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now is, whest the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life in Himself; so hath He given to the Son to have life in himself —CHRIST JESUS. (John v, 35, 26.) H He that heareth my word, and believeth on Him that sent me, Vi 34.) - ey - xvil, 3) bt v #7In. the record of nineteen centuries, there are sects many hath everlasting life.—CHRIST JESUS. (John .This is life eternal, that they might know Thee (God, the Principle of being, Mind, Spirit), the only true God, and Jesus Christ (the impersonal idea, the reflector, or the Word of God), whom Thou hast sent—CHRIST JESUS. (John but nét enough Christianity —MARY BAKER EDDY. A higher and more practical Christianity, denionsh’ating justicé and meeting the needs of mortals in sickness ‘and, in health, stands at the door of this age, knocking for ad- mission.~MARY BAKER EDDY. ' “The history of our country, like all history, illustrates’: Legally to abolish unpaid was hard; but the abolition - v e —— the might of Mind, and shows human power to be propor- tionate to its embodjment of right thinking. —MARY BAKER EDDY.- servitude in the United States of mental slavery is a more difficult task —MARY BAKER EDDY. God has built a higher platform of human rights, and . ‘He has built it on diviner claims. These claims are not made . through code or creed, but in demonstration of “on earth . peace, good-will toward men.” Human codes, scholastic theology, material medicine and hygiene, fetter faith and spiritual understanding. Divine Science rends asunder _these fetters, and man’s birthright of sole allegiance to his :Maker asserts itself. ~MARY BAKER EDDY. “Follow me! i2 i Pp. 224227 . Christian Science raises the standard of liberty and cries: Escape from the bondage of sickness, sin and 'death!” Jesus marked out the way. Citizens of the _ waorld, accept the “glorious liberty of the children of God,” - and be free! : This is your divine right. The illusion of ma- - terial sense, not divine law, has bound you, entangled your , “¥ree limbs, crippled your capacities, enfeebled your body, and defaced the tablet of your being—MARY BAKER EDDY.. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, : . The calm, strong currents of true spirituality, the mani- festations of which are health, purity and self-immolation, | , must-deecpen human experience, until the beliefs of material = - i and ¥ RE thq_n'_!_netu,n hqfifi years ago there fived a man, 8 who, to human sense, ap- . pitared like other men; who walked a?nng mortals like others, but who declared he was:the Som of: God. “Fhis man’s life was beyond the re- proach of the strictest moralist. His e’hlhnt_(n‘l'évns were directed to the | relief b‘f suffering’ humanity, to ’t/l_'.chiq"_,the people that God was the oaly source of life and power, “ind that God manifests His power yrough fiu idea or man, who re- fects Life and Love, Spirit, Mind. fie healed all manner of aiune, apened the' eyes of the blind and tl:e ears of the deaf, gave the hand o:f compassionate forgiveness to the Ppenitent sinner, and raised the dead. He wag constantly preaching and teaching' others to proclaim God’s p’:.wer to heal the sick and to cast ait evil thoughts, which cause suf- fbring and so-called death, and so ell did some of his disciples come p understand his method of heal- hg that &_e), too, performed many cwres.: This nian declared, “The ‘*irit of the Lord is upon me, be- 'qause He hath anointed me to |pkeach the gospel to the poor; He /Bath sent me to heal the broken- i arted, to preach deliverance to the _aiptives * . * * to set at liberty " gfln that are bruised.” (Luke ivg ) *In an age when the people were Jmprisoned by the material senses— the belief of life-and intelligence in tter—when they were captives to se and broken-hearted by seem« death—when the gceacher with prayers, and the physician with Nis potion, were unable to relieve Wuman suffering, one would say, what 2 blessing a man endowed with sich healing power must have been! %he people must have rejoiced and loved this public benefactor! WMark records this evidence of in!('j b.g}ling in the following 4 of divine Spirit and to God’s spiritual, perfect man— i MARY BAKER EDDY. (Science and Health, page 99.) e, spiritually interpreted according to the teach- ge to the Adam-dream of sin. sickness. best sermon ever demonstrated by the des! ~ Verilyjwerily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and 30 was "“a very present help in trogble,” but which-assertion they counld not prove? - When' some ackmowledged the mighty works which Jesus the Christ performed, and . the ‘world (% saw the action of spiritual thought- i force, or the power of the Word, with which God endowed-man, and with which-the Master Metaphysi- cian performed the healing, or the destruction of sickness and sin, why fal[fijviqk:_. did not the doctors of divinity and the medical- practitioners unite in &ffarts to establish'the Christ-mind g fzgflflg? “-Instead, they; declared: “We will not have this man to reign _[over us”. (Luke xix, 13y It is strange tha €hrist . Jestis sh mijsundersfood..