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PAGE 4 THE SEATTLE STAR =a MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1924 The following lecture on Chris Beience. Jor of London, England, Membe Foard of Lectureship of Tt Church, The First Churc Scientist, in Host livered Saturiay eve Temple to a large « GOD'S PROTECTION OF CREATION Te one of her 5 Eddy, the Discoverer @f Christian Science. God tn these we guards the light!" Aisce 9), Mrs. Rady that if God. divine @R ever pres: tty, every y John W, Doorly, C. 8. B., | Moth of Chr at Mason Mass Mary i Fe has written fas ¢ under reftestion that | Poul re at once } OF MORTAL TENCE Love, was someor ava’ and where al ext would fa enc ft t seemed t her an man’s iguorance d ve, It individual tr at mortality tha’ the perish was only ngs to & false sense of creation, but mortal or matertal thinking the result of mortal thinking, mortal so-called ex! Christian Be ence points o: in this so-called materia! exist *, God ts believed to be separate Mis creation and evi dence of mortal aad ef the fact that Was natural th Who recognized so clearly the near Rees and dearness of God as L even in the smallest affairs of 1 ri t ence © om. kind, such as nestling’s His creation {s supposed to be should have been stil! more cons quite unlike the creator, and to Of the willingness and ability of to have life and he apart from Wine Love to take care of His h the creator. Chrt fence de @nd more important creation lares that the onl al explan On the other hand, the false « ‘ Taw sense ef mortals about God dstence have caused them to regard is to explain it away and the dem God as a being who cither cannot or as Goes not take care of His creation BAG who does not preserve His ere ation intact from ev calamity Byven « little thought on this subje Would convence anyone that th > whom Christ Jesus ts men Was the same God of whom Mra, Ed. | tlon Lat 1 then, 1 @y waa writing tn her poem. Did vine Love, has throughout the ages Jesus not say, “Are not two sparrows | manifested Himself through spirttual old for a farthing? and one of |ly-minded men and women or throug! them shall not fal! on the gro’ His creation, to deliver mankind from its dream of mortality or from wrong mental condition. also how God is to-day tmpeliing men and we men to express the nature of I of Spirit, and of Mind, in order that humanity may be made free from mortality GOD, THE ONLY SOURCE AND CAUSE It ts afways the purpose of Chris itlan Selence to show that every ac tivity that ts for the good of ma kind originates tn God, in dtvi Love, that such activities for abide in God and that they are a! ways of the Father; also that th express the power and the presen of God. The Christian Scientist, fact, knows that all good expressed, or by whomsor ex . js but a manifestation or ex pression of God's nature; he conse quently understands that \ 3 the Father that doeth the works. Stu. dents of the Scriptures will recognize at once that holy men and women of olf always attributed every good thing to God; whatever was accomp- jlished for the good of mankind they jalways recognized as the operation jand activity of God, divine Love, ex pressing Himself through spiritually minded men and women {n proportion Without your Father, But the very hairs of your head are al) numbered. Wear ye not therefore, yo are of More value than many sparrows”? » Did Jesus mean that God either caus. OF permitted the sparrows to fall the ground, or did he mean thet 7 3€ even to mortal sense the sparrows eemed to fal! and perish, that “BS that incident was not of Fa ther, it was not an actual happening Mrom a divine standpoint, but was ‘only a fleeting phenomenon of the ove a e mind; likewise, if any calam. seemed to happen to man, even small an incident as the loss of ame hair, since such an occurrence NWas unlike God's law of infinite Life ‘wind Love, it was not a part of God's Wernal law, in which man ts held And sustained perfect and eternal, = but it was simply a false concept of Mortals? Judged by ordinary human | @ense testimony, Jesus’ statements H@o not seem to be in accord with ‘everyday happenings. Then where the discrepancy? Are the state “Ments of Christ Jesus with regard God's infinite protection for His and the later statements of ly on this subject, incorrect, Are the experiences of mortals ble? If the answer to this on be left to Christian Science, without any hesitation that statements of Christ Jesus and Mrs. Eddy are not only correct “ity so in howeve: presse of true existence. Because of this right mental condition these men and Dut that they are essentially demon: | women were able to deliver mankind ; also that the experiences.and from some of its sins, some of Its Bsppenings of mortal existence are diseases, some of its sorrows, from only unreliable, but that a know: | its fear of death and