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ThNeteOxBQON Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Tvesday M ornbtfr October SO, 1923
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE g MZ
A free lector on Christian Sel
ene entitled Christian Scieno :
The Power of Good, by Paul A.
Harsch. C. S. B.. Member of the
Board of Lectureship of the Moth
er Church. Tho First Church f
Christ. Scientist. In Boston.
Mass.. was delivered Monday
renin:. October 29. under the
ausDices of First Church of
Christ. Scientist of Salem, In the
' eh arch edifice.
Mr. Harsch spoke substantially
as fallows:
As a whole civilisation from the
beginning has been satisfied with
Its so-called accomplishments and
culture. Rarely has it welcomed
the ptoner whose message de
manded a renunciation of estab
lished theories and dogma, and it
Is content If only Its material In
terests be undisturbed. Indiffer
ence.' procrastination and open re
sistance have often seemingly
checked the development of right
mental activity, but Its momentum
now Is well nigh irresistible and It
Is sweeping on swiftly, silently,
but as surely as the tides in their
ebb and flow.
Student of world affairs gen
erally concede the fundamental
correctness of this conclusion but
call attention to the fact that the
awakening often seems to come as
slowly In the individual conscious
ness as of old. Is it not a rebuke
to human apathy to recall that
m twenty centuries have come and
gone- since the most stupendous
event of the ages took place, that
event which changed the whole
course of human affairs? That is
to say. nearly two thousand years
have chiseled their record of hu
man effort with Its failures ks
well as Its achievements, upon
the corridors of , time, since the
birth of Jesus. Still all are not
fully awake. Many are yet deep
ly asleep.'
Endeavoring to correct this hu
man tendency to mental lethargy
and sluggishness. Paul said in
his epistle to the Epheslans
"Awake thou that steepest, and
arise from the dead, and Christ
shall give thee light. He was
not speaking of physical sleep
but of mental deadness with a)l
Its paralyzing effects.
Mental Awakening Illustrated
A personal experience may .11
lustrate the almost universal re
sistance to the mental call which
Christian Science is making to
this age in its presentation of the
power of God, 'good, even though
It comes with such clear and
ringing notes. Nearly twenty
five years ago I was seriously 111.
The difficulty was a so-called
chronic one and apparently deep-
.. seated. It had refused to yield
to medical treatment. Eminent
and skilled members of the med
ical profeeslon had been appealed
to. One of them was a close aud
valued friend. None had helped
me. At this point, and as a last
resort, help was sought in Chris
tian Science and healing o!
lowed. But I was not awak
ened from my mental torpor. My
r.ewly gained physical freedom
to go on with ray life and work
as In the days before satisfied
me.
Six months passed and a very
precious member of my family
was healed Instantaneously by
Christian Science treatment, of a
difficulty which, a physician who
had previously attended the case
aid would require an immediate
operation. This healing brought
me to the point of going to the
cnristian science church ocea-
slonally, but still no genuine
awakening took place. Then our
small son was, delivered from an
elarmlng condition quickly and
perfectly. I was grateful but
my interest In Christian Science
still more or less casual.
Then finally came another crt
I had Invested substantial
sums, aiong wun oiners. in a
commercial venture. All that
we possessed in a material sense
was involved and it seemed about
to be swept away. There would
be great loss to creditors and stock
holders. The business at this junc
ture was placed entirely in mv
hands. The responsibility seemed
v oe wholly mine. At last I awoke
The struggle began. For days and
months I sought to gain, by earnest
effort, an understanding of the
Bower of God. rood. vVrm f lmaur
by this time to be the only Mind,
hoping to apply this knowledge to
the problem which seemed about to
overwhelm me.
Again and again the business
teemed at the point of complete
annihilation. It appeared that
each tomorrow would be the end,
our. tomorrow always brought a re
spite. Now it"was a tiny glimpse
v uw a guuuness, mat savea we
day by lifting courage high enousrh
to weather the storm, then the com
forting assurance, "Lo, I am with
you alway even unto the end of
the world," restored my soul. Then
lowly, day by day and against
tremendous odds as tt seemed, I
woke more and more to the facts
ef real being and my relationship
to them.
