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ADVERTISEMENT. ADVERTISEMENT. The Selc And God said, Let there be light: and there ‘was Light—Genesis 1., 3. SR ond Comin *{man, Christ, Truth, meets many to-| day-at the matérial well; the belief THE of e Y STAR, J ADVERTISEMENT. ADVERTISEMENT. By AUGUSTA E. STETSON, C. S. D. ‘ The ever-present, etérnaf; “ideal] strated, when' understood. Christ Jesus proved his sonship with the Father, .and = demonstrated his. “dominion” over the belief of death, greed, personal aggrandizement and fear. Each so-called carnal thought exercises. its control over mortals, producing discord and disease. I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall k life—CHRIST JESUS. Jokn vis., 12. And if I go and prepare tion.—Hebrews ix., 28. And we know that the Son Jesus Christ—I. John tion is Immanuel, or God EDDY. Science and Health, with Key to the Scrif- tures. p. 34. There is but one way to heaven, harmony, and Christ in divine Science shows us this way. It is to know no other reality—to have no other consciousness of life—than good, God and His reflection, and to rise superior to the so-called pain and pleasure of the —MARY BAKER EDDY. Science and Hedlth, . 242. Entirely separate from material living is the Life understanding and the consciousness of man's domin- ion over the whole earth. —MARY BAKER EDDY. O-DAY the material world is experiencing the greatest revolution in thought, that has ever been witnessed by human- ity. The traditional religion of our ancestors, with its time-honored creeds and rituals, before which all have bowed, as béing unquestionable n vital conception and strength, and to lead man to the divine source eternal Life, this traditional re- to-day is publicly questioned, by many privately denounced. e sncient cveeds and doctrines said to be wanting in spiritual ,» which is necessary to meet destroy the seeming force of that appears to control mor- and from which they are strug- ing to free themselves. i 5 In this age, the spiritually inspired ve turned from a dead faith and undemonstrable creed to a living, lever-present Christ, and are asking: ‘we been 90 deep in the Adam- that we are only now able to the whisper of ever-present s again asking: “Have I been Jong time with you, and yet hast not known me, Philip?” (John ) " As the potency of the Christ-mind ifeaches humanity, illuminating the Tpudd with its radiance, revealing | nothingness of all material con- licepts, men discern the spirit of {rath — “the Comforter™ — the ‘hmpermal Saviour, the “Sun of Irighteousness,” who comes with ‘pealinx in his wings, heralding the promised millennial day. As man- kind awakes from the mesmeric sleep of the Adam-dream, the belief of life, substance and intelligence in mmatter, in which “all die,” to the ficonsciousness of the allness of their ¥ Christ-mind, their divine individual- ity, in which all are “made alive”— as they begin to apprehend the all- ness of God, the supremacy of the I'divine Mind, the omnipotence of [Love, Life, and Truth, and their /eternal oneness with the Principle jof being, they come forth from immong the sleepers and send to the fdreanun. who are deceived by the supposed pleasures and pains of ‘matter, the divine message: “Now §iis come salvation, and strength, and ithe kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ” (Revelation xii, 10) The awakened have seen the “star in the East,” which ushers in the Christ-mind power, with i which God endowed man, and are ‘.umla‘ from the East and from the i} again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also—CHRIST JESUS. Johkn xiv., 3. Unto them that look for him (the ideal man, Christ) shall he appear the second time without sin unto salva- hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true. and we are in him that is true, even in his If Christ, Truth, has come to us in demonstration, no other commemoration is requisite, for demonstra- of life and- intelligéncerin . matter “|and’ miaterial generdtion, and finds 2 light of waters, as their fathers. did-before them. He s$peaks to them mentall as he spoke to the woman audibly, “Ye worship ye know not what,” for not in the mountain or mortal thought, nor in the bélief of life and intelligence in matter, do ye find the a place for you, I will come derstanding that man'is sgn'rilual. an. emanatign’ of Life and’ Love, . the creative Principle “of -;being. God ‘Imade man “in His own image” and: gave him “dominion over all the earth:” (Genesis i, 26). ~ ~ Son of God is:come, and For generations. mortal§ have lived in the material senses, the be- lief that sight is in the eye, hearing in the ‘ear, sensation in nerve, "and intelligence in’ brain, gray matter. They have continued fo evolve a material generation, which ends-in death. They have accepted the tes- timony of the material senses, be- lieving in error’s illusions, expressed in the phenomena of sin, sickness and death, which represent a mor- tal as a foam-crested wave that rises for a moment, and then is for- ever gone—lost in the immensity of the great unknown. While the war- ring, mental elements of the so- called carnal senses have furiously raged, as expressed by the Psalm- ist, “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?”"