sometimes from Of God as Love will prove them |itseif, Ig it not, then, logical to be ‘be false, fleeting, temporal, and jlieve that a clearer and more uni ble. Christian Science reminds versal understanding of God’ that the teachings of the Bible | nature and of His creation as being fort of spiritually-minded men and ‘Women, who were inspired by God, t@ bring to. human consciousness the | “fact that God is Love, the one pro- greater occasion for God to manifest Himself in human experience and so to deliver humanity from all of ite sins, all of its diseases, mil of its dieing, sustaining, impelling, and) tear ignorance, and worry, and Protecting Influence; also the fact | oventually from all of its bellef in that God, divine Love, is infinitely Wallable to men, that He io ever Present and omnipotent. Thee : ss show clearly that we do have to implore God to be God death? When mankind recognizes that every good thought and deed, or levery right mental condition, 1s born }of God, then mankind will under- stand that every true thought o every right mental activity must ex- esi to men, for they are {n-| press the power and the healing and ee ere GAY ge tne |Fedeeming ability of divine Love. | What the world needs to recognize Is | that God ts all, and does all; also that anything which ts not of Him, or anything that {s material and that is unlike Love, Spirit, or Mind, has not reality, presence, nor power, Then, in our glance backward at what we call history, or the progress of ctvil. ization, let us remember, fhat we are really beholding how God has re. vealed Himself through His creation is, that He 4s Love, and that ‘Love alone governs all being. Ignor- ‘ance of God as Love, who ts for. ‘ever mindful of His creation, has| ‘caused mankind to regard existence something unlike God or as a state of being apart from God, in which ‘4 law seems to play very little part, but in which fear, hate, evil of kind, and false mortal laws to predominate, Christian Sci-| ence teaches that all the woes of mankind come from ignorance of God, ignorance of divine Love, and tbat the proper understanding of God | 45 always God revealing or mani- = as Love will lead mankind out of | esting Himself, because all right ac- eeetel bondage of every kind. This |i ivity starts with and in forever in- a ing'wil! also convince men vi4s4 in God, Love. Spirit, Mind, ite sternal unity of God and His! fi. one and only cause or creator, eeeeee, 404 of Love's infinite will. | «4 is only expressed or reflected by Ingness and ability to care for and | jit" O1y © eee Fibs creation, GC\D'S REVELATION OF HIS | THE NATURE OF GOD AND HIS TRUE NATURB A CREATION In the first chapter of Genesis, __ Let us see, then, what Christian | where some revelator has recorded SBelence teaches about God and about |now he had perceived the. truth his creation; let us also consider the | shout God and about His creation, healing and redeeming nature of! by seven progressive revelations or Such facts. Christian Science teaches | visions of spiritual sense, which he ‘that God is divine Love, the creator | gescribes as seven days, he begins nd sustainer of all being; It further |nj4 record with thee words, “And Heaches that God {9 Spirit, as the|tne earth waa without form, and ‘Heriptures state, and it declares that “Spirit is divine Mind. Christian Sci- _enee, therefore, teaches logically that Love, Spirit, and Mind are synony- _ ous names for God. Christian Sci- "ence likewise explains that Gods’ cre- “ation is never unlike God and that} “it is never separated from God, but | portion as men were willing to under. of the deep.” If the revelator had spoken in present-day language he would probably have sald something to this effect, “And the whole of ex- istence seemed to be material, and ignorance of God and of spiritual reality seemed to predominate every- hat it 1s forever included in God, | where, . Then he gives the keynote tad that It ts entirely ike Him; also | o¢ nis reviation in these words, “And that it is through His creation God| tng spirit of God moved upon the expresses and reveals Himself. Chris- | tang of the waters.” in our present- tian Science, consequently, declares | aay language he would probably © shat true being is composed of God, | have said, “Truth operated to dispel b) Spd of God's manifestation or cre-| tits ignorance.” ‘The Important fact Which 1a forever expressing |tq be noticed here is that the revel- d revealing Him. Now what kind) ator aid not say that he had per: expression or creation would God, | ceived tho truth, although that erestor, have? Ho could have/wourg have been true from one point one kind of creation or expres. | o¢ view, but he traced the revelation which is exactly like Him. Con-!iack to its original source, God, and ntly, Christian Leaps teaches | he declared that “the Spirit of God God, who is a