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“Behold. I must be transformed and exalted, »«JJ qm 1 Christ. She proclaimed that the-di- and pain,’ come not through the law lesd in Revela vine Principle of the universe is• ot l-ove, but because ou? lives and our stand at the door, and knock: If any til li resembles more nearly the get rid of my hurt and grief? I have Love; that God, the cause and creator; tl-riking ate out of harmony with the Mui hoar my voice, and open theI Fati.. .-Mother Love which God has been greatly injured and unjustly _ children. I ‘ . If if you iiave some of all being is Love—universal, all-Ik w. The adjustment which needs to I dour, 1 will come in to him, and will ¡for _ - his We recognize that some loved one whom you are unconscious treated.” sup With him, and he with.me. ” That Inclusive, and omnipotent. It is o hake place is not in the law, but in Entitled time* it seems like a most difficult ly h,. ding in the tightened grasp of same Christ, or true idea of God, can tills law, the law of Love, the under- ; our own attitude toward the law. The Christian Science: thing to unsee hate or unkindms standing of which she grasped and• law of Love, therefore, even though it enter your life if you will but open fear »nd an.aety, place him, like Indeed, they seem very real, and yet The Law of Love Revealed then made practically applicable in ‘..sterns io chastise, is truly loving, if the door and let It in. The Christ in .hose parents, in the care of his Christian Science declares there i, and Demonstrated human affairs, that I shall speak to ut of the experk nee comes a happier your consciousness will govern every Fati --Mothai God, and be not difference, as far aa what we se by end better life. AH that is needed is act of your being. It will make you a afraid. You will recall that when Je between the evidence of a sick n.an night. Richard J. Davis. C. 8. There are those who, at this point, that we shall cease struggling gainst good man and a successful one, and if sus uised Lazarus tram the dead the or of a hating, unkind man of Chicago, Illinois Neithei Bible says: "He that was dead came Member of the Board of Lectureship may reasonably be questioning: How the law of Love and cone Into unity you accept it fully, it will glorify one is a creation of God, divine Lo,,-. forth, bound hand and foot with jour being. do we know that God is Love? What with its tender action. Then shall we of The Mother Church, The First Each is the victim of a delusion, and In order to find out exactly what gravecloti.es: . «. - Jesus saith unto do we mean by love and can we con sec God’s great purpose fulfilled in Church of Christ, Scientist, the man who is being impelled t > ceive of a principle as love? When out lives. The human sense struggles man is like, we turn completely away them, Loose him, and let him go.’ hate, to be unkind or unjust to hi> in Boston, Massachusetts Christian Science shows us that John declared that God is Love he, to work out its own destiny, even Lora the usual human way of think sometimes, without our realizing It, brother, is truly in a much more de- Mr. Davis was introduced by Mrs. was certainly not expressing a mere while divine Love waits to fulfill ey- ing. For example: If you ask some we are binding some loved one, or plorable mental state than the one one whom he resembles he is very Margaret Stacer, member of First metaphysical abstraction, nor was he ery i »pl; allot sruling toward good. who seems to be sick, and needs th t likely to say, “Oh, people say I’m like someone perhaps who is not loved, JL .US’ UNDERSTANDING OF Church of Christ, Scientist, Coquille: endeavoring to formulate a concept love Which Christ Jesus expressed with graveclothes — graveclothCs of my mother, and my sister Jane is like of Deity based on sentiment or emo LOVE when he said of thee» who were cru- The li/r-purpose of Christ Jos us my father;” meaning, of course, that fear, graveclothes of poverty, grave- cifying Friends, I welcome you here this tion. He was stating a spiritual fact. him. “Father, forgive them; clothes of disease. If such is the he and his sister resemble two othci Even from a human standpoint, waB to cv.. ’ ul .od ’ s love for man and evening in the name of First Church for they know not what they do.” case, then, in the words of Jesus, as we view the universe, the to dem. nsti n< the inseparable unity auman beings called their father and of Christ, Scientist, Coquille. WAY OF HEALING of earth and sky, that exi.;.