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FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, What did Moses need more than that? God‘s presence would go with him, and give him rest. In all his walks and doings God would be everâ€"present, ever with him to guide him in all his stepsâ€"the light conâ€" timudily before him. This was enough for Moses, and it is enough for you and me in our seemingly perilous through the wilderâ€" ndmmow.lnothe '-t.lhrnmdflnm- terial into the spiritual 1 we walk e ce we F.n.cln"mâ€"m well with us. flgud being is that we are in His liett: ae wnere ove, and wihh arvem Tomings to be theee y spirituad Christian Science: The Reve lation of God‘s Healing interested. Some of you may be members of other Christian deâ€" nominations, and some may have mever belonged to any church@But let me assure you all that, as the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, has writâ€" ten, "God explains Himself in Chrisâ€" tian Science" (Message for 1901, p. 8), and if you are here with expecâ€" tation and sincerity, looking for that larger understanding of God which will eventually enable you to heal mfllMou:rhl.youflunot: disappointed. en we learn Christian Science that God is Allâ€" inâ€"all, as the Scriptures declare Him to be, and that all evil, sin, disease, and death are not real but only suppositions of the absence of God, ar good, we can begin to demonstrate what we learn. However, as in other fields of endeavor, your success will depend largely upon your faithfulâ€" ness, your perseverance, steadfastâ€" ness, and honesty. > To be brought into a clearer and eloser realization of that presence of God which heals humanity‘s ills is a happy as well as a sacred experience. Your being here this evening indiâ€" mm"y:mmmu presence with which God has already hi wAdPhcso nds mrichiarees Plkâ€"niube Aiisiis cesA rightly believe that he referred to the Christ, the manifestation of God, as being present with them. Chisâ€" tian Science enables us to be aware of God as everâ€"present; it shows us how to think and live in the way A writer once set down these stirâ€" ring words regarding religion. He wrote: "Religion is not an escape mor an insurance. It is conquest. For man is in touch with such amazâ€" ing resources that, no matter what happens. nothing can destroy his spirit! _ What matters is, how does he take what happens. The man who has found God has found one who will enable him to turn calamity into triumph" (The Christian Science Journal). "This is a case that is incurable;" again, "Heredity makes it futile for me to expect to get help." Others argue that their condition has made them useless and a burden, but these are only arguments of human belief which can be successfully denied. Christian Science is the Science of God, of man, and the universe, helpâ€" Ing us to find our spiritua) selfhood, pointed out by Christ Jesus He overcame the material evidences of sin, sickness, and death because he understood God as everâ€"present, and from suffering. No doubt there are some here toâ€" night who are hearing of Christian Bcience for the first time, and posâ€" sibly others who are just becoming Christian Science brings to us the message of spiritual healing which Jesus proved in his life, making it clear that allidisease and suffering, incapacity disability are the results of falfe education, culminatâ€" ing in fear and helplessness. â€" The argument of the human mind is, flection His qualities of wisdom, mu:ummumu gnmm;m-mnm.' And said, "My presence shall go with thee, and 1 will give thee fered" t° as" prosince. * when re as & IMMQMM\MIO mammndnndl.ulm the he said to God, "See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this in the Eim Place Auditorium Christian Sci Member «f the Beard ol Lectursship af The Mothes Church, The Fimt Charch «f Under the Auspices of Held Monday Evening, of Boston, Massachusetts Highland Park, Hlincis January 18, 1943 SCIENTIST by must awaken to the fact that God is Mflfimufiflz ence. Most of us have given attention w this, because we were not aware of the spiritus) facts of had a desire to be good. every time we have felt a great sense of comâ€" passion or love for mankind, renewed faith and confidence, we have felt the angels of His presence. At this point in the unfoldment of our subject, the question might be asked, "Why are there not more who Mrs. Eddy answers the qi im Jesus reiterated these commands and explained their spiritua) basis and proved their applicability at all times to human needs. As the Apostle John writes, "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." ‘The earthly experience of Christ Jesus impressed humanity in two ways: first, through his teachings which have endured throughout twenty centuries and are stil} as trub and inspiring, as pertinent as when Jesus was here among men; second, that he brought to the human conâ€" sciousness such an understanding and realization of the presence of God that many felt its healing power, freeing them from sin, disâ€" ease, and even death. Scriptures." Let me read what she dreamland, until mortals arrive at the understanding that