- Hum enlightened age, recotin of his life and dets atthe resistatice and cruefty of that generation. The clergy re- hearse to listening ears this woeful lack of spiritual discernment, and believe that if they had been: there and had seen his demonstrations over the claim of sin, sickness and death, they would have appreciated his good works and would have fol- lowed him. Let us learn what this man, whose words and works have rung down the ages, was endeavoring to teach the world—what power he wielded good @ :man as " fhe ‘Pharisess’ of old thrist the spiritual idea and the man who lived it out of their synagogues, and re- tained’ their 'materialfistic . bellefs about God, ® '® ¢ Today, as of yore, ‘unconsclous of the reappearing f the “spiritual - ides, biind _belief shuts .the door .upoh it, +a con- demns ‘the cure of the sick and sin- ning ‘if it is wrought-on any but a Ticipating ' this.sejestion ‘oF Tasaliatty . lon of ?! n:f:oaofildu'or o -d ion mal and men- tal-—Toxtls. askedt VWhen the- Son of man cometh, shall ‘he find faith on e earth?”’ = N And also on page 232 we find the In ‘our, nu'cm-unnx?,u again ting the - power ‘of divine did_ ever, nineteen n t undred - years Healing_the elcfi an lfluv:n‘ant Zover guth. Jesus never taught that drugs, food, alr, and. exercise could make a man hedithy, or that they could destroy human 'Jife; nor did he illustrate ertors by his practice. He re- ferred man's harmony to Mind, not .to matter, and never tried to make ofnohe-éffect the sentence of God, ‘which sealed God’s condemnation of siny. sickness and death. This is no longer an age of passive acquiescence in time-honored and undemonstrable theories. The twen- tieth century thinker will not con- tinue to accept traditional forms of worship, which never prove the promise, “If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it,” (Joha xiv., 14) or Paul’s words, “The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” (Romans viii, 2.) Pas- tors and people repeat, year after year, prayers and Christ’s promises, while humanity cries in vain for de- to heal the sick and raise the seem-|j; erance from the bondage of sin, ing dead—and what was the “Word,” for he healed with the Word. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with. God, and.the Word was God.” (John'i, 1) We read that many were brought to Christ Jesus, and he cast out. devils, evil thoughts, and healed them all with the Word. To his disciples he said, “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he: dp also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” (John xiv, 12) Let us sorrow and death. These supplica- tions, reach the depths of human sympathy with their pathetic appeal, “Haye mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David,” (Matthew xv., 22) and with thousands of prayers ascend- ing from those who profess to be Christ’s disciples, humanity surges on past the ¢hurch doors, never en- tering and demanding relief from the suffering to which flesh is heir, and which is offered by the promise, “Ask, and ye shall receive,” nor the Christliness to be expected from Iearn if the Word with which Christ | 4}o5e who profess to obey the com- and his early disciples healed the sick, still exists, and if he has any disciples in this generation, .who understand and practice the Christ- mind-heéaling. Christ Jesus declared, I and my Father are one2:but-“my Father is greater than I ohn X, 30; xiv, 28.) He voiced God, or was the Word, the idea, to ‘reflect and execute the law of eterdal Life and Love, the great First cause, the Principle of béing, the onfipGod. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Eddy, the Discoverer and Foupder of Christian'Sciewrce, teaches'that God - |is - Supreme -Being, - Principle, the By AUGUSTA E. STETSON, C.S.D._ 2 Tk How the home must have befn gladdened with this evidence of the nothingness of the illusion of death. Again, how great must have been his renown, as the paralytic, who had been helpless thirty-eight years, immediately walked! Surely one would say the clergy would en- deavor to learn the secret of his prayer, physicians would investigate the power of his healing, and both would imitate such a man and fol- low him. Jesus had no vices to deter his fol- lewers from walking with him. He was loving, sincere and true. Never in the history of his earth-life was there aught found against him. His was a life of blessing in all that land of Galillee; and yet, incredible as it may appear to this age, he was per- secuted and reviled for opening the eyes of the blind, for healing the sick and raising the dead. Not only was he denounced, but the people sought to kill him, because his methods and teachings were contrary to theirs. He utilized spiritual thought-force, or mental therapeutics. They em- ployed material methods, drugs and hygiene. They declared that he stirred up seditions; that he blas- phemed by calling God his Father, |Me”2. only Life, substance and intelligence of man and the universe. Has Christ any disciples in this hour who obey his command to go into all the world, preach the gospel, heal the sick, and raise the dead faith to a living understanding? More than fiinéteen centuries ago, at his first appearing, the Master said, “Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold.* (John x., 16) and he asked, “When the Son of man cometh (again), shall he find faith on the earth?” (Luke xviii, 8) Through the long centuries his 'words have-echoed, and today there are disciples who are following the great Shepherd, and through the teachings of Christian Science. are demonstrating, according to their understanding, the power of the Word —man’s reflection of eternal Life and Lové, the source and | supply of his béing. Let us consider the reception the disciples of Christ meet in this cen- tury. Let-us learn if ‘the gospel, which today:is preached from the pulpits of the many denominations, is followed by the demonstration of Spirit and of power, in the destruc- tion of sin‘and sickness, as it was in the diys of Christ Jesus and the early disciples. Do scholastic theo- logians proclaim; with faith and understanding, this command.of the Ma'ster, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy hedrt; and with all thy soul, and_ with all thy mind. This is the first and great command- ment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself”? (Matthew xxii,, 37-39.) Do they teach the allness of God, who is eternal Life, Love and Truth, who is infinite, and that therefore there can be no reality in any phe- nomena which are not the expres- sion of the Principle of eternal be- ing—Mind, Spirit, God and His in- finite ideas, or sons and’danghters, ": made in His own image ‘and like- ness. Do they not teach life and death, good and evil, love gnd fear and hate, truth and error, and that one is as real as the other? Do these professed followers of Christ obey the command, “Thou shalt have no other gods (power) before From Science and Health, and by healing on the Sabbath day. |page 132, we quote: mand, “Love thy neighbor as thy- sélf.” Humanity carries the burden’ of sin and sickness, ever-secking the' relief promised by Christ, and demonstrated by his early disciples. Today the ever-present Christ is heard declaring, “Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” (Matthew xxviii., 20.) The longing for Truth and Love, and the pressure of prayer, has at last reached the ear of infinite Love, and through the spiritual discern- ment of Mary Baker Eddy, who long has been standing upon the watch- towers of Zion, and who, as spiritual idea, is ‘still keeping untiring vigil over Israel, the Science of being has been. given to the world. ‘l‘hrm the teachings of Science and H: 'with Key to the Scriptures, and Mrs. Eddy’s other writings, humanity is learning the potency of Christian Mind-healing. Through an under- standing of the cause of disease and so-called death,. the sick are being healed, devils (evil thoughts) are being cast out, and a dead faith is giving place to an apprehension of the Christ-mind power and its pos- sibilities. Mrs. Eddy says, “God will heal the sick through man, whenever man is governed by God.” (Science and Health, page 495.) 