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TnE SUNDAY ORISGOXIAN, PORTLANT), AUGUST 7, 1921
(Paid Advertisement)
He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath ever
lasting life, and shall, not come into condemnation; but is passed from
death unto life.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shall never
see death. CHRIST JESUS. (John v:24; viii:51.)
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through
Jesus Christ our Lord. PAUL. (I Corinthians zv:26; Romans vi:23.)
Life is real and death is the illusion.
Birth, decay and death arise from the material sense of things, not
from the spiritual. ...
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance
of sin.
. . . death must be overcome, not submitted to, before immortality
appears.- MARY BAKER EDDY. (Science and Health With Key to the
Scriptures, pp. 428, 544, 426, 76.)
NEW YORK CITY
Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson,
New York City.
Dear Mrs. Stetson: :
In the New York Herald I have read the following
notice :
EDDY CENTENARY, JULY 16.
The centenary of the birth of Mary Baker Eddy,
founder of the Christian ' Scientist Church, will be
celebrated Saturday, July, 16, at her birthplace, Bow,
near Concord, N. H. Christian Scientists from many
parts pf the country will make pilgrimages to her
grave. and observances will be held in Christian
Science Churches.
I have been striving to gain an understanding of Chris
tian Science for four years. In my study of the Bible and
the teachings of Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy, I
have learned that spiritualization of thought is neces
sary to give us an understanding of the Science of being,
which will enable us to obtain health and happiness and,
finally, to demonstrate over death. This notice in the
Herald, and which I have also observed in the New York
World, of a celebration commemorating Mrs. Eddy's
"birth" and the making of pilgrimages to her "grave,"
has so startled me, with what is to me a contradiction
of Mrs. Eddy's teachings, that I turn to you, almost in
despair, and beg you will not consider me presumptuous
in asking you to tell me what this reversal of, Mrs. Eddy's
teaching means "f Does not Mrs. Eddy teach that we
should not admit material birthdays as real, since they
are but the commemoration of the product of the carnal
mind? In reference to a commemoration of her "birth
day" by the dedication of the Concord Church, she asks,
". . . why this meaningless commemoration of birth
days, since there are none ?" (The First Church of Christ,
Scientist, and Miscellan3r, p. 235.)
Does not Science and Health with Key to the Scrip
tures instruct us that material birth and death are but
phases of mortal belief, and have nothing to do with the
reality of being ? If so, why do Christian Scientists go
to a "grave?"
Having read your published sermons and articles, I
turn to you witK - hope that you can enlighten me upon
this strange contradiction of the teaching of Christ Jesus
and Mary Baker Eddy. There must be thousands who will
be shocked, as I was, at this incredible announcement.
I am spending a few weeks in New York. My home
is in a Southern city and there are quite a number of my
friends who are becoming interested in the study of
Christian Science. I know they will be confused, as I
am, at this announcement. Am I asking too great a
favor, dear Mrs. Stetson, in requesting you to reply ?
Believe me to be,
An earnest seeker for. Truth,
F. M. PITTS.
To "An Earnest Seeker for Truth ":
THE notice in The New York
Heratd, to which you re
fer, seems to have aroused
many "earnest seekers for
Truth," who are turning to me,
pleading for an explanation of
this strange announcement,
which, as you say, they con
sider a "contradiction of the
teaching of Christ Jesus and
Mary Baker Eddy."
It is impossible for me to send
an individual answer to these
letters, or to give my time to
personal inquirers; therefore I
reply, through the columns of
the press, to the multitude who
are questioning the possibilities
of man when governed by God,
as taught by the Galilean
prophet, Christ Jesus, the dem
onstrator of man's eternal one
ness with his creator, and who
proved the dream of death to be
an illusion. I will give you my
understanding of Christian Sci
ence, as taught and demonstrat
ed by Christ' Jesus, and in this
age discovered and founded by
Mary Baker Eddy. In Unity of
Good, page 38, Mrs. Eddy says :
"Death is a contradiction of
Life, or God," and in Science
and Health she declares that
"man is not material ; he is spiritual."-
(p. 468.)
The records of "birth" and
"death" belong to the early
stage of human experience, in
the material organization. Our
Leader, Mrs. Eddy, wisely guid
ed her students in their emer
gence from the material to the
spiritual sense of God, man, and
July 13, 1921.
the universe. Let our Leader
be heard in this hour:
It Is well to know, dar reader,
that our material, mortal history
is but the record of dreams,
not of man's real existence, and
sthe dream has no place in the
Science of being The hu
man history needs to be revised,
and the' material record expunged.
