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THE iOAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM. OREGON. MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1918. PAGE THREE 3 T? IT !Tf u IN Entitled Christian Science: Salvation Through Spiritual Sense By John L Lathrop, C S. B- Member Of The Bo?id Of Lectureship Of The Moikr Charcli, The First Church 'Of Christ, Scientist, In Boston, Mass. - lit is my privilege this afternoon to introduce the speaker and announce bis subject, Christian Science. . We are enjoined by the Scripturos, with all our getting to get understand ing;. It is through understanding that the seemingly impossible is accomplish ed, that miracles are performed. The flooding of this room with light by tho simple turning of a switch would have been a miracle in Franklin's time Likewise carrying on aconversation through a distance of a thousand miles, communicate with a shop at sea, or nav igating the air have all in turn been in tho realm of the impossible because f our lack of understanding. Yet these things are rapidly becoming common' plaett. This being so. may not tho miracles f biblo times become supremely natur al when they aro comprehended f In fact the teachings of Christian Science reveal tho underlying principle through which Christ and hig followers perform ed tho miracles of their day, and assure she answered some difficult questions, and her simple, unhesitating, strong, and certain manner convinced me that she Tras not depending upon her mor tal solf or human will for knowledge but that her wisdom was the outcome of her implicit . spiritual faith in God. Those who knew Mrs. Eddy best never discovered by all fair-minded persons who have removed their ('blue glasses" that it is an ignorant material sense of God and His spiritual rules, which re sults in fear and disease, selfishness, war, calamity, and death. The way of health and harmony, the way of true prayer and salvation, lies along the had but one opinion about her abso- pathway of a right understanding. This lute reliance upon the divine Mind for fight understanding comes through the every daily move. I may add, merely y and practice of Christian teienee, in the way , of confirmation, that inl" m the measure that it is attained LVoTtoe to be a membeTof Mrsl .f o- of this lecture is to j t. i j l - t .a.. consider and. so far as the time allot Eddy's. household, when I posseted the speaker's ability permit, every opportunity of watehing herdaUy,t() reVea, Jn J0B'tlmdie. habits, which I found to be as honest-, tQ Ae caimg ftnd evidence of the and consistent in spirnuai gmaance anu false materia. Beuse or the material practice as wore the fruits in aonnaani point 0f vew and benefieent results, wnat J. men . when, as a business man, I attended witnessed confirmed what had gradual- my f jrst christian Science meetings ly been formulating in my consciosuess, an(j understood very little of the talks namely, tnat spiritual 1 rum nas aiwHys walea went clear over my head, I de been revealed to those who were most termined that if ever in the future 1 spiritually minded, and that Mrs. Ed-1 gDOko publicly- on the' subject. : dy's natural love for God and His laws would couch my remarks, as it were, in enabled her to understand and reveal ' the plain language of the street, so both to this age. And so what I then i that the business man and other people say answored conclusively to me an old could comprehend Christian Science. But question. Was Mrs. Eddy commission-; as one's thought changes from the ma- ed by God or by man! And if by. God, can God make a mistake! Gratitude opens tho door to spiritual understand ing, whereas hnrsh judgment closes this door. rGatitiide .for the lives of great people, rather than opposition to their work and doctrine, -constitutes the open door to spiritual understanding. His tory shows that those who profited moat through the unselfish and noble lives of great men and women were deeply touched ... ... IIIOSU WHO wure munv vs mat mis suuiu principle is nvaiinuie', . ... . . -41 i:- Noble motives will prepare one's far our use today in the solution of every problem of life. More than half a century ago Mrs. Eddy discovered as a result of her own hilling that life was not a mere series f chances resulting in fortune or mis fortune, success or failure, joy or sor 'row, but on the other hand w&a gov rned by an exact scientific rule. Aft er formulating the rulo she sought means of making it available to man kind and among other things establish ed a Board of Lectureship, an accredit ed member of which will address us thia afternoon. I tuke pleasure in introducing Mr. John C. Lathrop, C. 