^ bet ween Mind and its idea, mother. Yet all the teaching in the Christian Science urges, “Loose him, In Science and Health with Key to wonders Christian Science sh^p s us that the and let him go. ” Bible is constantly endeavoring to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, we are obliged to concede a between ,bd and man. But ti c love UPLIFTING HUMAN ‘ RELATION way of deliverance, from both disease she writes these words (Page 113), certain evidence of law and order, reflected b, the Master was ,.y- no point out to tis that God alone is our and hate, is the way of perfect, exact, SHIP Father, and that He created man ex- and it is encouraging that in the last means an expression of sentimentali “The letter of Science plentifully and spiritual thinking. This was the You will find in the study of Chris reaches humanity today, but its Spirit few months two eminent physical sci ty. lie perceived fully the" nature of -ctly Mke Hlrsslf, like Mind, like tian Science that spiritual under way Jesus taught, and Mrs. Eddy lias Love, like Spirit, and this implies entists, Sir James Jeans of Cambridge evil and sin, and recognized that love comes only in small degrees. The vi standing greatly changes our concept written in her textbook (Science and tal part, the heart and soul of Chris University, England, and Professor docs not always consist in being easy ^mething quite different from what of what love really is or should be. Health, p. 476): “Jesus beheld in Sci we have ordinarily supposed. Indeed Arthur Compton of the University of ■ or gentie. The man who took a whip tian Science, is Love, ’ Without this, For example, it removes a false sense ence the perfect- man, Who appeared Jesus said, “ Call no man your father Chicago, have declared that their in to the money-changers in the temple the letter is but the dead body of uf personal responsibility for other to him where ginning mortal man Science,—pulseless, cold, inanimate.” vestigations aje leading inevitably to and scathingly .denounced the hypoc upon the earth: for one is your Fath- ’iH-ople’s’ problems. It is not always appears to mortals. In this perfect ;i which is in heaven. ” And again, the conclusion that'the universe is risies" of the scribes and Pharisees Jesus gave a most potent invitation loving to work out another’s salva man the Savior saw God’s own like to humanity to learn of this doctrine the result and expression of orderly was no weakling. He understood “lie that loveth father pr mother tion; indeed in the last analysis one ness, and this correct view of man more than me is not worthy of me. ” thought. Pope said many years ago clearly the kind of wicked thinking of Love when he said, “Come unto me never can. It is not love to make a healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that “ Order is heaven's first law," Now this did not mean to imply with which has was dealing and used all ye that are weary and heavy laden "leaner” out of our fellowman. Who that the kingdom of God is intact, and there is plenty erf evidence, if we that we are to desert or ignore our the only method which that type of and I will give you rest. Take my universal, and that man is pure and yoke upon you and learn of me, for look for it to-day, that a divine Prin mentality could understand. If his mothers or fathers or our families, really wants to be a “leaner,”’ to go holy." through life on another ’ s efforts? To ciple or law governs the entire uni but it plainly indicates that sooner or rebuke had been gentle, his enemies. I am meek and lowly in heart and ye When a mah declares, “I want to be verse in uninterrupted harmony. The ■vo;:!J iiave laughed at him, but evi laier we are a!) called upoa to give do this is only to weaken one’s own shall find rest unto your souls. For nrr —nr,— rt* in r »w r—MlnfLJ lM*^e*r&ectiS I un- t so out the problem, will a child learn to is both good and evil would inevita cqvc.-cd error and then cast it out. much of bondage and suffering, und apply the principle of mathematics of divine Love,” and what higher aim not mine but His that sent me.” can anyone have than this! Keeping No doubt you have come here this bly ultimate in the self-destruction of I Jesus did the kindest thing he could to learn to establish our true individ himself? A correct understanding of this ideal in mind, he begins to ex the universe. If that Principle is any ' have done, under the circumstances.. uality as children, or ideas of God. Love uncovers misdirected efforts to evening to learn how to lay down press those qualities in thought and your burdens. I assure you, my thing less than intelligent Love arc f le sternly compelled sin to be self- One of the most appealing aspects of be kind, based on sentiment instead character which are eventually man we not doomed to chaos and obli Christian Science, is its teaching of of reason, and enables philanthrophy . ?