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Show THE VOICE OF SIIAEON for good and to be conscious of Moreover, His infinitude Implies dure evidence of its own nature. His infinite blessings, for, in her His perfection and His perfection If the conception is divinely true, exact words, Practice not pro- implies goodness, for that which it will reveal the evidence of fession, understanding not belief, is infinite cannot be imperfect harmonious Truth in us in terms gain the ear and right baud of since imperfection means that of health, holiness, and immoron omnipotence and they assuredly something is lacking, while in- tality. If it is untrue, it will CHRISTIAN SCIENCE means call down infinite completeness. produce in supposition, to that blessings" finitude Entitled (S & If. p. 15). In this light, Furthermore, perfection has no extent, the mesmeric evidence of Christian Science: therefore, we are led to see that element ofis destruction and ac- inharmoiiy and discord. Man can"the great sacrifice of material cordingly synonymous with not escape his relationship to tonGod as spiritual idea expressing The Healing Power of things" which "must precede this goodness. The Anglo-Saxo- n advanced spiritual understandgue doubled the vowel in the the perfection of divine Principle. If the spiritual fact of ing" turns out to be no sacrifice word God and called Him good, Love. at all,' for it results in our be- tius stating His essential nature. this relationship is permitted to dwell in consciousness, the hucoming aware of having all we Man is Spiritual Idea man mind will yield to it, and the could need and all that enlight by What we have been saying clear proof of its truth will be GEORGE CHAWING, C. S. B. ened sense could ever ask for. of San Francisco For Mrs. Eddy refers to such about God is revealed in Chris- made apparent by the operation spiritual understanding as prayer, tian Science as the foundation of divine law. The speaker .was introduced by and declares that "Such prayer upon which all true consciousness Mrs. Adah Winter. The lecturer heals sickness, and must destroy rests, the- basis for all right' Right Concept of God Heals p recall with sin and death" (S. & H., p. 16), reasoning and true intuition. The spoke substantially as follows: gratitude that I If you and I were asked tonight If spiritual understanding Is Christian Science textbook puts have often witnessed the oper-i- t this way: "To grasp the reality , atj0n of this law in my own by the Power capable of satisfy- thus tho object of our true ded o.der of being in its Science, , perience. Qn one occasion a ing our every request to name sires and the means by which our the thing that we most desire, daily experience is improved, you must begin by reckoning member of my household, very there should be no more reluc- manifestly it will profit ub to God as the divine Principle of all dear to me, became ill with a tance or confusion in our thought know more about disease, which, besides being very spiritual underthan there appeared to be in the standing and how it is utilized. painful, brought on inactivity and was said by some to have a posthought of Solomon, the new, Spiritual understanding, by young King of Israel, whose wise which human conception, matersibly fatal termination. Although we were Christian Scientists in reply to that question is recorded ial sense, is separated from Truth, for like produces like. Once we j our household, we In the Bible in the third chapter is the permitted our- the firmament," says of the first book of Kings. Give Christian Science textbook, refer- understand Rod, we understand selves to be seized with fear, me, O Lord," he said, an under- ring to God's creative command man. For, as pointed out by the anxiety, and a sense of personal Christian Science textbook responsibility. We watched and standing heart. (Genesis 1:6) "Let there be a The correctness of this request, firmament in the midst of the (p. 467), Reasoning rora cause hoped during the day and then the reason why It was fullilled, M waters, and let it divide the to effect in the Science of Mind, spent sleepless nights e'pectiug and the additional blessings if waters from the waters." That we begin with Mind, which must to hurry the next morning to the brought to Solomon so long as he which separates the falsity of be understood through the idea bedside of the loved one to make which expresses it and cannot be sure that was true to his spiritual prompt- - human conception from the nothing tragic or disasts, are significant in the hint itv of all that God conceives or learnid from its opposite, mat- rous had happened. Weary and Since God is Spirit, His worn after a period of such they give of the true way to pray creates' is, then, spiritual under-t- o ter. is creation This thinking we suddenly discovered spiritual. God. Solomon did not ask j standing, to is amounts saying that there what was wrong with our prayspecifically for anything more God no material man and no material ers. We were laboringThe Source thau the understanding, as the j under Biblical