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Religious Notice. l Religlous Notice. He that heareth my word, and believeth en Him that sent me, bath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, be sbail mever see death—CHRIST JESUS. (Jokn v., a4; viil.,, 31.) ~ The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. The wages of sin {s-death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our LogdeePAUL. (I.Corinthians xv.,26; Romans vi., 23,) Life is real, and death is the illusion. Birth, deoap,@nd death arise from the material sense of thirgs, not Sin drought death, and death will disappear with the disappear- ance of sin. + « « death must be overcome, not submitted to, before immortal- ity appears~MARY BAKER EDDY. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 428, 544, 436, 76.) NEW YORK CITY Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson, New York City. Dear Mrs. Stetson:— " In the New York Herald I have read the following notice: July 13, 1921, EDDY CENTENARY, JULY 16. The centenary of the birth of Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Scientist Church, will be celebrated Saturday, July 16, at her birthplace, Bow, near Concord, N. H. Christian Scientists from many parts of the country will make pilgrimages to her grave and observances will be held in Christian Science Churches. I have been striving to gain an understanding of Christian Science for four years. In my study of the Bible and the teachings of Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy, I have learned that spiritualization of thought is necessary to give us an understanding of the Science of being, which will enable us to obtain health and happi- ness and finally, to demonstrate over death. This notice in the Herald, and which I have also observed in the New York World, of a celebration commemorating Mrs. Eddy’s “birth” and the making of pilgrimages to her “grave,” has so startled me, with what is to me a contradiction of Mrs. Eddy’s teaching, that I turn to you, almost in despair, and beg you will not consider me presumptuous in asking you to tell me what this reversal of Mrs. Eddy’s teaching means? Does not Mrs. Eddy teach that we should not admit material birthdays as real, since they are but the commemoration of the pro- duct of the carnal mind? In reference to a commemora- tion of her “birthday” by the dedication of the Concord Church, she asks, “. . . why this meaningless com- memoration of birthdays, since there are none?” (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 235.) Does not Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures instruct us that material birth and death are but phases of mortal belief, and have nothing to do with the reality of being? If so, why do Christian Scientists go to a “grave?” Having read your published sermons and articles, I turn to you with a hope that you can enlighten me upon this strange contradiction of the teaching of Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy. There must be thousands who will be shocked, as I was, at this in- credible announcement. I am spending a few weeks in New York. My home is in a Southern city and there are quite a number of my friends who are becoming interested in the study of Christian Science. I know they will be confused, as I am, at this announcement. Am I asking too great a favor, dear Mrs. Stetson, in requesting you to reply? Believe me to be, An earnest seeker for Truth, F. M. PITTS. To “An Earnest Seeker fér Truth” :--- notice 'n THE NEW|verse. Let our Leader be heard .1 York HERALD, to which|in this hour: you refer, seems to have oultiswell_u;knw,-x}e:;mdeg,tgnt aroused many ‘“earnest seekers| our material, foortal history ts hat s . ot of man” for Truf ) ” ;vho are tu:m.ng' to ;\:’alp]exi;t?nearzzgihzodrelngfi me, pleading for an explanation ace In the Science of being. of s i ent, . . The kuman history needs which, as you say, they consider to b’ revised, and the materizt record /expunged. (Retrospection a “contradiction of the teach- $ i Christ Jesus and and Introspection, p. 21.) The material sense of God, man, and the universe must be . replaced by spiritual sense, to It is impossible for me to send | reveal God and His man, idea, an indicidual answer to these|or child. The attainment of letters, or to give my time to per-| spiritual sense enables the stu- somal inquirers; therefore I reply, | dent of Christian Science to un- through the columns of the derstand and