1t is more than nineteen centurics since ¢Christ said, “I go * * * {but] I will come again” (John xiv., 3). In this generation the voice of the impersonal Christ, or Spirit of teuth, the Comforter, is heard, and mankind is awaking from the fong dream of life, substance, and’ iptelligence ‘as existent in matter. He is apprehending his diviné possi- bilities, his individuality, as the re- flection of God, eternal Life and Love. This is the Science of Christ Jesus” demonstration over the illu- sion or dream of death and a tomb. Today. the. -spiritually illumined strivesto passess.more. of the Mind of Christ, and they yield loving obediénce to the law of God. They refuse Tonger o attempt to “unlock the future’s portals ‘with the past’s bloodrusted key.” Man is'gaining a glimpse of his reality, his God-given. birthright, “dominion * * * over all the earth,” through the understanding and exercise of his spiritual senses, his individual reflection of Spirit, God, the Principle of eternal being. He is entering into the heritage of his Christ-mind, and is radiating, in some degree, the power and possi- bilities of his Father-Mother God, in whom he lives, and moves, and has his being. (Acts xvii, 28). He is inning to verify the promises. He is standing face to face with him- self, in Truth, and is under the Euiqance of the spiritual Teacher,— hrist, the impersonal idea, the head of the body, the first-born of crea- tion, the “King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.”: Through overcoming the false claims of piylitll sense, the belief of life and sepsation, pain and pleasure in matter, rhe so-called car- nal mind, the lie, which has de-|Christ’ ceived the whole world, he is being led away from self and sin into mnAmnmm.mmmwar.mnmsm.:xunWs Reminiscences, Sermons and Corrispondence”; 2 l to the multitude, o preached is Tru Truth and Love, and is expefiencing the love, peace and joy of unity with eternal Life and Love, ” The experiences of Christ Jesus are being repeated in this, his secs ond manifestation, and though the position to him at his second ap- pearing is less material in its phe- nomena, it-is none the less cruel in its mental assassination, its hatred of the Messiah and Christ’s disci- + |ples. In its attitude and resistance to the Truth of being, the suprem- acy of good, which Christ Jesus, the divine Metaphysician, demonstrated for all'who would follow him, schol- astic theology today is but little more impbued with the true sense of the power, of Mind, and man’s telation to "God, which Christ taught and proved, than was the church at Jerusalem, when he said c “Except your righteousness shall'exceed the right- eousness of the scribes and Phari- sees, ye shall in no-case enter: into the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew V., 20). In this age. the voice of immutable, eternal Truth, the law of God~—Life and Eove, cannot again be hushed. It mever again can be silenced by the deafening clamor of materiality, the false claim of a Eower called evil, and opposed to od. The voice of the ever-present Christ is heard today by some, and his pulsating presence is arousing humanit; from the deep sleep of Adam. He is awakening mankind to their spiritual dominion, despite the resistance of the materialists, and is hushing their cry, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” He is speaking to the world as when he spake to the multitudes, on that Sabbath day at Jerusalem, by the pool of Bethes- da, within whose porches lay a great number of impotent folk, blind, halt, and withered,—and this is the condition of poor humanity today. He declared, “Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.” (Luke xxi,, 33). He stands, an_invisible presence as yet, but the voice of this divine Metaphysician, and the pow- er of his Christ-mind, is heard bid- | T: ding the helpless to “Arise, and take up thy bed and walk.” (Mark ii., 9). The ever-present spiritual idea, Christ, the Son of God, is heard, mentally and :udibli. by his disci- ples in this age, as he was on that Sabbath morn, when, moved to the intensity of spiritual realization, he exclaimed : Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead [in belief of life in matter] shall hear the of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life in him- 8elf; so hath He given to the Son to have'life. in himself. (John v., 25, These words express Christ Jesus’ sublime realization of the allness of and man’s oneness with the Principle of being, divine Mind. The Principle bf being is as demonstra- ble as the principle of mathematics. God's law, if obeyed, can be proved, and this knowledge, or understand- ing, is the Science of being, by which Jesus made his scientific dem- onstrations. The Galilean prophet understood God, , as eternal Life, Love, and Truth,—the only al power. He understood man’s spiritual individuality, made in the image and likeness of God, God’s idea or child, expressing Him who made man like Himself. With the law of Spirit, or the Word of God, this_divine Metaphy- sician, the Son of God, dispelled ma-. terial sense and destroyed sin and its consequences—so-called disease and death, the effects of the carnal mind—the lie, which