concepts of narrative amplifies it,1 1 he acquisition of this spirtual universe, for man, including the w holly erroneous is of the creation God, God, as evidenced unmistakably 'to discern between this divine qual- - universe, good and understanding bad," yet he experienced the af- ity that exposes the nothingness Spirit. Matter being finite, It by the conduct we were pursuing. fluent results which follow our of human conception and recog- cannot be included in the infinite We were believing that God is God nor he the offsprng or out- sometimes separated from man, offering this kind of prayer. God nizes, discerns, and realizes that come of Him. That which is not at least temporarily, else why always does answer the prayer for God is the father of man, includIs spiritual and partakes material were we hoping that He would spiritual understanding, for such ing the universe, requires an ans- of the nature of spirit, or Mind. come back and restore the loved a prayer out of spiritual wer to the foundational question: Hence, man, the offspring of di- one to health? We were agreeunde retanding itself some un- "What is God?" Already in this or Mind, is spiritual. ing that Gods law of vine veiling of this divine quality in lecture we have been using the The Spirit or creation of Mind could occasionally the good human mind, some word Spirit as a term for God. is offspring man is spiritual cease to idea. Hence, operate, else why were yielding of the human mind to its Spirit is one of the Scriptural idea and exists as idea in the we laboring to bring it into oper-- j presence as the Infinite under- names for God. Christ Jesus, ybu divine Mind. at ion again? We were believing will remember, told the Samaristanding of the divintiy intelliIn arriving at this conclusion, that God had momentarily dropgent and perfect Spirit, God Him- tan woman at the well that "God us put aside the protestations ped His responsibility for the peris self. It takes wisdom a let and that Spirit; they to ask worship for wisdom, and Solomon in him must woship him in spirit of human sense that man Is fection of the man He made, else material and give no quarter to why were we assuming restless John 4: 24). asking for it, was, in the degree and in truth that be discerned the spiritual Surely it is the understanding them. If our premise is correct responsibility for the goodness of of this Spirit, which nature of w:sdom, Promptly we set must be that God is perfect, divine Mind Ills creation? recognizing the true nature of his own being and worshipped "in spirit and in or Spirit, then our conclusion is to work to correct these views, to that constitutes asking to see more of that truth," the correct that man is perfect, di-- : restore ln ur ow thought the nature. This brought him, as spiritual understanding we must vine, spiritual idia. And at this right concept of God and His Bible readers will remember, the attain. Spirit is not the only point Christian Science raises its law. God is divine, intelligent, e name Love. for banner and decommendation of God, which reDeity used in Scripture revolutionary mained with him so long as he and for that reason accepted by clares that anyone who realizes He made His man out r f that was true to his high ideal. ( hristian Science as a synonym that this is the truth will find which intelligently, consciously, for Cod. Life, Truth, Love are evidence of its truth in his own spiritually expresses Love, the Behold," said the heavenly which is God Father, "I have given thee a wise others. These words, with their consciousness and therefore in his llmself. law is the divine ln(s letter underexperience. and ah understanding exSpiritual are capitalized, heart. ecree thaf Ihs unchanging preAnd the divine Spirit further ex- alted to their high place in the standing, to quote the Christian divine, un"by sence as plained that because Solomon language of Christian Science as Science textbook again, had not asked for riches and names for God, both because of which human conception, material folding Love shall never for a honor, nor to have his enemies Biblical authority for this use sense, is separated from Truth, is moment cease to be expressed by This definition the man He made. No individualdestroyed, but had asked for the and because reason and revelation the firmament. one true thing, he was to have all informed Mrs. Eddy that the supports our position, already ized expression of this Principle, ever could, therefore, of these other things as the effect creation of God is in the likeness arrived at, that spiritual under- Love, of his right desire; and if he of. God, its cause or source. standing is the divine quality cease to carry out its destiny as would but serve God truly he was Hence, since all that truly lives is that exposes the nothingness of a witness to the also to have long life in which the effect of God, its source can human conception and recognizes, eternality of God, good. The rebe designated by the re- to serve Him. e word Life discerns, and realizes that God is sponsibility is Gods; (with the cap: ., Las a con- the