materia) life, mmmmm is an against which divine Science is engaged in a warfare of we are going through is a waking dream of belief of life, intelligence, and substance in matter, we shall give less attention to material eviâ€" dences and think more of spiritual us a sense of the nothingness of error, and they show the spiritual inspiration of Love and Truth to be the only fit preparation for admisâ€" sion to the presence and power of the Most High." Here, then, is the whom God later gave the Ten Comâ€" mandments. Upon some understandâ€" ing of these commands has been based all successful government of both individual and â€" state since Moses‘ time. Jesus of Nazareth, who spoke "as never man spake," taught and _ demonstrated his spiritual understanding of God‘s law. The commands to love God supremely and one‘s neighbor, and even the "stranger that is within thy gates" £s himself, are included in the reveâ€" lation to Moses. virgin. He was appointed to speak God‘s word and to appear to mortals in such a form of humanity as they could understand as well as perceive" (Science and Health, p. 332) He knew that the age in which he lived was grossly material and idolatrous, and so he appealed to his listeners through parables and healings He promised his followers that, though he must leave them, his words and works would live, and they that beâ€" Heved on him the works which he did they would do, also, and even .n" prophesied the coming of of all, he the Comforter or Christ. Truth, which he said the Pather would send, â€"which . would show â€" menâ€"all things that he had taughtâ€"in other words, the healing of sin and sickâ€" ness through understanding God and the facts of spiritual being. says (p. 543): "In divine Science, the material man is shut out from the presence of God. The five corâ€" It is seen from these statements that the testimony of the five physiâ€" can only be considered in the light of s dream. And that all sickness, failure, sin, death, calamity, war, and famine must be intelligently dealt with as illusion, and destroyed by scientific reasoning based on the of Spirit, which is God. Surely none of us believe that the experiences of ‘The question next arises: How can this illusion or dream of material existence, the presence of evil and absence of God, be broken? For the answer let me read again from the Christian Science textbook (p. 596): *The illuminations of Science give way to awaken from the dream The Revelation of Love and Truth In the Holy Bible, Moses comes first as the one to whom God reâ€" vealed His great name, His nature, Jesus understood . God. This understanding was due to his clear realization of spiritual being, for he was endowed with the Christ from God. The name "Christ," which is so often associated with Jesus, was really the divine nature of God which our Master expressed. Mrs. Eddy defines "Christ" as, "The diâ€" vine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarâ€" nate error" (Science and Health, p. 583). ‘And "Jesus" is defined by her as, "The highest human corporeal concept 0. the divine idea, rebuking and destroying error and bringing to light man‘s immortality" (Science and Health, p. 589). Mrs. Eddy also understanding his teachings suffiâ€" *Nm-“hm-: The intervening years have shown a gradual, steady growth in the apâ€" E“m“w'm"'“m""'n_m"" . Men and women have voiced p hk Talth in grane ‘ano phrioms lives devoted to the advancement of , invariable, tils of the body. But the great fact Gud. the revelation appears. So Mary Baker Eddy. one of our own countrywomen, proved to be the one ready to receive this revelaâ€" tion of divine Science, which is the promised Comforter. Mrs Eddy was an earnest, devoted stitient of the Bible, a firm believer in God. and piace in buman affairs and, as bas wnrnn"flvl.hudl‘l.m and Love," which she has "Christian Science" (p. 107). Law is the expression of the power and auâ€" thority of Principle, God. And as Mrs. Eddy has written, "This apoâ€" dictical Principle points to the reveâ€" lation of Immanuel, ‘God with us, unmglmiwadii’;i"fi every i1! ‘that flesh is heir to‘" (Seiâ€" mlnz'nn:lh. lfl).‘l.;nl. a proof .mflw Christ Jesus in Mrs. Eddy‘s healing. â€" another presence, the opposite or absence of God or good, called evil. lln.:_dflyhumenmflu:‘ulbt- ing embracing definition God, which I will read from the textbook (p. 465) : "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, M&We.mth.lmo.