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Y. JANüA*Y N. IM*. tad fear, honesty and is as much a part of man’s expert- ' Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be And then he defines life in- these 'confidence ' and words,—"this is life eternal, that dishonesty. He ' Is, in other words, ence as it is of God’s nature. saved.” Nowhere in the New Testa stance eannu. be perceived by the they might know thee the only true double-mir.ded, fur of course both j Christian Science proves- that sup ment do we find a description of material senses, for it is spiritual and God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou sweet &nd bitter water's cannot flow ply is of Gqd, divine Love, and that Jesus’ appearance as to whether he mental. All there is humanly to hast sebt.” “A double ' no man is ever without it, for he was .tall or short, dark or fair, the Jesus came, then, not from the tame source. you .«rid me is our thinking. Re to mystify us, but that -we might n.inLed m<n is unstable in all his would be an imperfect, diacordant color of his eyes, hair, et cetera, move a person’s thinking and there have a tnore abundant knowledge ways," 'writes James In his epistle, | creation were this the case. But this but we do have an account of his is no longer human evidence of his qf God and true man, whom he rep und Mrs Eddy states (Miscellaneous is impossible, for Odd’s creation is thoughts, ideas, or ideals as expressed ’ resented, and that we might know Writing, p. IM), “All suffering is the j ever harmonious, for God could not in his words and deeds. This passage In introducing Mias Gurney at the existence. Christian Science teaches that the God and man as he knew them fruit of the tree of the knowledge of create a limited, discordant creation cannot, therefore, mean that we shall lecture on Christian Science In I. O. O. F. hall last evening, Mrs. Bertha qualities of ’love, jqy, strength, har This true knowledge he declared to belli good and evil; of adherence to ■ to express His own glorious, infinite be saved by believing in Jesus’ per mony- hooMty. and intelligence, that be life eternal. the double-minded* senses." Being. Godhas all good to give, and sonality, but’by believing orunder- May Norton said: you and I manifest, constitute our Man Manifests Life personal mind of a mortal gives all good to His beloved standlng the ideas which he taught Friends: God, as the creator of man and supposed to be, in his brain involves creation, (nan. Just as many physi and proved to be health-giving, life- ’ There exists tn the heart at true Substance. One often uses the ex cians admit that fear is often the pro maintaining, loving ideals. humanity, the natural darire to share pressions, 1 here is not much sub the universe, is Life, and the image him in a -great deal of trouble, curing cause of disease, so business Christian Science comes today re with others, ths good which has come stance to what he says, or, He is a and likeness of God manifests Life it does not always think as he e to men are beginhing to recognize fear peating Jesus' words, “The kingdom r. to it. If a man makes a discovery or substantial sort of person, meaning through living, not through being it to think. Wlien he would an invention, he wishes bis neighbors not that he has a great deal of mat sick, sinful, or dying, for like pro be m-st ca'm and collected is mind as the cause of lack. One of the most of 6od is within you." Within our and con eminent and successful business men thinking, our ideas, or ideals of good and friends to knbw about it that ter, but that his thinking is intelli duces like. How, then, can we in claims tha‘. he is exci they too may be made glad and ben- gent, honest, just, and loving. Let quire of disease, which produces fused. Wl en he wants to be most in the United States has Written, dr of God, is the only heaven there us see why these qualities are sub death, of hate, which produces de intelligent and courageous, thia brain "The elimination of fear is the bring ever will be for you and me, and as efitted. Christian Science is » discovery. stantial. Honesty cannot be burned, struction, or of the material senses, says that he is fuR of fear and acts ing in of security and supply.” (My we always have our thoughts with' uj , Mary Baker Eddy discovered it and drowped, nor destroyed by un ac which know not God, as to the na stupidly. "Whpn he wants to be Life and Work, p. 221, by Henry it is possible always to have heaven J ‘ . : shared her open secret with the cident, and tide is true of every other ture of man? The following Bibli healthy and ptire this belief of a Ford.) Hire again the Bible gives with us. Mary Baker Eddy world. She estabi‘«hed a church quality or attribute of God. such as cal injunction gives a scientific rule mind sugt^rits that he is suffering the rule for the elimination of