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SAYS HEALING WAS COMMAND FROM TEACHER (Continued From Page One.) Science rudely to challenge cherished religious beliefs, nor to criticise in an unkind manner the efforts on the part of many good meu and women who have devoted their lives to the alleviation of human suffering through systems of material medication. Progress, however, is the law of infinite divine Mind unfolding to mankind. Were this not true we should be surrounded still by the crudities of primitive existence. We may all agree, therefore, that if a more adequate way exists whereby the sick are healed and the erring are restored to useful lives, it is then the duty of every person who has at heart the best interests of mankind first to understand, and. thereafter, to aid in the establisment or the demonstration of this better way. In our consideration of the subject if some persons, misinformed concerning Christian Science, view its advent with the purpose to deride or to combat, let us hope that any such will find somewhere in the reasonable appeal of this Seinece that which will transform derision into the spirit of genuine interest, and change combativeness into useful cooperation. DISCOVERED IS NEW ENGLAND. Mary Baker Eddy is the discoverer and founder cf Christian Science and the Author of its textbook, •'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.'* The discovery of Christian Science was made during the year lstfti, in that part of the United States known as New England. It is of interest to note that the revelation and discovery of tuts Science was associated directly with the recovery of Mrs. Eddy from an illness, the result of an accident, which physicians had pronounced incurable. Mrs. Eddy indicates that this is the Incident which turned her thought to the discovery of what the world knows today to be Christian Science. It way properly be said that Christian Scientists have a peculiar love and regard for their revered leader. It would bo wrong, however, in the extreme to assume that there is anything in this attitude that savors of normmal worship or personal adoration. On the contrary, this attitude toward Mrs. Eddy on the part of Christian Scientists Is in recognition and in grateful acknowledgment of the broad, universal and unselfish service to all mankind which character ze all of Mrs. Eddy's life work. Indeed, from the date of her healing on that momentous Sunday morning in the year ldtki, Mrs. Eddy's life was spent consistently and exclusively in proving the truth which had been revealed to her and in establishing Christian Science in accordance therewith. She also reduced the facts connected with her healing to such terms or language as would be best understood by mankind. It was necessary that this be done. It was necessary that these facts be rightly correlated, and that the Science which governed the appearance of these facts should be accurately stated, as has been scrupulously done in the book Science and Health. It was necessary that this should be done in order that those who have eyes .to see and ears to hear might acquire at any anil all times, in any and all places, the means to enable them to heal and to help mank.nd whenever such healing is desired and sought. Christian ask of the world, in regard to Mrs. Eddy, that the judgment of the world concerning this remarkable woman shall be based upon the character of her life work. Words of praise cannot add luster to a life actuated by love for God and the human race. Os such a life the scriptural proverb may well be uttered: “Give her of the’fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.” DIFFICI.LT IX EARLY DAYS. In the early days of Christian Science the workers, the men and women who, as it were, blazed the way, found It was difficult to convince the public that this Science actually heals the sick und that it regenerates human thought. Many doors were closed upon those earnest workers, whose only desire was to share with others something of the good that had come into their own lives through the ministrations of Christian Science. The discoverer and founder of Christian Science herself was not excepted from this unkind and ungenerous treatment. The situation, however, is today widely different. The demonstration <• Christian Science in the healing of sickness and in the regeneration of human thought is now a recognized and accomplished fact. Moreover, und because this science expresses the quality and conviction of final revelation, it is accepted to be a permanent dispensation, indeed, so well settled is the recognition of the healing and regenerative works of Christian Science that thoughtful men and women are asking with growing Interest the question; How has it been possible for Chritian Science to attain Its present stage of progress and development In scarcely mote than fifty years) This progress has not been due to the attraction of unique social features, nor to the promise of position and rank, fame and glory; nor yet to the fear of ecclesias tical thundering® or canonical laws. None of these things belong to Christian Science. One reaches logically the conclusion that the remarkable development of Christian Science is due entirely to the fact that this science meets the needs of humanity in an adequate and satisfactory manner. The question may be asked: Does Christian Science never fail) No true science can ever fail. One may fall to understand the science of numbers, or fail properly to apply this science in working out a inathemical proolein. No person will assume, however, for a moment, that because there has been a failure to understand or properly to apply the science of numbers the science of mathematics has failed. Likewise there may be a failure properly to understand Christian Science, or a failure properly to apply this science in the working out of a problem under consideration —but Christian Science never falls. OTHER SYSTEMS HELD BASIC ERRORS. Systems of religion