“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
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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
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