DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1921.
TEN PAGES
LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
PACE EIGHT
3F
;
AN AUTHORIZED LECTURE
ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE,
ENTITLED
Christian Science: The Leaven
of Spirit,
liV lli. .IOIIN M. Tl I I. . s. n.
Member rlf the lUMIrvl or I,o.-tll-osJiip,
of The Mother J Ihiii Ii. The I'iiM
lunch of liti-l. Si initlsl,
In twe-l.m, !..,
Tho woi'l inlay ts iai orient ing a
revival of Intel i-1 In tho things of the
Spi It. Pi. bile epre.Jton abniin-ls
With references to tho spiritual needs
of hiMn.'iitity. Materialism, oven in
Hi refinements, has foiled to Kft!ly
human aspiration. lvet where mrn
an- tllHllllii from nallor to Spirit, til- i
Minctlvolv confident that, tinder divine i
direction, srutluallMtion of lifo v!ll
ineot human mo.! today and will .in
tli'y the loli;il!K and tile hope tor il
hpirlUliil toinoriov. This splriluali
Kiition of thought and life is the pecii
ltar work ot i hristian Science in hu
man const iousnoss.
1 am uro that those' of yon vho
liavo ohservet! christian Science enter
tho lite of a friend or nctiuamlnncc.
und there can be few. if any,
have not been witness to such a
iiclc. will testify to a deep, a fmi..a-jt" '' in.lesti uctiblc. Now it is true
ni.-nlal .liaiige which has com.- ovcrj'hat matter cannot destroy matter,
that ln.JhWu.1l: ou will testify, -uoi'e- (The leM ruction of matter can never
over, tliat the change Is decidedly fori1"' ''omplish,sl by other than the
the better. Wh.-r.as, perchaoce. he .dissolution or its seeming reality
was ill, he lias become well; win-rein ,nrom;h the recognition that Spirit is
).e was a bail cifi7.en. he has to-come substance. Matter and the
i...... r., ...,. i,. human mind are like a kaleidoscope.
ouii-ed supply abundant' for bis needs;
,,..,. ... ... .....e
l.te cheer: once dcientlent n,l fear-
fill, he has l)econie suffii lent for 111s
. . . . . t 1. .. t . ... .
. .
W hat has happened to that man? He , ureahniR up mid re-aliBiimcnt. I on
is b-inK l.aveni: His thoiiKht ami templatine the kaleidoscope history
Jience his life, are becoming- fdi-itunl- 'f humanity, its strupgles, its unrest,
Ized. He is begiiitiins: to behold the!'s Present state of fermentation, one
vision of man miiiammeled t.v matter!" struck with this obvious fact: there
uni is coming into his rightful sense!""' "pver been any real progress in
of dominion over all. 1 le continues in ' matter. Always there has been
the world, thoiiKh no longer of it, yet jehanfre in matter. In incessant action
tenderlv responsive to its needs, andj-n'l reaction, building up and tearing
Just as he himself is being- leavened mutations are
he communicates the ferment to his changes only of form. No essential
environment to the betterment of all j K''gris occurs till the leaven of Spir
with whom and with w hich he eon.es 'f works in human consciousness that
in contact. ! fundamental change from the ma-
The purified stte of consciousness 1 tP!il1' 'o thf? spiritual. All permanent
i. the ki.iir.iom of heaven on earth lor '. progress is mental, spiritual, not ma-
which Jesus uravtd and taught
Christians to pray. How much of .h..-
kingdom of harmony can one expeii
ence here Mid now?' Just the degree
of his leavening, just the measure of
his spiritualized thought. Before one
can go to heaven, heaven must eorne
to him on earth. This is the import
of Mrs. Eddys grtat discovery.
Christian Science was God's response
to her uplifted heart, the reward of
her unselfed devotion. It came flee
ing her from the limitations of a frail
Sj.rdy, opening the way to a long de-J.v'-ed
life work, and setting her eager
feet upon the path of nearly a hair
century of lovimr service. To her the
st .ritual b nveii came, as through h?r
"eif"WWrt has come to count
less others: "A divine influence, ever
present hi tjiinian consciousness, com
ing' now as was promised aforetime,
to preach ! lovrance to the captives
(of sense.) and recovering of sight to
the Mind, to set at liberty them that
..,; .,..! ,e.,. ..,,,i 11..., i,h
i.reiuce.)
Whenever I roe a life besrm reived,
degrade.!, besotted with sense grati
fication. 1 try to think of the sweet
ness ar.d (leanness and wholosorne
, !; of that life when Christian Sci
ence, shall have done Its work therein,
wl.ei the leaven of Love shall hve
,l..clr-. Iiivt unit b:.le find fear.
-.1 ". u.. f r,,.K -v.. .11 ti,
eradicated the mass of error, when
h i..nc,. f s.,irit shall have chanir-
.-,1 tho belief of niwteri.'.l conscious-
ness to the spiritual understanding ofi'" received an impetus Chemistry,
life in God. when the h aven of Prin- I Physics, the arts, gained the benetit
ciple shall have taught lawless hu-.f "grated thought and many useful
man sense that obedience to divine inventions came, giving evidence of
law i true liberty. !"?. 1"niot, oyer all the earth.
iThe disproving of toe atomic theory to
CtlltlSTI.W sriFACF. M III'- I be the final statement of nana- n
MAV INTlimST.S. cessitated further explanation and so
People generally are aware that
Christian Science has touched tha
lives of individuals and has worked
in such persons profound change for
the better in mind, in morals, in body,
Have you ever considered the changes
in genera! thought and life Fince
Christian Science began its reforma
tory mission? Not only have indi
viduals been affected directly but the
transforming influence has extended
to the universal thought, so that those
who have not yet come to know
Christian Science have nevertheless
conformed to much of its basic teach
ing. Surely, though slowly, and oft-
tini.-s by devious by-paths, thought
ha-s come into agreement with
the
great spiritual facts revealed in
Christian Siktice. Coincidently basic
I'iianges have occurred in human af
fairs, touching the academy the pul
pit, and the- medical forum to higher,
. yen to more spiritual issuer. Science,
theology am! medicine are so woven
Into the warp ami woof of human ex
istence that they constitute its motif.