fear These for discovering the true character *of and sinfuf Aside from this difficulty in the words, “Perfect love casteth In order to judge others correctly through which this discovery may be hnrmony, health, and love. we must have some comprehension preserved: She mw that as each in qualities do not’ originate in -the man and the universe: “Thus saith each lite and different mind so no lieves that there is something to fear, of their motives. Mrs. Eddy gives dividual discovered for himself the brain, for a substance which. is »ub- the I .ord, the Holy One of Israel, person can exactly understand it caonot eliminate fear. Christian as her life-motive the following truths of Christian Science, he too ect to discord, decay, and disinte and l)is Majcer, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and con gration is incapable of producing its hat anoth’er thinks, and this leads Science reveals God,, divine Love, as (Retrospection and Introspection, p. would wish to share with others his now-found joy And Christian Sci opposite, namely, substantial, immu cerning the work of my hands conv to confusion, misunderstanding, and the only reality and ever-presence, 30): "The motive of my earliest la ence must be a discovery for each of table, harmonious ideas. Their ori mand ye me. I have made the eqro., dissension. We have been. educated and man as the reflection of this di- bors has neyer changed. It wag,to This revelation alone relieve the sufferings of humanity/by us, as Mrs. Eddy tells us in her gin is in the divine Mind. This Mind, and created man upon it.” ■ This to trust this., double-minded mortal vine Love. is the and to believe that man consists only I can completely free us from all fesr. a sanitary system that should includ? writings. We may have faith, we being one, can know nothing unlike verse clearly states that the uni- of the things which are cognized by Even humanly, when in the presence all moral and seligious reform." may be willing to test the power of itself nor outside of itself, for it (s' Meker, or Life of man or scien- the “ 'double-minded' senses.” It> of those who love us, and we realize Could there be a more comprehensive Christian Science by being obedient infinite, and there is none else, as verse, and tha. all the Bible says. Mind’s thoughts or' tific knowledge a 1 is to be fact, we are inclined to doubt the that we are beloved and understood, or unselfish motive? It was never to its teachings, but sooner or later, ine source. of reality of the spiritual man because I we experience no fear, no doubt, no Mrs. Eddy’s desire to thrust her we must discover for ourselves that ideas about itself constitute man, sought at the , of good not of we cannot seft him with our material; suspicion, but we feel the possibility personality forward or in any way to it does heal the sick and bring to th^ the only man of whom God is mind Mind, not of t of the flesh. eyes and feel him with our material at achieving our highest hopes and court personal adulation. If the true man of God’s cre evil, of Spirit In order, weary and heavy laden, rest. So, ful. Sometime^ the statement is made, hands. But we can see him with aims. If this is true of human love, however, to understand Christian Mrs. Eddy, in this church which she ating were the man of dust, describ established. The First Church of ed in the second chapter of Gene “I am tired of life.” If the one mak- thibj Mind which was in, Christ Jesus, how much more is it true of divine Science it is essential • to have a I ing this, rom ark were to realize that] and. my friends, that Mind is man’s Love. Supported by infinite Love, proper appreciation of Mrs. Eddy’s Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massa sis, or theTnan evolved by atomic chusetts, provided for a Board of force, think of what extremely un ' God is the Life of man, and that Mind, for it is in reality the only approved of God, maintained by His place as its Discoverer, Founder, and unspiritual things Life-manifests itself in joyous, free, Mind, or God. This one infinite omnipotence/ man is capable qf ac- Leader. Just as we could never Lectureship. Christian Science godlike and And it healthy, loving thinking, whereas Mind is tire only creator and its complishing all good. He has noth- grasp the meaning "and portent of the .churches throughout the world, have God would be mindful. urc awwv ww knew ».,cw sorrowful, limited, diseased, hateful creation in good. It never created a i^g-to fear in the infinitude of Love. Lutheran religion without some un more we the happy privilege of calling on the would follow that ii the members of this Board for lectures on of God the more • ,t we would have to suggestions are death,—were he to double-minded mortal, for the mani * But the question may ariM, How derstanding of the motives, aims, and Christian Science. These lecture« are