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ADVERTISEMENT. I Obedience to the Law THE SUNDAY STAR, JANUARY 9. ADVERTISEMENT. I 1921—-PART 2. ADVERTISEMENT. ADVERTISEMENT. l I O ADVERTISEMENT. [. ADVERTISEMENT. l [ ADVERTISEMENT. f God Brings Wisdom, True Riches and Spiritual Power, With Which God Endowed Man By AUGUSTA E. STETSON, C. S. D. In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon . and God said, ask what I shall give thee. And Solo- man said . . . Thou has made Thy servant king instead of David my father, and I am but a little child. I know not how to go out or come in. . . . Give therefore Thy servant an understanding heart to judge Thy people. that I may discern between good and bad, for who is able to judge this Thy so great a people? . . . And God said unto him, because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself, nor hast asked for thyself long life, neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies . . . Behold I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart . . . and I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honor, so that there shall not beany . . . like unto thee.—I Kings 1., 5-13. 7 Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow:; they toil not, neither do they epin; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?—Matthew vi., 28-30. Let us raise a standard, to which the wise and hon- est can repair; the event is in the hands of God.— George Washington. This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth—Abraham Lincoln. of false reasoning and false argu- ing, with which mortals become confounded and bewildered—and God fills the thought with the one Mind—Himself, Life, Love and Truth. Solomon leaned upon God. Let us lean whence came his marvelous do- minion over man and the treasures of the earth, His fabulous wealth and seeming material prosperity, would hardly appear consistent with Jesus’ injunction, “Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.” Yet God provided all these seeming material things; and as He clothes the lilies of the field, who neither toil nor spin, so He clothed Solo- mon, who in all his glory was not arrayed like them. Did Solomon take thought for his body, or his resources, in order to provide for regal splendor—purple and fine linen, a retinue of attaches, servants, horses and chariots— which should herald him as a king? Where was the wealth which must be produced to build the house of the Lord, which David, his father, had conceived but could not erect, and left for his son to bring forth? Solomon did not hesitate when God said to him, “Ask what I shall give thee,” but answered, “Give me an understanding heart,” and God |granted it, and added riches and honor and long life. Was there any material wisdom and understanding out of which he could build the house of God? No! Spiritual sense alone gives wisdom. Was under= standing equivalent to capital, to bonds and stocks, to bills of ex- change, to gold and silver, which he would require to build the temple, or house of the Lord? Was it un- derstanding which Peter used as a power to raise the helpless para- Iytic, when he said, “Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee?” He gave the para- Iytic strength to run and leap for Mary Baker Eddy, when she sent Mrs. Stetson to New York, said to her, “I want you to establish the Christianity of @hristian Science in New York city.” Mrs. Stetson, with her students, built First Church of Christ, Scientist, on the corner of 96th street and Central Park West, at a cost of $1,250,000, and dedicated it as soon as completed, free of debt. thought, or belief, with its testi-]|Solomon obeyed the spiritual divine mony of life, substance and intelli- |guidance he continued to increase in gence in matter, has been accepted,|wisdom and riches, peace, plenty, and humanity has not exercised the { honor and power. dominion of Mind, the Christ-mind, power over the carnal senses, truth over error, good over evil, life over death and love over fear. | “The riddle of the world is understood Oi:ly by him who feels that God is good, As only he can feel who makes his love |7 >} oy The ladder of his faith, and climbs within you,” Mind evolves mental From sense to soul, and draws no line |pictures, from the landscape of liv- Between mere human goodness and|ing green to the mountains tower- divine. 3 ing against the sky of purest blue, And judging God by what in man is best, |, uer which float pearly clouds. With a child's trust, leans on a father's|py .0 1ias “the tint.of Pink, breast™ ght evolves the pink, purple, silver, pearl, etc., together Solomon, with _childlike trust,{\ith the setting of the sun in red asked God for wisdom and under-|anq amber. Thought is expressed standing. The divine Mind is un-|in flowers—in their multitudinous derstanding, intelligence, wisdom,|form, color, and perfume. All that the creator, the Principle of being, |we have called nature is but Mind in which are all conceptions of | manifest in objects, from the in- beauty and utility. finitesimal to the infinite. “The seed In the beginning was the “Word,” |is in itself only as the divine Mind the divine Mind, supreme intelli- |is All” (Science and Health, p. 508), gence, or creative force, God, good,|and produces all phenomena. Hu- who created the heavens and the|man belief reverses all things. earth. He spoke all things into ex-| yg o Eddy declares, “Mind is the istence. He said, “Let there be Infinite Mind governs all ideas which compose the spiritual uni- verse, and there is no other real universe, for God and all that He created was pronounced “good.” Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is Truth—her treasures of beauty, joy and peace—and is condemning ma- terial knowledge, mortal concep- tions and the material universe, as the creations of false sense, alto- gether unreliable and fallacious. They are without life, substance or intelligence, and are of such sub- stance only as dreams create. Science reverses the testimony of the material senses and declares that man is spiritual, not material. In spiritual thought all is harmony. “Chaos and old night,” discord and disease, sorrow and so-called death, are produced by the carnal mind, the belief.of life in matter. Let us refuse longer to believe the sugges- tions of the so-called material senses. God reigns and there is none beside Him. All is Life, Love and Truth. Adam is a myth. In the Adam-thought all die. In the Christ-mind all are made alive. “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive” (I Corinthians xvi., 22). Knowing the difference between the material concepts and the spir- itual thought-force, shall we con- tinue creating hallucinations? Wis- dom condemns mortal sense and de- clares of matter, “It is illusion, loss but seems, pleasure and pain are only dreams.” Wisdom cries in the streets today, “Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead.” She comes to us with her train of camels, strong enduring thoughts of life in the infinite Life. They carry us through the desert of personal light; and there was light” He commanded, Let there be beasts, peared. He said, “Let the earth bring forth gras¢ the herb yielding seed, whose seed is in it- birds, fish and fowl, and they ap-|uct. multiplier, and Mind’s infinite idea, | Sense, where mirages of fear and man and the universe, is the prod- | disease—ghosts of old beliefs—arise The only intelligence or sub-[t0 terrify us, as we journey from stance of a thought, a seed, or a|Scnse to Soul, from the unreal and flower is God, the creator of it”[temporal to the real and eternal (Science and Health, p. 508). Mind | verities of being. self,” and it was expressed—phen- |had b.rought to Soln.man all his omena appeared. The seed is the[cye witnessed. At times he had creative power of Mind. “The tree|Tisen to the pinnacle of his human and herb do not yield fruit because [Feceptivity of Truth. Another step of any propagating power of their |had to be taken toward his spirit- own,” says Mrs. Eddy, in Science|ual dominion under the law of God, and Health, page 507, “but because which required more humility. Per- » & A higher and more practical Christianity, demon- sickness and in health, stands at the door of this age, knocking for admission—Mary Baker Eddy, Discov- erer and Founder of Christian Science, and Author of its Text Book, “Science and Health With Key to the Scriftures.” HE history of Solomon and his wonderful achievements, his wealth and pow- er, his marvelous temple and his unparalleled wisdom and under- standing—all his glory—has been for ages accepted by humanity as a veritable “historic fact. In all epochs mortals have commented upon Solomon’s limitless power and resources in bringing together, from all the earth, her stores of gold, sil- ver and precious stones, horses and chariots, and thousands of men to do his bidding. Solomon’s temple has been the wonder of the world. Mortals have vainly aspired to Solo- mon’s wealth, only to fall far short of its realization. Sacred history has given to the world the secret with which Solo- mon unlocked the hidden treasures of the universe and brought out from her inexhaustible storehouse the beauty, wealth and power whi:hl he utilized. Yet generations have passed through- this human exist- ence, working, toiling, sacrificing liberty and human life, in the ac- quisition of wealth or fame, utterly refusing to use the wisdom, which Solomon exercised, and which he left as a legacy to humanity. He attributed all his power, peace and plenty to God, and bequeathed to us these words, the key to his knowledge. “O Lord, Iam but a little child; I know not how to go out or come in . . Give therefore Thy servant an under- standing heart.” Solomon realized the demand that would be made to maintain the re- gal splendor of the king—the re- tinue of servants, the horses and of God" chariots that should herald him as a mighty ruler. His first thought was for the good of the people, and he asked for wisdom, justice|u; opy by 5 ittle child; I know not and equity with which to govern them. The weakness of knowledge appeared to him, hence his call upon God to direct him and give him an unedrstanding heart.