Jndeid, involving as they do salvation
both here and hereafter. the--e are the
indispensable factors in human life to
day, they are the basis of the hope of
a tomorrow. Now the human mind is
finite; its t very sense is. of course,
limited. The human mind's concepts , spiritual creation, am J, ..y s reve a- tlan s,,it;!,ce teachcB meu that 0od te
of K, icmc, theology and r., -di. -Inc. tion of Truth was ultimate She le-ja Go(J not , be fpare,, not merelv t0
never rise above the limns by whiyh I eared cause and effect to be the di- ; ,,f. w..shi , ,)llt , 0()1 t0 be lovc(1
th- human thought is bounded, for Uvine Mind and its Idea, thus revealing' . . rt(.rsionrl
tan ot Itsell rise no lug per t nan ltseu. 1 oiuu dim ..n.w: ot ..u. j.umai.i,
That self is material, and heme to I lie I but divinely mental,
unenlightened thought, science, theo- .The htm an mind is an accretion of
logy, and medicine .-m material. mortal education, and that te illustrat
I'iiysical st ieii. e. scholastic theology, 'ed in the case of the new-born infant,
nnii material m.iii.ine have operated 1 -Mortal man conies into the world
in human consciousness to bei.ttle God .without the consciousness of identity,
with finite form and nature, and to (without experience, without Intel!!-
bind man with the
1 annuel: of mat
ter.
Spirit mill v considered and there
fore rightly vie.v! si iee.ie, thooloiry
and medicine . xpiess inod.s of divine
consciousness, activities of the li.vine
jMimt. or the infinite Principle. God.
To be true, to be hri-diaii. religion
must take into account these tiicinely
nieiilul modes: human action l.asd
on them is most Christian. ii;.e.l spir
iitmlls si-iciititic. h.nie 11. a rest ngh.
Christ Jesus. s ii'i.i e. I us Iheolog.. his
in.i.-lne, were spiritual and
tote woi-e true. Christian
wuh. Hit the limitations of mat
th. ere-.tie
Ihe S. leuee tit
ru.!
J.-sis; Chit:
th..log-.-, without
ladatic .1 .gma.
tiie relisiva vt Cluitst Jesus;
Christian healing without materia
tm it ir-;t . Vim the medicine of I'lti-lst
Ji'MlS.
It will .i understood tli.it Christian
Science iltxs not ...me to destroy sci
ence, theology and me.licino hut
rather in li.nrii the human concept
of thim. It rhmes to purge out t ho
oh! liio-p, hi ihe bsiv. mug, science
is t-hnt-n of ph.si.nl f.-ttors. theology
is ,., an.'oil of tin mifiuiiirpts of
. re. d ;1ih1 .L.ma, and medicine is
relit .d of matter and properly re
lated to Mind. Thus spirituahation
of thought raises tho concepts of sci-
roc, theology, anil medicine to a
higher Ulss, reveals thorn to la- in
truth moles of divine Mill. I. anil re
tsioias thorn in himiaa eons, iousnoss
'to thoir righliul place, from 'which
jlantcti.U theories have debased them.
.
Till". I l.W I X 1 M UM i:.
Physical s. I, nee from tho first
been fettered to tnattor. It does
not
M-.Mon.( to doal with ultimato ranse.
JR. ilher it accepts matter as iis start
'in?; point, leaving to theology the ex
planation of origin. Thus natural si i
iencc makes of matter nn absurdity,
an effect without a cause. Matter
jhuwn.c no origin, he conclusion is in
evitable. though not admitted by phy-
su-s, that matter has no existence
fact, l-'roiii such a basis, this
who ;'alh''! science, with nltog:etlier ms
vjiir. it.-nal incoesisteiicy. declacs matter
j wherein the minut. particles of my-
run. nrtn p"isss n re kpdti to ru. m
run I eolnr. rt p"lsss n re km.ii to l.o ptiintr
thro
tuniion .inn destruction ot marvel-
ous figures, a ceaseless nhgnment,
llilell;" - !lnQ 13 niamusteu numaniy in
ana is manifested numaniy in
jlhe overcoming of matter. Thus man's
true advancement has been recorded
jn0 " material history, but in spiritual
development. The truth about any
thing begins to unfold to human con
sciousness at the vanishing point of
m.itt..r. ho!icf f.hont it
...
The atomic theory was the founda-
lion 01 pnysies. wnen -iirs. r.uay un
covered Christian Science. Briefly,
this theory taught that in the pro
cess of subdivision of matter, a point
must ue reacned at wincn no furtner
division could be made. Physics cif..i Ins- sacrifices of blood to an of
termed this irreducible particle of fendc.f deity, than in a clergyman I
matter the atom and upon it raised us,.(1 to ri,t.w. On Sunday morning
the entire structure of natural sci- jm'ter a society event of the night be-
enee. meluomg physical man. in-
stinctively I felt the untruth of it
1,1
! college, and later in medical college
1 questioned the atomic theory, and
.found myself always reaching back of
'the material toward primary
cause.
'"'' c"" "c
.was at work in human consciousness.
