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2 0 oo RABPAP TRCOTIIRE NN _ |. Let us not, however, regard lig? 1; 'gg \ m m w IMW ioi{. Ma‘m nR E+ A| P k i : « N 8 A h i | ) OLC hfi CHRISTIAN SCIENCE] &2fi showd ve beaun n 24 #eh in & 4 Â¥ 4 a our asking or imploring God to do something for us, or does it imply some understanding of the fact that God is ever on our side, ever desires our good.â€"some understanding on our part of God‘s natureâ€"and an openâ€" ness or readiness on our part to acâ€" cept His blessings" Permit me to postpone. for a few moments, the anâ€" swer to these questions. We shall reâ€" turn to this subject later. Growing Concent of God Throughout the Bible there runs as a golden thread the history of men‘s growing concept ‘of God. You will reâ€" member that God was regarded by men of olden time as a bein= n".!\u':\an BY GAVIN W. ALLAN, C. 8. B.}to em tures" (p. 226): "The voite of God in behalf of the African slave was still echoing in our land. when the voice of the heflrl:lg of thifs new crusade sounded the keynote of universal freeâ€" d'o‘rm. asking a fuller acknowledgment of the rights of man as a Son of God, demanding that the fetters of sin, sickness, and death be stricken from the human mind and that its freedom be won, not through human warfare, not with bayonet and blood, but through Christ‘s divine Science." Many Hear Interesting Lecture at First Church of Christ, ence is menuUoneu . DTGUER; NOCRA AC those who know but little about it, P eruiiky io ts snhieit of maling. be nai the su 0 m = cause “é_hristhn Science" and ‘&oa.l- ing" have come to be intinutel} assoâ€" ciated in the minds of many. Just as the name of Lincoln and the idea or thought of emancipation have ¢ome to be inseparable in the minds of most people, so among an ever growing multitude the terms of Christian Sciâ€" ence and healing have become insepâ€" arably assocjated. _ s s Indeed, between the great work of Lincoln and the lifeâ€"work of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer | and Founder of Christian Science, there is more than an accidental relationgship. Little tmore than three years Lincoln had issued the Proclamation of Emancipation, Mary Baker Eddy discovered what has proved to be the Science of Christianity, a Science which is destined to free humanity everywhere from the mental bonds with which mankind has seemed to be encompassed. Regarding this disâ€" covery, Mrs. Eddy has written in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scripâ€" ::;:':l:s one who was changeable, reâ€" penting of what He had done: as one who could be deterred from His purâ€" form. and havine a local habitation: that He was snoken of as a "man of vose; as a being who could love and hate with apnarently equal ease and naturalness. Later, He was thought of as omnipresent; as invisible: as our shevherd; ;our nreserver; our Father, and on up to Christ Jesus‘ revelation of od )qinLove. In this resveet the Bible is the most human of books. It appeals to us ijust where we are, for each one of us has been in on»e or more of the rositions indicated along that upâ€"wardâ€"tendine line. Have not we ourselves sometimes thought of God as a bei&g of human form and of human natufre, with its injustices and hates * I repeat, the Bible anveals to u« just where we are. and, if we are willinge to follow, leads us gently on and un to the revelation and ‘demonâ€" stration of God as Love. Old Testament Miracles During these Old Testament times. when the popular concepts of God seem to us mtio ll:ave hcbeen 'tomnh !;‘at grotesaue. and when the most enlightâ€" ened of the people seem to have beâ€" lieved CGod to be capable of both good and evil, there were instances here and there in which the power of God was proved in the protection and presâ€" ervation of man. > Passing over the wonders wrought in Egypt, the wilderness and Canaan, by Moses, Aaron and Joshua. we have a record of a number of what have been called miracles by Elijah, for exâ€" amnle, the stayingi{: the cruse of oil, and meal. and raising of the widow‘s san at Zarephath; also miraâ€" cles by Elisha, the increase of the widow‘s oil, the raising of the Shunâ€" ammite‘s son, and the cure of Naaâ€" man‘s leprosy. + These works were wrought throuch rrophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought rightsousness, obâ€" tained promises, stopped the mouths of lion=. auenched the violence of fire. escaned the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight. turned to flight the armies of the aliens.