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Show THE MURRAY EAGLE to another by turning from statues of Roman sods to Images of Chris notables as their objects of re ligious devotion. Acclaimed by a so superficial and Its understood little which cicty teachings and practised them less; lncklm: the suimort of n uulfled or ganizntlou ; und having no written directions to which Its faithful ad herents could refer for guidance, the primitive church lost Its hold upon divine Principle, and Christian healing, as Jesus taught and demonstrated it, ceased. A Ledure r i on CHRISTIAN SCIENCE by Entitled 1 Christian Science: Its Healing Mission By sense-testimon- y DISCOVERY AND ONSTRATION Robert Stanley Ross, C. S. B. in Of New York City' Jr. .akc Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. :The religion of Christian Science winning public approval because 1 both promises unlimited good and fulfills its promise by delivering from discord of every sort those Who embrace its teaching and yield to its divine influence. In comforting words of the Master, Christian Science says to all mankind, "Come onto me, all ye that labour ami are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" rest, not in a suppositional place called heaven nccesible only through the doorway of death, but here and now ; for it is not in future heaven, but in present experience, that mankind needs help. Knowing this, Christian Scientists -- declare with Paul that '"now is the day of salvation." Although she discovered Christian Science in lSl'.tt, it was not until H75, through her renowned textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." that Mary Baker Eddy published a complete and eom-- ' juelH-nslvexposition of Science. Nevertheless, after a lapse Of little more than half a century since this book first made its appearance, Christian Science healing Is bein? widely demonstrated; Christian Science churches and societies in ever increasing number jind unity may Ik- - found throughout the length and breadth of the civilized world; and the revered anil Founder of Christian 'Science is recognized at home and iahroad as one of the foremost of the race. J Within this period. Christian Science has healed jierhaivs millions of ihtsoiis, many of whom were suffering from diseases which, from the ordinary medical point of view, were supposed to be incurable. It 4 has restored the discouraged and i hopeless to lives of Joy and useful ness. It has rescued men and women from the vortex of falsi! appc-titimmorality, and vice. In place f of fear and failure it has establish ed assurance and success. Turning recently to u single Issue of The Christian Science Journal, for exI found recorded there heali ample, ings if blood iHiisoning, deafness, chronic appendicitis, spinal deformity, Internal hemorrhage, heart disease, nervous prostration, epilepsy,' j paralysis, brain fever, neuralgia, I rheumatism, lumbago, asthinn, indiges-Itlon- , pneumonia, tuberculosis, c gastritis, constipation, habit, fear, melancholia, grief, presentment, criticism, and intoler-jnnce- . Such as these were the "signs (following" that made it possible- - and J necessary for Mrs. Eddy "to organize a church designed to commein-- . orate the word and works of our which should reinstate J.Miister, primitive Christianity and Us lost element of healing'' (Church Man-'mip. 17). Ui :K s- - this e II j j e, nior-3phln- l. 5 1 PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY In other words, Christian Science Is demonstrable religion, n religion of works. This religion would hate i you accept Its teachings tint In mere i' belief or blind faith, but only when you have learned how to .demon-- j strate Its divine rrlnclple, which Is Infinite good. Owing to its provable nature, Christian Science Is attracting to Its ranks praetlcally-'- l minded, deliberate, thoughtful men 5 and women from every walk of life men and women who are moved J to mere religious ; nt by appeal ; sentiment, but by sound reason und tmanswerr.ble results. In most cases, these isTsotis have lurn.Hl to Christ- Ian Sclemv because It has shown : l hem bow to think their way out of ' difficulties, whether mental nr moral, physical or financial, ntd us- ually after other menus and moth-ihIhad failed to help them. Surely the Christianity tf Jesus was no re-- j llgli'ii of forms and ceremonies, of ' creeds und dogmas! His ministry ' was a life of loving, unselfish, and Intelllgeiit service to his fellow-men- . The Scripture tell us that the Master went from place fit place comfort lug the sorrowing, healing the sick, ruining Hie dead, and that his pulpit was h Galilean hillside or i flslieruian'a istat. In Moreover, we need to r mind thnt the Master accomplished his healings by recourse to spiritual eans only. Although