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Lecture on Mr. G. R. Hagens introduced Mr. Palmer with the following remarks: {| “At all times since the beginning of the human race, men have been con- scious of a supreme intelligence, an omnipotent force and a universal which to a recognized de- prese! eget og eo influenced their lives! and their destinies. The sun rose and set, and radiated its warmth upon the earth: The constellations came out at night and illumined man’s pathway. Thunder and lightning reverberated, lit the heavens and brought forth copious rains. The ocean tides swelled, earthquakes rent the earth’s crust, lifted the moun- tains and belched forth fire. Tre- mendous forces,’ wholly uncontrolled by the will of man, universally and continually apparent, men in all ages have instinctively and reverently turned to a supreme Being. ‘The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God.” “There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them tho we may.” “Generally, it nas been conceded that this universal intelligence and this controlling force is just and good, or so many just and good things easily recognized and daily enjoyed could not flow from it. “The Indian tribes that used to roam over these nills and plains, instinct- ively worshipped the Great Spirit, the giver of all-good upon earth, and who furnished them happy hunting grounds after death. Savage and un- civilized peoples the world over in some form worship a supreme ruler. ‘The Israelites, some six thousand years ago, worshipped Jehovah, who led them thru the great desert with a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, opened up the Red Sea, so that they might escape their enemies, fed them with manna in the wilderness, saved them from plagues and pesti- lence, and when they became athirst, Moses, their leader, smote the rock and brought forth water for them to drink. The ancient Greeks personi- fied the elements of this supreme in- telligence which they thus recog- nized and worshiped as the God of Thunder, the God of Love, the God of the Harvest, etc., and in order to embrace the whole scope of what was in their thought, but which they did not understand, they added another, which was the “unknown God.” When St. Paul came to Athens and saw this inscription, he recognized their good faith but lack of understanding and said “whom ye ignorantly wor- ship, Him declare I unto you.” early 2,000 years ago, the lowly Nazerene appeared who was born in a manger and died on a cross. He was a great moral teacher, lived ? simple life, healed the sick, raised the dead, performed many miracles like ame procnetsior old did before. him, 2 many er -and -good sta and Bag ic in various periods in history, who have risen above their fellows, had a clearer understanding of divine prin- ciple, healed the sick and performed what we are pleased to call ‘mir- acles.” The art of healing was prac- ticed for three and four centuries A. D., when men became engrossed in materialism and the art was lost. “In the last century, Mary Baker Eddy, a devout church member and student of the Bible, being afflicted with an illness of long standing, and having sought in vain for relief in medicine and other supposed sources of cure, turned in despair to her Bible, no doubt remembering that Immortal mind is the same yester- day, today and forever. She was per- fectly cured, and thereupon devoted her life and her talent to the study, teaching and practice of what she chose to call “Christian Science,”— Christian, because founded on the scriptures, and _ scientific because demonstrable with mathematical ex- actness when mathematically applied. “Christian Scientists have no quar- rel with any other sect or denomina- tion, nor with any other legitimate profession or calling, believing that all who are conscientious in their own thought perform a useful function. They do not claim to have solved the riddle of the universe. They do hold, however, that it is the ultimate truth which makes men free. That primitive christianity demonstrated the truth to the extent of healing the sick and in guiding men in the normal and practical affairs of life, and that it is as potent, practical and effective now as it was two thousand or six thousand years ago. Thousands upon thousands of grateful people, the world over, bear witness from actual experience to these facts today. “We will now listen to a lecture on Christian Science by Mr. Ezra W.! Palmer, of Denver, Colorado, a mem- ber of the board of lectureship, who will now address you. The Christian world has recognized | for centuries three great verities of Spirit,—that God is omnipotent, om- niscient, and omnipresent, meaning by | this that God has all power, is ever present, and is the creator and source of all knowledge. These immortal fundamentals of Deity have been ac- cepted by Christians, because on no other basis can we conceive of God as infinite and supreme, a God of love who sends only good gifts to His chil- dren. But while men and women have ac- cepted theoretically these eternal at- tributes of God, they have not as a matter of fact actually understood them, nor have they ordered their lives aceording to them. Christians have accepted in theory the propo- sition that God is good and all pow- erful, but