— humanity has suffered- from con- stant care and incessant watch, lest life be destroyed. Mortals have agonized with doubts and uncertain- ties, that fill them with dismay, from the ' moment they enter upon the stage of human responsibility to the hour when they .make their exit, having had nothing to satisfy their immortal yearnings for the love, rest and peace, in the infinite Fath- erhood of God, who is Life and Love, the source of man’s eternal sonship. v, 20. with us—MARY BAKER the belief and dream of divine, revealing spiritual Science and Health, $. 14. West, from the North and from the y This has been the condition of hu- manity, since the so-called lying, talking serpent, Satan, first de- ceived, with the illusipn that matter 5 S5 was sentient substance, possessing will toward men.” (Isaian ii; 14.) |life and jntelligence. This theory “The government shall be upon his]h‘s{“’e"“ p’;_“fhlcd f°; ages by the 3 professing diciples of Christ, who shoulder; and his name shall be|have themselves been' deceived. by called Wonderful. Counsellor, The |the siren, mental argument of the . subtle lie, the so-called carnal mind mi : E S : ‘M’G"d‘ The ‘everlask,u? F‘”{"‘ until these blind disciples have lalled The Prince of Peace” (Isaiahfall into the deep sleep of Adam. ix, 6) “For'as-in Adax? _[mat"grial sense] ; all die,. even so in Christ [spiritual The present reign of terror—sin, sens.e) .?hall all be l'n!de. alive.” (1. suffering, sorrow and death—shall Corm':huns SEr o > premise has_resulted in erroneous cease to govern humanity, for man conclisions. B will claim his divine birthright—| e, Love, peace and joy, the fruits t}{s mestal orthe episttusl mde South, chanting again the angelic “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good salutation: Instead of fcc’t’)gm’zing the real, them drinking., of. its ~materiallstowed.upon man, whom He made Father, but in Spirit, or. in the un-) —the “dominion” which God be- Truth arouses humanity to the spiritual fact of scientific being, and convinces the seeker for eternal Life that a discordant body and a dis- cordant universe are the result of dreams, hallucinations, creations of the: so-called carnal mind. Thus Truth bids man take possession of his birthright, his spiritual senses, which give him “dominion” over all things, through the reflection of Truth and Love, Spirit, Mind, which dispels the mythical gods, that pre- side over the shadow,—death. in His own “image” and “likeness.” (Genesis i, 23). The truth of scientific being, as taught by Christ Jesus, and in this age by Mary Baker Eddy; is the understanding of the supremacy of divine Mind. Truth is working through universal consciousness, stirring the claim of evil to the sur- faze. The foam and fury of illegiti- mate living and of fearful and doleful dying should disappear on the sHore of time; then the waves of sin, sorrow, and death beat in vain—Mary Baker Eddy (Science and Health, p. 203). Truth is soaring on pinions of fight and love, fulfilling her mission of purifying arid uplifting the great world of humanity, She is destroy- ing the hallucinations, which be- cloud the reality of man’s true be- ing, his oneness with his creator. The understanding of the Science of !being. or divine metaphysics, called by Mrs. Eddy “spiritual mathema- tics,” is inspiring this generation with higher ideals. It is moving men to holier aspirations, and to the contemplation of their oneness with creative Principle, eternal Life and Love,—God. Mind, Spirit, operating through the ideal man, bursts the bonds of finite sense and reveals the glories of infinite Mind, the supreme intelli- gence, in whom “we live, and move, and have our being.” This is to dwell “in the secret place of the most High,” and to abide “under the shadow of the Almighty.” (Psalm D) the scribes and Pharisees were wor- To those whose life, is “hid withlsh;ppus i e Christ in God,” verily “the Son of | perpetuated a material generation. God is come,” and gives the under- | Their blindness to the spiritual facts standing that Life is eternal, ‘“dloi being and spiritual generation Gr6 s © dumeel. 