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Show 6 THE CITIZEN Because sulted from his understanding of diapply material remedies. to Christian sickness, vine Principle and can, at any time, according Science, originates In thought and. exbe done by those who have gained a ists as a condition of belief it 'must demonstrable knowledge of that Prinbe met, and can only be effectively deciple. The works of Jesus, then, were not miracles in the sense of being instroyed, in the mentality or consciousness of the one who seems, to be .its fractions of law, but were in fact divictim. This can be accomplished sucvinely natural manifestations of the cessfully in no other way than by subpower and law of God, or Spirit, which stituting. in thought, or; consciousness, he, himself, said he came to fulfill. the idea of health for the belief in Works approaching those of Jesus were done by his Immediate disciples; disease, the idea of perfect' and harmonious action for the. belief In .over also by Paul, and for centuries by the action or inaction. If, as Mrs., Eddy early Christians. The New Testament points' out, there is no intelligence and is full of records of healing through no sensation in matter, it is obvious spiritual law, and many marvelous sickness cannot that matter works are recorded in the Old Testaexperience or 'disease, and that' If there seems to ment showing that Christ, Truth, was be a sense of pain; and suffering,, it. discerned and demonstrated to some must be in thought and npt in the. extent centuries before, and for many body. Many' progressive medical docyears after, the1 earthly existence of more more and tors are recognizing Jesus, the Christ. Every Thev disease. of . from the .translation of Enoch miracle tle ipental origin ': to the ascension of Jesus was. a dihave said, for example, that fear, hatred, and anger; will produce vinely natural manifestation of the sickness, .and they admit that many power of God. The works done by the cases of illness are due to the emopatriarchs and prophets of old may be tions of the human mind. Christian said to have resulted from holy, upwith the physiwould Scientists agree lifting faith in the power of God, cians at this point but would go bewhereas the works of Jesus, his aposdisall that in them declaring tles, and the early Christians should yond ease has a mental cause. In doing so, be regarded as having resulted from, however, they do not contend that all understanding of divine power, or spirdisease is the result of conscious fear, itual law. nor of willful sin, but that back of evJesus Lived Abundantly. ery diseased or discordant condition of Jesus is often associatname The of the material body there is some ered with the thought of poverty and roneous condition of thought which limitation, but this is a mistake. Bemust be destroyed before there can be cause of this mistake, poverty has, by a permanent cure. many, been considered a Christian Matter Cannot Think. virtue. There is, however, nothing in The human, or material, body, of itthe record of his life and ministry to self, does not know anvthing. It does justify this belief, any more than to hot is it whether know net, therefore, the belief that his teaching or cold, sick or well. Take it, for the justify sanctioned greed and avarice or the purpose of illustration, in connection accumulation of things merely for the with the impulse to sin. How imposthings sake. He said, Seek ye first sible it would be for the hand to reach the kingdom of God, and his rightforth and steal if it were not for the eousness; and all these things shall be desire to steal, the thought of theft. added unto you, which shows plainly And Christian Science is convincing that Jesus did not ignore human needs, its students that not only voluntary but taught that those things which action but miscalled involuntary action are needed in daily experience will be is controlled by thought either directfound through right thinking, through ly or indirectly. Realizing, as they do, seeking the kingdom, or knowledge of the absolute control that the human God, first. Jesus had that divine units terms it what over exercises mind derstanding of God as Spirit, or real body, Christian Scientists also realize substance, which must inevitably have the need of making sure that their expressed itself, in his earthly experiinthoughts are controlled by Truth ence, as a supply of daily needs. The stead of error, by good instead of evil, life of Jesus was not a life of inby Love instead of hate, by Life so or self-easbut of stead of the fear of death. And and helpful .activity. Nevertheless, Christian Scientists aTe learning how he always had what he needed when to- think tlieir way out of sickness into he needed it. When the money was health out of the needed for taxes or tribute it was inthat mean hell into the divine state stantly found in the fishs mouth. of consciousness that is heaven. Thus When Jesus needed to be on the other they are proving the truth of Taul's side of the lake, he was immediately teaching that the body is transformed there. While it is said of him in the by the renewing of the mind, and are The foxes have holes, and Gospels. finding themselves willingly obedient birds of the air have nests; but the to his admonition. Let that Mind be in the Son of man hath not where to lay you which was also in Christ Jesus. his head, still it is inconceivable that one who knew and demonstrated as Only Healer, Divine Mind. Jesus healed all manner of sickness much of Truth as Jesus could possibly and all manner of disease among the have been without anything he actualHe did this ly needed. Must not this people of his time. passage, through the power of God as is evihave meant that he had no therefore, denced by his own words: I can of permanent place of abode? He did The Famine own self do nothing. not need a house or an office, because ther that dwelleth in me, he doeth the he was always going about from place The Master not only healed to place, preaching the Gospel and works. the sick, but he raised the dead. He healing the sick. And as he went walked on the water. He stilled the about, his needs were always supplied. tempest. He multiplied the loaves and His life was one of the utmost simHe passed through closed fishes. plicity, but it was replete with true doors. More than that, he raised his substance. His ministry was not only own body from the dead and, finally, of meekness but of might. Jesus was he ascended completely above the benot a poor man. He wras the richest lief in matter and mortal existence. All man wTho ever lived; rich in knowlthis Jesus did by reason of his divinely edge; rich In the understanding of bestowed understanding of the allness, Spirit as