they have lived on the basis that there are other powers to be feared, avoided, or propitiated. Now God is good, the soarce, of all power. ‘That fact eliminates ut once aud for- i ever any other power or goodness. Therefore, if we fear disease, are |avaricious, hate our neighbor, or find pleasure in any sin, we are denying the omnipotence of God—no matter what our pretensions to the contrary may. be. es “Tis in deeds we serve the Master,— Words are idle, empty prayer; All our Christian life a pretense, If the deeds are wanting there.” says the well known hymn. Now, Christian Science corrects this discrepancy between reality and practice. No matter what the testi- mony of the maternal senses may be as to the seeming reality of evil Christian Science holds firmly, logi- cally, and consistently to the eternal fact of the omnipotence of God, which overrules all power of sickness and sin. The writer of the Apoca- lypse had a demonstrable knowledge of this when he declared: “The Lord God omnipotent reigneth.”” Christian Science, in teaching re- liance on the omnipotent goodness of God, has reinstated primitive Chris- tianity. The great Bible characters proved that a knowledge of God de- stroys fear, heals disease, and frees the sinner. There is nothing mys- terious about Christian Science or its practice. Christian Science is simple, nature, and science. Christian Sci- entists do not fear disease, because they know God never sent it and that a right understanding of Him com- pletely destroys it. They do not study medical works because they do not reason from the basis of physical man, and they see clearly that it is utterly useless to dwell upon disease which has no basis except human be- liefs and false mental pictures. Josh Billings is reported to have said: “What's the use of knowin’ so much if what you know isn’t so?” HEALING OF SICKNESS NOT THE ULTIMATE The healing of the sick by spirit- ual means is not an end in itself. Man lives because God lives, for man’s life is derived from God. Man does not exist merely to keep himself in repair or to satisfy his human de- sires. The function of an automobile is to carry its occupants, not to un- dergo repairs, although its owner may at tinves be led to believe that the ex- pense bill is the objective. Repairs must be made, of course, if the ma- choice does not run. So man, when sick or sinful, must be healed before he is prepared to realize his sonship with God. The healing of sin and disease are only preliminary steps by which a man comes to sec that his real duty,—his ideal,—is to under- stand God and to live according to His eternal laws. ‘Fear God,” said the Preacher, “and keep his command- ments; for this is the whole duty of man.” And so a man’s regeneration has “merely commenced en ‘he -is healed of physical ills by Christian Science. He begins to see a perfect model of manhood. He finds that a transformation of his character and ideals must take place; his former habits and ideals no longer satisfy him. He has begun to measure him- self by the model of a perfect God and perfect man, and to grow to that perfection of thought which the Psalmist saw when he said: “I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness,” and this process of regen- eration reauires the undivided atten- tion of every man. THE VISION SUPERNAL Now, what is this vision supernal which satisfies the infinite aspirations of man and transforms him into the likeness of his Maker? This vision is the revelation of the perfection of .God, man His image and likeness, and the universal perfect and spiritual Abram saw this eternal reality ang his name was changed to Abraham. Jacob saw it, and his name was changed to Israel, because he was so transformed that he was no longer a crafty trader but a prince who had “power with God and with men.” Moses saw it on Mount Sinai and he was changed to do all things after the “pattern, which was shewed three in the mount.” Christ Jesus saw this transcendent vision of the glory of God, and man His perfect expression, on the mountain of transfiguration, and we are told that “his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light;” and on Calvary and in the sepulcher he proved the invincible power of spiritual consci- ousness which rent the veil of ma- teriality, destroying death and the ‘grave, and establishing forever the fact of man’s unity with his God. Mrs. Eddy, more than eighteen centuries later, also saw this same perfect pattern which enabled her to heal the sick and-sinning and to in- spire unnumered multitudes to for- sake human opinions, dogmas, creeds, and drugs, and to follow the light of demonstrable truth. And it is this same pattern that Christian Scientists see today. They strive to pattern their lives after the model of perfect God and perfect man, and as a result they are happy, healthful, and spiritually minded, Working according to this pattern ‘they are enabled to love. their fel- lowman and to heal his ills when he turns to them for help. Genuine Scientists pray continually that they keep in thought this perfect model. They strive to be governed only by the qualities of love, perfection, and holiness, which emanate from the di- ‘vine Mind; and they are alert to de- stroy in their own thought the motive ‘or aim which would injure or