‘"" great faith in God. The writer of the Evistle to the Hebrews, reviewing these wonders of olden times, wrote: "Time would fail me to tell . . . of the I think it can be said in all justice and fairness that these works were wrought through faith rather than un"erxtanding; through the pronhst‘s faith in hisâ€"power as a representative of Jehovah. rather than through an understanding of the nature and allâ€" ness of God as unchangeable, divine Love. The fact that their powers were used. on some occasions, to curse as well as to bleas seems to indicate that PAGE TWO â€" | fm“fi e -.':?3 works was not sciâ€" Christian Sciâ€" fou‘ iCs longing to this age, but, what is much more:"the life ug'{g% of cll.;rht Jesus, and Mrs. \â€" wonderful discovery of the Science of being. : We read that Lazarus had died. His sisters sent for Jesus, who came four days later. On his arrival he tested to some extent the faith of those who had ‘gathered about the tomb by his command to roll away the stone. When they had done this, then is reâ€" corded Jesus‘ prayer of thanksgiving: "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me;" his prayer of aflmfiou‘ "I knew that thou hearest me always ;‘ and, following that (remembering that he himself told us, "What things soâ€" ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe ‘oto> > .5 Perfect Healing: s Thnim there is at“Sciam ‘of hulix.\f This was definitely | adequately proved %t:ne life and works of oiux: x:l:::rt'h‘ rist Jesus. He &xdmnot claim belonged meâ€" self; he uidz'gfl:"nthn . . . doeth the works," '!'hcy were mnfi:b* an understanding â€"of . divine® Principle. Sickness was healed; sin was destroyâ€" P _W,....â€"E """"'-I".‘F"‘ PE m & un’ it:m con« The method of healing here illusâ€" trated did not belong solelzlnto Jesus, neither was it confined within or limâ€" ited to his age, his locality, or his perâ€" son. He taught it to others. He gathâ€" ered around him at least two groups of students,â€"the twelve and the sevâ€" enty. He taught them; he commandâ€" ed them to heai; he sent them out with specific instructions to heal the sick, and on their return commended their healing work. Nor were such healâ€" ing works confined to his immediate disciples, or to their pupils; for hisâ€" tor{ records that the healing of the sick was a familiar and recognized acâ€" tivity of the Christian church throughâ€" out the the first three centuries of its existence, and the New Testament reâ€" cords the raising of the dead by those who had not been under Jesus‘ personâ€" al instruction. This ministery of healâ€" ing, howéver, as an activity of the utfy church, noticeably declined durâ€" ing the third century and was lost, and for over sixteen centuries there existâ€" ed little tangible evidence that any such Science of healing had ever been ul::ht and demonstrated on this P et. 3 ; But the human need was great, and the longing for freedom proportionâ€" ately great. _ Necessity, which has ever driven the human race to seek and to find relief from its limitations, was at work and succeeded in this as in many other branches of endeavor. Let us trace its steps. Many a time has it mm news f“:l: in a city paper, one 0| ? residents o!P:ho city, has passed unâ€" noticed or unremembered. But selâ€" dom, indeed, does it occur that such a notice is more widely known, and the possibilities with which it was fraught more ‘ clearly seen, a half mhw. Yet that is just what en <place concerning an item which w fAiftyâ€"nine years ago. _ The Reporter, a newspaper of Lynn, Sickness was healed; sin was ‘dutrofi- ed; death was overcome through his understanding :of the omn'meuencc and omnipotence of God. : This Sciâ€" ence of healing is Kfodicated upon a beneficent, ever available omnipotence. Let us look for a moment atâ€"some exan:fi;l of perfect healing. It is reco in Luke 4:38, 39, that Siâ€" mon‘s wife‘s mother was taken with a great fever, and they besought Jesus for her. "And,"‘the record states, "he stood over her and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them." that ye receive them, ind;fe shall have them"), may we not call it his prayer of expectation? "Lazarus, come forth." And, Lazarus having come forth." ‘ And, Lazarus having Jesus commanded them to "loose him, and let him go." I wonder how many felt that the only loosing necessary is the maising of ‘his sioth bunts was the undoing of his cloth bands. I wonder if any there felt the need for the loosing of mental bands. Jesus‘ work in this respect had been done, and I like to think he called upon each one fment to "loose him",â€" separate him from the false mental pictures they had entertained of him during the past Tew days u: ew days. Inn‘nll of these insta: In all of these instances I have cited it is readily seen that the misâ€" sion of the Christ is to relieve and release the victim of sin or sickness, never to condemn him; that this is accomplished by condemnmf the error and not the man; and that Jesus knew ©1000 MECC CCC INBNL, BHTC DHBL ZOCDUD REHTCW enough of error”- nothingness to conâ€" d;lmn it as nothing and not as someâ€" .. e cerning Mrs. Bddy which stated: that | I am referring to the Bible ;:.mialul‘ul;'lu!i\qh '&tfifl lumtltlg :;l ACAWEE E00 cvonin;of'l'h:jsday cfi?’