|“Keep Thou my feet! Personal self was set aside. Solo- mon took his human knowledge and opinions out of God's way, and the light of divine wisdom illuminated The history of our country, like all history, illus- trates the might of Mind, and shows human power to be proportionate to its embodiment of right thinking. bis OWR|Chictian Scientist voices the same joy, and this was accomplished through = understanding, spiritual thought. Solomon and Peter both had learned the hidden mystery of God, and both used their “domin- ion” (spiritual thought-force—un- derstanding) over the world and its resources, What is understanding? Are the treasures of the universe therein? How can we gain it, and is it avail- able at all times and in all places and equal to all emergencies? Since Solomon proved the power of wis- dom .and understanding; why have not the people followed his exam- ple, and instead of unremitting toil and ceaseless anxiety for what they shall eat, and what they shail drink, and wherewithal they shall be cloth- ed, why have they not, like Solo- = " mon, asked for understanding and the d“."e. for the good and pure—|wisdom? God is no respecter of the Principle of being appeared to|persons, and will give to all fully him. The voice of God was heard, | of His riches. saying: “Ask what I shall give thee,” and Solomon said, “Give therefore Thy servant an under- standing heart to judge Thy people, that I may discern between good and bad; for who is able to judge this Thy so great a people?” strating justice and meeting the needs of mortals in Solomon, Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy have left to the world this legacy—the riches of understanding —by which they accomplished their mighty works. Jesus the Christ il- lumined the world with the tran- ; scendent power of Mind, and util- Solomon - was conscious “of his |ized it to prove the utter nothing- weak human knowledge and fallible [ ness of disease and death. Paul de- judgment, and this was apparent in |clared that death was “the wages his childlike humility. But a boy,|of sin”; that it was the effect of of perhaps fourteen years, he had |erroneous thought, the lie, or false not learned the ways of the material | mentality, the belief of life and in- world, nor filled his thought with |telligence in matter, the illusion of self-knowledge, personal ambition, [fhaterial sense, a dream, which personal pride and arrogance, and |Seemeth to be, but is not real. he turned to God, as the sunflowef | The world has refused to accept turns to the sun to g.low into bloom | the doctrine our Master gave to and beauty beneath its warmth and | hymanity, which He declared radiance. showed “the way” to eternal life Solomon's first step was a lesson ) 3nd the power of God. He said, to humanity, but humanity has not | My doctrine is not mine, but His heeded it. Our Saviour taught the |that sent me” (John vii, 16). Mor- same lesson. He said: “Except ye tals have turned their faces toward 3 become as little children, darkness. They have walked in the ye shall not enter into the kingdom valley and shadow of sin, sickness of heaven” A little child does not|31d death. They have been sailing argue. He has no foresight, no cal-| o the ever-agitated sea of so- culating prudence, no malice. He |Called mortal thought, without chart knows no disguise. A child ‘ex- |OF compass, drifting on its hidden presses love without restraint or|f¢efs and tossed by its tempests of pretense and is not conscious of fear and disease,. They have been self. Innocence, peace and trusting haunted by the mirages of “hope de- confidence in the parents who love | férred.” They are weary of its il- and protect them are the portion lusive p}easures. which they chase of happy children, and they leave|3% 3 child chases a butterfly, only all care to those who love them.|t0 See it far beyond, or, if haply he Even so in spiritual childhood; no|%¢ize 1!,' in his joy of capture he one truly enters into the things of | °PeRS his hand to find the beautiful God—into His intelligence, His wis-|Wings crushed, the life fluttering, dom, His love, joy and peace—save and the creature, which was a thing through a childlike spirit—a feeling| Of beauty, becomes a lifeless mock- s great all-presence, all-pow- | €T¥ of his pursuit. er, all-might and all-love for His children. Realizing the weakness of human concepts, Solomon said, Over this tempestuous sea of mor- tal thought birds of false hope are ’| ever singing of a haven of .rest, which is never reached, and the song misleads, till mortals are lured into the quicksands of disease. Wrecked and helpless they are I do not ask|swept away, lost in the malestrom how to go out or come in.” The plea, I cannot go alone. 10 see . of belief of life and intelligence in The distant scene—one step enough for | matter. We have dreamed in the me." darkness of material sense, and Cecasing to depend upon personal | only now are awaking to our reali- his consciousness and revealed all[self, and depending entirely upon|ty, and are apprehending that this things to his understanding. He|the divine Mind, God's wisdom and | matter-dream is but an illusion loved God, good, and in Gibeon—the lintelligence stills the activity of hu- ! which avails nothing. We have t man thought—that ccascless whirl bowed to strangs Gods, Mortal ; B all” Infinite Mind expresses an controls all ideas composing the universe. From the limitless, inex- haustible resources of Mind, Spirit, or understanding, earth and heaven proceed and are manifest. Mind’s ideas see, feel hear, taste and smell. ist says, “O taste and see that the Lord [Mind, God] is good.” Trust in Mind, not in matter. Be led by God, Mind, Spirit, the creative Prin- ciple, Life, Truth, Love and lean not Solomon said to his son: In all thy ways acknowledge “Him [God], and He shall direct thy paths. So shall thy barns be filled with plenty . Hap- py is the man that findeth wis- dom, and the man that getteth understanding. . . . s 1s more precious than rubies; and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand riches and hon- or. Her ways are ways of pleas- antness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her. and happy is every one that retaineth her . . . keep sound wisdom and discretion. . . . Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble. “Thy foot shall not stumble.” What a promise! It is equivalent to saying, All that thou dost under- take thou shalt accomplish. In the understanding of the power of the Christ-mind. governed by Life, Truth apd Love, our ways are pleasant, and our paths are peace! There is length of days in the Life thought, and longevity is increased by the reflection of Truth and Love, the eternal Principle of being. From the real, the divine Principle, Life, Love and Truth, the Christ-mind, Solomon brought forth the treas- ures of wisdom and understanding. The expression of harmonious in- telligence and its creations was variously manifested in silver and gold, wood and stone, brass and iron. His barns were indeed filled with plenty. He proved that “no good thing does God withhold from them that walk uprightly—love Him—trust Him. David, his Father, had pre- pared much of the way for his son, but it required peace and not con- flict to build for God. During the war of the material senses David had conquered many enemies, doubts and fears, self-love, self-will and self-righteousness. He had not recognized his pride of human knowledge and limited human re- sources till God’s wisdom and pow- er shone into his consciousness and he perceived the inexhaustible wealth of divine Mind. Visions of the universe and its treasures, which in the tumult of victory over the material senses he had not been able to utilize, dawned upon him amd he left the work to Solomon upon condition that he should walk in the statutes-of God. So long as all phenomena of ilumination of Mind and its possi- 1(hc Scripture as the Queen of She- The Pszlm-’ ba, came to his consciousness to re- to belief in a so-called mortal mind. | P’ they reflect the Mind which includes | S0nal sense, pride of acquisition and d vanity of his marvelous possessions had dazed him, and he turned from his reliance upon God to material sense, which prevented the greater bilities. Divine Love, represented in veal her infinite riches and power, beyond all that Solomon had here- tofore conceived. But, weighed in the balance, Solomon was found wanting and She vanished from his ence. He was tergpted by pride of place and power and dropped back into the world of material sense. Divine wisdom fled, leaving him with his material carnal senses to create their false illusive phe- nomena, which should turn to dust and ashes at his touch. The so- called carnal mind is composed of fears, a spectral band—of doubts, anxiety, sickness, sorrow and death. All its conceptions are phantoms, unreal and fleeting. Humanity must turn from the mortal sense of life in matter to the understanding of life in Mind and there abide, if it would continue to receive God's blessings. If cause is right the right effect will follow. Mortals must dis- continue false thinking, which evolves discord and death. These are dreams which, as mortals awake to Truth, wisdom and understand- ing destroy. At first, Solomon asked for wis- dom to judge between good and bad, and God governed his thought. A harmonious cause produces a har- monious effect. Thought is force. Spiritual thought is a dynamic force carrying life and love into human hearts. Mind is the creative Prin- ciple, the supreme, divine intelli- gence. There is but one Mind, or cause, God. This is the fountain of eternal Life. Wisdom and understanding pro- ceed from the Christ-mind, and spir- itual man is a reflection of God, made in His own image and like- ness, with dominion over all things. Jesus the Christ realized his one- ness with the Father, and said of his disciples that “they may be one [with the Father], as we are.” He exercised his God thought and knew that there was no intelligence, life or power in matter. He took do- minion over the lie, and destroyed the works of error—sin, sickness and death. As wisdom or spiritual thought appeared to Solomon with her riches of infinite beauty, power and glory, which were diviner concep- tions than had yet been revealed to him, so she appeared to Jesus, and he testified, “The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it,” (Matt. xii, 42). Paul wrote: “For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent . hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?” Divine wisdom, Christian Science, has revealed to the nineteenth cen- tury -her riches of Life, Love and " v The ancients worshipped gods of wood and stone. Moderns worship matter. Scholastic theology has taught for centuries that Adam is the real man, with life and intelli- gence. Materia medica has vainly striven to preserve that belief of life in matter, and to treat non-intelli- gent matter, only to yield to inevit- able defeat and death. Since time began, mortals have been experimenting with Adam, and the world has lavished its resources upon material theology and materia medica, to aid them in solving the problem of life in matter. Adam has been studied under the keenest microscope of mental and physical analysis and the verdict is the same as in the days of prophets and apostles. “In Adam all die.” Illu- sions are not permanent. They come and go like the wind which “bloweth where it listeth, and thou canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth.” So are the creations of the Adam- dream. 