'hid from them their divine birth- In this l'wur, humamt‘y 1sAmectmg right, or power to obtain harmony, the question, “By which influence health, holiness and immortality. are you governed, by Truth or by error, by the spiritual senses, or by | Dear reader, are you pained as material sense—for ‘as a man think- | you recall the cruelty of the unbe- eth in his heart so is he’?” The|lieving Jews toward your Saviour. humble Nazarene, whom all Chris-|at his first appearing, who, today, tians in this era profess to follow, | you acknowledge showed the world denounced the false thought, the so- | the way to Life eternal, by his vie- called carnal mind, which results in | tory over death and the grave? As sin and death, and declared he came | you recount his good works in heal- to destroy the works of the devil.|ing the sick and raising the dead, He further pronounced this devil a{do you understand why the mate- lie from the beginning. “He [so-|rialists rose in arms against him? called carnal mind] was a murderer | As you recall his sweat of agony in from the beginning, and abode not Gethsemane, as you follow him up in the truth, because there is no|the hill of Calvary, where he en- At his first appearing, Jesus the Christ, the masculine representative of the Fatherhood of God, was the best exponent of Christian Mind- healing the world had ever known. and taught his disciples to do the same. Yet for all his loving minis- trations and good works, he re- ceived the crown of thorns, the gall and vinegar, and the cruel cruci- fixion. Why had he none to defend him but a few disciples, who slum- bered while he prayed, and who at last left him to tread the winepress temple and synagogue when he spoke, and rejoice his heart with a recognition of the Truth, which sets men free, and with loving apprecia- tion of his unselfed efforts to bless mankind? Why was he left to be delivered up to the cruel material- ists and scourged? It was because he testified against the carnal mind, and possessed the spiritual power to ovrcome its hallucinations of sin, sorrow and death. He knew that is a liar, and the father of it.” (John | elief in a power opposed to eternal |of the twentieth century, and “to|tion and Introspection, p. 24) As|God’s image and likeness there is but one great First cause, | revealed. NUARY 16, 1921_PART 2. t, the So He healed the sick, forgave thelof Christ Jesus with Principle, penitent sinner, opened the eyes of {and followed the ex ! the blind, turned sorrow into joy,|Saviour in his demonstrations o 1 i | ADVERTISEMENT. ADVERTISEMENT. ADVERTISEMENT. What reception has humanity given him in this twentieth cen- tury? Do not some, as of old, re- fuse to believe in the power of the Christ-mind, while others strive to attain it? Do the majority not say as of yore, “We will not have this man to reign over us?” (Luke xix., 14). Again, do we not hear, “Cruci- fy him?” Is not the suppositional carnal mind in this hour rising against Truth, and declaring for life in matter and the reality of sin, sickness and death? @At Christ’s second appearing, Truth and Love will finally roll back the stone from the tomb of belief of matter as sen- tient substance, and appear to the world, victorious over the illusion of death and the grave; for “man is nmot material; he is spiritual.” (Mary Baker Eddy). Had the world accepted the teach- ings and atonement—at-one-ment— God, ample of oug f Mind over matter, of Truth over error, and of Life over death, hu- manity would realize today, that the creator of man, the divine Mind, could not be the author of this seemingly chaotic and turbulent uni- verse, which controls mortals with | its own erratic, ungovernable claim! to power, leaving them trembling alone? Why did not crowds fill the | with fear and suffering, sorrow and darkness, and mocking them, when they resist its arrogant domination. In that surpassing life of Jesus of Nazareth, men have recognized the supremacy of divine Love, in the man of God’s creating. a revelation of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, or divine Science, wisdom and un- derstanding. Notwithstanding the resistance of the carnal mind to the demonstration of Christ Jesus, the relation of man to his maker, as taught by the Nazarene phophet, Christ, the ideal man, and in this age by Mary Baker Eddy, the fem- inine representative of the Mother- hood of God, whose demonstration is imminent—the understanding of this relation has exerted a deeper influence over mankind and has done more to teach the power of Truth over error, Life over death, and the healing efficacy of divine Love, than all the disquisitions of philosophers or exhortations of moralists the world has ever known. Christ declared, “Heaven and earth shall pass away; but my words shall not pass away.” (Mark xiii, 31). The “word” is God’s ideal man, who voices eternal Life and Love, the Fatherhood and Motherhood of God. The ideal man, the representative nipotence of God, good, which will destroy the phenomena