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s A FINE ADDRESS Continued from 2nd page. infinite God, the God of Abra ham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God whom Jesus called his Father, , the God whom St. John defined as Love. This infinite( all-inclusive, all-creating, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient divine Love, is the incorporeal God re vealed through Christian Sci ence. Man as the image and likeness of God, the real man of the Scriptures, must be like his Father, not corporeal but incor poreal; not material but mental, spiritual consciousness; not mor tal but immortal. The universe created and constantly sustain ed by God must be like Him, for like produces like; therefore the real universe is not finite but infinite; not destructible but indestructible; not material but spiritual. THE NATUREjOFjREALITY Thus reality is essentially in finite, without limitations or di mensions, infinite in extent, in presence, in wisdom, and in pow er. It is unchanging, indes tructible, eternal. It is harmo nious, perfect, spiritual. There fore the standard of infinity, in destructibility, and perfection is the test of reality. Whatever has not these qualities or attri butes of infinity and perfection does not express Truth. Mat ter, mortal mind, and the dis cordant material consciousness being finite, mutable, destructi ble, are not true, not absolutely real. Perfect God, perfect man, and perfect spiritual being, -this is tho basis of all Christian Science teaching, analysis, and practice. This is the standard by which Christian Science meas ures and tests all human phu nomcna and experiences in order to determine their true value. Truth, however, cannot bo cognized by the physical senses, for because of their material limitations these senses cannot perceive infinity, the finite can not cognize tho infinite. Truth is perceived only through the understanding, which is not de pendent upon the testimony of uio physical senses. ior ex ample, even the truths of the multiplication table are discern ed not through the sense of sight, but through the under standing. The physical figures which we see are not the math ematical truth; this truth is in visible to the physical senses, (lisccrniule only through ninth, ematical understanding. Similarly God, the real man and real universe, are discerned not through the physical sense, but only through spiritual senses or spiritual understanding, and this spiritual understanding, the perception and apprehension of divine Truth, Christian Science makes possible to all. DISCORD AN ERROR Disease, sin, death, all dis cords, arc therefore to be class ed as errors of mortal conscious ness, as inosinoric, illusory mental conditions, On this basis they can be corrected and healed by Truth, while they can not be corrected so long as they aro classed as either physical or mental realitios. liven accord ing to psychology and phil osophy they are but objectified sense-impressions. Thus wo can begin to separate the wheat from the tares, tho actual from tho seeming, the real from the unreal in tho human conscious ness. Most of us have believed that God sends disease, disaster, and death to His children; but if this were true, wo would have no moral right to use any hunt ing means whatsoever, for by so doing wo would bo interfer ing witli tho divinoVplnn and purpose. If God makes us sick ly and dying, it is our business to be sick and die. Dominated 1 I 1 1 J uy sucn a neiiei, u is ot course impossible to understand tint) healing or to be spiritually. Discordant conditions only, in that human conscious ness which is largely mortal, which is a boliof of both good and evil. They are not the nro ductof Truth or Principle, hence thoy aro not divine creations. Realizing this in some degree, their assumed power is at onco lessoned, and we can bogin to freo ourselves from them by turning to divino sources in tho realm of reality. Then wo bo gin to seo that God is not tho author of sin, diseasc.and death, and that wo do not luivo to ex perience thorn, Tho apprehen sion of this one pointWten re sults in healing. MENTAL CURE OF DISEASE Fear is admitted hue cause of disease, infinity, spirituality, health, life, our consciousness must par take of tho nature of these thoughts, and the body likewise. Since disease has a mental origin, it is manifest that it must have a mental cure. A man Buffering from physical dis Christ Jesus utilized in his won derful healing work was not un derstood by the people who wit nessed these works. Some who recognized the fact that, this rection of thought with spiritual truth destroys the error, the im pulse to do wrong. Sin causes suffering so long as it is believed and indulged in: but when sin healing was brought about is mastered and the evil thought tnrougn mental means alone, re- destroyed, man is set freo from fused to behove that the healing this bondage and begins to ex ease produced by hatred, for ex- power was divine, and said that perienco the promised liberty of ample, cannot be permanently it was evil, acting through the the sons of God. "Perfect lovo castoth out 1' ear is duo to ignorance. healed by drugs or surgery. He needs to have the hatred, wheth er from within or from