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Afiltll’ us a thing of ~ in. rm’erently yet de-: ‘nrnugli the dim and hazy, ,\:,'h which we have been :m- nature of Gnd and man and the univvrse from no mutivcs of l «uriusity. but because that if God is at all, thy primal, underlying aim in the field of rv-V impractical, outside thej t‘llltft'n'. ins-astiuatiun. or .rtl the actual. absolute; 443.40%: Ag,” 1-LL-1iald, the gifted \nrr Wl‘utk‘i ‘ :2: me t‘m- hnlr! vi Vis- untjc puusv m l v nf male-rialhm hrs: Jdrr. vaimly and «H < ‘hcrv {his (‘nurso ~‘ xwuid -'rrtainly be a â€" r‘nups hurrifiud tn filid :u't mntrrial thenri‘s \a‘.“.xiuli<~n.~' and mmâ€" x‘ \meE u rommmhln \71‘. (I: qfll‘itu 1 ,xg'n Lhix'kz-st V‘t‘ih and .md of thingm that 3 «mm. ‘ dik by (hr other light; :mflx-rs of I'm: llving [.t‘(" R It! wr m: the Board of H‘ Mnthi‘l‘ Church of ( hrist Sdentis}, lk‘hll3“tt<, Whn 1 by faith and not 21"wluu13', (:BrmaL filingsm nf mumdl thpught and exper- wzi .Hui the uniwrsc, fiunuc. (‘hrixtiam Science teaches that that krl:,-wl>-d;.:’~- as 'thOM' arc aim itho divine systems g» other treasure; far “which are revpaled and outlined v mm-rticiu! 41};_LI('UI’~ithroughuut the bcripturus, and that w Shit-tin}: rbb and “the Bible is no; fairy story. but is, 1" thwry, tn Sunk sortfiwhon its tezu'hidgs are properly un- umiv. I‘m‘k bottom. Edm'stwd, the book of absolutv Scienyv. Dun-aid, the glftcd of pure thwlog‘ and 0f scientific nrr WI‘UU‘Z hailing Chri.‘ vaus the Saviour a! mght suthfnrtvry «uhjw-t as m-l‘x ax r‘. t“.’(‘!‘)' uwmu- uf mix [n cmmv up at far (-n-rugh against ~;m‘.'ui uvsx'uizx and Y .i \n- Wuum nn‘! a‘wluuly, (:Ert‘ha‘h Min! First (fhu‘rch 01' , m m‘erflmvim: li<~ Interesting {comm on x' by All. John \V‘. . Us: Thursday «3w- 3 member of ‘he whip of The First , N :yntbt, m I: Mun. «l by MIN. ()lh'c GUL‘ . and a correct mm x} m fundamental <[andmg (If (Wm-ry- El Tin 3L”! 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Are now an hen- ?xd cv'rywhero.” ("hristian ience afiymnzd. p. 18.) Tim f‘hrisfi'u Scientist? Obligation r4. hrmch Christ (“hrisxiun S ientists recognize that they are unly egirmers in the under- standing of t - Science of Christian- ity and they not Main) to be absoâ€" lute and cum :lete demonstrators uf this Science. iln fact they truly ad- mit that there has only bevn one pm- t'vct dcmrmstrJtnr uf Christian StiEnL’L’ p of men foresuw,‘ and foretold that these thrvc systehis revealing the eterâ€" nal facts of heinf should some day apâ€" pcur to human ty in all their cer- tainty and svien‘cz‘. This appearing he foretold as iihe coming of “the Spirit of truth,‘.' (John 16, 13) and (‘hristian Scien sts know that toâ€"day there has been evealed to humanky ihut for which an have prayed and suffered, that or which they haie hilwd and died and for which they hau hot n \iiliihg to sm rifice all. This blgssod thing i; the absolute Truth about Gud and dbout existence, which expresses itself?: through divine Sci- i'nw, and which Mary Baker Eddy has; (lisi‘ovcrcd 3n this age and found- for thr-y nrv the écichce of Life, tlie {henlogy of Spirit, and the healing limthod of Truth; Christian Science i‘t'eachvs that these; are the divinesy» iems which Jesus: livud and labored :h) rvveal to mankind. In fact these .tro the systems Which all reformers haw perceived diiiily and have labored it“ reveal to men; Christian Science- htterly refutes the suggestion that re- furmers such as fiAbraham or Moses. Luther or Wesley. Were striving to bring to humanity some indefinite and lmpmcticable idealism. It declares ftvithout hesitation that they perceived hnd understood to some extent the bnly real Scienct, the ubsolutq Sci- fence (if spiritual being, which explains End's truu nnturegaml the rolatimmhip M true lK‘lllg to? find. the only trm' Rheology. the vxziict, scientific, sfm'ing' and rr-dm-ming Un’t’t’l (if Truth upon unmn thouglit‘lnnd lhv nnly‘ true unling 1113*!51nl. thvr infinite Kahihty inf wirzitud unflcn‘tnnding M of \puituztl thinking“ tudr-1_i\cl from thx ‘ ‘Thru' the harsh noises of our day, A luw swm pmludo finds its way; Thm cloud» M doubt and (treads of fair, , A light is hrfg-aking caim and clear. in» arr, Thrw'vqywwd Hz'lt’ltinc (H I'vu’z rstontl m (,‘lirisfiun Sr‘ienu' E(‘hriitmn Sviendv‘. on thv ’Othvl‘ Hand. teaches that there Is an exact Sviwnrv which is KY1)“ tn “hr at an Chxi‘tianity, that then- i< a 1mg: which H wholly scientific or true, and dnat there is a didne healing method 'hich is both Chrigtlike and scientific. ' hese three, this Spence, this theology and this