, would ~thers children n~ighhors'l the Science of God, and that for this lstrates this doctrine with all manner me'thods were syn<>mymous with as · tha t rey es; 1s perfection. quires thul way,. ~e On graded people. pos- traveler is right that of ~d include be no s1ble stnpped, wa.ylaid, was safety, peace,and in theallway ·~m.ds. citizens. 'Many rep' utable doc~ reason it is Christian · Science .and , of.1 ben.eficent "si·g ns" foll()wing its ap- Christian __ _, f Science,. there would .,.. ,.. d ea d , as most quiring too much? o 1 it; and if none of them is health, ability, prosperity, all that woun ded , and 1eft h au n..,.,.. Christ.i"an does the works of God as Jesus did p ·Icatlon. .._,__t --•·--wled•e DOW ~KA~W "d .,...., .. When any one is not well, or is 1 f h f 1 entica Cnae or Creator Mind the Oalw hods with it, sedthen all such is absolutely true and consequently o us are w. en we a-o rom erusa'£'1cier:tce heals, and """"mmend J 1·t to · them. &"~ '!' to Christian absolutely intelligent and therefore lem to Jencho-from the peaceful laboring under some inability, does are oppo But let us consider this fundamen- met What Ia God1 whom they cannot cure. good· to come to all ~f thls to arriv~ habi.t ation of our rightful home to he want only partial, imperfect What, then, aceording to this tal doctrine of Jesus and of C:lmia- Science and oontra.dic&ns of it. {llany clergymen acknowledge that it at o~r complete good, we 'must, ac- the habitations of sensual deli~ts. restoration,--or does he want 1:o tx • Mrs. Eddy's Relation to reforming a great many peopl-e, Science, ie God 'l What is the nature) tian Science, that there ia only on~ cording to the Bible, "believe that he By chance, as the story goes, a pn~ restored to a perfect state? If " to Christian Science that .it is accompl.ishing a great of the God kiM>wn of Jesus the Christ, . real cause,-Spirit, Mind,~that this Right here it may be helpful to ill'.'' In other words we must have cam~ by, but passed on the Olther side a perfect state, tlhen does not heof good in the world. But be- and for this reason, the God whom 1 cause is the only legitimate goverus ~ "Likewise a Le..-ite.'' one of the does not every one of us-want per~ISe most people are still unac- Christian Sciene& t-eaches us tto know I nor of man in all circumstances. and say a word about Mrs. Eddy. Tlh.e as Christian Scienc~ teaches Wherein is the rub, the priestly class, one whO was looked fection? with the method by which and to worshil}-to know and to that this control or !g'()Yernment con-I riafbt; sense of ·Christian Science can trustful, constant, firm confid~ce and be gai~ only as we g~ain the right that all that really is, meaning all upon as orthodox, "came and looked difficudty, then! In this: tthat we good works are brought about, worship in a way tJhat -leads to the s:itut~s "the lrln~,d·om . of on him, and passed by on the other all want perfection without a willthe teachings and application of demonstration of His goodneil!l, His his nghl;eQusness, whi~b.,. 11n order sense of. Mrs. Ed~y a~ understa~d that has presence wiLh us, power side." But a certain Samaritan (one !ngness to take the necessary steps and 3l:r:isti:an Science, its good wOl'kis are ever operative power, beneficence to ·obey Jesus, all Ch~stians must her relation to this SClence . and 1ts· over us, intelligence •to enlir;hten I s wlto, altlhough an Israelite, was not that lead to it. There are those of c:stabhsh ~w, here mov~ent. A.<: has ~n said, Mrs. direct us, is Goo, and thus gtOoo. quite frequently attributed to and wve? That we ma,y better ap- ~~ek, and see~ Eddy ~ .the D~coverer and Founder not this the "Acquaint now thyself acknowled~ed as such, but was looked ua who Wla.IIt to attain to a right, a causes than. that of which they preciate the import of this question, m earth, as it 1s m hea~en. to do :t"he fact that ever.yt~mg w!' ])er- of Chnstia~ Science. She neve: made with him, and be at peace," and is upon as an outcast, one not to be as- perfect state, but wlho want want the demonstration and re..'