To me it never s.-oiricd logkal that
there could be an indivisible portion
of matter. Anything that could be
divided, I eoimmle.l, could be divided
again, and so indefinitely. Before my
college cour.se was comph te. the
atomic theory began to crumble. The
atom was split in two, and not only
in two, but was divided many times.
: until at last matter as matter disap- i
; reared. Freed from the limitations .
ot the atomic theory, thought began
e.M-aiio imii inn coitqueM oi mm-
; physicist have been advancing from I
one tbeorv to another, until thev have I
i concluded that matter is energy, oriv.iao
force, or to be down to the very min-
lute, mater is ju?t "holes in the ether.'
.More than fifty years ago, Mrs. Eddy
said something that amounts to very
nearly that when she declared matter
to be nothing more than a phase of
false belief. Physical science, under
the influence of the leavening, is
slowly, by devious paths, approaching
lilts poiiit. wneie -iis. ruuy uegau,
namely the identity of matter and
the human mind. Mrs. Eddy needed
not to be a pedant to conclude that
the essence of matter is mortal mind,
for hers was a divinely inspired course
which passed unerringly over the in
tervening steps necessaily taken by
human reason and research. The an
cient philosophers taught that matter
Is but the subjective state of human
consciousness, that In the words of
.Mrs. Eddy, "Mortal mind sees what
it believes as certainly as it believes
what it sees. It feels, hears, and sees
its own thoughts." (S&H,p&6, 20-31.)
P.ut Christian Science alone reveals
tho fact that neither matter nor the
human mind have existence save as
the misstatement of cause and effect,
the misunderstanding of God and His
igenee. .Nothing in animal life is must worship Him in Spirit and in
iboiu so helpless, so completely with-j Truth." The human mind has al
jout sense as the human kind. Com- way- tared to a power outside itself
'monly it has not sense enough to eat, in times ol stress, thereby acknowl
jjts very cries are but the chemical re-(edging its own insiifiicieney, but its
, action fif shock. It is plainly littleigods ha lion merely human con
jmore than animated matter. Weak, jecpis yml have taken material form
Iholplo-s, unintelligent, it lives wholly jand nature. Yet even idolaters hi v
;depetidc.'it on othurs fur ev. n the. log tio.vn to images conceive them to
js.mpk.-t thought processes. The edii- he ret res -"tatives of a power not 10a
Walior.al pror.-ss whereby the infant t.-cal. "he fal:;e gods of mortals a'v
-rfuqunis a so-called mind of its own ' Pc.i t-ils." I .li. fs about Deity, they are
; begins from birth and goes on by li'-,ihe extei nalh'.ed ideals of the human'
and b little. First this little ;
Science i bun. lie of mortality b arns to hr.athe.
er. xva.then r e;.t. These are not yet, how-
; t v, r, ii.t. ii'g
impulses of
lit ai 1
.nilil;.!
s. but
instill.
r;i!b-r tho
t. Ed Ufa-
h' tooimucs until ti.c thlid U-gina '
t.) manifest Intelligence, becoming less
unit less dependent on others, and art
ai'iiliros at last what is termed' u
milal. Hut from first to last liuntan
existence, ft hrii unleavened by divine
Science, is a mortally ii-ent.,1 process,
rising no higher than tho limits of its
materially monlal ssll'hood. Christian
s a noo has eomo to mako e.hi.ation
uivine'.y mental, thus rah ing' mortal
soli hood (ihoye itsolf. lo.l a tl 1 IIS' the
race wi'tt triio Science, and puiling- to
an -ml tho kaleidoscopic rotnnl of ma-
teri.il lite. '
Although roc, lit higher attainments
in man's t oiaiuest of matter hac lieett
far in aihanee of tlio atom, tho atomic
thtory. thoiii;h disproved, contiimes to
lo the practical working hasia of phy
sica! science. Just so, matter, ex
posed liy ("hristiau Sciein e, as merely
j human belief, continues to bo the
'practical working basis for the pros.
lent state of human life. This explains
'why Christian Scientists arc consist
'ent in continuint,' to employ so-called
! matter in its various useful forms.
We eat. wear clothes, heat our houses,
conduct ourselves much as others do.
' Out the effect of Christian Science at
:this period is to break down the sense
""01.111011 . 1. 1. .no. ....
euoca.uis ill." .intern ......, . ...
. ,Christian Scientist Is therefore putting
off daily the old, the inadequate, the
'material, and is putting- on the new.
the spiritual; Meanwhile he .lues not
increase his dependence, upon matter
by making added concessions to ma
terial laws. The Christian Scientist's
motto is not more and more hut less
and less reliance on matter. The way
in Christian Science is the way of
overcoming material dependence, and
! hwj 'Cwi m"' nn"
the
ress. I Me
"
point of matter is fore-
, mall !i alwiiys increasinK
i,,evit ihK- there
j"" " v
will come a nay w neu, 111 111c nuitm ot
Isaiah, "The earth is clean dissolved,
tlsaiah, 24:19.)
THE I.KAVKX IV THFOIKiY.
"Tiie proper study of mankind,"
said the poet, "is man," and that
is metaphysically true. Hudthe poet
been a Christian Scientist, he might
have declared further the proper
study of man Is God, his Maker. The
uroat harrier to human progress has
!eett ignorance. Ignorance of God, Ig
norance of man. Christ Jesus said o
the womt-n at Sychar, "We know what
we worship." Thereby he separated
all ot'ier religious beliefs from true
; Chrtiar;ty and Indicated both the
,..(., ity Hnd the necessity to know
God. To know God is to know man,
for 1111 n, the Bible says. Is God's im
at,e and i.kenrss.
