The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 4, 1923, Page 15

@John R. Dunn, C. S. B., Talks Twice in Seattle Likens Teaching to Sign on Door Which Says: “This Way Out” ‘The following lecture was delivered Monday, December 8, in the Metro- politan theater at noon, and In the Masonic temple at 8 o'clock the samo day, by John Randall Dunn, C, S. B, of Bostun, Mass, member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Chureh of ever known? Have they realized x | i fentist, in Boston, Mass. chan. } ee pete were under the auspices pocket, of the First Church of Christ, Scien. ks ta Uist, Seattle, which ate ee You have noticed many times, with: out doubt, a certain Inscription over geet exits from buildings and cars which edi reads: “This Way Out." Often have ho in. I wished that I might write below er "| ts the wonls “Christian Sclence, - y r every student of this great sub- ree MJoct realizes more and more that the ne understanding and practical applica. tion of the Science of Christianity affords the only definite way out of the many problems which confront : and perplex humanity today. u Nineteen centuries ago hn great acher of Nazareth pointed the way toate gut of human élscords, and rightfully pmmit- has ever been called “The Way : shower.” But have mortals really am accepted Jesus as the practical Way: shower out of aught but sint Have meu t they looked on him as the greatest aed | healer of disease that the world has i coall- ta rules can i doth neral fhting. in the vision nly as nedi- fifth k- little vote 197, and that on the shores of the Galilean lake were given scientific rul which, when put into operation, would solve here and now the knotty problems of human existence, of cap- ital and labor, of supply and demand, problems of men and of nations? In a word, have mortals been sruns naturally to the teachings of Jesus to find the present-day salvation from evil? PRESENT-DAY SALVATION If a bit of personal reminiscence Is permissible, I would say that our family, though conscientious chureh goers always, never supposed their| sense of Christianity capable of sup-| planting their quinine and calomel in | @ case of sickness. Such a thought would have been labeled speedily as not " fetched and ! yuite unconsciously, I am sure, we } emplified the sentiment of the man } 44 @we: our many hu n was an excel. rried too far, and to interefere with irs of life! But be- cause we did not carry our religion far enough and all to permeat the innermost details of dally exper: fence, we encountered seemingly un solvable problems of sickness, lack, and other forms of inharmony. It was not an uncommon sight to see a member of our family return fi church, go promptly to bed, an for some strong me her to overcome ; caused by overwroght emotions. We knew not in those days that emotion. alism was the product of the carnal mind, and not of the divine Mind, and that the simple, sweet message of Christ Jesus should heal head aches and still the turbulent emo- tions. In fact the good news brought by Christian Science to'a suffering world fs that a scientific understand- Ing of the teachings of Jesus of Naz- areth can begin who said that reli, Jent thing if n was not allowec the practical a! ow to enable aris and find answers n problems; that Christianity mus ve men from a future hel m a pres. ent hell—the hell of sickness, lack fear, hate, and all its unlovely etcet- eras; that heaven, the reign of har- mony, is possible in ever-creasing de- gree here and Let us consider for a moment one of the many examples given us in the Scriptures of Jesus’ simple, and yet to our sense marvelous handling of & problem of sickness, © one of his early healings as recorded in Luke's gospel. Hoe is besought to help the mother of Simon's wife, who is seemingly gravely itl. arently the Master makes no inquiries as to the symptor cause of ¢ malady, n does he de sire to take her temperature or feel her pulse. Let us see what hap-| pened, as recorded fever; and of con. r not y she tin ver the the THE SICK? his mighty ¥v t a it Pr Understood when he re comon sense. | fg | but we is very day to un-| does not ask for the| stilled storms, overcame subdued materiality? MRS, EDDY'S HEALING EXPERLENCES These questions began to form themselves in the thought of Mary Baker Eddy at an early age, She was a deeply religious child, and has written that she would listen with Joy to the assurance of her spiritu: allyminded mother that God was able to raiso her up from sickness (Sclence and Health, p, 359), And she not only had proofs of this with herself, but on‘one occasion when a mere alip of a girl she subdued an insane man, It seems that an es. caped lunatic rushed Into the school: yard where ‘the little Mary Baker was playing, The man waa violent, brandishing above his head a club. The children fled in terror—all but Mary Baker, She walked quietly up to him and took his hand. Instantly his manner changed, The arm with the club dropped to his side, and he walked with her quietly to the gate, In later years, but before the light of Christian Science had streamed in its fulness upon her thought, a woman brought a child to Mrs, Eddy, laid it on her knees, and begged her to ask God to cure its blindness. ‘Mrs. Eddy has stated that she lifted her thought to God and returned the child to its mother, assuring her that God ts able to keep His children. The mother looked at the chiki's eyes and | they were healed.’ The Life of Mary Baker Eddy by Sibyl Witbur, p. 70) THE DISCOVERY OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Tt can be seen plainly that the Idea of Christian healing had been bud- ding throughout Mrs. Eddy's earthly experience, and therefore it was per- fectly natural years after, when she found herself near the gates of death, again to turn her thougths to- wards spiritual ald. She called for | the Bible and opened to the ninth | chapter of Matthew. As she read the story of the healing of the man sick of the palsy, the great truth for which she had been searching all her life began to dawn upon her thought. She begun to touch the hem of the garment of the healing Christ, and |to glimpse the answer to the age-old |auestion, “What is truth?’ In that |#lorious moment, and tn the months jand years of consecrated searching and praying that followed, there was unfolded to Mrs. Eddy Jesua’ method of healing, what Jesus must have | thought and understood and prac- |ticed. In proof of this she not only | found herself well, but with this un- |derstanding she was able to heal fothers. In fact, many of Mrs. Eddy‘s demonstrations of healing are as re. markable as those which are record- }ed in the Acts of the Apostles. Of such healings she speaks in her writings very briefly and modestly, find that cancer, consymp- tion, hip disease, insanity, the mor. phine and opium habits, and many other forms of ain and sickness all | Went down speedily before her reall. | zation of the might and glory of the | Word of God. | THE CHRISTIAN | SCIENCE TEXTBOOK @ set about sharing with lack, and Then the world her discovery, and in the |textbook, “Science and Health with | Key to the Scriptures,” and in what are now calied her lesser writings, |we find revealed the Science by | which Jegus, the apostles, and the |Prophets unquestionably did their |mighty works, The best Christian | Science lecture that could |be delivered would consist simply in jreading to you from these inspired books; but the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's writings should be studied, pondered, and prayed over rather than given only the hasty consideration posible in the few moments alloted for this jlecture. If any who listen to this Less are led to become sincere | students of the God-inspired writings, our time today will have been well |*pent; for the man, woman, or child who is willing to study Mra, Eddy's works and begin to put into practice the truths he learns therein, stands indeed at the threshold of a new life. In Science and Health (p. 224) we |read: “A higher and more practical | Christianity, demonstrating justice and meeting the needs of mortals in sickness and in health, stands at the door of this age, knocking for ad- nission. Will you open or close the jdoor upon this angel visitant, who |cometh in the quiet of meekness, as he came of old to the patriarch at joonday? WHAT IS TRUTH On the flyleaf of the textbook Mrs. Eddy has quoted these familiar words of Christ Jesus, “Yo shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.’ Here is the rule left by the master Metaphysician for the solving of every problem of hu- man experience. All these years it has stood, and all these years have Is looked on it and then passed mort it by, uttering again Piltae’s plaint, jut what is truth?’ If therefore this Christian Science textbook un- ks that great treasure-house of tual understanding, the Bible, a r is the answer to thi ™| question “What js truth?” {s it not | well called “the Key to the Scrip- | tures” THE BASIS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Webster defines the word ‘‘truth’’ s the “real state of things; fact; lity; actual being or nature.’ wi r to find the “real stato f thin nd man’s ctual being or nature’? Mrs, Eddy very properly ais thought to the contemplation ening chapter of the Bible ter in the Christian Science titled “Genesis’’ conta Joubt the most remarkable interpretation of Scripture It emphasizes the fact that the first and second chapters of c esis are to be found two * records of creation; the 1 h the spiritual, real ind the second set legory Silustrative of ception of God ‘and 1 the facts of being set forth t chapter, however, the t takes his stand, THE GOODNESS ponsibly | THE SEATTLE STAR DELIVERS LECTURE ON PAGE 15 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE | work appears, wo read that ‘God saw that It waa good.'' How could it be otherwise, when the very name of the creator, God, means in the Anglo-Saxon, good! Now Jesus has taught us that God is Spirit, the op: posite of the material and Solence and Health amplifies this with the statement that Spirit must be Mind, tho all-knowing intelligence, Bo in the first chapter of Genesis wo find that the creator, infinite Mind or Spirit, which is infinitely good, is cre ating man and the universe like Him. se}f, The great first cause, being good, the offect must be good. We read: “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion oyer the fish of tho sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over ali the varth, . . . And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, It was very good," SPIRITUAL VERSUS MATERIAL CREATION ‘But,’ may interpowe some one at this point, “does not this refer to the Adam-man mentioned in the next chapter?’ Let the Scriptures an- wer this query, We read that Adam was formed of the dust of the ground, was material, and became a living (material) soul, apparently capable of knowing good and evil; whereas the man of the first chapter is not ma- terial but mental, spiritual, for he ts made in the likeness of God, Spirit, Mind, and bas been given dominion over all things, These two records of creation are as far apart ay the poles, THE ADAM.DREAM ‘There is to be found In the second chapter of Genesis a simple state- ment that apparently has been over. looked by theologians and Bible scholars all these years, a statement, however, of vast import, for it tells us In a few words all we need to know about Adah and materiality. The verse reads: “But there went up & mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the groun And then with the coming of a mist appeared material man, capable of sinning, being sick, and dying. In Science and Health (p. 523) Mra. Eddy desoribes this mist as ‘myst! fication," the opposite of understand. ing. So, while the man of the first chapter of Genesis proceeds from God, the all-knowing Mind, the Adam man comes with mystification, and ts formed of dust. Soon we read that & deep sleep falls upon Adam, and here is another point that many have overlooked: there is no mention of the fact that Adam ever awakened! So In the textbook (p. 306) Mrs. Eddy refers to material sense as the *“Adam-dream,” in which all man- |kind seems to be enmeshed, and from which it needs to be awakened. THE ADAM AND EVE ALLEGORY At this point some one may nak, “So the Christian Sclentist discards entirely the second chapter of Gen esis?" Not at all. As stated before, ho regards it ax a remarkable allo-| |wory, depicting the results of dwell-| ing in the mist of material sense, | rather than in the sunlight of divine | Truth. How marvelously does this| | narrative parallel the experiences of |mortals today! ‘Truly mortal man‘s| origin is shrouded in mist, in ignor. ance. He known not why or whence he comes, nor whither he goes. ‘Tho| {serpent, evil, subtly suggests that he |is sick or unhappy or poverty-atrick en, or is in bondage to sin, and when} he eats of the fruit of this sugges. | tion, his eyes seem closed to spiritual sense, and open only to the argu ments of error. Thus does he allow |the mesmeriam of the serpent, evil, to drive him out of his garden of jEden. No, the Christian Scientist | finds many grand, helpful lessons in jthe Adam and Eve allegory; but he| hever confuses this story with the| scientifically spiritual account of cre. Jation found in the first chapter of Genesis, where harmony reigns, where man ts Godlike, and all cre. ation ts good. SEEING THE TRUTH ABOUT MAN In the book of Ecclesiastes, tho distinction between God's man and the material concept Is clearly drawn, where we read, “Lo, this only have I found, that God bath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.” A little child had listened to the reading of that verse, and it had impressed him greatly. hortly after he found his grand mother had taken to her bed, and seemed to be quite fll. The little fel. low appeared perplexed for a time, but finally went to the bed and said| gravely: ‘Grandmother, don't you know that God made you up right? He did not make you up wrong!’ This then ts tho glorious truth that mortals are learning in Christian Sci ence: that mankind need only turn from the mist—the evidence of the material senses—to the great spirit. ual facts of being as stated in the first chapter of Genesis, to find the truth which maketh free. Mrs, Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 171): “Through discernment of the spirit ual opposite of materiality, even the way through Christ, Truth, man will |reopen with the key of divine Scl- jence the gates of Paradise which hu- man beliefs have closed, and will find himself unfallen, upright, pure, Jand free, not needing to consult al | manacs for the probabllities either of | his life or of the weather, not need. ing to study brainology to learn how | much of a man he 1s.” | THE ORIGIN OF EVIL Here the question may be raised, f you Insist that the truth about man {s that he ts spiritual and not material, where does this material or Adam-se of things co from?" | When Christian Science states | material sense is only another namo |for the Adam-dream, {t says all that there is to be sald on the subject |One does not analyze a dream, one| merely awakens out of it; and when | one is thoroughly awake, he pursues | his dream-phantom no further. The| question as to the seeming origin of evil can be answered therefore only by spiritual awakening and growth lin understanding. When one has a clear-cut proof of healing in Chris. | tian Science; when some picture of discord which has seemed so real and powerful has faded into nothingness before the blaze of Truth, then and not until then will this question be | satisfactorily answered. Along this line an almost humorous passage of | Scripture is to be found in the Book of Job. You remember that there | was a day when the sons of God were | supposed to present themselves be OF CREATION |fore the Lord, and the record states | What a glorious picture of creation| that Satan came also among them.