!ult,- let us aa-ain remind ourselves of the perhaps a trust- so~iated wibh), as he journeyed, came so in a false way; who other causes than to the power of words of our Master,-"The world ceive, no matter how pnmary it may any but this most modest cla1m for there any other way in which in God where the bruised traveler lay, and to do so by repeating to ourselves confidence firm -constant and of. His Christ. The reason, it hath not known thee; but I have seem, is in reality an effect, hardly herself, giving God-who through the ful learn- "when he saw him, he had compas- some formula. In other words, many through except needs restatement. Just u definite- Ohrist, Truth, is the 80 Ie revelator, ca~ be . obtai~ed but fair to assume, 1s not always known lbhee.'' him. want to take the broad way, the way What has the world believed God ly is it also known that every effeet the. sole ~hor 0~ all that. is good- ing that in v~ry truth God is thr sion on him," and succored desile to be unjust to Christian of suggestion, or of autosuggestion, eonthree," these of Anciently, to the seers of ~ust eman:'te from a oauae equal. to e~tire cred1t for Its,, teachings. The only Mind, the only cause, as Chris- "Wlhich now [eittnee. For ,;enerations upon gen- to be? leads to destruction, instead of which neighbour "was eluded the Master, people have become so used Old Testament times, what is now 1ts productiOn. Therefore, potential- B1ble teaches that whom the Lord tian Science declares Him Ito ·be? In other The Source of Ever Good E•eet unto him that feU among the taking· the narrow way of Christ and ~ onq material means tto called God-tlesides whom, jn Bible ly at .least, the p~mary 110~ .or J.oveth he chasteneth." "And he", the lawyer, of his Science, the way of the true ll thievea ?" Yth" W all kn h1rcome troubles and to restore and language, "there is none else"'-was causation of all existence mllSt m- words, it teaches that wr()m the Lord u~gs thso we chastened .by what he had heard, said, understanding of being, which exhealth, and so disused to known as power. the only and all ' elude the ultimate possibilitiea ,to loveth He makes chaste or pure; and that e mo t ;w some s Fo~ . u~t neveralf"; · ~m a "He tlhat shewed merey,"-the -one poses all suggestions, all autosugrastm:g God to help them ·t hat they power, and as self-.existance or Life. which fb.s product can dev-elop or at- Jesus said that the pure in heal't thought always has been the "rejected of gestions, as unchrlistian, as dooepit -difficult, if not impossible, to But these seers, dtstrustful of the tain; just as ,t his year's fruit bud in- shall see God. We have seen .t hat th t M: d 1. ~~ ance, 0 ~ us D?w who the one who reftected, showed tion and self-deceptiml, .and so demen,' m• ev~~ liOUl:cet. g intelligence cenati·~emof esv jtlli!ve the Bible promises and as- ability .of their foll<nVers to app~- eludes-in e~ at l~e God is all-encompassin 1 ._ .. 11"1gence or stroys it. ... one t rue 1'""e ... rth f on. Imp l()n, vo ery ' • · d G F or th"IS reason o 1S thought reaso une fl owter, f ru1"t, se ed , and t ree w hich are or M'm d. · t dete . · o ~- sc1en. d · 1, ...... · " a very pres- c1"ate this metaph ysica '""'u:f that God lB No one feels satisfied wib~ imperJTilende . rmm- Mind; the one who expressed the alld, . . ~ help in trouble;" that He "heal- tiific fact, prohibited the use of at to come as its resultants. It means Love, as we have ·s een that He is, at"o 1 It is for this reason that fection. all--iust n, 1ec1SI.lo~o . evfer:n ~gn, fur· tender, the all-mereiful, all thv diesases," .and that in least one of these terms for God and that the primary cause of all that and aa Jthe beloved diciple declared 0 1m 0 tl:r, aw, Father-Mother God, or good, who u the Psalmist said, "I shall be satis1 f&iity it is God who does so whether taught them to call Him Lord or r.eally exists, must include the intel- Him to be; and surely God-wHo :~ 80,p ~n, ~ll 0~~ a.m Love; the one who was the manife!f- tied, when I awake, with thy likeults'th ~wfi tu~uld ·h I~ sure aU made and made WlaS that all made pro-· hi£'~ its by manifested ligence the tto naturally, verv This, is credited with doing it or not. ruler. 