8. B., member of the-Board of Lectureship of the First Church of Christ Scientist of Biston. Massachusetts. Christian Scionco was discovered by Mary Baker Eddy fifty -two years ago. Thirteen years after tho discovery the "Punt Church of Christ Scientist" was organized in Boston, Massachusetts Since then nearly eighteen hundred or ganized churches or societies have been sblished over. ;tho-,iwerld, forty-one itios each containing two churches or'j societies, and twenty-four other cities each containing fro mthree to eighteen tiiurehea or societies. ' At the Wodnes day evening meeting held in these churches and societies over ten thou sand people each week publicly and voluntarily boar grateful testimony to the healing and regenerative benefits tbey liavo received through Christian Science. Scores of additional carofully authenticated testimonies appear weok ly and monthly in the Christian Science Sentinel and The Christian Science Juorna1. If these are some of the pres ent" fruits of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy asks in her book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures", (p. 849), "what will the harvest be, when - this Science is more generally under stood?" DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER. I first met Mary Baker Eddy twenty thought for spirtual discovory, and thereafter the honesty and verity of Mrs. Eddy's great discovery will never bo doubted. EIGHT VIEWPOINT There are in the wotIo' today, as there always hnve been, many diversities of human opinoans or points of view. Once succeed in changime a person's point of viow and you give him a wholly dif ferent outlook, as when you chango his point of view from west to south of from west to east. Suppose a person, who, from birth had been taught to . . . , . - 1 XI. . wear blue glasses ana to view me world through them, after twenty-five years of cor.tinual use of blue glasses, woro told that everything is not blue but white and gold and greos nod brown, it would be difficult for him at once to credit the truth and change his way of thinking. If he were told to take off those useless and disfigur ing glasses and have a look at things as they really aro, he would reply, "You aro mistaken,"! have always seen the world this way, and so has every one clso I know. Of course the world is blue, and not green and brown and white and gold." That person's point of view would need to be changed. t is certain he saw everything wrongly, but was ignorant of it. Most persons today are wearing "bluo glasses" and do not know it. Those are mental classes through which they see the world, not as it really Is and was created, but a8 their educate? point of view has made it to them, and according to prevailing opinion, they will insist on seeing it so until they take off their 'blue glasses' and chango their point of view. Changing thoir point of view will chango everything for them, and if their new viewpoint be correct, the outcome will be an ever in creasing degree of harmony, health, and happiness. Only proof and demonstra tion, howover, convince us which point tw years ago, when, on leaving the 'of view is right and which is wrong. J,i't omLrk i the orac- Words only serve to awaken us and to of Christian Science, she invited , n25 tho .waJ: me to visit her at her hame in Concord, j There is little difference of opinion I -1 i. 11.. 4 i. n.ln I ,11 H V. II. In those early days there were .t Qf viow conflicting stories ailoat aqoui mrs. jmi-( agrce that the world seems to be oy, ami K. ,', " about as full today es ever or sin anu were, mv "business spectacles, loc .. t,tj j ji., imnnritv .nrl at her through them, and thus not to dj9oa9e vanity an(3 selfishness, and that be fooled by any possible personal in" , calamities, tumults, and wars havo not Cuence. Great was my relief ana srtt- gutantijUy decreased u pto the pre- iafaction on meeting a perouu uu mu not at all accord with what I had heard terial viewpoint to the spiritual, the latter becoming more and more natural and simple, one is inclined to forget those early resolutions. Besides, as till spiritual idea is so exactly opposite to the material belief, it is difficult al ways to express the higher idea in or dinary material terms so as to make it comprehensible from the material point of view. Jesus once said, "No man put teth new wine into old bottles." He used parables and similitudes to help reveal the spiritual idea. We are there fore confronted with the happy task of attempting to ' change your thought about matter and evil by the employ ment first of human reason, afterward depending upon divine revelation and demonstration awakening in your