(Retrospection mnd Introspection,
P. SI.)
The material sense of God,
man, and the universe must be
replaced by spiritual sense, to
reveal God and His man, idea
or child. The attainment of
spiritual sense enables the stu
dent of Christian Science to un
derstand and demonstrate the
Science of Life and the possi
bilities, with which God en
dowed man, to whom He gave
"dominion," as executor of His
eternal law of Life and Love.
Jesus said to his disciples:
I and my rather are one.
Father .... that thy may be
one, as we are.
. (John xi30, xvlitll.)
Our revered Leader says :
The meek Nazarene's steadfast
and true knowledge of pre-exist-ence,
pf the nature and insepara
bility of God and man made him
mighty. ...
The Scripture declare Life to
be the infinite I AM not &
dweller in matter. For man to
know Life as It is, namely God,
the eternal good, gives htm not
merely a sense of existence, but
an accompanying consciousness of
spiritual power that subordinates
matter and destroys sin, disease
and death. - This, Jesus demon
strated. Miscellaneous WrittnBs, p. 189.)
Mrs. Eddy bid us:
Keep in Mind the foundations
of Christian Science one God and
one Christ. (Miscellany, p. 101.)
After more than thirty years
of opportunity to assimilate and
prove Mrs. Eddy's teaching, viz..
that "There is no Life, truth, in
telligence, nor substance in mat
ter," since God is Spirit, eternal
Life and Love, the only creator,
and that all that he creates is
real his own image and like
ness accepting the teaching
which Christ Jesus gave to the
world and demonstrated, it
seems incredible that His dis
ciples, or the followers of Mrs.
Eddy can be found believing in
and perpetuating the-false claim
of material birth, growth, de:
cay and death. They seem not
yet to understand that it is a
belief of material "birth" that
fulfills the conditions of fleshly
belief and disappears in what
mortals call "death."
As in Adam all die, even so in
Christ shall all be made alive.
I Corinthians xvi22.)
The mesmeric, hypnotic condi
tion of the so-called carnal mind
has deceived the whole world
with its claim of life in matter,
and some, who are earnestly
striving to follow the teaching
of Christ Jesus and our God-in
spired Leader, Mary Baker
Eddy, have not yet spiritualized
their thought sufficiently to ap
prehend the spiritual facts of
scientific being. These earnest
seekers for Truth have not yet
heard the voice of the ever
present Christ:
Why seek ye the living among
the dead?
He is not here, but is risen.
(Mark xxlv6.)
' . All true Christian Scientists
are striving to attain the Mind
of Christ, and follow and obey
their beloved and revered Lead
er, Mary Baker Eddy, and they
will eventually, through suffer
ing out of the fleshly dream of
life in matter, in obedience to
the law of Life and Love,
emerge from the material senses
and begin to build on a "wholly
spiritual foundation."
Eleven years ago our revered
Leader rose beyond the mental
capacity of any of her students
to continue to visualize, or ob
jectify her; but her advanced
students knew that she had not
died. They refused to be sep
arated from her spiritual indi
viduality, and they continued to
rise mentally with her in her
ascending "thought. Two years
before this she had published
in the Journal a letter to her.
"dear brethren in New York,"
from which I quote :
When my dear brethren in New
York desire to build higher . . .
they must begin on a wholly spir
ituaJ foundation, than which there
is no other. ...
Spirit is infinite: v therefore
Spirit is all. "There is no matter
is not only the axiom of true
Christian Science, but it is the
. only basis upon which this Sci
' ence can be demonstrated. (Chris
tian Science Journal, vol. ixvL,
p. 60S.)
I, with my students, replied
to her that we desired to "build
higher" and upon a "wholly
spiritual foundation," viz.
"Spirit is infinite; therefore
Spirit is alL 'There is no mat
ter,' " and that we believed we
were ready to begin our higher
demonstration of the potency
of spiritual thought-force, to
break the dream of sin, sickness
and death, the product of the;
carnal mind. Two years after
this our Leader passed through
the "valley and shadow" called
death. Having attained to a
degree of spiritual power, she
dissolved (with spiritual sense)
the human concept of a fleshly
image, or body, and Was no
longer physically visible to her
students. But again I repeat
that some of her students knew
that she had not died, that she
was leading them to higher
proofs of her teaching and to an
understanding of the Master's
words, "Lo, I am with you al
way." Material organization, which,
Mrs. Eddy tells us, "is requisite
only in the earliest periods in
Christian history," must finally
be outgrown and abandoned.