< n and then destroyed. That was friends, you will not leave this lec vion? Love. ‘ the motherhood of God. Clearly, in to be the expression of divine Prin ifest as spiritual power. ture disappointed. In Christian Science we see that The Anglo-Saxon term for God is i We are all more or less children in finite Love, the creator of the uni ciple, the law of Love. It is a pleasure to introduce Rich everyone is entitled to immediate and good, and if the sublime cause or law verse, can be no less ' be'kUng that discipline, whether Mother than Then there is the other side to this ard J. Davis, C. S. of Chicago, Illinbis, effective release from bondage. Love of creation be good, then must It not Father and includes in from within ar without, is not partic- perfection all question of personal relationship. It a member of the Board of Lecture knows no postponement, no delay. ship of The Mother Church, The First be exact, right, perfect, orderly, all- u ally pleasant. We resist and object the qualities ascribed by us to the sometimes happens that one is called Docs it take time to make four times harmonious, capable of producing highest concept of I to what the Bible calls "instruction in motherhood. upon to assume the care of someone Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, four equal sixteen? No, the result is Mass., who wiH address you on the only a beneficent result? Rightness, i righteousness," and. yet, whether it be Speaking <rf this Mrs. Eddy has writ else in the family, a manifest duty, instantaneous. So we can know that subject “Christian Science, The Law or righteousness, expresses the very ’ a father who corrects his child or the ten in her book: Miscellaeous Writ accepted at first with loving willing the law of Love operates instantly nature of divinity. The attributes of ’ effort on our part to discipline our ings ” (p. 151):, “ God is our Father ness, and a desire to serve. Then, of Love Revealed and Demonstrat- an altogether righteous Principle or ' own thinking, the purpose is the same and our Mother, our Minister and the after a time possibly, unless the re and unfailingly to deliver us from the ed;”—Mr. Davis. law must inevitably be mercy, jus<- —to teach conformity, obedience to great Physician: He is man’s oniy real sponsibility is placed where it be false beliefs, and misconceptions of * life and body, that are trying to en In the book of Isaiah the prophet tice, wisdom, and exactness. Love in Principle. Christian Science teaches relative on earth and in heaven. Dav longs, with divine Mind, the care be slave us. Oqr work is to adjust our Christian Science is neither sweet nor us that in ardor to be scientifically id sung, ‘ Whom have I in heaven but comes a burden, and without our be of the Lord has written, “The Spirit God is upon me; because the Lord bitter, neither hard nor soft, but is appy wu must learn to discipline thee? and there is none upon earth ing aware of it, fear, weariness, and thinking, to bring it into harmony exact, just, and fair. These qualities '• mrselve.- and our thinking. And if that I desire beside thee.’ ” Is not self-pity have supplanted love. The with the law. Christian Science de hath appointed me to preach good clares that there is nothing wrong tidings unto the meek; he hath sent ire as truly loving as gentleness, ten .urselv-a. why not our children? Luman experience full of heartaches spirit of service has departed, and me to bind up the brokenhearted, to derness, and other characteristics Some people will tell you to-day that and sorrows, arising from the false only an unhappy sense of duty re with the real man. The process of usually associated with Love. children should be allowed to express belief that we belong to some human mains. In the light of Truth we see Christian Science treatment is not proclaim liberty to the captives, and The law of Love is not material, not their own individuality end therefore brings, or that we have created and that service, at the behest of Love, is that of changing a sick man into a the opening of the prison to them that are bound; ... to appoint unto them physical, not tangible to thq senses. should not be disciplined. This is due Possess some individuals whom we always joyful and makes all burdens healthy one, or a diseased body into a well one. God's man is already that mourn in Zion, to give unto them It is wholly spiritual and mental, and -vholly to a false serse of vhat love c-Ul our sons and daughters? In the light. If human relationship were based wel^and free. It is our privilege to beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for though not discernible to human eyes, really is. If we follow the rule tpaj realBi .of thought there is a distinction mourning, the garment of praise for we know that it exists. The so-called discipline is wrong we would soon Gerween possession and' ownership. on the law of Love, It could not 'be see and know it. Consistent know the- spirit of heaviness; that they law of gravitation remains unseen, have a race of undisciplined people. We all possess ideas by reflection, but shaken. But what do we see about ing of the truth, and certain expec Everywhere the evidences of tancy of its realization, will dispel the might be called trees of righteous but we see its effect. The rules and A proper sense of love on the part of we do not own them. So it may be