and of medicine which have appeared and disappeared in the history of the world have finally disappeared because they were founded either upon the personal reputation, or the personal sense of their originators, or upon the unworthy and degrading be lief that evil is a reality with power exceeding that of good or God; and that matter, non-intelligent and Inert, possesses the qualities or properties of life and mind. Any system of religion or healing which Is adequate and satisfactory to meet the needs of mankind must be erected upon a foundation broad and deep, a foundation which Is at the same time as simple and as universally available to all mankind as divine Love itself Is available. Such a system must express the element of intelligence or divine Mind. Matter cannot be the foundation for an adequate system of religion or healing, because matter is not intelligent. This Is a simple statement of ultimate fact file logic of which may not be legitimately avoided. Christian Science has been criticised frequently because of its statements regarding the unreality of matter, the unreality of sin, sickness, death; and yet, the established systems of religion and medicine have been engaged throughout their respective histories, and that too without criticism, in the attempt t<> escape ttie Ills associated with evil, and to overcome the limitations associated with matter! Were these systems s o be successful In their attempts to save man kind from evil and sickness. Is It not ciear tlva* such systems would come final'v to the recognition with which Christian Science begins, namely, that evil, slcaness, death, mortal mind are unreal? God, the divine Mind, who includes all Intelligence and reality, is “of purer eyes than to behold evil”—to believe evil to he real. Seeing this to be true, mankind ought not to resist the influence of that educational process which in Christian Science is unfolding to thought the nature of reality. The ordinary systems teach and perpetuate the belief that evil, sickness, death are real; more, that these belong to the natural order of things, and that they are more or less legitimate and to be expected. Then these systems begin immediately to attempt to overthrow and to destroy these things which are held to be real, legitimate and to be expected If these afflictions are real, why try to escape them either through religion or medicine * Indeed, in such a circumstance will not the very attempt to escape from these ills be an act contrary t the divine will and contrary to the divine order? On the ffrher hand. If these •vile are not real and so not created by God. then let the statements made by Christian Science in regard to the unreality ot matter, aln. death, and desnructbn, be approached and measured honestlv and fairly, and above all with the desire to be consistent, not only with respect to the conclusions at which we

may Arrive, but what Is far more important, with respect to the premises from which we make our beginning. Christian Science declares primarily, secondarily, and always that God, the divine Mind, is the only creator; that real creation must, reflect the character of the divine Mind or God; and that true creation consists, therefore, of spiritual or true ideas. Evil is not a spiritual or a true idea; therefore evil Is not a creation of the divine Mind or God The Christian Scientist proceeds to prove the truth of this position. This is done by healing the sick 3nd by restoring thought to lines of right activity through the understanding —not that there are two supreme powers, a supreme good and a supreme evil warring forever one against the other, but that there Is one only supreme power, the eternal’God or good who Is the one and only Mind. Because God. who 1s the eternal Principle of man and the universe, creates an that Is created, and because this Principle or Mind cannot create anything unlike itself, it follows that evil and matter are not creations of God, hence they have no legitimate existence and no legitimate power. The only seeming power of evil and matter is that which mortal consciousness gives to them. Evil and matter seem to have the effect of power because mortal consciousness believes and accepts them to be real. Because of the lack of proper education in true Christianity mankind, actuated by mortal thought, has accepted as real its own misconceptions of God, their own misinterpretations of man, and Us own misstatements of Spirit or substance: and out of these abysmal depths there has arisen a "mist from the earth"—a cloud of false knowledge—that stands between mankind and God influencing thought adversely to the highest good. MISSION IS TO DESTROY' FALSE THOUGHT. It Is the mission and province of Christian Science to clear away and to d-stroy the basic error of mortal thought —that evil is real and that matter is intelligent. In accomplishing this work it is the mission of Christian Science furthermore to restore to mankind the true idea concerning God ; the idea which reveals Him to be the eternal Principle of all that exists; to restore to mankind the understanding of what constitutes the "Image and likeness” of God. or she understanding of man's true selfhood. Christian Science naturally lays strong emphasis upon the necessity for gaining a true understanding of God On page 1 of the preface to Science and Health Mrs. Eddy writes these significant words: "Ignorance of God is no longer the step-ping-stone to faith. The only guarantee of obedience is a right apprehension of Him whom to know aright Is life eternal.” Because God is primal cause, the understanding of the nature and character of the divine Mind or God is fundamental to all true knowledge; therefore nil that is worthy and to be desired in social, religious. domestic, political, industrial life must be founded upon and express the basic and true understanding conm-rning God who is the divine Principle of all. Christian Science reveals In this connection certain simple truths which