4 There is no life in the shadow, which vanishes in the light. It is now that we are listening to the voice of wisdom. “A crown of glory shall she deliver to thee . . . Take fast hold of instruction for she is thy life” (Proverbs iv., 9, 13). We are now learning the power of Mind and that thoughts are things and things are thoughts. Now we are learning the cause of sickness, diseord and death. The Christ-mind is wisdom and under- standing—it is health and harmony. The carnal mind is the lie, and from it proceed envy, jealousy, pride, am- bition, lust, hatred, deception, and fear, which cause disease and death, all of which are beliefs—nothing- ness. Christ Jesus said of the carnal mind: “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a fiar, and the father of it.” (John 44). These forces, if believed and yielded to, evolve a discordant body and a discordant universe. At first Solomon asked to be con- trolled by the Christ-mind, and the result was harmony in all his under- takings. When building his house upon Mount Zion, and the house of the Lord upon Mount Moriah, the way was covered through which he walked in going from one to the other. Under the protection of wis- dom, or leaning upon the strong arm of the Infinite, divine Love| covers us with her feathers. Spir- itual sense is a repelling force to the fleshly mind. Enveloped in a| halo of light and love, evil cannot reach us. As the light of the sun dispels the darkness, so does the God-thought, Life, Love and Truth, destroy sin, sickness and death, the illusions of corporeal sense. Through the understanding that Mind is the creative power, and that God is our life, we are uncov- ering the false belief of life in mat- ter which has so long deceived us. It is now that we pray to be gov- erned By divine Mind or wisdom, and we are demonstrating the pow- er of spiritual thought-force over the belief of evil. We now under- stand the cause of disease in the body, discord in the home, chaos in business, tidal waves and fires in the universe, and all the phenomena which are caused by the mortal be- lief in two powers, good and evil. Evil thoughts are destructive forces. They have been hidden till wisdom threw the light of Truth upon the lie. We now know that spiritual love nullifies their claim to power—"“Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord”"—good. Edison, in an article upon the danger of electricity, says: “In- sulated wires are not safe if put un- derground. They are more danger- ous on account of the gases which will force themselves into houses through any opening, and they are only safe when exposed. Then they lose their death-dealing power.” How true of evil! Science, the understanding of the supremacy of the Christ-mind, has exposed the cause of sickness and death, and found it to be carnal mind, the lie which has deceived the whole world. Truth uncovers error in this age, and the lie, ex= posed, has lost its destructive pow- er. “THere is nothing covered that shall not be revealed.” When man learns his mental spir- become his step! When he realizes that he has been holding in his thought vipers, which have stung him, and has borne the burden of disease and discord in his body, in his business, in the universe, work- ing out the problems of fear and uncertainity, only to terminate in death—when, I say, he awakes from his Adim-dream and Jearns that the cause of all his suffering was a false sense, he will turn to his Christ- mind and redeem his health, joy and peace, a harmonious body and a harmonious universe. We have been taught to submit to all things, good or bad, as sent from God as reward or discipline. Today the fettered mind is freeing itself and the Te Deum ascends from the emancipated. We shall no longer live as slaves. We were free-born. Let us stand guard at the portal of thought. To the approaching mental messenger let us demand, “Who comes there?” If it be Christ, Truth, we will open the door to the angel visitant, Life and Love. If it be the belief of sensation in mat- ter, with its various illusions of pain or pleasure, its falsities and evil thoughts, fears, malice and the car- nal forces that create discord and disease, we will bid them depart. We will assert our freedom, our Christ-mind power, and prove the supremacy of our God-thought. r ! ‘Why should we yield to sickness more than to sin? Why should death be the “king of terrors” when it is admitted to be “the wages of sin?” If one does not take poison, one does not suffer from its effects. -| If one does not commit a crime, one need not fear the prison. If one ceases to sin, one does not meet sin’s penalty. When will humanity cease sinning, or believing that there is life in matter? When will humanity understand that life is in the Christ-mind? Finally, God will be understoad as governing man, and from wisdom we shall evolve health, harmony, riches, honor, for “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof,” and the Scripture declares, “Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.” We must realize that mow we are spiritual, that now