Pirit, Mind, | moved upon the tace of the waters," have a ne ty * expression tn like manner, throughout this ich is (eta i wathse ihn. whole chapter, every activity of lely Ike Spirit, ae 'y Hike Mind; |Truth js traced back to {ts original fact, He i a ‘sd Ms bi oer vource, God, and is deseribed thus, hich Paisiteat'ehd etwas vines "And God said...” Evidently tho always tion, moreover, |Tevelator realized that whatever he nental. ‘This creation, perceived which was true, the fact aust be inseparable trom God, the |itseif and the ability to perceive it, ‘ereator, for it is His manifestation jhaq poth originated In God; indeed, or reflection; and creation, conse: | he realized that Cod is all and doeg Atly, cam have no life, being, uc: lati, He therefore recognized the Im. ty, ae pees Mien} ihe i eaeee pease fact that all truth fa of God. ‘ 3 c jo later creator. Her, then, from the |"And the Tora lentist’s in! a the Scriptures state, said unto Noah, Como thou and all thy house into the ark.” || DELIVERS LE as they had perceived somewhat of | His true nature and of the nature! 40 some extent the record of the |i. tyim would provide an even| in a clearer and clearer way n pro: | jstand Him and to give up the false | lor mortal sense of existence, but it/ void; gnd darkness was upon the face | Here again ea of the ‘ rta with eothing’s faltering fight” (Minced In the twelfth chapter of Genesis we read, “Now the Lord had said Abram, Get thee out of thy airy, and from thy kindred, an from thy father’s house, unto a land t ill shew thee.” Undoubtedly at M recognized that his impulse ut where his un andy could be develop. ad in God, even be fore he was conscious of it. Abra m, in fact, was a willing mental had been forever in the divine Mind, 4, and that something was the pore of Love to heal and Would it not be true then, to say that what men knew ham, or what the world called yraham, was re in a degree God's manifestation of His own na ture through ‘ of His ideas? not be able to see more clearly ute unity 6f God and His cre nm if It would begin to recogn in true existence the mi r expression of God gically from God stead of drawing mortal existence? and to reason r from caus ms fr textbor nelus: In her and Health w 467), Mrs Key to Edd n this p ng from © of ad, which haa t 8 M expr it and learned from its opposite, matter.” The purpose of this lecture ts. which as ‘ore explained, to show that Ivity good thought nd deed, originates in God, forever ablde Him, and wherever ever manifested, is extent God always to pressing His na ture, through some one of His | Every right mental activity tYerefore expresses the nature « t con |soquently expresses infinite power jand ability to dispel human tHusi or mortal beliefs of Chria ity, rev ause or creator, Spirit, Mind, and His creation, spir itual reality, which ts forever man ho divine nature. This Bel ence of Christianity has not in conimon with blind human belief, but derstanding foatix s based on tritual w or on exact aclentific k In a of the Christ divine Lu and plen of Christian Selence teaches that no good can ever be neparated {rom the one infinite good, God, and if men would ony recognize this they would not only grasp the fact that all KOOd has forever proceeded fre God alone, but they would grasp the even more important fact of the availability and power of any and of all good an forever inseparable from God and always proceeding from Him. | In the twenty-eighth chapter of nosis, it ia recorded of Jacob that “dreamed, and behold a ladder fet up on the earth, cnd the top of it reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending and descend jms on it. And, behold, the Lord | stood above it, and said, Iam the Lord |God of Abraham, thy father, and jthe God of Isaac: the jand whereon jthou est, to thee will I give it, and [to thy seed. And, behold, I am jwith thee, and will keep thee in all {places whither thou goest, and will [bring thee again Into this land: for |1 will not leave thee, until 1 have |done that which'I have spoken to |thee of.” In this incident it ts clear. |ly shown that not only had God, di jvine Love, provided for Jacob and jhis seed, but that Jacob's very per eption of this provision originated jin God. When will men perceive that It ts the privilege of all of ux As the sons of God to express God's he | | |nature, and that as we are willing to lay down or to give up the mortal jor false sense of existence and to junderstand our true selfhood, we | shall express the divine nature to |some extent, |The fact {s that each and every one jof us, not as mortals but an God's jman, that is, ns the spiritual image land likeness of God, forever abode jas an eternal fact in the Mind which fy God, and whenever we express |somewhat of the divine nature we are actually expressing somewhat of our trie spiritual: selfhood. What- lever