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- . Christian Science: A Lecture on © HRISTIA ENTITLED - "By George Shaw Cook, C.S.B. Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. A little more than half a century ago un earnest seeker for Truth— one who had Jong been buffeted by the s unsatisfying philosophies of the hu- man mind— driven to the very borderland of mortal existence by the all but fatal cruel of an accident. fers to God as Principle unless she combines it with the word Love. She 3, for example, “infinite Principle.” ivine Love,” and that. Principle nonymous with divine Lo i and merciful iable, and impar- In the last extremity of human need So Principle as understood in this deeply religious woman turned istian Science is seen to be the one unreservedly and forever away from present, ever operative, conscious, matter to divine Mind as the one and loving Principle of being—the or creator of only savior, and was restored to nor- gin, cause, 0 mal health. Having been healed | s only lasts the power fof God, it was only natural ©" foundation of all r that she should have turned to the CAL Since nothi R Word of God for an explanation of that effect must be Chris. her cure. Patiently and prayerfully ¢ studying the Scriptures for the pur- UAn ence shows that God, the only pose of discovering the Principle and Cause, being Spink oF Baa, ils law of her deliverence this faithful (? r rae: BRC DE TS) ny Oe mental. woman—Mary Baker Eddy—continued ee 3 vee a thei : ie me her search until, it was revealed to thou : ae wtlsa HAL one B Nee pr tha » eternal Christ, which onghts « as that a — SE ee ee tere heist ney spiritual , good, harmonious, eternal, enabled Jesus to hegl the sick and ise the dead, is present with and 2 to mankind now. This revelation of the truth was put to practical test by Mrs. dy and demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt, and was then embodied by her in the Christian nee textbook, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” which was first published in 1875. Through the study, of this book and the practice of its teachings, divine. This infinite universe of God or divine Mind, existing here and now, and embracing all creation, necessarily inclndes m: as the image or 1 of God, § Mind Thus we that the pr lity of man his mental or spiritual identit does not, however, refer to mind , generally associated with the human brain, nor does it refer to a oul that is supposed to reside else- where in the human body, but it refers many were redeemed from sin and to mtn as the individual spiritual healed of inveterate disease, and some image, re! ion, or idea of- divine were turned back from the very gates Mind, God. Mrs. Eddy says-on page oi death. In this manner was formed 475 of Science and Health, “Man is a nucleus for the Christian § pa, thi puaage, of Love; he is’ not ;ehurch, which in, 1879 was organized physique.” A modern dictionary defk / to “teommemorate the word and works wition of idea is, “That which embo@iés’ the essential nature of something,” So man‘ as the idea of God, or. divine Mind, $s that which consciously. and perfectly ‘reflects, expresses, mani- fects, or embodies the divine nature. And this agrees with the Scriptural record of serention contained in the first chapter of Gen » for there tt of our Master” and to “reinstate prim- itive Christianity and its lost element of healing” (Church Manual, p. 17) This church was later organized a5 “The Eirst Church of Christ, Scien- tist, in Boston, Massachusetts,” of whieh all anthorized Christian Science » churches are branches. | The Mother l + Cmirch and its many branches, togeth- *S4ys that God made man jn His own er with the denominatfonal activities fmage. “But the seventh Ferse of the of Christian Selence, now constitute 2 S¢¢ond chapter. of Genesis saya that mighty movement that is literally en- “the Lord God formed man of the dust cirding the globe, ofthe ground, an@ breathed into his THE (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE nostrils the breath of life.” The ‘ree- ns STITT WIRES eet ord of creation contained in the first CHURCH. chapter of Genesis and the account, Without adaptation to the needs of peginning with the seventh verse of mankind the Christfan Science church the’ second chapter are so different as as an institution would have no good to be absolutely irreconcilable. reason for existence. In order to,jus- TRUE AND FALSE CREATION tify its presence mg men, the The first record of creation declares Chureh of Christ, Scientist, must be thatthe heavens and the earth were ready to answer, not theoretically but finished, and all the host of them.” tically, the all-important question, This finished universe of God is said Christian Science able to do to hi Him as been recognized by for suffering humanity? being “very good.” This very good The a hich it makes