without. neutralized by its true antidote, divine Love. Then the evil cause is destroyed and its effects disappear. Christian Science explains this clearly and ration ally, so that Christian Science Mind-healing can bo demonstrat ed by any one in the degree of his understanding of it. This healing relics on n spiritual method which is both simple and logical. In answer to the inevitable question, How docs Christian Science heal? we need to re member that the truth and error about a given thing cannot ex ist in a given consciousness at the same time, since they are oppositcs. iVo cannot believe that two times two make both five and four. The healing of the error of 'sickness must be akin to tho healing of any other error of belief. Mathematical truth applied to error in com putation always removes that error and establishes right re sults. The truth about God and man annuls false human belief. nnd this removes the effects of such belief. Human discord and disease exist only ns a false state of consciousness, a mis taken sense, a mesmeric dream condition which has no real ex istence, no relation to tho divine mind and its perfect reflection. When the truth of being is known and applied, it destroys tho false belief, and this im proved condition is externalized in harmony. RIGHT MENTAL ACTION As the body is an extcrnnliza- tion oi consciousness, il we change consciousness the con dition of its extcrnnlization will also be changed. How is this to be done? In answer we would say that since Christian Science healing is wholly men tal, it must be accomplished through the activity of the truth in human thought, and in this connection it is well to consider what thinking is, in order that wo may think aright, may en gage in right mental action. A wrong belief cannot bo correct ed with a wrong thought. Thinking is the exercise of in telligence or mind, therefore real thinking is the nctivity of real Mind. Real Mind is the divine consciousness, tho in llnito intelligence, Truth. Real thinking is thus tho activity of tho divine Mind, or Truth. The activity of Truth in conscious ness is the knowing of Truth; thorefore, real thinking is right knowing. Wo can know only the truth, never error. Wo can never know that two times two make live, because they do not. We can only beliovo it. Wo can never know sin, disease, and donth.or anything that is wrong, evil, or material; wo can only believe it. Hcing infinite, perfect, nnd divine, real Mind is good. Therefore evil is not mind, nnd evil thinking is not true mind action; and nil that is evil and material, limited, discordant, and mortal in human thought, is not intelligence, not mind, but a counterfeit of it; thnt is, falso belief. What is termed tho mor tal mind is not real Mind. That mind action which is based upon boliof in matter and its dis- cordnnt conditions, is not real thinking, because it is not right thinking, not right knowing. "Gray matter," socnlled, cannot know; it is Mind alone thnt knows. How can Truth bo brouirht to boar upon consciousness in order that the belief of disease nnd its causo may bo destroyed? When we think rightly of any truth. this truth is present with us in consciousness, is active thoro, just as when wo think rightly of the multiplication table tho truth of mathematics is with us in thought or wo could not think mathematically. Likowiso when wo think rightly of divino Truth, Lifo, Love, - God, which Chris tinn Science makes possible to day, Truth is prcsont with us in consciousness,- "Hod with us." St. Paul wrote to tho Ephcsians of tho ono God who is ''through all," that is, omnipresent. Thus Ho is already present nnd has but to be known. And as by knowing Truth wo reflect Truth and bring it into action in our consciousness, so by knowing I to ho a pro- w wo reuect mm, and it is by The Hi bio human mind; namely, through hypnotism. They cried out, "This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils." So also today many admit that Christian Science heals mentally, but they insist that this healing is accom plished through hypnotism. They do not understand tho na ture and power of divine Mind. Since Christian Scionce healing involves a knowledge of spiritual truth, a recognition of material error, and the application of this truth thereto, this healing is not effected through mental sugges tion, or the influencoof one mind over another. It is not mental domination, nor the exercise of the human will, and it is es sential to a right apprehension of Christian Science that this should be clearly understood. For example: When a math ematician corrects a mathemati cal error, it is not his will which makes this correction, but the mathematical truth which he knows and applies. The power in inherent in the mathematical unnstian science is thus seen to be reformatory and regenera tive. It uplifts consciousness, brings man nearer to God, and makes him better acquainted with his own true selfhood. It improves him morally and phy sically, which improvement con tinues as his spiritual develop ment progresses. To the Ephe sians. St. Paul writes: "This I say therefore, nnd testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, be ing alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blind ness of theirheart: . . . that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man ma terial consciousness, which is corrupt according to the deceit ful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on tho new man spiritual consciousness, which after God is created in righteousness nnd true holiness." Christian Science makes it possible for us truth and not in tho will of the all to begin to do this today. mathematician. When an ill or Finally it must bo understood sin is healed in Christian that Christian Science healing is Science, it is not tho will of the not a mere mental method, re Christian Scientist which does quiringsimply the entertainment the healing, but tho spiritual and repetition of certain Chris- healed exist is right knowing of God that says, fear." Perfect Love is the infinite divino intelligence. When in telligence is brought to bear on ignorance, ignorance is destroy ed, and thus does "perfect lovo" cast out fear, and of nec essity its effects. It is readily seen how important it is to let Truth control our thought. When we indulge in thoughts of limitation, fear, sickness, mor tality, then consciousness par takes of tho nuturo of these thoughts, and tho body likowise. When wo engage in thoughts of in vino irutn and lovo aro re flected in consciousness and brought to' bear unon our human problems. Tho spiritual knowing is real consciousness, the consciousness of the real man; it is communion with tho mllnito Father-Mother Hod. It is true Christian prayer,- "Not my will, but thine, bo done." Such prayer, "in his namo," is answered in healing tho sick, reforming tho sinner. and in supplying all our needs. HEALING NOT THROUGH SUGGESTION.. Tho healing power which truth which ho knows and ap plies to the human error. The power is in the truth itself, not in the human will. Jesus said, "Yo shall know tho truth, and Mm fttiHi titinll Mnln trti 4Vin " mw v.mvii utiMii iimnv jruu aiw. This definitely distinguishes Christian Scienco from hypno tism, magnetism, or mental sug gestion of any form. Tho hyp notizcr endeavors to secure con trol of his patient's mind, to dominate it, and to superimpose upon it his own thought and pur pose, be it good or evil. Henco tho danger of this method. Knowing tho nature of God nnd the real man to be spiritual and perfect, tho Christian Scientist recognizes tho fact that the diseased or sinful conditions are but fnlso mesmeric stntes of consciousness, nnd he applies his understanding of divine Truth as tho remedy. Ho knows the unreality of tho nppearanco called a sick man. just ns the mathematician knows thnt two times two do not make five, oven though ho sees it written nut. Ho knows that they mako four regardless of appearances. Jesus said, "Judgo not accord ing to tho appearance, but judgo righteous judgment." ABSENT TREATMENT Tho healing of patients who nre at a distanco from their practitioners has frequenty been misunderstood and pronounced impossible, notwithstanding that Jesus healed tho centurion's ser vant nnd tho nobleman's son without boing present with them, This misjudgment arises from tho mistaken belief thnt the healing is accomplished through transmission of thought, nnd that distanco hinders this trans mission. In Christian Scienco healing thoro is no thought transference, for mortal mind is not a fnctor in tho healing. The divino Mind being omnipresent, tho humnn knowing of tho truth regarding n sick man at a dis tanco brings Truth to bear on the caso the same ns if ho were near by. In tho realm of Spirit there is no space, no time, and no sick man. All is infinite Mind nnd its perfect, over-present ideas. It is important to seo that Christian Scienco henling in cludes n denial of error as well as tho affirmation of tho truth, the reason for this being that tho belief in matter, sin, and disease is so fixed in tho human consciousness that a specific denial helps to weaken and des troy thnt belief. This deninl can be made only from tho basis of spiritual truth: it is but the revcrso sido of tho declaration of truth, and it is tho truth alone, not tho denial of error, which heals. Indeed, tho key note of Christian Scienco heal ing is tho knowing of tho nl ness of Spirit and the nothingness of matter. SUMMARY To epitomize: In Christian Scienco healing wo must first know tho nature and character of divino reality, then seo that what is termed material ex istence is wholly mental, and that sin, disease, nnd death aro not of God, but nre manifesto- thoughts. Being scientific, it calls for accurate, logical, meta physical reasoning and analysis, n correct mental application of divino Principle. Above nil, it demands a clear realization of tho nllness of God, Spirit, and the nothingness of His opposite, evil and mntter. Divino Lovo alone mnkes this spiritual illu mination possible, for Lovo is the real bonier in Christian Science. MRS. EDDY'S DISCOVERY It is importnnt to recognize thnt Christian Science, tho dem onstrable knowledge of thd Christ-teaching, is a discovery, not an invention. This notnblo discovery wns made by Mrs. Eddy in 18CG, and it was pro claimed to tho world in her great work, "Science and Health with Key to tho Scriptures," which was first published in 1875. This book contains a complcto statement of tho teachings nnd