good Abraham or Jacob seemed |t0 express in human experience, or [whatever good you or I or ayone |may seem to express, we can only extent, this is the individual way |in which we, as the sons of God, [have alwayn expressed Cod. There. fore, whenever you or I or anyone |accomplishes anything that is good, let us recognize that we are only ex. pressing somewhat of God's nature in the Way that Love has eternally ordained that we should express It, and this true expression increases |in proportion as we give up mortal | Or false thinking and understand Goa jand the true man, in God's likeness, {Christian Sclence therefore teaches that every appearing of good in hu. man experience, whether {t seemed |to be through Noah, through Abra. | ham, through Jacob, or through any- jone, is always, to some extent, God jexpressing His eternal nature, through some one of His ideas ax | His nature has been expressed through that Individuality from ever. lasting to everlasting, Thin appear. Ing of God's nature and man's true individuality always occurs in human experience in proportion as wa Jet | God's will be manifested through us | Were we willing and able to lay jdown the false or mortal sense en. tirely we should express the divine nature perfectly in the way that God has eternally ordained that we shall express it. Jesus once explained this great fact in these words. “The Son can do nothing of himself, but what ho seeth tho Father do: for’ what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.” In fact, every right activity fs a manifonta- tion or expression of God's nature, and as we awaken from the dream of mortality we shall recognize that God'n creation can never express anything but God's own nature, or the nature of Tove, of Spirit, and of Mind. This process of awakening from the mortal to our true being as God's expression or creation, in what '|constitutes the healing and redeem. ing work of Christian Science, In the thirty-ninth chapter of Gen. esl St ts recorded of Joseph, “And 4 the even here and now?) manifest that good because to some | Lord was with Josept was a prosp, master saw the im, and that th ‘ous man And bh the Lord was b Lord made all tha sper in his hand t again the fa ney something o is clearly re was f value to hum fh that mental ¢ through which 4 manifest H kind, God, in fact ‘Mis nature through the character the mental condition which men call ed Jo but which was actua x to some extent, In bu e0, of one of God's own was expr The story of Moses is u #trik s care for all ren, or and of the infinite impulsion of the divine Mind to lead mankind out of mortality, ‘This story shows clearly that even before the mortal Moses was able to think, di vine Love was caring for him in every detail; in fact, the character or the mental condition which men called Moses was but the human in a degree God expressing nature to rome of His ideas bter of Exodu mg story of the hiding of ‘osen in the bulrushes by his moth and of his adoption by Pharaoh's daughter, Hoth of incidents proofs of the infinite protect ton of div 1 © Moses Iso f exp open ugh second ch the toueh extent the thene purpose of later |God's own natare through thinking and living, in mankind might be delivered from ma ty. Christian 8 but t greater rex Mos er ‘ ence shows us sense of one of God's ideas and was that God manifested Himself tn thin cane, Me rr both through the es, and even through the tender se of Pharaoh's daughter, and Jent was in some mea sure & proof of the fact that God that He ts Love, and that He one governs, In the third chapter of Exodus, wo read, “And God said I am that I am: and he sald, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I am hath sent |me unto you." In this statement tx shown the fact that God impelled en not only to understand His nature, but to exp to the iidren of In ft not perfectly clear that the same divine Love which protected and atned hinking ne to impel #0 expreas the divine nature that his fellow.men would thereby be rught f bondage? It is of this [infinite Love that Mra. Ed is speaking to mankind, and of whose and redeeming na healing, savin Science b given Moses when he wan a babe was now operat him te ure, Christian such striking proofs. Hear Mra fhle_ portr yal of God's nature and of Tile willingness and ability to pro. tect and to preserve every right hu man activity, aa given In the poem we have already quoted from "O gentle presence, peace and joy | and power O Life divine, that owns each wait- ing hour, Thou Love that guards the nestlings | taltering fligh Keep Thou my chiid wing to-night on upward Love is our refuge; only with mine eye Can I behold the snare, the pit, the | works.” of Eddy's tender yet fore. | max of hin realiza 4 imy must originate in God reached when he prayed “tr will, but th done.” When we hubmit our every thought and lesire to God, and + ize in Hise wlone the source an¢é .ause of a eO# TO ANd [eUH OM “KANO 14M lings can for one m ubt that what of the Mind of Christ, and welshe recognized clea. fact that shall accomplish the works whieh | God epoker regarded her Christ Jor omplished, for by | sci ae buable ‘diauoles shel this proceas we shall be laying down |» w that she was ( me the mortal and we shall be taking rand that as God's messenger p Our true selfhood as the sons of t as one baving author God, forever expressing His nature veh her acquaintance with and His alone has built up a church that GOD FOREVER MANIFESTING | has tnsisted, more than any chur HIMSELF Christ Jesus’ ministry, up God ts All. Ho is therefore infin. |'® reality of spiritual things and ite cause, exprosaing Himself through mporal nature of matert Hie effect or His creation, but th » one has ever taug reation can never be considered @ initely than has Mrs. the fact that God is ali, that He operating on Its own t from God. Since God Is is also the protector, the # and the supporter of Hin for this in nature of knowledge of these mankind from its belief in a God who forgets Hin crea or who helps to deatroy it; it will also deliver from the penalties of mortal thinking, such an sin, di Paul, tn the first chapter of F aken a vital statement on th . oy t £G the God and eatann, om subject, lo of ul, an @ hrist t ew od Father who hath Lord Jesus Christ s with all spiritual ble places in Christ ¢ bath chosen us in him bet uundation of the world Id be holy and witho ¢ him tn Jove." Paul evid derstood that all #piritual was impelled by God and deed God exprensing His own nature acgording to Hix eternal plan. through His creation. The Scriptures teach a perfect God who is Love and |@ perfect creation which is the ex Dreasion of divine Love, therefore an imperfect God and an imperfect er are but the myths of mortal thought or ignorance. The under. standing of God and of God's creation will dispel mortal thought and its mythological materialism and will re veal the ( L vat eavenly ac that we blame be ntly un y activit ation “1 who in Love and also tion, “What we call mal nor human progress is the ree ord of periods when this mist tal sense has been dispersed extent, and God as Love, and a ere ation sustained and protected by Love, has been understood tn nome degree by mankind. In the Book of Revelation, that wonderful exposs*of the working of evil n human thought 4nd systems, and also the prophecy of the ultimate triumph of the a»pir itual idea, John begins by declaring that the revelation itself was impel ed by God. He npeaks of “the Revel. ation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto hin servants things which muht shortly come to pass.” Int lelation, he states even more clearly the necessity for tracing all effect back to God or to cause, when he rites, “And when 1 had heard and seen, I fell down to worstip before tho feet of the angel which shewed mo these things, Then saith he un to me, See. worship God.” Truly John a follower of the lowly Nax arene, who declared, “The Father j that dwelieth tn me, he doeth the A ntudy of the progress of j fall: |the human race, or the dfhappear His habitation high fs here, and/jance of some measure of mortal nigh, {thinking and mortal ignorance before His arm encircles me, and mine, | spiritual facts, will show that in and all.” (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 289.) Hear also Isatah's graphic deserip- Mon of God's eternal care for His creation: “I am the Lord, and there Is none lee, there in no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: that they may know | from the rising of the sun, and from the went, that there is none beside me, I am the Lord, and there is none else,” GOD MANIFESTING HIMSELF THROUGH CHRIST JESUS | There never ilved a being who un- derstood more clearly the allness of God than did Christ Jesus. Even although he recognized In himself the highest expression of God that hu- manity had known, he was ever turn- ing the thoughts of men to the fact that “the Father that dweiteth in me, he dooth the works.” A close study of the birth of Christ Jesus, and of tho incidents connected with it, will lat once convince anyone that {nfin- jite Love, that Love which fs divine | Mind, was taking care of every cir- |cumstance in connection with this wonderful manifestation of God's na- ture through one of Hi» idea: The lappearing of the ange! Gabriel to| | Zechariah, and the birth of John the | Baptist, the later appearing of the |same angel to the Virgin, the ndvice |and warning to Joseph, the appearing | of the star to the Wisemen, were all | provisions of divine Love, even when the man Jesus was not apparent to human sense, or when he seemed to be but an unthinking babe. The | fact ts, that God's manifestation of His own nature, through one of Hin | ideas, as it had