As the awakening came, my con
fidence m the power and presence
of God as infinite good became
stronger. The business itself grew
accordingly. Light began to filter
in through tiny chinks. Hope be
came more buoyant. Wrong
thoughts were corrected. Fear dis-
KUed. Assets which at one time
d seemed of doubtful value in
creased substantially in actual
worth, and- wr M nA fm.llv
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dated. Creditors were paid, stock
holders received-their money and
my own capital investment was re-
' turned in full,
This experience proved to me in
a most convincing way that God is
ever present to aid manthat is, to
guide, to counsel and correct him;
that He is indeed good and that
xaim quality of good n ere as divlae
, attribute possesses power to de
stroy every phase of lack, limita
tion and insufficiency.
Good Defined
la the text book of Christian
' Science, Science and Health with
-Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker
Eddy, v its author, tiros define
Good. "God; Spirit; omnipotence;
Hnniscienee; omnipresence; omnl
jction," (Pg. 587) and it is pro
posed to present the subject of
Christian Science here from the
standpoint just illustrated, that it,
of good and its power: power in
herent in ft, constantly being mani
fested by it, and inevitably litting
mankind upward and onward to
God.
Desirability or Good
Deep seated in the heart of every
one of us there dwells a desire to
know more aoout good, a yearning
to attain to the secret place of the
Most High, to that point of under
standing whereby good may be
brought more largely and more
specifically into daily experience
and there retained and used.
In he Scriptural statement,
"And God saw everything that He
had made, and, behold, it was very
good." the word good is used in a
definitive or qualifying sense.' but
the Hebrew word so translated in
this instance is quite as frequently
employed as a noun. It possessed,
to the writers of Biblical times,
and to the translators of a later
day, certain qualities which ex
pressed beauty, gladness, welfare,
ind in this sense was used in hun
dreds of instances. When Jesus
ssked. "Why callest thou me good
he immediately answered his own
question by the statement, "None
i iL.i r i
is Eooa. save one, uiat is, uuu,
and thereby directed the thought
of his hearers away from a sense
of good resident in person or mat
ter and towards the one source of
all good. God.
From, whatever viewpoint the
individual may approach the con
templation of good, .and be his de
sire for it great or small, it is nev
ertheless a fact that everyone is
seeking, with some measure of
earnestness, that which to his sense
stands for good. Net one but de
sires to hear and learn something
which he may interpret in terms of
tangible good. Good, to some, may
nean a larger measure of health,
relief from pain, freedom, from
bondage of some unfortunate habit,
release from the demon of lack and
limitation, the destruction of some
form of fear, fear of persons,
renditions, or even of climate.
To all peoples and from the ear
liest days, good and the conditions
or objects which it represents, have
very properly been understood to
be an outcome of Deity. But this
belief was always accompanied by
mother not so reassuring. Was i
not believed that the same God on
occasion sent pestilence, famine,
war, ' discord, and misery, every
thing in short that was not good?
Or, if He was not directly respon
sible for these things was He not
supposed to permit them to bo?
there appeared to be two power.
Thus it came about that good as
i quality of God seemed offset by
n opposite and terrifying char
acteristic called by various name.
This thought of an evil power
?qual to, and sometimes apparently
superior to good, has seemed lo
have been so bred into the very
fibre of the race that the true sense
if God has been woefully distorted.
theology has perpetuated this fal
lacy and many of the myths and
superstitions of the race have had
their foundation in it. Voltaire
the arch-skeptic, said, "If there
were no God we should have to in
vent one" and a modern writer
adds, "That is what we have been
doing since the beginning of time,
creating God in our own image."
Christian Science based on the
teaching of Christ Jesus that God
alone is good discards the possi
bility of reality in evil and accepts
the omnipotence and omnipresence
af good alone. It teaches that since
this is sound logic the sequence
must be that there is no division or
separation of power in God's uni
verse which must be entirely and
infinitely good. Therefore, evil
does not exist as a reality or as a
power.