healingpmothod, Christian Sciencv declares tin be eternal, cver~ firesont, demnnxtrgblg {acts 0f_being, Em Hm... -u... ‘L 111011“ ‘1‘:an ioldvn tifneland holicr share: God's love 4nd blessing, Chen and f a the he: that g; is to-dny {in hfexistence. his Nation am his; Mppines: on three kings; first cm a science which only min: to miter- in, conditions and ever to spiritual Mots, second on b t oiogy which does 1116!: claim to be sciexjtific or axact, ‘and it ird on a healing: system which is ,‘n ither spiritual n :- truly scientific. ‘ hat a picture “3 materialism this is? for humanity toiface after thous- ia‘dg or years 0' khnxnn "a“..iv 1-. : 1' That all of good the past hath had Remains to make our own time glad, Our common' duiiy life divine, And ev’ry 1 nd a Palestine. Henceforth my heart shall sigh no 1‘11 {:1} Truly has Whittier w 0h sumetimes gleams sight Thw' mean; wrung .ight; And step by Hep sim'v time began “u we the steady gain of man. Iureu‘r prrsisfl in their «()ursr of ‘rialism. romai ing: («mu-m to be- mut these rungs muat [\L‘ <0 that there i< hm pvrmanont and (annual n-mrdy fur human W'hittier written upon ou r eternal Mrs. Eddy has summt-d up the es; wncc of her teachings in a short istzxtemcm \x‘hirh she.calis the ”sciâ€" entific statement of being." This statement i< given on page 468 of her ti-xt hunk, “Sdemv and Health with Key in thfl Srriptureq," and is as Tuliuw‘: “Thu! :4 no iifv. truth, in- tviiim-nu nui mimtanc-L in m iti’zqr. All is infinitv Mind and iis infinito mar.- ifiawleliull. fur Gm} is AH inuiii Spirit is. immnzd .' Truth; matter is murtui (’{i‘nL “ t< the um? and «’tr'z'nai; mamm- mm-ai i-Zhi tunvn’wui. Shim l1mi.:i<i 2.111 1: Hi5 ii‘liugc 311:1 :,~~ I‘? e v. {mm mm i8 not nme W Lu 1‘ . "‘iciiui" As time ;:ws ”1; it vii i'\ but Li that in this ‘ imut ’ i'vn- aux Hf {iii true th- Hm: 2w haw tiw 3‘1,.-!'1-1wing L‘Uhx‘lxih‘i‘ n>:--- (H Thv physiva} sack-mist MHmm-s thxt t\i~t,cn1:v i4 finite and mawzial and hi: thinking m} ma»; “bulb to $0- 12111 12 2211' Mix! suhutmun and lhviz‘ ac'tinlti. Thw "kriétigm SCiL’hUx‘f dcâ€" (’n‘nr. maum Fpiri! anJ I“ nmLu-x :z‘l‘t's n and he reasoned logically he would naturally arrive at these sunic conclu- sions. Material existence shows that. cvil l.‘ dcstructivc and that material conditions pass away. Therefore beâ€" ing, to lac ctcrnal, must hc spiritual and wholly good. Jesus in his teach- ings frequently trivd to Show men that Spirit could not prmluccm matter, and he was simnli crqtilainimzr the, mat mctzxphysiml and scicntitk fa¢t that God i< the uni} cause and t at ex- istcncc must be exactly like tha cause and so wholly spiritual, and not. What the human senses declared it to! be when he uttcrcd such a statement as "That which is burn‘of the flash is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." (John 3, 6). .Gud as [lie-[my Mind. and ('reuh'on. Spiritual or Mental It is evident to anyone who has stu- died the Scriptures closely that when Jesus declared God to be Spirit he was not declaring God to lemme indefinite abstraction, but he was. revealing and describing the must certain, the most available and the most stable entity that could posisihly be imagined,~â€"Mrs. Eddy has once and for all taken this wmtd Spirit, out 01 the realm of mys~ ticism and superstition and placed it in the realm of reason and science by explaining that Spirit is really divine Mind. or is the infinite Intelligence which knmvs, and knows divinely or truly. It is certain that when Jesus used the term Spirit he meant divine Mind, for on one occasion he explained quite naturally to his listeners “the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, . , , " (John 6.83). In fact infinite Truth, which includes all divinv mentality, is Spirit. Chrisâ€" tian Svioni-e, therefore, teaches that God is divine Mind of Spirit and that divine Mind ix‘ Love. Asa God is ever- present and omnipotent, the divine Mind Whii-h is Lave must therefore be the only Mind. Also divine Mind and its right n‘mtal activity must be om» nipotent and irresistible. E 'ctn if: one did nnt believe in the Scri tunes; is or can he. must he the emanatiun or expressmn of this 0110 and only muse. Gm]. As God is immutable and in without shadow of turning, His crratlnn must be .an emanation or ex- pression of immutable Spirit and must consequently be whully spiritual. The Scriptures use several terms for God which all Christians have accepted but which few Christians have understond practically and in- telligently. Mrs. Eddy has applied these same terms to God. but she