practice of Christian Scionce. It interprets the Bible so thnt it can bo understood, its re domptivo truth bo practically uuuzcu. very many nnvo ocen healed of organic, structural, and functional diseases, ns well as of sin, while rending this book. I know this to bo true, for 1 have personally investi gated many such enscs. This healing is explained by the fact that spiritual truth, touching u receptive conscious ness, nnd porchnnco entertained there, brings about n change in thought by correcting erroneous concepts. It thereby establish es harmony on a spiritual basis, and this harmonious conscious ness is externnlized ns a well body. Mrs. Eddy was a woman of great moral courage nnd possess ed n very uniiBiinl degree of religious feeling. From child hood she was deeply interested in religious nnd philosophical subjects. Sho was an earnest seeker for spiritual truth, nnd in her search examined all chan nels which promised to lend her into the light; but without avail, for tho truth was not to bo found in human theories and systems. Finally, when on n sick-bed, suffering from n supposedly fatal accident, sho was suddenly mndo well as tho truth of God's ever-present henling power dawned upon her. Sho realized thnt sho had been healed through divino influence, and at onco entered upon n careful study of Christ Jesus' words and works, that if possible she might npprehend the Scienco underlying this henling truth, with tho view of giving it to n long-suffering world. My acquaintance with Mrs. Eddy for many years, besides my association with her on many occasions, enables mo to speak of her exalted Christian charac ter. 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If they do not thoroughly be lieve in the spiritual power ex ercised over material conditions, and its possible availability for all time, as declnrcd in the Bible, then their opposition is not to Christian Scionce, but to tho Christianity which Jesus taught and practiced. Christian Scienco stands ready to come to tneir rescue ana to bring an elucidation of Jesus teachings which will result in blessings such as they have never before believed possible. tThoso who have not read the New Testa ment recently, will do well to do so. Let me ask them to read at least ono ot tho gospols, also tho book of tho Acts of the Apostles. which record the healing done by Christ Jesus and his follow ers of that day, and which aro verlhed by the works of Chris tian Science today. mi . i ii .i n f Aati,itoi.in.. -.,fL os:f -ine iaci mar. unrisuan ocien- ual wisdom in leading and direct- Vf?.?0 "M A0,?" W:" tions of erroneous states of hu man consciousness, and there ing this great Christian move ment, unfeigned love for God, for His Christ, and for all man kind, these wero dominant traits of character in the great yet gentle woman who discover ed and established Christian bcience. iho modern wise men fore neither true nor authorita- should Jsay of her ns was said of tive. We thus perceivo that we do not have to be sick, for God did not mako us so. When spiritual knowing dominates consciousness, tho error-bnnish- ing infiuenco of divino Truth and Lovo establishes harmony, As with tho healing of sick ness, so is it with tho henling ot sin, tne overcoming of evil. VlltU llVi Ul tUU HUH Ut nanus; and let tier own old: her works praiso her in the gates." One of Mrs, Eddy's greatest achievements was this: she proved tho Bible to be true by demonstrating thnt its teachings are applicable today; and for this scientific illumination of the divine Word tho whole world Wo must seo that it is not of owes her a lastintr debt of errati God, divino Mind; that it is tude. therefore unreal and powerless CONCLUSION and no part of man. This cor- Those who question Christian derful works that Jesus did. is a cause for regret, but not for dis couragement or criticism. Wo are glad that Jesus' work proves Christian Science to be true, and that Mrs. Eddy rediscovered the Science of Christian healing and has given it to the world. This healing is possible in pro portion to our spiritual under standing. In Science and Health (pp. 42, 44,45.) Mrs. Eddy writes: "The resurrection of the great demon strator of God's power was the proof of his final triumph over body and matter, and gave full evidence of divine Science, evi dence so important to mortals." "He proved Life to be deathless and Love to be the master of, hate. He met and mastered on the basis of Christian Science tho power of Mind over matter, all tho clnims of medicine, sur gery, nnd hygiene." "Jesus' deed was for tho enlightenment of men and for the salvation of the whole world from am, sick ness, and ttentn. Do medicine, surgery, phy Biology, chemistry, nnd physics am us in understanding Jesus great work for humanity? Do thoy bring us such enlighten ment nnd salvation? Do they snow us a better wav if not. where'should wo place our faith? in closing, let mo recommend that when temptation comes to believe the arguments of sutler ing or sin, it is well to stop a moment and think; well to know that they do not come from God, that He does not cause or sup port them, tneretore they are not true, and wo do not have to believe in them or be governed by them. 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