depress their neighbor. They strive to follow their great Exemplar, Christ Jesus, who said: “A new commandment I give unto you, That ve love onc an- other; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall Christian Science Delivered | ng that God is Love, he loved with all men know that ye’ are my disci- ples, if ye have love one to another.” THE TESTIMONY OF. CHRIST JESUS ent of the omnipotence of God. By reason of his sinless birth and scn- ship with the Father he knew and expressed the nature of God. His consciousness so perfectly reflected God that no suggestion of sin or mor- tality could enter. In the presence of his unparalleled knowledge of Spirit, fear, disease, and death, fled as darkness before the light. Know- divine tenderness his fellow men and because of that love he healed them. we are told in the Gospels that. he healed all manner of disease. In Mat- thew we read this simple statement, “And they brought unto Him all sick people that were taken with diverse diseases and torment, and those whicn were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.” Asa result of these healings, the peo- ple glorified God and rejoiced that the power of God was so demonstra- bly manifested among men. AY Christ Jesus accepted only the tes- timony of Spirit. He knew that mat- ter and Spirit were antipodes and an- tagonistic. Matter Is unreal, Spirit is real. “It is the spirit that quick- eneth; the flesh profiteth nothing,” Jesus declared; and by the term “flesh” he meant matter, mortality, carnality, ‘whatsoever worketh a- bonination, or maketh a lie.’ (Rev. 21:27.) Now, Jesus never taught that God created matter or that God was in any way responsible for sin, sick- ness, or death. On the contrary, he exposed the unreal nature of these ers rors and destroyed them through the might of the Christ-Mind. That only is real which is spiritual and immor- tal. Sickenss and sin are not created of God; they are therefore not eter- nal—they are merely the fleeing con- cepts of the human mind, having no actual basis and, therefore, are un- real. This, Jesus proved throughout his whole earthly ministry, and Chris- tian Science is again demonstrating that spiritual things are the real, while matter and mortality are the unreal. CHRIST JESUS THE SON OF GOD Christ Jesus was not God but the Son of God, as he himself said. As a man born of a woman he was the Son of man. As the Christ, he man- ifested the qualities of his divine Father,—hence, his saying: “I and my Father are one.” The true Scrip- tural teachings regarding Christ Jesus and his relation to God are clearly and correctly presented in the writ- ings of Mrs. Eddy. It may be asked, How can this be known? The an- swer is, By practical proof. When ‘the student-wegiws to understand the nature of the divine unity existing between Jesus the Christ and the ever-present God, as taught by Chris- tian Science and by the Bible, he can heal the sick by the power of prayer; and the more clearly he understands this divine unity the more quickly and the more effectively he can do this holy healing work. Now, it is neces- sary to gain a clear distinction be- tween God, in order to follow the Master-Teacher, and to repeat in this century his marvelous _ healings. These truths are not difficult to gain. Purity of thought, careful study, and yearning to know the truth, will open the Scriptures to all. Commenting on Jesus the Christ and his unity with God, in,Science and Health, page 332, Mrs. Eddy wrote: ‘Jesus demonstrat- ed Christ; he proved that Christ is the divine idea of God—the Holy Ghost, or Comforter, revealing the di- vine»Principle, Loye, and leading into all truth.” SALVATION FOR ALL MEN The healing power demonstrated by Jesus was not confined to himself as evidence of his special sonship with God. It was the divine knowledge of the Father available for all men. Jesus taught his immediate followers the power of God to heal the sick and to free the sinner. But the saving gospel of the Chi the Messiah, was not confined—nor could it be confin- ed—to a chosen few, to one age, or to one people. It was the universal gift ofeGod to all His children. The Mas- ter-Physician said,—‘‘Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature,” thus making his mes- sage of universal application. He fur- ther said: “And these signs shall fol- low them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils, they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” Commenting on the universality of divine grace, Jesus said: ‘Before Abraham was I am.” In other words the Christ is the divine, ever-present manifestation of God forever ready to heal and save, and so it has been proved throughout the whole history of Christianity. THE TESTIMONY OF APOSTLES AND EARLY CHRISTIANS In the New Testament we find also that the twelve disciples healed; the seventy did likewise. Paul, who was not at first a disciple of Jesus, also healed the sick and raised the dead, and for three centuries the early Christians recognized and practiced healing as a part of the work of the éhurch, Irenaeus, the Greek bishop of Lyons, who lived at the close of ‘the second century, assures us that ‘all Christians of his time possessed the power of healing; that they proph- esied, cast out devils, healed the sick, ‘and sometimes