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DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OSEGON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 4, 1921.
TEN PAGES
A LECTURE
ON CHRISTIAN S
CIENCE
c-nip-
inis.es
Inwry
Entitled
Christian Science :
The Voice in the Vildemes3
Rev. Andrew J. Graham,
C. S. 15.
Mcmbrr r,f U.e l'e.ir.l of I.v-!nrfshi
.if Th .Mu'iur rimrcli. The
Knst Chiin !i of Christ,
h .enl.st. in l!nUn,
Miss.
tut. hta'i i:.mi:.t
M:iry Vnkir i: li.y. " p.'iK'' riST.ft
Seienee iiinl Ih-.ilt U.wi:ti-Ktj-Io the
Seriitiin , Kivi-s :i cuminim sene anil
-iiu-lailiys,'riil definition i f the word
wilileni" TliiH ilelinitii.il ' ''"
f.itri 1h. is onllfurillillK to ttic led
live exiorienee of mini, us hp
from durkni'Hx to Keht. Unt s
10 freeiliim. from ftnr of con
tlmi to thi- joy of snlvntion
the two-fohl ilel'inition of
wililerness: 1 'l.iineliii
liarknons." This is th
lef nition. CI) Hiioiitaiieity
thought ami itli-ii; the vestibule in
which tt ninteriiil sense of tliiiina iIIk
iiinifnirR. mill Hiirlttnil sense nnfolils
the Lrre.it facts of existence
the Christian Science
th" word.
In niieakins to the suhject: "('liris
tlmi Science: The Voice in the Vil
ilei nesst." w e lire Kccklm? to cliioiilulo
lllo fact that Christian Science,
,K..,.ri it nntliorizei! literature, anil
treatments, raises a voiuu of Imiio
confidence In nil periods
darkness mid depress on
u voice i f Kiatitinl
Hence and harmony
one's experience.
I'erhi.ps it will he
Christian churches
claim, the reply
while other
In the i nly davs or Moses and the treats known as trie monasteries into
H'direw lironhetH as nr. Halation was 'which men betook themselves from
j:;.ii,!f on lor the establishment of the
that those , of
Truth and '
Hi.'.h
o l :.s
t r
tne i
r.;.h
-Iit.
rhi.r
faun
w.th
r. of
h. nu n
iuriy as
coiimiiiiicd
man now
disi.
A' linn:
ia u.cm :
ami tin
pari i f the
in n t In
li,e dav.i
while tin;
l.'ejta reused,
I v.;is a reality
Jew
: ( me a
111 I II.'
t ra. lu
Uii.!ii.,
11 '
with
Ci'll-
L on
s. '.I'
ll
i"
vn:
of Ji-mis
1 "lil'it:an
tile pl'e
to men.
Here is
the word
ss; doiilit;
.of a lie
land U.e up
j church
ace of 'Ii
land f ence and power were ever pre
'suit, and were manifested in destroy-'
Av.g sickne-s and Mil. AKUtn thcru'
went up a- mist from the earth, the:
'mist of human iloininaiioii and mater-1
'la: It ami then tiie Christian church'
joined its Kroaiiinss with those o its.
ncdi'ccssor.
Axaiti we say, the fundamental
panacia for unrest is to know Cod. ;
Ami now alter fifteen hundred years j
their fellows, and this, contrary to
.Jesus' prayer ill John XVII: ' I pray
not that thou FhoukP-st tafco them
out of the world, but that ti.ou
ih.eieli st keip tin in from cv.l." In
eoiiiiecMoii wall this pictaro of ft ir
as a iin-ans- t.f s.iK'a-.iiui there are.-e
.i!:-l .ie known ill Jii.-ti.iy as th"
.Morality i'ii.vs, the main fe.it
or Science" '.' Tills, namely
who know .s..methini of
earnestly seek to itv.lue it in ttie.r
daily iiin are taking the more direct
and pl'.asaut path, through Science, to-A.ir-i
ihe K..r.len cf salvation, vhieh
tilose w ho see sul.ie of Th" Tl .til .1:1 1
al".' disi liei'.ie.-.l to ii are w iiki::.' in the
f snfier'n-' and foieiM;;;; til--
-'ami- corrse that 1-1 the ih;Idr-:: of
of j I r iel, for forty year. thro'uh the
a worn-oat garmer.-,
Who shall say how
ath thourht was
ntie and bums Discoverer
"del
if Christian Science. Tor this De
nt., h nf the . einniiiL' of the destruction ol iieaui
the: and the tittle ' understandine ot me
and ' that has come to me, 1 am ever
over many
tit'.n'..a of
Founder of Chr
i he passed on ?
tilose who !om
ed with her sh.