Infinity of God
Since then, in the universe of
Spirit, there is no thing or power
to withstand God or to divide au
thority with Him, or express any
sense of being apart from Him
we surety must agree mat lie
alone includes all good. Likewise
God's presence in His universe has
been continuous, that is, without
interruption from the beginning'.
mamiesiea wiinoui DreaK or
change. With these premises ac
cepted we find ourselves contem
plating a universe completely
filled with God, good, who is and
ever has existed exclusively and
alone and who exercises absolute
power and authority throughout
the entire compass of His creation.
is this all, the conclusion just
stated has always and forever besn
the fact and it leads to the com
forting assurance, that there is no
evil thing, influence, or power now
existing, nor has there ever been
in reality, such a power to harm.
injure, kill or destroy a single one
yt God's children.
JOYOUSNESS OF GOOD
Whittier reminds us, "That all
ef good the past hath had remains
to make our own time glad" and
this dominant note of gladness al
ways accompanies the refrain of
good. To illustrate: Life. Chri3
tian Science teaches, is God, good.
Admittedly it Is good to express
Life in a full, free and vigorous
way and to do so is a joyous thing.
Could it be possible to imagine a
condition more joyous than to be
free forever from all sense of wear
",c. w - "J uevo
iness; to be absolutely devoid of
Kn i y ; 01 every tnoug&t or sic
ness and disease; to have no con
sciousness of a life that must ter
minate sometime;' to dwell con
sciously in the presence of Lif
which Is all good? Would not this
be heaven, eternal joy?
To take from life all of its joy
has always been the effort of that
trcfr enemy of mankind, mortal
mind or the carnal mind, as Scrip
ture puts it. Mrs. Eddy aptly and
graphically- calls this mortal mind
snimal magnetism, and devotes a
brief but rigorous and marvelous
chapter In her text book to it This
claim of evil power has been known
variously throughout the ages. Bv
Jesus it was called a murderer in
thee words, "He was a murderer
from the beginning and, abode not
in the Truth, because there is no
Truth in him." It is this false,
untruthful and evil sense which
ceaselessly endeavors to rob man
kind of the joy of knowing, trust
ing and expressing' an Infinitely
good God. in whom is life eternal.
Evil, however, invariably fails to
accomplish its purpose in the case
of those who are applying the
knowledge of ever present good,
God, as gained in Christian Science
good ready to protect and guard
its own unfolding sense.
A simple illustration may help
to show this more clearly. The
clouds which conceal some noble
and towering mountain peak from
our gare when we have gone to
view it, do not convince us by their
false testimony, that the mountain
itself has been removed. We still
believe it to be in its accustomed
place, though several days may
pass before its beauties are re
vealed. In the meantime we have
experienced no fear that it has
been removed, no anxiety about it
or doubt as to its presence and re
appearance, yet all -the time were
we to believe our eyes, no moun
tain would be there. In this man
ner animal magnetism uses first
-me and then another of the physi
cal senses to delude, deceive and
destroy.
In this connection it is well to
remember that God's children who
reflect and express Him continu
ously, constitute the only real crea
tion. As the Bible assures us
"Now are we the sons of God."
We may, therefore, safely start
from this fourfold premise: First,
We are children of God. Second,
God being Spirit, we, His children,
are spiritual. Third, Being spir
itual we partake only of the quali
ties of Spirit and therefore are in
reality, neither material nor mor
tal and consequently not subject to
sin or disease Fourth, God, good.
being omnipotent and causing His
children to reflect His power we
can successfully resist all evil.
The Road, to Health
Now herein. Is seen the power
of good, viz.: that every statement
and every conclusion based upon
it, or emanating from it leads only
to health, happiness, genuine suc-
ess, permanent peace, longevity.
and above all usefulness. This is
sufficient reason for holding to this!
basic fact so persistently that our
consciousness is constantly filled
with good so that neither thoughts
af disease, misery, failure, discord
r even death itself, can find en
trance. With such thoughts denied
idmission it follows in a perfect
sequence that none of these claims
jo an evil power can express them
selves in the bodily experience of
me depending resolutely on the
ower of ever-present good, God.
Availability or Good
The instant availability of good
is a continual source of joy and
thankfulness. With out-stretched
irmsthe omnipresent, omnipotent
Father-Mother Love, to use the
exquisite name Mrs. Eddy gives
us for God, is always at hand to
nect every human need. No ex
perience, however extraordinary
may be the demand, however ter
rifying the fear, but this good God
is ready and waiting to protect and
deliver.