‘vhu terms, says, are synonymous, reâ€" ferring "to one absolute God." "They are also intended," she says, "to exâ€" press the nature, essence, and wholeâ€" ness of Deity." disciples. At a time when Mrs Eddy was suffering from the result â€"of an accident, which her physician thought would be fatal, she turned tw her Bible for comfort and strength and read the account Matâ€" m'umdm‘htdh man sick with the palsy found herself suddenly healed and recogâ€" The Nature of God You will naturally agree that there must be a true perception of God‘s nature before one can understand His presence and its power. And, again, we must know that it is only a mortal sense, a false sense of man, that is to be corrected by this healâ€" ing presence, for man in God‘s image is not in need of healing. But we mortals need to know what God is, or we fall victims to the belief of Then we learn, according to Chrisâ€" tian Science, that God is incorporeal, that is, without a physical body; diâ€" vine not human, supreme, without an equal, and infinite, filling all space; and we also learn that the presence of God would embrace the presence of His synonymsâ€"the presâ€" ence of Mind. the presence of Spirit, the presence of Soul, the presence of Principle. the presence of Life, the presence of Truth, and the presence of Love. Now while to each synonym we may for the moment attribute a particular healing quality or acâ€" tivity, we must remember that the words are synonymous, and for that reason what pertains to Mind would also pertain to Spirit, to Soul, Prinâ€" ciple, Life, Truth, Love. However, it God‘s presence and power. understand the full significance of Truth and Love we shall recognize that Truth and Love are indeed one and the same, and that one is God. Let us consider these synonyms for God in their different aspects. Now the healing activity of Mind is to instruct. Mind is the source of intelligence and must know its own ideas, and must be continually imâ€" parting itself through these ideas. Man, being the highest lderz of God, reflects perception, comprehension, understanding, discernmentâ€"all of dtrelint in oo «oogh ngonr Searching for we our» selves by the divine Ill:& Constructive ideas, thoughts, unfold to us as we pray for wisdom and understanding, and the darkenâ€" ing suggestions of ignorance, backâ€" wardness, imperception, and dullâ€" ness are naturally healed in the md this presence of the divine is true our understanding of God is way," or, "Maybe the doctor was names for Deity. And when we The healing activity of Spirit is to purify. Spiritual man already creâ€" ated in God‘s likeness is immaculate, pure, holy, and the human or mortal man, conceived in sin, as the Bible says, needs to know these facts in order to purify his thinking. The presence of Spirit renders harmless the beliefs of contamination and inâ€" fection, even though one is exposed to sin and disease. In reality there is nothing anywhere which can conâ€" taminate or affect the perfect man of God‘s creating, and that man is your true selfhood. ‘The healing activity of Soul is to the supremacy, the glory of God, and as we magnify or glorify God in our human thinking we become aware of His glory, His majesty and takes away the faise sense of selfâ€" glorification, selfâ€"condemnation, or selfâ€"pity. Boasting. vanity, conceélt, inferiority, and . selfâ€"depreciation give way to this healing power of Soul. By constantly glorifying God or good. the fleshly cravings are quieted. The soâ€"called pleasures of uwnhwmnnm and sin, but these claims disâ€" appear with the growing realization that true and lasting joy can come only through the presence of Soul. Next let us consider the healing activity of Principle. Principle govâ€" cause. Man is the effect of Principle. He is Principle‘s idea, man at one So Mrs. Eddy set to work to disâ€" is infinite causation. with his Maker. can se more be separsied from his Principle than --bmt-“ Realizing that governs its ..1“& belief man is governed by morta) mind instesd of God. ‘This belief has visited upon morta) man Goodness is of God. never of person. Jesus referred directly to this when he said, "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one. that is. God." God governs man, and as we z.fl.‘-hlblhm harmonious and continuous government will be manifested in the textbook says (p. 335). God, who b“l&.h‘mm mnhbqn‘;;-: Life. Life is not in material things nor in the material sense of man. Paul said, "In him we live, and move, :lnn.-'..w"n-btu: nrnuu'og.n@.m errors which Truth, understood, deâ€" stroys. ‘Truth can only correct what of Life which destroys the belief in or fear of desth. ‘The healing activity of Truth is to correct. Now Truth is that which is. God being all or Truth, there is no opposite of Truth termed error. God is. Sin and disease, as well as death, are not. They are not the truth or facts of being. while holiness. im Truth is never reversed, but, as the textbook states (p. 442), "the reverse of error is true." We must willingly see the soâ€"called material man as a false concept of man. ‘Then, by acâ€" knowledging the spiritual man as the true man, we shall find ourselves grasp the fuller meaning of Life as human self must be corrected and be disciplined by the truth which And, finally, the healing activity of Love is to inspire. Man, as God‘s representative, is forever inspired, and this destroys the beliefs of deâ€" pression, dejection, discouragement, and frustration. We can always know the presence of Love by its uplifting, strengthening, and joyous effect. The cup of inspiration is the blessing of Love. Nothing else can take, the place of. that unselfish blessing of the Pather. Being aware of the presence of divine Love, we are healed of hate, revenge, selfishâ€" ness. No other word but Love can which is fitly describe the goodness of God. Blessing