:stian
The
were c
ws to
Science, hef re
testirn.'iiy c. f
lnselv a;.-OClat-
h it remark-
-.-tee
,"t
111 tile case
omie.a!.. 1, di
with hrr, a
f .Mrs. Kddy
.ivye.l mat
in the ease
wild.
morfil mind I
of theological
of
liumaii mind,
nniil,
comes
This is
definition of
lid
darkening the
Christian Sci
ence, to this as'e, teaching men how
to know Cod, by d.spellinif and di s
troyiiiK the veil of evil beliefs which
obscure. 1 1 mi,
(11)1).
Christian Science is the realm of
definitu knowlcdKC Kcelcsiasticul
tlieolony is the realm of Indefinite be
lief. .Now. as we have Indicated, both
; in the Jewish and Christum churches,
! theology Kiadually came to teach that
which was to friuil'.en men away lromi
h- 11 and frith'en them iutu lieav n. , and
Within tiie pest twenty-five i:us an
attmfit was made in the 1'nited
lai-s to revive Morality l'lav;;
and one recalls the rendition in vari
ous cities of a play known as "j.;v(.ry
mnu" with all its m-hastly iimi horrible
scenes. The ai-'e, however, had ad
vanced too far in rijrht thinkiiiK to tn
courae this sort of teachitnf. The ap
peal of that play was altogether to the
element of fear.
I In the later middle at-'cs some J-.u-ropean
artists were busy with the
ibrush, puintimr, in various places, pic
tures known 11s the lance of Death.
In the old covered bridge, crossing the
iSw iss river at LuccriM', one finds ncar
lly half a hundred such paintin'-'s, 011
'the iarne triangular panels;, and these
! represent the most notable of all the
ipaiiitniBS known as the Dance of
I Death. Their purpose w as to inspire
!r,.ui. ;. tiie thoncht of all who saw
'ihcm. I'eKiiinimr wit It infancy, pnss-
inir throiiL'h youth and niiiiihood. and
embracimr every business
able
.Mind 1
rne-s. on pa -e 1 ; 7 ,f "S.'i. ave 1 of St. S'.cphe:!, Siurit brrk tniouisu.
Ii tilth with Key ft the Scrip- the veil of flesh, pn.vins the noth-,
lures.'' Mrs. Kddy writes: "Our pro-' in.mass of death u:id the allatss of;
: portionate admission of th" claims of l-ie.
I.? I or ot evil determini s the linr- j THH IMTKUUNa CAUSE
I mony of our existence, our health, I wu-.id feet that I had neglected a
our loiu'evity, and our Christ an.ty." privili ,'e and a duty w ere 1 to close j
Christian Science is exact. We may this lecture without some allusion tu 1
trust it absolutely. If today we add 1 my own physical healing and to my
one per cent to our stock of love and mental release from the old theology,
obedience we shall experience so much that Is, the beginning of my releasn
the less sufferim; and so much the 1 from the mortal mind wltuerness. 11:
mure joy. Always as we- add to our! 1871
stock of love and obedience we lire 1 dux
thereby forsaking the corduroy road
and gaining the gravel -walk. Or as
Mrs. Kddy so beautifully teaches, we
are
things. There are mul
titudes of people who in times or
i.reat n;-ed have turned to . Christian
Science and found relief; then, either
afraid or ashamed f acknowledge
the Truth 1 penly, they continue to
.nit al. tii under the influence of old
i'-ieoioi'y and m it-u-ia niedica and find
themselves 111:. King no "ptOi-Tess with
perhaps discordant couditiuus recur-
r.nc. n ny na:i ye in tne vauey ot
lecisi.er.' In 1 iackaHine i a saying
that MistreKS Coinmon Law brook-
to-leth no l-eiirello.v." It is equally true
I
and every
..f ,,.ntnl
.mil exlil'i'HS- (Capable of
and love, when
have come Into
of
laid that nil
iniiko the same
to which i '"at
l'cliKioiis bodies promise
the solution of problems utter iieinn,
Christian Sc'enco says that these so
lutions may be found on this plane of
existence here and now. Let this bo
Hourly understood, that Christian
Hclenco rests Its claim entirely upon
lireHctit ileinonuttatioii. It neither
mdis nor expects liny one to accent it
on nny olher basis. It Is known and
Justified by Us fruits.