are profitable for consideratoin. It Is clear that the creations of God must be Godlike; and that because God is infinite Mind, the creations of God must be Minilike or like the Mind from which they proceed Creation, then, must he the true or spiritual idea which reflects, with infinite fidelity, the nature and character of the divine Mind. Because there Is no place conceivable where God is not, it follows naturally and inevitably that God. who is infinite Mind, is everywhere present and is everywhere intelligently active for Good. How can one conceive of the omnipresence of God otherwise than as infinite M'.id) One cannot conceive of the omnipresence of a material or human personality. One cannot conceive of the omnipresence of a materially outlined figure. The Scriptures declare that God is Lore, Spirit, Truth, Life, Mind. How is it possible for a materially outlined figure, or a graven Image, or a mental image, to convey an adequate idea of the nature ami character of Infinite Mind and of divim Love—of the omnipresence of God? It is the understanding of this fact of God's omnipresence that makes possible the remarkable effectiveness of what is called absent treatment in Christian Science. The divine Mind, God. is everywhere present. Hence no necessity exists for the attempt to project thought to some distant place to heal the sick : the divine Principle, Love is already there and everywhere. The effectiveness of a spiritual Idea cannot be said to be limited by or to a personal presence or a material environment. A divine idea should he recognized to be always present and active because it reflects ail pervasive divine Mind. To understand this is to understand, in a degree, the harmony of being. BASIC ERROR ERADICATED. The so-called human or mortal mind claims evil to he greater in power than good. This is not surprising, however, when we recognize that mortal mind holds the unworthy and degrading belief that evil is real and that matter Is Intelligent. One may not grasp the significance of the statement Immediately. nevertheless it is true, that all of the sin, sickness and destruction that has come Into the world of human experience has come as the result of the operation In thought of this degrading belief. Unfortunately for the human race, tininstructed by Christian Science, human consciousness has lost sight of what is wrong. Owing to this erroneous mental procedure which accepts evil as real and matter as Intelligent, human beings have found themselves confronted with a seemingly inexplicable and mysterious state of existence, which expresses Itself in sin, sickness, and death,—a state or existence wholly without foundation or support in Truth and Love, and wholly at variance with the nature of divine Prin ciple Christian Science comes to the consciousness which believes evil to be real and matter to be intelligent and begins immediately to remove from exferienee the baneful effects which spring rom the error to which we have referred. This Is done by restoring to the individual the understanding of what constitutes the nature and character of God, and by unfolding the understanding of what coDstitu es true selfhooo or the divine “image and likeness.” Upon the basis of the understanding of what constitutes man's true selfhood as revealed In Christian Science the Individual begins straightway, consciously and intelligently, to deny, to cast out, to repudiate and to refuse too he governed by the suggestions which grow out of the wholly illegitimate belief involving the reality of evil and the intelligence of matter. Principle is always Principle, and embraces within itself the eternal qualities of God. the qualities of Life, of Love and of Mind, which constitute all being and reality. Hence, that which makes evil seem to be real and matter seem to be intelligent is the waywardness of mortal thought which sees as real whatever it believes. NATIONAL THEORIES INCONSISTENT. The statement is sometimes made that Christian Scientists ignore disease. The fact is, however, that Christian Scientists do not ignore either the disease or the germ. The Christian Scientist knows that the only germ of disease is a mental germ. Some persons may not accept this statement. They will insist 'upon having a germ that they can hunt and capture, and punish. One cannot, however, get entirely away from the suspicion that the reason such persons re ject the statement regarding the mental germ is because it demands a personal and a permanent mental housecleaning; and because, also, it seems to lie altogether too simple, and to be devoid of heroics. The statement, notwithstanding, is true; and evidence is not larking even in material lines for its support. Dr. G. A. Jordan, secretary of the St. Louis. Mo., board of health, a few years ago supplied the newspapers of that city with a statement giving his opinion regarding an epidemic which then threatened that city. Said Dr. Jordan: "The epidemic is more psychological than actual.” What does that mean? It means that "the epidemic Is more mental than actual.” This is what Christian Science has been reiterating and reiterating for the past fifty years and more. The voice Is that of one crying in the wilderness: "The epidemic is more psychological than actual.” There is the mental germ! Dr. S. Weir Mitchell is reported to have stated: "that back of every disease Is a cause, and that cause no medicine can reach.” Why cannot medicine roach the cause? Christian Science shows Che reason for this to he that disease Is mental, and it is perfectly obvious, even to a layman, that a material medicine can not reaeh a mental cause. Dr. Wilfred H. Kellogg, secretary of the California State board of health, - Compiled a pamphlet concerning the epidemic of the year 1918. summing up the entire •ituation, after an exhaustive study of the subject. Dr. Kellogg uses these frank words: “We are just as much in the dark as ever regarding the microbial cause of influenza. Why, on* D forced to aak.