deceives the whole world with its claim of mat- ter . as sentient substance. There is but one Life, one Love, one Truth, and this is our God, who is onmmipo- tent, omniscient, and omnipresent good; our Father and Mother in eaven, harmony, whom true Chris- tian Scientists are striving to wor- ship in Spirit and in Truth. There is but one sun of our solar system, but many rays which proceed from it. Likewise man is the expression of God, and reflects eternal Life. Christ Jesus prayed for his follow- ers, “that they may be one, [with the Father] as we are” He knew that as the Father is eternal Life, so man, the son or idea of God, has life in himself. He acknowledged no other Source of being, no other God. He looked to this Source of eternal Life and Love, his Father- Mother God, Spirit, ind, to sup- ply His every need, and spiritual phe- nomena appeared, as in the case of feeding the five thousand with “the five loaves and the two fishes.” (Matthew xiv., 19). Mrs. Eddy says. “Divine Love always has met and always will meet every: human need.” i z < As Truth, in Christian Science, arouses the material world worship- ers to the verity of. spiritual being, their divine identity, .they awake from the material senses,~the belief of life and substance in matter,—and the inspiration of Lifewsand Love, spiritual sefise, pour itseli-forth in e glad exuberance of healing pow- er, with its elevating,. quickening, satisfying peace and strength, whic is.the operation of spiritual thought, the Truth of being, that every man possesses. It is his royal birthright. Love is the solvent whose operation will finally dissolve the cold, cruel belief oif ml.lfice'fi hate, anddfur,—the' cause, of all suffering and seeming death. As the sun dl’lpels the earl, dew, so will sin, sickness and deat| eventually disappear, and man will awake in the image and likeness of God. The Psalmist declared, “I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with Thy. likeness.” The lie, called in the Scripture Satan, or the dragon, ‘which has deceived the whole world, is cast down to the earth, “having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” (Revelation xii, 12). “Now shall the prince of this. world be cast out.” (John xii,, 31). . Through the understanding of b 'S ‘ to the law of Life and Love, God, Christian Scientists are enabled to demon- ~N & i d is Truth practised an uction of sin,sickness,and deat ¥ 99 E —Science and H. eal;h With Key to the Scritures, by Mary Baker Eddy strate the teachings of Christ Jesus, according to their to the law of God. “Love is the fulfilling of the law.” (Romans iii., 10). Christ Jesus, the divine Metaphysician, said, “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Fath- er” (John xiv., 1%). The desire of the true Christian Scientist is to re- ceive Christ, to follow and obey the guidance of the spiritual, ideal man, and to wait for his reappearance. This apprehension of the. reality of being breaks the bonds of material sense and time-honored ecelesiasti- cal authority, which have held mor- tals in darkness, and buried them under the debris of - error—false thinking, or the belief of life in mat- ter. In the apprehension of his one- ness with the Father, man hath “life in himself.” He communes with God in silent adoration, and a touch of love, joy, and peace assures him that he has found “the secret place of the most High,” and is safe in his Father’s loving care. Like a flash of lightning, that for an instant dispels the darkness, re- vealing the surroundings, so Truth bghts the pathway as the disciples of Christ journey from sin to holi- fiess, from the material to the spir- itual senses, from earth to heaven. This ascending, omnipotent power of Life and Love will impel humani- ty onward, outward, upward till it leads into all Truth, and man finds himself one with God, as His child. While yet in the flesh, man has caught glimpses of heaven, while on the mount of spiritual vision. There, the atmosphere of divine Love and Life' surrounds him, and he may faintly realize that his life is indeed “hid with Christ in God,” that he is immortal. ; i As humble followers of the meek and Holy One, but mighty in reflec- tion of Spirit, Life an§ Love, Chris- tian Scientists must follow Christ and continually unfold in spiritual understanding and demonstration. Thus walking in the footsteps of ruth, mankind will be gradually transformed by the renewing of the mind. Human consciousness is passing through one of the greatest mental revolutions the. world has ever known. The power of the approach- ing Christ is felt, as his words re- sound through thought, “Verily, ver- ily, I