thought the true spiritual idea of God, man, and the universe. - MATTES ; A friend of mine once said, 'I ree ognizo the power of the human mind over the body, and I recognize matter also." Matter is actually the great est humbug in the world, as the world will sometime discover. Probably no other kind of ghost has fooled so many people, or deceived them so badly. Para phrasing the sayin gof a famous Amer ican', mattor may fool some of the peo ple all ot the time, and all of the peoplo some of the time, but it ean no lon ger fool all of the people all of the time. . To the five material senses, mat ter seems to bo very real, but matter is not at all what it seems to be; mater ial scientists will tell you this. Its claim of possessing life or intelligence or substance is now found to be absolutely-false, Vmkr. increasingly power- tul magnirying glasses its nature as substance continuously changes, and its original form and character are reduc ed to the minuto forms called ions and electrons, and tho latter in turn are reduced to what practically is ma terial energy or mind. Here material science finds itself halted by a great gulf, which it never will be able to bridge and continue farther with ma terial reasoning . or material know ledge. Under a very strong magnifying glass the particles of matter are seen to bo constantly changing and moving about, as though at war with each other. This is actually the fact, and it has been taught in the schools that the material body undergoes a complete renewal once in seve nyears- This period of time has in recent years been grad ually reduced, an eminent French scien tist, Camille Flammarion, reducing the time by more than one half, and quite recently a scientist has announced that this bodily change takes place once in two months. If this be a fact, it makes a total of iust six distinct material bodes that you and I have exhibited during tho past year. And we would ask, by tho way, , what has be come of those so-called chronic diseases which you thought you had two, four, or six months ago I Surely they were not in matter, leeture. Many times while eating meal, sometimes of many courses, if your thought be distracted by absorb ing conversation you will taste little or nothing you havo eaten. Does not all this prove that your consciousness of sight,- your eonsciousness of hearing taste, is the only sight and hearing and taste that you have, and until you learn the truth about sensation,- this con sciousness is mortal mind and not mut ter. ' . . i - , ' . MORTAL MIND Mortal mind is nothing more or lees than the false belief that there is life, intelligence,. and Bubstance in matter. What is left of mortal mind after all its false material beliefs have been ex- exposed and reversed fit will not have a root left to stand upon..i.ts irauauient character willne laid bare to the world. Its infinite, limited, self -centered be lirfs are without; Principle, therefore constitute selfishness, and from these selfish, willful thoughts proceed the sins and evils of the worlu. And, in turn, from these sins and errors pro eced all the discord, disease, and death which afflict mortals. Did not St. Paul call death "tho wages of sin"! Jesus denounced the devil, or evil, as a liar and the father of lies. A lie was never the truth, and can never reverse the truth, but Truth uncovers a lie and destroys it. Thus it is discovered that sin and evil, in other words mortal mind, never had a real origin or ex istence, is really not mind, but is simp ly error of belief, wow let it be un derstood that it is not the painful sensations of this false material sense which make it subtle or dangerous, but rather its pleasant sensations. But that kind of sensation which inevitably re suits by reason of its falsity in mental discord and suffering, is not a perma nent and satisfying pleasure. There fore it is not a pleasure to gratify the false, deceiving senses, but it is pleasure to master and overcome them, THE BBAUTY And so we turn from the falsity to the reality. Dreama in sleep, no matter how real or alluring, they may scorn do not set us anywhere. We must awake and be quickened to make, pro gross. The only way to reason away er ror is to demonstrate the truth. Human consciousness awakened to the truth will cause error to fall 'back upon end destroy itself. Jesus said, "It is the spirit tnat quicxenoin; xne nesn prom cth nothing." God is Spirit, as the Bi ble teaches, and Christian Science re veals that He is tho only Spirit, oi Mime. But how to bo quickened by God. especially in the hour of trial, is the question. The Scriptures declare that iGod is too pure to behold iniquity, and that a falsity .cannot o owiowcn . oy the divino Truth is--.now-ofuite' appar ent. Then if God, Spirit, cannot be seen ot approached-'tnrough the mater ial senses, tnrougn wnai numan ave nue can He be reached and His infi nite blessings be bestowed! The ans wer to this preeminent question should now be more simple. If God, fjio divine Mind, is to be reached through thought only, as many believe, what other chan nels of thought exists after the material has been eliminated! SinUTUAL B'ENSJS question arises, that all absorbing prac tical question which vitally itnerests all mortals, How is the divine Principle of tho allness of good to be applied in the lives of mortals! How is it to save us from the fears, wickeducss, and suffer ing continually experienced iu mottal life! Christian Science answers that as the means is plain, the method is equ ally so. Te begia with, the reference already made to the pupil applying the principle and rules of mathematics to overcome error, is a fair illustration of how God and His spiritual laws should be applied in the minds of mortals to the Principle of Christian Science heal thoughts. In this sense, and in thia nearly every known disease and sin, this is not a theory but a fact. It can no longer be said, as was stated in the "Medical Eecard," that it is doubtful whether the sum total of diseases is any less than is was before the medical pro fession reached its present high stand ing, and that "in the opinion of some medical men diseases are on the in crease." Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 404), "Healing the sick and reforming thea inner are one and the same thing in Christian Science. Both enrcs require the same method I found myself in the presence of a person of marked gentleness and re finement, whose manner was quiet, modest, and deeply sincere, who spoke with great" earnestness, continually re ferring to God with Buch unusual trust and eonvietion that my thought soon left her personality end did not roturn to it. I discovered that instead of her htrmiin personality dominating me, something entirely above tho human was governing Mrs. Eddy and in turn strongly impressing me. I remember And so mattor is discovered through sent hour. Surely it is too late now to human reasoning to be quite a different substanco from what it appears to the believe that the cause of those evils can be traced to the great source of infinite purity and goodness, the one eternal and immutable Spirit, called God. Surely intelligent people do not any longer believe that God is tho cause of human discord and suffering, any more than they believe that the principle of mathematics is the cause of the failures of pupils to understand and prove its unchanging rules. An ignorant sense of the rules prevents the principle of mathematics being cor rectly proved, and, just so, it is today , I Better Accommodations Our rapidly increasing trade has made the building at 445 Court street inadequate for our needs. We have succeeded in getting a location at 421 Court street, which will enable us to meet the needs of the public more satisfactory. We shall be pleased to welcome all our old and new customers at this lo cation. Arthur H. Moore Bicycles and Bicycle Repairing:. 421 COURT STREET SALEM, OREGON ltaSlhWS overcome thero the errors of existen- and are inseparable in Truth." This ce. Tho truth about the principle of ' eannot longea be doubted when spirit mathematics dawns upon the striving ual sense versus material sense is dear thought of the pupil, md in this rution.ly understood. Fear and sin, Christian the error disappears; just so, the truth . Science teaches, are elements of all about the infinite Principle of Life, j disease, and fear is tho cause of the n . . . . .1 a J j 1. a TV. .... UOU, me truin mni opiru in luiwuiu nuu majority. UJ, uututiu bruuuit-o..., Alic. uu-j omnipotent, dawns upon the receptive derstauing of Christian Mcicnee pre thought, and exactly in the same ratio ' vents fear and heals fear, and in this do the discordant and false material be- alone Christian Science is a priceless liefs of Hfo in matter vanish. In muthe- benefaction to the human race, fcs matics this is called demonstration, and tublished on the rock of spiritual undor it iB called the same in Christian Scien- standing, you will no longer fear "the To demonstrate .the allness, omni- fury of the oppressor,' or what mortal potence, and perfection of divine Prin- man or mortal belief can do unto you, ciple, therefore, becomes the whole duty forpossessing consciously the sense of of mankind, and in proportion as this divine reality and protection, "whore is done, the lives of mortals aro brought is the fury