demonstrate the to the multitude ';V_ho are ques- | Seience of Life and the possibili- tioning the possibilities of man|ties, with which God endowed when governed by Gal,.aflfaul_ht,mm, to whom He gave “do- by the Galilean prophet, Christiminion,” as executor of His Jesus, the demonstrator of man's| eternal law of Life and Love. eternal oneness with his crea-| Jesus said to his disciple:: tor, and who proved the dream 1 and my Father are one. of death to be an illuslon. I Father . . . that they may be will give you my understanding| one, as we are. isti i (John x., 30; xvil, 11.) | of Christian Science, as taught anddemonstratedbyChristJesas,| Our revered Leader says: and in this age discovered and| The meek Nazarene's steadfast and true knowledge of preexist- Baker Eddy. of the nature and insepars- {?‘lung:i. ,- page dsg, :‘:“:% .0{‘”&0’&. !nd‘:um,—unda Mrs. Eddy-sayay®Death is a con- mmsa-(. m d;dm Siteic tradiction of Life, or God,” and{ be the infinite I AM,—not a in Science and Health she declares| dWeller in matter. For man to know Life as it is, namely God, the good, gives him not merely a sense of existence, but an accom- consciousness of spiritual power that subordinates matter and destroyssin, disease, and death. Th‘ki Jesus demonstrated. . . . (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 189.) that “man is not material; he is spiritual.” (p. 468.) The records of “birth” and “death” belong to-the early stage of human experience, in the ma- terial organization. Our Leader, Mrs. Eddy bid us: Mrs. Eddy, wisely guided her| o eep,in Mind the foundations students in their emergence from| oneChrist. (Miscallany, p. 191.) the material to the spiritual gense of God, man, and the uni- Religisus Notice. 1 viz,, that “There {s no Life, truth, intelligence, Nior substance fn matter,” since God is Spirit, eternal Lifs and Love, the only creator, and that all that he creales ie real,—his own image and likeness,—accepting the teaching which Christ Jesus gave to the world and demon- strated, it seems iucredible that his disciples, or the followers ot Mrs. Eddy can be found believ- ing in and perpetuating the false claim of material birth, growth, decay, aad death. They sesm not yet to understand that it isa a belief of material “birth” that fulfils the conditions of fleshly belief and disappears in what mortals call “death.” As in Adam sall d'e, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. (I. Corinthians xv., 22.) The mesmeric, hypnctic condi- tion of the so-called carnal mind has deceived the whole world with its claim of life in matter, and some, who are earnesily striving to follow the teaching of Christ Jesusand our God-inspired Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, have not yet spiritualized their thought sufficiently to apprehend the spiritual facts of scien'itic being. These earnest seekers for Truth have not yet heard the voice of the ever-present Christ: He is not here, but is risen. (Mark xxiv., 5, 6.) All true Christian Scientists are siriving to attain the Mind of Christ, and follow and obey their beloved and revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, and they will evantually, through suffering out of the ileshly dream of life in matter, in obedience to the law of Life and Love, emerge fiom the material senses and begin to build on a “wholly spiritual foundaiion.” Eleven years ago our revered Leader rose beyond the mental capacity of any of her students to conilinue to visualize, or ob- jectify her; but her advanced students knew that she had not died. They refused to be sep- arated from her spiritual indi- viduality, and they continued to rise mentally with her 1 her ascending thought. Two years before this she had published in the Jownzl a letter to her ‘““dear brethren in New York,” from which I quote: ‘When my dear brethren in New York desire to build higher . . . they must begin on a wholly spiritual foundation, than which there is'né other. ... Spirit is infinite; therefore Spirit is all. “There i3 no matter” is not only the axiom of true Christ- izn_Science, but it is the only basis upon which this Seience can be demonstrated. (Christian Science Journal, vol. xxvi., p. 696.) I, with my students, replied to her that we desired to “build higher” and upon a “wholly spiritual foundation,” viz.: “Spirit is infinite; therefore Spirit is all. ‘There is no matter,”” and that we believed we were ready 10 begin our higher demon- stration of the potency of