Because of Ignorance, the earliest
concepts of oGod Involved fear, taboo.
ana penally. ine
theology Wi.s God s
r.d penalty. The basis of scholastic
as a punisher of
'man. v. hatever the concept or ;oa.
He was always a terrible Being to be
feared anil hence to he. If possible, ao
poasetl. This prevailing belief was
,,,,,.. . no greater in the naean Driest
1 ., .,. which m.mv of his consrre:
i lion 'had indulged in certa.'n prohibited
amusements, this dear old saint level
his f.n
at his shamefaced, thoueli
; 1 r.repeiitnnt flock, and solemnly ex-
j cifiii.ied. "Oh you had better he glad
i I'll, not Cod:" How far above his
'en-ed that man was compelkd to live
, to he a Christian!
Odd as a punisher
Into the concept of
of His offspring no
; el "incut of love could enter, for there
iis no .ove in fear. Because of the
I proscription of love, some of the bla':k
i est crimes In history have been ram.
, nutted in the name of Deity. The
I practice of religion has always ended
toward discipline, toward the citation
to Ice, obey and serve find through
he exercise of fear of punishment. In
u:ie-pie-7i:e 01 itus raise oeoe. ui
rie,y, men have had little faith in
ioo-1, in health, and well-being as the
natural sequence of events under God's
care and government, 'jut have shown,
-unbounded and everpresent expecta
'. rr. of eiil. Why do not people ex-
pect naturally the unfoldment of good
i-i ineir experience: it is neca ise 01
the human mind's educated belief that
ti e supreme power, God, is a wreaker
ieance, a visitor of iniquity.
ods have ever been Jealous
gods, visiting iniquity upon their hap
less worshippers. Fear of punishment
never mane men gocd. yel the very
meaning of the word. God, is good.
C'hr:siia!i Science is changing the hu
man thought of God from fear to love,
and Christian Scientists are coming to
expnt at the hands of a loving Father
th;, Kjftg of 'love
j ine Kins 01 ioe. . e are cumin; 10
expect with conf'dcnce, the destruc
tion of sin and sickness, and to realize
the consciousness of health. Thus fear J
ts disappearing from human lives be
cause it Is going out of human con
sciousness. In the absence of fear, we
can always see good. We are gaining
he higher concept that God is divine
T.ove, ever responsive to human needs,
ever mindful of His own, remembering
His children. When I recall the ter
ror? of my childhood, my fears of the
very .larknrss, my constant expectation
of divine displeasure, and of the ter
rible administration of His supposed
laws of disease, and thea observe the
comparative fearlessness and freedom
of the children f t today, I thank Cod
from m; heart for Christian Science,
which has in one generation so tran-
fr.,'r,,oil r...,T,.,r. D.li,.,m azia f'l,.ci
TIIE TISl'K GOI.
S;nee time and mortal man began,
men have tried to know God material
ly, tr worship Him materially, and to
attribute to Him all material phenom
ena; ,yet Jesus' words are true: "God
is Spirit, and they that worship Him
miao
hr'-stian Science fe ioh.es, as most I
reh,-;ir us u 'iefs iieren, and as reason '
em, firms, that Core must he a pri-1
lien y taw- tor all things that exist,
ami liial this fcix-at first Cause is Hit
Creator, or God. Then plainly God I
not an ohect. .All o'ojwt me iflc-oK
not cause. Tlioroforo Unit can not
:irop rlv l.o worshippod iis tin object.
Tho infinite o-oator could not lu n
croat. on, the first Oau.'.o could not bo
a lhinj;. llcrco tlod could not .ho a
lot in, however, l,irn'. I'"1"' tlio saoie
reason thai could not be a person in
ar.y llm'tod sen-o of a form or entitle,
If popular theolouy concoivo Cod to
to
person in the s.mse of a foiin or
lo. it i'.Pa.ido.:s ihc thoii'jbt .hat
Is" omnipresent, for it is impos-ibe
to conceive of a form as omni-'ln
,.ii'
God
S;i,jt
present, Nevi rUi'doss t'lod Is infinite
presence nnd power equally and in-
stan. v ev ywnero. Cod can lh ri t-e
oousiticre.l as iiersoti in the sense of
infinite l'eison only, the one Heing or
t'ause. Cauuso in its Wu.esi sense is
I'lineiple. Mrs. lCtl.ly diseernec'. that
every ihin-r that really exists has a
Cause or riinciple. This I'lincliile
.r . lu. es and .controls .he object, this
1'riiu iple elves to its object both fu.ic.
tioii nnd identity, it is to be fount! n!-
iwa.'s in the jiresenec of its object and
is inseparable from it. The wonder
of Christian Science is that as one
grasps the fact that God i.v divine
Principle, o-ie loses Ihe false belief
that'll.' is an object, yet gains the
sense of lfis nearness. His evorpres.
eiv-e. As It becomes clearer that God
is a God a! hand, one can reach out
an 1 utilize His power. Because He is
i'riio iple, God bccon.es nva.iahlo for
one's needs, hence the ability of Chris
tian Seieutbts to demonstrate Got!
lm iM: I'MTY OF GOD AM) M X.
Mrs. t-.d.ly's emploiment of the
word Principle f 1 r lliity arouse 1 in
evitable d'ssent from those wh'e-o
thought inelinied only a finite concept
of 'Principle as one of a number of
material laws and forces, secondary
an I derived, yet she la Idly proclaim
ed dpi: to be Principle. She reoog
nl?e.l Cause without effect to be im
possible, and so she ejiicliaied that
God withr.ut His creation, man a id ihe
universe, would be In possible. There
fore a fully descriptive term lor Deity
must convey also the thought of God's
handiwork. Principle, as it Is used by
Mrs. Eddy.' Includes both Causo and
effect, both God and man.