know of such material theories. ' realize this he would probably alter festation or creation of one Mind is do we know that God' is Ltfve? The place of Martin Luther, so we cannot only .to mor- his statement and say: “I am tired oneness, not dotibie-mindedness. only way we know anything or any apprehend the purpose and scope of authentic, given by authority of'The These theo .. is laid off of death. I will change my think- .This Mind sees all things as they body is -through that which express the Chrjgtigp Science movement * __ w, ___ tality, and Christian Science denomination. are, for it is Truth, and all things es the person or thing. We know a without discerning the. place and In accordance with these things, these views will be laid off with it,! ing and live.” The evidence of Life which eacbti are the thoughts of this Mind and rose by the fragrance, beauty, form, work of its Leader. Her own words First Church of Christ, Scientist, in for, as Paul says, “this mortal must; >ut on immortality.” The material ( one has witoin himself is the fact are good, loving, pure, and .karmon- color, grace, and- delicacy which about Paul might well be applied to Coquille, has asked for a Christian heory of evolution is probably as that he is conscious — conscious of ious. Any so-called thoughts which express it. "The fact that man ex this situation (Science and Health, p. Science lecture, to share with this can be about spiritual activity, of honesty, joy, and' may seem to emanate from the mind presses L$>ve is evidence that God is 380): “To misunderstand Paul, was community, knowledge of this sub ogical toe dec mortal man, but its intelligence. Paul recognized that of a mortal and to be both good and Love, for no one believes man to be to be ignorant of the divine idea he ject. In behalf of this church in Co study prove so -uplifting, j life is wholly a’min tai and spirit- evil are mere suggestion—the sug- the source and cfeatorof Love. All taught.” quille, it is my pleasure to welcome _ ual state when he said, "To be spir-1 gestlon that there is more than one that is required of us is that we be It is quite natural that the way to you here tonight, it is also my pleas spiritualizing, health-giving, or puri fying as the study of the perfect i itually minded is life.** Life is made Mind, one God. come conscious of Love’s presence. A relieve the sufferings of humanity ure to introduce to you. Miss Mar . ------ 1— ------ ,t—. by X — ^ly way to Mved from person may be walking in a rose- should have come through a woman’s manifest thought, not by things. garet Murney Glenn, C. 8, B. of Bos man, for this study requires that .hought ascend to the real man’s All the organs of the body may be the double-mindedness of mortals is f tiled-garden, but if his thought is on discovery. Dr. Frank Crane, whose ton, Massachusetts, who is a mem origin, to the most high God. Ma-, perfect, but without thought to ani to claim that Mind which is God as something else he may be wholly un articles were ' formerly published ber of the Board of Lectureship which terial evolution but shows that a mate it the body would be consid our Mind. This may sound new to conscious of the fragrance and beauty throughout the United States, once has been referred tor Miss Glenn’s mortal’« concept of man is the exact ered lifeless. The more correct and some of you, but just try some-time, surrounding him. So it is with us: wrote, “A doctor often occupies the subject for this lecture is, “Man's opposite of God’s idea, man. Only spiritual the thought the more im if you will, to think the thoughts of we aie in reality in the presence of place of a mother, and all that is the Spiritual Nature as revealed by one of these concepts can actually mortality or life it manifests. Spir this perfect Mind, which are intelli divine Love's lpving, and Christian matter with many sick people is that Christian Science.’’ be man. No one would be willing itual thinking, then, is life, and gent, toying, noble, pure. See man Science awakens Us to this reality. they need mothering.” Mrs Eddy to aver that God’s image and like Jesus proved this to be the case as God sees him,-as healthy, joyous, Are you dreaming that you are hat^d jnot only perceived humanity’s need A Lecture ness was ever a material atom, dust, when by spiritual thinking alone free, Godlike. You will find you are or misunderstood? If so, Christum for mother-love, but she recognized z or an electron which had to evolve he destroyed disease, reformed the entertaining angels unawares — and Science will waken you to the fact God as the giver of every good and in order to become God’s image, thinking of the sinner, and raised these angel thoughts will deliver you that God and His image, man, are perfect gift and therefore as the for God spake and it was done. the dead. Had Jesus believed that from the