say unto you, The hour is com- ing, and now is, * * * in the which all that are in the graves [the belief of life, fruth, intelligence, and substance in matter] shall hear his voice.” In this cofidition of Stygian mental darkness, human hands are reaching out for the Father. * Their spiritual longings must and will be met. The weary searcher for Truth "] ‘eannot stand, nor go alome, . . O Father! take my hand. ‘And from the night, Lead to the light Thy child!” The hour has struck. In this era humanity is listening for the voice of the Son of God, who said, “I will come again” (John xiv., 3). Genuine Christian Scientists have heard the glad tidings; they have come forth from a dead faith to a living understanding, and their feet are planted upon the rock of Truth, above the clamoring cries of dis- turbed mankind, whose voices have again rung out, “Crucify him!” Adam, error, screams from the !monn'tain of the mortal sense of ipleasure and from the valley of the mortal sense of sin. “We will not have this Mind to reign over us.” But, unmoved, following the imper- sonal guidance of their great Lead- er and Teacher, Mary Baker Eddy, who bids Christian Scientists to fol- low her “as she follows Christ,” the Christian Scientists who are build- ing on a wholly. spiritual faunda- tion, viz., “Spirit is infinite; there- fore is all. ‘There is no mat- ter’"—(Mary Baker Eddy)—these march calmly on, as did the chil- dren of Israel, declaring that Life is real, Love is real, Truth is real, Mind is real, God is All, and there is none beside Him and His Christ, or the spiritual universe, peopled with His infinite ideas. “He * * * whose right it is shall reign.” Life will vanquish the illu- sion of death, Love will cast out ifear, Truth will destroy the false claim of life in matter, and man at ’lant will find himself perfect and immortal, with “dominion” over all things. “The cradle song of Christ was never sung in vain.” Love will fulfil Her law. It was divine Love that moved the blessed Christ Jesus to urge humanity to awake from the dream, that the so-called car- nal mind and its fleshly embodi- ment is real, and bade them learn that man was, is, and ever will be a son of God, a spiritual, mental expression of Mind. Divine Love impelled Christ Jesus to declare to a sin-bound world the grand verities of being—eternal Life and the brotherhood of man—in opposition to its belief that matter is real and that sin and death are inevitable. matter, so-called mortal mind and its fleshly embodiment, was but il- lusion, and not the real man, who ‘as made in the image and likeness of God—spiritual consciousness, with an immortal image or embodi ment. It was divine Love that en- abled him to bear the indignities of the malicious throng, with “Fath- er, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” It was the claim of evil that Jesus pursued, uncovered, and destroyed with Truth. Love is courageous and dares to meet the foe, for it “careth not for itself.” Human love fears to be disturbed and passes error by, believing in its power, and shrinks from the con- sequences of uncovering it. Human love fails and grows weary; but di- vine Love abides with man forever, denies fear and evil, and will con- tinue Her mighty action, until Love disperses the clouds, that hide from mankind, the real and eternal Jesus fulfilled his earth-mission. He eft humanity “the way.” In this era, Mary Baker Eddy discovered Christ Jesus’ method of healing the sick by the power of the Christ- mind, and named her discovery Christian Science. On page 226 of Science and Health she says: I saw before me the sick, wearing out years of servitude to an unreal master in the belief that the body governed them, rather than Mind. Her personal, and, in this hour, impersonal guidance, has led her true followers to the mount of spir- itual vision, and they are demon- strating their divine possibilities and realizing their oneness with God and' the allness of Life and Love. , History shall not continue to re- peat itself. Religious . intolerance will yield to ChYist’s Christianity, and man will claim and demonstrate his oneness with his Father-Mother God, eternal Life and Love. They who have really touched the hem of the garment of Christ can never return to a material religion or a material organization. Spiritual or- ganization is unity of Christ’s off- spring in the bonds of brotherly love, Love reflected in love. Mrs. Eddy defines this in the following words 3 “The offspring of Spirit, who, having wrestled with error, sin, and sense, are governed by divine Science; some of the ideas of God beheld as men, casting out