us? ness, the planting of the Lord, that jje laws of mathematics are this moment a parent will not destroy the individ said that while we possess the love discord, inharmony, broken families tog or mist of mortal thinking. As in a might be glorified.” This beautiful operating in perfect harmony every uality of the child but will help him and affection of our chlildren, or of and homes. Something must happen fog the landscape remains unchanged, and comforting statement declares where—in the United States, in Si to replace the impulses of the human bur wives or husbands, we do not in the thinking of human beings that even though it be for a time obscured, the promise and office of Christian beria, in Java, in the ends of the will with thinking based on Principle. own their individuality. Mind main will place friendship and relationship so, in Christian Science, the real man Jesus fully understqpd. the law of tains the identity of each idea distinct on a firmer footing. Human friend remains perfect, and has always been Science. ’It expresses the love which earth. How much more truly, then, Mrs. Eddy < prompts these lectures. It, explains may we say that the law of Love is Love. He lived it and applied it in and free through all eternity, and the ship is a broken reed on which to so through all eternity. has written on page 242 of “The First active and operative, here and every every act. The Mind that wa3 in individuality of one is never lost in lean, if divine Love has not trans why I am here, and ft voices the joy we take in speaking of our religion to where, right now. Man is not called Christ Jesus was naturally the con another. John declared, “Now are formed it. To be lasting, it must be Church of Christ, Scientist, and Mis those who do not know it or who upon to enforce the law of Love, for sciousness of Love which he embod we the sons of God,” Mind, the sons based on divine Principle. This may cellany”; "You can never demon- . have not yet experienced its bless it is its own enforcement; but he does ied and expressed. Who but the most of God alone. As a result of the false at first thought seem difficult to un strate spirituality until you declare become conscious of its existence and loving of men would have endured tense of parenthood and creation, derstand. We all love and reach out | yourself to be immortal and under ings. We are living in an era of scientific experience the revelation, in his own the torture of crucifixion and the mortals have reared a God like unto rather naturally for friendship, and stand that you are so. Christian Sci hatred of the world, except to prove themselves, a man-like God, instead perhaps take a certain satisfaction in ence is absolute; it is neither behind thinking, an age when the emphasis is consciousness, of its action. Can you conceive of this world by actual example the dominion ot of worshiping, as the first chapter of the possession of friends and those we the point of perfection nor advancing being laid on science—material sci ence of all kinds. We recognize that without love, a loveless universe, an Love’s law in human experience? He Genesis teaches, a God who makes love; and yet human life brings many towards it; it is at this point and must discoveries in the realm of the physi earth with love left out? Even tpe said, “The words [the ideas or than like Himself. experiences that show us the mistake be practised therefrom. Unless you Last year, while lecturing in a mid of personalizing happinesa and plac fully perceive that you are the child cal sciences are important. Progres most barbarous savage will reveal in thoughts] that I speak unto you, they sive inventions are all helpful and some action that love, the impulse to are spirit, and they are life.” These dle-western state, I was introduced ing too great dependence on person of God, hence perfect, you have no encouraging, but, viewed from the be kind, is basic in consciousness and ideas constitute the Christ, the spiri by a fine-looking young married man Even those who greatly love may fail Principle to demonstrate and no rule standpoint of comparative values, there is no one who will not at length tual idea of God. That which com Whose father told me the following us, but divine Principle never. Christ for its demonstration.” have all the discoveries of the ages in respond to its gentle and compelling forts, heals, and releases from pain, story.