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Show A Lecture The very word "mind," itself, As the coming of Jesus was an any human aid, yet lu that dark earri. thought away from matter Inseparable part of (Sod's perfect hour the fact was that this man ind material surroundings Into an plan of salvation, so the next and had ben merely enslaved by false htirely different realm. Time. concluding act In Mind's creation belief, as was the historic (Sadar-en'Pitee, physical conditions, and limi- was correspondingly fixed. The tations disapiM-ar- . The morning t sixth day had arrived, and God The family', almost crushed by tells ns of progress in India, of Mind said: "Ict us make man in the hideous sjh'11 that Sivms to be changing conditions in Russia, of cair image, after our likeness: and upon their home, stand about, some startling discoveries in the So God let I li fin have dominion some hopelessly. Rut a In the lime required to glance (Mind) created man in his own prayerfully, friend, who had recompassionate over the headlines we have been image, lu the image of God (Mind) ceived iiermisslon to do what he around the world, and possibly created he him ; . . . And (Sod saw could to u Id. now enters the house some billions of miles out In space every thing that be had made, and, and hastens up stairs, accomiianlisl for good measure. Matter for the Isiiold, It was very good." The by a man whose kindly smile has in moment has ceased to be. We have great work was done, nothing else it the knowledge of the power of been living in a mental world. could be created, and therefore (Sod. In another moment the BY smiling But even this mental realm Is not God rested on the seventh day, see- one has been led Into the sufferer's he universe in of Spirit, divine Mind. ing and rejoicing the perfection cbamlier and has set about the busPAUL A. IIARSCH, O. S. B. of TOLEDO, OHIO God's ierfect creation of good con- of His good work. iness that luiiigs him here. With Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church. The First tains in it nothing unlike It's creatPerfection! Good alone real! Cre eyes closil he Is communing with or, nothing that can erish or tlisai-pear- . ation completed, and nowhere In It his Church of Christ, Scientist, In Boston, Massachusetts heavenly Father, and then with Mortal, material man has no aught that can sin, suffer, be dis- eyes oon lie Is audibly making cerplace in it, for matter Is unreal, eased, or destroyed! What a won- tain sweeping and astonishing deMind derful universe, this, of which the clarations with reference to the one To the untold thousands, hunger- from the sense he was entertaining; untrue, without substance. alone Is real, and Is substance. Mind man began to fool himself a jmrt! who seems to be In the clutch of ing and thirsting after righteousness, that his whole course or thinking is Imperishable. Mind Is He forgot for the moment the mat- the last enemy Itself. there comes today a new message of was Is? and must wrong changed. This very allness of infinite Mind ter man he MHeved himself to lie. Silently the work goes on. Some joy and promise. Yes to all man- II stared blankly at nie and seem- necessarily excludes from Its unl There Tided from consciousness the hours elapse. Consciousness returns. kind this vibrant call is ringing ed to 1h wondering if I were en- verse every vestige of matter. In false liellef of material man. tit IMI I n linr ui'Oc To.. - rwif The tired, torn limbs relax. Hop' ntiiiinuiN i'"l 'I1'' tirely sane. But I continued and cluding mortal man himself. Herein FALSE BELIEF UNCOVERED jOUl, some far distant good. Pray said springs again In the breast of the to him; "The oniv help you may be found the kernel of the not for that whleii you already family. The surgeons amazed at see to It was ; he Ah! That began really need Is a correct concept of whole question, as It to it. have. Awake and see. that Just now. False belief only that and the turn of affairs consent to set Cod. You must learn that Cod's our human experience. your feet "Life's pearl is presence Is more. How could delusion the broken bones. Rapidly the healHis power unJ tie exclusion of material man nothing cist" (Hymnal, No. 11). Rejoice limited, Hisconstant, falsehood and paint so many dis- ing goes on. One false liellef after goodness unceasing. from God's universe of good aggra another yields to divine understandthat God is ever at your side, your You must learn cordant pictures In his thought? that you are vates the human, or mortal, mind. dream-picturehand In His. Praise God that He a child of tills be ing. Presently the sufferer of Toledo could How these good Cod, and that It can conceive only of a universe has dlsa p(ica red ns utterly as the hath "commanded the light to shine He Is ever to help and care and a creation of which It Is an In cast out and kept out was an even wild