father of man, including the ' 8PnBe to His government and The Purpose and Effect of Prayer venient Hls goodness is mans. With the sytK vm for God. So universe. By this understanding You and I, in our search for also the source of all that is true humanity is healed ef its discord, restoration to our consciousness this right sense of being, our full, rich, satisfying and useful or, more properly, all that truly inharmony, and distress. By it, conduct changed for the better, lives, will do well to remember is, can be designated by the it gives up its material sense only as conduct always will when such to find it replaced by a divine the lessons of that narrative and word Truth with a capital occurs. Anxiety and restoration to utilize them with even greater And the source of divine T. sense of truth and For has Joy. or fidelity than Solomon continued spiritual ideas is Spirit (with the not Mrs. Eddy declared The W0T17 lessened to the vanishing to do after he had grown older capital "S), the animating, di- foundation of mortal discord is a point. We rested peacefully that on the throne of Israel. The vine Mind, Soul, as Webster false sense of mans origin" night, and In the morning witnessed the beginning of the end first and most important of these states it. Soul is a synonym for (Science and Health, 262: a declaration lessons is that the purpose of God because it is the source of that obviously of the disease. Our loved one true prayer is always to gain conscious expression, or ideas. implies that a right sense of was shortly restored to perfect mans origin is the foundation of health, ln an atmosphere of calm and utilize spiritual understandLove, the creative, assurance that God never ceases infinitely-attractfv- e ing, or the understanding of source true harmony? to govern. divine Spirit, God.. And the of ail that nourishes and sustains In this experience, I had seen second is that the effect of such and prolects, is also a name for The Bible Enfolds True Concept Sometimes there are those who the power of spiritual underprayer, when its purpose is at- God. And to these synonyms would deny the Bible and the standing overwhelm the spurious tained, is always seen . in im- Mrs. Eddy has. great disCencernment, added the name Prin- God it presents, and rule them claim to power which false conproved human experience. turies after Solomon had suc- ciple because, from its Latin out of their own affairs and those ceptions of Deity, or divine I ceeded in illustrating these great root, ft means the souroe of all of others. Sometimes there are realty, had seemed to assert. those who question the meaning had witnessed the operation of truths (n some degree, Christ that exists." God, then, is defined clearly in of the Bible but try to accept it that' groat spiritual law of healJesus, the divine son of God only as a narrative of historical ing which Christ Jesus exemplistaled the rule in all its perfec- - j Christian Science as 'incorporeal tion and demonstrated it in flawdivine, supreme, infinite Mind, fact. Sometimes (here are those fied with glorious perfection and less practice. Seek ye first the Spirit, Soul, Lfe. who question not at alj, but are which Christian Science is now Principle, deLove kit.gdom of God, and his right- Truth. (Science and nevertheless holding to mistaken staing ln Its entirety and eousness, he urged, and all Health, 465: 9). It will he ob- Interpretations of its meaning monstrating again for mankind. these things, he promised, served that the first adjectlvo that work no good in their lives. Right here let me make it clear shall be added unto you modifying these terms is the To any and all of these nnd to that the assertion and proof ofthe world in which they live, fered by Christian f oience that (Mathew 6:33): And years after word God is inincorporeal. that that, in the fullness of Gods own corporeal; is, without Christian Science eomes with the spiritual healing Is as available time for mankinds discernment material embodiment. He is di- greatest message of this age to today as ever it was at the inof Christ Jesus' complete meanvine; that is. Godlike, not con- men. It is not an exhortation or a stance of Christ Jesus himself Is Christian goodness no arrogant or unauthorized claim ing, came Science, taminated by the imperfections plea for sentimental That assertion and of humanity. He is supreme; that based on a hope that some power of its own. through its divinely inspired proof is Included In Chrhtianity r, founder, and revelator, is, above all, above even the ap- may by chance observe and reltseif. Christ Jesus himsilf Is Mary Baker Eddy, proclaiming pearance of mortality. He is in- ward. It is a straightforward, direct, scientific message that authority for it, so emphatically that It is unselfed love, a spirit- finite; that is, boundless, without limitation of your conceptions of Deity will so that it Is difficult to see how ual understanding of God, that constitutes the prayer that heala any kind. When Christian Science control your experience. It is the one can be a Christian without accepting