to this and complete universe, according to ‘questiog hristian Science heals the record, 4ncluded man created’ “in the image of God.” The second and materialistic account of creation is the very opposite of the spiritual record which precedes it. Man, instead of being the {mage of the. eternal God, is said to have been made of temporal matter. In this story it is not even sickness and sins It breaks the bands of appetite and passion. It lifts the burden of fear and care.” Through the ministry of Christian Science, many thousands have been raised from beds of unspeakable pain. Others have been rescued from lives oi Smmorali Others, still, have been freed from the bondage of God. Man who in the first chapter is poverty and incompetency. Now, it Tecorded ay part of God's’ perfect, 2 fA finished creation, is here supposed to is possible that some of these persons have been ¥e-created or remodeled would have recovered from their sick- ‘i from clay. But why a divinely intelli- Mehg nbder. omer ame DE teatment gent tor would have need to re or without any treatment, It is prob- able that some would have been re- formed by different meuns and that others would, have ‘hecorfie prosperous in another way. But it is a_fact that many of then were utterly hopeless and apparenfly helpless in their‘misery wntil, Christian Sciene® showed them a wily out of it 2 How wete these’ people AMliseases whichj¢ in many insfanc had baffled the physicians+ They wi healed by the Christ, Truth, which takes away the gm and model a perfectly gpod unfverse or any part thereof is not explained. If one accepts the first record of creation he will be obliged to. reject the second account if he would be ke Christian Science accepts the first or Elohistic record as a statement of spiritual creation, and-explains the second or Jehovistic account as an allegory vidently intended by its thor to depict the helief in a mate- 1 creation. That Christian believers in general and theologians in partie- heals the war pay much more attention tothe sickness of the World.) Thdy were mythical account than to the scientific healed by reason 6f the knowletige that record is to be regretted. Their em- sickness is not natural to Gofl’s man, phasis in sermons and otherwise fs fre- that it_is no, part of man’s true na- quently laid upon what they term “fal- tore, They Have found that/the fear jen” man.’ The tenacions belief in this of sickness and of other forms of evil myth with its “dust man,” created by is unnecessary because every phase an anthropomorphic‘God, is responst- of, evil is temporal and’ destructible hie for all, the ills to which flesh is And, best all, they _pave gainet heir.‘ Mortal history is little more than through Christian Selence'x more per- a recital, of the woes, the suffering, fect understanding 6f God. | They have the tragedies which result from failure Jearned tha God i8 asthe Scripmres to discriminate between’ the true-and declare, Life, Truth, Spirit, Love, God the false. The supposed naturalness to T Am, ‘nd nnd inevitability ‘of disease and death h ing less.thin are due primarily to'a’ false, material xigtent and eternal Be- sensa of man’s origin and ~ nature. econd chap- Whereas the understanding. that man jomy God is referred to is the spiritually created and immor- th, and without iniq- tal likeness of diviné Mind makes. free- it is he.” Jesus said dom from these evils certain. Accord- or, as the revised ing to Christian Science nothing Js ‘estament put it, really natural but good, and nothing is ey that worship inevitable but the triumph of good, im in spirit and - PUTTING OFF THE OLD MAN fohni, ‘the beloved disciple ¢ Through understanding the soprem- of Jesn: id: ‘He that foveth not fey, the omnipotence of good, Chris- znowe God; God is love stan’ Scientists are \proving step by fan: ~also defines God ‘step: their ability to comply with as infinite, perfect, | good. the injunction of Paul to “put off the infinite, is Mmitiess o1@ man” (the mortal, material, sin- power,’and ac- fai sense of, mand, and to “put on the Ce Se ¥ Tew man” ((the immortal, ritual, ‘Sdlence: farther declares sinless whieh Ae createn Mind, or dly Prin- in \4 and/true_ holiness.” risttn Setentots do thule success i te proportion tthe ing ab ee Mea fei e in proportion to the do their ithfulness and istence th ad Health oeldom re: which they pytura ‘thought tothe healed of claimed that man is the likeness of / fundamental fact which is the basis or all right thinking and living, namely, that when God made all that is and pronounced it “very se He made man in His likeness:~ and at nothing has since happened or ilb ever happen to unmake or undo God's perfect work... The writer of Ec astes said: “I know that, what- soeyer God doeth, it sh: nothing can be put t ; ken from it.” And on page and Health Mrs. Edd. Yivine Science rolls baek the clouds -of