existed from everlast- ing to everlasting, was being made jkenown to human thought through the spiritual thinking of certain men and women, and through the subju- gation of mortal belief in the think. ing of these individuals; and this spir- {tual thinking and the consequent subjugation of mortal belief could only occur because of the great fact that God is and that He is forever expressing Himself, Jesus’ constant desire to turn the thoughts of men to God, as the source and cause of every condition, Including every con- dition in connection ¥ith himself, is shown in such statements as “My Father Js greater than 1." “Why callest thou me good? there ts none good but one, that is, God.” Again he prayed, “Father, ... glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify these." His life was one constant struggle to manifest the nature of God as Love, as Spirit, and as di. vine Mind, and this In spite of every argument and suggestion of the car nal mind that material existence seemed to be very real. He made it perfectly clear that what was Impell- Ing him to this great demonstration of God's nature was the Father Him. self, Morta might count them. selves As small units operating apart from God, but Jesus nover did. THe stated explicitly that "I and my Wa. ther aro one,” and he mado It per. fectly plain that the one owas always God, and not himself, but that he was fn emanation or expression of | | jevery cane the individuals through | whom God exprensed Himself always declared that God had accomplished | whatever bad been done. Such a col. oneal character as Abraham, Lincoln waa forever turning fo God for sup- port and direction and he always ac- knowledged that God sustained and directed him, or that God had ex pressed somewhat of His true nature jthrough his exalted thinking, John | Wesley always attributed anything he accomplished to God, and thin wax |why his activities contributed so | much toward the salvation of human. jity, Realizing that bis spiritual ac | tivity was of God, he naturally knew |that It was with power to dispel evil, |A striking example of the impelling influence of God and the recognition jof God as the only redeeming power i» recorded in the framing of the [Constitution of the United States, which bag certainly accomplished |much for mankind. It ts recorded | that the framers of the Constitution |met for some weeks without necom-. |plishing anything, except that at the end of that time they were hopeless- |ly divided. At this point Benjamin Franklin rallied them with tho dee: lJaration that they should turn to jod, Instead of turning to human systems and theories of government, which had brought so much trouble to mankind. From that momont, it is stated, the meetings of that as- semBly were started with prayer, and they turned to God for guidance, The net result of this willingness to give up human bellefs and to ac- wonderful piece of spiritual idealiam jcalled the Constitution of the United States. God had. expressed Himself in His eternal nature, because there was that right mental condition through which He could express Himself. GOD MANIFESTED HIMSELF THROUGH MARY BAKER EDDY Tho greatest reformer in human history since the Christian era {s un- doubtedly Mary Baker Eddy, What does she say of her mission, which has caused millions of men and wo- men to turn from material reasoning and the darkness of material exist. ence to the reality of spiritual be. ing? She declares, “God had been graciously preparing mo during many years for the reception of this final revelation of the absolute di. vine Principle of scientific mental healing” (Science and Health, p, 107.) Mrs, Eddy also writes, “Wheneo came to me this heavenly conviction, a conviction antagonistic to the testimony of the physical senses? Ac. cording to St. Paul, it was ‘the gift of the grace of God given unto ma by the offectual working of Mis power'" (Science and Health, Pp. 108) Again Mrs, Bddy writes, “Tho diving hand led me into a new world of light and Life, a fresh universe—ot¢ to God, but new to Hin ‘little ono’! (Retrospection and Introspection, p, 27), The fact ts that God was ox. pressing Tis nature in a wondertut way through one of His fdeas on-His nature had been expressed through that {dea from everlasting to ever. lasting, but Mra, Eddy's longing to © final chapter of Rev. | knowledge God in all things was that | all, and that the only realities of be ng are God and His creation, or ex r m, spiritual existence, , Her teachings iterate and reiterate “the fact that God ts Love, that He therefore the Mother as well as the Father of the unt He is forever sustain Eddy t ery of God's he allnens man ex right en hes that every is God ng through His Hin nature and also to sustain in thus to redeem mankind all that is unlovely, that ts from mortality, sin, disease, a jeath, The appearing of this