demoniac ready of the country of the and hath lie darkness" that 'f niit more vital question. He was think-- j for His children." tegral and Important part. It Is, In Gadaienes. an Incredibly short and and given us a knowledge of His glory now, Ing very earnestly, However, these were mere words therefore, jierhaps not surprising his next comment time he Is restored whole and sound this. through "the face of Jesus Christ." proved Here Is Indeed cause for rejoic- to him. To think about Cod when that at this point my friend began "The things you have said are to his family. to show some uneasiness. Presently he he believed be should lA't us consider what was behind thinking of Truth in niy thought side by side ing. The glorious light about himself and his own prol he said: "That Mind is God, and running miracurecollections of Jesus, these two cases of with certain shining out of the darkness of Ignorance has revealed the pathway leins, apM'areu at tiie moment a therefore All, seems reasonable. It his life and work, and I think I lous healing, separated, und yet conis not radically out of line with to divine knowledge. St. Paul's great waste of time and effort. It understand what you mean when nected, by a span of nearly two I recall of my early religious what was to arouse thousand years. St. Mark, who retherefore, necessary, words, just quoted, assure us that speak- of htm as possessing the you sense of the allin a larger cords It, was doubtless an eye wlt-ni'this knowledge was brought to us his thinking. He must be persuad training. But my maed to examine bis own conscious ness of God did not exclude to the healing of the Gadar-ene- ; measure than other men. You said, hy Jeus, whise life of devotion and I man terial from His universe. ho ness not had as for done I was au eye witness to the iermoment ago, that the necessity of (ii'inoiistiaiion lifted the Christ so a seem unable to follow you on this hi To a this time. end haiw of the other. And, now, long healing far above any previous human con denying and reversing was asked, "Just exactly what Is point. My physical senses assure me continually what is the connection Mweon we need of the or the only apply testimony arguments cept. that matter, otherwise my body, Is senses is paramount. Was these two events? Is there any conthis understanding. Ah! but some- your concept of GimI?" corporeal His response was something like essentially real, at times painfully this not exactly what Jesus did each ceivable analogy between them? one says: "Understanding! My unso; and I am wondering how you time he healed a Kick man? Was not Yes, definitely and absolutely then? derstanding of Cod has never re- this: "For many years I have not of this unreal or matter newed the burdens under which I Iss'ii much of a churchgoer. When dlsjio.se this the Christ casting out false Is. In each case In Jesus' time and him." as call man, In our time a suffering human lutyou I a was boy attending Sunday have stumbled as I trod life's beliefs?" To this query the respoase might ing was wrested from the malign a in the What man, school, of the road. Then arose, prominent Cod, My knowledge question weary matI attended, did several have been made that not only to see perfivtlon, liowor of that same old tyrant, false and I think It is considerable, has church enabled Jesus but time and ajmee ns wi ll, had liellef. False belief had sejKi rated never enabled tne to solve my prob things which to my sense were most ter, God's man, when other men of been unreal by physicists " proved "Pardon me," I loms. They are Increasing In size dishonest and withered limbs, leprosy, the Gadarcno from isace and harInternational renown, but there It mony, had turned his hand against false can any said, "but you misunderstand am! number. How, tli-iniy seemed to l a lietter method of blindness, misery bet-same overshad every man, and every man's hand have the must possible itnowledge of Cod help ine question. I did not ask about your was to hurch or your religious belief, nor answering his question. This In achieving success or even freesense of the presence of cre- against him, and was about to ento the account of owing his call attention about your fellow ative Mind which had come to his compass his destruction. False bedom?" creation as It Is presented In the I me to about tell asked of mother when his own birth was an lief had put the Tolcdoun on the you are only My friend, you typical Geneof book the of first torture rack of wiln, had chapter ninny other sskers for spiritual Cod; what do you understand Ilim sis, and carefully analyze that ac nounced. The angel voice of the ed him from his dominion separat and the food and drink. Your rpiesilon shall o !e?" "Well,' came the reply, "you Christ had come to Mary and had count with him. found her receptive to the divine recognition of those who loved him. be answered; but