error and healing the sick; Christ’s offspring.” (Science and Health, page 583)." In this hour Christian Scientists have spiritual authority to demand recog- nition. by their demonstration of the spiritual power with which God endowed man. Never, as in the past, will the faithful followers. of Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy be ordered to the rear, nor tortured upon the rack, hecause they demand for themselves, and for all. mankind, their God-given right to life, liber- ty, and the pursuit of happiness, and their spiritual dominion over the false claim of sin, sickness -and death, The full significance of man’s eternal destiny, his oneness with the great Principle of being, eternal Life and Love, is dawning upon him, and humanity will awake “arise and go to my [their] Father.” (Luke xv., 18). Humanity is weary of the strug- gle between the flesh.and Spirit, weary of the irresistible conflict be- tween the divine and human con- cepts, which were and are . “con- trary the one to-the other.” “In, Adam all die, * * * in Christ shall all be made alive.” (I Corinthians {Xv., 22). Shakespeare thus speaks of mankind : But d man, [mortal man} Dru{nl‘:' l-pfl‘::la brief. authority - Most ignorant of what he's most assured,— - His glassy essence, like an angry ape, 2 Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven * As makes the angels weep, “Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal .him.” (Matthew .viii., 7). Christian_Scientists have for their Leader Christ, who: assures-them, “Lo, I ami with you always, even unto the end.” It i Christian to accept Christ as the guide to eter- nal Life and to follow his example. It is Science, the understanding of the dynamic ~ po of spirtual thought-force, as taught in this age by ry Baker Eddy, that enables Christian Scientists to recognize the Christ and .to demonstrate over seeming disé3se by the Word. Paul asked, “Why should it be thought a thing incredible*with you that God should raise .the dead?” It is blasphemy for Christian- Scientists to affirm;*§and my Father are one?” —meaning, . not; that. physical per- sonality and -the Father are one, but that the di individ , the spiritaal Father, th ot the: Princip) Jbeing, operates and manifests His power. Hear the Master's .prayer for -his disci- ples, which has rung down the ages: “As Thou, Father, art in me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in'us.” (Johnxvii, 21). It was divine Love that made Him appear severe to those whp were obeying their own carnal desires and following their own erroneous meth- ods. It was divine Love that com- pelled the stern rebuke to the “gen- eration of vipers” and to the “whited sepulchres,” and that said to the disciple, Peter, “Thou art an offense unto me.” It was di- vine Love that brooded tireless over the disciples and ur%e_d upon them the necessity of watching and pray- ing, lest temptation enter unawares and turn them from the light. “It is the little rift within the lute ‘That by and by will make the music, mute, And uvot“ widening slowly silence all” Divine Love sustained Jesus, when malice, hatred, envy and revenge nailed him to the cross, because he testified against evil. It was divine Love. that supported him, as he la- bored to destroy the seeming power of evil and prove to the world that “Vital Issucs in Christian Sclence, with Facsimile Lettors of Christ, in.Christian ‘Science, is come to the understanding of those “wi?n are looking for his reappearing nto them that look for him shall I;é' appear z;;e lel::ond Ktinl:.e” (He- réws without flesh, a2 ma- terial el:‘oq:ment,lbut with a spir- itual embodiment, in the image and likeness of God. His' imminent presence! is piercing the black clouds of mortal sense, dispelling the darkness with the effulgence of his coming.. He is approaching with healing in his wings, to show us the mansions that he has prepared for us—the heavenly consciousness of Life, Truth and Love. Christian Scientists, who are fulfilling the law of Love are listening to heavenly harmonies, instead of the discordant refrain of sin, sickness and death. During Mrs. ’s 1 gui ance of humanity out of darkness into the light of spiritual. under- standing, an objection was raised} the materialists, that 2 woman claim to tothis genera- ive & an gience ‘and_should tion ~J ‘s one with the |4 the Father, teach Jesus’ method of the power of the Christ-mind. - led and God-inspired, Mary Baker Eddy personally tau, hit her follpw- ers, and today co: to tasch impersonally by her ever-present individual reflection of eternal Life and Love. She is guiding all who turn from the belie{“of life