In Retrospection and Introspec
tion, page 45, she declares :
After this material form
of cohesion and fellowship
has accomplished its end. con
tinued organization retards spir
itual growth and should be laid
off. ...
Humanity must emerge from
the Adam-Eve dream and
awake to their oneness with
their, creator, our Father, who
lovingly cares for every child
of his creating.
The master Metaphysician,
Jesus the Christ, endured the
death of the false material
senses, or the physical crucifix
ion inflicted by the carnally
minded, who placed him in a
tomb and sealed the tomb with
a stone, vainly attempting to
destroy him. History records
his demonstration of his teach
ing. He rolled back the stone
and walked forth, triumphant
over the so-called carnal mind,
and won a sublime victory over
the illusion called death.
As I have stated, our Leader
rose beyond the mental ability
of any of her students to visual
ize her, and in that hour those
who retained a material sense
of her, carried out the ceremony
of the materialists and buried
their material concept of the
Leader in a grave. At that time
I was interviewed in regard to
this experience in the history of
Christian Scientists, and if you
will consult one of my books,
Reminiscences, Sermons and
Correspondence, beginning at
page 1014, you will there find
my replies to the questions of
an interviewer.
He inquired, "What are Mrs.
Eddy's views in regard to
death?"
My answer was, "She in
structs her followers to over
come the belief of life in matter,
with its sin, sickness and death,
by gaining the Mind of Christ.
In her textbook, Science and
Health 'with Key to the Scrip
tures, and in her other writings,
she continues to teach that
"there is no death," that "all is
Mind," "there is no matter."
She declares that there is no
substance, nor intelligence, in
mortal thought, so-called, nor
in its manifestation, mortal man
and the material universe. In
Unity of Good, page 38, she
avers:
It is unchristian to believe In the
transition called material 'death,
since matter has no life. . .
Therefore Christian Scientists
must not continue to commem
orate material birth and death ;
and if they strive to emulate
the life of Christ and are loyal
to the teachings of our revered
Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, di
vine Love will enlighten them,
as they emerge from a material
sense of God, man, and the uni
verse, to the spiritual apprehen
sion of eternal Life and Love,
the source and supply of their
being. Mrs. Eddy says:
By loyalty in students I mean
this allegiance to God. subordi
nation of the human to the divine,
steadfast justice and strict ad
herence to divine Truth and
Love. (Retrospection and Intro
spection, p. 50.)
All Christians, weary of the
fruitlessness of the search for
eternal Life and unity with our
Father-Mother God, are looking,
longing, and praying for a ces
sation, through Christ, Truth,
of the ills to which flesh is heir
and for the passing away of the
"former things" (thoughts)
which produced sickness and
death. The divine metaphysi
cian, or true Christian Scientist,
comprehends (through spiritual
sense) the words of Mrs. Eddy :
The foam and fury of illegiti
mate living and of fearful and
doleful dying should disappear on
the shore of time; then the waves
of sin, sorrow and death beat in
vain. (Science and Health, p. 203.)
. Genuine Christian Scientists
do not commemorate "illegiti
mate living and . . . fearful
and doleful dying," and through
their faithful adherence to
Truth, the phenomena of the
carnal mind are fast disappear
ing "on the shore of time."
Christian Scientists will not
continue to regard as real, the
embodiment of sin, the fleshly
man, which Christ Jesus re
fused to acknowledge as God's
man and whom he condemned.
Of this Adam-Eve generation,
he said:
Ye are of your father the devil,
and the lusts of your father ye
will do. He was a murderer from
the beginning, and abode not In
the truth, because there is no
truth in him. When he speaketh
a lie, he speaketh of his own; for -he
is a liar, and the father of it.
(John vlii44.)
As universal consciousness is
leavened by the teaching of
Christ Jesus and Mary Baker
Eddy, the false mentality, or
carnal thought, which expresses
itself in material birth and
death, will finally be destroyed.