A 11 11 Imost innumerable throng
men and women thioiiKhotit the
world testify that Christian Science
fulfills Its promises; that In loneliness,
doubt, darkness and tlcprcsKlon It: has
Klven'a hope when all other hopes
were deud; that Its unfohlitiK ot spir
it mil Truth has been the vestibule or
puthwii.v lending U the apprehension
nnd understanding of infinite, ever
present Uivc. To this restless, hungry
ni, christian Science proves to he
"the world's great nlliif stairs which
wind through darkness up to tloil."
At tlio very outset of this ledum
permit me to say snmd hln about
Chi'lstlun Science treatment nnd
Christian Science healing. Christian
Pclenee treatment nnd healing pra
nupposu Hint sonic members of the
human race have reached a compar
atively clear undorstiiiidhnr of the
initiira of Cod and m ill, and through
that utulerstiindlni; me able to realize
to some extent, the omnipolency of
ind and therefore the Impotciicy of
evil. JJitry linker Kddy wan the first
member of the human family In re
ceive Christian Science treatment
nnd heallmr. under licit specific name;
practitioner.
(iod is a mysterious I'ersoii remaining
iinrevealini to a large extent, and in- ! profession of man, the panels repre-
being known clearly by Hl,ut varions individuals busy and hup
linen until after death. The Hlhle
I passage which says: "Clouds indeed
and darkness are round about Him,"
I was taken to mean that Hod wraps
Himself in an inipeiietrablo cloak. All
'these texts in the Hlhle which seem
jto indicate that 1 bid cannot lie clearly
known and that He is shrouded in
i.i. .. .,rr..l,. ,.f I In win o near
ov won me iiiin'if ...v, - -
at hand unseen by them, is peering
the ghastly feature of a skeleton.
These came to he regarded as a series
of religious paintings, intended to lay
a pall of fear over every human scene
and to remind men constantly of the
one enemy tnat an leureu mm
oitlil become
clouds and darkness, ik'Serve special ,t r,n that eventually he
attention; for in a sense they all are t)ler master. The great movement
true, by which it is meant that (Jed known in history as the Reformation
is indeed behind a veil; but that ciir-i(1, nway with the worst
tain of cloud and darkness is not mane practice, and yet it
hy Cod. rather Is it the result of mor
tal-mind ignorance and sinful thought.
in oilier words, the mist that seems
to spurato man from (lod rises from
the earth. It is not a curtain lot down
from heaven.
Now to Hie sick and sinful and
troubled, brooding over the thu
thought of an unknowable Ood,
Christian Science comes and says:
"Your sores and sicknesses and sins and
broken hearl may be healed here and
now. The veil which seems to shut
0110 from (lod may be destroyed
through the aid of healing, coming di
rectly through Christian Scieuco treat
ment or through the reading of Its
textbook, "Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures." The only
Comforter in the universe Is Cod, sinil
Jesus Christ said; "This is life eternal
that they might Know Thee the only Iconlrihution to the element of fear ex
features of
survived in
hymns, poems, sermons nnu iiinei.u
orations of the Iteforniation period;
and these are still accompaniments of
11 great many services aim sei inons m
'modern orthodox churches. What in
spiration, for Instance, can one find in
a hymn beginning on this wise:
Soon as the infant draws its breath,
At once spring it) the seeds of death,
or (his:
There is a time, we know not when,
A point we know not where,
That marks the distiny of men
To glory or despair.
One docs not care to advertise some
modern preachers by mentioning
names, hut they should certainly cense
from making these terrible word pic
tures and claiming them to be effica
cious ns mentis or spiritual growth.
! Materia Medlca has also lidded
Christ whom
true (lod. and Jesus
Thou has sent."
The puzzle to the human mind has
always been this: Since Cod is in
finllely grout and man seeniH so small,
how can man expect thu oninipolent , raced by
Olio to take nolo of him'.' The psalm- n1(, piedii
1st voiced this when he exclaimed:
"When I consider the moon mid
Iho stars, which thou hast ordained,
what Is man that thou art mindful of
him."
Kor his comfort, and encouragement
is capable of understanding, and this
ciiiicrcteness we find in the teaching of
Christian Science. Mary Taker Kddy
1 ..1 I.... iiivn
.. ,.r ,,.,ii,,i oinilv I mail needs something concrete, hull
I lirilllgll IllllUi .ic.ii.t 01 i-.v" , ,, . , , , ,
1011 ,1 i,a in I', ni she had 1 vldiinl. He tieeihi soiiielhing which hi
,U Hie 1 .inn: .1 11. 1 1 ; .
1 1 1.. lliis iiiidersllllldlllg. In llH '"'l'"
process or time through her writing.'.
