The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 19, 1924, Page 9

SATURDAY, APRIL 19 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE DELIVERED HERE ruth I Inter preted by Frank H. Leonard si 3: Member of Board of Masonic Temple Audience Christian Selenoce,} we are ® childre Then The Ir cw o play w he was deliv nt at the Masonic] You see, she has analyzed Truth k H. la ©.) without or p | f the board of | tis i u € i when she ad done ] M r Chure at, Truth appealed to her as be. a of Chstat, Sean ng to every one in exactly the see @ lecture quantity and quality that it F. © the auspices of the fed to any one, therefore she ; ef Chr Bolenust, | reco, a that what she had been doing was to limit Truth in see 4 ar or think of/ing only herself as God's child. It “And ye! then occurred to her tf one of them and the} Was God's child th both wer I lke-) amd as soon as she saw this th ¢ question asked| disturbance was healed, the anger s truth And|and resentment disappeared, her i esticg thing,/thought had been cleansed and concerned, in the! purified, and w the simplicity of » the fact that/@*child she said so frankly and answer that ques-|Went back to her playmate. ally sald: If in} Now that ought to teach us how! q that you have} we may use the truth of being to q in Judea under/bring about a cessation of discord are st asking | Gnd dissension, and to establish a . t ts truth?" then| univeral brotherhood ef man where- | would ever convey one/in there shall be no distinction, no | . of informatt on that) line of separation, no difference of jon is quite well/any kind, but we shall all be work t that when “= for the universal good. That © John the nm became'is the mission of Christian Science er, he bad admitted in this world. Ghat Jesus was tho Redeemer w The only way the Christian mis. Simms looked for, and sent to Jesus|sion can possibly be accomplished Sie find out whether or no he was the spreading of the truth the one they had expected, Jesus 4, about Jesus the Christ, hot auswer directly. He did | about man and the universe, so that things, and th he said:/the whole world shall understand a and tet! John what I have|and comprehend the Infinite God then let him find out for the infinite capacity and abil Seselt who I am; and on the basis /ity of His children to go to Him pwhat Jesus had accomplished,|in any of their misunderstandings, y knew that he was the Re-/whether these are called want or r. , Truth ts one Truth. In my ft lecture tour in Europe, a eminent divine in the Lutheran remarked that it was dan- to say God is Truth, be that it would be a ques Alas to which one God is. That a theological opinion, but it Bot Christian. All the human as on the face of the earth as hat constitutes h may be There are millions of hu- By opinions, but when we begin mit Truth, when we begin to Myethat there ix this truth and Piet truth and the other truth, we me | getting away from the Bible Which tells us that there is d that this Truth ite One. In order any one may be free from find of discord, he must know bh that proves the discord In other wards, nothing Dy exist without Truth. ih is the same yesterday, to- ‘and forever. Truth never be- and it never will end. ys good, it is always pure, iis always lovely, and it always plishes just one result, and fis the fruitage of God. Human- speaking we could not build this Bg If we did not have Truth, jumanty speaking, nothing on ould be accomplished for Truth. Why, as a mat- fact, you cannot even lie un- [ypu know the truth. Have you Be thought of that? Because a fH & misstatement about Truth. $0 you see the whole of our igation and researcii along will lead us straight and poem ii ay day, were We must answer, each of us, to Midi for ourselves tho question— is Truth? Woe must every US prove in ourselves and P@irselves and to ourselves and P ourselves the freedom from hing untruthful which a to us. COMES TO HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS in Science came into this as tt came, not accidentally; not come under the impul- of human opinions at all, but Mi with every onc in this world a desire and a hope for Truth. began to appeal to human Maclousness, in a way It could ap- Mend until Truth began to ap- RE to human consciousness, in a Mit could apprehend until Truth Sprang forth arrayed in all uty and glory and majesty, anifestation of God Himself, that Truth itself should be and our acceptance of it tified by reason of what it es in the world.’ pve have had a wonderful exper- with Truth in our own day has been presented to us. been a marvel to those who known it why or how any ei could question the fact that n Science reveals the truth. has been questioned because been questioned as a revela- : It has been questioned as a tion because It has been ques- d as having had a revelator; the whole thing has been ques- ed because the world, until ts Science brought the fruit- SMPiot Truth into it, has not com- ended Truth at all in its spirit- Peense; because men have turned Y from the teaching and preach- our Lord and Master while on earth, and have gone after strange teachings and theories and beliefs. ristlan Science brings this tt to us in such form and man- hat the little children under- it, They understand it so H that they are every day of lives doing wonderful things RE out the realization of ust want to tell you one thing came under my notice, A lit srl “weven yearn of age had ‘out to play with another little : Shi came in in about half an with a face which showed lusively that she was not very , Her mother asked her what the trouble. ‘The little girl shut Her lips together and Might to her own room, sat and played with her own a. She liad teen in there E twenty minutes when she Pout with er eyey ‘wide open 4 Why, mothcr, what do 1 ulmout forget that he said, there are so many | Truth | itely to the contemplation of | of the Truth that is God | because away down under- | #80, naturaliy, sooner or later, | Lectureship Speaks to jwoe, sin or sickness every one the help which the Bible teaches us God has for us, |THE COMING OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE One of the questions that has jDeen asked very often is why we jshould assume that this revelation jhad come through a woman of | whom one had ever heard up to | {some of the men or women who had consecrated years of their liyes no to the study of the Bible. W | really, we cannot answer that ques. tion, Only God can answer that. | But we can say as did Christ Jesus }"I thank thee, O Father, Lord of {heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.” Mrs, Eddy assuredly mformed to what a babe meant jin her loyalty to the teachings of |the Bible, in taking them as being jabsolutely tru When other children were hearing jthe ‘little fairy stories and things of that sort to which we all have \! wed to listen, Mrs. Eddy was jof things recorded in the Dible, the stories of true events. Her mother did not tell hér about what {this or that one sald; she was con- jstantly telling her stories of their } works, and what the Word of God accomplished, so that Mrs. Eddy wan familiar when a young girl |with all the activities recorded In the Bible; to her they were not {mere historic accounts or events, |they were real, living, actual facts, the proofs of God's allness, She |elung to them as she grew up; then when she had reached matur- ity she met with an accident which the doctors said would result fatally. All of her friends accepted and be- lieved this, and her minister stopped }to pray with her in the morning, lbeHleving, as they all did. that she | would not be on earth to be prayed with at the termination of the | morning service. After he had done his kindly loving work for her, she asked those with whom she was staying to give her her Bible and to leave her alone with God. They did ag sho requested, and when the minister stopped again later to see if he could be of any assistance, | Mrs. Eddy herself opened the door {te him, and stood before him for thef irst time since her girlhood per- fectly well, normal and natural in jevery particular, ‘The Bible tells us of many hap- penings of that kind. Yes, and there are many events of that sort about which we know that have happened outside of Bible times. But what is the difference between thowe and Mrs. Eddy’s case? This— the others all accepted their healing to be a manifestation of a special dispensation on the part of God, the next time they had a pain they took a pill. They thought their healing was a special oc- casion and that a special privilego had been given to them to be specially made well by the Word of God. Mrs. Eddy did not accept this, We know in Christian Science that there {s no such thing in heaven or in earth as a special dispensation, because if we believe what Jesus said, wo know he said that if we belleve on him, we shall all do the worko he did. He {intended therefore to say that it was not a special dispensation which had ehabled him to do these things, lyut that it was a universal gift to men when they were willing to fol- How God in his footsteps as he had ltaught them to do, Mrs. Eddy did not accept her healing as @ special dispensation, for she knew that she had been made well through the activity of the law of God, and that ghe had a right to her birthright, the knowledge of God and Jesus Christ whom He had sent, which would give her dominion over the earth and tho fullness thereof, and take from her every sense ‘of fear that God might be absent, or that there was another power to which shoe might be subject, therefore that God might not be omnipotent, om- nisciont, and omnipresent. Then she became a student night and day, week in and week out, month in and month out, year In and year out, She studied, And what did whe study? The Bible. It was the only book she had to study, No