of the oppressor!" into harmony with God, and salvation FALLACY OF HUMAN WILL, and perfection are attained. No iaOYO-1 - - BLIND FAITH. ment .should be mado, no work undor- Christian Science teaches . that .the taken, no thought should be given to roai power in the universe is nccessar the body, no thought projected into con- ily Spirit, Mind, God, and that in the sciousness, before it is first weighed by final analysis, whatover the temporary spiritual Truth and Love and not found evidence may be to the contrary, there wanting. j rally cannot be any other power than PKAYiiK. i uott. II matter in its airrerent lorms Thi method of believing and affirm- cannot cure the sick, n0 moro can its ing with absolute certainty that God is false and suppositional mental cause, iust what the Biblo implies Him to be, mortal mind or human will, do bo, both namely, All-in-nil, anu Relieving, no no- uuuig me same m quuiuy nuu puwur- sus taught, that tho things one right- less. Tho human will expresses the sol- eously asks for shall come to pass, indi- fish, aggressive, and therefore false cntes something of the true nature of mentality of mortal mind. This false prayer according to Christian Science, mentality appears to control human be Proving the divine Principle of his bo- lngs and human destiny, but Christian ing in tho destruction' of sin, sickness, Science shows that in proportion as the and death is a practical and certain ll- evidence of the material senses, when it lustration of true prayer which should testifies to sin, disease, or any discord, anneal to every earnest-Christian. In- is questioned and rejected through an stead of being prayerless, as some have understanding gained only by Christian imagined, Christian Scientists, in so far Science, then a higher sense of being, as they practice their Science, live lives purely educational and moro nearly of continual prayer. They pray morn- spiritual, supplants tho falso control ing, noon and night; they pray beforo and establishes an improved condition they work, eat, or sleep. The Christian of mind and body. ' How much bettor Scientist prays, not to beseech the in- it is for any human being to educate finite to irrant some personal desire, or himself in this, the spiritual way, than to in form the All-wisdom of somothing to follow the narrow, limited systems God does not already know, but ho in vogncl Human experience nuuns conscientiously affirms the truth of be- that these do not tend to encourago ing, and denies the errors of belief, op- and build up the hotter sido of human eiis ono door of his thought and shuts' character, and that the effect of mere the other, until harmony, heulth, and mortal mind influence upon mortals is nnncn are brouffht into and govern his stupefying and degrading rather than consciousness and his prayer has been elevating and inspiring. Human w?n sa answered. Thin prayer is not, thorei no moro intelligence Or powor to heal foro a blind belief in a personal deity, tho sick than matter has, for they are nor 'a wavoring faith in a far-away, kindred and inseparable from the bo mystcriouB God, but it is a faith which ginning. A falsity may seem at times to ima nrlvunced to spiritual understand- chancre another falsity, but this appear ing ,and become settled, certain, and ance is deceptive or mesmeric. In the always available. words of Jesus, " tho last state of that tv, WWa declares. "He that comoth man i wotbo than tho first." Ono error tr. find immtahelieve that he is, amd , cannot destroy another error, that he is a rowarder of them that dili- jdo not tend to oncourago and build up the bcttet sido of human cnaractor, ana that the effoet of mere mortal mind 111- Thore is scarcely a normally minded , gently seek him." Salvation docs not mortal who holds not daily some follow a blind personal bolicr in a per- thoughts of truthfulness, sincerity, faith, hope, courage .affection, puri ty, honesty; in otner, woros, some un selfish thoughts, which cannot be call ed material, but which point thought material senses to be, and to possess no lifo or no intelligence of its own. And as material energy or mind, it is found to possess a very false sense of life and intelligence. - Then it must follow that if matter has no life or intelli gence of its own, it can have no Bensa tion. Matter as flesh or blood, nerves or arteries, cannot ache, swell, harden, or be diseased; matter can form no op mion or report no message, for it is found tn be a dream substance, wuich seems very real but which is not. Non intelligent matter is not a lawmaker nor a lawbreaker, for as it is without mind, it can impose no laws whatever upon man. Organic matter is said