and in- telligence in matter, to' the eternal verities of Life, Love and Trush. Through her writings and her im- personal guidance, as substance- idea, her ever-present divine identi- ty, she is attuning the human heart to sing the hymn of emancipation from sin and death, and to rejoice in the demonstration of health, fove, peace and joy. Her earthly e- rience runs parallel with that of her Master. Understood in a small de- gree only, by the few who faintly perceive and accept Truth, she stood, during her earth mission, and now stands, on the mount of spirit- val illumination, toward whose height no feet but those of the blessed Master have so directly toiled; first in agony, and finally, like Christ Jesus, the masculine rép- resentative of the Fatherhood of God, she, as feminine representative of the Motherhood of , will ap- pear, in triumphant demonstration of divine power and glory, as the compound ideal man, in God’s im- age and likeness. With Life and Truth to inspire her—transfigured with spiritual love and wisdom—she brought the-mes- sage of Christ, in manifestation of the Motherhood of God. ‘With the meekness and gentleness df a child, she lisped to a world ‘of dreamers the old-new story of God’s love, aud Christ Jesus’ mission. Her -utter- ances of divine power, “All is Mind.” “There is no matter,” have become like the thunders from Mount Sinai, heard from East to West, from North to Sotith.” Dare the worll re- ject the Word of God. because she is 2 woman.. How does the Christ speak in his divine code of Science? It was a2 woman, who put the leaverd into the meal which leavened the whole lump.* It was a woman, who poured the precious ointment, an offering to’ the divine inspiration. A woman knelt at the foot of the cross, when all the terrified men, save one, forsook Jesus in self-pro- tection. To a woman Christ Jesus first revealed himself after the resurrection. It was the ‘woman in Revelation, who was to be clothed with light to intérpret the Word of God. Woman's spirituality first dlifi’- cerned Truth, and she will finally lead to spiritual heights all wha have heretofore failed to discern the immutable th‘i"fs ‘of Spirit, Truth is calling to humanity, “Halt!” Science says that man, govérned “by’ Truth amd Love, 'fl!: master. oper . o m K circumstangi 5"%?!: e_teach- ings, man is beitg *led, . step by step, up the hg"g its of wi to that understanding, which, with all his getting, he has never dr of possessing—the understanding of himselsf‘and his relation to, and: one- ness. with God, ‘eternal Lif¢ and Love. b ’ The propecy will be fulfilled; the seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent’s head (Genesis iii,, 14,.15), and restore man to his primal estate —health, holiness, and_ immortglity. Man will learn, through divine Sci- ence, the “new tongue,” the unfath- omable ‘speech which. leads. him to the verge of the infinite, and permits Bim to commune with the Father “in spirit and in truth” The prophets of old became ‘entranced s this spiritual:joy and power; one- ness with ‘the Father, filled thejr be- ing.. The Christian Scientist, whose life “is hid with Christ in God,” is safe on the watchtower of immortal | consciousness,—heaven. “Phis understanding of God is both Christian and Scienge.. It i_;,l_md‘:fl be “anto the Jews a stumbling bl nd unto the Greeks foolishness™; but unto them that are saved, (un- derstand) it is “the &c'm,:r of God.” (I Corinthians i., 23, 24). “The Chris-. tian Sciéntist has .enlisted to lessen evil, disease,-and death.” (Sciencs and Health, page 450). ' The argu- ments of suppositional ewil; ‘yhn:h they have’ chaliénged, are po to'comgel them to beat a retreat. Christ has given them his promise and supports them with Jis pres and’power. - Their lamrs' are with oil. [Definition of Oil: secration: . charity; gentleness; prayer; heavenly inspiration.” Mary Baker ly, and they are awaiting: the Bridegroom’s midnight call to behold the new heaven and the new’ earth wherein dwelleth ouss niess, and where, “there shall be no’ more death neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be ang more pain: for the former thin'_s are passed away.” (Revelation xxi, )bhfist Jesus left this :nnfonlp;' assurance to his followers: ~ Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give yod the_kingdom.” (Luke. xil, . Fear mnot, little flock, ‘tis your Fath--- . er's Dl s e heart, the avenger. over: h e Then nmum:“‘zm“m of. , Your Shepherd. who leads b5 Lifes’; . - He folds and protects from the wolf and the prowler. LT Awfia‘ a to_ your Dirthright! Fy commnlb‘t”vm the quicks ening dove, 'mmu'-hhmum' Acroplanc”; “Poeas.” \