the age had iti material methods of treatment, Jesus neither used them nor recommended their use to others. By a process that wns evidently unfailing, he healed In most cae both functional and orgnnle diseases, overcame poverty and other phase of llmltnllon, and raised the dead. So Inseparable were his precepts and praiiv that Jesus declared that his true followers would be known, characterized, not by accepting or distinguished, and adhering to mere doctrinal lc llef. but only by doing the works that he did, saying, "He that hcllev- s , i ' Ix-n- ' Th First eth on me, the works that I do shall he do also;" and, "Ileal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils." Accordingly, on page 13S of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy says; "Jesus established in the Christian era the precedent for nil Christianity, theology, and healing. Christians are under as direct orders now, as they were then, to be Christlike, to possess the Christ spirit, to follow the and to heal the sick as well as the sinning." Nevertheless, In the face of all this, there are those who contend that the works of our Master were the result of miraculous Interpositions of divine power peculiar to him alone anil thnt even the aspiration to follow his healing example would be little short of blasphemy. 'Her against this point of view, however, we have not only the Master's own injunctions, two of which have already been quoted, but we have the book of Acta and Inter evidence to prove that the immediate disciples and others obedithis healing ently demonstrated power, How, then, are we to reconcile these facts to the claim that Christian healing was a suiH'rnatur-a- l power available only to Christ Jesus? Is It not more reasonable to conclude that Jesus' healings were accomplished by the application of a divine law which he understood far better than others, which he made known in a general way to his disciples and which they, in turn, made known to others? Is it to conclude not more reasonable that he and they dealt not with that which was the Infraction orj setiing aside of divine law, buti with that which was the very fulfillment or demonstration of divine law? Granting this, we must admit also that a divine law which healed the sick In the first century is equally capable of healing the sick in the twentieth century. Christ-exampl- j HEALING existence must always be peaceful, joyous, and confident. It Is the realm, uol of discordant persons, circumstances, and things, but of spiritual Ideas, living, moving and having their being in the clear, unclouded consciousness of infinite .Min 1, and aware now of their im ls infinite mortality In God, who Life. Consequently, the Christian Scientist prays, not for God to do more than lie has already done, but for the faith, humility, and love that will enable him to lift thought above the mesmerism of and joyfully recognize the glorious fact that God's work ls finished, that creation Is fully accom plished, that divine Love Is' infin ite. Surely, infinite good knows nothing about a mist of evil or error that is supposed to have arisen in the midst of primeval harmony, beclouded spiritual consciousness, and recreated the universe, Including man, upon a material basis! Surely, the carnal mind, otherwise known as Satan, adversary, or devil, has never walked to and fro in the realm of reality (there is no other realm) seeking whom it could deTo scientific, vour! Inspired that ls, to thought conthought, scious only of God, infinite good, there ls not and never has been auy sin, disease, aud death. If the mist of error seems to be holding mesmeric swuy over human consciousness, it can never Interfere with nor good, DIVINELY NATURAL Furthermore, the word translated "miracle" In the New Testament does not In the original Greek signify that which Ls supernatural. it According to one dictionary, means "a mighty work," "an act of power." "a sign." We find also that the Scriptural Greek word translated "sign" is Identical with the Greek word that In other parts of the New Testament Is translate! "miracle." riaTnly, therefore, "miracles" were never intended to signify supernatural occurrences, but were to he signs, indications, or evidences of divine law operating In human experience. Accordingly, with her unfailing insight and rlarity, Mrs. Eddy, on page li'.H of Science and Health, "Miracle" as "That which Is i.lvlnely natural, but must be learnn phenomenon of ed humanly; Sconce," and en page 1.15 she writes, "The miracle Introduces no disorder, but unfolds the primal orthe Science of der, establishing God's unchangeable law." lty consulting the New Testament records you will find that, without or drugs or surgery, manipulation mesmerism. Jesus healed blindness, deafness, dropsy, epilepsy, fever, hemorrhage