Again what cause for joy and
gratitude arises from the power
ind presence of good, as expressed
by divine intelligence, God, to
-ause His children to walk in the
path of health and holiness, thus
preserving and defending them.
Contrariwise the so-called human
mind following its own inclinations
nd desires always brings, sooner
ir later, disaster and destruction.
Greed and avarice, ambition, appe
tite self-will, pride and passion
unrestrained may for a moment
?laim to be power and may appear
to yield satisfaction and pleasure,
but the evil fruit of these unli
censed, because un-Godlike, quali
ties is soon harvested. Many a
stubborn disease has been com
pletely healed when one or more
of the qualities just enumerated
has yielded to the silent health
producing ministration of divine
intelligent Mind, good.
Elijah illustrates the power of
divine Mind, infinite good, to res
cue from persecution, to preserve
from harm and to advance in spir
itual understanding. "How long
halt ye between two opinions?" he
demanded of Israel's hosts, assem
bled on the heights of Carmel. But
they "answered him not a word".
He offered the priests of Baal a
supreme test They accepted his
challenge but failed, as evil always
must fail, when confronted with
divine good, omnipotent God. When
Elijah turned to God in these
words " Hear me, 0 Lord, Hear
Tie, that this people may know that
hou art the Lord God"
"Then the fire of the Lord fell and
consumed the burnt sacrifice"
"and when all the
people saw it, they fell on their
laces: ana tney said, the Lord, He
is the God; The Lord, He is the
uvu
Had not Elijah's seal demanded
"an eye for an eye" and the
slaughter of Baal's prophets
four hundred and fifty of them,
he might have been spared the
hurried flight into the wilderness
and the forty days of fasting be
fore the journey to Horeb. But
even Elijah needed a purifying ex
perience and we find him in a shel
tering cave in the fastnesses of the
mountains watching the elements
in their wild raging and seeking
in the wind, the earth-quake- and
the fire to find some explanation.
Thus in retrospect, Elijah again
faces the winds of false doctrine.
Beating and crashing about him
they seem to rend and tear th
very foundation stones of material
beliefs, but, they can neither touchl
reality or the spiritual facts of the
universe at a single point. Still
in retrospect he feels the shock of
ingratitude and heartlessness.
Driven from home and his normal
sctivities by those whom he , had
faithfully served and his very lif?
sought by them he is forced by
divine Love, good itself, to realize
that no dependence can be placed
on persona, be they kings or com-
moners.
Still looking backward, he must
have seen that his own fiery zeal
had also availed nothing, for it
was but self-will and this phase of
his recent experience had been en
tirely without divine sanction. In
fact it was worse . than useless for
it was destructive and had no ele
ment of divine Love, good. In it
His sense of good as resident in
himself, in other words, in matter,
must have been destroyed and he
was -made ready, patiently and si
lently to wait for the voice of God,
and to let the divine will which is
always good, always loving, always
tender and compassionate, prevail.
Thus cleansed and purified by the
experience he had not long to wait,
and though the voice was still and
small he had no difficulty in dis
cerning its message.
Few individual experiences to
day may be as dramatic as that of
Elijah, but every experience, great
or small, means growth in Chris
tian character and grace, as pride,
prejudice, doctrinal beliefs, man
made laws, reliance on false, so
called gods, and various forms of
fear are forced to yield up their
dominion. When these have been
driven out, there may be heard
but not until then the still, small
voice, comforting, assuring, direct
ing. Lfcnstian Scientists today
everywhere are convinced of this
and are listening for the voice of
their good God, convinced that in
every hour of need, He does direct
them as faithfully and certainly
as in those older days.
Desire fob Good
Now primarily, the desire for
good for the guidance and con
trol of all intelligent Mind, God,
must exceed all other desires. Toe
seeker for divine good must be able
to say with David, "As the heart
panteth after the water brooks, so
pantetn my soul after thee. O
God." Such desire is prayer- A
prayer that is always answered.
there are no exceptions.