of the so- called carnal mind,—sin and death. Love, reflected by each individual idea of God, will cast out fear, will destroy the false material genera- tion, and will reveal the universe and man of Mind’s creating, for there is but one God and one uni- verse. In this era of awakened spiritual consciousness, the Christian world believes that God, at different times, was heard through prophets, seers, Christ Jesus and his disciples, and it denounces all who oppose this be- lief. God spoke through Abraham, and directed him to lead the peo- ple; but the majority in Abraham’s day refused to follow. God spoke through Moses, but Pharoah and his hosts would not obey the voice of God through Moses. Samuel, Joshua, Daniel and all the prophets uttered Truth. God, as of yore, continues to voice Himself through the consciousness of the men and women of the twentieth century, who obey His law in the under- standing of their relation to Him, as sons and daughters. As God is ever-present, Life, Love, Truth and Light, the light is di: pelling the darkness of material concepts. Men and women of to- day who have discerned the Science of being, namely, that “Spirit is in-, finite; therefore Spirit is all| ‘There is no matter’”—Mary Baker Eddy)—these are demonstrating the protecting power and sustaining presence of Christ, and are fulfilling the law of Love. These are known by “signs following.” ! 1 l “Ah! the light of the Mind shines as bright as of old, A type of the truly divine. And its Word is the same sacred | Truth that was told ‘To the seers of Israel’s time. “And man, to-day, must he aimlessly wander alone, In darkness without and within, Uncertain, an outcast, bewildered to roam, Left hopelessly cumbered with sin? “Must he still look for wonders through dead sages’ eyes, Distrusting the light of his own, Ere his Saviour can come, in true Fatherly guise. And take the lost prodigal home? “Oh! the power of Mind awakes us to-day. And we know-the bright message is true, For it works as of old, in a mar- vellous way Forever revealing the new.” of God, Is Imminent < 15) The truth that Jesus taught and demonstrated sets mortals free from the bondage of sin and death. Mary Baker Eddy ‘discerned the Science of eternal being, in the teachings and demonstrations of Christ Jesus, which resulted in his victory over sin and death. As Christ Jesus demonstrated his teachings in his triumph over the claim of death, so will Mary Baker Eddy prove the power of the Christ- mind in demonstration of her divine individuality. Paul said. “Unto thep that look for him [the ideal man] shall he appear the second time.” (Hebrews ix., 28.) [ In Miscellany, page 297, Mrs. Eddy declares, “There is no death.” Speaking of one of her students, she says: There Is No Death. A suppositional gust of evil in this evil world is the dark hour that precedes the dawn. This’ gust blows away the baubles of belief, for there is in reality no. evil, no_disease, no death; and the Christian Scientist who be- lieves that he dies, gains a rich blessing of disbelief in death, and a higher realization of heaven. My beloved Edward A. Kim- ball, whose clear, correct teach-. ing of Christian Science has been and is an inspiration to the whole field, is here now as veritably as when he visited me a year ago. we would awaken to this recognition, we should see him here and realize that he never died; thus dem- onstrating the fundamental truth of Christian Science. MARY BAKER EDDY. All must follow Christ Jesus’ teachings and finally overcome “the last enemy.” Not somewhere in the dim unknown, but here and mow mankind must attain to a realiza- tion of spiritual existence. Hu- manity will gradually be lifted to a# spiritual altitude, and will demon- strate the power of the Christ-mind. However tempted and tried, the pioneers of Christian Science will hear the constant assurance from the Father-Mother God. “Fear not, for I am with thee.” The influence of this “gentle presence” gives i “peace, and joy, and power.” (Mary Baker Eddy.) To-day the resist- iess ever-present Christ, or Truth, is sweeping through human -con- sciousness, destroying sin and death and revealing man as perfect and immortal, with “dominion over all things.” s 2 Genuine Christian Scientists, who follow the teachings of Christ Jesus 1 ’ This is indeed an age of unparal- |and Mary Baker Eddy, are awaken- leled development of Mind and its |ing to the realization of their one- « possibilities. Mankind is accepting | ness with God. The objects of mia- of the Fathrhood and Motherhood {the spiritual fact, that “all causa- |terial sense are shadows, without truth in him. When he speaketh a {dured the tortures of the Inquisi- {of God, the compound idea, is un.