error with the light of Truth, and lifts the curtain on man as never born and as never dying, but as co existent with ‘his tor. According to Christia ‘ience the putting on of immortality is net neces- sarily deferred until after passing throngh an experience called death, but may begin now and must con- tinue until the perfect recognition of the immortality and- supremacy of Life displaces dll belief in the exist- ence of something which is the ,oppo- site of Life—in sin, disease, death. Christian Scientists admit_ that to human, or mortal se, evil and mat- ter appear real, but Christian Science agrees exactly with the prophet Habakkuk, that than to behold eyil.” man as the perfect li not know somethii not know. And Christian Solence shows that the Mind which is God, ‘infinite ged, Yannot embrace. a. knowledge of eyil any more than light can include darkness, -It explaing that evil is con- trary fo the will of God, who is always Sood In“purpose $id ‘in manifestatio Thus it indyces.the sinner his belief of satisfiction in wd is “of purer eres Tt explains that eness of God can- saking sin. It is, therefore, take to suppose that in teaching, the unreal natnral of siny Christian Science encourages ‘the Indnlgence of sin. The fact is that it awakens its students to the absolute “necessity of gaining a love for goodness that will enable them fto_nbandon, ingly and gladly, not only the more flagrant- forms of im- Morality and vice, but also the more subtle phases of evil. And. Christian Scientists realize the need of recogniz- ing sin or evil as a claim, or false belief of the carnal mind in order that it may be demonstrated in, human ex- perience to be powerless and, in the absolute sense, unreal. For one is not likely to correct a moral error without first ing it for what it is or what it claims to be, any more’ than he would correct a mathematical mistake without first recognizing —it. And just as mathematical error is not disposed of by ignoring it, go one can- not free himself from sin by ignoring it. Christian Science, therefore, shows the need of handling sin, or evil, as error, as a mistake, and of correct- ing it with Truth. Furthermore, “it shows that true forgiveness of sin consists in its destruction, in the proof of its-unreality. Onspage 497 of Sci- ence and Health Mrs. Eddy says, “We, acknowledge God’s forgiveness of sin in the destruction of’ sine and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the kelief in sin ix punished so long as the belief lasts. Matter viewed in the light of Christ- jan Science is seen not to be sub- stantial, for-i\ is not the manifesta- tion of that Mim whose creation alone, is incapableiof decay. It is contended hy some that matter is, directly or indirectly, the creation of G who is admitted by them_to be. Spi But it should be plain that God, who is Spirit, and Life,-could not possibly cre- {2 that which is capable of dise: lecay, and ‘digsolution. ; * To the physiéal senses matter seems real and substantial. But Christian Science shows that these senses can- not be depended upon to testify to the existence of that which is, in the best sense, real, Paul said “the nat- ‘ural man” cannot know the things of God, for they are “spiritually dis- cerned.” And he also said: “The things which are seen [cognized by the senses} are temporal; but the things which are not seen [bythe senses} are eternal,” So Christian Science shows that matter is in fact tem- poral, destructible, iNusive; while the things of Spirit—the ideas of God, or divine Mind—alone ate really sub- stantial and enduring. The tepching $f. Christian Science that matter exi: only as belief, as a concept ‘of the humdn or g¢arnal mind, enables one to. deal more in- telligently, hence more “ successfully, with disease than was possible without. such knowledge. For it enables one to see more clearly than he was for- merly able .to see, at pain’ and“ stif- fering are not matertal but mental, Ordinary experience shows that pain is difficult to locate. The senses often make pain appear to be where ‘it is not. Christirm Science says that pain is never in the body but. alwass in it ht or belief. So ‘the Christian \ tist ‘his treatment of sickness goes di ly to the seat of the trouble, His endeavor is to correct gr remove through righteous. prayer, or’ right thinking, tbe yaental cause of 3 i X CAUSE AND CURE OF DISEASE The teaching of Christian Science relative to the mental nature of dis- ease has to a.very great extent changed the world’s thought on this subject. Many observing physicians are willing to admit much in this_ direction ;-more indeed than some lay- men. | Physicians of standing hare agreed’ that- rage-and fear will im- mediately produce’ a radicar chemi- f cal change in the blood. Daily experi- ence shows that acute fear will often De directly expressed in a pale, and auger in a flushed, face. Grief