insanity, leprosy, lysis, and raised from ' the hut dead iut Ijiznrus, only also the daughter of J a I ru s and the son of the widow of Naln. The same records show that I'eter, who was one of the lmmed-- j laic uiscipics, nested a man woo was bom lame, cured another person of paralysis, and raised iHirens from the dead. They show that Philip, who was an Immediate disciple also, healed Insanity, pa ralysis, and lameness. They show Ihnl I 'a ul, who was not one of the twelve, healed deformity, fever, hemorrhage, serpent bite, and restored Kutychus lo life. Moreover, history shows that healing by spiritual mean ch iructcrlzed Christian dlscipleshlp for more than two hundred jcars. It wns iiHin this sure basis, this firm foundation of tplr-llti.understanding, this FETROS, or r k, of demnstratlon, and not upon the jersonal peter, that Jesuit said his church, the church that would truly represent his teachings, would ! built. In the third century, however, the Roman Emtx-ro- r Constantlne, out of gratitude for bin healing from a sujuMtMHlly Incurable disease, nn enthusiastic adherent of whereupon the new Christianity, religion Immediately became popular. All Rome embraced It. To pro-fe- s Christianity was the expedient thing lo do. The Romans, however, were too fom! of Image worship to Hun wholeheartedly to Him who mut be worshiped "In spirit and In truth." Consequent ly they merely shifted fMiii one form of Idolatry de-tin- il DEM- that the Is It not significant Master never reduced his teachings to writing? Ail that we know about his words and works has bceu handed down to us In the writings of others. That Jesus was the fore most Exemplar of Truth's dominion over error there Is no room for doubt. So closely did his earthly life conform to Christ, the divine ideal, that he became known as Jesus the Christ, or Jesus the Godlike man. Had the age beeu pre pared to assimilate divine healing as a Science, God would certainly have made It possible for the Master, above all others, to record It. But in ihe very fact that Jesus himself looked definitely to the future for the Comforter or "Spirit of truth" (plainly not a jx'rson) who would abide forever and lead into "all truth," In this, I say, we have clear indication that the final revelation of Truth, symbolized In the Apocalypse or Revelation of John as an angel with a "little book" and us "a woman clothed wUh the sun," was yet to come. enTu her brief autobiography titled, "Retrosiectlon and Introspection," 'Mrs. Eddy tells us that for twenty years by medical and other experiments she had been tracing nil physical effects to a mental cause und that finally her recovery from the effects of a supposedly fatal accident was the falling apple that led to her great discovery. To le sure, others before und since the apostolic era, had experienced divine healing, but Mrs. Eddy was In all history to disthe first cover the underlying Principle of such healing and to make it known to the world. In order to do this, Mrs. Eddy, who had always been a close student of the Bible, withdrew from society and for three years devoted herself to a more systematic aud prayerful study of the Scriptures. After proving, by healing the sick quickly and that this divine Principle Is demonstrable, Mrs. Eddy named her discovery Christian Science, saying on page 147 of Science und Health: "Our Master healed the sick, practised Christian healing, and taught the generalities of its divine Principle to his students; but he left no definite rule for demonstrating this Principle of healing and preventing disease. This rule remained lu Christian to bo discovered Science." Putting it simply, then, Christian Science is the discovery and scientific exposition of the divine Principle by which Christ Jesus performed his mighty works. Mrs. Eddy named her discovery Christian because it Is compassionate and helpful. She named it Science because It Is based upon divine Principle. God, ls demonstrated according lo rule, and requires exact knowledge on the part of those who would utilize It. It follows, therefore, that a Chrlstlnn Scientist is one who alms, lu so far as he understands them, to exemplify all the teachings of Christ Jesus In his dally life, und that a Christian Science pracltltloner Is one who understands this Science well enough to Invoke its dlvlno Principle successfully, not only in his own liehalf but In behalf of those who may call upon him for aid. Consequently on page 141 of Sclemv and Health. Mrs. Eddy writes: "In healing the sick and sinning, Jesus elaborate the fact that the healing effect" followed the understanding of the divine IVIncIple and of the Christ-spiri- t which governed the corporeal Jesus. For this Principle there is no dynasty, no ecclesiastical monopoly. Its only crowned head Is