first, are you see this man was very prominent In DIVINE CREATION Idea. Thus jsTeelvlng, she rejoiced, By all human standards, he was fully convinced of the correctness niy church and I knew him to be about to go down to death. Yes, the of your premise? Is there not some- thoroughly bad and " Again I In"My soul doth magnify the saying, In the beginning," the record of the modern man by enslavement w no him I ith had endowed So Lord." Jesus In hy came, which assuring terrupted thing your consciousness "God created the heaven and the tyrant false ladief was but a same tells you that perlmps you are mis curiosity about people, good or bad ; reads, (hat And the earth was with- which the entaken In your concept of Cod ; that his church affiliations or connec- the earth. angel Gabriel expressed sorry repltillon of the similar darkness and out and man of of slavement void; the form, long nga. when he said to Mary, "For with my inquiry bore upon one lssihly your knowledge of Him Is tions; was upon the face of the deep . . . God nothing shall be Impossible." incomplete? Is it p'rhujw true that K)Int alone who and what did he And Coil A MOMENTOUS QUESTION said, Let there lie light; yon are even now hoping that some- b dieve (rod to lie? Then for the and POWERLESS EVIL creAs And God's was now, the question springs there light." one will prove you are In crrori third time he started to tell me So to the ll;s of us all, Had the erfect Its had ation "beginning," is eagerly God nothing "If, then, with Well, let tne tell you joyfully that about his early church exjerienee. we felt we must make an was equally by which false. power ever is Christ If His and man's the was evident It concept Impossible you are wrong. In the citof His our In and start scientific nnuly.sl.s challenged some destroyed must le of Cod had lieeome so confused with present, there surely DIVINE DIRECTION we reizen of Toledo any relation to the church, jieople, human frailties, and IKTfect creation. Therefore, moment way now available whereby the deman by which false belief was about jsiwer The knowledge to which St. Paul material activities, that he could called our discussion of a lusions, false beliefs, refers Is not the wisdom of this not separate one from the other. before concerning Principle and may lie cast out of human conscious- challenged and destroyed there lu world. It Is rather the simple, Therefore, his thought must be led Mind. It wns agreed that we should ness, for surely, this good God you ancient Palestine by him who lias .vnnu mrougiioiu tell me of w ould not forever let liecome known as the Saviour of kindly truth that Cod Is love, and away from personality to the con- use tne word a for God. Ills creation suffer, sin, and die as mankind? We hold our very breath, as our synonym Cod study Mind. Is that Ixm Therefore, templation of an Impersonal Cod, Thus, the creative isiwer we regard- men and women seem to do. Explain for so much is lnvolv.il In this mo Is infinite nial ever present Intelli- an Infinite Being, who Is ed as Infinite MJnd. This changed to me," said the man, "how this meiitous quest Ion, so much hangs in gence, lovingly directing all, and nil loving, ever present, ami the whole picture of creation for may be accomplished." As an lllus the balances of Its rightful answersuch must be He doing so Joyously and successfully given good. the man. t rat ion, a celebrated Instance of the ing. And the answer Is, absolutely divine naThis a glimpse of Cod and His true throughout all time. He readily agreed that no act of exercise of divine power to destroy und unequivocally, Yes! There nevknowledge applied to human affairs ture to be lifted above the fear and er has Ixi'ii and there never could Insures their Intelligent direction. anxiety that was unmanning him. a divinely Intelligent being could lie false belief wns used. be but one wor which could free This Is the vital concern of every His fis-- t must lie placed upon the the result of chance, nor could It My friend Is asked to step Into a w himsical or men so from the clutch of a of he the far gone expression waters Is achievover the can success man. Lasting small lioat gliding solid rock of understanding. arbitrary will. Therefore, that the of an Inland sea in a far distant the tyrant false belief, and Hint ed only tinder such direction. A PRINCIPLE first act of creative Mind should land. Another boat Is just landing lowor is the power of (SihI, exercisWere men convinced of this fact have M-- the introduction of light its passengers on a rs ky shore. We ed through a demonstrable knowlsuccess would be universal. They illustrations of Cod's simple By the presence of divine law. note the gentle and striking mien edge of Him, of a proved would seek first for knowledge power and the tender care lie takes This law Ming fixed and unalter- of one of them. He Is the underdivine Mind as the