0 tation of all that ia ~od, and thus, ness,"-when I am Goo-like. Jesus ~nlre. • c nntoue s ·f 1 can the prevalent distru~ in Laity, came to mean a humanlike God duct the enlightened man, plus all good-loves all. Were this not so, f man. Knowi.ni' his quell'tioner had recognized this universal desire and Y · very~:: be looked upon as strange when instead of the divine so.urce. or Prin- his latent possibilities; that nothing lhen God, pure intelligence, would ~~· ~[~n[ ~~e d S:~ m ~t ~g ~ru:a ver been in1tructed as to what he should demand not only as human, but as ld ~ u training and customs of man- ciple of all true power and life; so short of an intelligent causation can haTe created and would include in tii?ee, do to have eternal life,-:yoea, to have God's demand, and for this reason "th' tor .1 The Himself the absolutely impossible,- could bee or oecur. through centuries upon centur- that ootwithstanding the teachbllg',S proouct an intelligent effect. 100 that great one that must be met. "Be ye there';;. ~ all that ia included in or. occ~r. WI to()~ . are taken into accoWit; for, as of the Bible, the Hebrews of old-in question arises then, What of such a something unlovely or unlovable. co¥·ti 1 1 1 posaession,-the perfection, the bar- fore ·perfeCJt, even as your Father ~t~ m . 'Siaid, "Use almost can spite of the fact that they were not causation? Could it be non-intelli- Only those who love God, good, are : . ~n, ;~mtpu s;odnbe 1 w .1•11'U utt retha- m8ny, 'the health, the abundance of wbich is in heaven is perfec't," were C?ut "t mgf the stamp of nalture,"-and .t o make unto $emselves any graven gent matter-a mist, a gas, an atem, admissive of, and submissive .t o Him. 1 e providence which we must have in his words; and this, his supreme test, s exis ence; . Wl lOU true nature of man is to trust ima,ge-mental or otherwi-se----believed a point of force, an eleclron, or 10me . Mrs. E<Wy loved God. For this rea- son or eternal life, his supreme challenge and demand, in, and Pli&Yed to an anthl'p()morphic stuff more or less concrete than any 1.son she was so chastened, made .so ~~~sa~ ~ho~~ht 1.~r J.uthdgmtendt teor order that we ma.y haTe and do required of his followers what can "Go, him, unto said --Jesus :e ou WI i 1 a;> IOn or than all of these, or some admix- pure by Him, that through the right ~m~n or humanlike God. Knowledge of God Necessary 1 like- ultimately, i! not immediately, be !uldo all we May likewise." thou T1 Jesus, who knew God as none ever ture of non-intelligent stuff with idea of Him she was able .t o see .Hiin, ;nunatlo~, d~gn, purpose, ~r plan How ia it then, if the true nature by filled. In the Christian Science textinstructed be us of all May wise. tha't man is to trust God, that men have knew Him, called God "S.p irit," mea'n- some unknown non-intelligent, or to discover Him, and to make .Qod lts c:eMlOn · It must be evident as book, page 253, Mrs. Eddy again teachings whatever could ~e or occur bhe Christianly scientific so far from man's real na- ing Mind. A few understooo him. even with an intelligent force! Or and His Christ known tto all who are ~thing any calls attention to this divine demand: manithe wbat one-~, Without ev~ry to what God is, and How is it that men have But bec3111Se he also called God could an absolutely immaterial inte.l~ willing to receive Christ, Truth. More without festation of God-man-is; for only "The divine demand, 'Be ye therfore from relying fully and im- "Father,'" meaning the one true ligent stuff? There u no eonceiv- than this, she so loved God that she one~f bhes: essentials, all of whlch be in this way can Ohristia.nity be prac- perfect,' is scientific, and the human upon "Him whom to know so.uroe, or progenitor of all, the digent force ever have created <>ne was willing to devote hersE!1f ~ mu~t Inhere m, e.manate ~rom, and are ticed, only in thia way can we, shall foobeps leading to perfection are in~~~is Life eternal" (Science and many, in time, again mistakenly iota <>f nonintelligent stuff? There tirely to making Him known, so that proJected by M~nd. !e't there tthat we, seek "first the kingdom of God, despensable. Individuals are consishearts their m :Vho say. Pre!., p. vii) i upon Him whom thought of God as a person. And is no conceivable method whereby any all might ''taste and see that the th?se 15 ii not pnmary; t~at there .are and his righteousness;" only in this tent wn>o, watching and praying, can great Master called "Our it is this personal God, a power or of these things ever could have ha.p- Lord i9 good;'' that He is the only M!nd that are ~ot .posSible to M~nd, way can we expect all 'these things- 'run, and not be weary; · · · walk, r&tlllel:~'? Because, tto quote that cause that doeS not in reality exist.