1 1., .11, 1, licit t .'iii'tit nr.'. many
, , ,. ,, ,i,,.,,t ii,., world pained in using the abstract noun, "good
Hlliocilin 1 in . nth . .-.--
sufricietit understanding to begin to
bull themselves and others. These
men and women are known as prac
titioners. Mis. Kddy tells us 011 page
177 i f "Science ami Health
heal 1
w!th Key
to tiie Scriptures" that Jesus' cor-eli.u-
of mini heulpil the Hick."
Christian Science practitioner
sickness mid sin I
view of Cod nnd 111-111
Is eiiunlly true touching every phase
of error. A discord In addition of
ntimbera, discord In music. In the
family, In business. Is overcome pari
piisii, as one lias the correct view of
addition, of music, or the family, ol'
hus'.ness. Jesus' correct view or man
healed the sick. 'What is your view of
u 111 ti V Do you believe that the man
(lod made is a bundle ol' flesh with
two opposing inlnihi Inside? If so,
you .ciiit not heal anybody until you
change your view. The mini whom
Cod nuule is in His image nnd like
ness; he Is spiritual, not inalerial.
Now a treatment an'l healing In
Christian Science consist In seeing and
know'tig the supremacy of Truth and
I hen fore know ing the inipolency of
error. Healing In Christian science
brings with il an awakened sense of
the dominion over sin, sickness, and
doulh. and tills dominion Is the legacy
which every child of Cod
from Ills heavenly Km her
ipposllioii with the word Coil, Ita he-
iltteathed to mankind an illiimiuatiii:;'
thought, lly it she enables usto make
active and real a religion:! expression
which had been to a largo exletit a
dead letter for practically fifteen liun-
idrrd yenrs, namely, "to love Cod." H'" ; aft or a diagnosis declare that Individ
pulpit has preached that to love Codju.s al0 .mufrrim; from such diseases.
II proportli. 11 11s their 1 Is absolutely necessary to salMil'on 'ThiA is ,t wilderness of fear lroui
III in Is correct. This laud the pew has silently answered: nuiny fail to emerge. Christian
"How can I love Cod unless 1 know-;-l,il,lu,t, M practically the only church
Him? 1 can love a friend because 1 Iwliii-li is ctimluitiiifi this evil tmlny, nml
know I1I111; this is concrete experience i , S(1.V(,H n,,, ;l j,i f all fathers and
preaching and entering the won
derful garden of Salvation through
Science instead of through suffering;
the wilderness gradually blossoms as
the rose, and blossoms abundantly.
This gravel walk is that "spontaneity
ot thought and idea; the vestibule in
which a material sense of things dis-
1 appears, and spiritual sense uiuouis
1 .
the great tacts ot existence, t. i-cieuce
and Health," page 597.)
I'KltSt iNALITY AND
1 lXDlVIDI'AUTY.
Who has not heard the phrase,
striking personality? In the sense in
which it is generally understood, per
sonality is a deadly bane. It lends to
hero worship ot the bnser sort; it is
of the earth, earthy. Those who are
acknowledged to have striking per
sonalities are the same who dominate
over other men and women either
through wealth, position, voice, eye,
feature, attire or some other physical
manifestation. Such submission is
nnihimr less than slavery. Sir Wil
liam Hamilton speaks of it us the
"sign of a feeble mind." I would
rather say it produces a feeble mind;
for many otherwise noble men and
women have been drawn into this
wilderness of drought and serpents,
through admiring or fearing and fol
lowing personality. The basic law for
tho guidance of Christian Scientists
in this matter, Is found on Page 4 of
the Manual of The .Mother Church,
by -Mary linker Eddy: "Neitlir ani
mosity nor mere personal attachment
should impel the motives or acts of
the members of The Mother Church.
In Science, divine Iaivo alone gov
erns man." l'erhaps Mrs. Kddy has
stressed none of her teachings more
emphatically than when she warns
against following personality. Per
sonality is material and temporal;
individuality ia spiritual and cler.ial.