source from of THE NEW REVELATION His creation, of which the man able, It must have been In operation which all constructive effort must standing Man of Galilee. From a assured he was a part, was I want to tell you How, again forevIs It and as yesterday cave n gaunt figure now flow. They would hold ever in conseeker was therefore given a er. A half hour's discussion about nearby this but the most plainly, story an sciousness the Master's command. new and Scarred and dreadful, quite different concept of of spiritual unfoblmeiit ntiiong men "Seek ye first the kingdom of (Sod, his creator. Soon he felt a desire to God bad brought to hint the man unbalanced man glares at the and bis righteousness; and all these know more alsmt this Supreme Be- In my office a realization of a strangers, and then advances to- since the chapter which recorded the of the Master to Palesa universe he had things shall l added unto you." ing. He lsgan to think of Cod in new universe, even dreamed alsuit. ward them fiercely. But suddenly tine.coming The who oniv sat upon never lsfore tyrant man of The one In halts. thought, Holding these words terms of Principle. When the state- Was not this entrance of light Into the demented In this land or lu Hint r the throne emWhat jsiw-ehas also mien would sisken. place prior they gentle ment was made that Principle Is was weak In jsiwer In comparison darkened consciousIs this he feels? Strange peace Is phasis on the clause "s ck ye first." God und lsnllpnwerful.be now his erstwhile In with tbo lyrniit false belief who first ness the only jiosslble step falls Now be blm. over It Is Indeed strange that the desire looked stealing and past all ma- his through Withavals bis way into a man's thinkhis regeneration? rebirth, more who blm at the feet of of mankind to seek divine wisdom terial symlsils of jsiwer and saw out light there could be no creation meekly men knew the power ing, and thus from the Inside sock first has nt lecn more ruggi-- and all other than now power itself as an Idea, or expresto wreck and destroy that man. And New bonms of living light i f good and used that power to desInsistent. sion, of Ivlty. He saw power ns a enabled the man to see that creaso, In the hour of man's greater reason of Mlcf. false Is' It for the the tyrant Perhaps may power not nsstsi-ate- tion was a continuous nnfuldincn' troy actuality; present need, it was divinely Inevitable that that many mortals have had vague Sitting at the feet of Jesus, re- there should come a fuller revelawith things or persons, but. of good, an nnfoldmciit of the act and unformed concepts of Cod. nnl transformed, the tion, which should Inevt that hoed. Instead, as the manifestation of all mil and spiritual fai ls of Lis Ising generated These, oddly enough, have appara Gaibireiie demoniac rejobis with n fo embracing, the The nvelatloii did come. It came Into now xvred He eagerly ently satisfied them until put to a full and overflowing Joy for his de- about God. Principle rolling Out for further )f light. sixty years ago through a Ignorance knowlreal test. When that seeming He saw, though dimly at first, analysis quickly revealed the horl liverance. His gratitude knows no woman who, like that other Mary in their unavailing edge proved that this sense of God admitted no r.oii of our spiritual vision to be thi hound. A very legion of evils, in P.elldeheUI. had so Uplift. d her hour of need, dMpin!nient whs which has enslaved him and robbed eoUMiouttlicrs of an opposing power. In slrltii;il !! glng point at which light ceases to pone sre. Keenly they roiiliwd, then, possibility of his mental isiwers and his and H God was him that therefore, Provided, horl she could he tb this that darkness. the trate eking True, l and siqier-flcUsuch that Incomplete has been channel Himself in Infinite, and expressi-for the birth Into the world or boundary line, advances nf (Sod given right to think ion, understanding provided nothIn goodness alone, the man's enlarging understanding grows, but It Is at cast out. We see him clothed and of a new spiritual bleu. ing which satisfied or comforted or sense of God as absolute and he seeks ns there. It separates light fron his right mind fis--humbly Mary Baker Eddy dUinered, ways saved. They felt as did the Psalmt to learn the foundi'l. good took on a tremendous the seeming darkness, reality from at the Master's it nd gave the mini" to Is our soul he "For when ist cried, What a significance. As good alone was unreality. ol secret of his emancipation. She Christian Molm. The establishment bowed down to the dust." boilefl How com a church which now has brntubon real, good alone had Kiwer. What, such a line of cleavage, or "firma- victory over false A IT.RPLEXING QUESTION then, became of ex II, of discourage- ment," as the next step in creatloi plete and j'if.s t was that over-bro- In every clvlli.ed country of the of the