true substance; rich in spirthe the instant availitual ideas. And Mrs. Eddy, realizing the true practical import of his teachability of God, Spirit, Mind. This understanding of Gods presence and ing and example, says, on page 307 of her Miscellaneous Writings: God power. was Christ, .or God with us, and it was this to which Jesus referred gives you His spiritual ideas, and in when he said, He that believeth on turn, they give you daily supplies. me, the works that I do shall he do Never ask for tomorrow: it is enough also. This declaration of Jesus that divine Love is an shows unmistakably that, the works he help; and if you wait, never doubting, did were not miraculous, as they are you will have all you need every often believed to be, but that they re . . , ; - ; : so-calle- . d J wor-'.ry,- : : . . self-indulgen- self-sacrifi- e, - thought-condition- ever-presenc- s e, ever-prese- . nt ce ce Christian Scientists are proving that whether they manifest a sense of dominion and abundance or a sense of limitation and poverty depends entirely upon the quality of their thinking, upon whether or not they are thinking in the Christ-way- . For Jesus, the am come that they I Christ, said, might have life, and that they might To have have it more abundantly. an abundant sense of life is to have an 'abundant sense of substance, for real Life and true substance . are one, and that one is God, Spirit, the everpresent, always available, divine Mind, or Love, the only incorruptible, indestructible substance, that is the same yesterday, and today, and This substance does not for ever. nor There is as much fluctuate. vary as Love today there ever was or ever will be, and it is just as available to man as it ever was or ever will be, cause of mans ability to rewe when And Love. reflect, or flect express Love, we are not only expressing the one real substance but the only real Life. To love, therefore, is to live, for, as Mrs. Eddy has said in one of her poems, Love alone is Life. (Poems, p. 7.) The Promised Comforter Comes It will be recalled by students of the Gospels that, in the fourteenth chapter of John, Jesus Is recorded as saying, And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not. For long years the weary and waited for this Comforter, heavy-ladeto come to this "Spirit of truth, them. During the Dark Ages, materialism and scholasticism so obscured the light of spiritual Truth that it wras alost entirely lost sight of. With the Reformation the clouds began to lift, and after taking many progressive of steps toward greater freedommore itself thought, humanity found nearly ready for the coming of the Comforter. When, finally, the Pilgrims went forth from the Old World to establish in the New World a larger sense of religious freedom, they opened up the way for the discovery, by Mary Baker Eddy, that the Comforter promised by Jesus is indeed present with men today, saying to them again, Come in the words of the Master, are and labour unto me, all ye that rest. heavy laden, and I will give you reachThat contemporary thought had ed the breadth and vision which enabled it to turn expectantly toward a new revelation of Truth, and had discerned that this revelation must come through a woman, is indicated by the fact that Nathaniel Hawthorne wrcte, several years before the discovery of Christian Science, that in heavens own time, a new truth would be revealed and continuing said, The angel and apostle of the coming revelation must be a woman indeed, but lofty pure, and beautiful; and wise, moreover, not through dusky grief, but the ethereal medium of joy. Because of her deeply religious nature, her purity of thought, her love for mankind, and perhaps to some extent because of the suffering she had endured, Mrs. Eddy was ready to receive this revelation this coming of Christ. When the healing Truth came to her receptive consciousness it proved itself, indeed, to be the promised Comforter, for it delivered her from a condition that had been deeemed incurable. She proved in her own healing and in the healing of many others that the Christ power which she had discovered was in fact the Spirit of all-powerf- ; : God-give- n n truth which the world nor known, and she nam. j her?1 ery Christian Science. Later Eddy wrote the Christiai! Sciene. book, Science and Hen. th to the Scriptures, and oilier n subject fo Christian 2 Through the study of thi se booh the dreds of thousands of people since been healed of di .ease, norance, fear, and limitation they have proved in their own ence that the Comforter is hen 1 Mrs, Eddys Leadership, j Eddy Mrs. founded the Christian ence movement of which she ba ( it .the revered Leader. She wlseh vided f dr; all. the needs of this i ei Is movement, for its continuity the protection of its varied 'aj reaching activities. In 1 908 she a er id lished an international daily ise she which The'1 named Chra per Science Monitor, and in1 which may read constructive, helpfoi, te interesting accounts of what fa les on in the world without being ou to fill his thought with that vm harmful and degrading. The estw ment of this paper is only one of a evidences of Mrs. Eddys wisdom, sight, and courage, and also of love of humanity. That Mrs. I was ever desirous of turning Qw m away from herself to her woifc shown in a message which at nkl she sent to a group of Christian ev tists of which I was a member, coi this message she said, Tell i se they cannot know me in my pc ality, but in my books and my writi and in my love for them and mankind. Christian Scientists, following example of their much beloved La are striving so to live that they ame prove themselves not only willing nmi able to obey the command of the: ter Christian, And as ye go. pm dsm saying 'The kingdom of heaventhe i rkin hand. Heal the sick, cleanse ers, raise the dead, cast out dei While Christian Scientists do claim that they never fail in thefrj plciation of Christian Science to man needs, still they find mud, their experience for which to be ful. and they look forward to and more abundant success in demptive work for mankind as become more faithful, more cons ed, and more obedient to spiritual It is but fair, however, to say cases of many ing are constantly being publish The Christian Science Journal Christian Science Sentinel and US being related weekly in the Cbn day evening meetinc-- . of Science churches. Christian Healing Not Mesiw Because the healin which is done through Christi. :i Science 14 L dj is accomplished ent; ly thronPI It activity of the Chri:-no- mind,hyp ith be confounded mesmerism, mental uggestioa, chotherapy, applied svcholoft with any kind of s 'ailed I St far well-authenticat- ed and . t nealing.' 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