[tion was Mind, and every effect a|substance. Looking through spirit- lie, he ‘speaketh of his own: for he|tion. in his efforts to overcome the | derstood by the disciples of Christ viii, 44). Christ Jesus’ earth mis- Life and Love, can you believe that | them that look for him, shall he ap- sion was t6 arouse humanity from |the carnal mind holds within itself | pear the second time without sin O e : Yoz the influence of this lie, or Adam-|Such bitter hatred of Truth's ex-|([fleshly embodiment] unto salva-|is the reflection, in infinite ideas,|who appeared to him where sinning of flf‘ Spirit. The mighty God, the | oho was made in God’s own “image” omnipotent creator, the infinite, su-|and “likeness,” Spirit, “the same preme intelligence, ‘eternal Life, | yesterday, and today, and forever,” . The following hooks, written. by Angusta: E, Stztoen €. Dy:are published by G, P, Putuaiy’ Love, and Truth, shall be r‘e;eagni:ed mortals have been governed by the and accepted as the great’ First 1 opposite AOl Tru'tlp—the goscalled o + 1 > carnal mind, which testifies that cause, the only real power, the onlly | Agam is the real man. Mind, Spirit, reality of being, the source and supsi God, is causation, the creative pow- ply of man’s existence. Since man-{er, and there is but one‘creator and kind first acknowledged a Supreme.' one real. creation, God and His spir- Being, whom they called God, ever ih.::.l umvers_e: com?o_get_i of spiritu- since the first chant of the creeds- },‘,;;m e Las ’,,,,'Z man and ritualist ascended in praise |namena that are real, and eternal. to the omnipotent, omniscient, and | Man is not material He is a mental, omnipresent Father, whom they ac- |ispiritual, substance-idea, the reflec- cepted as the source of life and in- #5100 of eternal U“ 2adLove. named telligence, they have proclaimed: God. ONE theory and practised anothey.] Moses sang: “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord.” . The Hebrew bard swept his Iyre £6 the same melody; and on through the ages the God-inspired have voiced Truth, till Jesus the Christ appeared, demonstrating the words of Moses: “The Lord He is God; there is none else beside Him.” Christ Jesus recognized the real, or the ‘spiritual, mental man, who was made in God’s ewn “image and likeness,” [Spirit], “the same yester- day, and today and forever.” In this -age, Mary Baker'-Eddy dis- cerned the spiritual fact of scientific being as taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus, and recorded the eternal Truth in -her book, Science and Health With Key to the Scrip- tures, the textbook . of Christian Science, She says on page 107: In the year 1866 I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery- Christian Science. God Had been gracious- ly preparing me -during many years for the reception of this final revelation of the absolute divine Principle of scientific mental healing. This apadictical Principle points to the revelation of Immanuel, “God with . us,"—the sovereign ever-presence, delivering the chil- dren-of men from every 1l “that flesh is heir to.” Thraugh Chris- tian, Scignce, religion.and medi- - cine ‘ave -inspired with.a: diviner nature and essence; fresh pin- ions are given to faith and un-~ derstanding, and thoughts ac- 4qv_alnt themselves intelligently ‘with God. Today the voice of the ever-pres- ent Christ is arousing humanity 'to resist the claim of 2 power opposed to Life and Love, God. The potency of the Christ-mind, which is man's ‘spiritual -identity, esn- bt demon- At Christ’s FIRST appearing in the flesh humanity was worshipping other gods and bowing down to idols. Mortals were calling upon God with the lip, while believing in another power, the power of sup- positional evil, which testifics of life in matter. To-day, at His SECOND coming, Christ, Truth, the ideal mm. invisible to finite sense, finds man- kind bowing to a pseudo power, or’ god, even as at his FIRST coming, he found the woman at the well, who said: “Qur fathers worshipped in this mountdin; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men'| ought to worship. Jesus saith unto |- her, “Woman, believe ‘me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalemy: worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what: ¢ . . God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth” (John iw, 20-24) A >l dream of life and intelligence in|Ponent of God and His ideal man? | tjon,” but with spiritual embodi- matter, to the truth of being, Mind, | D0 you not feel that had you been jment, or the image and likeness of Spirit, God, and man as God's idea | there, you would not have forsaken| God. This is the coming of “The or child. He healed the sick, cast|Your Saviour? It was indeed a bat-'King of kings, and Lord of lords,” out evils, and raised the dead, with | tl¢ royal between Christ and the force, with which God endowed man. Of the woman who was help- hera.lds the advent of the on-coming less, he said that Satan had bound f:;:t;‘:; :::::ni:‘“"f:’ ‘nd,t"‘f' : » , 'y wil unite in l(‘z‘;keu:;'ii.,tll;fe Cighiceniiyeare the prayer, “Our Father which art TAE by in.heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. T theologians had followed Christ [ Thy kingdom come. Thy will be Jesus’ example, and had rendered!done in earth, as it is in heaven.” “unto Caesar the things that are|(Matthew vi, 9-10). “Thy Kingdom Caesar’s, and unto God the things | 15 Come."