Very early In the chapter Recapitu
lation, in the Christian Sclerce text
book. Science and Health with Key to
ihe Scriptures, page 46,", Mis. Kri ly
has cske.l and answered .1 question
which fully etprerses ti.e basis of true
science, theology, and medicine. The
question reads, "Is there more than
one Mind or Principle?" Tr.e answer
follows, "There is nor. Principle nnd
its idea is one and this one is God,
ompipotent, omniscient, omnipresent
Being, and His reflection is man nnd
the universe." If God is omnlpotentJ
if He possesses all power, Ho must be
that power itself, otherwise there
would he a, source outside Himself
fron. which to derive His power. Paul
says: "There Is no power but of God."
(Horn, 13:1.) If God is omnipresent
and He must be everywhere, for Ha Is
the infinite One, then He must be the
eternal presence. "Where shall I flee
from Thy presence," cried the Psalm
ist. If God is omniscient, if He knows
i'1'1' Ho "An Himself be the infinite
.uin.i. job declared: "He is In one
V"'" - " m tnus tne
one :;eing or principle, who is the only
power, the only presence, and the onlv
Mil-.!.
Mrs. RJdy's exposition of God to
i be Principle brings to the student the
, recognition of God and man insepar
able, and the unity of God and man
becomes to him a vivid reality. He
realizes why Christ Jesus so boldly as
serted: "I and my Father are one,"
one as Father and Son. one as Cause
and effecct, one as Mind "and idea.
j Failing to comprehend Mrs. Eddy's
use nf the word Principle some critics
'might at this point cry: "Ah, Mrs.
r.tuiy is a 1'anUlelst: Lot US see!
Pantheism, simply stated. Is the teach
ing that God Is quantitatively His crea
tion, that God and creation are syn-
onyms thnt "God Is everything
and everything is God." It is to he
admitted that many religions beliefs,
, some under the banner nf Christianity,
do so deify things, and even.man, for
do not some teach that Jesus' the man
was God? Does Christian Science
properly come within such category?
Emphatically, no. Christian Science
alone of all the denominations, teach
es the oneness, plus the distinctness,
of Cod and man. Is it not clear that
an idea Is the product of Mind? It is
the result of creation, of the function
ing of Mind. Now an Idea is not Mind,
nor is there quantitatively any part of
Mind in an idea. If Mind were quan
titatively in its ideas. Mind would de
plete Itself by thinking. Qualitatively
Mind Is In its idea, and the idea is al
ways in Mind. Can you Imagine an
idea outside of Mind, a mindless Idea
any more than an idealess Mind?
Neither Is possible. Then does it not
become luminous what Paul meant
when he quoted: "For in Him we live
and move nnd have our being." thus
expressing the unity of God and man?
Paul disposed of the shallow charge of
Pantheism by adding: "For we are
also His offspring," thus stating the
distinctness of God and man. Paul
knew thnt critics would say, "He is a
Pantheist, he teaches that we live and
move and Iiave our being In God, tint
man in a part of Ood." How con
clusively Paul refuted this accusation
by the declaration: "For we are also
His offspring," and how divinely guid
ed was Mrs. Eddy when Rhe made
plain the oneness and yet the distinct
ness of God and man by the use of
Principle and Mind as synonyms of
Deily.
The pantheistic dogma that Jesus
was God is based on nothing stronger
than his own declaration: "I and my
Father are one." If that be held to
prove that Jesus was quantitatively
one with God then It would follow
that all Christians "are God, for Jesus
said of all believers: "And the glory
which Thou gavest me I have given
them; that they may be one, even ns
we are one." The oneness to which
Jesus referred was not quantitative
but qualitative. Even as the ray of
lieht Is one with the sun, yet no part
of it, bo in quality man is one with
God. as idea Is ono with the Mind
I wnicn creates and manifests It, yet
nobis it forever within its own heing.
' Man tle-n is mental, not physical.
'That is nnd.. iilain bv a sininln lllus-
'ration. No doubt everyone in this
-vidience has loved ones. What Is It
'n these loved ones thnt callR forth this
speci,,! regard? Is It physique? Pri-
marily no, for physicality Is relative,
itmt cmp whose body mltfht bo hnper-,
feet, whoso physical beauty might fall
far short of tho standard, Is often
lovod mure than tin Adonis. JC It Is
physicality which constitutes man, It
were wiso to select tho physically per
fect upon iihiiin to bestow affection,
but too often wuch perfection cloaks
an unlovable personality, while the in-
ivalid or physically dpficlt'nt may have I
a nohlo charaotcr. No, plainly, olio
i loves sonietliliii,' ahovo and beyond tho
j physical, mid that object of love can
only tho thought, the Idea of Mind,
this Idea one finds heart's desire,
fitness, goutiness, all lovable ipiiilities,
iiualitles endiirlinr, (lopendalile, uver-
liriseiu. Man Is surely idea, ami It Is
this Idea, not the mortal body, which
Is the Individuality and Identity of
man.