Mary Baker Eddy caught the
lost chord of Christ, swept her
hand over human heart-strings
and rose to higher spiritual pos
sibilities. She lives, is here, and
continues to attune, to the an
them of eternal Life, all who
are ready to accept and who
endeavor to demonstrate her
teaching. Let me quote my
authority for this statement,
from page 297 of Miscellany, by
Mary Baker Eddy:
THERE IS NO DEATH.
A suppositional gust of evil In
this evil world is the dark hour
tnat precedes the. dawn. This
gust blows away the baubles of
belief, for there is in reality no
evil, no disease, no death; and the
Christian Scientist wlio believes
that he dies, gains a rich blessing
of disbelief in death, and a higher
realization of heaven.
- My beloved Edward A. Kimball,
whose, clear, correct . teaching of
Christian Science has been and is
an inspiration to the whole field.
is here now as veritably as when
he visited me a year ago. If we
would awake to this recognition. -we
should see him here and real
ize that he never died; thus dem-
- enstrating the fundamental truth
of Christian Science.
Today history is repeating it
self. Upon Jesus' reappear
ance, he found his dull disciples
discussing: his . death. In the
walk to Emmaus they failed to
recognize him, until his spirit
ual presence touched a respon
sive chord. 1 hen they recog
nized their Master and Teacher.
And they said one to another:
Did not our hearts burn within
us. while he talked with us by the
way. and while he opened to us
the scriptures? (Luke xxlv32.)
Let Christian Scientists study
the words and works of Mrs
Eddy, until her spiritual pres
ence causes their hearts to burn
within them, and "o'er earth's
troubled, angry sea", they "see
Christ walk;" and come to them,
and tenderly, divinely talk
(Poems by Mary Baker Eddy,
P..12).
Christ Jesus' disciples: be
lieved that he had died. Had
they gained the spiritual appre
hension of his teaching, they
would have understood that in
leaving them, he was making a
demonstration over the carnal
mind, or universal evil, and
would prove that there is no re
ality in death. "Let men think
they had killed the body," says
our Leader. "Afterward he
would show it to them un
changed." (Science and Health,
p. 42.) This he did, and his fol
lowers must accept his teaching,
follow his example, and finally,
here or hereafter, make the
demonstration of eternal Life.
This will enable them to say,
with understanding, as did our
Master, "I and my Father are
one," but "my Father is greater
than I." (John x:30; xiv:28.)
Mrs. Eddy declares:
The great spiritual fact must be
brought out that man is, not shall
be, perfect and immortal.
(Science and Health, p. 428.)
Mrs. Eddy's teaching; is for
ever, established in the hearts
of her true followers, who come
forth en masse when the enemy
of good attempts to trail its
standard in the dust, by operat
ing through those who are earn
estly striving to follow and obey
the teaching of Christ Jesus and
their great Leader, Mrs. Eddy,
but who have not yet attained
to a spiritual concept of Chris
tian Science. Divine Love will
finally illumine the path of
every loyal disciple of Christ.
Today the world is aroused to
choose between the Christ-mind
and the so-called carnal mind.
Humanity desires the reward of
spiritual thinking and spiritual
living, which results in health
and happiness, but all are not
ready to make the sacrifice to
attain it. Only the bravely
brave, the dauntless Christian,
will work to overcome material
self and the carnal thoughts
that compose a material uni
verse, which begins in material
birth and ends in the phenome
non called death. Heaven is a
condition f mind, the heritage
of the spiritually minded. What
mortals regard as "hell" is the
j result of envy, jealousy, fear,
avarice, greed, malice, revenge,
lust, hypocrisy, personal ambi
tion, pride of place and power,
and the human will, which op
poses the will of God. A wide
mental gulf separates these two
conditions of mind heaven
and hell.
Having proved the power of
the Christ-mind, in my own ex
perience of over thirty years, I
rejoice to defend the potency of
spiritual thought -force as
taught' by Christ Jesus, and in
this age by our revered Leader,
Mrs. Eddy. Perfect health,
strength which must emanate
from the source of all strength,
omni-active Life and Love
since it seems inexhaustibte
and a joy, peace, and love for
God and every idea, or child of
His creating, thus verifying
the Scripture, "The fruit of the
Spirit is love, joy" and "the
peace which passeth all under
standing" this has been my
exceeding great reward for
having striven to attain the
Mind of Christ, to follow and
obey the teaching of Christ
Jesus and my beloved Leader,
Mary Baker Eddy, and to ful
fill the law of Love. With the
Psalmist, I exclaim:
The Lord Is my strength and
song, and is become my salvation.