I'eisonalitv vatinteth itself, is puffed
may bei..., i.huvcth itself unseemly, sceketh
!iu 1'"'' alvvavs Its own, is easily provoked
medlca in thinketh evil. Individuality "vatin-
neither so niinier- tetli not itself, it not puffed up, doth
1 fear-Inspiring as those ludiave itself unseemly, seeketh
theology. This is because i m.r w1, it not easily provoked,
il men in the middle ages, thinketh no evil." To admire ex-'
while familiar with the outward tortn pensively, personality ends 111 uisas
of miiii. had not yet aciiiired siifl'i- (,.,. To love Individuality men 11s life
clently iiecuralc knowledge of nnat- luul p,.;u.e. The reflection of Cod,
omy and physiology to enable them to good, in men and wo. lieu continues
paint the horrible picliires of so-eall- their individuality. Such men and
ed diseased organs of the body, which women we love and in loving Hiein we
descriptions tire found, too often, in love Cod. What we Christian Scien
nuigazines, papers, and charts of mod- tisis love in .Mary liaker KSddy is lK-r
oni ,avH. individuality, she manifested so much
A medical diagnosis of nnv so-called good. Increasingly she strove to take
dc-eisc riven either verbally or in; her personality away from thuught.
writinr' is a mental picture which the The greatest reformation ever known
frightened human mind, unaided, in the realm of teaching was begun
rinds it impossible to cast out. It is when Mrs. Kddy eliminated the per
lilth, less than a crime againUt ehil-, soniil preacher, and instituted the Hi
dren and even older people to display lde and "Science and Health with Key
i ,1,.,,,. il... horrible condition of dis-! to Hie Scriptuies" as the only pi'eiich-
eased organs of the body and then
I became a member of an ortho-
hurch. The six years following
re passed in preparing for the min
istry. Heginning in l!77 and for
thirty-four years thereafier I preach
ed and ministered in that church,
standing sincerely and loyally by its
doctrine, discipline and worship,
a clergyman 1 was bitterly and
grateful to our Leader. Miry Faker
Kddy is not the savior of mankind,
but she is leading us out of the wil
c. : n. s of confus.on buck to that
Savior.
THE WORLD-WIDE rP.OBLE-M.
.o religions le.uner can eiii-i'i-j '
rntlv remain silent concerning the'
universal social and business unrest
orev.-iilln.? throughout the world
d.-.v Durimr ihe last f:ftv yenrs dis-1 ..f Christian Science. One cannot ad-
tance and time have t-een destroyed J vance in Sea nce
t,, a ich mi extent hv inventions and' old theology and
discoveries, that the peoples of the ; Christian Science
earih are now one family for weal or 1 I rod and man.
for woe. A discordant nation in any; latum of every problem. As we study
ipiarter of the glote becomes a pro ' It and are ol-edknt to it our capacity
blem which all other nations must j for receiving and understanding in
hl.. to heal or suffer inevitable con- creases, and the confusion of thought
oo..,,.,oU Tk. hr.io in-nrM nt the I nnd infirmity of body which have
present time is in Just this condition. ! held us in the wilderness of lonelt
Tho si-eat homicidal war in which the luss. doubt, and darkness, gradual-
.nd still hold to the
material medicine.
is the truth about
U is equal to the so-
peoples of the earth, recently have
been engaged, has thrown into view
this illuminating fact that the nations
of the earth can no longer dwell a-
Asrnart as senarate entitles. Cod is the
un-lone Father and all His children are
its
ercised over mankind; but it
said, and said truthfully, that
tares drawn by materia
the dark ancs were
mis nor
reasonably opposed to Christian Sc-j
ence and frequently denounced both!
Christian Science and .Mary Baker I
Kddy, publicly and privately.' Dur-
ing the three years prior to 11)11 I
suffered increasingly from indiges
tion, liver trouble and as diagnosed
by one physician, chronic appendici
tis. A so-called nervous break-down
ensued and an horrible, never absent
fear came on which filled my thought
with distressing pictures day and
night. At that time, being in Ox
ford, England. I was led to receive
treatment in Christian Science, which
resulted in instantaneous physical
healing, and what proved a still
greater relief, the destruction of the
beliefs in old theology. Through the
Truth of Christian Science I was, in
one moment, transformed from the
Poignant sense of tear and pain to a
state of relief and peace. There was
only one thing I could do and that
was to follow the light which came
to me as I sat in darknens and in the
shadow of death. A few weeks be
fore. I was to take final leave of the
churrh and the loving people to whom
I had ministered for eleven years, T
was suddenly awakened at midnight,
out of a sound sleep and in the dark
ness I seemed to see an interrogation
point a mile high and it said to me:
"What It it is all a mistake, and you
nwake to find you are giving up
your long ministry, your ample sal
ary, your church and your loving peo
ple for something that proves itself
to he a lie'.'" My heart was so full
of love and gratitude for my healing
that I was not taken unaware. I in
stantly said to that midnight spectre:
"I will answer you by applying Jesus'
rule, 'fly their fruits ye shall know
them.' " Then I said to myself: "Do
you love Cod us much as in other
days?" Answer: "There Is no com
parison." Quest ion: "Do you love
mankind as much as of yore?" Ans
wer: "I did not seem -.o Know uni
versal love for mankind until my
healing in Christian Science." With
that the midnight s.iectre vanished
forever. Other trying problems have
arisen but they have been uniformly I knnwledged.
destn.ved throiieh the spiritual law a few thing
included in His family. The loving
ecognltion of this fundamental fact
hi the only solution for the world's
problem.