—Mary Baker Eddy. that are God's,” humanity would ; i have resisted the fetters that have ag::;::‘:;;-‘a;;‘:}:’;;o n;: bound all to sin and death. How | yio tyentieth century, again the miuch we might have escaped of the spirit of Truth—Christ, the divine sin of idolatry, of self-love, of self- idea—through the te’achings of ishness, personal - pride, malice, Christian Science, appears to us. hatred, resentment, revenge, envy, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer. jealousy, - the result of which ‘is| ;4 ‘Founder of Christian Science, physical and mental suffering—how | o< inspired by God to search the much agony we would have been Scriptures that she might find eter- ’-?‘"d- had we understgod our refa-1, . T ife The light of spiritual un- tion to God, and the falsity of the derstanding revealed to her the belicf of life in blood, sensation in{g ien e of Christ Jesus® power over nerves, sight irl the_ eye, hearing in sin and death, and she gave to the the ear, and intelligence in brain, | 4org the facts of scientific being to' which, in the past, we have all|;, ¢he textbook of Christian Scienc yielded, until at times “life seemed Science and Health With Key to ".:' a blessing not wartl.l possessing, and Scriptures, and her other writings, :::::‘ed‘ Sonsummstion :‘f““y o b‘ and like Christ Jesus, she will dem- et P .. .. |onstrate her teachings. In ‘Jesus' age mortals had other 3 0 gods, as now they have. There were Christ J‘,““ was the masculine ‘feathen then,.as .there. are -today. reprgsenhu_ve of the Fatherhood of The words: “Thou shalt have no|G0d- In this age, Mary Baker Ed- other gods before. Me,” mean .the |9Y is the feminine representative of same now as they then meant.|the ,Motherhoof{ of God. Christ, at Christian Scientists declare that “!“‘fl"’f ‘g”“"“" said to his dis- “God §s All” and “There is nonc| P es, “I have u{lny things to say ‘beside Him,” and they labor unceas- un(o"you. butiyecannctibeas !hel:n fagly to-destroy. the belief. in. a| 2%, John xvi, 12). At Christ's power opposed to the one: God—~ '“'.’"“?p""“" thg ‘many things” ternal Life and'Love. - ] which his -early disciples could not s i B Suipl 4 “bear,” his disciples of the twentieth : Humanity will contintié to sin, to) century are able to “bear,” and will suffer and to die, so long as material| defend, up to a final demonstration organization, or the physical body, | over the claim of sin and death. As is regarded as-real—as possessing|Christ Jesus demonstrated to the fife, substance, and intelligence. |world his spiritual power over death, Mortal- '-houzht. so-called, is the | 5o at fis socond coming, represent- generalissimo, the . supreme - com- | ing the Motherhood of God, he will mander iof suppositional evil, and|appear, be' munifest, in a fina! vic- its "material embodiment, which’is |tory, a’triumphant demonstration governed by hatred, -envy, jealonsy, | over the fast enemy—the illgsion of personal pride of place and power, | death. This understanding is lust, self-love, selfishness, love of | Christ's second coming to human nd trust in gold, personal ambition, | apprehension. =1b 5 ARt . f and “the government shall be uopn his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” In this twentieth century, Chris- tian Science has come to us to in- terpret the transcendent spiritual ideal, which was expressed in the life of Christ Jesus, our Way-show- er to eternal Life. In this era, men and women, who have been for years endeavoring to fathom the hidden mysteries of God, that will give them their promised “domin- ion” over all things, which is their divine heritage; who have long spurned the empty forms and dead faith of time-honored creeds and dogmas; who have vainly striven to fathom the depths “of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God,” which Christ Jesus and his disciples utilized to overcome sin, sickness and death—these seekers for a demonstrable Christianity are today resisting theological assump- tions and ecclesiastical pretensions to know God, whom to know right “is life eternal” (John xvii, 3) The twentieth century thinkers are emancipating themselves from the power of a so-called Satan, the lie, which has deceived the whole world —and in this glad hour