- pened Indeed it must be evident that healing, saving, regenerating power. thmgsthat the rightm~, . the heahng, the things so universally desired----'to and not faint,' who gain g~ rapidMaster. "the world hath not and for thls reason canno.t save,- an orderly, pu!1)0seful creation, such She demonstrated her disoowery by and ly and hold their position, or atunto us. Because the whom Christendom has .tried to tru!Pt, as we live in,-a creation dncludillllr healing all manner of disease. She p~tlng, an~ pr.()vldmg for the be add.d IJlOwn thee"--God. Power of Chriatiaa Scieace to tain slowly and yield not to di9C{)urbas had a mere belief a:bout whom Christendom has entreated to livine-, moving, thinking, beings, the taught others to do likewise. She things that Mmd . alone co~ld lh~ve Tile ag~ment. Go.d requires perf~tion, Real aad te Sne Within8tead of a knowledge of Him, o.vercome its His: of whom Christen- highest of w~lt are men and women, wrote the only textbook of Christian made, are. Mt pos~lble .to Mmd not until the battle between but matter. umntel!J.gent of. .ald out t~e beliel that has made it and must dom has asked and had not, because -must have proceeded, and must con- Science, ".Science and Health with and flesh is fou.ght a.nd the Spirit has Science Christian Jesus, Like oppo.the takes Scien~ Chnstian . a qu1te and tinue to ·p roceed from that alone Key to the Scriptures," to make it mo.st difficult- it asked amiss.. 1 which could bring it forbh,-the one. number of other books in elucidMioln s1te ground:, an~ ~ ~chin~ us to "not come to ~S'trOif, but to fulfill" victory won.'' Christianity Not Tried impossible-to trust in God Suppose that any o! you here inChrist, Jesus' purpose was to usher in and and only creator or Father of us all, of it. She published and WlaS the ~no"!" ~t all. Is m~mt~ !tf1~d and the law of God and of His every tended your child to become a mathtimes of .trial and distress; for to first editor of the official publication Its mfimte mam~estation, It .eaches and thus to fulfill nery right, implicitly in God, a knowled4fe to establish the kingdom or govern- Spirit, Mind, God. of the ·Ohristian Science organiza- us to rely on Mmd, G~. ,It teac~!>' just law. "Whosoever th•refore shall ematician or a musician. What kind God Both Father aad Motller Him is necessary. Jesus had thi'S ment of God. It was •this kingdom G?d s break one of theBe (its) lea'St com- of mathematician or musician should Recopiz.in~ the great fact !that tion, The Christian Science Journal, ua ~ ~urr~nder to Mmd' His own wor<f4• "THe whiC'h he taught his foll.()wers to pray mandments, and shall teach men so, you want him to become,--"&n imper~ bath not known thee: but I for and to seek: and all will admit "God created man in his own image, and gave the movement all of its fa~omng every .th?ug~t, feehng, he shall be called the least in the feet one or a perfect one? To what the God to ~v~ known thee," plainly show this that, if his teachings were practiced, . . . male and female created he periodicals, including The Christian ac~IOn, and thus to of heav~n; but WlhoaoeTer kind of school, to what kind of kingdom surto and It was because he knew God his spiritual healing would follow as them," aJ!d also that God is the all- Science Monitor, a clean daily news- thmgs that are God s,' _ teach .t hem, the same teacher 3hould you have him to go; and do he was not only able to trust their natural result; want would be compassionate, all-loving protelctor paper which has ftak~n its place in rende~ as !al~e the things that are shall be called ~reat in the kincdom to such as would teach him an incor"u.g- shall but to demonstrate His all- unknown; strife and war would cease and proThler of all; that "he maketh the front rank of the world's great fals~ m the ~lght. of Go?,~'the sm, of