to be larg ely impregnated with germs and mic robes. Bad germs are said to cause disease and good germs to be necessary for health. As matter is found to be unintelligent and unreal, there can be no bad germs or good germs; then there is nothing to fear or honor in 4 his direction. MATERIAL SENSES. As for the five material senses through which mortal mind substanti ates matter, these five senses are cor respondingly fallacious and ephemeral Matter having no intelligence eannot of itself see. hear, taste, touch or smell. Innumerable illustrations could be cited proving that the material eyes do not: sea, nor the material organism oi me ear hcarr etc. Hundreds of times daily you do not see what the eyes are look ing at, because the thought has been distracted by something else. Dreamr are splendid illustrations to prove this. Eyeglasses, which are carefully placed outside before the eyes should be fit ted to the thought, and not to sense less matter. Just so with the hearing. A few minutes ago your ears did not hear that noise on the street, simply because your ears do not hear. Your thought or eonseiousncss was on and hearing this higher to a universal good. Every one that these and kindred thoughts 'bring satisfaction and happiness and lead to better tilings, lurmng bwuj from matter and self, moved by some motive for the universal good, is to touch the divine Principle of being, and is to igain gome sense of Spirit, or iGod. This sense, which all normal mor tals possess to some extent, even thougn they may be ignorant thereof, is known in Christian Science as spiritual sense, and it is the way through which man knows God, and is known by Him. Christian Science selves to fewaken these thoughts and motives, 5nd by means of them to educate and encour age until the spiritual sense of things is discerned and begins to be demon strated or proved , by overcoming the false evidence of the material senses, especially when that evidence is. in me nature of fear, sin; and disease. Spirit- ... . 1 n Un .Ima uanty, or gpirumu wuoo, iuj uo awakened and may become a very com mon or igcncral sense. In fact, the true senna of &oirit is real common sense, even as tho sense of matter is found to h nonsense, and Christian Science is but another name for this common sense law of life. Mrs. Eddy defines Chris tian Science in her " Rudiniental Di vine Science" (p. 1) as "the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony." DIVINE PRINCIPLE. -. The apostle John, than whom no dis ciple of Jesus, made' clearer the spirit ual rules of life, said, "God is lovo; and he that dwclleth in love dwelleth in God, and God im him." Ho that dwelleth in love, purity, honesty, unsel fishness, knoweth God and is expressing God, whereas he whose thought is a channel for "the lust of the flesh, and the luBt of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father," as John ie clares, "but is of the world. And the world passcth away, and the lust there of: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever." This "will of God "is known in Christian Science also as the will of Principle, the will of the ono Hind, Truth, Life, and Love, for if the will of matter or tho flesh is proved tc be an erring sense forcing mortals into tormenting fears, incessant troubles, subtle sins, distressing disease, and direful death, then the will of divine Principle, when properly proved, pro duces the opposite results, and awekens mortals to moral courage, increasing purity, abounding health, , unlimited harmony, and eternal lifo. . IT'S PRACTICAL APPLICATION. Granting then, as all Christians do that God is the one infinite Spirit, or Mind, the omnipotent AU-ln-kii, Vte onnnl God nr a personal savior; if it did, we Bhould not be admonished to work out our own salvation, or be told, rie that ovcrcometh shall inherit all things." This work of overcoming can only effectively be done according to a divino Principle and rule, anu mm Principle and rule must sooner or later be understood by each individual in or der to "put off tho old man with his deeds" and inhabit the kingdom of harmony. Blind faith is ignorant of sin and how to handle it; it knows not how to uncover and rebuke error, there fore this fatal omission prevents the Hn -nravors. Blind faith ac complishes some measure of good; good fluenco upon mortals is stupefying and degrading rather thau elevating and in spiring. Human will bus no more in- tellegenco or powor to heal the sick than matter has, for they are kindred and inseparable from tho beginning. A fal sity may Bcem at times to change anothj er falsity, but this nppearnnco is cie-j ceptivo or mesmeric. In tho words of Jesus "the