both the possibility and the slrk and reforms the sinner. makes its great declarations about revelation, based on demonstrathat He is omnijiotent, tion, that the Bible presents the the necessity for Christiike A great sacrifice of material God, that He is one true God and His unchanging works, including spiritual healthings. gays Mrs. Eddy (Science meaning and Health, p. 16: 1), must pre- omnipresent, meaning everywhere law which, when understood, will ing, here and now. After going cede this advanced spiritual un- present; and that He is omnis- make you conscious of good and up and down Palestine, making not of evil. The fool hath said manifest the presence of God by In the phrase cient, meaning derstanding. it follows these de- in his heart. There is no God, healing the sick, regenerating the this advanced spiritual understanding. she was referring to clarations lo their necessary con- rried the Psalmist (Psalms 14: sinful and replacing material an explanation she had previously clusions. If God is omnipotent, 1). That cry is based upon the death with a sense of spiritual made that, to paraphrase her He ran have no opponent and no fact that (he fool is merely fool- life, he not only promised his words, wo ran receive holiness opposition, for there cannot be ing with the mesmeric suggestion followers that they could do all no substance, pre- that he did, but be commanded only as we are fit for holiness, more than ALL. In the same that there is end fitnes for holiness is at- way, if He is omnipresent. He sence, power, or law, in the them to do It. the constant cannot he absent from His uni- universe; and the tragedv of it is tained through " s of if forgetfulness, verse, which means He can never that it will he so to him, in theprayeTs moved among men just Jesus Whatbelieves that he it. He man. if from And degree be absent takes It nu 1" end LHttion. ever our conniption i.s of divine 88 you and T move among men, e tire "nd understanding, i is omth 'lent. He,eannot be both that conception will oper- - hut his every thought had its in of aware reality, the of sliglif?4tietall heard mates she our ate consciousness to pro- - source in God. His in ,'y creation. IT's unfolding, spiritual His perfect power,.d, o f. A Lecture Spiritual Understanding - ex-an- J j ! real-ing- ever-oper-ati- - - ever-activ- drsOne-PrThci- ple, ever-abtiv- ever-prese- nt - I ! J 27-2- 8) dls-cov- e. g, nn-b- p-- co-s- eq the divine impulsion, as distin- expanding demonstration from Jesus, the perfect gun-beown salvation frsm mortal concepho supplied the true lions of God and of his ability to example, man of forever yielding to model save others from them is yours lou will and mineto follow. You and I 'this divine impulsion. are un.i .tf the divine law which yield to it too, my friend, for It deinanSSdemonstraiion of perfect is Truth itself. It will lever there-attai- n spiritual manhood and we shall veu-- e to he Truth and will it, now or ultimate ,y, only fore never cease to assert Itself in the way markel out fur us by' in jour thought, for it is divine our perfect Excmilar, Christ j Life unfolding the understanding Jesus. He was infinitely re-- j of its own reality. It is forever sourrrful, because he knew no making headway in the recesses other Mind save that which Is of human thought, sometimes d lessons God in which dwell all the spirit- through the ual ideas, the infinite resources of our mistakes, sometimes of man, supplied by the heavenly through the light it sheds and Father. This enabled him to which we happily let in without know instantly where to find a tile scourge of resistance. It will coin with which to pay the taxes presently or ultimately remove and to feed, without confusion, from human thinkli " every false, five thousand hungry mouths on material theory, hypothesis, and the desert place in Galilee. His notion about the of the beneficent, perfect creator, and spiritual understanding capacity of the reveal man as the spiritual son infinite, divine Mind of man was of God, inheriting the infinite manifest in these results, operat- health or wholeness of divine ing as a law of destruction to Life, expressing the perfect harmaterial suggestions that divine mony of divine Love and knowre ources were absent or limited. ing the permanence of eternal He was independent of matter or, Truth. in other words, t, because he understood and relied Human Consciousness upon his divine Principle, Love Regenerated or Spirit, which encompasses and What is this human consciousgoverns all true being. This ness which the Christ, or spiritual enabled him to disappear from understanding of God, persistenthis enemies w hen material obly saves from itself? It is the structions challenged his escape, apparent mind of humanity deand to reappear among friends ceptively seeming to be a mixture or enemies whenever his progres- of mortal notions about, God and sive demonstration of the pre- of right ideas which the Christ is sence of God required him to do revealing. Right ideas and wrong also. It enabled him to still the notions cannot truly mix, tempest