has logically accepted the conclusions about God which these terms indicate. For instance, the Scriptures 1teach that God is Love, but they also teach that God is Spirit, consquently Mrs. Eddy has concluded that Love is Spirit and therefore that Love is not to be found in material conditions. Also the Scriptures declare that Spirit or God is infinite and Christian Sci- ence lfkewise lOg‘ically concludes that matter. er material existence, is not the truth of being. In the same way the Scriptures teach that God is the nnly cause and croatnr and Christian Science therefore accepts the fact that the only real or true existence there h ”,.V“ v. .v --â€"~ v‘cl-a’§ unc Axuuaqu” I . it is of course necessary for us to con- 5 enqe teaches th sider what God is befqre we can pro-l God; operates 1 cowl. ;conditions'.. but ‘ Pupular theology has regarded Godéterial conditiuns ‘85 a distant beingg-to be sought. inf (3) The mat times of need. through prayer. These jof to-day rely o prayers, in a few instances, seemed terial drugs for to he answered but in the majorit ofgexpress the cont} CZch'x‘ thvy remainiunanswered. a-g’God, or Spirit, tcridl xoivnce hasgwith its material which ‘are high] thmn‘ivs‘ .rvnmved God even farther-healing syrtems {rum the hen of mortals, and material or Spirit work: hvaling >}‘£t(‘ln.\‘ have educated means. Christi thought h: consider God as a being‘other hand, teacl wlm Works thruugh material processes. efiectnf mortal (‘hrisliun Sciuncv takes exactlyjmedical laws an the nppmitr- Vieux Christian acquaintance wil Sch-nu: (locl'u‘eR that God is an ‘tmly Mind. bring l'\'\'l‘ y-rcwnr (liVinv reality, who true healing law is H‘c-r zixailzilllu to His own cr0~'of divine Mind t Minn and is infinitely knowahle. mortal mind and llic rum-seiner, and power, Christian In fact, the thr Sch-me teaches, are essential to evfideal with both n my right activity and Consequently realities. coopera Cu all health, hulinoss nr happiness}Christian Scieno and tn all true existence. God, Chris- there is but one n tian Srienm- also teaches. has nothing: Gad, divine Mind in commun with materiality, but lle‘algo that materie and His creation exist independent of ' temporal falsity suppositinnal matter and its savcalled } real to the mortar laws. In fact Christian Science;Chriszian Scienci teaches that God is the source and that an understm cause of all that is true and, therefispiricual being w; fore, of true existence. Hal thmwhf nr 4"- God and His (”nautical d8 Undant'ood ‘ in Christian Science Let me then invite. you to consider this Science of the Christ which em- hodies, and is based whofly oh the idealism of Christ Jesus. As Chris~ tion Science pertains, wholly to God {and :2 His creation or t9 true being, mww u: wxymguu (mm m mm vi, __â€" nuv uva M r v m ‘ . thgi they also have.foun:1 in Christi'an max gufiflgfigfi‘ B” V ' Scxence more than, they ever hogedfcon ubns.‘ { n, 7-“ for in the way of holiness, happimu ether hangl, When glut; H V and health. tvinexuind and‘_tbat,thu 11ml in l ’ Alwth'at @158 one Mindwhi'dzi: ‘ i God and _Hia (”g-squeal d1“ Undantood is Why]!!! i'nndthlewe find i8 genfial: from the tin-avg tenth ’ incl, but who no}: gladly mum g: W‘mtin withcflfii the} fknn “1-- I.--“ ____ .1 :_ In; -‘\'i~‘tv!!c:‘ (.4 absnlute- 1' hum-1y nmntRS. is m“ G d. 0“ 8mm, and u“;xu" to di‘inw f‘Lu‘ 4 L1 m of teâ€"dw of- \nu'yl uf (16!! as -\Hi'va 0 being. u‘hnso rrm :40 a u «um-9311103 «Mrum'lfinzlry’ u.” mir- m-l H Nt'i! II" lth with l is as rnth, in- Itiiqr. All it<~ mar.- ll Spirit s murtul ('f'W'IIéii; «Funeral. i5 imrlgcf h ix‘ not As time t in this all true it» Syfiyemg itual being. and hvfru‘e this the m, 1H” mi l- mini; lwlim‘os material ly. in so- ml lhviz‘ ' itict dcâ€" ihsvilute- ‘ 2133. is m, and k’ facts. 3 «by of- Gml as r. u‘hnse inc-times u.” mir- The prayer of a ChristianScientist is his constant, conscmus, unremitting mental desire in live above the monal 1 and in accord with the divine. It is his unccasing attempt to commune iwith the divine Mind, God. and so to utilize the true Science which reveals true existvnm, thn true theology which inevitably delivers from sin, and the trim healing pan-er which ziln‘mx heals _(iii£‘2(§§i:. The» ('hriKiim: Scimztisffi’S ta} ur ix‘ his pcrsiwcnt daily mid {inm‘ly Hilll‘liléitii'li {if {li'x'inff Mind's infinite presence and puwcr, and hi owil's nnthinirncsa It is his increasing: knuwlmlm“ (if Gml and of nhsnlm.) Spifirv longjsufl'en'ng; gent ess. agoodness, faith, meekness; te‘ anew" (Gal. v.), and he adds, ”‘22gninst such there is no law.” (Gal. ‘v.). A Christian Scientist, therefore, finds that as he strives to let his ithinking and his life uxpwssilthm divine qualities, or as hostrit-‘es to ‘vgaign the Mind .of Cfigist, the qualms; ,0f the soâ€"cnllhd carnal mind and their effects, sin. disease and death lose their suppositionnl presence and paw» er in his thinking and in his life. The Effect ur' Pram? in Christian $660!