all with His tender care, eyes than to behold evil," God is indeed the Giver of all good, "with whom is no variableness, nelther shadow of turning." As John says, "We love him, because he first loved As the years bring with them just and appreciative regard for all those who have given to men a higher and holier. sense of God and His creation, how grateful we are and shall continue to be that Mary Baker Eddy, throughout the reâ€" mainder of her earthly days, deâ€" to the establishment, equipment, and nourishment of the Cause of Christian Science. ‘The persecutions which were heaped upon Christ upon. Mrs. Eddy for her discovery of matter‘s nothingness and the allâ€" ness of Spirit. It was no little thing to expose the workings of the carnal mind, to uncover evil‘s subtle ways for accomplishing more iniquity. But Mrs. Eddy, following our dear Master, drank of the bifter cup and pressed on in spite of seemingly overpowering odds, until today Christian Science is a recognized religion, honored and established in the Christian world. No one but she knew what it meant to be the author of Science and Health. Just | think for a moment of one fact. There was a time when no one knew what she was taiking about. She, alone, comprehended the meaning of her "scientific statement of being" tScience and Health, p. 468): "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is Allâ€"inâ€"ail. Spirit is imâ€" mortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God. and man is His image and likeness. ‘Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual." And she had to prove this stateâ€" ment, denying the claims of matter and declaring the allness of God as Mind or Spirit. Her demonstration of these statements continues in their full force today, and the years will grandly credit her and her teachings, and humanity will rise up in everâ€" ‘There is a chapter in this textbook which gives us many proofs of the successful operation of the teachâ€" ings of Christian Science. ‘This chapter is entitled "Pruitage." Here are over one hundred pages of wellâ€" authenticated testimonies of those who have been healed of almost every known disease or condition by just reading and studying the textâ€" book. Not one of these persons conâ€" God certainly cannot do any more for us than He has already done. He knows our needs are spiritual “M.MT.- To pray to understand fact is m%flflh-‘â€": day with its many distractions, sugâ€" cured through reading and sthdying Mrs. Rddy‘s revelation of the everâ€" presence and power of God Mrs. Eddy‘s Demonstration of Truthâ€"of that o draught of cool water or the us to so silence maicrinl censes and quict our own impulsivenees and anxicties that we are able to have sudience with God and take in the purifying qialitics of His presâ€" be mute and materialism silent, which destroys all ervor." _ _ Perfect prayer consists not is the multitude of words, but in the raises the thought toward God. To effectively Jesus said we must 2.‘0-“-‘“& door and our Father which seeth in ‘There is an old proverb which reads, "The bee that gathers the honey is not the one that fiits from flower to flower, but the one that remains Mv:?.-*-mh § cation to prayer. nugsm': ried, wordy prayer, but, rather, quietly dwelling and realizing !h!h-lv.lgh;,::n«oum apart from the crowded cities and towns to a mountain or hilltop in order to be alone in prayer. It was as the conscious clesation shove all as the conscious above all materiality, the realization of man‘s unity with God, which Jesus desired. mMJ?‘-‘m“hl m“tm of spiritual power. God‘s man was must shut out our fears and anxieâ€" that he saw only the perfect climax of ~demonstration ~over death occurred shortly after his prayerful experience on the Mount these moments spent in God‘s presâ€" ence, imbibing His purity, wisdom, strength, and joy with which to meet and overcome the errors of materia) existence. Mrs. Eddy states in her "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 133): "Three times a day, I retire to seek the divine blessing on the sick and realize the facts of our true being as of Olives. ‘seeth in secret,‘ and with childlike sorrowing, with my face toward the ‘omly'!na:gmmoznd'm-u care and labor I turn constantly to divine Love for guidance, and find handle it or it will handle us." ‘This handling of a problem or situation is the necessary means of destroying its claims to discourage and depress us. And the fundamental fact in the practice of the Christian religion is to recognize the great truths of God‘s allness and intelligence and then handle or correct the spurious claims instructed by God to rescue the children of Israel from slavery to the Egyptians, answered God, sayâ€" ing, "But, behold, they will not beâ€" lieve me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they wil} say, The Lord hath not indeed, others, one is apt to hear presence, we see that evil must be nothing. Evil is referred to in the Scriptures as a serpent, always hidâ€" ing itself in the guise of good, and that is just what material beliefs are constantly trying to doâ€"impress us that there is pleasure in matter and only dullness