I shall not die, but live, and de
clare the works of the Lord.
(Fsalm cxvlll 114-17.)
My help cometh from the Lord,
which made heaven and earth.
(Psalm cxxiiZ.)
Clad in this spiritual armor,
trusting the dynamic power of
immutable, invincible Truth and
Love, to envelop and protect me,
I shall continue to cross mental
swords with theenemy of good,
the so-called carnal mind, which
testifies of material "birth" and
"death," until victory crowns j
my efforts and I awake in thei
"image" and "likeness" of God. I
(Genesis i:26.) Spiritual gen
eration is already revealed as
the eternal verity of being, and
is spiritually apprehended, as
God and His infinite ideas, or
children, forever held in the
bonds of Life and Love
In fulfillment of the divine
statute, Truth has pronounced
sentence upon evil, the lie,
"which deceiveth the whole
world," and Christ, at his sec
ond coming, which is imminent,
will fulfill the Scripture as the
executor of the law of God:
and the government
shall be upon his shoulder; and his
name shall be called Wonderful.
Counsellor, The mighty God, The
everlasting Father, The Prince of
' Peace. (Isaiah lx:6.)
It is my sacred duty to God,
to my Leader, and to every
Seeker for the Truth of being,
to continue to wield the sword
of the Spirit, the Word of God,
and defend the Cause of Chris
tian Science from this final ef
fort of the enemy of good, or
the opponent of Truth, to de
ceive those who are striving to as
similate, understand, and dem
onstrate the teaching of Christ
Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy, but
who have not yet attained to
spiritual understanding. They
have the letter of Christian Sci
ence, and if they strive to pos
sess the Spirit, the Mind of
Christ, they will finally prove
that
It is the spirit that qulckeneth;
the flesh profiteth nothing. . . .
(John vl:U3.)
. As of old, the dragon attempts
to devour the child of the wom
an the spiritual idea, or divine
Science, to which Mrs. Eddy
gave birth. Christ's Christian
ity, or Christian Science, will
never again be "lost as afore
time." Our redemption draw
eth nigh."
Genuine Christian Scientists
know that their "Redeemer liv
eth" ( Jobxix :25) , and that their
"lives are hid with Christ in
God" (Colossians iii:3), there
fore that they are immortal.
Our great Leader, Mary Baker
Eddy, will prove her words,
"Life is real, and death is the
illusion." (Science and Health,
p. 428.) She. has met, as did
her Master, the false claim of
death, and she will demonstrate
over this claim, as did our Way
shower to eternal Life. I repeat,
what was possible for Christ
Jesus, he declared was possible
for his disciples. All Christen
dom admits this. Mrs. Eddy's
students, who have attained to
spiritual understanding, are
looking for the demonstration
of their Leader. Again I af
firm, what was possible for
Christ Jesus, the masculine rep
resentative of the fatherhood of
God, is possible for Mary Baker
Eddy, the feminine representa
tive of the motherhood of God ;
and for anyone to deny her the
ability to demonstrate Christ's
teaching, which she promul
gates in Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures and her
other writings, is evidence of
the so-called carnal mind, which
has always resisted the law of
God, eternal Life. Jesus said:
The works that I do shall he
(ye) do also; and greater works
than these shall he (ye) do. . . .
(John xlv:12.)
If we are never to demon
strate his teaching the victory
of Life over the illusion of death
why call ourselves Christians ?
What would be thought of a
teacher of mathematics who per
mitted a student to commit the
rules and never demanded a
proof of those rules? As in
mathematics, so in Christian
Science ; mathematics is the sci
ence of numbers, Christian Sci
ence is the Scieitce of being. The
beginner in Christian Science
commits the letter, but if he
does not go beyond this stage
and prove his rule, he fails. The
student of mathematics begins
with addition, subtraction, mul
tiplication and division and con
tinues through algebra, geom
etry and trigonometry to calcu
lus and higher mathematics. co
with the Science of being; the
letter of Christian Science must
be learned, then the demonstra
tion of every rule must follow,
up to the fourth dimension of
Spirit, viz. : "Spirit is infinite ;
therefore Spirit is alL" (Miscel
lany, p. 357.) As Paul declares,
"The letter killeth, but the spirit
givethlife." Christian Scientists
are now called upon to prove
their understanding of Chris
tian Science and to be classified
as "tares" or "wheat," "sheep"
or "goats," "wise" or "foolish
virgins." If anyone makes a
statement which contradicts the
teaching of Christ Jesus and
Mary Baker Eddy, either you
believe their statements, or you
repudiate them, and accept the ;
argument of the materialists.