Some one people must be first in
setting an unselfish example rising
above the greed of territory and coin,
patiently and irrestibly drawing to its
own ideals the olher nations of the
earth. Opportunity is waiting at the
door and we have good hope that the
ly disappear and "spiritual sense un
folds the great facts of existence."
("Science and Health." g. 597.) To
the Christian Science thought God is
a reality everywhere all the time.
No incident is too small to reveal
His presence. Permit me to give an
Illustration. Late one afternoon as
I was leaving my hotel to keep a lec
ture engagement in a New York su
burb, I found there was not time for
an evening meal so on the way o
the station I purchased a sandwich,
eating it as 1 proceeded to the sta
tion. When the sandwich was almost
consumed, two friends confronted me
whom I had never seen before a
Anglo-Saxon nations, notwithstanding man and a dog. The dog stopped alio
their internal difficulties will prove to looked up into my faee: and the man
be the rallying point for a disunited stopped also. Supposing the dog
world-wide "family. This hope is thel wanted the remaining morsel o
more radiant because among this peo-! sandwich, I gladly offered it to him.
pie the modern Star of Bethlehem j He did not take his eyes from my
arose. Here Christian Scientists, clear face, moving his nose over so that it
and t can .understand it, but to love j mnthiTS who should know that the
Cod without know ing Him appears to tll(.,Dl c;i 1 profession has no more right
be inipractici'lile. Now Christian Sei-;t() jrighten their children with pictures
ence Individualizes Cod, good. St. nf ,i:;,.ase than theology has to fright
.laines says: "Every good gift and PM (iu,m with pictures of ghosts. Fear
every perfect gift Is from above, and , i, .,n.vu i,r,.n,lieil the eternal dam-
conicth down from the Father of j n;lti,m f a lat ke part of (ho human
lights." AH absolutely good .motives, 1 rill.,,
aspirations, thoughts; all kind, gVntlc, i THE DETTKH WAV.
loving words and deeds come from christian Science teaches with log
Cod. There is nothing in the whole i lc-; t and spiritual exactness that it Is
universe which is loving, protecling, MU(,,.lv impassible for any one to be
savin;:- or cotnpiisslonnle but comes 'jlft( ,.' ,.rii:illy ; that nothing but error
from Cod and centers in Cod. Any f j si,all b" cast as rubbish to the-heap,
these qualities manifested in men and 'pilj(1 .salvation has been the universal
women lire posllive proofs of the pres. ' , ,n 0M f mankind, and its realization Is
ence of Cod. Therefore, wo repeat, I fn.shailow ed ill the Old Testament
that when Mrs. Eddy employs t he : w,,, ,.,,, t s written, "the earth shall
word good In nppesltli. n with the word ;,,0 fl,u,(1 wt)l ,, Knowledge of the
Cod, she causes ns to see at. once how 1 , v r h , i ,.,) .1!4 ,), t,.rs cover
Inherits simple and practical It is to recognize ; , .ml j,, tMe New Testament by
luiid to know Cod; nnd therefore to' ...a! .',.,,,,,. as "Hie last enemy that
t l.e destroyed is death." and, "he
In Chrisfan Science we proceed to the 'of anything which Is true, honest, Just. I 1H, r(ij,n ,m ju, ,,lU .,n ,.emies
in thuught, patient in love and calm
in endeavor, are influencing and
moulding the national thought. With
unerring prophetic Instinct Mary
liaker Eddy has written concerning
distressing times, in these words,
"those who discern Christian Science
will hold crime in check." ("Science
and Helath," Pago 97). Christian
Science thought is doing this very
thing today. Tho learners and doers of
Christian Science, unlike their ances
tors of tho elder dispensation, when
trouble comes, do not sit down by the
waters of Babylon and weep, nor do
they hang their harps upon the trees
therein, but singing and making mel
ody in their hearts they look to the
ever present Christ as they sing, in the
words of our Leader:
I will listen for Thy voice,
Lest my footsteps stray;
I will follow and rejoice
All the rugged way.
(Mary Baker Eddy, Poems pg. 14)
WHY HALT YE?