raised the dead. , But after a time the early Chris- tians became lax in their loyalty to Christ Jesus was the great expon-| Boe. their great Teacher. modify his teachings, conforming them to the pagan thought about them. What was the result? The freshness and power of spiritual un- ‘derstanding was blighted, and spirit- ual healing,“‘the pearl of great price,” was lost to the darkened vision of mortals. The human mind—dark- ened and mystified—could no longer resort to the -healing power of God; hence, spiritual healing disappeared and did not reappear for more than fifteen centuries, when the Science of Christs Christianity was again given to the world by the New England wo: man, Mary Baker Eddy. The Discoverer and Founder Christian Science In 4866, Mrs. Eddy was instantly healed of the results of a serious ac- cident through the spiritual under- derstanding of a passage in Mat- thew’s Gospel. The light that burst; upon her consciousness in that hour of need was the result of many years’ prayer, meditation, and study of the Seriptures. The world of the nine- teenth century was steeped in mate- rialism and there was a tendency to base reasoning upon matter and phys- ical science. Mrs. Eddy discovered that all is Mind, God; that ‘All is in- finite Mind and its infinite manifes- tation, for God is All-in-all,” she said in Science and Health, page 468. Her researches led her to distinguish be- tween the divine Mind, its qualities and ideas, and the phenomena of matter and evil, which she termed mortal mind, or—to use St. Paul’s term—carnal mind. She saw that the two were opposites. One only can be true. Evil, matter, carnal mind, human mind, are mortal benefits, misconceptions wholly foreign to the nature of God, and they disappear in the ratio that we understand God. Mrs. Eddy saw also that the exact- ness, order, continuity, and law of God’s uaiverse was the only real science, which she named Divine Science or Christian Science. When she grasped the mighty fact so fruit- ful with blessings to the whole hu- man race,—that God is the only Mind and Cause,—her mission was to pierce with spiritual vision the dark clouds of matter, mortality and fear, to disperse these clouds with the re- flected light of spiritual understand- ing and to reinstate in human con- sciousness the Science of the one omnipotent Mind. How can it be known that there is but one Mind? Since God is the di- vine creator, the source of all intel- ligence and wisdom, He knows all things and nothing can be thought or conceived~ outside the range of His all-inclusive intelligence. The conclusion is logical, therefore, that there is and can be only one Mind, God. Mankind, for centuries, have believed in the existence of many minds, but the Bible and Christian Science make clear the omniscient oneness of the divine Mind, and the impossibility of many minds. Man has no mind of his own separate from his Maker. He reflects the Mind of his Creator. When this great fact is grasped by the indi- vidual he begins to express the holi- ness, healthfulness, purity, and wis- dom of the divine Mind and to be healed of the sorrow and pain which come from believing in many ruling minds or from believing that power can exist separate from God. of Her Search for the Principle of Mind Healing Mrs. Eddy was well fitted for her great work of making clear to the world the all-might of the one Mind. Of Puritan ancestry she was reared in the atmosphere of a Christian home. From childhood she had been deeply religious. As her thought went forth in longing desire to know God, she_ inevitably came in contact, and later into colli- sion, with human systems which purported to interpret God or sought to usurp His power as the healer of our diseases. Her first) struggles were evidently with scho- lastic Yheology, a theology which she had sounded to its depths and had found inadequate to supply the great human need, for the reason that it attempted to explain God from a corporeal standpoint and was, therefore, bereft of healing power. In harmony with the Scriptural in- junction,—‘“‘Prove ll ‘things; hold fast that which is good.” she had in- vestigated the systems of, medicine, | the seeming action of drugs, the allo- pathic and homeopathic methods of treatment, as well as_ spiritualis' hypnotism, and various other meniai theories. She found that all lack- ed the divine unction of Spirit and failed to bring healing or inentai en- lightenme::t. Finally she turned un- reservedly to the word of God, the Bible, and through study and prayer the light of spiritual understanding dawned upon her enlightened vision lake rays of morning sunshine upon an awakened worfd. Speaking of this remarkable experience, Mrs. Eddy wrote in Science and Health, page 109: “For three years after my discovery, I sought ‘the solu- tion of this problem of Mind-heal- ing, searched the Scriptures and read little else, kept aloof from society, and devoted time and energies to dis- covering a positive rule. The search was sweet, calm, and buoyant with hope, not selfish nor depressing. I knew the Principle of all harmonious Mind-action to be God, and_— that cures were produced in primitive Christian healing by holy, uplifting faith; but I must know the Science of this healing, and I won my way to absolute conclusions through