immortal sovereignty. Its only priest Is the spiritualized man.' ixtiii-nnentl- PRINCIPLE this point, however, the question may arise, What Is the divine Principle of Christian Science to which you refer so frequently? In order lo answer this question satisus turn to that factorily, record of spiritual creation found in the first which will hapter of Genesis. There we read. "And God saw every thing thnt he hnd made, and, behold, It was very THE DIVINE At h-- t I c rimhI." Commenting thereupon, Mrs. Eddy write on page 521 of Science and Health: "All thnt is made is the work of God, and all Is good. We leave this brief, glorious his- tory of spiritual creation (as stated In the first chapter of Genesis) in the hand of God, not of man, in the keeping of Spirit, not of matter, now and Joyfully acknowledging forever God's supremacy, omnipotence, and omnipresence." Therefore, In Christian Science we liegln with God, Infinite good, present spiritual ierfectlon, n the divine Principle of true thought and demon! ration. According to this Science, all thnt truly exists Is Included In this Infinite, ever present, perfect creation, in which there ran be no fear, nothing to ls afraid of, and no one susceptible to fenr or any other frailty. In Infinite d alter the eternal fact that perfec- tion Is. Mankind needs only to be awakened from its baseless belief in a power opposed to God, Infinite gootl, in order progressively to throw off. as unreal und untrue, the shackles of sin, disease, and death; for, notwithstanding this niys'.lfied, human, finite sense of tilings to the contrary, all ls well, and God's unlferse Is uow and forever spiritual, harmonious, aud Intact, n universe altogether lovely and lovable. I'XRE.VIJTY OF FEAR Although they may not have understood clearly how to meet erthat patriror, it is noteworthy and archs, apostles prophets, urgvd upon the people- of their time to lie not afraid. And why? Because they could see that fear is the chief obstacle to human progress, brood-- ; ing more or less ominously over all mankind. They knew that fear underlies practically all the sin and sickness, sorrow and suffering, failure and disaster that seems to the race. Mortals huve lcen taught to be afraid of the air they breathe and of the food they eat. They have leen taught to be afraid of heat a ml afraid of cold, to be afraid of light and afraid of darkness. They huve been taught to be afraid to live and afraid to die. They have been taught to be bo afraid of God that most of them have elected to stay where they are than to take a chance with the heaven of old school theology with its promise of enduring health and happiness only beyond the grave. Some time ago, for example, while motoring with some friends, I passed a cemetery and to my astonishment read these words carved In the granite arch over the entrance, "Gate to Heaven." Here was the mistaken admission, commonly made by Christian jsxiple (and I say this respectfully), that one natural must die either by or by violent means In order to win one's way Into Gisl's presence, the kingdom of heaven! If, however, God were directly or Indirectly, presently or remotely, respoiTstole for sin, disease, and death, would He not U our worst enemy Instead of our best friend? Would It not make heaven a place to Is? carefully avoided Instetd of Joyfully anticipated? Who could truly love such a God? Ami who could truly long for such a heaven? Ah! but true Christianity tells us that God Is Love, not hale; that He Is a God of the living, not of the dead; that the kingdom of heaven Is at hand and within us an harmonious state of thought lo be gained here by active, spiritual living, ami not by lapsing Into unconsclousis and ilea Hi. Science Christian Therefore, conies to ymi and me as the heavs enly message came to the of old, saying, '"Fear not ; for, behold, 1 bring you good tidings of great Joy, which shall be to nil eople." It tells us that we here, tonight, now, and may lr'glu the demonstration thereof, that go In Infinite, and that In GimI's estimation we are His sons and daughters In whom He Is "well pleased." It tells Us that all cause and effect, all presence ami substance, all swer and law are good and thnt they are always exerted In our India If, never against us. If we have believed otherwise, this fearful, unreal, untrue slnt of view, not God, Is responsible for our difficulties; for our diGod Is more devine Father-Mothesirous of promoting our health, our happiness, and our success than are the fondest enrlhly parents In promoting the welfare of their children. Accordingly, you may be sure that you do not Peed longer to be nfrnbl of God, who I Infinite and from whom only tetnwaU of good can come. le-se- t d -- prophet-shepherd- r LoVE THE LIBERATOR Nevertheless, Mine of you may le