sickness, sin, unhappiness, loving you tenderly, steadfastly, joy source of all true mother-love. And Entitled In “Science and Health with Kay to sin possessed life he would have been and mutability of the “ ‘doublemind ously. Do not think you have to go why is it that we need this pariicu- Man’s Spiritual Nature as Re the Scriptures" Mrs Eddy makes unable to destroy it, for Life, God, ed’ senses.” In reality man, who is somewhere or be something else in ar quality of love at this time? Be v vealed by Christian Science this clear contrast between the man is indestructible; had he supposed God’s image, is continually express order to know and feel love. You cause we are engaged in a warfare of material evolution and the man of that disease had any being he could ing the activities of the divine Mind. are in Love’s garden now, and it is against the false, limited, unhappy, Mias Margaret Murney Glenn, C. S. B. God’s creating revealed by Christian not have cured it; had he thought These activities are counterfeited by impossible to be conscious of the ab sick, sinful, material concept of man; of Boston, Massachusetts Science. She says (p. 188): “The that death had presence or exist the human mind through what we sence of Love, for the truth is that and the mother-love qualities, such Member of the Board of Lectureship human mortal mind, by an inevitable ence he would never have- raised the call business, politics, law, art, and God, divine Love, is omnipresent. as intuition, understanding, tender Of The Mother Church, The First pe rv e rsion , makes all things start dead. - The fact that he knew Lite society. ness, courage, purity, constancy, pro Gad’s Will to Man Church of Christ, Scientist, in Bos from the lowest instead of from the to be good, and man to be Life’s ex Love’s Activities Manifested by Man The highest ideal, or idea, of God tection, and unselfishness are requi ton, Massachusetts highest mortal thought. The reverse pression, gave him dominion over Business is probably the most wor was expressed by Jesus. His ideal. site to win this battle. The whole A question of vital import to us is the case with all the formations of the seeming activity of (he carnal shiped and most dreaded of all hu 7T idea, of God’s will should be our world needs this, love to quiet its all is. What constitutes our nature, the immortal divine Mind. They mind, which the Bible states is man activities. A mortal is apt to Ideal. He said, "This is t|>e Father’s fears, to comfort its sorrows, and to our substance, our being? In other proceed from the divine source; and death. The only reason we seem to judge his success, his supply, his It is generally ad will which hath sept me, that of all ifcleanse its sins. words. What is man? Natural sci so, in tracing them, we constantly fear evil is because we believe it to position in the world by the condi which he hath givep me I should mitted that we are the children of ence explains man as a wholly ma ascend in infinite being.” exist, to have life, being, activity, tion of his business If business is to lose nothing.” Jeius* idea, or ideal, God, but we are not claiming our terial creation; medicine treats him Even the most learned men do not and presence, whereas evil is the be of benefit to the community, if it of God’s will to man, then, was that full inheritance when we designate as a material body, with a mental claim to understand perfectly the ori belief of the absence of Life, or good, is to be a joy to the business man or Unless man’s man should not lose holiness, health, God as Father only. ity resident in the brain; theology gin, nature, and substance of a mor —a negative state. Evil has no woman, the human concept of it, as -affluence, dominion, love, .or life parentage, his Father and Mother, are believes him to be material and spir tal. This mystery with regard to power with which to resist good, for governed by fear, fluctuation, ma .Itself ,Every word and deed of his God he cannot be a wholly spiritual itual. The natural scientist is cor mortal life has led some to consider a negative state has no resistance. terial conditions, dishonesty, or proved this ideal to be corerct and creation. The Bible states that man rect in believing that there must be it a marvelous creation, .and natural Darkness cannot resist light, hatred greed, must be exchanged for the practical. When a woman who had Is the image and likeness of the di' a science to explain man’s nature, scientists, physicians, and others cannot resist love. Life alone is re- true idea of its place in the economy been suffering for years, and who vine Us or God, for does it not My: but this science is the Science of have continued to grope from one atstteqg. of God's universe, as governed by had been to many doctors, appealed “Let os make man ip our image, after Spirit, not of matter. The theolo theory to another in