di- vine revelation, reason, and demon- stration.” t Daiw Cribune in Casper by Ezra W. Palmer of Denver, Colo. They began to |Her Labor to Make Christian Science Understood But Mrs. Eddy was not content to| abide alone upon the mountain top of | spiritual exaltation. Her love for her | fellowmen was tender, deep, univer-| sal. She saw that it was her duty to) descend from that mountain top into} the valley of human thought, and to| labor and work till this divine! Science of God and man was reduced | to the level of human understanding, so that every man could see and ap. ply the regenerating power of the Science of Christianity. For this ex- alted ideal she labored and loved for} almost half a century. She not only! presented Christian Science to the world in a form that could be under- stood and demonstrated but, in addi-| tion, she so protected the cause of | Christian Science against the aggres- sions of evil that never again would the healing power of the Christ be lost to the world. For these labors; all lovers of humanity: owe her a; debt of gratitude. In 1875—nine years after her) healing—she gave to the world the textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health, a book which has done more to revolutionize the thoughts of men regarding the truths | of the Bible than any other book that | has ever been written. This text-| book is based wholly on the Bible, | and all its premises and conclusions are founded on God as the only power, cause, and creator. Fruits of Her Discovery The results of her clarified vision and grasp of the deep things of God soon began to be manifested. The sick were healed through her minis- trations; the bondage of sin was broken for the sinner; darkened minds were filled with spiritual illu- minations through her teachings and writings; and throughout the years that followed she perfected the vast organization which today is carrying the- gospel of spiritual healing to the uttermost bounds of the earth. Her message refused by _ established churches, she was impelled to orga- nize a church of her own. The Mother Church was organized in Boston in April, 1879, and has since been followed by a host of branch churches now scattered throughout the five physical senses. When we see even faintly the omnipotence of God we never again fear evil as we did before. Why? Because we have dethroned it. Holding steadfastly to the omnipotence of God, evil imme- diately shrinks in size. It is no longer menacing. We see it as it is, a lie and a liar, a projection of false mortal belief—nothing more. When we find—for instance—that discour- agement is trying to enter our con- | sciousness and rob us of peace, we can at once turn on the intruder and shut out even that one lie we shall have advanced many a league in our march heayenward. And when we daily stand at the door of thought re- fusing admittance to every whisper- ing of evil, and admitting only the ideas of holiness and purity we are approaching that perfection of thought which Jesus knew when he said: “The kingdom of God is with- in you.’’ Creation Spiritual and Perfect Now human knowledge claims that man is mortal,.that he is “of the earth, earthly,” and that death and the grave are inevitable. But this is not true in the presence of God, and scientific reasoning proves its falsity. In the Science of omnipo- tent Mind or Christian Science, man is taught to reason from the basis of perfect Spirit. Perfect .Spirit can create only perfect, spiritual beings, and these beings manifest the quali- ties, and partake of the nature of Spirit. In the first chapter of Gene- sis which so fulJy describes the spiritual creation, we read,—‘“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created He him.” chapter it says that “God saw every- thing that He had made, and, be- hold, it was very good.” Man, there- fore, is spiritual and perfect. But the second chapter. of this same book describes the creation of another man, the Adam-man, formed from the dust of the ground. Manifestly, both these accounts cannot be true, because if man is spiritually created he cannot be dust-created. Now, Christian Science makes clear that there is a vast difference between man,—the image and like- the civilized world. The Christian Science Journal appedred in 1883; then the Christian Science Sentinel; |Science accepts the fact that only Christian | the spiritual man can be the real man German publication; and that we have no more evidence | and Mrs. Eddy’s last gift to humanity | that man is a creature of dust, the! was The Christian Science Monitor,!victim of old age, decay, and death, | an international daily newspaper, a|than we have that the sun rises in} The whole fabric of ma-| terial reasoning regarding mortal | gigantic may seem the evil to be ex-|man is based entirely on the evi-| dence of the five physical senses— evidence we know to be misleading! and erroneous. Knowing that all hu-) Der the next Herold der Science, newspaper whose business is to tell the truth fearlessly—no matter how posed and destroyed. Reading rooms and leading libraries were started and maintained by churches and so- cieties; Christian Science practition- | man ills originate In the Adam-dream ers established themselves in cities|that man is mortal, a creature of the and