saying tu yourselves In effect. Well, even though we do not Heed In U afraid of (Jod, we seem still to N afraid. What Is fear and how can we get rid of it? Christian Science replies thnt fear Is based upon the erroneous supposition that although God ls infinite good, evil has a place in this Infinity. It declares that this erring, false, de lude J point of view Is responsible for all discord and suffering on earth, and that discord and suffering will dlsapienr from our lives in the proportion that we reeogulze the mesmeric Imposition by which we have been deceived, rebuke it as unreal, it ml claim our spiritual freedom. It exhorts us to declare for ourselves and others that we are not ufraid of the mesmeric obsession calling Itself because we know that we live and move anil have our being at this very moment lu (Sod's Infinite, ever present, ever available Love; hence the assurance of John that "There Is no fear lu love: but perfect love casteth out fear." By way of Illustration, let us suppose that a person in a dream lalieves he is going through frightful experiences. So long as the dream continues these experiences seem to him to lie real and terrifying. Then let us supiawe that you would save this lerson from his suffering. In order to do so, would you make a reality of, sympathize with. le afraid of, the dream? Would you save him from real experiences? No; you would merely him from an erroneous awaken mental state which Is causing him to believe in the reality of the utterly unreal. Likewise, Christian Science has come to arouse mankind from tills mesmeric iuqiosltlon, of life, substance, this and intelligence in mutter, which declares that man ls an unhappy, poverty-stricke- n, wrong-doingdiseased, dying mortal instead of the spiritual image and likeness of God, Infinite good. Obviously, therefore. Christian Science healing ls not a material process, but a spiritual awakening in accordance with the Scriptural command. "Awake thou that sleeiH-st- , and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give this' light." M ENTA L EX PER I ENCES perfect, Christian Science declares that man is truly spiritual and per feet now. It teaches us how to take our stand on the side of God, Spir each time she came, he was, to his them astonishment, prescribing weaker and 'weaker. Her sight ls now normal. Again, u devoted wife found herself confronted by what seemed to be the problem of a drunken husband. Because of this, the wife had herself to become full of resentment and condemnation. A Christian Science practitioner whom islie consulted pointed out to her that she was accepting us real that which would huve to become unreal to her and that, accordingly, she as well as her husband needed to be healed. The practitioner reminder her that Christian Science heals such cases by condemning, not the victim, but the belief of false appetite, and that, if she would help her husband, she would have to rebuke and throw off the error which was telling her to look upon man at a sensual, sinful mortal, and prayerfully, confidently, iKTsistently hold to the divine ideal hat man ls spiritual, Godlike, free, and that he knows It. This scientific, light point of view ao illumined the woman's consciousness that very soon threafter she found that her husband was healed not only of the liquor habit, but of th tobacco habit as well. and to hold our ground and fearlessly steadfastly In the as sura nee that the only real universe is the spiritual universe, which will stand forever. It is belief In a ma terlnl world and mortal man that vlll come to an end. Because mat ter is but another name for mortal mind, the material world will erase to be, here or hereafter, only when human belief yields entirely and dlsuppears liefore Infinite, all-ielusive, divine Mind, called God, even as darkness remles and eventually disappears before the rising sun. By tills process, a mortal does not Untune spiritual, any more than darkness liecomcs light, but through spiritual understanding one demonstrates that tho real man, the only man there Is, hus always been spir itual. No doubt Jesus meant this when he said, "No man hath ascend ed up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which Is In heaven." If it were wrong, however, to claim that man (your true Is perfect now. would it not be wrong also to claim that God Is perfect now? But whatever Is true about God must le true about the DOMINION OCR BIRTHRIGHT leal man. Were it otherwise, God By the same token, Christian would have no likeness, and man Science declares to every child, would Ik forever in ti state of inman, and woman in this audience So feriority and that God has placed no human limlong as we entertain a sense of in- itations upon you. It declares that with God will feriority, nre under no law of evil