?fi”'"‘d are ugsing. in was lu'ed;' e doctor Conm who was :31 ed found her injuries to|can churches. ressed it, lifted her heart to God. It Pas sntutal that‘® tomen yhe ht rom her very y reli should in her extremity torn to m. "In childhood," she ull?ua in Science and Health (p. 359), "she often‘listened with foy to these words, falling from the lips of her saintly ;nothe:{ ‘God is fl:ll‘sfig raise‘ you t‘llxg rom sic 2"< t dered meqning_km_t Scripturme,lo often But there is yet a name which deâ€" fines God to us more fully and enâ€" dearingly than all the rest; the name used in the epistle of the beloved dif. ciple when he said, "God is love." Is not our God infinitely tender as well as mighty, merciful as well as just, loving as well as intelligent? Does He not cherish rnourish, and protect, as ;!yell as create, His divine idea, man? He therefore possesses those qualities we usually think of as feminine as \‘;1:“ e mey rnflwlrmrdul!il?e' rr€ that we may rightly m as ‘expressing Motherhood as well > as Fatherhood, and consistently say, as we have learned in Christian Science, "Our Fatherâ€"Mother God." Does not our highest concept of parenthood inâ€" Pace the poomiblinty af c m:"d af. clude the poss y ng sufâ€" fering and distress? We shall thereâ€" Tore be mentally hospitable to the folâ€" lowing definition from the .Christian Science textbook (p. 140): "The Chrisâ€" :lij:in Scil?::cz(}o‘:lkl: universal, etemak ne e, w changeth not an causeth no evil, #:me. nor death." + an « Keeping clearly~in mind these deâ€" scriptions or definitions of God, let us turn our attention to the first account of creation as given in the first chapâ€" tr of Genesis. There may be some re who do not know that there are two separate and dissimilar accounts of creation in the opening chapters of the Bible. â€" If so, when you go home will you look over the first two chapâ€" ters or Genesis! In tho‘afibt of wha. you hear toniecht tb;y ui make in-i ng reading. ; In first, or m:{im account, you will find that God was the creator, man was made in God‘s image, and all that Gbd made was "very good." In the second acâ€" count you will find that Je! h, or the Lord God, was the creator, man was made from dust, and from a rib. and the creation was not highly ;atkf;':'tory. Pl::u do not think that am referring new or uncomâ€" mon version of th:%o. Not at all. cure;) she received a revelation for she had been fitting herself all her life. â€" But to be healed herself was not enough. She must know the Science of this healit:f in order that others, hight _ be healed. For three years, Mrs. Edd{ says, she “soufht the soâ€" lution of this gcroblem of M nd-heahr:f, searched the: rirtures and read little else, kept aloof from society, and deâ€" voted time and energies to discovering a positive rule? (Science and Health, p. 109). She discovered the longâ€" lost Science of healing, and submit: ted it to the very broadest practical zelts in the healing of disease of evâ€" ry kind for nine years before writâ€" %ng the Christiuncfiience textbook. * What is this Science of healing? U]i»o'n what is it based? Our Master said of â€"his demonstration of this Sg- ence, "I can of mine own self do nothâ€" ing;" "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." If, then, God is the: basis, foundation, Princiâ€" ple, of this Science of healing, it is imâ€" portant, it is essential to an underâ€" standing of the subject, that we learn the nature and character of God.