villages, healing the sick and re- claiming the sinner through the pray-|above sense evidence and recognizes er which understands the all-power|that God is Love, as the apostle de- world|clared; that He is omnipotent ‘good; It has!that His universe is harmonious, per- and that man cannot | divine | no but is sufficient to prove that it is p of God. Today the whole knows of Mrs. Eddy’s work. not yet grasped the full measure of her achievements but is beginning to understand the value of her teach-|is forever free, upright, strong, for- ings for the redemption of the race. | ever conscious of his liberty as a The Truth That Frees The Sciente of omnipotent Mind, taught in Science and Health, is the Science Jesus meant when he said: “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” What is the truth that is to be known? Man- ifestly, the truth which makes free is the truth about God and man. Chris- tian Science teaches, as does the Bible, that God is Spirit; that Mind, His universe, is a spiritual, mental universe; and that man is a spiritual being reflecting his divine creator. Christian Science makes a clear and absolute distinction between the uni. verse of God, or perfect Mind, and the world of sense phenomena,—the mortal, carnal sen of existence | which mortals cognize through the physical senses, carrying in its train sin, disease, and death, Since spirit- ual existence is the only real exis- tence, Christian Science classifies the world of sense phenomena as unreal, false, and therefore, in fact, nothing * but illusion. How do we know the spiritual is true and the sensuous false? We know by the test of demonstration. As the perfection of God, His holi- ness, beauty, wisdom, and power, ' dawn upon the ilumined thought, we are divinely assured of their reality. On the other hand, the evanescent and illusive character of the world of sense phenomena becomes more .|and more clearly exposed and grad- ually fades from consciousness. Furthermore, the more clearly we comprehend the things of Spirit, , the more surely and completely we can heal sickness, overcome sin, and break the bonds of evil. ‘God is, love,” said the beloved disciple; “There is no fear in love; but per- fect love chsteth out fear,” and} Love likewise casts out all that is unlike love and eythrones peace and harmony in undisputed control. ; Christian Science Destroys Evil When we come in contact with) the world about us we are con-| fronted at once with the phenomenon! man, the expression of of evil. note its destructive character. It manifests itself in myriad forms of pain, poverty, and death. Did God create or permit this destructive element? No, God is good. He is not the author of We evil. Darkness moved from light than evil from good. Is evil, then, self-created? No, God is the only creator and is} “of purer eyes than to behold evil.” Christian Science clears up the mys-; ticism of evil and shows that evil in| whatsoever form it presents itself; iS a false claim operating through | belief of heredity, is not farther re-| 'and always will be, and no false men- |ness of God, and the mortal, human jconcept, called man. | the east. |dust, the Christian Scientist rise: fect, eternal, ‘be enchained by false conditions, son of God. Control of the Body But it may be asked, “Is it possible cast it out; and if we steadfastly) And in the last verse of the same} Christian | * PAGE FIVE may be required to change the thought jof the patient from its material basis ,;to the spiritual basis of living and thinking. Should this be the case, the patient should still trust God and not yield to discouragement. The true practitioner will continue to point the way of life to such a one and encour- age him to persevere until his thought \is awakened and the light appears. FALSE EVIDENCE OF CORPO- | REAL SENSES. Everyone is familiar with the de- ceptive nature of the testimony of the five physical senses. The whole trend of true education is to teach the child to correct, by higher intelli- gence, the false impressions of physi- cal sense evidence. A monkey and a child both gge a figure five, for in- stance; the’ child, by higher intelli- gence, gragps the idea back of the isymbol; thet monkey sees the symbol, jaccepts the‘sense evidence and is as definitely slht off from the idea five as though it had never existed. Paul {warns us against accepting the limi- s of the physical senses, and to rise to the understanding tual things which renew the inward man day by day. He declared that in our true individuality “We look not at the things which are seen, | but at the things which are not seen; ‘for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are | not seen are eternal.” (II Cor. 4:18.) SIN, DISEASE, AND DEATH NOT NECESSARY. ' Throughout the ages men have be- jlieved in the supposed necessity for sin, disease, and death. Accepting the deceptive evidence of the corpo- real senses they have reasoned that, | since in their experience and observa- |tion these evils have operated with- jout hindrance, they are therefore in- evitable. No greater fallacy, no more {eruel deception ever impose itself upon the human race. We must have the courage of our convictions and {deny these evils, knowing the scien- tific basis upon which we deny them, if we ever expect to overcome them. | Perhaps