spirit- ual thought-force, to break the dream ot sickness and death, the product of the carnal mind. Two yexs ziter this our i.cader passed through the “valley and shadow” called death. Having attaired to a Cegree ot spiritual power, she disscived {with spirit- ual sense) the kuman concept of a flesly imege, or boay, and was no longer physiecally visible prove Mrs., Eddy’s teaching, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Rellglous Notice. The maste Metaphyvician, Jesus the Chrisi, endured the death of the false material senses, or the physical crucifixion in- flicted by the carnally minded, who placed him in a tomb and sealed the tomb with a stone, vainly attempting -to destroy him. Hiswry records his dem- onsiration of his teaching. He rolled back the stone and walked forth, triumphant over the so- called canal mind, and won a sublime victory over the illusion called death. - As I have stated, our Leader rose beyond the mental ability of any ot her students Lo visualize her, and in that hour those who retained a material sense of her, carried oul the ceremony of the materialists and buried their ma- terial concept of the Leader in a grave. At that time, ‘I was in- terviewed in regard to this ex- perience in the history of Chris- tian Scientists, and if you will consult one of my books, Remi- niscences, Sermons and Corre- spondence, beginning at page 1014, you will there iind my re- ples to the questions of an interviewer. He inquired, “What are Mrz. Eddy’s views in regard to death?” I My answer was, “She instruets | her followers to overcome the be- lief of life in matter, with its sin, sickness, and death, by gaining the Mind of Christ. In her text- book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and in her other writings, she continues to teach that “therc is no death,” that “all 18 Mind,” “there-is no matter.” She declares that there is no substanes, nor intelligence in mortal thought, so-called, nor in its maniiestation, mortal man i and the material universe. In Unity of Good, page, 33, she avers: It is unchristlan to be'ieve in the transition called material death, since matter hasno life. . . . Therefore Christian Scientisis must not concinue to commem- orate matetrial birth and death; and if they strive to emulate the life of Christ and are loyal tc the teachings of our 1evered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, divine Love will enlighten them, as they emerge from a material sense of God, man, and the universe, to the spiritual apprehension of eternal Life and Love, the source and supply ot their being. Mrs. Eddy says: By loyalty in students I mean this,—allegiance to God, subordi- nation of the human to the divine, steadfast justice, and strict ad- herence to divine Truth and Love. (Retrospection and Intro- spection, p. 50.) Al Christians, weary of the fruitlessness of the search fot eternal Life and unity with our Father-Mother God, are look- ing, longing, and praying for a cessation, th@ugh Christ, Truth, of the ills to which flesh is heir and for the passing away: of the “former things” (thoughts) which produced sickness and death. The divine metaphy- sician, or true Christian Scien- tist, comprehends (though spirit- tal sense) the words of Mrs. Eddy: The foam and fury of illegitimate living and of fearful snd deleful dving should disappear on the shore of time; then the waves of sin, sorrow, and death beat in vain. (Science and Health, p. 203.) Genuine Christian Scientists do not commemarate “illegiti- mate living and . fearful and dcleful ¢ying,” and through their faithful adherence to {Truth, the phenomena of the to her students. But again I|cmal mind are fast disappear- repeat that some of her studnn“.s! “on the chore of time.” Inew that; she had not died, that| Christian Scientists will not con- she was leading them to higher|tinue to regard, as real, the proofs of her teaching and to|emhodiment of sin, the fleshly an understanding of the Master’s| yan which Christ Jesus refused words, “Lo, I am with you!'y, acknowledge as God’s man alway.” and whom he condemned. Of Material organization, which, ! this Adam-Eve generation, he Mre. Eddy tells us, “is requisite|said: only in the earliest periods in Christzan history,” must finally be outgrown and abandoned. In Retrospection and Introspec- tion, page 45, she declares: ganization and should be laid off. .. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, end abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he spesketh a lie, he of his own: for he is a , and the father of it. (John viii., 44.) As univarsal consciouspess is leavened by the teaching of Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy, Humanity must emerge from|the false mentality, or carnal the Adam-Eve dream and awake | thought, which expresses itself 10 their oneness with their crea-|in material birth and dedth, tor, our Father, who lovingly|will After more than thirty years|cares for every child of His|Mary Baker Eddy caught the of opportunity to ass milate and | creating. finally he destroyed. lost chord of Christ, swepl her Religious Notice. hand over human heart-strings, and rose to higher spiritual pos- sibilities. She lives, is here, and continues to attune, to the an- them of eternal Life, all who are ready to accept and who en- deavor to demonstrate her teaching. Let me quofe my authority for this statement, from page 287 of Miscellany, by Mary Baker Eddy: THERE 1S NO DEATH A suppositional gust of evil in this evil world is the dark hour that precedes the dawn. This g:igt lows away the baubles of ief, for there is in reality no evil, no disease, no death; and the Christian Scientist who believes that he dies, gains a rich blessing of disbelief in death, and a higher realization of heaven. My beloved Edward A. Kimball, whose clear, correct teaching 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. If we would awake to this recognition, we should see him here and rea- lize that he never died; thus demonstrating the fundamental truth of Christian Science. To-day history is repezling iteelf. Upon Jesus’ reappear- ance, he found his dull dis- ciples discussing his death. In the walk to Emmaus they faile¢ to recognize him, until his spiritual presence touched a re- sporisive chord. Then ihey recognized their Master and Teacher. And they said one to another, Did not our hearts burn within us, while he talked with.us by the way and while he opened to us the scriptures? (Luke xxiv., 32.) Let Christian Sciantists study the words and works of Mrs. Eddy, until her spiritual pres- ence causes their hearts to burn within them, and “o’er earth’s troubled, angry sea” they ‘“see Christ walk,” and come to them, and “tenderly, aivinely talk.” (Poems by Mary Baker Eddy p. 12). Christ Jesus” disciples be- lieved that he had dievc. Had they gained the spritual appre- hension of his teaching, they would have understood that in leaving them, he was making a demonstration over the carnal mind, or unversal evil, and would prove that there is no reality in death. “Let men think they had killed the body,” says our Leader. “Afterward he would thow it to them un- changed.” (Science and Health, p. 42) This he did, and his followe: s must accept his teach- ing, follow his example, and finally, here or hereafter, make the demonstration of eternal Life. This will enable them to say, with understanding, as did our Master, “I and my Father are one,” but ‘my Father is greater than L.” (John x., 30; xiv., 28.) Mrs. Eddy declares: © ‘The great spiritual fact must be brovght out that man is, not shall be, perfect and immortal. {Science and Health, p. 428.) Lhis. Eddy’s teaching is for- ever established in the hearts ot her true followers, who come forth en masse when the enemy of good atterpis to trail its standard in the dust, by operat- ing through those who ate ear- nestly siriving to follow and obey the {eaching of Christ Jesus and their great Leader, Mrs. Eddy, but who have not yet attained to a spiritual concept of Christiai Science. Divine Love will ii | disciple of Christ. To-day the world is:aroused to choose between the<Christ-mind and the so-called carnal mind. living, which results in h and happiness: but all are ready to make the sacrifice to attainit. Only the bravely brave, the dauntless Christian, wil work to overcome material self and the carnal thoughts that compose a material universe, which begins in material birth and ends in the phenomenon called death. Heaven is a condi- tion of mind, the heritage of the spiritually rainded. t mor- tals regard as “hell” is the re- sult of envy, jealousy, fea, avatice, greed, malice, revenge, lust, - hypoerisy, personal am- bition, pride of place and power, and the human will, which op- poses the will of God. A wide mental gulf separates these two conditions of mind,—heaven and hell. Having proved the power of the Christ-mind, in my own ex- perience of over thirty years, I rejoice Lo defend the