we are in eterni- ty and that mow God will reveal His life, His love, His truth, His wisdom, His marvelous riches, His ever-presence and power, for God is All, omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. Like light illuminating a room filled with costly treasures, which in the darkness. we had not seen, so the light of understanding, God’s intelligence, will work through hu- i|man consciousness, revealing the treasures of earth, air and sea. Mind creates Wisdom and under- standing brought forth Solomon’s riches, honor and glory. Turning from Mind, or God, to matter, or sin, he brought forth sorrow, dis- cord, disease and death—the effects of mortal belief of life in matter. ‘Wisdom puts forth her voice to- day: “Unto you, O man, I call; . . O ye simple, understand wisdom.” I am Truth, I am Mind. “For wisdom is better than rubies; . . By me kings reign, 5 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteous- ness. . . . That I may cause those that love me to inherit sub- stance; and I will fill their treas- ures” (Proverbs viii:). The tunder- standing of the supremacy of Mind and the allness of God is wisdom. It is understanding to know and realize that matter has no life, sub- stance nor intelligence, and that a false_sense, which is expressed in seeming sin, is illusion, sickness and death. Let- us choose Mind, and permit God to govern our ¢ it D Let us accept the riches of His uni- verse as a sequence, thanking Him for His loving protection and mani- fold blessings. Let us praise Him as the lilies of the field praise Him, and as the heavens and the earth declare His goodness. Let us guard the portal of our thought as we guard our material treasures. Bolts, bars and watch- men protect the bank and the ware- house. Gold and silver, stocks and bonds find a receptacle behind the massive iron door of the safe, whose intricate combination lock resists the midnight robber. The mansion in which are man’s dearest treas- ures is made impervious to thieves and supplied with electric burglar alarms. The greater the riches, the more uneasy lies the head. Ah! mankind has sought out many in- ventions to protect the mortal body and material possessions, but has left the portal of thought wide open for error to enter and govern his house. A man’s “foes shall be they of his own household.” Fear, doubt, envy, jealousy, pride, licentiousness, seli- love, and personal ambition are the Christian | false forces that are included in the belicf_of life in matter. They pur- sue him till they bind the strong man and cast him into prison, or the Ihelpleusness of disease, until he has paid the uttermost farthing. Ewil thopzhls are held in consciousness, which_are as fatal as the dagger, the midnight assassin, or the poison of the serpent. Wisdom uncovers error. Christian Scientists are expelling mental ene- mies from human thought, and are barring their mental doors against |the subtle claims of evil. Wisdom itual dominion, how buoyant will }is condemning this generation and is revealing the hidden mysteries of God. Truth is uncovering error and showing its illusion. “Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God [divine Mind] made foolish the wisdom of this world?” Human wisdom has la- bored for naught, and must yield to the divine. Today Christian Science is operating in human thought as leaven operates in meal. Mortals, by the force of Truth, are today unconsciously shaping their creed at the forge of thought. “Truth’s mighty arguments shall roll down. inland mountain town.” From to seaboard The altar is only awaiting the hour when all men shall know God. be one royal brotherhood, and one Church made free by Love, which is the law of God. Material thought is being destroyed by Christian Science, that the temple of God— spiritual consciousness—may be re- vealed. Each in his or her con- sciousness is gradually overcoming false sense. 2 It is said by some that Christian Scientists are doing nothing. When the hour strikes, and the shout of victory goes up, the walls of Jer- icho will fall. Truth is a silent, dis- integrating force. It is eating into old theories and_traditional dog- mas, and is casting error to the surface, that it may be destroyed. Error resists Truth, as Truth’s po- tent presence threatens to over- throw error’s strongholds. The cry of the unbeliever attracts the ear. “Hate and malice and self-love mar ‘The notes of triumph with painful jar.” Today genuine Christian Scien- tists, those who follow the teach- ings and emulate the example of Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy, beheld the bow of fruition. They are realizing “the peace of God for the world’s annoy.” “Beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness” (Isaiah Ixi., 3). “All the foregleams of wisdom in santon and sage. In prophet and priest, are our true heri- tage” Like children, let us look to our loving Father-Mother God, to lead us in the way of wisdom and under- standing, which reveals a perfect Principle and a perfect universe, composed of infinite ideas, all gov- _errncg by eternal Life, Love and ruth. The following books, written by _Augusta E. Stetson are published by G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS 2 West 45th Street, New York City; Reminiscences, Sermons, and Correspondence. * % Vital Issues in Christian Science. * = My Spiritual Aeroplane. * % Poems.