commentaries would help her, noth Ing but a determined and conse- erated effort to know the truth of being in ite spiritual import would suffice to bring about the knowledgo which she felt was hor ‘otrthright and whieh she was en litled to haye, So sho studied and and find for | that time, rather than through | ring from her mother the history | tudied and » while of udied, id ng and then and then after thee r be get hold its et f the | ity ere even as 6 the as able to b 4 “ay learned to know God ¢ She found herself able to tell other how to heal as she had been and then her revelation fulf self when it came to her so clearly that she was able to put it down in midst tn proportion to our ri words that you and I can grasp nk and understand and comprehend, ro CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND that as we take what she 1 and PRAYER #0 to our Biblé with it, we, too, find| But tt has been said that Christian the spirit of the Word ef God which | Scientists do not pray. Why, the enables us to worship Him in spirit|Whole activity of the Christian and in truth, an so fulfill His law Science movement is prayer. It is | So we know by results that the|entirely prayer. You know that the revelation came to Mra. Eddy and/Hible says that we are to pray with through her to the whole world. out ceasing, Now, you usk some IMPARTIALITY: OF TRUTH | Christian of the orthodox churches se do not think that we-Chris.| ‘Do you know that the Bible says clentists imagine that we have|that you are to pray without |® peculiarly close position relative} ceasing?’ And he will say: *Yeu."* to God. Do not think for the moment| Then you say to him: “Do you do }that we are Indicating or mean to/it?’’ And fe will say; “Why, no, of | indicate that we think ( d loves us jbetter than He does anybody else. |He does not All His children is the same, and never changes. Truth ts irre: THY I wrong and think and do right and that t what has been tert jum ein other v od and His righte ne t is in heaven Our Lond ang Master saw the eosity for It taught us all t ay that prayer and he did not mean that we should pray for it to come at other time, One thing we mu: is to know that we are no prayiog for that knowledge fo which brings that kingdom course I don't, I have to take care of my house, I have to take care of His attitude toward | my business, to keep my books, to do my stenographic work; I have all thle | these things to do and I could not do irrefutable, and irrevérsible and ts |them if I prayed all the time.’ equally applicable by all tinction to the human ‘The students in a classroom [One graspe the law, and so brings out a successful answer to his problem. Another doen Not grasp it so well, and falls to get & complete, correct in fundament. answer, jothers t they ¢ not get any he subject whatever te is there, and when one uses It jeorrectly, he finds himself in direct line, and he Is able to solve the prob only | sense of | Science teaches un things might be tllustrated in the! venture that we must pray without difference between perhaps a dozen | ceasin, T want to say that Christian beyond perad and that there in no such pool. |thing as the possibility of true suc the | cess unless it is predicated upon con the progression and the rule, | stant prayer. The trouble is that we have a wrong conception of what constitutes prayer, We have thought prayer te The | be simply @ petition to God to do this ve not grasped it at all, and jor that, or to give us this or that, or answer that | to take away shows any intelligent knowledge of |the Bible says that God is the same | Fut the prin-| yesterday, today, and forever, with or that. ‘To be sure out leness or shadow of turn ing, Nevertheless, in the human mis apprehension which surrounds the jlem and to get the right answer. |term prayer, It has been constant }, Bo it ts just a question, my dear/appeal to the Unchangeable to |friends, of service, It is a question| become the very essence of change- of using what you have or abusing | ableness. it, or turning your back upon It. We find that it is essentially true that jask, have we ever thought we have departed far from Goi, always wondered why it seemed to jbe that there begun in the year 300 | | Now, just to fllustrate it, let me how I|strange it would sound if we were suddenly endowed with the power to hear ail of the petitions called prayer jfuch retrogression from the use of| which arp sent up to God at the same the Word of God for the solving of | time? fall problems. | Vicegerent of God on jbecame a Christian, never laid down } his false gods, and that the Christian | © people of that day did not ask him to, did not expect him to, but followed [him just because he was a successful fighter in war, I could then why at that time and period necessities and desires. One thing you may rest assured of. |Your application of Christian Scfence mand wherein {t is sald also in