potency o. SDAY, JULY 19, 1921. illumine the path of every loyali¢la will | Anyon l Religious Notice. spiritual thought-force, as taught Jesug, and in this age %‘é our revered Leader, Mrs. s Perfect health, strength whi sourcs of all strength, omni- must_emanate from the active Life and Love—since it seems inexhaustible—and a joy, peace, and love for God an every idea, or child of His creat- u:% thus verifying the Scriptuze, “The fruit of the Spirit is Love, joy” and “the peace which pa'seth all understanding,”— this has been my exceeding great reward for ha striven to at- tain the Mind of Christ, to fol- low and obey the teaching of Christ Jesus and beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, and to fulfil the law of Love. With the Psalmist, I exclaim: ‘The Lord is my strength and song, and is become my salvation. I shall not die, but live, and de- clare the works of the Lord. (Pselm cxviii., 14, 17.) My help cometh from the Lord, which made heavenand earth. (Psalm cxxi., 2.) Clad in this spiritual a.mor, trusting the dynamic power of immutable, invincible Truth and Love, tc envelop and proiect me, I shall continue to cross mental swords with the enemy of good, the so-called carnal mind, which testifies of material “birth” anc “death,” until victory crowns my effor's and I awake in the “image” and “likeness” of God. (Genesis i., 26.) Spiritual gen- eration is already revealed as the eternal verity of being, and is spititually appiehended, as God and His infinite ideas, or chil- dren, forever held in the bonds of Life and Love. In tulfilment ot the divine statute, Truth has pronounced sentence upon evil, the lie, “which deceiveth the whole world,” and Christ, at his sec- ond coming, which is imminent, will fulfil the Secripture as the executor of the law of God: . . . and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Woncerful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. (Isawh ix., 6.) It is my sacred duty to God, to my Leader, and to every seeker for the Truth of being, to continue to wield the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God, and defend the Cause of Chris- tian Science from this final et- fort of the enemy of good, or the opgonent of Truth, to de- ceive those who are striving to assimilate, understand, and dem- onstrate the teaching of Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy, but who have not yet attained to spiritual understanding. They have the letter ot Christian Science, and if they stiive to possess +the Spirit, the Mind of Christ, they will finally prove that It is the spirit that quick- eneth; the flesh profiteth nothing. sivevs (John vi., €3). As of old, the dragon attempts to devour the child of the woman,—the spiritual idea, or divine Science, to which Mrs. Eddy gave birth. Christ’s Christianity,or Christian Science, will never again be “lost as aforetime.” Our “redemption draweth nigh.” Genuine Christian Secientists know that their ‘“Redeemer liveth” (Job xix., 25), and that their “lives are hid with Christ in God” (Colossians iii., 3), therefore that they are immor- tal. * Our great Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, will prove her words, “Life is real, and death is the illusion.” (Science and Health, p. 428.) She has met, as did her Master, the false claim of death, and she will demonstrate over this claim, as did our Way-shower to eternal Life. 11 t, whal was sible for m« Jesus, he pgz lared ‘was ible for his dis- ciples. ristendom admits this. Mrs. Eddy’s students, the demonstration of . .gfam 1 afiirm, what possible for Christ Jesus, e anasculine representative of e fatherhood of God, is pos- aible-for Mary Baker Eddy, the feminine representative of the motherhood of God; and for e to deny her the ability to demonstrate Christ’s teach- ing, which she promulgates in Sctence and Health with Key to the Scriptures and her other writings, is evidence of the so- called carnal mind, which has always resisted the law of God, eternal Life. Jesus said: The works that I do shall he [ye] do also; and greater works than these shall he iye] do. ... (John xiv., 12). . If we are never to demonstrate his teaching—the victory ot Life over the illusion of death—why call urselves Chiistians? Christ- ian Scientists are now called upan to prove their understand- ing of Christian Science and to bsehcmfmdas‘%args”or“"vwheat,” “gheep” e 7 “wise” or “foolish oiugfi: If anyone makes a statemient which con- Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy, either you believe their state- ments, or you repudiate them, Keligious Notice. and accept terialists, the argument of the ma 7 Let God be true, but every [mortal] man a Lar. (Romans iii., 4). I credit our wise Leader with the understanding of Truth, and d|I await her demonstration of spiritual power over the false claim called death. I never, for one moment, doubt her ability and spiritual might to overcome the “last enemy,” and reappear in the image and like- ness of God, and I shall be “satisfied” only when I awake in His likeness. , I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with Thy likeness. (Psalms xvii., 15.) The contextion for immor- tality between the students of Mrs. Eddy, who have been builoing on a spiritual founda- tion, and those students who continue to adhere to and obey the material senses, is apparent. They have written their prob- lem upon the world’s black- board, while progress, the law of the Infinite, has enabled thousands to keep abreast with Truth znd distinguish the gen- uine Chiistian Scientist from the materialist, who continues to perpetuate the dream of life in matter. Humanity is awak- ing to condemn this, as the reversal of the teaching of Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy. The true Christian Scientists late striving to spiritualize | thought, that they may visualize their great Leader and Teacher, when she reappears, as did Jesus, in confirmation of her accept- ance and promulgation of the teaching of the Galilean prophet, |viz.,, that man is an emanation |of God, eternal Life and Love, and is therefore immortal, re- |flecting his _creator, infinite Mind, or Spirit. Let me quote | Mrs. Eddy’s words: ‘The continual contemplation of existence as material and cor- poreal—as beginning and ending and with birth, decay, and dissolu- tion as its component stages— hides the true and spiritual Life, and causes our standard to trail in the dust. | (Science and Health, §. 550.) Birth and death belong to the Adam-Eve generation, which conceives in sin and brings forth sorrow and death. Paul says: To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. (Romans viii., 6.) Mrs. Eddy bids her students: Abide in Truth, in_fellowship with and obedience to The Mother Church, and in this way God will biess and prosper you. This I know, for He has proved it to me for forty years in succession. (Miscellany, p. 360.) Mrs. Eddy defines “Church” as “The structure of Truth and Love,” not a material organiza- tion, but a state of _spmt\gal con- sciousness. Christian Scientists understand this {o mean, abide in spiritual, conscious oneness with God and His Christ. I note to-day in the columns of THE NEw YORK HERALD these headlines: TO HOMNOR 7,264 DEAD IN HOROKEN SERVICE Alas for poor humanity! Their insistence upon death as a reality and their refusal to accept the scientific fact of being, viz., that man is God’s “image” and “like- ness,” spiritual and not mate- rial, the emanation ot his Father- Mother Life and Love,—this in- sistence um the reality of the fleshly embodiment, as the dear departed, savors of pagan phi- losophy, blind idolatry, and an absolute ignorance of God, the creative Principle of being, and Christ, or the body of Truth and Love, God, which is composed of intinite ideas, or members, and whose existence is the reflection of an eternal, creative Principle called “Our Father, which art in heaven.” The time will come when these memorial services will be discontinued, and the admitted and revealed. At times, moved by divine Love and tender sympathy for the sinner and grief-str.cken mourner, and long'ng to arouse humanity from its dream of life in matter, which terminates in suffering and so-called death,— I cry oul as did our Master: O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stoneth them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gath- ered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wirgs, and ye would not, (Matthew xxiii., 87.) But I rejoice to note that the Christly element is fast developing in humanity, and thousands who have not yet accepted Christian Science are responding to our Leader’s statement that “Life is real, and death is the illusion.” (Science and Health p. 428). Let all deny the evidence of the|. material senses, when called upon to %nrt.with floved. onm:, and wait patiently for sense to xevealml to thgnthe real, perfect eternal child of God’s creating. &ese‘nw of the