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Highland Park Press, 5 May 1927, p. 14

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Let us first of all look into the meaning of these two words, "Chrisâ€" tian" and Science." The words "Chrisâ€" tian" and "Christianity" stand for the religion founded in the first century, A.D. Christian Science is based on the inspired Word of the Bible, Qnd stands squarely on the pure teaching and the allâ€"satisfying, redemptive, healing works of Christ Jesus, the Wayâ€"shower. oc The word| "science" is defined, in part, by Webster as: "knowledge or facts. _Profound, comprehensive knowledge made available in work, life or the search for truth." 0 Christian Science is, therefore, the demonstrable knowledge of God, diâ€" vine Truth, brought to bear on the human problem of poverty, sin, sickâ€" mess; and discord of every name and nature. o . R Livatmaibirs In her work "Retrospection and: Introspection" (p. 25), Mrs. Eddy tells us that she named this Science "Christian" "because it is compasâ€" sionate, helpful, and spiritual." Chrisâ€" tian Science is born of God, divine Love. It.is, therefore, His revelation, divinely endowed with authority to reveal the true nature of God and spiritual man in His likeness, and with power to waken mankind out of its dream of sickness and. sin, fear and sorrow; and through this spiritâ€" ual awakening bring about release and redemption from all that is conâ€" trary to God‘s will. Mary Baker Eddy You will naturally want to heas its dream of sickness and. sin, f€@T| ; is the missi f fasoa i and sorrow; and through this spirit-‘lenlzk_ ‘;e;tle n':ésssmi?,i&fdrrayfir to til- ual awakening bring about release| car to the infinitg harmoyn; olfm(e}od’: :r'frvr"g:";“?‘:i',‘f“wf.‘]'{’m all that is ':"“'tcreati-m, which is totally free from Y ai1 8 WIC fear, sickness, sin, materiality, and Mary Baker Eddy Bmort_alit_\'. As God is revealed, huâ€" You will naturally want to hear manity is healed. something about the Discoverer and | .. I should like to quote you a few Founder of Christian Science. Since lines from a wellâ€"known hymn which her earliest childhood, Mary Baker indicates _ the . different stages of Â¥ddy loved the Bible and lived close | DMAYer (Christian Science Hymnal, p. to God, good. Up to the time of her|91): discovery of Christian Science, she was frail, delicate. Mrs. Eddy wasi"l’ra.\'vr is the heart‘s sincere desire, highly cultured and intellectually Uttered or unexpressed; gifted, and she had a wide outlook. . on life. At about the age of fortyâ€" "Prayer is the simplest form of five, she met with an accident which speech, the doctors pronounced fatal. In her That infant lips can try; extremity, _ this spirituallyâ€"minded Prayer the sublimest strains that woman begged the friends at her bedâ€" reach side to leave her alone with the Bible, The Majesty on high. As s_hiwread. in the ninth chapter nf' . Matthéw, of the instantaneous heal-\“"l'fl.\"’r is the Christian‘s . vital ing of the man sick of the palsy, the breath. revelation of Ged‘s will so illumined! . The Christian‘s native air: her consciousness that she, too, mse{“ls watchword overcometh deathâ€" from what was expected to be her He enters heaven with prayer." * deathâ€"bed, ‘and walked, instantaneousâ€"! ly healed. Awed by this miracle, and | Jacob‘s Ladder imnelled by her deep love for God Prayor might be likened to Jacob‘s and humanity, she then withdrew enâ€" ladder, of which we read in Genesis tirely from society. and. for three|that it was "set up on the earth, and years, alone with the Bible, in her, the top of it reached to heaven: and modest home in the town of Lynn’\hrhnld‘ the angels of God ascending Massachusetts, she studied and ponâ€"| and descending on it." dered the great facts of spiritual beâ€"‘ Note that this ladder was set uy ing and spirtual law, to which alone| on earth, which indicates that God the marvel of the healing could he‘e(md. is not remote but everâ€"present attributed. _ Thus, in quietude â€" and | ind that heaven is not a distant place snirtual communion ~with God, she{'fl be reached after death, but a di discovered the Science of His perâ€" vine state of consciousness which is fect creation. and wrote the (‘hrislian; in everâ€"increasing measure, attain Science textbook, "Science and Health| sble here and now. And what are the with Key to the Scriptures." l“=\nzr~l<" ascending and descending OV es ARECILES Inddar af thanont* â€"Anvele ar k mm en en at with Key to the Scriptures." For some years before nublishing this immortal work Mrs. Eddy proved the truth of its teachings by healing all kinds of sickness by spiritual means. . 