revel ation is naturally tn the age when men can understand and appreciate [mot only the F His tender Motherhood as well & result of her consecrated thinking and living self to this age through Mary Baker Keddy, and all mankind should recog divine Love operat n to exp support and Hin creation perfection from y that debt by consecrating thelr pwn lives and thoughts so that God mgy likewise express Hin nature through their thinking. ‘This is the nly acknowledgment Mra, Eddy ask ed of any man. PRACTICAL APPLICATION CHRISTIAN 8CIENC | The individual who begin derstand God as Love and ( ation as spiritual and perfect forever sustained and govern OF to un. ns cre and by Love will noon find in his daily life | that fear, hate, jeal greed, and other qualities of the so-called human mind are passing out of hi thinking. He will also find that matertal theor lem of every kind, and their resul disease, poverty, divinion, accident, and other ills of the flesh, are like: wiee going out of his experience, The fact is that this individual is recog: sizing the aliness of divine Love, and God ix manifenting Himself through [this spiritual thinking or through one of His ideas, to deliver from evil of every kind, This individual's life and experience are bound to become more loving, more Godlike, more happier, more spiritual and leas ma- terial, for hin spiritual reality or his true Individuality, through which God is forever expressing Himself, is be coming known to this individual and hin mortality is consequeatly disap pearing. The understanding of his true selfhood as divine Love's ex pression will alse enable such a one to help and to heal his fellow.man and to bring to him a knowledge of man's reality as God's likeness, and not a mortal. This is indeed preach Ing the gospel, and this gospel of enemy— God's aliness and of His true nature) that viscous film you feel No or- as divine Love, who is forever mani. | festing Himself to heal the sick and | bats it, so much of it clings and to redeem the sinner, is what con-) stays, stitutes salvation tn Christian Sct: ende, The right understanding of God as Love and of man on Love's limage and likeness, combirted with the desire to know and to do the will of God, is the highest form of prayer. Mra. Eddy has given te a wonderful | which ferments and forms acid. It | definition of prayer in her statement: | holds the acid in contact with the |“True prayer Is not asking God for | teeth to cause decay. Germs breed love; it Is learning to love, and to in-| by millions in it. They, with tar- [clude all mankind in one affection, | taf, are the chief cause o! pyorrhea. | Prayer is the utilization of the love | wherewith He loves us. Prayer bo- |geta an awakened desire to be and | {do good. It makes new and scientific | discoveries of God, of His goodness and power. It shows us more clearly than we saw before, what we already | shows us what God is’ (No and Yes, p. 39). | healed, the sinner reformed, and the dead raised, for such prayer will bring mankind into that right mental |condition through which God will manifest Himself mightily, Mankind can only be saved through God, but | God, divine Love, expresses Himself | through His creation, or through the consecrated thinking of men and wo- men. Whenever therefore any one of us is willing and able to give up | somewhat of his false mortal think- ing and to gain somewhat of the Mind of Christ or somewhat of his true spiritual selfhood, then God will manifest His nature through that thinking and thus éven through im. | proved human consciousness, ’to help and to heal mankind, The unfolding to human thought of the ternal truth about God and about His cro- ation is therefore what constitutes |salvation and this unfolding is “Im. jmanuel,” or “God with us.” ‘This forever manifestation of God's trne | nature, protecting and sustaining His jcreation even in human affairs, is known to us as spiritual thinking jand living. Christian Science is |therefore blessing humanity over. whelmingly, by declaring a perfect God who is Love, and a perfect man in God's likeness, It is this revela. tion of God as Love, Spirit, Mind, and of man in His likeness which ts delivering mankind from the bolicts: of a cruel or incapable God and of & poor, sick, sinning, and dying mor. tal who is uncared for and unpro- tected by God. As this false senso of God and of man passes away from the individual's thought, the results of this false thinking, sin, disease, cle Geen Will also pass away, and his individual will be proving God ts, that Ho ts Tave ana tHe His creation forever lives, moves, and has its being tn divine Love, Yor When men learn to pray | \after this manner, the sick must be; its eternal | >Y ; reality therhood uf God, but | God han expressed Him- | itz debt to her and be glad to! 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