these statements may seem {to be somewhat visionary to some, |but they are not, because Christian {Scientists in hundreds of thousands of instances have proved them by anner of diseases on the 's that man is perfect, s Father in heaven is per- fect; that sian cannot, therefore, be mortal and material, and iist since sickness, :in, and disease ure de- stroyed through spiritual understand- ing the inevitable conclusion follows \that they have no actual reality. J In this connection I wish to call again to your attention the life uf the \great Master, Christ Jesus. Did he accept the verdict that men are mor- tal, the victims of sin and disease? {Did he submit to the fiat that death fis inevitable? By no means. sithrust aside these human _ illu and proved for all time the ¢ status of men as the perfect son God, forever free from mortal One demonstration of the powe Mind to heal men of for all men to destroy disease throush spiritual unde ding. One demon- stration of ov oming death through the power of divine Mind is sufficient to show the fal y of the last enemy |that my body can be controlled and and the nothingness of the greatest lits diseases healed through the fear that besets men. Jesus destroyed power of omnipotent Mind?” My disease, raised the dead, burst ior . and friends, it is not only possible but it is the only genuine h the body that was ever accomplish- ed. All diseases are the result of diseased thoughts. How absurd to attempt to heal the body by drugs, which are inert, mindless, as if mind- less matter could bridge the gulf between matter and Spirit and usurp the prerogative of God to heal man of his diseases. The body is merely the expression of mortal thought and is a servant, not a master, and it manifests whatever te of thought the individual may entertain. If we believe in and fear sickness, old age, heat or cold, we may have these wrong conditions manifested on the body, thus proving the words of Solo- s he thinketh in his heart The remedy is to look away from the body, refuse to accept its false evidences of pain and dis- ease, and to hold the gaze steadfastly to the perfect realm of divine Mind, where man_ possesses unchanging health based upon the eternal truths * God. HOW DOES CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEAL? Suppose a person illness came to Christian Se help. What does the C Scientist do? He knows that good and everpresent. He sees that the patient is ill because of wrong thinking; he is in a false mental state which is to be healed. The practi- tioner lifts his thought to God in prayer and destroyes the fear of the patient, proving thac “perfect Love casteth out fear.” He refuses to i cept the false, physical evidence that the man is sick; he denies the human knowing that God's child inherits nothing but the rood He sees clearly that suffering with things of God. not consume away because man is in- destructible and immortal. He denies all unfavorable symptoms, knowing that they are not God-created, but are false, mental pictures imaged forth on the body. He knows and declares that the man is well, always has been, jtal state can bar his consciousness from that eternal fact, and if the practitioner's thought is inspired of God, is aflame with the love which |comes from God, the patient is healed. There may be instances when the healing may seem slow, because time y which must be himself the bonds of the tor thus pointed the way of spiritual free- dom for all men. What a world of woe and despair he lifted from the hearts of men by his glorious career, and what encouragement and insy tion he gave us when he said: “I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. With the record of centuries of suf- at fering behind us, is it not time we cease to listen to the siren of the material senses which arg continually for the permanence ind reality of e and give earnest heed i Science which teaches us Jesus destroyed sin, can destroy them if we follow faith- fully the path Jesus blazed for us |CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND WAR. Now, what is the attitude of Chris- ian Sci toward the great up- s convulsed the world? s recognize that op- pression, autocracy, and pride of pow- er, are products of the earnal mind annihilated if demo- teracy is to endure among men. Chris- i sts are firm believers in Their churches are gov- erned on a democratic basis. Demo- cracy is a manifestation of a truer undertsanding of God, because in the |sight of God all men are equal. | The Declaration of Independence— that declaration of democracy formu- lated by the founders of the great American republic,-—“that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalien- able rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” the ideal calling and: inspiring millions of men and women to forsake sensual ease, to rise to loftier heights of purer thinking, and to recognize their du their fellow men and their allegisice to their divine Father, When men discern that liberty i vift of God, a priceless bow which » is neither h happiness, then they are willing to make the sacrifices of self and ma- teriality necessary to preserve it, Foreseeing this hour of spiritual un- foldment, Mrs. Eddy wrote in Science and Health, page 227, “Discerning the (Continued on Page 6) ' Tne