. Let God be true, but every
(mortal) man a liar.
(Romans 111:4.)
I credit our wise Leader with
the understanding of Truth,
anrl T awnit. hpv r?fTnnnsrra1-ivn
of spiritual power over the false
claim called death. 1 never, for)
one moment, doubt her ability j
and spiritual might to overcome
the "last enemy," and reappear
in the image and likeness of
God, and I shall be "satisfied"
only when I awake in His like
ness. I shall be satisfied when I
awake, with Thy likeness.
(Psalm xvil:13.)
The contention for Immortal
ity between the students of Mrs.
Eddy, "who have been building
on a spiritual foundation, and
those students who continue to
adhere to and obey the material
senses, is apparent. They have
written their problem upon the
world's blackboard, while prog
ress, the law of the Infinite, has
enabled thousands to .keep
abreast with Truth and distin
guish the' genuine Christian
Scientist from the materialist,
who continues to perpetuate the
dream of life in matter. Hu
manity is awaking to condemn
this, as the reversal of the
teaching of Christ Jesus and
Mary Baker Eddy.
The true Christian Scientists
are striving to spiritualize
thought, that" they may visual
ize their great Leader and
Teacher, when she reappears, as
did Jesus,- in confirmation of her
acceptance and promulgation of
the teaching of the Galilean
prophet, viz.: that man is an
emanation of God, eternal Life
and Love, and is therefore im
mortal, reflecting his creator,
infinite Mind, or Spirit. Let
me quote Mrs. Eddy's words:
The continual contemplation of
existence as material and corpo
real as beginning and ending
and with birth, decay and dissolu
tion as its component stages
hides the true and spiritual Life,
and causes our standard to trail
in the dust.
(Science and Health, p. 5.0.)
Birth and death beloner to the
Adam-Eve generation, which
conceives in sin and brings forth
sorrow and death. Paul says:
-efljes be carnally minded is death;
but-to be spiritually minded is life
and peace. ( Romans viilitf.)
Mrs. Eddy bids her students :
Abide in Truth, in fellowship
with and obedience to The Mother
Church, and in this way God will
bless and prosper you. This I
know, for He has proved it to me
for forty years in succession.
(Miscellany, p. 300.)
Mrs. Eddy defines "Church"
as "The Structure of Truth and
Love," not a material organiza
tion, but a state of spiritual
consciousness. Christian Scien
tists understand this to mean,
abide in spiritual, conscious one
ness with God and His Christ.
I note today in the columns
of The New York Herald these
headlines :
TO HONOR 726 1 DEAD
IN HOBOKEN SERVICE
Alas for poor humanity!
Their insistence upon death as
a reality and their refusal to ac
cept the scientific fact of being,
viz. : that man is God's "image"
and "likeness," spiritual and not
material, the emanation of his
Father-Mother Life and Love
this insistence upon the reality
of the fleshly embodiment, as
the dear departed, savors of pa
gan philosophy, blind idolatry,
and an absolute ignorance of
God, and the creative Principle
of being, and Christ, or the body
of Truth and Love, God, which
is composed of infinite ideas, or
members, and whose existence
is the reflection of an eternal,
creative Principle called "Our
Father, which art in heaven."
The time will come when these
memorial services will be dis
continued, and the presence of
the loved ones will be admitted
and revealed.
At times, moved by divine
Love and tender sympathy for
the sinner and grief-stricken
mourner, and longing to arouse
humanity from its dream of life
in matter, which terminates in
suffering and so-called death
I cry out as did our Master :
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou
that killest the prophets and
stoneth them that are sent unto
thee, how often would I have
gathered thy children together,
even as a hen gathereth her
chickens under her wings, and ye
would not. (Matthew xxlU:37.)
But I rejoice to note that the
Christly element is fast devel
oping in humanity, and thou
sands who have not yet accepted
Christian Science are respond
ing to our Leader's statement
that "Life is real, and death is
the illusion." (Science and
Health, p. 428.) Let all deny
the evidence of the material
senses, when called upon to part
with loved ones, and wait pa
tiently for spiritual sense to re
veal to them the real, perfect
eternal child of God's creating.