prebe always beyond our reach. This you condemnation, or demistaken point of view promotes destination, struction at the hands of a wrathand confirms Un- ful discouragement It declares that because belief of imperfect iou. We cannot God deily. Is Infinite good. It Is your diour demonstrate unity with God so vine right to experience Immediate, long as we cling to h mortal inferior from whatevsense of existence so long as we spontaneous recovery seem to be holding you in er may see the universe and man materially bondage. It declares that all that Instead of spiritually. John made ever was and all that ever will be all this plain in his first epistle, to accomplish a complete necessary be where writes: "Beloved, now are salvation Is available lo every one we the sous of GihI, and It doth of here ami now. Therefore, not yet appear what we shall be: let you us begin to exercise our divine but we know that, when he shall right. l et us begin to claim fearwe shall be like him; for appear, we shall see him us be Is. And every lessly that, rightly considered, we are spiritual and orfect, and be Here let us be reminded that lu man that hath this hope In him pur-i- f free. We have Iteen confident enough loth himself, even as be (God) Is and of Itself the physical laxly, like of our ability to be sick, to be unall that is material or mortal, is pure." happy, and to fall. Now let us be Incapable of experiencing either Accordingly, It should ls under-stoix- l equally confident of our divine heat or cold, weakness or strength, that a Christian Scientist rb;ht to be healthy, happy, and sickness or health. Indtsil, we din's not presume to heal man; for On page 2iK( of Science and know that, save for the man ls the Image and likeness of Health Mrs. Eddy writes, "Science fleshly or carnal mind, which Is God, Spirit, Mind, hence spiritual reveals the possibility of achieving unreal and untrue, the physical and nnd in no need of all good, und sets mortals at work body would have no sense of per- healing. The putlent ls not even a to discover what Ood has already and things. man who Itelleves he ls sick or a sin- done." sons, circumstances, How evident It ls, therefore, that ner, but a mesmeric state of human However, for one to do Justice In our human experiences are never U'lief calling itself a sick man or a an hour to a theme that ls Infinite, to lie), sinner. Hence, a Christian Science Is physical (though seeming obviously mi Impossibility. Nevbut always mortal and mental, and treatment Is a metaphysical treatin the ierlod at my dls-xsertheless, we can ment. It includes neither a jsTsonal that the only way by which I have endeavored to show truly solve what seems to le our patient nor a ix'rsonul healer. For you (1) that original Christianity own and others' problems Is by ap- this reason, Christian Science heal was essentially a religion of works proaching them us menial prob- ing cannot be explained understand and that, accordingly, true ChristScilems! Accordingly, a Christian Ingly from the basis of one human ianity must always In' distinguished ence treatment deals, not wlih mat trying to heal another by spiritual healing; (2) that spirter, time, ami space, but always human ersoitnllty. The explanation characterized the with present human belief calling becomes simple, however, when, ac itual healing Clirlstiiin religion for probably three itself matter, time, und space. cording to the foregoing, healing is It follows, therefore, that If we seen us Ihe effect of spiritual, sci centuries, after whichhwtit towashuman tenirurily accept as real the testimony of mor- entiflc thinking, whereby we help by the materialism apprehension tal mind alias the material senses, ourselves and others by rejecting of Rome; (3) that, after a lutgaii we are apt to find ourselves conend dlstelllng the mesmerism claimsixteen centuries, lapse of or a sinner the dMne nearly tending on all sides with more or ing to be u sick of Christian Principle less discordant circumstances and and affirming to human conscioushealing was discovered and demonacwe ness if the uniwhereas, eternal Judge things; fact that the strated by Mary Baker Eddy and cording to spiritual sense, we shall verse and man are harmonious and alone, and In see thnt we and others "live, and jtorfect, here and now. "Be ye there- by her. the face of hitler from opMisition move, and have our lsdng" In this fore rfect, even as your Father pulpit and press, made available of universe infinite Is In which Is gisxl heaven wholly s'rfect." Ihroiigh the Christian Science text'Mind, divine reality, which conbook. "Science and Health with Key THE I'NIVERSAL REMEDY tains no discordant ersons, to the Scriptures;" (4) that, and things, but Is coplfd In Christlun Science, then, we through this discovery and this