UiBt state of that man ia worse than tho first." One cror can not destroy another cror. What is called tho influence ot the human will is aggresive, nut Christiun, and is known as mesmerism or hypno tism. It is the very opposwo ot me up lifting and strenKthening naturo of motives could hardly fail to reap some iritutti thought or divine Mind, which reward, but mental blindness, Mrs. Ed dy explains, "clings fast to iniquity (Science and Health, p. 448), and naught else than enlightened spiritual uuderstanding will uncover and dea troy the manifold delusions of sin, sick ness, and death. DISEASE AND ITS REMEDY. .. Gaining an understanding of Spirit awakens, upbuilds and regenerates. The healinir action of Christian scionco is tho exact opposito of systems founded upon the use of blind faith and human will, and as tho beliefs of mortul mind ire legion, such systems aro legion in namo and variety. Departing in a do irrce from matter into the roabn of mind, their methods would sometimes d the omnipotent power of spirituui (lccoivo tho unwary, who may associate laws, and an undestandrng of tho false nature of matter and of mortal mind and material laws, the seeker isarmed successfully to copo with any humnn discord. Is it then surprising that ho l.niilA nresumo to attempt to heal dis- pa, ns well as sin! What is disease! that it should elude tho minister and be assigned to tho physician, and what is sin that it should defy tho physician and bo allotted to the minister J m whence originated both! From God! No neither tho ono more than the oth er.' Jesus' identical handling of sin and disease should long ago have con vinced the world that they havo an indentical source. Centuries ago David wrote: "Fools because of their trans gression and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. . . . Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he . . . sent bis word, and healed thenii and de livered them from their destructions." Christian Science has undeniably dem onstrated that much of the so-called ehronie and incurable disease is cause.) by hidden or willful sin, and very few physicians to-day will contradict this. Then it is true that they both have their origin in thought; their cause can not be in matter, since matter is umm. intelligent. Their remedy is that power which will permanently heal the though eause, and this remedy is the Word of God scientifically understood, whion, in the words of the Bible, "is quick and powerful, and sharper than an? twoedged sword, piercing even to thi dividing asunder of soul and spirit, an' of the joints and marrow, and is a dis cerner of the thoughts and intents o' the heart." My friends, to one wh0 has proved this truth for over a quarter of a cen tury, as I have done, and witnessed them with Christian Scienco, but ma terial sense cannot possibly be related to spiritual sense, nor be a departure therefrom. This wide distinction must bo clearly understood, as it will bo in the proportion that tho oneness and all ness of divino Mind are discerned, and this Principle and operation of Christ ian Science demonstrated, men it no longer cun bo thought that tho opera tion of Chirstian Science is the mere pairotlike actef saying there iB no sick ness, or thot troublo is nothing. Sin and disease cannot permanently he cured by any such method of superficial and shallow suggestion. Suggestion is an implement of the human will, and does not destroy the cause of the disease. Operation of Christian Science. Tho operation of Christian Science in healing disenso and overcoming sin is the action of the divine Mind, God, the Principle and power of the universe through good thoughts, that is, thoughts which, admitting that they havo action and power are equally good for every thing and everybody in creation. Theso thoughts come to a human being throu gh tho study of Christian Science, and reveal this divino power which is omni potent, and make this divine powor a vailnblo in proportion as it is under stood and accepted by means of such sense only, is the operation of Christ ina Science the operation of good thought on evil thought, true thought on error, and the effect is the same as the effect of an al-powerful positive upon its negative, as, for instance, tho effect of light upon darkness. As light is reflected from the sun and an nihilates darkness; just so the qualities of divine Truth and Love are reflected by one's purified consciousness, ' and penetrate and destroy and dark, evil, diseased, or fearing condition of thot in human consciousness. It is the real isation of the allness and omnipotence of Spirit or divine Mind which con-' stitutes this spiritual reflection, and - when