“: ' The Christian Scientict recognizin r gioy, peace. ,r culled barmil mind and itw'fulyitiés ofithzxt diqoasc is .alwpys the effect. 0 SVHSO. material existence, sin, discafivfifalse nn:rtnl.law and (if fake thin};- and dwth grow fainter and finaliy'iing deslrnys disease thmugh spixima! miimppi-ar. This. is the prayer nfi thinking or right thinking about Gad which Paul speéks as praying withqutiand abolit His creaiion. This spir- cuuting. True prayer i: one 05, um- : itual thinking, wmbined with the dc~ i tenderest, mmt (-eirta'in, mast Scientific ; sire to know God and to kiwi-come the and mast intviligent things on oart‘néqualitiea-of the: carnal mind-in our m‘ in heaven: The ('hristii? Scirnâ€"v’imiughts and lives, («institutes trut- tiszt’s prayer is, in fact. his spiritual ‘ prayei', and thin prayer reveals to men thinking and living, or hi1 right nvn~ the Science ofv'the Christ which in~ inl activity. Win-n a man thinks right- ; eludes all true Sciénce.hthmlngy and l_\' he is exprczsing his true Ming afizmodicine. "Futthvrmore. as a min the likeness of God. divine Mind. i understands this Scim‘ico‘of the' Christ .Spiritual thinking is, therclore. wall}; g and «hives to live it. EG' that-he inay ilmmanuel. UY‘ God wiih us. Just asidemonstmte it both for himself and Hawaii as a man recognizes that hisifnr his fellow imam he ' is obeying irflllhfiint rig-ht thinking and right liv-iJesus’ commané at: irlwn to Pei”. or Spirit works through material,i means. Christian Sscience, on the? ‘other hand, teaches that disease is an 1 ell'ectof mortal thought and of false! :medical laws and opinions, and that? acquaintance with God, the one and, “only Mind. brings into operation the? true healing law, the law of God, ori 'of divine Mind which frees from the mortal mind and its diseased beliefsJ In fact, the three material systems deal with both matter and Spirit as realities, cooperating and coalescing. ’Christian Science, however, declares there is but one reality, namely Spirit, ‘ God, divine Mind, and its expression; also that material existence is but a 'temporal falsity which only seems d 3 real to the mortal or carnal thought. GéChristian Science further declares d that an understanding of God and of " Lspiritual being will deliver from mor- ltal thought or from the carnal mind 8 l and from its dream, mortality. This 9 i absolute, invariable understanding or S’spiritual thinking is what the Scrip- wtures describe as the Mind of Christ, 3 or the Mind which was in Jesus 5 Christ. 5 The Thinking of a Christian Scien-, " tist Essentially Intelligent , l 1 would ask you to consider serious- ly whether the Christian cientist is less intelligent, less scient , less cul- tured, or less Christian because. he .ldevotes his time and energieswholly tfto the effort of attaining the Mind of _ I Christ and to understanding the di- Hvine Mind, God. and His spiritual 7 creation, rather than to the ”study of “fleeting material conditions which have no true science, no stability, no actual law and no divine reality? It‘ must be admitted that it is the lack? of this ve y spiritual thinking which: ‘ has caused from the understanding of divine law 'and divine realities, and to wallow in l l ll 1 ll ,3 it g mankind to wander so far l . r‘â€"J"‘ vvvuu ucwxlwu Wlll he stated, in accord withivall true Sr once, all true theol, ,gand all tr! medicine,- “ye shall ow the trut and the truth shall malts you free (John viii, 32). Prayer'idemandsa solute life~long consecration 4 thought, desire, activitywintellect at purpose to spiritual law and divir facts. It teaches us to 'acknowledj God in all our ways, and to recognii no other source or cause. ' Preys demonstrated is heaven here and no and within us, forit includes in itsej all health, all holiness, happines peace and assurance. Such pray: is God's law toevery' condition, fc it is the very resence and power c divine Mind, 0d. ‘ The Par-pore of True Prayer It might be, well to explain tha Christian Scientists make much a the healing of disease for the sum reason that Jesus did, and that is be cause the healing of disease throng? ”spiritual means is accepted as a clan and indisputable proof