The regnant thought of those who
are suffering is not, "How can I learn
more of Cod?'' but, "where can I
find a path out of this wilderness of
trouble?" Jesus did not condemn such
desires; lie was compassionate; so al
so Is Christian Science; it begins by
relieving men and women . of their
sense of human suffering. This ini
tial help though Christian Science
schould he gratefully received and ac
tio that is faithful over
shall be made ruler
touched tho bread, but he would not
take it Into his mouth. After a mo
ment his companion spoke up and
said: "He will not take food from
any hand but his master's."' Under
my Dreath I said: "Oh, I thank you,"
and proceeding to the train I said to
myself; "When will I learn to be
as obedient to my Master, Christ, as
that dog is to hia master? If I would
refuse to take food from any hand but
my Master's I would not be poisoned
any more with shi and sickness." And
so through the obedience of this hum
ble creature of our Father's (for God
made the real dog) I had learned a lit
tle more about Truth and I had pro
gressed a little further out of the mor
tal mind wilderness into the Christian
Science wilderness that is blossoming
as the rose and blossoming abund
antly. You have listened to a lecture
on Christian Science. If your thought
has been at all responsive you are
now a little more awake than before.
You see something about God a little
more clearly than before and perhaps
aro experiencing an increased sense
of peace and courage. That means
that some of your sick and sinful and
troubled thoughts have beert cast out
and are replaced by the Christ thought
or Christian Science thought.
This is the beginning ot Healing.
Bo not disobedient to the heavenly
vision; follow it. It will provo to be
the pillar of cloud hy day and tho
pillar of fire by night, leading from
Egypt to the promised land,
fa
Willi this brief statement of henlhig ' e Him. To lovo the manifestation
consideration of the wilderness,
I'NHKST.
The human mind Is never at pe.iee.
It In always in ipiest of satisfaction,
seeking rest and finding none. This
Is because mortal lit i ml can not un
derstand tho saying of Jesus, "in the
world ye shall have tribulation, but
lie of good cheer. I h ive overcome
tho world"; "my peace 1 leave with
you; my peace I give unto yon." The
Apontle Paul, understanding this sit
uation, Btnteii the need for peace most
clearly when he writes: "the whole
creation groitneth and Irnvaihth to
gether In pain wailing for the
adoption, to-wlt, the redemption of
our body." The way-side flower per
ishing for lack of moisture, the help-
pure lovely and ot good report, is to
love Cod. Hence, 111 the wilderness of
darkness and fear wherein one feels
that be is without Cod In the world,
comes the voice of Christian Science,
and through its treatment, Its services,
or the reading of its authorized litera
ture, one is assured of the wonderful
fact that he ran know Cod here and
now with ns much certainty ns he can
know the truth ot mathematics, and
'knowing II km, can love Mini.
EVIL NEVER BENEFICENT.
The only chance that evil ever his
to succeed is by simulating good. Fu
ller this pretense of good for man
kind old theology nnd materia medlca
have been busy, for ages, in making
pictures, the main feature of which
ers in the Christian Science congrega
tion. Every Christian Scientist knows
that Mrs. Eddy's teaching lends from
personality to the Christ Truth; and
that is the reason why we all love her
and are safe in so loving.
DEATH:
I am going to discuss here briefly
a phase of error which is tho greatest
impostor of the whole brood of evils.
It claims to hold all men In a fatal
grip from which there is no escape.
.Mortal mind names this impostor
death, and while men flee from it and
: seek to avoid it, yet they are apt to
ladmit and declare that filially they
must submit and that death becomes
! the master of Life and the master of
! man. This is the supreme lie; be-
! cause it is the greatest pretension
I that evil ever made. For after all
'death is nothing but a shadow. The
j Psalmist culls it the shadow of death,
I that It, the shadow, the shade, the
supposition, that is called death. That
j it Is only a shadow is proved by the
words of Christ Jesus: "110 mat oe-
licveth in me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live; and whosoever llv
)eth and believeth in me shall never
Idie" shall never seo death. "When
mail awakens one hundred per cent
i to spiritual truth lie can no more
1 under bis red." puss through the experience called
! Human language has endeavored t'1 1 aytni; than could Cod. To this won
! picture this stale of salvation dl-rfiil fact St. Paul alludes in First
I many ways, and probably no picture j Corinthians wherein he writes, "we
Is more beautiful that that given In , s,.,n n Heep" -the literal trans
I tho closing chapter of the Itevelation i;Uiim ot which is "we shall not all
lot" St. John the Divine, wherein the;(i(1.. sCow lirit inn Science teaches
state of salvation is likened to a bean- i ,,Klt m.m n;lft tll0 rig)-,t to be immune
: til'ul garden. Now let us for convenl-1 from tnis physical episode called
: ence do what is perfectly legitimate. ; ,lM1u Tlu, fjrst ,,ffect of Christian
uppose salvation to no represeuie.i o , science treatment or enlightenment
is to hesin to destroy fear in human
thought. As the Christian Science
Truth enfoh's to one he thinks more
ai .1 : ion- i.'ai.it I. fe and less nnd
less ii'ijut death. That is, death is
lOin; uaily in his consciousness. Let
us here employ a simple illustration
Cinnt for the sake of brevity that
there are fivo so-called causes, any
one of which may produce death.