The author of the following
poem discerned the unreality of
death, and wrote :
Beside the dead I knelt for prayer.
And felt a presence, as I prayed.
Lo! it was Jesus standing there;
He smiled, "Be not afraid!"
"Lord, Thou hast conquered death,
. we know.
Restore again to Ufa," I sal.
'This one who died an hour ago."
He smiled. "She is not dead."
"Asleep then, as thou didst say.
Yet thou canst lift the lids th.it
keep
Her prisoned eyes from ours
away."
He smiled, "She doth not sleeo."
"Yet our beloved seem so far.
The while we yearn to feel them
near;
Albeit with thee we trust they
are."
He smiled, "And I am here."
"Dear Lord, how shall we know
that they
Still walk unseen with us. and
thee.
Nor sleep, nor wander far away?"
He smiled. "Abide In me."
(Raymond.)
Again Mrs. Eddy's words
come to me, and they will bear
repeating:
Abide in Truth, in fellowship
with and obedience to The Mother
' Church, and in this way God will
. bless and prosper you.
(Miscellany, p. 360.)
The Mother Church is "The
structure of Truth and Love"
(Science and Health, p. 583),
and Christian Scientists abide
in that state of spiritual con
sciousness, where they walk and
talk with Christ, while he im
parts to them an understanding
of their oneness with the Father,
in fulfillment of his promise:
Lo, I am with you alway, even
unto the end of the world.
(Matthew xxTtiliSO.)
. . . As Thou. Father, art in,
me, and I in Thee, that they
also may be one in us.
(John xvii:21.)
Another states the Truth of
man's eternal selfhood, and
would comfort the mourner.
He writes of those who have
passed from our vision:
They have not died;
They live and breathe with you.
They walk here at your side.
And then he asks,
Why dream of poppied sod.
When flower, and Soul, and God
Know there is no death?
There is one Life; no more;
No dying and no tomb.
Why seek ye them above
Those that ye love so dear?
The all of God is Love,
The all of God is here.
And he assures the sorrowing,
They have not died.
Their hands clasp yours and
mine;
They are but glorified.
They have not died;
They live, they know, they see;
They shout with every breath,
"All is eternal Life;
There is no death!
All is eternal Life!"
(Gordon Johnstone.)
Mrs. Eddy is mentally active
in our midst, solving the prob
lem of scientific being, rising to
spiritual dominion and demon
stration, as did Christ Jesus,
over the illusion of death and
the grave. Her students are
arising and calling. her blessed.
They are defending and demon
strating her teaching. Her
Church, the "structure of Truth
and Love," not a material edi
fice, which is but the symbol, is
built upon the Rock, Christ, and
"the gates of hell shall not pre
vail against it." Jesus was cru
cified for his efforts to waken,
the world from the belief in sin,
sickness, and death. Mrs. Eddy,
in her endeavors to arouse hu
manity to awake and come forth
from the bondage of material
birth and death, antagonized the
carnal mind. It was a mental
battle that Jesus waged and in
which he triumphedr It is a
mental battle between hate and
love, evil and good, death and
life, the carnally minded and the
spiritually minded, which Mrs.
Eddy is encountering, and she
will triumph. "Troublesome
Truth" has the field and will
uncover and overturn all that
opposes eternal Life. The divine
man, the compound idea, reflect
ing the fatherhood and mother
hood of God, which constitutes
the spiritual universe, will be re
vealed as the only man and the
only universe, reflecting infin
ite, creative Spirit, God, eternal
Life, Truth and Love. This is
the Science of being, as taught
by Christ Jesus and Mary Baker
Eddy.
The time is approaching when
the "foolish virgins" will ask of
the "wise virgins," "Give us of
your oil ; for our lamps are gone
out." And the "wise virgins,"
they who have kept their lamps
filled with oil, will reply, "Not
so ; lest there be not enough for
us and you : but go ye rather to
them that sell and buy for your
selves." (Matthew xxv:8-9.)
The midnight hour is at hand.
Christ's imminence is unmis
takable. His voice is heard by
the faithful, saying: v -
The Son of man cometn at an
hour when ye think not.
(Lake xll:40.)
Watch ye therefore; for ye know
not when the master of the houso
cometh. Lest coming suddenly, ho find
you sleeping.
And what I say nnto you I say
unto aU. Watch. (Marie xilli35-37.)
' Sincerely yours,
' AUGUSTA E. STETSON, j
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