heaven." The ri~ht application of rect, an unscientific system of matheSickness, mability~ of . gestions for love Eddy's Mrs. newapapers. ; the on and and health, peace, and blessednes~ his sun to rise on the evil •llftc:en.t power. an<l the law of God leads to its fulfill; matics, an imperfect method of word aeience is derived from would reign throught all .Christen- ~od, and 11endeth rain on tthe jll5t God and for · mankind Jed her not an.d their con-&e~uent w~nt! this ment. T·he law of God i11 that man, theory, of harmony, of composition an<! on the unjust" alike, Christian only to found, but also to develop misery of every .kmd. . It ls In If dom. Latin scientia, l!;ru)wledge. be obed- and teChnique in music, a mere .b elief An eminef!!; clergyman was once Science declares God to be not only · and forever Ito protect the move- way t~t Christia?, Scie;nce teaches the reflection of God, must the Christ knew God, as he for about music? Should you consider good; ill that all to. God, to ient and km~dom, that he did, and as all of us asked whether he did not think Chris- our Father, but our Mother. It thus ment whicth she founded by providing us to gwe to God the teachers and schools which constantforth show he can way tlhill in only !'re that does it not follow thwt his tianity was a failure. After a mo- not only gives tne world an idea of it with By-laws, published in a little the p~wer, and 'tlh~ glory' ly limited and cramped his outlook, wellharmonious perfect. now, by ma~mg his .p ure, .,,lfecllge of God constituted his ment's pause he replied that he did the tender relation.o;hip that exi:Sita i book which she named "Manual of d~e Him, and to do 1t attainment, irutea.d of can.c;tantly his right all being, and be able to fulfill !lieJJCe, the Christ SCience, or ChriS>- not know. Being asked how he, a between God and man, but also the The Mother Church, The F.imt Church HI~ our whole, sole, and unquahfied demands upon him. We have 11een holding his highest ~sibilities beScience? And if it was neces- Christian dergyman, could make such highest concept of God that it u poe- a! Ohrist, Scientist, in Boston, Mas- rehance. that God is Mind, and that God is fore him, proper ones for Ibis advanceAll Desire to Live sachusetts." This book provides all for Jesus 1lo know God in order an answer, he said, "Because Chris- sible to have. You will recall that the pas11age Love. Mind always expresses its ment, and · his highest a1!tainment? the By-law-s fGr the conduct and govThe Chriat dellll0l11.9trat;e Goo's p():wer, is it not tianit,y has never been tried." Is to go to Jesus knew God. We have seen ernment of every activity of this now quoted from "the scientific statement law and its power through its idea, Should you not want him ,._188'¥1 that his followers ·have the not. this true? It must be conceded hitch his to him encourages who one is Science Christian Truth. thr()ugh ISciience, or Christian Science, that it is; for the history of the that it was his knowleda-e of Good I grelllt movement, By-laws which gov- of being'' was that "all is infinite that recognizing stars, the towagon Love. of the idea of God, of Mind and .order to be able to do likewise? Christian nations is a history of pride which enabled hiin to do the heal- ern its Directors as well as its hum- Mind and its infinite mimifestat:ion.'' highest the requires all at achieve For this reason it is tlhe law or en- to some may say, "Was that all and of want of faith; of aggression ing and other mighty worb of which blest members. All of thi-& has made If the nature of the all-existing good, of the power of God; and outlook? Such a teacher Jesus was. forcement in<licated, somewhat been has God, or the of Leader Jesus knew?" Yes, that was against and resista:oce to all tha.t is his ministry consisted. We have ·a180 Mn. Eddy the only llpeci- the right application of it accom- Such a teacher Christian Science is·; that Jesus knew; and it was be- good; a history of rapine and of de- seen that, like Christian Science, he movement which she founded, a Lead- may we not now ask in a more plishes the works of God,-heals all and it is only this kind of tea<:hing manifestation ~e is God, who is infinite good, was