loved ones will | 1 Religious Notice. The da:m:hor of ttl."he ‘f;g::dmng'. poem e 1 ot deach, and wrote: Y Beside the dead I knelt fc Ans felt a presence, “o[r ainde Lo! it was Jesus standiny 3 He smiled, “Be not afraid!” “Lord, Thou hast conquered death, we know, Restore again to life,” I said, “This one who died an hour ags.” He smiled, “She is not dead.” “Asleep then, as thou didst say, Yet thou canst lift the lids that eep Her prisoned eyes from ours away.” He smiled, “She doth not sleep!” “Yet our beloved seems so far, The while we yearn to feel them near; Albeit with thee we trust they are.” He smiled, “And I am here.” “Dear Lord, how shall we know that they Sti'}l walk unseen with us, and ee, Nor sleep, nor wander far away?” He smiled, “Abide in me.” (Raymond). A gain Mrs. Eddy’s words come to me, and they will bear re- peating: Abide in Truth, in fellowship with and obedience to Tke Mother Church, and in this way God will bless and prosper you. (Miscellany, p. 360.) The Motker Church is “The structure of Trush and Love” (Science and Health, p. 583), and Chrisiian Scientists abide in that siate of spiritual con- sciousness, where they walk and talk with Chiist, while he im- parts to them an understandiny of their oneness with the Father, in fulfilment of his promise: Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. (Matthew xxviii., 20.) . . . _As Thou, Father, art in me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us. (John xvii., 21.) Another states the Truth of man’s eternal selfhood, and would comtort the mourner. He writes of those who have passed from our vision: ‘They have not died; They live and breathe with vou, They walk here at your side. And then he asks, Why dr2am of poppied sod, When flower, and Soul, and God Know there is no death? There is one Life, no more; No dying and no tomb. Why seek ye them above,— Those that ye love so dear? The all of God is Love, ‘The all of God is here. And he assures the sorrowing, They have not died, Their hands clasp yoursand mine; They are but glonified. They have not died; They live, they know, they see; They shout with every breath, “All is eternal Life, There is no death! All is eternal Life!” Gordon Johnstone. Mrs. Eddy is mentally actinn in our midst, solving the problem of scientiiic being, rising to spii- itual dominion and demonstra- tion, as did Christ Jesus, over the illusion of death and the grave. Her students are arising and call- ing her blessed. They are de- fending and demonstrating her teaching. Her Church, the “structure of Truth and Love,” not a material edif ce, which is but the symbol, is built upon the Rock, Christ, and “the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Jesus was crucitied for his efforts to waken the world from the be- lief in sin, sickness, and death. Mrs. Eddy, in her endeavors to arouse humanity to awake and come forth from the bondage of material birth and death, antago- nized the carnal mind. It wasa mental battle that Jesus waged : and in which he triumphed. It is a mental battle between hate ! and love, evil and and life, the cain: and the which Mrs. Eddyis encounter- ing, and she will triumph. “Troublesome Truth” has the field and will uncover and over- turn 2l that opposes eternal Life. :fiood, death The divine man, the compound | idea, reflecting the fatherhood : and motherhood of God, which ' constitutes the spiritual universe, will be revealed as the only man | and the only universe, reflecting infinite, creative Spirit, eternal Life, Truth, and Love. This is the Science of being, as taught by Christ Jesus and Mary,Baker Eddy. The time is ; approaching when the “foolish } virgins” will ask of the “wise vir- i gins,” “Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.” And the “wise virgins,” they who have : kept their lamps filled with oil, ; will reply, “Not so; lest there be - not enough for us and you; but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.” (Mat- thew, xxv., 8, 9.) The midnight hour is at hand. Christ’s immi- nence is unmistakable. His voice is heard by the faithful, saying: } The Son of man cometh at a8 hour when ye think not. (Luke xil., 40.) Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh. Lest coming suddenly, he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch. (Mark xiil, 35-37.) Sincerely yours, AUGUSTA E. STETSON, ly minded spiritually minded, - God, | B T T T . AN OIECIC 2 G e . R L ‘J... - R R e S s S e sy B i 2on PPRISHENE I IS 4 a a 4 bl