tyrant whose realm earth, and a few tuetiils'is or of failure. lack, or lobar-niouy- ? he saw was divinely Inevitable humy Too often under such circum- ment, In make must be jsiwerless, These was only ineinlsrs In prad bally every city iiulnrn! It M-was the sorrowsimple, Again, stances mortals have plaeeb'ss, Godless, and, consequentand town where order and progn-A MODERN EXAMPLE fully forced to conclude that It was ly, unreal. The wonder of this new expression of an eternally ojsra Indicate that the l'ptc ,re gUeli In Impossible to comprehend IMty. view of Gmt and the universe filled live law, the law of all Intelligent centurle. was "But that twenty Mind. looking above wholly material I n knew, perplexed th consciousness of the mnn In my twin Thus, 1 things, Mrs. Eddy was herself My friend now followed the ae ago," my friend exclaimed, "and about (Sod nature, oner- said, office with awe and he vaguely but to Sciik of healed by this revelation when phy"Gd Is a mystery." And there un- Joyfully ts'gnn to see new possibili- count of creation with deeper Interol thought 'oil were going which you say sician bad dcHmlrcd of saving her false that est. His growing stability happily lie almndonel his examina- ties before him. and to opening o holds suggest life. In order to underfill nd and to the ami fuller sway U'auty but thought, Had he tion , of the subject. He was now brginning to realize the new universe unfolding to him If you can, some means by which make understandable to others the known It, this Investigation wan the Hint no opposing force or iower, so was typified by the creative act ou Its evil imwer may lie broken." full nature and met lust of her healImportant in all his human called, could actually exert a ma- the third day. The appearing of Such was precisely my Intention. ing she shut herself in with her Indiexperience. Another pnzzh-In his experience, solid earth, radiant with verdure. Therefore. I asked blm to turn with Bible and Cod until the tlhm had vidual, an Intelligent business man. lign Influence as n child of God, he was life, and harmony, was quite in con me from the shore of the Sea of licen npprehcfithsl. htbe was able who for n nunuVr of years had cx and sotiance with bis own new cxper Galilee to the shore of our own then to prsctlts the healing iwt erlenced marked success In his af- under the Immediate protection Erie. Hi re our city of Toledo of (bd as the Master Christian had Inkf good. This was lenee. of care omnipotent for offn'e once to came my fairs, In his mental The fourth and fifth steps Indl strelches down to the bike. We en- done, and she was aid" mi clearly advice. Misfortune, be said. mhiihmI an Important step to remained much rated to him the Infinite care of teral a house In this city and to set forth the method of this In to trail his every move. None of bis awakening, but exto ttow wns It possible be creative Mind that no lietslful thing climUsI the stairs to an upper her tcxlliook, "Science and Health (bine. plans were working out. His money was exhausted, and be had no pros-pT- l plain to him that oil powerful Prln should bo omitted. A jierfect creator chamber. Around the lssl In that with Key to the Scriptures," that earliest students) of the look, alMind. the must have a perfect creation; if at Mom huddb'd of employment. What was he ilple Is also all knowing man a of It of the family inctiiticrs though they never saw Mm. Eddy nnv point It was Incomplete to do? Could I, by any jsssibllltjr. MENTAL AWAKENING H this me secnus! approach- Hor any of her luim.iliate stinh n s. hour whose last In be Iniorfcct. would help him in his time of need? for might practhf thU beating list. It I told him at once that his difThe human mind finds less dif ticulous preparation there was also ing. He bnd lssn unconscious torn and has been said that that hook, next bruised, final hours some broken, of indication great ficulties were less real than he ficulty, perhaps, in grasping the an The to the Bible, which it Illumine, and alrnont divine and beyond recognition. In marvelous set ns the Mind than divine as God that the truth about him idea of gurgpona had tald he wal far pasteiplilns, In the volume most rever the reason is plain drama. and III if fairs was quite different Principle. If on e. pa-k.- CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ... Entitled CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: THE ROAD SPIRITUAL ACHIEVEMENT of All-ln-al- l. l ently In the hands of millions of people throughout the world Mary Baker Eddy understood and emulated Jesus the Christ as oer haps no other individual has done since the days when he led and taught his disciples in Judea. She shared his vision and she drank his cup, ir she heuled even us he healed, she also suffered and sorrowed with him. Ignorance and bigotry ugnieii tne nres for her, and It was out of the flumes of trial that her triumphs came,. .n i sue suiTer why go " uj iou uirougn niv? she was bringing to a vastly n.rdy world the spiritual knowledge and the spiritual method by which the tyrant falsi' la.lief was to lie reduced ami banished from the enslaved minds of men. She was doing, and leaching tubers to do, what she perceived Jesus to have done, and thus she describes that actlvitv on page 470 of Science and Health: 'Jesus beheld in Science the norfeet man, who aiwured to him l,..r sinning mortal man appears to mor tals, in tins porreot man the Saviour saw Cod's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick." y u-i.- ll.H-au.s- e "THE SCIENTIFIC STATEMENT OF BEING" s ss To-d:i- y saw-pals- i, churrh-momlier- f all-wis- Mary Baker Eddy challenged the whole realm of material thlnLin,. She exiMsed ami set at naught the most cherished, which wore n Ln the most doleful, fallacies of suffering mortals. In what has as "t h e scientific statement of being." to lie found on page 4(iS of her text!ook. sho has promulgated with marvelous clarity and nnequaled courage one of the most remarkable expositions ever set forth concerning life an man. With the spiritual fact she has reversed the material fable as It relates to the most vital things in human existence. Consider for a moment how completely some of the. most cherished of human theories cdh 'ts thcr Dm of false ladlef are reversed lii Hits "scientific statement of being." "Man Is material," false belief bus enunciated, "and matter governs;" but "the scientific statement of lading" explains, "There Is no life, truth, Intelligence, nor substance In matter." "Under a protecting skull Is a finite brain,' false liellef announces, "und all thinking is an emanation of this crlnklv mnt t..r brain;" but "the nclentlflc statement or iK'ing" arririm, "All u Infinite Mind and its Infinite manifestation, for God Is All In all." "That only Is true and real which can ls by (he five physical s. uses, falsa liellef maintains: but "the entlfle statement of being" relights mo lamp or men s hopes by (he pronouncements, "Spirit Is Immortal Truth; matter is mortal error." "Matter always has says fal.s. Udlef, "matter is all that may but the scientific statement replies. "Spirit Is the real and eternal: matter Is nnrenl and teiiqioral." "Spirit Is a mvth ." glibly argues false belief: imin la no higher nor letter than the suf fering thing be soem to ls;" but "the scientific statement of being" rolls back the rejoinder. "Solrlt Is God, and man is His Image and likeness." "Mjin comes from the dust and returns to the dust ami then-forhe Is dust." false liellef cries In final condemnation ; but from afar there conies a "sllll small vol.v," like B strain of music through the clash of a storm, and "the scientific Htateuunl of U Ing" wis up hoM and happiness and is'iiee with (he wrds, "Therefore man Is Hot material: he Is Kidilf. lo-co- world-renowne- d !;" e UaL" em-rg- d - to-da- 4;t awe-stricke- This "scientific statement of ls given In (he Christian Scleiav textlsioi, I recommend to your earnesi consideration, not only as the mo extraordinary epitome ever furnished us of man and his life, but as a divinely directed ut-era in, which established Its truth and the ower of this truth by (he fruits which follow Its acceptance. Christian Scientist, (he world around are measuring (hdr prob-ictu- s every day against the straightedge of "the scientific statement of Mug." Through t Illumination they are stsing how lo lay off the shackles of disease; through its concrete directing they are seeing Ing." as inisi (he !scttiients of . all their business, social, mid domestic affairs. "The m lentif-Istatement of Mug," as I U lleve 'i iw (o :ilon lu c must begin to realize, my friends, Is a spiritual weaism, (he finding of which fills even (be timid warrior In life's conflict with a glorious He we (hat with itch a sword of (he Spirit be may dethrone ntul utterly drive out of his thinking every false Is lief. Before the heaven-forgewcnMiu of "the scientific statement of being" falsi' Uiiefs have no alternnthe . but Instantly or eventually to And Ihis "scientific statement of Mug," which, I would have you understand, Is but otm among many concrete ami powerful spiritual declaration t be found In the Chrlsj-InSelenoe textlsiok. was it the outcome of Mary B iker Eddy's ensoul contemplation of the thing of Cisl? Ah, tn; It was Hot ! We have reason to Nilcve that this towering monument of reality Ixvame visible lo her tear sngulshi-eyes, and through her was made visible to our, only when she herself was In the utter hiths of spiritual trial. Out of Icr earnest Imiglt-g- , out of her loneliness, out of her suffering, out of the coiiss?raled devutlon that passeth human under yoti nt. yb-ld- n standing, this undaunted, illuminated, often misunderstood great woman found this boon for stumbling mankind. MRS. EDDY'S