brings tears to the eves and worry. causes insomnia and indigestion. Since we are convineed of the mental causes of these physical effects, does it not seem entirely reasonable to agree with the sfatement of Christian Science that, primarily, all di: has a men- tal cause? But Christian Scientists do not contend: that all sickness is the result of conscious fear: or of wilfal wrongdoing. on the part of the victims of disease. They merely claim that somewhere back of all bodily diseases there are erroneous conditions of thonght which must discovered and vorrected hefore there! can be a . manent cure. May not this exflain Why Christian — Science has healed mnany chronie cases that medicine had failed to cure? Is it not’ plain that physicians In_their treatment of these cases were not getting at the-root of the difficulty, because the drugs ant medicines Which they prescribed.could uot reach, nor “have any effect upon, the mental case of ~ disease, can nonintelligent. drugs reaSonably .. be expected to influence thought? Could one well. expect, medicines to haye power over such: émotions a5 anger, Jealousy, worry, fear, and grief? And yet, even from ‘: qlew, these erroneo “are seen to be frequent eauses of disease, Perhaps the most prolific cause of disease {s, fear, Fear is in’ fact the greatest enemy of mankind. If one doubts this somewhat. radival state- ment, let him pause long enough to consider some of the things of which people are afraid. “They are afraid of weather, food, germs, criticism,” falf- ure, and poyerty. And the Bibie telis us of those who “through ‘fear of death” are all thelr lifetime subject to bondage. The complete remoyal of fear. from the” consciousness of hu- manity would unquestionably be a wonderful Blessing. Christian Science shows that fear is needless. It ex- plains why it is needless: Thus it removes fear. Take the fear of criti- cism as an example. Christian Sci- ence helps one to see that-he needs ism... If criticism is just it should be~ Welcomed, because just- criticism helps one to correct mis- takes. Dnt even whew eritfeism. 's un- just it need not be feared, becuuse in the last analysis it cannot make much difference what other people thik. It is only what we think that should seriously concern us. If what others think is not true it may injure them, but it cannot harm us if what we think is true. Hence we should be sure that our thoughts are honest, just, pure, loving, considerate, and if they are we need not bein the Jeast afrai®l of what otfiers are thinking about us or about anything, HEALING FEAR OF FAILURE ‘Then: there: 1s\ "the! fear lof failure, which seems to’ follow many persons almost continuously, from the “cradle to.the grave.” Christian Science shows that.io the realm. of reality, in tl universe of diyine Mind, there can be nos such thing as failure. Failure re- sulting: from,.absolute’: Principle er fromthe: Jateminrat gefiection of Prin- ciple is inconceivable.” ” It is, even in dafly business: experi- ence, Inck« ‘of Principle. that: causes failures « On ‘the ‘ether, hand those qualities ‘which insure true success sre intelligent hetivity, energy, ‘health, persistence, faithfulness, honesty, etc. Christian Science shows that these qualities, if enduring, are not personal possessions ; they do not originate with the individnal and.can not’ be monop- olized by -him.. They are the mani- festations of divine. Principle, the ideas of infinite Mind.: They are, there- fore, tiniversal and” available to all alike. Eyery-business man and wom- ah knows that “next to honesty | the quality ‘most ‘needed-in the business life. is. wisdom.-, “Wisdom,” the Prov: erbs tell 8, “Sis thé ‘principal. thing therefore gat wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.” _ So afterall it ‘is’ not prestige or power or money or. any material thing Jmedical point of istand the reality of that which is ie man’s real business. That is your real business. It is a success, It cannot fail. God never made man to bea failure.. The man of "S$: ere- ‘atipg is the very best kind of a suc- cess. Knowtedge of these facts consti- tutes real law and power, THYP di- vinely bestowed understanding acts as law ,in your present human experi- ence to annul fear, to remove limita- tion, to rightiy direct your affairs and adjust your relationships. And, re- Member that “however things . may seem, no good thing is a failure and no evil thing a success”, - > The fear of criticism and of failure are only two of the many ‘phases of fear from which Christian Science is healing mankind. In like manner Christian Science enables one to overcome other kinds of wrong thinking, such as envy, hat- red; r@venge, greed, an arice, thru understanding that these evil thoughts do not emanate from Truth,.the inf- nite, divine Mind; hence they are with- out real cause or existence. as light dispels darkness, “Mrs. Eddy describes this process om page 445 of Science and Health, as “the unlabored motion of the divine energy in healing the sick.” Let us make use of the illustration of life passing through the transparency of a window. It is evident that it is the light that de- stroys darkness, and not the window through which the light passes. So in Christian Scienee practice it is divine Spirit and not the human men- tality whi heals sickness and sin. And the Christian Scientist is striving to’ keep the “window pane” «of his thought so clear and clean that it will not obstruct the light. 