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W IL.M'E T ·TE LJ ·P.E Dttembe.r 7·. 1928· / . · thor, thus define.; Good. "God; Spirit; by good may "be · brought more largely of Science and Health, )(rs. Edcly, .its· author, declares that "desire is prayer" omnipotence; omniscienc~; omnipres- an'd ·more specifically into daily experience and there retained and used. and that "no loss can occur from trustence; omniaction," (Pg. 587) and it is ing God with our desires, that they may Now primarily, the desire for good., - be moulded and exalted before they proposed to present the subject of Christian Science here from this stand- for the guidance and control of all in- take form in words and in deeds." Paul A. Harsch gave a lecture on point, that is, of good and its power :- telligent Mind, God, must exceed .all With the clear and correct underChrlBtlan Science in The First Church other desires. The seeker for devme of Chlrat. Scientist, In Wilmette, Mon- powe.r inherent in it, constantly being standing of prayer which constitutes day eYenlng. December 3. Mr. Harsch Is manifested by it, and inevitably lifting good must be able to say with David, so large a part of the mental equipment a member· of the Board of Lectureship mankind upwant and onwar4 to God. "As the hart panteth after the water of The Mother Church, The First Church brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, 0 of every Christian Scientist he is enof Christ. Scientist, in Boston, Mass. Deep seate.d in the heart of every one God." Such desire is prayer. A prayer abled to bri~g a larger measure of good of us there dwells a desire to know that is always answered. There are no into his own experience and that of In the text book of Christian Science; more about good, a yearning to attain exceptions. others. Indeed it is in this way preScience and Health with Key to the to the secret place of the Most High, cisely, that his ·salvation is attained. On the first page of the fint chapter Scriptural injunction3 to work out our Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, its au- to that point of understanding whereown salvation are numerous. The Christian Science text book quotes these with approbation and insists upon the necessity of working out our salvation in the way Jesus taught. It may be pertinent therefore to ask what salvation is ancl of what it consists? In many, if not in all Christian churches, salvation is defined as "liberation from the bondage and results of sin." Let us than consider it from but one of many possible viewpoints, that from which we are discussing the question of Christian Science, namely, the power of good to save, to deliver, from sin and its bondage. The Bible records the power of good and it3 availability at all times by everyone and under widely varying conditions. What a storehouse of inspiration is the Bible! "The greatest Book in the 'vorld" it has been called. Thomas Huxley once said of the King James Bible, that is our commonly used authorized version, "for three centuries this book has been woven into all that i3 noblest and best in English Historv, * " * it is written in the noblest an"d pur~st English * * * and it abounds in exquisite beauties of literary form." Thomas Jefferson speaking more particularly of his own compilation of portions of the New Testament, gave this a :; his opinion: "A more beaut;ful or ,. nrecious morsel of ethics I have never 'Cen : it is a document in proof that T am a real Christian, that is to say, a di sciple of Jesus." This is the book that Mrs. Eddy loved as no other book. From earliest childhood 's he studied it, pondered its precepts and guided her life by its rules and standards. For three years after her discovery of Christian Science, which occurred in 1866, she lived con3tantly with her Bible, seeking through its inspired pages to find the Science· of the Christ healing which had come into I TIS the aim of the Bell System that is to develop constantly improving her experience. It was her only text h::lok and she describes this quest as anyone anywhere in thecountrycan methods and equipment for the most joyous, uplifting and beautiful. This was a logical re.sqlt of her trainpick up a telephone and talk to any350,000 employees of the Bell Sysing and environment as well as her own natural inclination. one anywhere else clearly and withtem to use in serving the public. Through those busy years she was out delay. That is the meaning of The results of the efforts are evibeing prepared in countless ways for . the stupendous work that was to be universal service. To provide it, dent, not only in the extension of hen in later life. Many of her close ass9ciates were men and women of the means of telephoning must be telephone service across the A dandeep learning and great religious intuition. Her whole tendency was along uniformly good. This company, for tic, but in the constantly improvthese lines and it was not strang-e that example, has full access to all the she should have been led in d.:ie time ing local and long distance service to the great discovery of Christian improvements and methods that Science. at home. The universality of good is illustrated are con'tinually being made. The Bell System accepts its reby the entire Christian Science movement, broad and yet so varied in its There are 5000 workers on the sponsibility for a nation-wide telephases that none seeking good through its channels need be disappointed. B:v Bell staffs whose sole occupation phone service as a public trust. means of a simple but complete and perfectly operating g-roup of activities provided by Mrs. Eddy, thi3 Christly movement proceeds on its redemptive ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY way. Our joyous purpose then should be to BE.LL SYSTEM search and seek. more earnestly than before, for a larger faith, a deeper One Policy One System humility, a clearer insight into good, Universal Service that we may express in da'i lv thought and deed more of that goodness that is of God alone. IIL1IIE ON CIIDTIAN SCIENCE Where working together .is everything