of Immanuel or God with us. As a matter of fact Christian Science teaches that wha humanity really needs to'be healed o primarily, is its faith in things ma terial, or of its material thinking Every sin, every disease, every sor row, every material condition, ever: catastrophe, every phase of fleetim mortality. Christian Science declare: to be but an effect of material think ing, or of the carnal mind, and Chris tian Science therefore proposes to has the individual and the world of them things by first correcting their mater ial thinking, or their false materia theories, with the Mind of Christ, 0! with spiritual thinking". The real mission of Christian Science, there- fore, is to destroy men’s {also faitl in things material by demonstrating lbeyond a doubt the allness and supre~ ; the mire of material intelklgctualisn} ; :aniiccah 0;: SGYd‘d-lt or °f ”‘9 dnme Mmd in which there is and can no rea ; '. . , . Science, ‘no divine theology, and no} . 1‘“ng it'em’ind 3'0“ Qh‘fgethe Ehrls- true healing. lt must also be admit» i ’uar‘; glen ‘St sf prayer] 'stgl‘lecsucl ted that it is through this constant}? 3‘80ka '3 Elbe” ’3) t til? study of spiritual facts, or through,“ temp f no“ b: .‘m a bee divine communion, that mankind will ; moment 0 Pail”? u ’ srucleceeds ‘ be led out of the by-ways of mater- {cause of; aid 'fcé ong fictfl’lgge. to m: .ialism and will be awakened to theidersfil‘ d‘ . an? 99‘“ 5“ ”3'2“ , great spiritual and scientific fact of g t? tilt] we Elvlnc gelence 1:153:11? 6".“ one infinite. ever-present God, divine;0 ,1 9‘ V“ t .e “5“" defer Tile .Mind, and one infinite, indestructibleim ““f‘ f‘hm ‘5 “a?“ d Wt; a; , creation, absolute spiritual being, new i tween suc prayer I? .‘cfi ‘3; e" n ‘,er beginning, never ending, but perm“nd uem°"5t;at§‘ tM": ’3 inhclf‘iewé'fi led and eternal as the Father Him-Ea“: lt’fiw". 9f i emm “w, 1 ‘5 r Iself. It is also in this study that the ’ an e pfltlhu at. mp scone-.3332; ,‘truly wise man will find his aolacel‘ggl'. 0." OS ‘ypnoriismfi di 13 th. and comfort, that the truly intellec-‘ "8‘11““ crenci “KL? ape . e ,tual man will find his joy, and that “'0’“ wf}? hm'fte mm“? .nd"? 3mm"?! the true reformer will discover man’s l sense ‘0 .c-aims ' ‘ mam. an iinfinite ability to help and to heal his : PreveSFhe dmne fact t t God. divine Mellow-men, 4 Mind, is the Only Mm ,and that this ‘ ; Mind along governs and-controls man. The Prayer of Christian Science . _ . How, 'then, is the'Science of Christ, 7 Christlikeness, as Demonstrated [u ,or Christian Science, which includ'esfithe Prayer of a Christwn Scwntqst ‘ in itself all true Science, theology,’ Christ Jesus, the master Metaphysi- and medicine, going to reveal to memeian, when he made j the statement, Tthe truth of being which Science;“Greater love hath no man than this, :should reveal, the saving and redeem- 3 that a man lay down his life for his iing theology which alone can deliverifriends,” (John XV., .13)r gave an ,humanity froni sin, and the Healinglexact rule by which men could. rave grace which alone'heals. Om of the-,their Christlik'eness, a‘rtheir wl ling; ;greatest aids to the understanding and . ness and ability to demonstrate di~ Idemonstration of this Science of beâ€"gvine law. Christian ,Scxence, there. ‘ing, is prayer. What a wealth of;fore, teaches that in [proportion as a fdeep and consecrated thought that;man understands the allness and the Sword prayer stirs ifi'us all. As longiinfinite reality of Spirit, God, divine 3as the Word prayer exists, human ‘3 Mind, and the temporal nature of ma‘ ;hope can never be entirely lost. Then lterial exxstence, in potportion as he ,is the Christian Scientist who de-yi strives to lay. down hislfalse sense of chnds so largely on prayer, not in ac-i, life as. material and finite, and to‘at~ :cord with humanity’s purest anditam his true life as (iod’s expression, highest desires? It is true that pray- ,' Wholly spiritual or_ dwinely mental, er‘has been so misunderstood and mis- } in that report")?! 18, he‘truly adher~ used that much of its efi'ulgencerand ; mg 19 C “St {6608' tachmg. In {963. true meaning has been lost, but even T113 8 manhamshes from his thinkm , yet no word means more to poor sick .3 thequalities of the carnal mind we a and suffering humanity than does this 18-“ idolatry, hatred, wrath, and many 4 word prayer. What then is the prayer :other .phases of the. carnal Wild. all; of a Christian Scientist? It is not a ,’ Of which Pa’yl describes as-“the works; spasmodic attempt to perform the im- 3 of‘the'flesh (Gal. 37,7), and 38 11% {It-3 possible, that is to change or to influ- i WINS in his ‘13}! hf?