at sea when it threaten- though they may seem to exist g ed the of his disciples. side by side in individual human It enabled him to go through the thought,. like the tares and the crucifixion and to prove at the wheat. But the error winch end tha the divine Life he ex- seems to mingle with truth in the human mind is one with pressed was unscathed. He was intelligent beyond human com- the completely unregenerate menprehension, because he under- tality called mortal mind, and is stood the divinity and Infinitude therefore 4s unreal as mortal of his Principle or source which mind, whether it masquerades in is God. This enabled him to the guise of good or is blandly confound his adversaries when unregenerate and evil. For morthey sought to match intellectual tal mind is always unreal; it argument against divine un- claims to be a place where the derstanding. And it also enabled Christ does not work, and this him to heal sickness, sin, and all claim exposes this mind manner of discord. For divine as a myth, for Christ, bo it reintelligence, or spiritual under- membered, is the activity of God, standing, sees through and ex- and there can be no place where poses as false any and every God, divine Life, is not infinitely material, finite conception of di- active. Thus, whatever appears vine Love, God, thus dispelling as mortal mentality in the human mind is, let me rethe effect of such misconceptions and replacing them with true peat, a myth, and must be so spiritual Ideas manifest in holi- seen to be destroyed; and whatness, harmony, and health. He ever shines forth in the human was humble, for he ascribed all mind as divinely good is real and power to God and never let the true, for goodness that is divine false suggestions of timidity, is of God. It is the belief in the presence or existence of mortal hesitation, or limit the effectiveness of his consciousness, appearing as huoutstanding talent for expressing man thought, that is being disGod's power. This enabled him pelled by the Christ; and this is to say to the Centurion who the process of salvation. It will pleaded for help for his servant go on until mortality Is swalwho was ill, I will come and lowed up of immortality," as St. heal him (Mark 8: 7), and to Paul puts it, until all belief in follow the word with the healing. a dying, suffering, limited, IgnorIt enabled him to speak spiritual ant mentality is crowded out of truth to the officers sent to arrest supposititious existence, aud the him so that they made no arrest dirine Mind, Life, Soul, Principle, but reported ln wonderment to Spirit, Truth, and Lore, Is seen their superiors, Never man to occupy the whole ground of His own creation, man and the spake like this man (John universe, consisting of spiritual ideas. Christ, the Power for Salvation It will be observed from what The Spiritually has been said here that Jesus Is Metaphysial Rule our Example because he utilized In pointing the way for rising and physical perfectly the spiritual under- above material standing of God for the healing seeming, and making the salvaand salvation of mortals. We tion of mortals from sin, sickcannot honor Jesus too much nor ness, and death apparetjr here follow his example too reverently. and now, the Christian Science But it is Important to you aud textbook gives many a rule of dime, striving to follow his example vine metaphysics ("meta, the Greek prefix, moaning beyond, by utilizing his power, to recognize that he was not himself the and the whole word meaning power he used. His power was beyond or above physics, or matthe spiritual understanding of ter.) "The categories of metait explains on page 269, God, the right idea of mans diphysics, vine source the Christ, with rest on one basis, the divine which Jesus wag endowed beyond Mind." And then It states the measure and which is available rule. it sajs, "Metaphysics, to you and me for doing the "resolves things into thoughts, works he did and the greater aid exchanges the objects of works he promised. Jesus and onse for the ideas of Soul. On the Chrsit are inseparable, yet he basis of all that has been distinct. For Christ is the divine said here tonight, this divinely idea of sonship to God and is in- "aspired rule for healing and salseparable from the true spiritual vation ought to be clear to us all. man. The Christ dispels falselet me quote Metaphysics, hood. It destroys in Ihe human igain, resolves things Into conscousness material misconthoughts, and exchanges the obceptions of Deity and the discord, jects of sense for the Ideas of disease, and death which attend Soul. Can you resolve a thing them. "Christ," says the Chris- into a thought? Well, the illness tian Science textbook, expresses of my loved one about which I told you a few moments ago was Gods spiritual, eternal nature (Science and Health, p. 333: resolved into a thought when I As the activity of. God ;aw that this illness was present910). for salvation, the Christ has a ing itself to my observation ln divine office, and Jesus as the conjunction with a misconception Saviour fuflllls the office of the