8 It khould not be supposed that all Christian Science Mind healing is the result of what is known us treat: ment, either present or absent. Some- times people are healed in conversation with one who speaks the Word of God with conviction gnd understanding. Freqhently healing has resulted from the reading of the Lesson-Sermons at. Christian Science church services, and FALSE’ LAWS ANNULLED - from public lectures on Christian has been previously indicated, Science. ‘He sent His word and All sickness does not, ‘even from the healed them.” Many person have been Christian” Science viewpoint, result perfectly and permanently healed, of chronic cases of so-called incurable dis- ease by studying the Christian Science textbook. It- will be seen that since it is divine Truth that brings free- dom from human error, it matters not \whether Truth-ecomes to the individuai through silent treatment, through the spoken word, or through reading and. “study. The essential. thing-is that it comes, to the one who is ~ receptive, When: it does come to such an indi- ‘vidual, it is. as certain to displace in neonscioushess everything unlike itself,” as’ that light’ will destroy darkness. And’ what happens when there 4s'a case of Christian::Sciencé healing?™ Merely. this: :the light of Truth or divine in- telligencte penetrates: the consciousness, from willful-sin or from conscious fear. Disease is frequently the effect of generally accepted -beliefs of the ‘human ‘mind which have mistakenly come to be regarded as laws. Among these will be“found the so-called: laws that appear to control the effect~ of food, climate, contagion, and heredity. ‘Christian’ Science ‘shows’ “that these Asserted laws — which’: ldim ;to holt mortals in bondage ‘and- cause’them 4o sicken and die-are-not real ‘laws, Re teaches ‘that these ‘imértal laws may be rendered void and ‘inoperative. through ‘enforcement of the law of: di- yine-Truth+ which is the law. of. life and health. And it does not matter how Jeng: ‘one of these: supposed Jaws 3 may have been believed ~in= or ‘sub- of the individual sufficientty clearly, to mitted: to, if-it can’ be: set: aside jn _its—dispel, at least in part, the,darkness of operation in ® single instance iti ts~ ignorance,’ superstition and. fear, and proved: not to be.‘law. Iti#s\safa_to'sin, and the body responds to the sey that Christian Science practicehas. “changed. state .of. consciousness.- --The annulled every ‘so-called “health law” body eannot do. pera, for it does —not one instance: only, but in. many not of itself havé‘anx_power to be sick instances, “And Jesus, it will -bé re- or: to be.‘well.::The human body is called, healed the sick,.. raised. the .grasped: by, and held in, thought, aii. dead, fed the multitude, and .walkel surely ag the-doll.or the rubber ball is on the water, not in conformity with. held(in the hands:of.a little child. How but if absolute disregard of, so-called important it is, then that our thoughts material laws. From the Christian Science point-of view the supposed causes of disease and the diseases themselves exist,\or seem to exist, merely in the realm of human blief. They are, so to speak, relatively true, but absolutely false, In absolute Truth, in the realm of divine reality, there is no sickness and. no cause for sickness. But through overcoming those beliefs which in‘ human experience seem to ultimate in sickness and death, Christian Science is-gradually leading its students away from: bellef in-and fear of death. “For,” as. Paul wrote in his é¢pistle to the Romans, “to: be carnally, minded. is death;but to be spiritually minded. is life .and peace.” ~ What is meant. by being: carnally minded. but - to: be- Heve in the reality of. those. things which are carnal—matter and evil? And that, Paul says, is death. But to be “spirittally minded”—to under- of error, by Life instead of-death, by Spirit.instead of matter. For as Mrs. Eddy says on page 425 of Science and Health, “Consciousness construets a. better body when faith in matter has been conquered.” i! JESUS, THE CHRIST What was it that enabled Jesus to al “all, manner of sickness and all manner of disease” among the people of his time- What did Jesus mean when ‘he xaid, “come unto me, all ye that’ labor. and.