struction written with sword and declared God to be Spirit, Mind. The er who asked to be followed only in fie way, What and saves to the uttermost. that ever ean or ever will Christiandiesasea that Jesus knew, that he was able flame. It is a history of human dorn- only product of Mind is ideas, and, so far as she followed Christ. (Mes- of God? The reflection of any of you here ize the world, and ultimately bring The primary desire of all normal demonstrate all that is good; to ination which found its cuhmnation no matter what we may take a thing sage for 1902, p. 4.) beings is to live. It is the desire of in a mirror must be obedient to you· in the kingdom of God on earth. It Flllldamen,tal Teaebin~ the hWigry, to comfort the sor- in the carnage .t hrough whioh the to be or what we may call it, everyI tru&t that what has been present- the young and t'he -old; the rich and or it could not be your reflection. Just is only this kind of teaching and this """.lollJit. to reform the sinful, to heal whole world •h as jllSt passed, and thing must be an idea to ua. Otherso the reflection of God, man,-which kind of Christianity that will solve to still the &torrn, to raise continues to record itself in an in- wise, we could not think any given ed ·will at least indioate what the the poor the weak and the lltr.o ng; means every one of us,-must be the problems which are disuniting dustrialism which has forgotten that thing to be anythin~ whatever. Right study of Mrs. Eddy's teachings will the well and the sick. For thi-s reaae1ML to God, to good, in order 'to the world; problems that seem to be obedient has mankind of quest "the labourer is worthy of his hire," ideas constitute Truth, and-right make entirely plai:n; that, as stated si>n, the great l'elllBJ'SO•n said:Obedience to God, then,- industrial, political ,or social. It i'S man. be into life •f and .the employer entitled to a full ideas being the product of Kind-- on page 468 of the ChTistian Science been the prolongation Flower in the erannied wall, to all tihat is ria-ht, only this kind of teaching and this obedience is, that mo:r'I pluck you out of the crannies, retum of labor for that hire,-an Truth must be and is the ·a nointed, textbook, · "all is infinite Mind and its its 1lillending prolongoation,-im for to and good, and beautiful, and pure,- kind of Christianity that will end I hold you here, root and all, in induatrialism in which the motto of the approved of God. "the only be- infinte manifestation," and thalt the tality. Nor is this strange, and no one strifes an<! wars of every kind, and nearly all concerned-of labor and gotten" of the one "Father-Mother , 1 Kind which is here referred to is be immortal would mean to be free constibutes the true man, my hand, thil! form a true league of men and of of capital alike-has been and is to God" (Science and Health, p. 18.). 1 God. This great fact is the funda- from everything that could result in can be, nor is, man without Little flower-but if I c:ould true man, nations. It is only this kind of teach- Jrive as little as possible for as much Mind. Jesua said, -Ye 11hall know mental teaehing of Christian Science, mortality or death. It would mean obedience. It is of every understand, from then, that the Psalmi-st sang, "ThQU ing and this kind of ChriStianity that What you .are, root tmd .all, and as possible, instead of .giving and the truth, and the truth .shall make 1. and it is for this reason 'that the par- immunity from deterioration, terror by ever can or ever will heal all manner doing as much as possible for what free," and so •implicitly obedient .to agraph from wihich I have just quoted lack of ability, capacity, vigor, and shalt not be afraid for the all in all, ftiet:h of dieasell, and banish want, woe and that arrow the for nor night; strength, of each gets. It is .a history which even Truth was he, that in speaking of is designated by Mrs. Eddy as ''the vitality; from lack I ahould ~w what God and tlhat immorality, and bring .men unde~ tM pestilence the for nor day; by life, now i.s unrolling itself before us in himself as the Christ, he was able to : scientific statement o.f .being'' (ibid., !health, and the means to sustain man :ut. de- government of Goo, under the .govthe ·for ·nor darkness; in be main- walketh WJ1en it becomes lmown what the the jarring,. warring strife of self- say, "I am . . . the truth,"' and "Be- · p. 468). It is on the basis of the om- -all of which woud have to ernment of pure intelligence or Mind. noonday. at struction tha.t wasteth livfng thing really is, all real- interest against self-interest, of in- fore Abraham was, I am." What nipresence, omniscience, an<! omnipo- tained in their fullness, and without might A thousand !!hall fall at thy side, and It is only this kind of teaching and will be known, aad lmown to be dividual against individual, of 10r- say we of Christ, then! What both tence of Mind, God, that eveey good impairment, that eternal .}ife ten thousand at thy right hand; but this kind of Christianity that will KDowing God as gani?:ation against -organization, of Jesus and Christian Science teaoh us: work was wroutght by Jesus, by his be maintained. God-good. it shall not come nigh thee . . .Be- ever solve 'the problem as to what "This Do, and Thou Shalt Live" knew Him, the trae nature, nation against nation. With such a He is the spiritual, the right idea of apostles and early followers. It is on When Jesus was asked what one cause thou hast made the Lord, which man is ·b y arousing us into being true essence of everythiuc was history disclosed to our view, can being, God's Truth, who is with us this basis that all the good works of refu~, even the most High, God-like, and thus spiritual and not to him, and it was :this lmow- any one say that outside of Ch.ois- always; in "whom there is no vari- Christian Science have been and must shall do tto inherit eternal life, (be is myhabitation; there shall no e..-il material. the thy or Science which enabled Jesus tian Science Christianity is bein&' ableness, neither 11badow of turmn~r." continue to be accomplished. It is answered, "What is written in Preseftt Claims · "the same yesterday, and to day, and because of this that these works are law? how readest thou 'l" And re- befall thee, neither shall any plague l'etde4!m-'1~ha~t is, to rejudge every- tride and practiced? But do we, the present Chrisbie.n For be Christ-ian, and not du~ :to the sug- ceiving the reply that the law was come nigh thy dwelling. 1 for ever." Mu.'• Relationhip to God thus ·save :the otherwise shall give his angels charge over Scientnsts, count ourselves to have all with God thy Lord the "love to promesmeric or hypnotic, g-estive, from Le&rDed be Must Science the that indJ.cated been bas It incurably the restore !Pfl.l~sly lo.st. apprehended all this ? That is, d() cesses of any of the so-called psycho- they heart, and wibh all thy soul, thee, to keep thee in all thy wa,ys. we count ourselves as having already Authentic: Sourc:N Christian Science of Jesus con.c;isted seemingly dead. No teachings except those of tihe logical methods now so generally and with all thy strength, and with ... He shall call npon me, and I will attained to this state? No. But we Jbriatiiaa Sc:ienc:e The Knowledre of a knowledge of God. In teaching him in this Science he taught the universal Bible, upon which Christian Sclenr.e practiced, not only by physicians, and all thy mind; and thy neighbour a1 answer him; I will be with ef God · bon- do count one who, in speaking of and him, deliver will I trouble; ·said, ''Thou hast trust, my dead friends, that what Fatherhood or causality of God and is founded, can be said to be tihe under the patronage of churches of thyself,"' JesU's thou our him. With long life will I aat.(Continued on Laat PaK"e) been said has prepared you to defined God to be Spirit, "thua iMind; same as, or even parallel to Chria- other denominations, but ~y many answered right: this do, and "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: THE WAY TO THE KINGDOM" a teaching and definition which quite naturally mean that man, as the son of God, is the idea or reflection of Mind,-subjeot to God, Mind,and that, in o.rder to come to the es-tate of man-to rise to the stature of true manhood-men must be governed th y God, Spirit, Mind, by pure intelligence; that men must seek "first the kingdom of God, and hia I good, qoo, 1? r ° I I ... |