they rejoice, s the voice of eternal Truth as- sures them that mental slavery and tyrannous human material so-called law is abolished. They are assert- ing their deliverance from sin and death, in the name of the ever- present Christ, the ideal man of God’s creating, the “King of kings, and Lord of lords.” As the power of Mind is nnder-l stood and demonstrated, man will rise to oneness with the Father- Mother God, and will demonstrate the possibilities of man, when gov- erned by God. Mary Baker Eddy says, “whatever is possible to God, is.possible to man, as God's reflec- tion™ (Miscellancous Writings, p. 183). Thus man will respond to in- finite Mind, and be thrilled with spiritual powers, the om- L > 5 mental phenomenon.” -(Retrospec- | ual lens, the reality of all things in will be Mrs. Eddy says: “Jesus 4 eternal Life and Love, the universe | beheld in Science the perfect man, of the Fatberhood and Motherhood | mortal man appears to mortals.” of God. This is the truth of being. | (Science and Health, p. 476.) Having The effulgence of the light, which!.ne God reveals the brotherhood is now shining in darkness, startles humanity, whose eyes have so long gazed into “chaos and old night.” Finally man will refuse to remain in bondage to the tryanny of the so-called material senses, and will turn to the “Sun of righteousness,” and under the protecting rays of Life and Love, will behold and re- flect the smile of God, and realize the love, peace and joy of the Holy Spirit. The hour has arrived. The final conflict between Christ and the dragon is unmistakable. The so- called carnal mind is lurid with the dream of sin, sickness and death. It is as the scorching simoon, which blasts and withers, and is hasten- ing on to seli-destruction. The Christ-mind is as the mountain wind, which invigorates, and reveals man’s eternal oneness with his cre- ator, Life and Love. In this hour, the wise will not use the word impossible. We are reminded of Aristotle’s words, that “I8 is a part of probabilities that many improbable things will hap- pen.” Paul left this evidence of his spiritual understanding of the nothingness of death: “Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?” (Acts xxvi.,, 8) All is Life, there can be no death, and those who seem to have died will finally be revealed in a spiritual embodi- ment, or in the image and likeness of God. Every new discovery, every em- bryo conception, every advance in art or science, every attempt to utilize forces, has been rejected by the incredulous, or by those too ob- tuse to discern progress. In this epoch of the world’s history, every- thing in art and science is being tested. Scholastic theology is be- ing weighed in the balance. It has been found wanting in demonstra- tion of the power and spiritual thought-force over the phenomena of the carnal mind,—fear and death. Paul speaks of “them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.” (Hebrews ii., of man and enables .the Christian |Sciemist to love his neighbor as {himself. In the hush and silence of spiritual communion with God, the source of being, our Father-Mother Life and Love, the great anthem of immortality, attuned .to the chord of Christ, silences all fear, and re- sounds, like the eternal thunders of the deep, this truth,—God and man is one and inseparable; therefore # man is immortal. Spiritual Senses. There's an eye beyond the human, That beboldeth only good, That sees God's vast creation And man's real brotherhood; That looks on things-supernal, Rejoicing in the light ‘Which revealeth perfect Wisdom, Omnipotence and might. ' There's an ear beyond the finite, / Which hears only words of peace, Which lists to sweetest harmonies That never, never sease; Which hears the constant melody Of soul-reviving Life, And nothing knows of finite sense, Ot sin and human strife. There's a sense that tastes the real, And sees that God is good, Whose delights are rare unfoldings Of the blessed Fatherhood; . 4 Whose silent. speech, the thought of God, Expressed in His idea, Has sweetest taste of Life and Love. And never taste of fear. ) There’s a Power, a mighty Presence. Which sustains immortal man, ‘Which he feels is Life etermal, For he knows man ne'er began. Forever with the Father He feeleth joy and rest, Unfoldeth, as the lily On the water’s peaceful breast. There’s a mense beyond the 2xite Which inhales God's atmosphere, And smells the sweet aroma Of Love's flowers ever near; Which wanders in His garden, Drinking in the perfunies rare, And nothing knows of planting, * Of watering, or-of care. * Thus seeing, hearing. taste and smell, And feeling; are divine; And prayers, like censers’ perfumes rise, Then, turning from the mortal, And gaszipg on’the goal, = ‘We lose our finite sense of sels, And find our sense in Soul. 4 \