-are heavy laden, and I. will give you rest”? Surely:—he could not have meant that there: was anything peculiar to the personal Jesus that could give rest .and eure; for he later said,. “ the-works that I do shall he do aiso.”. Must he not, then, nave- meant: this:..“Come - unto the Christ,-the true understanding of God, which. I. declare: and, teach and. that will give you rest”? “It Was the Mind of Christ that healed, that, Mind which “wag also, in Christ Jesus,” and it is that ‘same -Christ-mind -which heals to-day. in. Christian Science. There is no other redeemer or savior but the able, ominpotent, divine Christ. Christ is the way, Jesus was the Wayshower. It will not. bg seriously contended that Jesus (the Christ used drugs in healing, or that he. depended ‘upo? matter to facilitate his eures. The spiritual \and good— is life. This abid- ing sense of Life.is spiritual and comes to.us through right thinking. Jesus said, “this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom thou _ hast sent.”. .To know or to be. conscious of. God through reflecting those ideas that are good ang true, is to live, and there is novother real life. Mrs. Eddy under- stood this when she wrote (Miscellan- eous Writings, p, 388): Thou to whose power our hope we give, Free us from human strife. Fed by. Thy love divine we live, For Love alone‘is' Life. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PRACTICE NOT MESMERTSM/ . / the sick, reformed the sinner, raised the dead by the power of God, divine Spirit, alone: If this spiritual method was God’s way of Healing in the time of Jesus, it must be His way. now, for God _is poeta: If, on the other hand, the use of drugs is God’s way, Some who are not entirely familiar why did not irist Jesus use’ them? with; ghe teachings of Christian Science If the combined use of prayer and Welieve that its practice consists in the medicine is God’s way, why did. not effort:of-one person to benefit another, Jesus combine {them in his practice? person by exerting the influence which It is obvioys that if medicine ix of one human mentality is supposed to itself able to heal, prayer is*not ao necessary: adjunct. of the: healing: art. hayejover another.: The fact is that es “ Christian Science regarda:the so-called If prayer is. efficacious, medicine. is not needed. Chris Selence teaches that God's “grace is ‘ient” at all human or mortal mind as the cause of all discord, including disease, times and that His hand isnot “short- € cannot save.” But Chris- a regards the immortal or divine ate tian Scientists\do not claim that they the‘ only effectual healer of- mortal. is no recorded utter- ince.of Jesus to indicate that he be- never fail in their ‘application of thin Heved his power to heal the sick and infinite !Science. They realize that reform the sinner depended upon.the they are just ‘beginning to understand exercise of human will. He prayed and ani gemonstrate’ ‘Christian Science. taught his followers to pray, (‘not my In spite, however, of ‘persecution and ‘that _ insures: real_suecesss. It’is wis~ win, ‘but thine, be done;” ard Jesus misrepresentation it- has been provea ‘dom ands: + And what sa: can of mine own; self Ho neath: in Tiundgeds ‘of thousands of instances the business mareneeds, first and last, is the understanding: of Principle, ot Truth, of Tove.” ‘This: a shows. us. that man’s real business as the son of. God, as the exact image— the conscious reflection—of . divine Min is to express eternally, without interruption. and: without. (Mmit, the ight, majesty, dominion, #bundance, activity, harmony,’ gpe fection of his creator. : To be thus emipl¥yed“is to be traly “about. the Father's; business.” That:-is nding. Science emphazises again and. again ness, and Per: controls it. thht Christian Science is. demonstra- ble and adequate. zt) IMMORTALITY OF WORKS the*fact that there is no permanent The life of Christ Jesus makes safe deliverence from humen ° ills ) save the conclusion thet he put his work throggh the transforming power of di-"-above his words. . ‘Al ing. |The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.” So Christian should be controlled by Truth instead tel fecord shows that he healed. figure in history stands out so dis- tinctly as the exponent’ of the doc- trine of works, but in all.ages great men and women have Seen immortaliz- ed because of what they did: for: the’ human race, father: than because of what they said in doing it. For, ex- ample, the uterance of Abrasam- lin ~ eoln have not been excelled in beauty and tryth.by those of any man of modern times. Yet jf the wordsof Lin- coln should be forgotten, he would con- tinue to live in what. he did ‘for, a stricken. race and for.a.nation whose very existence was threatened. No modern movement Ymore strongly em- phasizes the-importgnce of works than the movement which has: beén™buitt upon ‘the discovery of ‘Christian Science. One