of God. And the healing apChrist. But this office is not an peared when I exchanged the ending, vanishing or terminated notion of Gods separation from one. It is ever present as the man. of the suspended operation healing and saving activity of the of His perfect law, for the Ideas Mind which Is God. the Mind of Soul which corrected these which St. Paul says was in Christ notions. Christ Jesus resolved a Jesus and which he exhorted you thing ino a thought when he saw and me to permit to operate in that the hunger of the five us. This healing and saving acti- thousand was identical with a in the notion that God, thp one Mind, vity of Cod, operating human eonscio tenets (o destroy could wander from His nourishthe misconceptions of God, which ment. and the law of His nature could fpnse to largely constitute that Christ. It operate. He exchanged this consciousness, is of sense for an i,e of Soul is the right idia In whose presence wrong notions cannot exist when he demonstrate the divine can dwell Mind's ev-- ! pi es. :.t &wsrepes of any more thin d.irkn-'sn ith light. It Ins Impelling its sustenance and muds this id"a force. It may be described as mao if s in the war the five of his j j j hard-earne- self-relian- well-bein- -- :e nb-ie- ct -- j thousand could understand it through receiving and the bread and fUh theyeating all needed. Spiritual Guidance Important in these demonstrations of the power of spiritual understanding is the guidance' and direction which accompanied them. God always leads and guides His man, or idea, for the wisdom to take the steps that we need to take appears to us under prajer w ;u we need to take them. Jesus knew to send his disciple to find the needed tax money in the fishs mouth. He knew to go hack, to Bethany to reblore his friend Lazarus to a sense of life at just the right time to glorify God most, as the healing is recorded in the Gospel of John. So will yon know, my friend, and so shall I; so will the business man, the cultured scholar, the practoner, and the worlman, if we cultivate the Mind that was in Christ Jesus; and, knowing, we shall act on what we know; for action, the activity of divine ideas, ts Included in every .demonstration of the power of God. True prayer is action. It is not merely asking Cod to make us good; it is being good. It is.tfot merely askng for wisdom; it Is being wise. It is not merely asking for spiritin' understanding; it is using it. Is it right to petition for wisdom? Yes, we can and should desire ii desire to know ourselves as reflecting the wisdom of God. Iut ln desiring wisdom we have already begun to use It, and the uo of it brings its own right The fear of the Lord, effects, says the Bible, "is the beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 1: 7): a passage which might be translated as the love of the Lord Is the beginning of wisdom. This, then, is the modus operandl of divine, spiritual healing and salvation. Spiritual understanding aids the resolving of inharconditions into false monious Spiritual understandthought. ing reveals the right, or spiritual, idea which displaces and reThe right, places false thought. in or spiritual Idea entertained as true in other consciousness words, realized or accepted as real operates as a law of healing, of harmony, of restoration to life and peace ln human ex' perience. Healing Proves Gods Love It is Healing is not physical. the manifestation of. the love of In' consciousness. God restored textbook The Christian Science e legins its statement of the of Christian Science with he declaration that divine Love be deprived of its mani(Science festation, or object and Hi ilth, 304: 10). The Christ, the divine idea of God, is t, without beginning, but the dull eyes and ears of for centuries humanity had caught only faint glimpses of this spiritual Truth. In this situation of need, the love of God was such that JeBUS appeared, for Jesus was necessary in order that the effects of the Christ might be seen and heard, and human sense taught and enlightened by the spiritual idea. Hence, in Biblical language, God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3. 16). It will always be thus wherever the spiritual idea is entertained in consciousness. What appears to human sense as changed physical conditions, harmoniously adjusted, will accompany the spiritual awareness of the love of God for man. doc-rin- ever-presen- th Mrs. Eddy, Discoverer Founder Ihis a-- new concept this recofc.ution of the mental nature of existence in all its aspects? fes, it is new to the unenlightened thought. It was so new when Christ Jesus practiced it on the hores of Galiled that men called his works miracles, although they were the divinely natural effects of divinely natural law. It was so new, so revolutionary in 1866 when Mrs. Eddy, through spiritual purity and fitness, discovered the divine Principle of those works, that she had to demonstrate, against great from the world's thought, that her discovery, which she tamed Christian Hence, could be founded and established in the world. Nevertheless, she persevered, healed the