- those 9.9411098? ence the immutable, divine Mind, God, ‘ or thought Whl P331]. 99ml)“ asl who is Always Love. It is not an at-:“the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. v.l,; tempt to obtain from Deity something 1 then he Is_truly la'bjflt dDWh tharfslse: that we do not deserve in order that we , 993156 of life- Th1} ‘process of SDI!“ -‘ may continue on our material course. = :tual_thlnkms and Imus demonstrates: Neither is it an attempt to delivergthe Infinite presence and, Merci: ourselves from sickness: from pav-;1he dmne M17115. (10ft before Whlph; erty, from worry, nor from any vicls- 3 the mailed carnal mind,- With Its: situde of human experience simply 1 false mental conditions and its-mater- ' ' d th't we ma' be free fromlalilyy gives ,nlm- Paul fur-t ' iiiiiiirahll trZuble. S g§RYS. “the fruit of the, Spirit 1; e.’ ever aVuiIgble {be men thmng‘h‘fizht mental activity or spiritual thinking. Christian Science further teaches that this one infinite Mind, God; for- mer éperates through spiritual t ink- ing to deliwr men‘ mm all thut‘ ' am. like Himself. In Act Christian Sci- ienqe teaches that the, divine Mind. gGod’, operates not through material 3coqditionsi._buc to deliver from ma- ’ma guts 18 "as?!” tn? {mum , _ , other hand, We?” that 1‘ 2; hi ine Mind ind that thin Mini is g M180 thin: ms: one Mind which is ‘ (3) The material healing systems i itual 0f toâ€"day rely on nomintelligent 1113an fa terial drugs for health, wifich drugsiin a express the contrary of the nature of ; chum God, or Spirit, andxthé effects of :Pray which ‘are highly uncertain. These‘allne: healing gya‘tems alsp Hench that Godfis th H . it rue remind you that the Chris- _§’uan Selentlst’s prayer does not suc- .:ceed because of a mere] intellectual :‘attempt to know the mth at the , imoment of prayer, but it succeeds beâ€" » ands ficause of his life-long struggle to un- , ldcrstand God and spiritual being, and -' g to utilize divine Science in every event ,lof life, Even the casual thinker will idivine Love proves that “perfect love “(or Sod) casteth out fear:" (.1 John 'v. l ”L l ,Spiritual thinking, that is a right rstanding 01 God and of existence or spiritual idealism, is not only the way of salvation for the indivxdual, but humanity as a Whole owes every i step it has taken out of materialism . _v_..-..»,, lsoe“ that there is no connection be- i to this very process of spiritual think- , l tween such prayer which understands~ ing. As humanity has turned thought land demonstrates the infinite presence '1 actively and unreservcdly, not to the land power of the Mind which is Godithings which are seen, but to the land the pitiful attempts .01 mesmer- lism, or of hypnotism, to heal men. lChristian Science healing dispels the lmortal or mistaken sick or sinning ,sense which claims to] ind man, and l proves the divine fact t t God, divine 1 Mind, is the Only Min ,and that this ; Mind along governs and-controls man. fChristlikeness, as Demonstrated In ithe Prayer of a Christian Scientist ’ Christ Jesus, the master Metaphysi- Acian, when he madejthe statement, g“Grcater love hath no man than this, lthat a man lay down his life for his ifriends,”'(John XV., 13), gave an {exact rule by which men could. rave :their Christlikeneas, o'rtheir wl ling- ness and ability to demonstrate di~ {vine law. Christian Science, there. -forc, teaches that in proportion as a {man understands .the' allness and the zinfinite reality of Spirit, God, divine iMind, and the temporal nature of ma‘ lterial existence, in purportion as he istrives to lay down hisl false sense of ,life as material and finite, and to at. ltain his true life as God’s expression, tholly spiritual or divinely mental, fin that roportion is he‘ truly adher~ sing to C rist Jesus’ teaching. In fact, ins a man banishes from his thinkin ,thc qualities of the carnal mind one last idolatry, hatred, Wrath, and many {other phases of the carnal mind, all I of which Paul describes as-“the works *of the flesh” (Gal. v.7), and as he at- tains in his dail life those qualities Pkul describes as pirit” (Gal. v.), then he is truly layim down the false sense of life. This process of spir- itual thinking and living demonstrates the infinite presence and/power of the divine Mind, God, before which the mailed carnal 'mind, with its false mental conditions and its-mater- iality, gives place. Paul fur-t says, “the fruit'of the Spirit is c, joy, peace, longjsufl'ering; gent ess, goodness, faith, meekness, te‘ ance:" (Gal. v.), and he adds, “against such there is no law.” (Gal. v.). A Christian Scientist, therefore, finds that as he strives to let thinking and his life crpwssiitheec divine qualities, or as hostrit-‘es to gal!) the Mind of Cfipist, the qualities of the so-cnllhd carnal mind and their effects, sin, disease and death lust! their suppositionnl presence and pow» or in his thinking and in his life. his 'things which are not seen, and which lair-e divinely real, then it truly has lprayed, and this rayer has to m gaxtent delivered rom mortality and gtmm the etfects of mortality, sin. dis- lease, death and limitation of every fkind. Since salvation, however, is in- idividual, the important factor is the {consecrated thinking of the indivi- 1 dual. ‘ True Law and Government as Re- repled by Christian Science , All thinking people recognize that ,we are to-day living at a time when : humanity’s sense of divine law has not sufficed to deliver it from war, from .bolahevism, from class hatred, and ifrem other dangerous tendencies. The fact is that humanity is still working Ion the old 'basis of the Mosaic law, :which says an eye for an eye, an 'men have not yet be n to perceive and to demonstrate t law of Love iwhich Jesus declared and reiterated time and time again to be the only :way of freedom from human unrest. ers. Eddy glowers that .3'ust as health' and holiness {are divine facts which the individual must obtain and retain for himself :through spiritual thinking, so also glow is a divine attribute which every {individual must demonstrate for him- «sclf. Thus the community will ob- ;tain law and government based, not gon human opinions, but on universal lobedience to the one divine Mind, God. iMn. Eddy was so certain of the fact lthat true government is based wholly jon spiritual thinking and not on hu- lman arangementa that in her own ’Church, which she considered to be {all-important, since she knew that‘it jwas destined to bring the idealism! Jesus to humanity in a clearer and imore practical way than ever before, f . ’establiahegi a form of government from which she had removed ovary possible hu an equation except a ‘Board of irectora of five people. ; :se Directors she did not expect 'to govern her Church, but they were to transact thohuainess of her Church The governmrnt (7! her Church she left to the’attainhient and demonstra- tion of divine government by the in- ;dividuuls- comprising that , Church. In ithe 'same way that she‘cxpedcd her full-mars to demonstrate the divine fact of everâ€"present health. 394 so she laid upon them the onus of dcm~ unstratinu: ever-nrcacnt divine law. a has revealed to ‘hér fol- " in things material by demonstrating beyond a doubt the atlnefi-a and sup re- macy of Spirit or of the dixine Mind, w hich is God I The Pm-poae of True Prayer It might be well to explain that Christian Scientists make much of the healing of disease for the same reason that Jesus did, and that is be- tcause the healing of disease through ”spiritual means is accepted as a clear iand indisputable proof of Immanuel, or God with us. As a matter of fact, Christian Science teaches that what humanity really needs to'be healed of primarily, is its faith in things ma- terial, or of its material thinking. Every sin, every disease. every sor- row, every material condition, ever'y catastrophe, every phase of fleeting mortality. Christian Science declares to be but an effect of material thinkâ€" ing, or of the carnal mind, and Chris- tian Science therefore propose: to heal the individual and the world of these things by first correcting their mater: ial thinking, or their false material theories, with the Mind of Christ, or with spiritual thinking". The real mission of Christian Science, there-" fore, .15 to destroy menf’a false faith ! Prue: is n infsmb as definite and as irresistible as (2% 'Himself, for it is God, dhn‘nd Mind. 1with as, ex teasing Rinse}! th 5 {the Mind 0 Christ, or fixfough up: 10....) ‘L- “1;-.. , ___-- -â€". .m-- 311 health, all holiness. hAppiness, peace and assurance. Such prayer is God's law toevery' condition, for it is the very resence and power of divine Mind, 06. ‘ VVWV," -- w...