cannot be a Christian Scientist unless he is willing: to do ‘the works of Christian Science. The way of Christian Science is not a flowery pathway leading to distant Elysian fidlds of ense and pence. The -way ot Christian. Science is the straight and nasrow way of Principle, It leads di- réctly to that harmonious. mental ac- tivity which constitutes the kingdom of heaven within—right here and now. The life of the genuine Christian Scien- tist_is a life of constant service, and he learns that in serving God and his fellow men he is laboring in the. field of eternal life. The.very foundation of the Christian Science. church was, laid in. healing works. ‘ Before the :Chris- tlan Sckence-.texthook was published, its author and her early ‘students had already demonstrated. thie propositions afterwards laid down therein.’ Sinee then: students of. thats book An: all-parts of the world ‘Have been’ able: to- prove the truth Of it teachings by *eroving- sickness, poverty and. other iAY\from their. experience: according: to ‘definite. rules “of practice... Thig_book is: build- ing ‘for itself and: for its author a-mén- ‘ument. af. good: Works: which cannot “be destroyed ;- but. whtich |will.enduté to the end: ofstime as.jan ‘encouregément to those who are in distress. ULTIMATE: ACCEPTANCE: OF, z Ss ROTH sank S Undentably, however, the~ tendency of the human mind: is to resist that which in-apy ‘manner differs from the. existing order of things. Thus -it stands in the,way-of its own progress. Whe Marcon! ‘announced that he had discovered a method of transmitting legraph messages without the use of wires, he was scoffed at as a dreamer; but he had@ faith in his discovery and preserverance in perfecting it, so that, in spite of the erstwhile skeptics,. the fxansmission of wireless messages is now .an hourly occurrence. ‘When Mary Baker~Eddy announced that she had discovered the Principie and law of primitive Christian healing, and that because of this discovery it would become universally possible for the sick to be healed by divine power as-in thé-time of-Christ Jesus, her an- nouncement ‘met with *:ridicule * and scorn. -But Mrs. Eddy. too fied: faith in her .discovery. . Yes, more '.’than faith—ahe had the absolute conviction / and confidence. begotten “of “ under- stanging and demonstration. - There- fore; she was ‘not. dismayed: by’ the storm of doubt which’ beat in’ upon her. as the result of her proclamation to. mankind. Because she ‘knew her discovery tebe genaine, she had .the courage -and: faithfulness: to. perfect it and give it to humanity: in -the form of ‘a: textbook of. :demonstrable’: Sci-. ence. ittle by little, scoffers:: and skeptics were compelled to admit that there is a power on earth to-day which heals sickness and Sin as it did_eea- turies ago..When the works of Chris- tian Science thus ‘compelled recogni- tion, effort was ‘made to discredit Mrs. Eddy as its discoverer; but this too signally failed.- To-day, when there are in different parts of the world more than seventeen hundred Chris- tian Science organizations founded up- on the rock of Christ-healing, Mrs. Eddy is justly acknowledged not only as the Discoverer of Christian Scienca and the revered Leader of the Chris- tian Science movement, but.as one of the world’s greatest religionists, And Christian. Science. is gradually coming to be recognized a8 the reestablishment or.restoration of primitive Christian- - ity. As\ this understanding becomes more general and consequently’ the re- sistance to\Christian Science: Mind- healing, lessons, distressing ‘conditions of human existence will continue to be ametiorated ‘until they finall? disap- ” pear. Each case healed in Ghristian Science practice makes humanity's burden lighter ; and even not ‘througit its beneficent tainistratlons, thoes who ill feel obliged to doubt am being bronght_nearer to the light. ~ Mrs. Eddy has said of her discovery and of its. reception, “I have never supposed the world would immediately witness. the full fruitage of Christian Science, or that sin, disease, and death would not be believed for an indefinite time; but this I do aver, that; as a Jesus had result of: vine Love. Tho action of divine Sind. satticlent faith invwhat he sald to-de- ethics Gnd taieage ee , cee et seters oomrthe exercise ah clare . eee -and earth pags’ an impulse, health has been red -human . subjugates “away, my 3 away,” longevity increa: p> gad The truth which Jesus i 1 do wo the thee ity ised. If such are soit shall make Lgeaopet! aad a , believe me not. always should touch and transform though ye believe Rot, consciousness of the sufferer as gently belleve the works.” Pethape no other —/ ~ still pe also said: “If prks of my Father, But if : the present fruits, what will the har- yest be, when this Science §: more generally understood?” (Science and Health, p, 348) ‘ 3 ery - -- Ne ay Ve