divine ideas, by spiritual that the real man (and this book, Mrs. Eddy has established under the government of divine Includes your true self) Is always the Christian church on a spiritual, Principle, Imve. By refusing to acund the reflection scientific, demonstrable basis and spiritual and entertain- or bleu of God, Intact, cept Infinite gissl. He has l amed it the Church of Christ, ing steadfastly the true, spiritual, never ill, has never acquired Sciential, of which The First scientific Idea of the universe und falsi' appetites, has never lost Church of Christ. Scientist, In Bostliny man, we shall find ourselves exany of bis families, lu fact, the on. Massachusetts. Is The Mother periencing kindness and coopera- real man has never had any inu-- t Church, Surely only one who was tion on every hand. Referring lo riti I faculties to lose, Us 'a so real walking baud In band with God Ibis process, Mrs. Eddy writes on faculties are spiritual and Inde- could have accomplished nu,-a page 42S of Science and Health. structible. Such exicrlouces work ' might "A demonstration of the facts of wem to come to the human counter-fel- t Mrs. Eddy has restored the Ihe facts of Soul in Jesus' way reof man culled a mortal, but this Master's teaching to Its rightful solves the dark visions of material would Is due fundamentally to the phne as a living, practical, healing sense Into harmony and Immo- erroneous stiiitH.vitloii that muti influent In human affairs. For rtality." snild, temporarily at least, luicj this the Christian world owes her for When, example, the Syrian from spiritual Mrfcction Into luor n debt of gratitude which It can hordes, bent upon ensuring hint. human If, however, tallty. never repay. To Mrs. Eddy Isioiigs I surrounded Klisbu at lot ha n. should wem t .e impaired or lost, the commendation. "Well done, gixxl Ellsba's servant (symbolic of ma- a right or spiritual recognition of and faithful . . . enter terial sense) cried out In fear and man's sinless, harmonious. Indissol- thi ll Into the Joy of thy lird." trembling, saying, "Alas, my mus- uble to bis divine Prinrelationship ter! how shall we do?" With words God, would restore these facciple. of assurance Elisha (symbolic of ulties to (he normal stnndard which spiritual Kcne) replied, "Fear not: human belief bus established for Itfor they that n with us are more self. Consequently, when be was than they thai Ih with them." Itav- askiil, regarding the man whom he ing quieted bis servant's fenr, heated of blindness, whether the afFlisbu prayed that the young man's fliction whs due to the man's eyes should U' opened to see own wrongdoing or to that of hU lnstenl of materially. He Jesus answered, "Neither to look again, parents, then bade bis hath this mnn sinned, ur hi jwtr "and, behold, the mountain wan cuts: but that the wmks of God full of horse aud chariots of fire should Is- - made mnuifcttt In him." round nltont The record About a year ago, for example. Hon tells us that Elisha oxename without (he use of I met an elderly woman who had the Syrian i almost totally blind. Turning i material means, rebuked the Israelite who would have employed mil- to Christian Science for help, she .i Joyfully for the first time itary force, and sent the captive home provisioned and unharmed. It thnt. Instead of scndllug blindness, and other cIom' with Ihe statement that the deafness, deformity, Invaders came no more Into Israel. form of affliction, God's only will Like Elisha, all of us, sooner or Is to set nint. kind free mentally, later, must lenrn through loving morally, and physically. Presently, alertness how to recognise and her sight began to return. This en aided her with the aid of glasses to deny the memnerlsm of which would, through sug-ge- rend, write, and make the wonderfalse ful laces for which the women of Ion, have u accept II claim to presence and swer, and her country are noted. In the ceure turn with childlike confidence to of events, she became a mcmlior of spiritual reality, which I ever pres- the local Christian Sclemv church, (Between Posloftlrr 4 City Hall ent, ever available good, and to wii deep-- First Render, and withthe the aid served out of which fear and doubt, sin and sufglasses MIRK AY, ITAII usual term of three year. During fering, di seme ntid death are the jierlod of recovery, thl woman visited all optometrist from time PATRONIZE IIOMK INDl'STKY THE LAW OF PERFECTION to time. During one of these visit Instead of trying lo the optometrist told her that InSimilarly, AM) swr.i make the real man spiritual am' stead of prescribing stronger leusca it, Mind, sense-testl-uion- . t, self-hiHx- l) day-drea- , suc-ee-st'- d -- ii sense-testimon- In-e- It's Smart to BUY npr-Ituall- GOOD SHOES N-ei- ana tnen KEEP THEM REPAIRED! sense-testimon- RobertHeckel d |