MIGHTY FRUITS Mrs. Eddy rejoiced In the many-dde- i abundance which a, consciousness such us hers could not fail to bring ujion her, yet by the customary standards of men this Inspired Leader led no easy life. She led a hard life, but she so Introduced our age to the Master that we really un derstand Jesus the man and Christ the spiritual Idea. It was her devo tion and sacrifice that now enables us to distinguish, through her writings, the true and the false ac counts of creation as given In Gen esis, lo perceive the meaning of the atonement, of the crucifixion, of the find ourselves resurrection ; to standing enlightened witnesses, as the Master has the tax money taken from the fish's mouth, ns he fis'ds the multitude In a desert place where fissl seemed not to lie; ns he restores the lame, the halt, the blind, us be cleanses the phy sical and moral lepers, as he stills the storm, ns be raises from the dead Lazarus his friend und the son of the w idow of Naln, and as he point your fisi and my feet and all men's ftst into the jsithway of eternal life. Yes, we must thank Mary Ihiker Kddy that we now un derstand many things long vtMled and that, through her revelation of a precise method, we shall do as the Master said we should do and emulate him In all hLs mighty works. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TREAT-MEN- T read and study this text-loowhich Is Mrs. Eddy's IxHiuest to all men and contains many wonderful things of which I have afforded you hardly more thuti a glimpse, but In order to pres-rv- e i he continuity of the line of thinking with which we began, I ask you to turn now and let us examliit the exact method of making wur with the weaiKins of iChrlstlun Science upon false beliefs. I.ct us mount again to the sick chamber in Toledo. And what do we witness on the part of the for Christian Science practitioner, such that smiling one Is who has lieon brought to the bedside by tho hiqieful friend of the family? Well, he closes bis eyes. Ah, someone "I've heard about may exclaim. that; I've beard that these Christ-IaScientists simply shut their eyes ami Ignore the sufferings of their fellow human Mugs." And that, of course. Is not a statement of fuct. Chrlsilnn Scientists are the most compassionate of ienple. The practitioner clones bis eyes and ears to the false claim that the sufferer's In any way condition represents the of being. lie Is endeavor-Ii.to set. only what Jesus saw when he regarded the unbalanced one then on the Cudurciie coast, the M'tfect man, where the sick, sinning and dying man seems to be. Then the practitioner, holding fast to his vision, says tu the patient, aloud : "You, or my friend, whether you know it or not, an God's iierfisi child, made 111 Ills Imago ami likeness. lie loves you and cures for you with all the tenderness of a devoted Father. He has not sent this evil you for He knows nothing of It. He is Spirit, as the Bible iismucs us. and His pure eyes can Isdmld only Ills pure and pel fis t cre itloii. Y ou have In bondage to the tysimply Ixi-rant of disease the tyrant false bell, f. This tyrant has no (!sl lsstow-ejsiwer lo enslave you. All belief that be has Mich (siwcr Is destroyed and removed by divine Iive, by dltlue Truth, that Truth which now Isdng declared to you. You are frcsl from bis tyrannical control. Arise, and express your (Sl given fnsslom." Thus, lit thought, we have Mai I was actually present, ns Indi-cpresent In eroii, when there sske We n messenger from (Sh, giswl. have witnessed the kingdom of Gisl N'lng established hen on earth. We of tin vi sts'ti the tyrannical reign one human evil of false lsllef-- ln cotisi loiisiics overthrown and cast out. Its victim delivered and restorto his ed to health, to harmony, hear world. nial Thus (he fatally, en on earth, anyone must be quick to ckebilm. was established for that man and bis family. Yd even this happy event nation doe not evpn ss 'f that cpUisle the full meaning which tunny might refer to ns a modern mlnu le. Here is the true Import: The divine Principle of this Christ Science I Impartial and unithat what wa done for versal; the afflicted one of Toledo may us done surely and us confidently ! for any of God' children, that Is to for every man nnd woman say, who Is listening to the utterance of Important these Immeasurably You will r'h g iin d 1 word. TIIE NEW IDEA OF PRAYER Christian Science ha bronchi to the world a new concept of prayIn term almost er. It envision method of mini's revolutionary communing with (Sod, who made all thing perfect, and of destroying fill' Is lief, which argue constantly man' tn.crfection. I nni mt say-Inplease observe, that prayer wn dot abundantly fruitful long before Christian Silence came, but Implying, rather, that In Christian Silence we gel away from someChristthing which every would-bian ha felt that be rxpciionivd futile prayer. g, (Continued on pai 0) |