the hope of God the Mind of Man intelligence, Love, good, Truth, hon to Jesus for aid, he did not reply, i our,likeness," and is not this "us” gian is correct in maintaining that finding the proper solution to the Whatever we may seem to experi esty, by unfluctuating Principle. The as do some today, "The doctors can Father and our Mother God? J God created man in His image, but enigma of mortal existence, an ex- ence of sickness, sorrow, fear, or Bible gives in three words a concise do nothing for you, so it must be it logical for God’s Fatherhood to be this image in order to be a likeness, istence which can no more be ex- limitation is cognized by thought and profound rule for all business God’s will that you suffer,” but he imaged forth by manhood and for must be wholly spiritual, for God Is plained ___ than can the statement that only, for unconscious matter cannot I success. It is this, t “Love never restored her health to her, proving God’s Motherhood to be expressed by Spirit, not flesh. ’ ‘ I two times two are five Just as this know or feel anything. Obviously, faileth.” It is Love’s nature to serve, that God would not permit her to womanhood’ We all know how hu The Science of Christianity does statement is a false concept of a. unthinking matter can of itself do to give, to understand, to make hap lose the health which He had be man mother-love will hold to the not deprive the natural scientist of mathematical truth, so mortal ex nothing. If a person eats something py. Could any business man or stowed on her. loving and lovely concept of its science, but gives him a higher con istence is a false concept of Life which tastes good, it is thought woman, actuated by such loving mo Jesus’ idea, or ideal, of salvation child, even when that child seems to cept of it. Neither does It rob the Neither can be explained, for they which informs him of this fact. So' tives, fail to be successful? Of course was evidently to restore all good to have gone-astray. When*I was a religionist of his belief that man is are mistakes, and are therefore un it is not the me food iooa but dui his ms thought tnougnt : not. Love never deceives, never ad- man and thus doing he was ful young girl I had an experience which God’s image, but it reveals man in scientific. ’k» Kg« ia Mnirtviratf oa I v natrar Mystery can afford no sbout it tsrhir which he is enjoying. OrimA. Some- ' ; UArdiaAo vertises /«I falsely, never oHnmnfe attempts (n to filling his Father's will, namely, tnat illustrated this fact, that mother-love the perfection of his spiritual being j, satisfaction to the reasoning person, one else may eat the same food arid ‘ ’ j impose unsuitable merchandise on of all which God, good, hath given holds to the lovely concept of its as that image. The Discoverer and for it indicates either ignorance or think it is not good One person may unwilling customers, never over man. nothing should be lost. child, no matter what that child may Founder of Christian. Science, Mary i superstition. One _ of __ the purposes love the mountains, whereas another charges, never undersells in order to When Peter, in seemingly justi seem to do. One day a letter came Baker Eddy, writes: “Nature reflects oj education is to dispel mystery, may find them depressing and enjoy force another out of business. Would fiable anger, cut off Malchus’ ear, addressed to my sister and on the man and art pencils him, but it re- ( Geography, for example, dispels the the sea much more. It is neither not any business governed by such Jesus restored the ear, and what is outside was the name of the writer mains for Science to reveal man to myatery with regard to the shape the mountains nor the sea, but their loving honesty thrive? It would. more important, he restored to Peter When I mw this name I was con man” (The First Church of Christ, I tfoe earth, its rotations and rev- thoughts of these things which they Love never fears failure, lack, the the sense of love which he had seem sumed with curiosity to know why Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 114),' olutions, which seem to the physi- are liking or disliking. It is think-( disapproval of superiors, the dissen- ingly lost. He restored to Mary Mag this particular person was writing to and the Psalmist indicated man's ca] senses the opposite of that which ing which gives us pleasure or pain, sion of employees, never fears to do dalene that which was hers, namely, my sister, and this curiosity was so purely spiritual nature when he. Mid, they really are. In accepting these joy or sorrow, and we often use the the right thing, to admit a mistake her ideal of holiness and purity given great that my conscience was utterly “What is man, that thou are mind- correct explanations we hsve to phrases, I enjoyed myself, or, I as wrong, to be morally courageous her by her Father. He restored to silenced. I opened and read the let ful of him?’’ ___ _ the __ physical __ _ sense __ testimony burned myself, or, I hurt myself, Could an organization manifesting Jairur' daughter, to the widow’s son, ter and when I had finished Let us consider the deny I was ___ things of which God must be con- which claims'that we see a flat earth, little realizing that we are stating. such fearless love in its operation be to I.a-arus. and finally to his own about as satisfied as Eve must have scious, or mindful, and thus learn and gun going around it. Surely^ My thought gave me joy, my thought discordant or unsuccessful? Impos- consciousness the right idea, or ideal, been after eating her apple I had more of man's spiritual nature. i it we are willing to deny this evi hurt me, my thought burned me. stole. * of God as the indestructible Life of lust put the letter down when I heard Man’s Substance dence with regard to the earth, we, The material body of a mortal sim-: Love never fails to attract the man. the voice of my mother, who had What is. man's substance, that God cannot .hesitate to deny the physical ply objectifies the thinking of its worthy to its activities, to trust God Had all of these deeds been the re come into the room behind me, ask is mindful of it? If the answers of sense testimony with regard to man, owner, if deceit, hatred, discourage- to guide and govern, never fails to sult of human will-power belonging ing If I had opened that letter. In the physical sciences are correct then and to see him with our intelligence ment, envy, fear, find an abiding: be generous, to be gentle, thought to the man Jesus, his example would stantiy it come over me what I had are we. of all creatures, most mis instead of with our material eyes. place in mortal consciousness, this ful. kind—tn other words, it never have been of no benefit to us, for done, how dishonorable, deceitful, erable. for according to their analy- particularly as this scientific seeing unpleasant and uncomfortable think- fails to be loving. To let Love suc- then- we might agree that he had a unworthy it was, ar.d I was so filled sea a mortal man consists of matter- restores to us our health, happiness, ing will be objectified in an uncom- cessfully govern the individual con- personal ability which we could not with shame that it cost me quite a substance which is subject to dis- arid purity. Christian Science dispels fortable and unhealthy bodily state sciousness, busines, or home, is to be possess, but he distinctly Mid that he struggle finally to say yes; but I did cord, decay, and disintegration Can all mystery with regard to God and In fact, the materiel body may be ( the most successful man or woman in ' bad come to do the Father’s will—ear so, awaiting the rebuke that I knew God really be mindful of a sub-' man, and it shows that we must likened to a. barometer which meas- . the world, and if we are doing this Father’s will. The reason you and I I deserved At thia point, however, stance that is discordant, decadent, understand, know, ard love the man urea to what extent our mental sit-, we are engaged in our Father's busi- exist is to do. God's will, and His will something wonderful happened, for destructible, and can this unsub- . of whom God is mindful mosphere is governed by Love or ness. Failure is as impossible to man to us is that we should lose nothing my mother simply said, “That was ttantial, so-called substance consti- i If we are not to know God and fear, by Spirit or matter, by good or as to God It is not possible for man which He has given us, neither pot like ypu ” Only mother-love could tute man, who is God’s most noble man. in other words, if we are not “ evil — ■ . as God God ’ ’ s s image, image, or or reflection, reflection, to to do do health, nor Joy, nor strength, nor op have m H tnat, only mother-love 'll. ’ — as creation? Assuredly not, and the to have a science revealing the truth could have seen through that act and The man of material evolution has something of which God is incapable, portunity, nor abundance Science of man, opposed to the co- | about them, then Jesus’ work was in one thing of which he is most proud God's man can no more fail to man- Here the query may present itself. perceived that it was not like the ealled science at mortals, reveals | vain, for he mid. “I am come that and that Is a personal mind bf his ifest Love than God cu fail to be How can I be saved from sorrow, character of its child. man’s substar.ee as consisting of, they might have life, and that they, own with which he can think both . Love. An unsuccessful God is un tin, sickness, lose, lack, death? The spiritual ideas, which are as immu- j might have It more abundantly good and evil, clarity and confusion, thinkable and impomible. Success Bible says: “Believe on the Lord (Continued on Page Six) Lecture Last Nlghi ■x ■ Christian Science