“ "a“... u“, uvul u: uvu. J u: rut-cl. w ‘ God in all our ways, and to recognize : prayer in’v’thtistian Science is not to no other source or cause. ' Prayerfieprive men at anything that is worth demonstrated is heaven here and 'now Waving, but to’ remove materiality and and within us fqré‘t indudes in itself g igs pflegts sin. disease and death from I -n L. ,ILL u itual thinking. Such " pyer kngws no failure and no fear. it honors God: in a way that a r attempt to change or influence 0d can ncver do. Prayer recognizes and abides by God’d allnesa and evil’s nothingness. This is the prayer Jesus deicn'bed when he stated. in accord withivall true Sci- ence, all true theolv ,gpnd all true medicine,- “ye shall ow the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John viii. 32). Prayer'ademnndsab- solute life~long consecration of thought, desire, activitywintellect and purpose to spiritual law and divine gags: n“ teaches us to_'acknowledze. M051“ is; nglpmhattn Wan“ ‘utitifloesjeedtohe mus {niacin I ind oily ’30s theidivlns‘faetswhich Jesus as- man. the mm: m was” mm taxman 2' and Wand for is («wavert0 an expand on ox: 6W their benefit. These facts lived and of God towhox‘nbe haw domi n warmed in tfisit wity and Science over al’l material 1 #70 inns: eventually degver mankind from Prue}: is ‘9 numb as catfish, all evil. . . K ‘ “39?"? ‘1???“ W’establishegi a form of government from which she had removed very possihje hu an equation except a ‘Board of irectors of five people. 4h¢se Directors she did not expect to govern her Church but they were to trmnct thehusiness of her Church The government (7! ha Chm-(h she left to the attainhiem and demonstra- tivn of divine government by the in- dx‘ iduais emprising that ( hutch. 1n wthe 'same way that she expended her full: «were to demonnraw thr divine fact pf everâ€"present health. 394 so she laid upon them the onus of dem~ unstratirfl ever-present divine law. Ch 81% Bid uptm them the “Stric- tun of nut interfering with the grow ennui/ht of that Church in am iumnn way because she had no faith in hu~ mun ways’ and means. In {ac-1., Mrs? Eddy realized so dearly the necessity for demonstrating divine law in her Church and in human affairs that she (i4 mted «me 'uf her books entirely W the subj eat, and this hook is known as the Manual of the Mather Church. The First Church of Christ. Sriemiet, in Boston. Mass. Ere Eddy knew am the by-laws in thi< Manâ€" ua. were divinely inafi'srd. and that they were therefore unalmr- able. She writes of this buck: “Nat- withstanding finmileeious math of time. ek'miiy aw‘tits our {‘huvu‘h Man-- ua! which win maintain it: rank n: in the vast. amid miniqrw aumuive (€ontmued on mgr 4‘: 3 Christian Science handles all mop gtal disc d with divine law. I! the ‘mortal ‘scord be poverty, if it be ac- icident, if it he worry or sorrow, if Alt be human trouble of any kind, the .iChristian Scientist recognim that 3 these things can only afflict the mortal imentality, because the body without a mentnhty would be unconscious of gany of these things. Recognizing that ‘these are all trouble: “the camel lmind or of mortal thought, he deals lwith them through divine thought or lthe Mind of Christ. The wise Chris- gtion Scientist in his prayer, or his ,treatment, will always deal resolute- }ly and unfailin ly with the human be- ;lief of fear. a he gains experience ~in Christian Science healing he will :find that fear is an active agent in, ‘nearly every human ill, and in most jvcases if he sucweds in removing and ‘cnsting out-the fear from his patient’a -' mentality he will heal him of his trou~ ,ble at once. Since God, the only presence and power, is divine Love, ifear can have neither presence not power and the Christian Scientist lthrbugh understanding the allness of ,divine Love proves that “perfect love l(or God) casteth out fear:" (.1 John 'v. 18). .1 :n in comm objected um? mm;~ he: saw in: establishing a nu “natural ‘Qnfip‘thy bet‘Veen thl flesh $01- the matend, and the spiritual, be- fcause they teach the infinite 311nm; de supremacy of Spirit. God, divine .7 Mind, and the tampon! nature of ma- }beriality. '1‘) such objections one -mad only T1699 Paul's statément that Mn;- flesh may: against the-Spirit. :and the Spirit against the flesh: and gthese are contrary the one to the oth- m‘:” (Gal. v. :17). Mrs. lEddy. howâ€" ‘ever. although teaching the annexe I‘of Spirit, particularly states that ; Christ is the friend of mortal man ‘ (Science and Health, p. 433), and this» gbeeause Christ saves mortal man from :himself by mealing man's true na- gture as thg‘abh of God. The effect of |prayer in Christian Science is not to. ‘flepyive pen at! anything that is worth their thoughts and experience and to establish 11) their thoughts.‘ true health, holiness and happiness ‘which are etermny based on God. divine Mind, and are attained only through spiritual thinking. Fear Cast out by C‘Ilri'qtt‘an 801'!)ch I‘L_:_L:_‘ O_£-_ _.