On the first page of the first
chapter of Science and Health,
Mrs. Eddy, its author, declares
that "desire is prayer" and that
"no loss can occur from trusting
God with our desires, that they
may oe moulded and exalted be
fore they take form in words and
in deeds." This was the prayer
of Elijah answered by the "still
small voice." this the prayer of
Nehemiah answered by the res
toration of Jerusalem, this the
prayer of Jesus before the tomb
if Lazarus, and this, my friends,
the prayer of thousands of Chris
tian Scientists today. A prayer
that is being daily answered by
the healing of every sort of sin,
disease and discord.
In the opening paragraph of
Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy
says, that prayer "is an absolute
faith that all things are possible
to God, a spiritual understanding
of Him, an unselfed love." Thus
prayer implies first a desire for
good, a desire to be and do good.
Next, faith in an available and
ever responsive God and in His
infinitely good power; a spiritual
appreciation or comprehension of
Him without which faith and de
sire are lacking an essential qual
ity. There remains this in addi
tion, that all prayer to be genuine,
should have the quality of thank
fulness or gratitude. Said Jesus,
'Father I thank thee" and then
he proved death to be powerless
and performed many other mar
velous works.
Nothing should be more natural
then or more spontaneous than the
giving of thanks to the source of
all good, God. It is so obvious that
"if we live and move and have our
being" in God that not the sliarht-
est act or incident of our daily lives
but depends upon or proceeds from
that infinitely good source. -Lif2,
activity, that is, the ordered func
tioning of every part of God's crea
tion, being itself, full of Joy and
beauty all are but expressions of
iivme Principle, divine Mind. God.
good. The primal and eternal fact.
that existence is dependent alona
on God who is good and therefore
neither can nor does express in all
His eternal and infinite existence
anything but good, this, I say, de
mands gratitude and when the de
mand is joyously conceded and
spontaneously expressed the glow
ax healing is experienced. Sin and
disease alike yield to this prayer.
The prayer which begins with a
paean of thanks to an eternally
good Father-Mother God, thttt
there neither is nor can be in
reality such a thing as disease in
His infinitely good universe; the
prayer which continues with thank
fulness, that evil by whatever
nam or nature it may nresent it
self to consciousness, has neither
intelligence nor power and which
concludes with rejoicing because
in infinitely good God orders His
mi verse in such perfection, is cer
tain to have its perfect answer,
rhis prayer of faith and spiritual
understanding, this conscious de
rire for a ' larger sense of good.
contains within itself the seed of
universal salvation.
Saying Power of Good
With the. clear and correct un
derstanding: of prayer which con
stitutes so large a part of the men
tal equipment of every Christian
scientist ne is enabled to bring a
larger measure of good into his
swn experience and that of others
Indeed it is in this way precisely,
that his salvation is attained.
Scriptural injunctions to work
sut our own salvation are numer
ous. The Christian Science text
book quotes these with approba
tion and insists upon the necessity
of working out our own salvation
in the way Jesus taught.
It may be pertinent therefore to
ask what salvation is and of what
it consists? In many, if not in all
Christian churches, salvation is
defined, as "liberation from the
bondage and results of .sin.w Let
is then consider it from but one
f many possible viewpoints, that
from which we are discussing the
question of Christian Science,
lamely, the power of good to save,
to deliver, from sin and its bond-
As has been heretofore fre
quently stated Ood, good. MlthaeJ
can nor. ,does jUvide or share HU
power. Were He to do so lie
would no longer be God. Conse
quently good must be' acknowl
edged as all power for one to be
saved from evil or sin. The uni
versal understanding of salvation
as it is taught in Christian Sci
ence would mean the redemption
of the race.
To experience salvation from
the results of so-called sin' wheth
er in the form of sickness, dis
ease, discord, lack, misery fear,
unhappiness loneliness It must be
utterly abandoned forsaken. Its
false pleasures discarded. It
must be seen that it produces no
satisfaction and consequently is
wholly undesirable. A realiza
tion of the powerlessness of sin
to produce anything having even
the semblance of good must pre
cede the rejection of the belief
of its power to produce any form
of evil.