I MTV KMOSTIl Alil.K
When a man begins to learn the
profound significance of the divine
unity, he begins to throw off the limi
tations of Ignorance. Man being In
dlssiiluhly linked by Science to His
Maker and possessing forever the
qualities of the infinite Principle, the
iearner sees that his achievement is
limited In no proper direction of
thought, that indeed nil that the
Father has is his. In the degree of his
spiritual apprehension of the great
fact of the oneness of God ami man.
he sees how it was possible for Jesus
to prove that unity, or at-one-ment.
and so to make the atonement. So,
also. In the degree of liis spirituality,
he himself begins to prove for him
self this at-one-ment, thus working
out his own salvation In obedience to
the Scriptural command, secure in the1
assurance: "For It Is God that work
eth in you." It Is evident that (he de
sire to sin or the ability to sin cannot
be present with tho realization of
man's divine unity with good, for sin !
is a departure from good, and could
be present, even In belief, in the sup
posed absence, only, of God. But
God's omnipresence Is evil's never
presence. Thus the learner catches a
glimpse of the Infinite possibilities of
man at one with God nnd he strives
henceforth to he lfke Him, to have
the divine likeness. God's everpres-
enco is the everpresenoc of Good, and
where God Is, there is man also.
And so .because God is all Being
and has within Himself the qualities
of Being, we Christian Scientists are
striving to be like Him. Because God
Is Spirit, we are working to become
spiritual In thought and deed. Pe
cause God is Truth, we must be truth
ful. Because God is Love, we should
he loving, Livable, lovely. Because
God Is I'rinelple, wo are endeavoring
to be principled in all our ways.
Cliristian Scientists are no longer sat
isfied with former standards of hon
esty, we are learning that a man may
be sincere nn.l earnest and yet have
little apprehension of Principle. The
future of mankind under the govern
ment of Principle Is foreshown In the
progrei-s of Christian Scientists today.
Let mo illustrate how tho leaven of
Principle Is working In human lives.
Two Christian Scientists boarded a
train at the dinner hour and passed at
onco from the Pullman to the diner.
Their destination reached, they dis-
severed that their tickets had not been
tvtotin . - ,
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have torn tip their tickets, saved j
them for future use, or perhaps soldi
mom, mil nicy na.i come to know God
as Principle and man as the expres
sion of Principle, and so th.y couldn't
rest until they had acted to their high- I
est sense of Principle. They decided
to send the tickets in to Die general
offices of tho railroad, with a letter
of explanation. Some weeks later.
letter came from the general manager
of the road, thanking them for as-
sistance in correcting a defective meth
od of haniHing tiekeis on that train.
CIIHIST .I1-SIS Tin; WAY,
is 11 saci .iigeous to claim one s
unity with God? Paul lulls us that
Christ Jesus, whom all Christians ac
cept as the exemplar "being in the
likeness of God, thought it not rob
bery to be equal with God." (Phil.
1:0.) Jesus made the atonement, he
proved his unity with God, and so be
came worthy to hear the title Christ.
'The divine manifestation of God."
(K. & II., p. 5S3-10.) His vicarious
sacrifice was complete self-denial, ut
ter renunciation of material self-hood,
or life in matter, with its false pleas
ures and pain, its sin, disease, discord,
and death. Tho way of the cross was
the way out of matter, out of personal
sense. And on that day of days when
Jesus had taken every human foot
step along the way and stood trium
phant over matter the world, the
flesh, and all evil, his was the leaven
ed lump wherein no grain of material
ity remained, wherein the conscious
ness of spiritual selfhood was com
plete. Ami so the real Jesuus ascend
ed to tho Father, found his true being
in Spirit. Thus he worked out a full
salvation from sin, disease, and death,
and thus Christ Jesus became The
Way for all mankind.
Contemplating the example of
Jesus and considering his command,
If any man will come after mo, let
him deny himself," te Christian
Scientist obediently enters an utter
denial of physical selfhood and en
deavors to lie the man God made In
the Image nnd likeness of Spirit, not of
matter. He strives to follow the In
junction of his' inspired Leader:
"Thou shalt recognize thyself as God's
spiritual child only." (Mis. p. 18,
line 11.)
The working out of the false hu
man sense of lifo In mutter is a prob
lem fully demonstrated by Jesus, and
for which he has laid down for us a
theorem genuine as any geometrical
proposition. This theorem John
stated: "Heloved, now are wo the sons
of God," a declaration which he quali
fied only .so far as the acknowledge
that to human sense it doth not yet
appear. Christ Jesus' achievement
was final. The truth of the theorem
stands revealed In his example. Truth
needs only to be practiced. When the
geometrician arrives at the proof of
his theorem by taking up and estab
lishing each step of the right process,
he writes upon his finished work the
letters "(I. E. D." that which was to he
lemoiistrutcd. If we are to follow tho
example of the Wnyshower and write
our triumphant Q. E. D. on life's proh.
lems, we must adhere to tho Principle
ind abide by the rules of Divine
sicii nee. No mystery attaches to the
'passage from sense to Soul." ,s.
H., p. r.0-7.) Aspiring pilgrims have
pwaaaU tlioir tent upon (bat path
throutshoiit
thV centuries. "Step by
step, since time beitan, wo see too
steady Kain of man." KiKht tlilnlilnK
bemits right aotiiiif, unit so
step, we shall win our way
conclusions. We lire persuaded that
ultimately we shall "lay usltlo every
weight, anil the sin that, doth so easily
heset us'1 and prove the liberty of the
sons of (foil.
When l'rinciplo shall
have wrought Its perfect work In nil-
mull consciousness, the idea ot God I spu n uuiii . 1 nese sue recognlMd to
will he manifest mnl the new cieiifuro constitute public health! ,.s for so
wlll stand revealed, man in (lull's , culled communit able rtjifiism. Mrs.