Christ Jesus.” You see that }it requires something of us in order that we may get this Mind of Christ, because the Bible says, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” And so it requires and demands of us that our human theory and opinion shall be set aside, jand we shall no longer glory in what | we call divernity of opinion, but that pose which brings out the one Truth, the one God, and the one Christ. BIBLE THE GUIDE The Bible to the Cristian Scientist is not essentially a church book. Of course he uses it in church—but it is also to him a work book. To the busineas man {t Is a> business book. To the housekeeper it is a book of rules telling how to keep house com. fortably, pleasantly, and harmonious. ly. To the child in school It is the textbook which teaches that child how to think. And to every man, woman, and child on earth it Is the foundation of right thinking wherein we may find our freedom. Christian Science fs a field for everybody on the face of the earth upon which to get busy and work out his own salvation. We have not been accustomed to think that the laity should work particularly hard on religious subjects, because a man has sometimes thought that he was 4 pretty good Christian if he kept a a pew in church, saw that his family attended regularly and he himself oceasionally when the opportunity seemed ripe. He would go and he would listen to the result of another man’s hard labor and work, and come ay and nod his head, ‘That was @ pretty good talk,’’ and would feel that he bad done his part of the religious work until he again assoct. ated himself with other members of his church in its meetings. But, my dear friends, there is a great difference between creed and religion. Religion demands of us that we shall work constantly and continuously to think right, and con. sequently to do right. Well, one might say, it Is pretty hard work to be a Christian Scientist. Consider, however, your human experiences, and all the human differences bo. tween persons, and you will find it is pretty hard work hot to be one. The fact is, that you have had enough trouble in the experience you have had, and you would like to change it if you could. We have all had that suggestion. No, it is not hard to be a Christian Scientist, not as hard as it is not to be one. Where do you start to be a Chris. tian Scientist? With every right thought you think, That is your start. Therein is to be found your progress, and in the successful atti. tude of always thinking right do you find the key of heave: You have had tho thought that heaven is afar off. You have deemed it to be afar off, and yet, every time you use the Lord's Prayer, what do you pray? ‘'Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.’ Haye you meant it?) When you talk about ‘Thy will be done in earth, as tt js in heaven,'' have you meant it? Have you ever stopped to think whether you meant it or not? Has it ever meant to you that you ore praying that thero should come unto you and through you and in you such a consecrated knowledge of God that you should stop thinkigg |we shall glory in the single pur.| But when I learned, ax perfectly sincere ( T did in my trip in Europe, that|men in the same city. Thelr stores Constantine, crowning himself as ‘the }are on the earth, never | block and they understand | | | | must be honest from the inside out. | It does not make much difference |that there is in tho Whole Bible ts the |what you say if your speech is not | book ¢ the manifestation of what you have | David bh |accomplished, what you know you|that he had more opportunities to Jare capable of accomplishing, when | *¢T¥® God than it seemed you are obedient tothe Bible com.|for @ human being to have; then he unto us, | besan to be pretty proud of David; he “Let this mind be in you, which was | 59" to think that David was doing |so far down in the mud and mire of Yor instar here are two hristian business me street In the same are aide by nide. One is umbrellas and rubbers and the r sells spring bonnets. One man prays for rain, and the other prays for fair weather, and what is God going to do? PT That ts not the kind of prayer that | Jes used at the tomb of Lazarus jthe Christian people began to find|He did not ask God if God were jthemselves incapable of understand. | willing that Lazarus should live jing the law of God sufficiently to |! make it operative in the meeting of |—and then on the foundation of this He “Father, I thank thee” hal pl thanks unto God he turned to the tomb and said, “Lazarus, come forth; and Lazarus came forth. Now, the greatest book of prayer Psalms. We all know that 1d been wonderfully blessed; poastble & lot of these things instead of God's Going them, and the result was that he began to slip backward and down- ward untli he finally got down into the mud and mire of doing every- thing that he ought not to do and leaving undone the things that he ought to have