in Spirit. But when we have found out, to our joy, that matter and its beliefs can . result that happiness and true pleasure are qualities of divine Mind, we are then ready to seek Him in whose presâ€" ence, the Psaimist said, there is "fulness of joy"; and at whose "right hand there are pleasures for everâ€" Por a tine example of handling error let me recall another incident which happeried to Moses. ‘The story goes that Moses, upon being appeared unto thee. And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod. And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from beâ€" fore it And the Lord said unto take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it beâ€" came a rod in his hand: that they may believe that the Lord God of Mmmoudnnn: the God of Isaac, and the God Jacé®, hath appeared unto thee." vletunlh'mga-vu the neck so that it would IJ nnmmm&mw‘fl him to pick it up by the tail, which to human reasoning would be the wost dangerous method of the serpent But, obedient to Moses cal@ed his fear and took by the tail. and it became a rod in ghh.nd We may gain a splendid sson from this incident, for it thows~â€"matter toâ€"be a belief which becomes dangerous or cont according to our thought about it ‘when error should be handled from its most dangerous aspect, for it cannot burt you. N Mitle child had been suffering lgomm.uw as her mother was unable to meet and heal the condition a Chrisâ€" timn Science practitioner was asked to help, so treatment was taken up. Instead of getting any relief the mmnmu‘:dfi mother more fearful. practiâ€" tioner had been faithful and sineere Working Christian Scientists soon alize the great need for. these Beginning with the premise that ‘The interesting part of this episode of a in uB what was the most dangercus aspect of the case. and suddenly the answer overcome h:.‘ beliefs of everiasting ommc flammation. The action of these true ideas »oon had its effects on the and many evidences of His guidance and protection. In the war in which able stress. We hear, too, of what seem to the human sense miracuâ€" lous escapes from conditions threatâ€" ening disaster. ‘These incidents all point to the presence of Mind‘s diâ€" in her work. But she knew that hed minty MBd wost, abe banco io Gus thre af vche? it wie nolang ie :hii-ii.??u;u";.- most dangerous aspect is always the fear of death Immediately the practitioner turned her attention silently to the claim of death. She knew that God is the life of man and in a few hours was entirely free and about her play. What a beautiâ€" ful answer to understanding prayer! also hear of numberiess cases of endurance and strength beyond the patient. ‘After s few moments of quict. praperfu) meditation, like & beam of light in the darkness. came At this crucial period in the world‘s history men and women are looking and searching, as never beâ€" fore, for that heavenly reassurance which will enable them to look beâ€" youd the physical evidence of evil to that spiritual consciousness or divine presence, in which there is already established, to that secret place of the Most High, where one truly finds his protection from this onslaught of paganism . against Christianity. Never befcre has the earth been so engulfed in war. This fact leads one to reasonably expect that, because of its allâ€"embracing nature, there will emerge from this fiery trial a peace fulfilled: "I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is." This prophecy will not stop short of complete fulfiliment, which shall be the coming of the Christ, Truth, to the individual consciousness of every "shall know me, from the least to the greatest" (Hebrews 8:11). ‘The despotic forces of evilâ€"selfâ€" sway over a great part of the world. And there are evidences of the inâ€" filtration of antiâ€"Christian methods pear, until matter reaches its mortal: zenith in illusion and forever disâ€" appears." But unless we are awake Satan‘s warfare, we shall find ourâ€" selves either lulled into apathy by it, or made frantic by fear. The purâ€" and e s:dmmdl:n:h separate, â€" dividually, whether it be groups of persons or groups of nations. United we‘ll stand, divided we‘l fall. â€" The Christian peoples of the world have accepted the challenge of maâ€" terialism and paganism and have virtually taken up the burden of all oppressed peoples everywhere. God will supply strength and grace, wisâ€" dom and power to those who do His work, for it is selfâ€"evident that God We must not, however, be disâ€" mayed at the picture presented by spiritual clearâ€"sightedness to the foe. "For they that be with us are more than they that be with them." n_oym to mankind, a refusal to .h-?-‘u m:‘:fl pre{ % and look through the len« of faith un:-:m-nnulh-.- cloth selfâ€"pity and selfâ€"justifica~ tion and put on the robes of gratiâ€" tude and joy. Let us stop drinking in the beliefs of passions and appeâ€" tites and imbibe the inspiration of presence of God, we shall behold the unseen chariots and horses that the presence shall go with thee, and I P aepeaners :'__.-nh.-!- mm opclk: s ereeia that oo pein Pn The World Situation There is today a marked increase