22L ENCTITS: Mrs. Eddy then entered upon a Iifo' of almost unparalled spiritual and human activity, until, in the year 1910, she passed on in her ninetieth year. It is not too much to say that every waking hour of these Tortyâ€"five: years was snent in highest. humblest service to God and humanity. The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science was rarely seen, but this revâ€" elation has shed the light of God. good. broadcast over all the earth. Confronted with the superhuman task of spreading. and_ establishing. the knowledge _ of â€" Christian _ Science throughout â€" the world. Mrs. Eddy w‘r)nte in one of her hymns (Poems, p. 14): ny Hear Interesting Lecture at Church Edifice Thursâ€" day Evening, April 28 ‘The way was often rendered very rugged, but with tireless fidelity, wisâ€" dom, moral courage, and unselfed love she held the great truth of Christian Science before the h\mfl doubting. hostile waze of the who! world. She trod the way rejoicinely, assured that it was the way of primiâ€" tive Christianity. revealed by Christ Jesus, the Wayâ€"shower. C WE s B c 4400 se W ich wesus, 12 MR se Mrs. Eddy was also led to establish the vast organization of The Mother Church and its branches, daily inâ€" éreasing in number, power, and inâ€" fluence. and forever safe@uarded by the flawless wisdom of the Byâ€"laws im her Church Manual. Uncertainty About Prayer ‘The particular aspect of Christian Science which has been chosen for toâ€" day is: The Science of Demonstrabile Praver. _ _ . This question of praver is one about which there is much uncemin-I %-u:h controversy, doubt, confuâ€" and disappointment. So much | that some discouraged persons :vn altogether ceased praying. Manâ€" Kind is puzzled to know how to cone with its problems of poverty, sickâ€" | mess, sin, sorrow, and all their sad eomsequences, and skepticism nnd( wtheism have almost stified humanâ€"| ity‘s best hopes. ‘The "I don‘t underâ€"| g" attitude, or agnosticism, is in held by many hlh‘;n:ct every still longs for, and for the of human conditions. To of all its troubles. | remained unanswered beâ€" "Shenherd. show me how to go O‘er the hillside steep. How to za}he!'._l_mw to sow,â€" How to feed Thy sheen; I will listen for Thy. voice, Lest my footsteps stray; I will follow and rejoice All the rugged way." KER SEYMER, CS. true nature of God has Eon o ie o Sotat t r and I should like to quote you a few Since| lines from a wellâ€"known hymn which Baker| indicates _ the _ different . stages of f dml nrayer (Christian Science Hymnal, p. af her|91); revâ€" Teachableness | God. Perhaps the very first rung in this | arth.| lndder of praver is indicated in .Inb's‘ task i humble desire: "That which I see not the| teach thou me." This desire indiâ€"| ence| cates the teachable, humble, listening Eddy| attitude, whereby a mortal does not | is, p.} seek to gain God‘s ear for the purâ€" pose of pouring out his mortal woes, | ‘but sceks to incline his own ear in | o order that, through spiritual sense,‘ he may catch the pure, healing, reasâ€" â€" suring mossages of Truth and Love. This willingness to learn more about | God, and God‘s image, humbles intelâ€" lectual vanity, pride of opinion, pesâ€"| simism, and leads up to ‘the next rungs of hope, faith, expectancy of: good. 1 very Mountaineers find that ‘their range wisâ€"| of view widens as they leave the val= elfed | ley; so true tWoughts and right deâ€" h of|sires grow stronger as they ascend nm rbove the valley of materialistic whole| thought and aspire to the heights of wely.| spiritual perception. It may seem a rimiâ€"| long way to the top of the ladder of hrist| prayer.