done. We never ¢ disloyalty to God but that if we turn in the right direction we shall find God standing by our side giving us, in propogtion of our willingness to accept the Christ-mind, relief and surcense from the dixcord which has | environed us. And so in the very depths of his wretchedness and misery, David found God again. If we will take the Psalms we shall see how full they are, of praise, how David glorifies God, how he recog- nizos that all there is in the manif tation of God In his right consider. jation even for the sons of men in their striving to work out their sal- vation. To be sure, once in a while we find a psalm that s pretty doleful —that is the human side of David- but he always gets hold of it in the next psalm and-his prayer then {s more joyful than ever. So it shows that he recognized that thanksgiving unto God is real prayer; and that indicates to us that there ts nothing so infinitesimal in our daily occupa. tion that we may not praise God for it. I want to tell you—it may not tn- terest the gentlemen much, but it will interest the ladies—that we can praise God in washing dishes. How? By being happy that you have the dishes to. wash and the ability to wash them, rather than getting mad because you have to do it. In every human experience we can praise God, because every blessing flows from Him. He is the Father of light, and every good and perfect gift cometh out from Him unto His children, and for the service of the sons of men when they are willing to use them, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND BUSINESS Woe havo heard a great deal of the discord surrounding us, that wo are in the midst of the greatest financial depression the world has known in history. Everybody 1s worried—thnt {s, no, not everybody, but everybody who is not a Christian Scientist is worrled, and perhaps a few Christian Sclentists are, too, because we find ourselves at times looking on the doleful side of things. Some person rtaybe asks the question: "Do you use your religion for the solution of your financial problems?’ We most assuredly do, and why not? Well, then somo one of you says that the Bible says that) the Son of man had not a place to lny his head. Yos, it does say that, and on the basis of that wo have been taught from generation to gen- eration that Jesus was poor beyond the expression of words. But if wo are thoughtful, and become familiar with the conditions and circum. stances of the age {n which ho lived, we shall see that he simply made reference to tho fact that like all re- lgious teachers of that time, he wandered continually from village to hamlet, doing the work of a man of God as he saw It, and resting ponce- fully with some truo helfover wher- over the shades of night found him; because the Bible tells ua that at the time he made that statewnent he was clad In a seamless garment, the most ATTLEI STAI tve form of clothing that they knew tn those days. I Why, the es of Jesus were beyond huni computation or expression. He made greatest demonstration of pro that the world has known any n ut, J am going to tet! you 1 you will recognize it I begin to of it tv t the time when Jesus i ual discoursing to the people ne of the disciples came to him and sald in substan Maste collecte r Caesar's tribute waite without and wants hi mone And what did Jesus ¢ |Did he dismiss the concourse of | people and gather the disciples to gether to © if amonget them they ht be able to raise the pittance required so that Jesus might go on musing the dead? Jan't it strange the incongruity of the two be lets has never appealed to us as it does now? This ls what he did. Ho 4id not dismiss the people at all, just stopped for a moment and said to one of his disciples: “Peter, you go down and cast in your the first fish that you get, open its mouth and there you will find a piece of money which will be for Caesar's | tribute," | A lady tn Kansas City said to me one time she was glad I spoke of that, because she had always thought |that that passage meant that Jesus told Peter to go down and fish, and |that Peter went down and fished }long enough to get fish to take ur to town and sell for money enough to meet the demand of Caesar's col lector. Well, as @ matter of fact, ts there any other interpretation to it when jwo come to know the spirit of the Word as Christian Selence gives it o us? A person asks a Christian jclontiat: “Do you believe that that jthing actually happened?’ *Abao- ly."’ There 1s no question about whatsoever, It is absolute proof jto us when there is a time when we j»eam to be called upon to be obedient to the demand of owing no man any- thing save to love one another, that we can take the word of God find the wherewithal to do it if we glorify God and cling to Him ever- lastingly, What do you say? You say that your money will do just such and such @ thing, just #0 much, and that is all that it will do. Well, so long a8 you count your dollars that way | that fs all they will do for you, there |ien't any question about that 40 you remember the multitude which Jesua fod with tho few loaves and fishes? Do you remember that five thousand had all they could eat, jand that after they had finished {there ‘was more left over than when |they had started? Oh, yo, you say, but that was Jonus. Hoe sald that if we believed in |him we should do the things that he did, Are you going to let God be | true and believe it, and let every man jbe @ liar, as the result of the human theory of limitation? I want to tell a little experience of my own on the question of finance that will probably be helpful. I had at one time a salary of one hundred dollars a month, 1 was always meth- Jodical about such things, so I took |my hundred ollary and I put ft |down here, and on the other side 1 put héuae rent and clothing, and | food, and incidentals, and my little |innocent amusements, and then |church—when I got down to church | I didn’t have anything left, the other things took the whole hundred |dollars. May I say—and I say it | without criticism or Intentional criti. it jthe nickel in the contribution plate represents the thought of the man | Who has put everything else down first and the chureh last, But I did jthat for a while and then it began to worry me; In other words, a Icnock- ing at my thought said to me: The only reason you are upon the face of the earth {x because of what Christian Science has done for you, Jand yet you are putting the church last; and after a while I saw it, and | then I took a desperate plunge, and }1 turned around and put the church first. And I put down for the church what seemed to mo a perfectly enormous amount—yes, and I put it |in, too, I did not just put it down, I put ft in, I did not change my method of living. I was not con- scious of any change whatsoever; but at the end of the third month I found that I had paid all my bills, I had given to the church what I had pledged my own conscious to |give it, and I had five dollars left over to put in the bank, Now, then, what was the difference in the two methods? In the first I trusted my dollars and they were limited in their ability; in the second, I trusted my God and I found the limitation remoyed. In this present. day crisis it is for the Christian | Scientists to put trust in their God and go on with: joy and happiness in the realization that the inexhaust. |ible treasure of God is at thelr com- mand, until they stop counting their dollars, and begin to count their blessings, and the result will be that Love ‘will lift the shade of gloom” and for All ‘‘make radiant room, midst the glories of one endless day,’ as Mrs. Eddy has taught us in tho “Communion Hymn,"* Christian Science is the open way for us to come out from “the shade of gloom"’ to find the real, legitimate, lovely peace which passes under. standing, wherein God is glorified first, last, and all the time. SYNONYMS FOR 'GOD Mrs. Eddy has unfolded to us a marvelous knowledge of God in the synonyms which she hag given in “Sclence and Health with Key to the Scriptures’ for the word ‘‘God,'' Many people have thought that they | did not believe in God, but everyone believes in God when he knows what He is; and so these synonyms which Mrs. Eddy has given to the world would eventually have been suffic- eint to have saved the entire world if sho had never written another |thing. And I am going to syfeak briefly on a few of these, in orde that they may have the blessings which comes to the Christian Scientist who knows these synonyms, ‘They are not unusual, except in pers haps one instance, but they are ex. ceptional In the enlightenment which thoy give us to what God is. Now Mrs, Eddy, in using these syn- onyms, does not limit or consent to the truth of the statement that there are two kinds of love, for instance; one that may turn into envy, murder, and hatred; and the other the love which Jesus Christ showed when ho was enabled to say of those who were attempting to destroy Him; “Iather, forgive them; for they know not what they do,’ He | line and | and} But | cism—that oftentimes the penny or | 4 looking f that God and are all we lieve in Li working for it believe in Lif " I have sy ou of the teac ing that G one, @ can be accomy t be not for jthe reatiz f uth = wh | changeless i he wo all de believe in ‘Truth, quently we all do believe in ¢ | Then Mrs. Eddy teaches us that }God is Love, the Love which J showed In that hour of great testing and tribulation 4 when we ac quire that th of Leve we have reached a place whe as ourselves, and not until then our neighbor hen we find our nd ¥ own in ent hing another's good | n Mr, Eddy teaches us that | God and Principle are ¢ A perso) jwhen he hears that statement very often will “Well, now, that is one of the « ns that I have to nome of the teachings of Christian Selence, It takes my God away from me, and