- At the age of fourteen this Jesus understood and experienced the OVERCOMING FEAR the realm of matter brought -to light influence. The atheist will tell you sin. and death can be nothing less young man was a victim of epilepsy, failty of human relationship and con Have you ever stopped to consider any information, fact or law that will that there is no God, but he will not than Love and Christian Science de hopelessly afflicted, so the doctors stantly endeavored to have his fol that fear is nearly always for the fu bring comfort and real healing to the deny that something impels him to be clares the Comforter for each one of Said. In fact, they had told the par lowers see that in the measure that ture, the fear of impending trouble? sick and suffering; that will make the kind to his neighbor and to love his us to-day is this healing Christ, the ents that the boy could not live long they placed God. and the love of Men are always afraid of something crooked straight and the rough places own child. He may not have analyz idea of Love, which is asserting itself under the existing conditions. The good, before a human sense of pos that possibly is going to happen plain; that will heal sick hearts? ed this impulse, but whether he re tn the consciousness of mankind. mother was reading Christian Sci session they gained immeasurably, Many of you will recall the story of Jesus did not come to do Impossible ence, and had begun to grasp in a and did not even lose the love of the very old man who told his as What discovery or scientific law can alizes it or not, he is expressing what lift the sinner out of bondage to false we in Christian Science understand things, but possiibie ones. These very simple way the true relationship friends and those near and dear to sembled family that he had had many appetites and destructive habits? to be the law <rf Love, the divine works, he said, ye shall do and great which exists between God and man, them. To Peter he said: “Verily I fedrs in his life, but most of them Have all or any of the philosophers, Principle of all existence. We recog er , if ye keep my commandments, and but treatment had not been asked for say unto you. There is no man that for things which never came to pass. thinkers, and scholars of centuries, nize, therefore, that Love exists as the commandments were summed up the boy. One night when conditions hath left house, or brethren, or sis Fear comes to every one of us as a sincere though their efforts may have thought, as Mind, and that the law of very simply in the injunction to love were unusually bad the mother came ters, or father, or mother, or wife, or temptation to believe in evil as a real been, contributed to the race a scien Love is consciously brought into ac God and man. This obviously means iownstairs to the father and said. children, or lands, for my sake, and power, as an active force in creation. tific law that will make sure and cer tion by right thinking. To-day we to love both God and man under- “Now we have tried earnestly to do the gospel** but he shall receive an Theoretically, the majority of the tain the one fundamental essential to see some faint manifestation of Love standingly—with a correct concept of all we can to save our boy and yet hundredfold now at this time, houses people in this audience will say. human existence, namely, happiness, in man and rejoice; yet think what a what God and man reaBy are. Conditions are becoming worse. The and breth.eren, and sisters, and moth “There is just one God, and that one an understanding of heaven? Re world of peace and harmony there The charge is often made that doctors say the case is hopeless and ers, and children, and lands, with is infinite and omnipotent.” But in viewing the situation for a moment, might be, if all about us we saw only Christian Science is altogether too that he will die. Then there is just persecutions; and in the world to order to get rid of fear effectually, we see that practically all the re the, evidence of divine Love’s impul transcendental because it declares one thing we can do. If there is any come eternal life." such a statement must be lifted out search and the study of centuries hgs sion! that all is Mtad and. itg,infinite idees? power to save him at ail it must be Who among qs does not know that’ of the realm of theory, and be recog-. centered wholly ih matter andin ma There are, no doubt, here to-night because it deflares man’s true iden something greater than ourselves. We the — greatest of the human nized as fact XU ------ via sorrows mr Human in VUl our U11ILK.1J1K, thinking, <IUU and uu- un- terial thinking. In view of this, and people who have experienced much tity as a divine idea in Mind; and yet must give that boy back to God. Af heart often come from thoie nearest! swervingly held to. Christian Sci- certainly in view of the results,—that trouble, unhappiness, loss, and pain I call to your attention the fact that ter all, he is God’s child. Let us both us, and back of the sorrows, my , ence does not meet the terror and ap- the race still has far to go morally, in their lives, and pdssibly some one the only thing in the world which has turn unreservedly to the divine pow friends, lie the diseases, the suffer- . prehension of the sick and unfortun- that disease has by no means been of them may say: "How can I love any true tangibility and permanence er." My friends, in that hour, in that ; , ing, and the pain. Some _ doctors _________ rec- , ate with a cold abstract declaration. eradicated, and that poverty and fi God. a God who sends sorrow and is thought. The entire civilization, all moment, that boy was healed, com- °gnize this to-day, and earnestly en- “Now, don’t be afraid.” There is a nancial distress are still much in evi suffering? How can God be Love, the physicalities and personalities of pletely healed. The disease fell away deavor to uncover the secret sorrow, reason for the hope within us. In dence.