sick, regenerated the sinner, and taught others to do the healing work for which she herself had been taught of God. Her extraordinary lova for humanity was dictated by her boundless love for God. It contributed towards marking her as the greatest benefactor of the She wrote age. great book. Science and Ileal'h with Key to the Scriptures, which, as bas been previously remarked In this lecture, is the textbook of Christian her Science, organized Church, and founded it as The Mother Chttrrh, The Firt Church of Chr-t- , Scientist, In Boston, Xnd 1 br Friday, April 14, 1939 with branches Massachusetts, which have since Epread throughout the civilized world. And she founded Christian Science in the consciousness of men where it will be as the Rock that Is Christ, overturning and overwhelming false cc icepts of Deity and bringing to light spiritual truth which will ultimately, surely usher in God's kingdom bn earth. In the seventy-tw- o years since her discovery, the world has felt her influence profoundly. No longer u the "mentalizing of the objects of Bense," as it may be called, a reluctant procedure ln the world. Leaders of human, thought, distinguished men of P ysical science, are beginning to accept the mental nature of the unverse as a clue to scientific truth, it as just seven years ago when a distinguished British General, Jan C. Smuts, then head of a society tor the advancement of science, declared before that society t oat "scientific discoveries point ta evidences that the material objects recognized by mans senses are, in their origin, as immaterial as thought or mind. Another, distinguished British scientist. Sir Arthur Edington, known far and w ide for his writing's on physics and astronomy, stated Just four years ago before a group of studentB at Cornell Eniversity that we mus" not attempt to answer the qustion What is the mystery of existence all about? by looking onlyht that part of experience which comes to us through certain sensory organs and saying: It is about a universe of atoms and chaos; it Is about a universe of fiery globes rolling on to impending doom. Rather it is a spirit, within which truth has its shrine, with potenin Its tialities of response to beauty and rignt. Christian Science, The Comforter Statements like these from Intellectual leaders show plainly that the resolving of things into thoughts is arresting their attention as a possible explanation of. tho mystery of human life. This Is a step, a first move in the right direction. The discoverer of Christian Science followers also knew, and her know, that the only true and final way is the divine way which demands "exchanging the objects of sense for the ideas, of Soul. The resolving of things Into thoughts, is so to speak, part truth. Christian Science leads on into all truth. For Christian Science is the divine Comforter, so accepted by its discoverer and her followers as the fulfillment of the prophecy of the Master Christian that the Comforter would come and lead into all the full and complete truth, truth, as Christian Scientists understand it that God creates man as Ills spiritual Idea and that God Is the only creator. Let me emphasize here, lest there be misunderstanding, that the practice of Christian Science Is no mere Intellectual wrestling without the support of goodness and purity. Indeed, purity and goodness and like qualities are which the gateways through appears spiritual understanding in consciousness to do the work of Christ. Moral goodness Is not the healing power, but there can be no true healing power that Is not accompanied and supported by a genuine striving after and attainment of moral goodness. Mrs. Eddy gives this fact its proper importance when in her book Divine Science, Rudiments! she begins her log and enlightening answer to the question: How should I undertake to demonstrate Christian Science ln healwith the simple ing the sick? command: Be honest, be true to thyself, and true to others: then it follows thou wjlt be strong in Gi d, the eternal good. nt Ieace, Through Healing of Sin Hie purpose of Christian Science, as we have seen. Is to blot out the myth of mortal mind, that supposititious mentality that is untouchedby the Christ, Out of that illusory mentality, like a hypnotic dream, comes the thing called sin, the belief that man can have a mind wholly the opposite of God and that he has power to act apart from the impulsion of the Christ The healing of sickness is but an attestation of the fact that sin can be and has been healed. The healing of sin Is accomplished by persistent employment of siplritual understanding whereby the divine Mind is demonstrated to be the only Mind, and man the conscious expression of that Mind. Such healing comes like the awakening from a sleeping dream and demonstrates the nothingness of sin by showing that man has no power to sin for he bas no mind with which to do It. This is the true forgiveness of of in the demonstration made manimans perfection fest in human experience as the forsaking of Bin. It Is the infinite mercy of God appearing in (Continued on Page Spven) |