Healing By The Christ Method
Freed from the fear of sin and
from its indulgence by this pro
cess of right thinking and living,
the slave of evil finds the glow of
hope and health taking 'posses
sion of his entire being. His out
look upon life changes and his
hope of ultimate salvation from
every iorm oi aggressive evil is
enhanced. To illustrate: Jesus
frequently pointed out this meth
od of salvation, indicating to
many a disease-ridden sufferer of
his day that it was the destruc
tion and forgiveness of sin which
resulted in healing: he thus
proved himself the true way
shower.
Ever great in simplicity, pro
found in logic, clear and concise in
statement were the words of the
Master. To the impotent suf
ferer at the pool of Bethesda, who
for thirty-eight years had been
seeking release, from an unna
tural physical condition, Jesus
said: "Behold, thou art made
whole: sin no more, lest a worse
thing come unto thee": To the one
suffering with palsy, "Son, be of
good cheer; thy sins be forgiven
thee": to him who' was let down
through the tiling of the roof.
these comforting words, "Son,
thy sins be forgiven thee": to a
gathering of the Jews one day
"Whosoever committeth sin, is
the servant of sin." And it was
of Christ Jesus who did and said
these things that John testified,
"Behold the Lamb of God, which
taketh away the sin of the world."
It was said of Christ Jesus that
he "taught them as one havintrl
auuiontr ana not as ine scnoes- .
. .I t . .
So doubt existed as to whether his
authority extended to teaching
alone. All realized that he prac
ticed authoritatively. They knew.
either through their own observa-;
tion or the testimony of others, ,
that his command was sufficient
to check the elements in their wild I
raging; that it was adequate to
heal the sick and suffering and!
that it was able to unloose the!
hold of the last enemy itself.
Wherein lay this power, this I
ability to command, this supreme i
authority? These were the ques-i
tions the Jews of his day asked
each other as they sat puzzled
upon their -housetops in the soft
Syrian nights, gazing Into tue
starry skies perplexed and
wondering.
Many times during the interval
between the days of Christ Jesus
and our own era have these same
puzzling queries presented them
selves to suffering and sin-sick
humanity. What has become of
"Christ-opathy" questioned a God
fearing English Doctor who had
become discouraged over the fail
ure of the many "pathies" of his
day?
Writing, nearly one hundred
years ago, Dr. Wilkinson of lho
Royal College of- Surgeons, said.
"After all our systems of health,
public and private, there is one
means remaining which we should
be guilty of much base terror -as
well as historical neglect if we did
not dare to bring forth. We al
lude to the healing powers exerted
by Christ and His apostles, and
by Him bequeathed to the race of
man. As we read the Gospels we
see how the Divine Man was the
Great Physician; how He went
about healing all manner of sick
ness and disease among the peo
ple; and how as many as touched
the hem of His garment were made
whole everyone. He also com
manded His followers to do the
like, and founded cure as the grand
evidence of the Christian religion. I
His proofs of His mission were
sound bodies God's saving health!
among all people the deaf hear
ing; the .dumb speaking; lepers
cleansed; the dead raised; those
who were before bund now they
see if the -age of
miracles is gone, it is because the
age of Christianity is gone. The
age of mathematics would be past
if no man cultivated them.
Let then this mode and manner of
healing be fairly experimented."
Should success meet with the ef
fort he added, "there will be no
need of missionaries anymore, but
mankind will bless
their privilege and their Master's
name. All other-pathies will give
way to Christ-opathy."
Sixty years ago the world's huu
rer and its quest for a practical
answer to tnis ever recurring
question was rewarded. A new
voice was heard speaking with au
thority, as did the Master of old
The voice dared to question the
established order of. things medi
cal, theological and scientific. It
denied the reality of matter and
its multiplicity of manifestations
and again it was not the voice of
the scribe or the Pharisee. It wns
the voice of Mary Baker Eddy
3peaking irt' a new-old tongue, de
claring anew the power of God,
good. It. was the revelation. of tne
healing Christ coming1 once more!
to mankind as had been promised
of old. And, as of old. few heeded
the call at once. The thought of!
the world was much as in Paul's
day, and recalls his words to the
Corinthians, "Net many wise men
after th flesh; net assay mighty.
not many noble, are called. Those
who heard, this voice first were Jr
humble and meek, the uncultured
and unlearned. Such as these are
often th first to grasp the mear.
ing of Jesus' words, "Whosoever
shall not receive the kingdom of
God as a little child shall in iw
wise enter therein." In any event
those who were thus listening eag
erly and humbly for the voice,
heard it, and because they heard.
it was not long Deiore some i
their turn were saying to the sice
and the sinninsr. with at least a
measure of the same authority as
Jesus, "Arise, take up thy oeu
and walk."