â€"to the summit of spiritual understanding. â€" but Christian Sciâ€" wblish| ence teaches that from the start joy other| is added to joy, and that with ever{ y inâ€"| rung attained, conditions of healt d inâ€"\ and character are improved. Obscured Views of God We know that Christians do not 'mhipurndlâ€"fib-tlhviu you to consider whether the religious on op e m mss ou to consider whether the religious | thenâ€"and are hfidn&y case 3.'”. of modern Christians are not‘dimdy contant: will. ‘They obscured by many 'WW,?}!,!“I ‘lg?:fgff‘fi t Go’.'h-c&h- instance, have you not met people| w disregarding God, believe in‘ e and bad luck, |9etk to reatnrioltlwir‘ throi Plimll ry, s » and evenlzfiml‘h a pufi of amy' In other words, through some hum‘ superstition? Again, do not otherl‘ resign themselves to sickness, and ; to other afflictions, because they beâ€" lieve them to be the will of God? And‘ do not insurance agencies, even in this supposedly enlightened age, desâ€"| ignate earthquakes and other wholeâ€" ‘sale disasters as "acts of God"? \ | God As Love + i‘ Now, the complete and final revelaâ€" \ tion of God has come through Chrisâ€" tian Science with its clear, practical message on the subject of demonâ€". | strable prayer; that is to say, prayer bringing to mortals definite proof that God is infinite Truth, Life, and Love, whom none need fear, but whom all ‘ must obeyâ€"the God to whom all may: find access, through whom all may [ find redemption from every phrase of Ievil here and now. | God, the giver of all good, and of | good alone, is unceasingly pouring ‘forth life, holiness, health, intelliâ€" {gence, and joy on all His spiritual creation, and Christian Science teachâ€" es us exactly how to perceive, to reâ€" ceive, and to manifest these practical tokens of divine Love. Prayer The Christian Science text book opens _ with» seventeen wonderful pages in the first chapter, entitled "Prayer." Within these pages, every unbiased reader finds much to ponâ€" der, much to rejoice in, much to learn, and much that may cause him to revise his old concept of prayer. . Jacob‘s Ladder Prayor might be likened to Jacob‘s ladder, of which we read in Genesis that it was "set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold© the angels of God ascending and descending on it." Note that this ladder was set up on earth, which indicates that God, good. is not remote but everâ€"present, and that heaven is not a distant place to be reached after death, but a diâ€" vine state of consciousness which is, in everâ€"increasing measure, attainâ€" able here and now. And what are the "angels" ascending and descending this ladder of thought? Angels are not faney. winged figures. On page 581 of the Christian Science textbook we find this simple and appealing definition of angels: "God‘s thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect;â€" the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality." â€" 0_ Sof\nu see that every true. spiritâ€" ual thought and desire entertained by vou is vour link with God, everâ€"presâ€" nt divine Mind eMoite e e ronding thought is the ripening deâ€" | sire to understand and obey God‘s| will rejoicingly, knowing it to bestow only holiness, health, and perfect purity. This resolve always to obey every call of God, good, leads to the rung of obedience, on which we meet | the angels, or thoughts, of courage,| 33 0 l 1212 t es wb d 0 cPd tiâ€"A0d rmvmm. and peace. It is, thereâ€" ore..the rung on which mortals learn to drt;’r discouragement, worry, and ««lfwill. Christian Science teaches the great necessity for understanding the statement in the Lord‘s Prayer, "Thy will be ’_m:." will, the words ANd WOX C Tostaâ€" Jesus, as n:flul in the Now Testaâ€" our guide. * Th sreleesing Christians will agree Another rung in this ladder of asâ€" 6.fi Abcicdiy ~2 / God‘s Will ‘These words, so full of hlessedness, Thy â€" will be done," have been rangely misconstrued. By many, Disease, then, as well as sin, is unâ€" ‘ch:in.'un, contrary to God‘s will, or | Christ Jesus would no& and ‘could not, have healed it, and Seiâ€" ‘ ence w’(‘)uld m)lfi be healing