| nin g chapter of|Then the Lord says to Satan, c ent ‘evil is here,| ‘Whence comest thou Hear the f kne sin, nor death;| illuminating response, ‘From going as each object of God's handi-Jto and fro in tho earth, and from ————< | wornan’s Jand turning from ain, the Master un | that will bear repeating. whowe childhood had been spent tn al walking up and down in {t''! Here evil betrays its emptiness and power: loannens. It has no law, no source, no reason for existing, no object, It {9 as Josus said in his ringing do nunclation, "A murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there Is no truth in (ity."" Horo then ts tho Christian Selen- tint's warrant for denominating evil 4 He, a fraudulent sense, and never the product of a loying and all-wine Father, ‘This does not mean, how: ever, that the intelligent Christian Scientist airily waves evil to one side, and says, "Oh, there Is no sin, 80 why worry about it? He ts taught to handle tho serpeht of ain by bring: ing it out from its hiding place, see- ing that {t confers no satisfaction, and then turning from It with loath ing, if not with tears of repentance, In no ono thing doos Christian Sel- ence prove itself more divine than in tts combined sternness and com: passion in its treatment of sin, We read In the textbook, “Expose and denounce the claims of evil and din. ease in all their forma, but realize no reality in them" (p. 447). Ab, there is the task difficult to the average mortal, accustomed an he ix to ac- cording power and reality to evil, and condemnation to the sinner rather than the sin, Yet nothing short of this can be termed true Christian healing of sin. AN EXAMPLE OF HEALING OF SIN Take for example Jesus’ healing of the woman taken in adultery, The selfrighteous scribes and Pharisees endeavor to secure from the Master JESUS’ * | endorsement of their hard rule of “an an eye, and a tooth for a But he stoops and writes on the ground, making no reply. Fin- ally, in response to thelr insistent demands for an expression of his views, he says very almply, ‘‘He that ts without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her," And again he leans forward and with his finger traces words in the sand, Tradition has It that Jesus wrote the secret sins of the accusers, and they one by one stole quietly away when their evil doings were uncovered. Is it not comforting to note, at this point, that the Master wrote these sins tn sand Instead of chiseling them in a rock? Then the Scripture tells us that he lifted up himself and saw none but the woman, and then delivered that message of compassion and healing that has rung down the centuries, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more."’ What did Jesus see when he “lifted up himself''? Cer. talnly not a sinning, weak, imperfect daughter of Adam, but the sinless, spotions image of God which had just seemed hidden by the Adam-mist, and his recognition of the truth of being dispelled the false picture and set the ptive free. Having discerned in the thought true repentance v the evil, and thus took away Its seeming power, SEPARATING EVIL FROM MAN A few years ago there appeared in one of our periodicals an {ilustration A woman country where wild beasts frequently came near her dwelling told of a curious plaything some children had. It was a Mirge snake, and was quite harmless, the children finding great sport in picking it up and winding it about their bodies. It scems that the snake could not crush an object within {ts tolls unless at the same time it could attach itself to another object such as a post or & tree. like the argum How nt of the one evil is this! The moment wo allow the ser: pent of sin to attach itself to @ brother or sister, at that moment does {t seem to have power. If, on the other hand, we refuse to neo It a8 personal, as attached to person, or having anything to do with man, we render it impotent, harmless, ‘and ripe for destruction. What joyous, harmonious work in thelr homes, their offices, and thelr churches may Christian Sclentista expect to see when they awaken to the privilege | and necessity of detaching evil from their brother-man! no Christian Scientist can give an other what 1s called a treatment without the others’ knowledge and consent, he can, nevertheless, live so close to God, and keep his thought so filled with the glorious truths of the first chapter of Genosis, that the moment he is tempted to believe that the serpent of sin or disease is at taching Itself to a brother, he will speedily relegate such suggestion to the nothingness from whence it came In the presence of such Christly thinking, evil flees, and harmony is manifested as surely today as in Christ Jesus’ time. BEARING WIT) TO THE TRUTH Let the right thinker be not dis mayed because he seems to be many times hopelessly in the minority. The Scripture tells us that a thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one—a thousand Adam-concepts of ain, sick ness, and discord shall be routed by one clear, consecrated declaration of the truth. Jesus summed up his ministry in this terse sentence, “To this end was I born, cs me I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth." He did not say that he had come to fight the great power of sin, nor the reality of matter, but had come to bear witness to the facts of being And when ho bore this faithful wit- ness, the Adam-mist of sickness and error was dissipated. Here Is a com. 186 forting message to the burdened Christian Belence practitioner, Let] him not be bowed down with th cares and woes of his patients, and the weight of terrifying and so-called incurable diseases. His is not the work of the material physician, fight- ing this germ and struggling with that untoward condition. He is called to a caso only to bear faithful wit ness to the truth, to resist the temp. tation to believe that there is any other than the beautiful harmonious | creation of the first chapter of Gen esis, and to know that all that really is happening Is tho glorification of God, good. Being engaged, therefore, only in the work of witnessing, he is able to cast all burdens and re- sponsibilities at the feet of the Fath er, and, as the hymn says, “‘béar a song away.’’ Such a holy realization inevitably uncovers evil, brings it to irface, and enables one to rele. it to the »-heap of oblivion. A REMARKAB! HEALING OF SIN Let me cite here a caso of healing thoroughly authenticated, hi unde ing enables one of sin, ich of Christian Science While of course | and for this| practically to lift the burden of ain and condemnation from his brether- man, and set him free, A few yearn ago, when Christian Scientists began holding services in a certain large state prison, there was confined in that priaon one of the most desperate and feared convicts In the state, We shall call him John Henry, as his own name might be remembered by many, Ho became so ungovernable in the prison and attempted'so many escapes, that It became necessary to place him in solitary confinement where ho remained a number of years, Tho two Christian Scientists who acted as readers at the prison norvices lieard of this prisoner and asked permission of the captain of the guard to see him, This was free ly granted, and the Sclontints, accom: panied by the captain, went into the dungeon, Thero sat John Henry, looking more Ike a savage beast than a human being. ‘The Scientists looking paxt the Adam-appearance, and endeavoring to know the only man there was, was the expression of good, addressed him kindly and added, “You have a friend here in the captain.’ Jobn Henry did not raiso his eyes, “I have not a friend in tho world!" he muttered bitterly. “Ah, but you have," replied one of the Scientists, ‘‘and I can prove it to you. Tho captain ts your friend, we are your friends, because we want to help you.” A friend! That magic word brought probably the first touch of love that starved and hard. ened heart had known for years, and tears came into John Henry's eyes. The Scientists, being food metaphys- foal gardeners, knew that the seed of Truth had been planted, so they de. parted, leaving some Christian Sct- ence literature for him to read. Almost immediately the guards about the privon began to notice a wonderful change in John Henry's thought. The following Sunday he was allowed to come to the Christian Science servico held in the prison, There ho heard read from the Bible and Science and Health healing state- ments about God and man, with never a word of condemnation for the ninner, but only condemnation for the sin, Ho heard that glorious declara- tion of the Apostie John, read at the clone of every Christian Science Sun- day service, “Beloved, now are we the sons of God’! The Adam-mist begun fading away, and the child of God began to appear, Within six months this desperate criminal had jbeen transformed into one of the | most trusted men in the prison. I had the privilege sometime after of lecturing in this institution, and |was talking to the men about the parable of the Prodigal Son. After describing the Prodigal’s plight, when “he would feign have filled his beily with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him," | 1 said to my audience, “Men, where jwan that man?’ A clear strong |¥olce answered me. “In hell.” It |was the voice of Jolin Henry. Ho knew all about it for he had been jthere. But there was triumph and | Joy in John Henry's yoice, for he had found through Christian Science |hin way out of hell. ‘The prodigal |had como back to hia Father's home, About a year and a half after John | Henry had first heard of Christian Science, the warden of the prison |ment word to him that he waa ready |to recommend hjm for a parole. But |John Henry would not accept it. The | walls of the Institution were not | prison walls to him! His prison. |house had been sin and ignorance, and Truth had brought him forth from this dungeon long since. So today he is still serving his sentence, jand is in the eyes of men still a con. | vict; but one of tho freest, most joy- | ous sons of the King I have ever met is this sume John Henry! He has elected to stay where he is, as ho feels he can be of more help to his brother-man in this prison than out jof it. He now ts able to do healing |work for his fellow-inmates, and is showing many of them their way out of bondage, out of the belief that |there is any real satisfaction in sin After all, what more is there to sin? | Mrs. Eddy writes in ‘Miscellaneous Writings” (p. 90), “The power of sin |is the pleasure in sin, Take away |this pleasure, and you remove all reality from its power." THE CAUSE OF DISEASE Let us now consider the applica- | tion of the truth of being, as revealed | in Christian Science, to a case of sick- ness. In the first place, the Scientist does not ask to see tho patient's |tongue, but to discern what ts in his thought. He has learned in the text- book that ‘‘fear, ignorance, or sin'’ is tho causo of all disease Science jand Health, p. 411), 80 he goes at | once to the root of the difficulty. The | material physician becomes greatly |concerned over the presence of this | germ or of that infection; but does he see the germs of fear, of despair, of heartache, or condemnation that jare the actual cause of the discord? |As for surgery, only the sword of | Spirit, the Word of God, can truly | remove the poison-c of hate and |fear from the human consciousness, |Thus it 1s that the man healed in |Christian Science 1s not only im. | proved materinily, but ts inevitably |lifted higher spiritually, |AN STANCE OF | HEALL DF SICKNESS The following case of healing came under my observation some time ago, and illustrates how the spiritual ide of being comes like an angel visitant to the sufferer, and awakens him to the glorious realization of his free. dom as the child of God. A woman had been battling for some days with a condition which physicians might have called inter the {ll was conquered, back 1t would| seem to come with increased violence | Both husband and wife were clinging |to the truth of being, and endeavor ing to speak to the diseaso “as one }having authority,’ but there was ed in making a living. His living |something lacking. ‘They repeated|is already made, for God is his Life, jwords, but the realization of the| ever-present, full, and free. Just as |truth of their statements was want-|a ray of light may be said to be in Jing, and discouragement threatened|the business of expressing the sun, to overwhelm them. Ono day, after a rather encouraging morning, the | husband came home to find the wife Jagain prostrated, her cheeks aflame | with the fever and crying as though |her heart would break. ‘Oh,'’ she said, “I don't believe I shall ever be healed!’ ‘The husband sat beside her for a few moments, and thon a light broke in upon his thought. ‘'I know what is needed in this family,"* he declared. ‘‘We have been saying words, only words! We have been mittent fever, She seemed quite il1,|marts of trade than today? Have | but she and her husband were Chris.|mqn and women practicing Christian tian Sclentists and wero bravely |Scienco in business ever been more fighting it out along spiritual lines, | necessary? Were there ever such op- and resortin to no material rem.|portunities for healing hate and edies. The fever would come and xo, | greed, for stilling fear, for promoting come and go, and Just when they felt|healthy, loving relations between making these great statements about God und man, and haye not thanked | God that they are true. What we neod here in more of the medicine of gratitude!"’ “1 do not seo anything to be grateful for," nald the wife, still weeping. ‘Then,’ said the hus- band, “suppose we begin counting the blessings which have come to us since we have known Christina Sel- ence." Proof after proof of God's care and protection was cited, but no sound came from the bed, ‘Now,’ continued the husband, “let us thank God for the healings we know others have had." A voice from the bed Joined him in this, for it was easy to remember other people's healings. “And now we come to our greatest cause for gratitude,” sald the hus- band. “Let us thank God, as did Jesus at the tomb of Lazarus, that the Father has heard us, Lat us thank Him that we are whole and free now, no matter what the ma- terlal senses are reporting. Thank Him that the law of good ts the only law governing us, and that this ple- ture which has seemed so real ia only a part of the Adam-dream, Let us thank Him that this error is really not going on, Thank Him that we are awake!’ By this time the wife was working with him, and after pos- aibly fifteen minutes he put his hand on the brow that had been so hot. It was moist. ‘The eyes were bright, ‘The fever had gone, never to return. Gratitude, therefore, may be said to be the algn that one truly has reached the realization of the truth which he declares. THE HEALING OF “FINANCIAL SICKNESS” Lat us now consider the case of a man ‘‘financlally sick,” or who may be said to have ‘‘a sick business." Can this spiritual understanding of creation help him? Even #o, Pos- stbly every business man will agree that a higher, happier, and more hopeful view of things would work wonders In the business world. No realm is more susceptible to mental Influences than the so-called business world. Superstition, fear, doubt, and panic find easy access thereto, and if not checked and nullified by the ac- Uon of Truth, these may work much mischief with the Individual, the com- munity, or the nation, Should it be thought unreasonable that the Word of God, the reflection of infinite Mind, which in Jesus’ time stilled storms and raised the dead, should be able in our day to quiet fear, re. store confidence, bring about har- mony In an organization, and pro- mote and bring to success a righteous business venture? Christ Jesus once said, “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me."