beautiful garden, "which all men at i
some time desire to enter, and which
all men eventually will enter. Let lis
say there are two ways leading to Ill's
garden, one over a corduroy road, the :
ether by a beautiful crawl walk. The ,
corduroy rend piesents much suffering
and much cleansing by the wayside,
less bird amid the wintry blasts, the has been the claim that good can be . i,,,,,,,-,, , enters the garden; the i
beast of the forest seeking his meat born out of evil. One of the Christian '..,..,, i .. .,1k i.s a direct and more beau-1
Horn Cod. inori ii num. sinning aim ciuucues nns a iijmn oegniiiiug , ,jlui ,v.,y nrcouipnnlcil by less pain aim T.,t us say these causes, are, tuber-slek,-these
all are evidences that the "O" fclix culpa." "O! happy fault;" sorrow. The children of Israel coming 0sis anger, liver trouble, drunken-
whole creation is reaching out tuiiui- that is. i am so rtait that i nave stnneit
ly for help. Like Frankenstein, it as
pires to satisfaction and finds no way
to attain unto it. Now the funda
mental panacea for this unrest is to such apothegms
know Ood. In nn early Christian
century, the Tinman nristocrat, Augus
tine, after trying nil material plen-
for by repenting of It I have learned
how sweet forgiveness is. Out of
wrHcheil teaching like this comes
i ness and cancer. Mipposo now.
is the following, ":!
young man must sow ids wild o.t's."
Is th-it true? Must one be dishonest
ami hateful before knowing how to
Bttres, cried out thus to the cod ol he honest and loving. I aul sass:
peace: "Thou hast made me for Thy- 'shall we do evil that good may com.' .'
self, 0 (lod, and my soul can never ;,.d forbid."
find rest until it rests In Thee." i Beginning with about the fourth
In the first chapter of Cencsis, man century of the Christian era the
Is recogniied as being at one Willi te.ii h'.ng thatJlie only way or moth" i
Cod, niinlo in Ills linage and likeness,
dwelling In peace and harmony. In
the second chapter of Cinesis, it is
said: "There went up a mist from thp
earth." This mist niarknl the bc
fciniiing o( I lie vroaning creation,
by wh.cii man could securely attain to
holine.'s w is to wlihilraw himself from
the lest ef riitikiT'". teeamc uv. ti
ed; that is J;,. sti.ed in IV.n- ..; ...
elating with others, and so there grad
ually appeared those abodes or re-
out of four hundred years' bondage
in Egypt marched up to the border . often happens, that a man is healed
of the promised land In the brief j - tuberculosis, that means that! one
peiiod of six d.is on what may bt ! ( (iK, fixe causes of death is des-
ealled the travel walk and they might , troyed: in other words that twenty
then, had it not been for their coward- ; p,,r ft,Mt dvath is de.nl. Then let
liiiess. crossed at once over Jordan , him he healed of the vicious habit
into the fatherland. Being d'.sobed- ( ( anger and another of the so-called
ieiit. however, they t imed back and ; causes is eliminated. That means
w andered forty years in tiie w il.b'Vness i (, ,( f,,uy ,.,.r yvnt of death is des
ovcr what we have designated as tin tiwe.f. This progressive destruction
corduroy iv.nl. M.iry liaker l-ld.ly in f ,,..,th Is what Is taking place in
"Science and Health with Key to the .ho consciousness ef each active, lov
S.'t 'iitiii-. s," in speaking of release ' ),. christian ScientW: and on this
fro. a d scor.l. uses the expression. , p; f existence he may destroy
"s.it'sering or S -.enec." Now Science j Sll much of the dedth thought that if
star..!-! for what 1 have called the j the change failed dvath d-'es cenie
"i i ,cl walk and sufferim: for the cor-1 h, may have scarce any fear at all In
duroy road. What specifically is comic, t 'on with it and it may be as
incut by this expression, "suffering jaiuics8 au operation us the layir. eff
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