Authority of Good
This cdnfident message of good
is the message of Christian Sci
ence. - It is the message of Jesus
repeated again. It comes with Ue
same degree of authority and force
that accompanied its presentation
to the consciousness of men from
th verv besrinninir of recorded
history. It is the message of tbei
Christ. Truth has always been
available, but it has not always
been used. From the dawn of his
tory 'til now, however, there have
been innumerable instances of its
potent application.
The Greatest Book in the
World
The Bible records the power of
eood and its availability at all
times by everyone and under
widely varying conditions. Neith
er age, sex nor social position, can
alter or effect the operation of
the mighty power ami authority of
God, good. What a storehouse oi
inspiration is the Bible! "The
greatest Book in the wotMLit has
been called.
And this is the book that Mrs.
Eddy loved as no other book. From
earliest childhood she studied it,
pondered its precepts and guided
her life by its rules and standards.
For three years after her discov
ery of Christian Science, which
occurred in 1866, she lived con
stantly with her Bible, seeking
through its inspired pages to find
the Science of the Christ healing
which had come into her experi
ence. It was her only text book
and she describes this quest as
most joyous, uplifting and beau
tiful. This was a logical result!
of her training and environment asj
well as her own natural inclination.
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Later she was graduated from an
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she should have been led in due
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Christian Science.
A Labor of Love
After this discovery, thai is from
1866 to 1910. Mrs. Eddy's life was
one of unremitting labor a laoor
of unselfish love a labor to estab
lish the Science she discovered and
loved. Throughout her long and
busy life she never spared herself.
Her love and devotion were invin
cible. The result of this devotion
to God, good, and His power is
seen today in the rapid growth of
Christian Science through tha
world. The appeal of Christian
Science is universal, as the appeal
of good always must be, 'its influ
ence upon those who embrace and
practice - its teachings is always
beneficial and its well organized
plan for extension and for redemp
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freely acknowledged as one of Mrs.
Eddys outstanding accomplish
ments.
The universality of good is il
lustrated by the entire Christian
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Science movement, broad and y.-t
so varied in its phases that non,
seeking good through its channels
need be disappointed. By mean
of a simple but complete and per
fectly operating group of activities
provided by Mrs. Eddy, this Chrisl
ly movement proceeds on its re
demptive way.
These activities all of them, are
symbolical of various forms of
good always at hand to meet eac a
and every need of humanity. May
we not then sum up the whole sub
ject of good and its power, as re
vealed by Christian science, in
this way: God is. God is good.
God is omniscient good. God is
omnipresent good. God is omnipo
tent good. This my friends is the
refrain of this entire discussion,
with this additional thought, th it
He is a rewarder of them hac
diligently seek Him."
Our joyous purpose then show! I
be to search and seek, more earnest
ly than before, for a larger faith.
a deeper humility, a clearer insight
into good, that we may express ia
daily thought and deed more of
that goodness that is of God alone
We have seen in succession some
thing of good, something of its op
eration, its divine qualities, its
healing and redemptive power. We
have seen that God's purposes an
al ways expressed and manifested in
a 'good way, and that to worship,
adore and demonstrate the power
of such a God should be pur high
est, and surely, our constant aim
May we not then in cjosing, u
these words of the Psalmist:
"Make a joyful noise unto
the Lord, all ye lands.
Serve the Lord with glad
ness; come before his presence
with singing.
Know ye that the Lord he is
God: it is he that hath made
us, and not we 'ourselves ; we
are his people, and the sheep
of his pasture.
Enter into his gates with
thanksgiving, and into his,
courts with praise: be thank
ful unto him, and bless his
name.
For the Lord is good; his
. mercy is everlasting; and his
truth endureth to all generations.
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