—one may naturally inquire. If when I have had so much unhappi the time of Christ Jesus have passed from him like the ugly dream that it the repressed fear or hate, which they order to remove fear effectually, we all these centuries of study in the ness? God does not appear very lov away, are gone and forgotten; and yet was, and his father told me that there themselves will tell us has engender- need to know, in a measure at least, realm of matter have failed to bring able to me.” May it not be possible the thoughts of that great man re was never again a return of the af- 1 cd poison in the human body. But why we need not be afraid. humanity health, happiness, and that we are unconsciously holding main as actual and alive to-day as fliction. Now what had happened? you cannot cut out sot row and hate j Is the Almighty, the omnipotent, heaven, why not make a right about God responsible for a difficulty they were in the first century. He Something had taken place in the t with the surgeon's knife, You can- confronted with another power called face and direct all our thought, ef which lies with ourselves? Suppose I declare declared the tangible and eternal na- thinking erf that father and mother, not amputate tear. if xejr> llate evil7 K a munomtr. fort, and investigation toward the one of us were to break a -traffic or tu«* of ? t the Christ, or real man, when and it wis simply that they had let go u orry, and grief, afflicting though | Is infinite, omnipresent good sharing realm of Spirit, toward the under speed law with our car, and were to j he sa|d. '• “Heaven and earth shall completely in their own thought of ‘A! th<; r?Ot1 causes for di’-'that Bfesence with other power, de- standing of spiritual law? be arrested, fined, and punished. pass away, but my words [my their possessive and fearful sense of ■^e’,tkn there * but one way to g*’- structive in nature? If so, there is DIVINE PRINCIPLE AS GOD Could we very logically blame our thoughts ] shall not pass away.” ownership. They had given up their then? -reP’Bce »«n with right no Infinite, no omnipresence. The Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer trouble on the law or on the judge . The more one knows ot God, the belief of »parenthood, of being per mxing thoughts of love, forbear-. allness and oneness of God precludes and Founder of Christian Science, did who fined us? Does the law itself more he knows of the real man. We sonal creators, and, like Abraham,' ance and forgiveness. Mrs Eddy has i the existence of anything unlike turn from matter, and with that com know anything about the infraction can only discern man, the real and had placed their child on the altar of SST r,I ““ «-aa passionate impulse expressed in the or violation? Not at all. Both the spiritual man, as our understanding God. With fear and the false sense Health with Key to the Scriptures,” Love has no consciousness of any verse which I have just quoted from judge and the law are quite impartial of God gro -v The Christ, or spiri of personal responsibility removed, the textbook of Christian Science: thing unlike or outside its own har Isaiah, earnestly sought the remedy Then where does our difficulty come tual idea oi God, influenced and di the law of Love naturally asserted it “Human hate has no legitimate man for human ills In the realm of Spirit from? Solely from our ignorance or rected every motive and act of the self and restored that boy to his nor date and no kingdom. Love is en monious being. Would you be afraid, Her search resulted in the discovery our willful disobedience or lack of human Jesus. As a man he was per mal and legitimate status as a child throned. That evil or matter has could you be afraid, if you really knew that God is Love, right here and of what she termed Christian Science, conformity to the law. Is it not clear, petually responsive to the call of the of God. neither intelligence nor power, is the everywhere, and that you cannot get —the Science of Truth,—the demon then, that in the same way what Christ, Truth. Describing this call of Christian Science points out that doctrine of absolute Christian Sci strable understanding of God and His to us punishment, suffering. Christ at the door of consciousness we the love we have for those near us ence. and this is the great truth which out of His all-encircling presence? Could you be afraid if you knew that Christian Science POOR PRINT » * i