mdehell“all over the world as it is . | This recognition of God‘s good-v!ll and its practical results whenever it is understood, and obeyed, h:m_ us \to a wonderful rung in the 1 of prayer. We meet here the most cheerâ€" ing, _ strengthening, indispensable comrade in daily lifeâ€"the angel of ur.mnun-;‘d:d.hm*; ing‘ God‘s will. peing so, it logical to adimit that these evils were wiheipier has ons "qifornr spurpone inciple, one beneficent towards all, and same in all ages. 0 ts gratitude Gratitude "But," one may say, "gratitude is quite natural when everything ::rfo- ing well, but here am I ill, w ied, afraid, anxious about my loved ones, and about the future, so how can I possibly be expected to feel any gratiâ€" Pm e oi n LCC tude?" Real gratitude is much more than a personal matter, and I invite you to consider gratitude from a Tnnmh.;mnnmmflmrnl.mon bIVIE1ION 07 NATIONAL There Is a HYDROX Agency Near Your Home ng today ng s menever it | Teddca af| 1 of ost cheerâ€" ispensable angel of atitude is ing is goâ€" , worried, oved ones. 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Hovm:mwa:rkbody obeyed, mankindâ€" would speedily be\ wirhout the additional use of materâ€" engulfed in a morass of materi@lis®|;,) means? Christian Science m.u'l'. from which there would be no ©8CAPE:| noses disease as ryd_fll, men Through Christian Science, one|and only secondarily ,"?E‘!"_!’?.‘.'_':? Through Christian Science, one learns to know God as perfect, operaâ€" tive, divine Princifle. Love, available to mortals in their every need, and therefore gratitude is boundless and unwavering. This gratitude abides in ‘ spite o:lthe discor?nnt m‘fl‘w of thi- physical senses, for spi tiâ€" tude, which is allied to lyiritdnm!v derstanding, is fed from the deep, everlasting wells of divine Love. Through steadfast gratitude, courage is maintained, discouragement is banâ€" ished, and even under cireumâ€" stances the prayer of gpiritual Fnti- tude looks Godward and cries: "Open thou mine eyes, that I ma{. behold wondrous things out of thy w." An BUTTERSCOTCH ICE CREAM 50c Full Quart Brick. BAaIBRY PBROBDUVCTS COARPOR AT oN heals sicl _%‘Ei.a-. _It is in Ju nost Fumly to gratl tude, ishes dismal d:x‘ll;!‘- m-n'ot:lnt. and fear; for gn:l’mn: one those ualities hich divine Love Tiimee -igm:'&bht- Healing Sickness ‘There is a question which some of M SBme on n oo en d ject were throwing a dark shadow on the floor, and you wanted to remove the shadow, would“l!ol serub the floor? No, you would remove the obâ€" ject which was cutinfl the shadow, without touching the floor; and the shadow would vanish. So Christian Science deals directly with the fear and the mental discord expressed on the body as sickness, and as harmony is restored in the mind of the patient, the sickness, which was only a re\:!liul effect or shadow of a soâ€"call mental cause disappears. 1 say "soâ€"called" mental of God‘s beneficent law Mind. is the one ) Mircuie Aruth: God. there is neither y phyment nor * montal en o9 .,,?" wfi.”‘-u&-fl-'n un fropt of every person in this v.odly.'l‘h-'chmnlll::l"-lfi here for all to enjoyâ€" the Shealth 96 o. on nthance."" Heslth can ! oo belmed u-m:h-"' Chor r, nOF be ‘on through matter; healt spiritual fact, based on Spir sustained by spiritual law; he the natural fruit of spiritualit METTUCC O C ordgnnt 1 £ sustained by spiritual law; health is the natural fruit of spirituality, and as such, no matter how desperate the Rhysial condition may seem to be, ealth is available to '-I.l“w spiritual understanding, h regenâ€" crates mind and body. Every physiâ€" cian will tell you that fear is one of L Puc ait o adibet t 9k en WADCVO E0 S Cc cm o & the vont(oeuo!bed&.uduh obvious that fear is a mental state which material medicine cannot alleâ€" viate. Fear is contrary to divine Love, contrary _ to God‘s goodâ€"will, contrary to His beneficent omniâ€" active laws of health, holiness, and immortality . 24 sadicenamit es Through the ltudg of Christian Sciâ€" ence, fear and all the ignorant beliefs of the human mind begin to disappear Light Blots THURSDAY, MAY 5, ky /«*gA

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