Imago and likeness, bearing His j Kddy required strict ohedlenco to
iianto. possessed of Ills qualities, and ; qiiarrniil lue regulations, respecting nut
unlimited In any direction of good, only the law of the land, hut public
"And it shall come to pass that In the seiitimenl also. NevertheleHH, she knew
place where It was said unto them, Ye ; that the only real germ Is the germ of
are not my people,, there It shall he 1 p!i ituiil Truth, which w Ifen cultured
said iinio them. Ye are tho sons of the in human consciousness, never ceases
living God." tllos. 1:li'.1 . Its growth till the whole lump of mor-
NIGXS OK Till-; TIMFS j lal thought Is splilt uallzed and man's
Do you doubt that Christian Science I true self-hooil appear. This germ IN
is the' leaven at work in the human highly Infectious and contagious, yd
concept of theology'.' liecently 1 read It produces, not disease, hut health,
in the official organ of an orthodox tie- j n..i discord, but harmony, not death,
nomination an editorial entitled: "Th
God We Worship." The theme was ex
pressed In (lies,, words: "The last so-,
lutlon Is that evil Is all nil Illusion, that
it only exists because we think it does."
Tell it not In Oath, publish It not In
tho streets of Ascaloii! Here we have
orthodoxy upon the platform of Chris-
lian Science. How much of the out 1
theology is left In the leavened thought j
of this writer, when he further declar
es: "The conviction that God Is love is
worth while; that evil Is an illusion Is
magnificlently worth while." Again we
hear the voice of the well-known presi
dent of a theological college. "The time
has come for a creeless Christianity."
What means the more recent attempt
of a great church to revive the work of
healing the slok by splritnnl menus'.' It
is true there has not yet come to this
denomination the vision of the Christ
method ?f healing, liut It Is plain that
tho lcavoii of Christian Science is t
work therein.
What signifies tho growing move
ment In religious organizations lo con
solidate, to sink creedal differences In
tho common good? Men are caring
less for doctrine and more for deeds!
Material forms and observances are
becoming more and more secondary to
spiritual understanding witnessed in
rhxns following. Do you realize that
progressive thought. in tho churches
today is accepting, by little and by lit
tie, those Ideals which a lone woman,
a liulf century ago, proclaimed to an
unheeding world? Then theology
listened only to scoff nnd to presectite.
Today, though not yet recognizing the
fact, it has begun to follow, however
haltingly, tho trail she blazed. Can
you doubt that the day will come when
the last of scholasticism shall have
risappeared from the leavened lump of
theology Then the Christian Science
tef tbook may bo read from orthodox
pulpits, even as now It is not uncom
monly eagerly read In pastors' studies.
Then Christian sermons will heal the
sick. Then will end forever tho divi
sion Into denominations nnd tho
Church triumphant will nppenr, in the
elimination of material theories and
dependencies. In Hint day of spiritual
predominance the churches will nn
lorstan.l what Mrs. Kddy meant when
I she wrote: "I love the orthodox
cm,ron: ""' 'Y. ' .. ;. ,,
ioo i nriMiau Mitiii.:. ...s. ji. u.
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TIIF. I.l'.AVl'V IN MFDiriNi:
Nowhere in the kulealoscopic char
aeter of ihe human mind to be observ
ed more strikingly than in tha history
of material medicine. In my senior
year in medical college, I was required
lo devote mui'h study to "The princi
ples and I'rietioe of Medicine." A bet-
term for the subject would have
! beeu. "Tip" Principles and Practice of
j Medicine for 1 !om." Material medicine
j has always hen In a state of flux, he.
! cause it has never of itself risen, in
theory or practice, above matter. Even
when the matter physician discourses
learnedly on mind and deals with psycho-analysis,
psycho-neurosis, pyscho
therapy, and psycho-twhat not, he deals
none the less with matter, for to the
materialist, mind means little else than
hrain-matter. While tho materlalisr
has not yet learned that matter anil
mortal mind are one, nevertheless the
healing art is drawing nearer the truth
as revealed In Christian Science. Pro
gressive physicians, in practice, are
steadily reducing their legion of reme
dies. Many doctors admit that there
is no' specific medicine. Many boast
that they limit their practice to four
or five drugs. I have even known phy
slclans who declared that a physic nnd
a pain-reliever comprised their entire
materia medlcn. It Is oVident that If
one can reduce the pharmacopoeia In
practice to one or two remedies, he
can take the next step and eliminate
the drug entirely from medical prac
tice.
It may be argued that God placed
drugs here and endowed them with
healing power. .When did Spirit. God
delegate to matter divine power? Ma
terial medicine did not qualify for
Christian henllng in Jesus' day. He
ignored it and turned instead to pure
ly spiritual means. Could Jesus In his
wisdom consistently have chosen an
unscientific, and hence untrue, method
with which to prove his wonderous
power to heal? Moreover, Jesus was
not alone In his Christian practice.
Tho Bible Is full of the teaching and
Practice (if spiritual healing, but you
will search its pages in vain for an au
thentic case of healing by material
means. EVen so today material medi
cine falls to qualify. It Is not tho
Christ method of healing. Nothing
spiritual can come out of a wholly ma
terial system, and material medicine
is such. Indeed, not ono spiritual
quality does It embody In its theory or
require In its practice. The very study
of material medicine leads ono away
from the spiritual. Who has ever
found soul or spirit In the dissecting
room, on the operating table, or under
tho microscope? 1 nm aware that
many noble men nnd women, true
Christians, nro In the medical profes
sion. To them all honor and respect!
For It Is obvious that these ore such,
not because of, hut In splto of their
professional .training.
If you were to ask any medical en
thusiast to name the greatest scienti
fic achievement of the age, doubtless
ho would say: "Preventive medicine."