spiritual reflection heals tho sick or sinner, error and evil are cast out, and the cause and the effect of the dis ease are then, and nnlv then, fnllv n.l permanently destroyed. Spiritual re- -flection will uproot and entirely remove what willful suggestion only smooths over or ehanges into a different ovil form. , . , . The relapse of disease and its con- iiuumiio iu new luuuo, a uiincuuy BU prevalent and mysterious under mater ial modes of treatment, is now under stood, and such experiences nre not pos sible when Divine Principle has des troyed the evil thought-gerins of mortal ' mind. It is also understood in Christ ianee Scienco -that acute, chronic, and organic forms of diacaso are only in essence moro or loss deeply seated states and stages of mortal belief, which re quire a like degree more positive and , rn,lf..al oi. U.,l ...ni;.niM 1 1 1 Jesus the Way-Shower. - My friends, Jesus once said to his followers, "Ho that bclioveth on me, tho works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall ho he do." It is quite universally accept ed that Jesus did his healing works through spiritual moans and methods, through his spiritual understanding of God, and not by means of drugs, blind faith, or will powor. Surely Josus meant that his followers should under-.. stand what he understood and work as ho worked. Otherwise how could he bo tho Way-shower! He must have re garded sickness, as mental the same a1 ho regarded sin, and he cast thom both . out of mind, as when healing the pal sied man he 'said, "Thy sins be for- ; given thee," and to tho man who had been physically infirm, "Sin no moie lest a worse thing oome unto theo." If Jesus understood that his Father was our Father, as ho declared, he cer tainly knew that thin spiritual Father was tho ono Spirit, or Mind, and dc- b'ivaA flint Viio .il1..w.... l.n..A .l.lu un Mind that was in himself. Moreover that they employ the intelligence and understanding of this divine Mind tc V.llVUMlU DH All. ' Jesus daily proved tho divine Princip le of his being, tho oneness and allness of divine Mind, by castiug out the sins and errors of mortal mind, and it was tho cross or burden of his Cut that his mission to humanity was So little comprehended, and that they were aa ready touudorstaud tho "many things" of tho kingdom of heaven, wIika no strove by parnblo und symbol to teach was within them, a condition of Mind hero and now, and not a condition bf matter to bo hoped for hereafter. Is is not piobublo that Jesus would experien ce the samo anguish could he be here in the flesh and blood toduy witnesning tho teinulo hatred, conflict, want, and woo consuming the world simply 1h- cause nuiHt mortals have failed ns yet to understand tho mesmeric nature of muteriul sense in its subtle, Bclfit.ii, willful, and autocratic process! It is nilced encouraging that in tho Icavct) of divine 1'rinciplo in the spirit of world wide justice and individual liber ty is seen to bo overturning and unit ing in ono Mind the people of the earth. Is not this tho forerunner of tho downing in every consciousness of tho love and purity, the healing and peace, of the impersonal Christ. Mrs. Eddy maps tho way to this universal ha.iuuu when sho Buys in Science and Health (page 407) "It should be thoroughly understood that all mo have one Mind, one God and Father, ono Lifo, Truth, and Love. Mankind will become per fect in proportion as this fact becomes apparent, war will cense and the true brotherhood of man will bo establish ed." Jesus and the Christ. Among the many remarkable state ments in the writings of tit. Paul is this one, "Henceforth know wo no man af ter tho flesh: yea, though wo havo known Christ after tho flesh, yet now henceforth know wo him no moro." This would seem to mean that Paul recognized tho two distinct characters, namely, a tompornl man, Christ aftor the flesh, or Jesus, and the real man, Christ after tho Spirit, or Christ the son of God. It was thus that Jesus socmcd to recognize himsolf, as when he spoke of himself as the son of man or of Mary, who had come in the flesh to be the Way-shower, and as Christ tho son of God, ono before Abraham with tho Father, who as the spiritual idea of God was to be manifested thru tho spiritual consciousness of Jesus, and save Jesus from the sins of the world. This is the teaching of Christian Science which removes the mystery and confusion from mortal's belief in this wonderful dual personality, . and dis tinctly separates the spiritual from the matorial, which is a vital idea for all (Continued on page four) fTo FRINGE SHAPE I J ?J JZZZTClhT-, e.utumt DOS.MONW SHATS. iJFkjr JT " UlytJ JJ-jJJMSSSSillllSSSSSSSSSSllSSSMMWM,"9'P 1