tt gives me nothing but n ephemeral theory that I am to take and believe f The Bibl s that God ts Li Do you think that Life is a persc | The Bible says that God ts Truth , Do you t that Truth ts « person? | And the Bible teaches us that God j's love, and you know that Love ts |not a pers It Is the imposaibility of the finite gramping the t |that makes t 1 to some of u in a strong way hum that we jwant a God who ts like curnslves. We want to think’of a man sitting on a {throne in « place as a judge; and w nnot have that kind of a God, m dear friends, if what the Bibi teaches us about God ts truc, because the Bible teaches us that God ts omnipotent, omniscient, and omni | Present, Allin-all, and we know that no human sense of a person can possibly be omnipresent, or All-{n-all | Mrs. Eddy teaches us that God and | Principle are one, and, as 1 say, that |seems to be an abstract statement, but it is not when wo understand it What ts it t always brings to a successful issue, if properly used, every problem? Is it primary law the rule of progression? Is it the problem, or the solution? No. It fs the principle of mathematics |which underlies all mathematical problems on which the shper- structure ot all rmonious action i# builded, nd the jresult is the correct answer, It is in this method and manner that Mrs. Eddy uses the statement that God jand Principle are one, § |that God is the foundation, the literal foundation ef ail that is true, Jin coagreement, all of them mani. fosting eternal Life, Truth, and Love, which constitute God. Mrs. Eddy also teaches God and Mind are one. been @ controverted point, more #0 than any of Mrs. teachings. 1 don't know why. | or teaching. What does John say in opening his gospel? He says this; ning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was |God." On a simple analysis let us far as the foundation {s concerened. What is the word? Tho word is |the expression that accompanies or precedes thought. Thought jactivity of the Mind. Therefore, be. | cause this is true, Mrs. Eddy's state- |ment would be equally correct if it were used to say that in the begin- ning was Mind, and Mind was with |God, ahd Mind way God—and then we instantly see why it is implored of us that we should let that Mind be in us “which was also in Christ Jesus," meant when he |he that did these wonderful works bug that it was the Father working in im who accomplished them. And, incidentally, therefore, in further |eorroboration of the correctness of teaching, let us revert to the first chapter of Genesis, wherein we read: “God said... and it was so;"' and we know that the spoken worl is the expression of the thought which goes with it, and thought ts the |activity of the Mind. Therefore, {t is not an abnormal, it is not an abstract statemont to say that God is Mind, and when we come to know that God is tho Mind of is omnipotent, omniscient, and omni. present; that He is the same yester- day, today and forever, and with- out Varlableness or shadow of turn- ing. it has been said also of Christian Sclentists, that they are not Bible | students, that they dovote all’ their time, to the study of Mrs, Eddy's works. We may think we know some one in’ the Christian Science church, of attending the Christian |Sclence church, who does that; but |such a one is not a Christian Sclen- tist, Mrs. Eddy gained her revelation from the Bible, and Chris. tian Scientists aro Christion Scien- tists only as they know the Word of God and are able to analyze its spirit al import and meaning as we find it. in our Bible; and when we do that with the ald and the iumination of the Christian Sclence textbook, then we are proving ourselves to be Christian Scientists, because we are striving to follow tle Word of God to its ultimate demonstration and proof, and nothing less than that con. stitutes real, legitimate, lovely, God- like, Christian Science. UNDERSTANDING LIFR |the Biblical teaching that God Is Life, and because God is Life it is natural and normal that all of us should be striving to know Life and striving to demonstrate life. That is the reason that a calendar is such a lar. When it says that life is born, it lies; it lies when it says that it is a year old {t lies when it says it is forty years old; tho calendar lies when it says that it is dead. It never did tell the truth and it never will, because it tries to fix Life between tho point called birth and another point called death, The time for us to refuse to have anything to db with the ealen dav is when wo begin to think, not walling untl our haly is white ov is the} And wé see what ou Master | aid that it was not) Christ, then we know that our God) whole | I have called to the attention to! he means | and that on this foundation we build | tists is bound to have a good deal the superstructure wherein God, man, | Of force. and the universe are coincident and |/i*tle things thit interfere with the ug that | they That has | ine hundred and thirty years of age, perhapa |! diso tells us that when Seth was Eddy's| born Ay ‘Thore | thirty year |isn’t anything new in that statement | resolve it into years, and it She has not propounded | that Seth was born when Adam was Janything new for our acceptance in ten teaching that God and Mind are one, | @lres “In the begin-|because the Bible says see where that statement leads us, so | Shows that when Methuselah \ born, | | i i i | | | | | Jand cannot be logics PAGE 9 4 for why will nothin any of or be ef Get . if wher ur thought y ru ilingmess Mast aster, r to think that to heal y that it one of is helr, s more and almighti we know 5 we be con man theories, and hall learn that there ss no power rt from God that can thwart those who have the wish and desire to make re of the children jot men nal, lasting LAfé. nse of | We st at the more we ¢ ghalijtum to kntw God as Christian Sclence teaches God to be, the more be, the more eon have, the and as f unto i, ne conscious right thinking, #0, no mistake, but light which ame to it more we cling shall have we 0 ongevity until we tho meas apon the earth the age of the ante , and then if that » i ill pa know God and Jesu ath sent, an 1 Life, as t That age of the antediluvians has| an unhappy feature for the ural 1 They could not ain tt 2 They could not get recently they de whom Him & hes wu way and It; bu’ more me tor expresved himself mind which enables us i Mghted to think that elves and our brethern q sient! t the Che in this world the healing from ever, i er not the ristia ¥ i h cord that seems to afflict us. ; but the natural scie . i und the explanation for the age of 4 om con zs 4 The . went Thy will be done in earth, af H Me The magazir Qs it is in heaven. on to say that they had resolved, or | ———!* rather had determi tter all these |Today Sees the Last Copy ages of research, that the only meas Distributed of the Famous ure of time the antediluvians had 7 s the lunar measure of time, Red Letter Bible which would mean a month, and To the thoumnds of our readers that therefore in these ries of the | who have extended so hearty a wel age of the antediluvians, where-|come to our unprecedented Bible ever the word “y appears, there | distribution, we desire to express p should be inserted the word “‘month?*|our cordial appreciation of thelr ; and then it went on to give an illus-|faith in our judgment. We knew j tration. It said, for instance, these| when we undertook the placing of | : stories tell us that Ad r m lived to be hundred and thirty years of age, this handsome yolume that we were j performing a genuine service to the 4 4 1 the word ‘month’ being sub-' public. The enthusiastic reception tituted, and those months being re-»with which it has met has more solved into years hy the division of |than repaid ua forvour labor in the twelve, it would show that’ Adatit/campaign of Bible distribution. We lived to be about seventy t years} know of nothing that. will be more of age, which was @ rather close eriduring in its use and in {ts appre- ciation for years to come.than the beautiful Big Print Red’ Letter Edi- of the Bible, Before today closes we hope every one’ of our renders will have been supplied with at least one’ copy. Onr last coupon is published today and ‘should be clipped at once from this paper, The coupon explains the terms upon which it may be had by mail. As jlong as the supply lasts every cou- }pon will be" honored. approximation to the theory of three | score and ten being the natural life} f man upon earth, tion ow, that sounds quite logical, | and coming from the natural scie But there are one or two ptance of that theory and I want | to call your attention to two of them. } In the same story in the Bible where hous that Adam.lved to be n was one hundred and of age. Calf that months, shows | nd one-half years of age; and he dy had two children. It is even worse with Methuselah, | that when fethuselah was born, his father Enoch was sixty-five years of age, and reading that in the same way it was noch, his father, was five-and one half years old: It is not amazing that every at- tempt on the part of human theory to explain away the almightyness of the Word of God and its truth always slays Itself, because it Is not 1; but when. it is presented to us ag it) should be, thé logic ts clear to us and brings to us the thought of the old patriarch, who cried to us, “Tir ye, turn ye * —PORT ORCHARD | Take Fast Steamers at Colman Dock | | sExcent 2 £] SPECIAL NIGHT SERVICE | fA} rrom ‘Seattle to Bremerton Sat- | jd arday and Sunday, 9:30 p. m., and daily 11:30 p.m. ; AUTOMOBILE FERRY Ui Senitie to Hremerton Daily, 7:15, Pa 9:00, 11:30 a. m.. 8:00 Dp, m. PY Extra trips Saterday aud Sun~ day, 0:30 p.m. *Exeept Sei a kk te UCCESSFUL people say Thrift is a vir- tue which lies at the root of human progress. 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