* The reason for the failure of many a business man lies in the fact that Instead of being lifted up from the earth, as the son of the King should be, he is wearing still the liv- ery of Adam, and carrying about an atmosphere of gloom and fear and fon that repels rather than at- ‘T HAST THOU IN TH Have you ever read in the Bible the story of the poverty-stricken widow who, as creditors were about | to take her sons to be bondsmen, ap- | pealed to Elisha for help? You will recall that the prophet meets her ap- peal in quite an unexpected and un usual manner, He says, “What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house?" She replies that she has nothing save a pot of oil.! He then tells her to secure as many { vessels as she can, go into her house, shut the door, and begin pouring out the oil, She is obedient, and in the great manifestation of abundance that follows, every vessel is filled. Here may be seen an instance of the marvelous light which the study of | Christian Sclence throws upon the | criptures. We learn in Christian | | Science that “house’’ may be likened | to one’s consciousness, while ‘‘ofl"* typifies “consecration; charity; ge prayer; heavenly inspiration (Science and Health, p. 592). 'There- fore when we are confronted with the ‘gument of lack, hard times, fear, loss, and so on, and we turn to Chri tion Science for relief, the first mes- sage is, Look within! What have we in our mental homes? The first temp- tation is to say bitterly, ‘Nothing! Ah, but have we not a little ofl that we can begin pouring? Cannot we pour forth a little more charity to our business associates, a little more gentleness in the home, a little more prayer and consecration to the heay- enly Father? To our amazement we find that the difficulty was not from without at all; it was within, Some ono has aptly si “The hole through which you give is the hole through which you get." If we have provided no outlet for the streams of love and gratitude, how then can one expect a great inflow of good? The Scripture gives us a definite law on this subject. It says, “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, and prove me now herewith, {th the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it THE FATHE! BUSIN One often hears a business man who is a Christian Scientist sigh to get away from material business, as he calls {t, and give all his. time to holier work. It is well to remind each other that whatever enterprise is meeting one of the world’s légiti mate needs may truly be denomi- nated “the Father's ‘business,’ be such work the making of shoes, or tho healing of tho sick. Was there ever a time when the Science of Christianity was more needed in the employer and employee, as exist to ? What a joyous business is the her's business! Divine Mind is the | nager, the counselor, the unfall- ing source of supply. Man {s not en- 80 man's purpose is the eternal giori tying and expressing of good. This cannot mean a settling into a supine inactivity, but a rousing to the great. Jest activity one has ever known: activity devoid of fear, service, an and joyous in This may involve a frequent consultation with the Head of the firm, a listening for His voice, and aclinging to His hand; and how burdens roll from the shoulders of the business man who thus keeps in close touch with the great Employer! | has! A \ttle Australian lad, out for walk with his mother, was attacked by a rather savuge dog. In fact the dog's Jaws cloned about the lad’s leg. Instead of screaming the little fellow id clamly, addressing the animal, What do you think you are doing? Instantly the dog released the leq and #lunk away, The child raised a beaming face to his mother, ‘'Mum mie," he sald, ‘isnt’ tt great not to be afraid of dogs!’ And the man or woman in business, clinging to the hand of Love divine, and leaning on the arm of omnipotence, can say again and again, “Dear Father, isn't it great not to be afrald any more!’ ‘When men and nations learn the les- won of seeking and relying on the one Mind, when employers learn tt, when the humblest employee learns it, may we not expect to nee the solv- ing of the problems of the individual, the state, yes, the world? RIGHT THINKING THE SOLUTION Thinking men of every shade of creed and politics agree that in a quickening of the world’s religious or spiritual sense lies the salvation of the perplexed and war-weary hu- man family. And there they stop. And there Christian Science begins, for it alone offers that practical sal- vation which begins with the individ. ual's thinking, and In renovating and splritualizing this is destined to saye both men and nations. Right think- ing, therefore, is the remedy; and when you have @ right-thinking Indi- vidual or a right-thinking nation, you find health and harmony and peace, THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PRACTITIONER “But,” may say some one at this point, “I know of a case that Chris. tion Science did not save. How do you account for that?’ The textbook gives the answer very simply and directly. It says: “If you fail to suc- ceed in any case, it {s because you have not demonstrated the life of “hrist, Truth, more in your own life, —because you have not obeyed the rule and proved the Principle of di- vine Scienco'’ (p. 149.) Christian Scl- entists admit with regret, but not dis- couragement, their fallure to meas- ure up to the Christ-Ideal in-all cases. However, they are overwhelmingly grateful for the progress already made, and ask mankind to be patient while they strive for that Mind “which was also in Christ Jesu: Possibly this is good reason why those under Christian Science treat- ment are called ‘‘patients’’; the suf- ferers are asked to be patient while their practitioners strive for that re- flection of infinite Love which will melt away the mist of mortal bellef, and reveal the harmonious man of God's creating. THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PATIENT “Then the patient has no respon- sibility, no particular work to do?’ may ask some inquirer. Indeed he Suppose a ship has gone on the rocks several hundred feet from shore, and a survivor clings to a masthead of the submerged vessel, calling for help. Then suppose a rope is thrown to him by one on the land eager to rescue him. The man on the wreck apparently takes hold of the rope, but pull as he may the friend on shore cannot budge him. Soon he discovers that while the man has one hand on the rope with |the other he is clutching the mast. |The rescuer calls out, “Let go that | wreck! Put both hands on the rope, and I can pull you in!” Rather reluc- tantly the other obeys. But soon again there is trouble. The rope slips from his hands, and with difficulty he re- gains it. This time {t appears that he is trying to carry ashore some cherished possession—a bundle of valuable garments—and in his eager ness to cling to it he loses the rope. “Drop everything and hold to the rope if you would be saved!"’ shouts the rescuer. Again, reluctantly he obeys, and soon is brought safely to land. To his great joy he finds in the home of his rescuer better gar- ments than those he was compelled to give up. Here ‘unquestionably is food for thought. Let those under Christian Science treatment ask themselves: Am I clinging to the wreck? Are both hands on the rope of spiritual understanding oi have I one hand on the belief that this or that medicine or opetation may save me? Have I cast from me the en- tangling mental garments of self- pity, self-love, and self-will? Am I trying to take with me into the king: dom of heaven some cherished opin- fons, some preconceived notions of which I have been rather proud, or some material indulgence? . Be not afraid to rid yourselves of these un- lovely hindrances to progress, for di- vine Love has more beautiful mental garments awaiting you than you dream of. If the patient prays for receptivity, and teachable- |ness, and the practitioner strives for the Mind of Christ, then may they say in the language of Paul, ‘‘Who can be against us?" THE CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST NOT DISMAYED Picture, if you will, a Iife-saver he- roically battling with the waves in the effort to pull ashore a ship- wrecked man or woman. | Then imagine, if you can, others standing on tho shore, and instead of encour- aging the rescuer and assisting in the grand work of rescue, jeering and taunting the rescuer, criticizing his methods and predicting disaster. A rather unthinkable picture, is it not? And yet this very thing happens in thousands of instances daily when some earnest Christian Scientist at- tempts the work of rescue for a ship- wrecked brother or sister. Material medicine scoffs, old theology hurls its anathema, the worldly-minded mneer and shrug their shoulders; and, in spite of all this, the mck and sin- ning and heart-broken are being res cued in ever-increasing numbers, What glorious quick healing work may we expect to seo with increased consecration on the part of practi- tioner and patient, and a lessened hatred and intolerance with the on- looking brethren not of our fold, Bo the Christian Science lifesaver re- fuses to be dismayed or discouraged. He is grateful that he is doing as well as he ts, and prays for undere | standing and grace to do better work in the future, Dare he even admit that those who have passed from our sight, battling to the last moment as good Christian warriors, have gone down in defeat? Never! Mrs. says of such woldiers, that they have gained ‘a rich blessing, of disbelief in death, and a higher realization of heaven” (Miscellany, p. 267). Bo fear not, and despair not, whether you are the rescuer or the one being res- cued! ‘Oft there comes a gentle whisper ‘o'er me stealing, When my trials or my burdens seer too great, Like the sweet-voiced bells of eve- ning, softly pealing, It {s saying to my spirit, ‘Only walt!’ “When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate; Still I hear that gentle whisper, ever pleading” ‘God is faithful, God ts working; only wait!’ ‘When the promise seems to linger, long delaying, And I tremble lest perhape it comes too late— Then I hear the gentle whisper ever “Though it tarry, it is coming; only walt!’ “Oh, how little soon will seem our hardest sorrow, And how trifling {s our present brief estate! Could we see it in the light of Love's tomorrow, Oh, how easy !t would be for us to wait!" This ss not a plea to postpone our deliverance to a future heaven, but to strengthen faith to lay hold on spiritual blessings here and now, and courageously and unfalteringly to keep on demanding man’s birthright of dominion until it is made manifest. Do Christian Scientists demand the joy and good that are their God- given heritage? Many seem to think that joy is like a capricious butter. fly which may or may not flutter in upon them; whereas joyousness is part and parcel of man’s real na- ture, and mortals must learn to claim it as vigorously as they demand free- dom from pain and sin. The joyleas Christian Scientist still wanders in the mist and in the maze of the Adam-dream. 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