Now with that Christian Science
agrees, hut points out thnt, since any
thing, to be medicine, must first be
regarded ns sueh, medicino is mental,
not material. Therefore Jiroventive
medicine begine with Mind. Mrs. Eddy
was tho first in this age to proclaim (
and to demonstrate that health U a
slate of Mind, not a stale of"; matter;
that to produce, 1111, 1 maintain a well
body, it Is nccestiu-y first to hnvo ft
step by , sound mind, she taught Hint all slck
to right I ness Is based in thoiinln-cuntamlnu-
tlon, that people who think cleanly and
correctly live (hat way an. I are propor
tionately Immune from disease. She
taught true sanitation nH, cleanli
ness of mi ml anil body, true hYKlvlin to
He inoralit) .1 1 ue Physiology to bo
hut life.
Hut you say, how can one question,
the genu theory of disease when ona
may readily see the actual gerin under
the microscope'.' The germ theory Is
not prnuihle by the microscope any
more surely than a mirage of the des-
t would be established as a reality
because seen through a telescope,
.Neither magnifying nor lulnlmlzlnH
error can make it true.
As to the germ theory of disease,
there has arisen the usiinl failure of
Ihe doctors to agree. A famous mili
tary surgeon recently is reported to
have said that the more bacteria ona
breathed, the less liable one would be
come to disease, because of tha 1m
nimiity established through the system
becoming accustomed to foul condi
tions. In other words, to become Im
mune from disease, get on familiar
j terms with disease germs. Fnmlllurlty
with bacteria. It hi-iih breeds not
only contempt hut Immunity. Never
theless, such Immunity is not mater
ial, after all, hut menial. That would
seem to lie borne out of the fact that
physicians rarely take the discuses
with which they are thrown. (They
almost never take their own medicine.)
Again, a class of Investigators, num
bering representatives of the Public
I Health Hervlce, and many scientists
j from our great universities enter a
complete denial of the perm theory,
substituting therefore tho worm
theory. These scientists aver that so
ciilled germ diseases are In reality
worm diseases nnd already the lengthy
list of vogotablo liacterla Is paralleled
bv a replaced set of animal forms.
There would seem to bo small choice
between being consumed by germs or
eaten by worms, but this Innovation
In medical theories presents another
realignment of the medical kaleidos
cope. The facts are that Just as the atomlo
theory gave place to changing thought,
embodied In the theory that matter Is
electricity or holes In tho ether, and
thus prefigured further nnd more
nearly final theories, so has the germ
theory of disease Ix guu to disintegrate
under tho restiveness of the material
scientist's thirst for ultimate knowl
edge. A short timo ago, It was consid
ered folly to challenge the germ the-
" Today, we have actually arrived
at Its breaking up. There aro larco
and growing numbers of tho medi
cal fat uity who boldly disclaim that
bacteria have anything more Ulan pos.
sihly a helpful role to play in disease,
liy these authorities disease germs are
regarded as merelv scavengers, which
are usually present for a wholly be
nign purpose. Writing recently in Tho
Medical Record, one of the most prom
inent surgeons In America announced:
"With regard to the germ and the the.
on- of its action In disease, and tho
transmission of disease (except as sec-
1 miliary Invaders) all the fails of my
experience ale 111 opposition to tho
present teaching. The ancient belief
that -the stole man was possessed with
a demon which must be driven out has
Its modern parallel in the Jiellef that
the starting point of disease Is In tho
Introduction of a foreign agent Into
the body. The germ Is the modern
demon. You have but to suhstltuta
the Idea of the germ for the Idea of
the demon nnd the-medical practice
of today Is but a kind of exorcism."
Ho continues: "As Lloyd George has
said, 'The whole world must be re
made,' and In the reconstruction, medi
cal and surgical practice must he re
formed." His conclusions, from ex
haustive experiments, are that diseases
are caused by poisons prtiduced by ne.
crosls and decay of cellular tlsseus. "I
have found," he says, "that man'a
greatest enemy Is his own decaying
tissue." r
Nolo that in this newest theory of
disease, a man Is made ill, not from
without, but from within. Another re
arrangement of the kaleidoscope! for
hero, as always, material medicine
consistently looks lo mutter as tha
cause of its own diseases, and to re
move the offending tissues lays hnnds
rudely upon the helpless body.
Jesus said: "A man's foes shall ha
they of his own household," and Mrs
Eddy has shown that a man's house- '
hold In his mentality. Metaphysically
viewed, this new mediclnl theory re
veals that mortal man Is made 111 hy
his own false beliefs. Mrs. Eddy said
that fifty years ago. The proper, the
scientific way, to get rid of dlsense la
not to excise the effect, but rather to
correct the cause. Christian Science
heals and preventB disease, Just as It
abolishes ull other inharmonles,
through the destruction of false be
liefs by the nppllcation to them of
spiritual truth.
The abandonment of the germ the
ory will mark tho end of the fear of
contagion nnd preventive medicine and
public health will be established to hn
cleanliness of thought and action, the
only way to health and holiness. Tha
hour will come for all, even ns It Is
now come with many, when the divine
Mind will supplant matter In the treat
ment of the sick. Kvpti now, the henl.
Ing art Is Impregnated with the leaven
of Spirit. Christian Science is Plus. '
tratlng-the inevitable reunion of relig
ion nnd medicino which must come to '
pass as both advance into more spiri
tual latitudes. There will enmo a day
when the unity of health nnd holiness
will appear. Then religion t the sick,
bed will no longer ho helpless; then
the pastor nnklng his rounds will no
longer delegate half his office to tho
medical practitioner. Then Christ will
be seen to bP not only "Hi,, head of the
Church," as pan declares, but also,
.(ConUtuoJ en rage 10.),
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