â€" No one had revealed God as fully as did our Master, Christ Jesus. He freâ€" quentl{ spoke of what God knows, for example: "God knoweth K:ur hearts;" "your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him;" "your heavenly Father knoweth that ve have need of all these things." Our Master taught that God knows,â€" knows each of His children intimateâ€" So on the Sunday following she called for her Bible and began readâ€" ing the account of the healing, by Jesus, of the palsied man, and as she read a great spiritual.experience was hers, the realization then and there of the power of God. _ In that moment all pain vanished. She rose from her bed, dressed, and walked into the parâ€" lor where her clergyman and a few friends were littir}c,â€"-â€"fflends who had withdrawn but a few moments before frdom : what they n:fl:oud was her death chamber.: In that moment Mrs. Eddy did more than experience a ly: â€"God must, therefore, be Mind, divine â€" Mind, omn::.ruent. divine Mind, who knows all that is true about Himself and each of His children. â€" ?ctel: ‘And these signs shall follow them that believe; .. . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall reâ€" cover,‘" + Jesus also defined God as Spirit, and the Psalmist, praising God for His allâ€"seeing providence, ung: "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?! If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there." Now, if these definitions are true, that God is Mind, Spirit, omnipresent, that is, everywhere presâ€" ent at all times, then God never has been, is not now, and never will be located in, or confined to, some parâ€" ticular spot, whether that be a temâ€" ple on earth or a throne in the clouds; neither could He ever have been, nor is He now of human or any other finite form, that is, cannot be corporâ€" eal, as we commonly understand and use that term. Jesus further defined God as good: good, without any least trace of, or any consciousness of evil; "of purer eyes than to behold evil." There is another word or name which has helped many of us toward a better understanding of God, and for this term we have to thank the Disâ€" coverer and Founder of Christian Sciâ€" ence. Because God is the only Cause, the only creator, evor{whore present and everywhere available, Mrs. Eddiy has given us the word Principle, or diâ€" vine Principle, as a synonym for God, a term which indicates both the nearâ€" ness and greatness of God, and which has helped us to understand the availâ€" ability of God to meet our needs. |~ THE HIGHLAND PARK PRESS, HIGHLAND PARK, "Now," said the teacher, "I should like the same two boys to describe man, and (ii:du:t the same way." The first bo)’-id & in" wholly m. ances, said: "Man is a m mal that wears clothe:.‘v” The second said: "Man is not just a body; man sl;inb. he expresses intelligence, wisâ€" | (Continued on page 3) â€" . verses of the it was very good." And this ereat?:n immfi‘Lw in 5:3’: image and likeness. /‘ io pts You will n boy‘s descrinti of "didn‘ts.". stroying the { been made to pupil. Had t been made it desrription w positive, "Now." said relate an incide may be ilâ€" luminating. is incident ocnt:l in our Sunday School. /The sub. of the lesson that day "Man," and the teacher, ling out two of her scholars, said: “Snom‘oq you two boys were sitting pn the east side of a large lake ‘hing a sunset. I should like the first boy to describe the sunâ€" set, describing what he sees, and only what he sees. |The second boy, we will supnose. is a student. We shall ask him to describe the sunset, not from the standvoint of what he sees alone, but from the standnoirit of what he knows actually takes nlace. Then the first boy describing what appeared to occur, said: "A small white ball went west in the sky, u;d as it got nearer the earth it rot bigger and redder, and sank slowlyv into the lake." The secâ€" ond boy, the pne who was supposed to know whit had actually taken place. said: sun isn‘t a small ball, it is a million times bigger than the earth. It didn‘t go west: it didn‘t get nearer the|earth: it didn‘t get bigâ€" wer, or redder| and it didn‘t sink into the lake, for jit is millions of miles away from the earth." ; Now, it is m‘ fact 'feulmowu every one of us that we have not ways thought of mun as here deâ€" scribed.â€"the perfect in and : likeâ€" ness of God. \Bul:l ore going furâ€" ther with our definition of man, let me The new Adams & Wabash Station: [(Chicago), of the North Shore Line will be opened on Ist at 223 South Wabash Avenue, in the same block as the ‘station but a few c will be one of the finest electric railway stations in the country. There will be two 1 wmucn:h:nunnnumm.mmmmmy. anete wWill be “b: mezzanin latter devoted exclusively to an attractively furnished waiting room : ladies. l:a%fimmmcofimwm&fimhmw:é h:lflou]g: house Vh yâ€"equipped restaurant North Shore Line. Like Soutb‘ abuhAmu-.tbommwmbe‘z:.de-lrM } hCh‘hm 3 Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Railrc s | . 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