after 5.000 years and more of material medication, "just as much in the dark as ever?” ' r he interests of humanity and progress compel the question. Must not the answer be, because the search for the cause of disease has been always in matter? Can any one believe for a moment that if the cause of disease is in matter, the patient efforts of scientific thought for 5.000 years could result only in darkness? DISEASE IS ENTIRELY MENTAL. It should be apparent, that only as disease is seen to be mental, a belief of the mortal mind, is it possible to heal disease through the operation of divine Truth and Love which reverses and removes the belief of the mortal mind and neutralizes its discordant effects? Christian Science declares dis-' ease to be mental, a belief of the mortal mind which is dissipated and healed by the unfolding idea of Truth and Love. A gentleman who was graduated from a medical school in this country twenty-four years ago was healed in Christian Science of a painful ailment which his former methods had failed to relieve. Since that time this man has devoted his activities to the field of Christian Science. This gentleman hbd occasion recently to revisit the medical school from which he was graduated. Upon entering the hall of biology, ho found a roomful of students, each engaged with his own microscope carrying out bacteriological tests and examinations. After being introduced to the professor in charge, the visitor said. “Professor, how far have you gotten with this sort of work?” Said the pro fessor, “What do you mean?” “Well,” said my friend, "I will tell you. Twentyfour years ago I was here, in this very room doing exactly the same things that you are doing here now. 1 wondered as I came in how far you have gone with the work in the last twenty-four years; and if you are able to say, yet, what is the exact nature or form of the germ.” "Oh.” answered the professor, looking at him curiously for a moment, “you came around again in twenty-four years!" All there is to a germ is a diseased thought, and all there is to a disease thought-germ is in and of that carnal mind which Jesus said is a “murderer from tle beginning, and concerning which he further said, "There is no truth in him." Now, If there is no truth in this mortal mind, this "murderer from the beginning,” this belief that evil is r*-al and that matter is intelligent —according to the words of the wise Nazarene Prophet—then there certainly is no reality in it to be either feared or honored. The Christian Scientist knows this. lie is not fooling himself He is not permitting his imagination to run riot. He is proving, in his every day experience, that this mortal mind cannot produce in Its own beliefs, superstitions. genns, or whatever else they may he called tomorrow, anything to interfere with or to overthrow one of the least of these little ones —one of the least of these ideas of the divine Mind or God which unfolds the nature and character of man's true selfhood F.aeh successive conclusion reached by physical science regarding the nature of the germ is a step nearer to the ultimate re-cogni-tion that the inception of disease is in mortal belief and not in what appears to be matter. This being true, why follow devious and painful steps through matter? Why not accept the scientific, fit-finite, clear and simple statements of fact demonstrated by Christian Science? MEDICATION TREATS ONLY MATTER-BODY. The present vogue in systems of material unification seems to be what Is called the serum treatment. It Is not necessary to go Into an exhaustive description of tills form of treatment, because after all has been said upon the subject that can be said, after the subject has been stripped of all of It technical verbiage, It amounts simple to this; the injection of one form or matter called "serum" into another form of matter called "body." The theory Is that the inatter-serum nil! make the matter-body well. In systems of material medication it Is the matter-body that is to be treated. Under this seemingly plans)be theory of the application of matter to matter for the purpose of correcting discord and of establishing harmony one might, consistently with this theory, gather up a lot of chalk which had been used in carrying out erroneous niathemutbnl calculations in the public schools. From the chalk thus collected a serum might be evolved. This serum might be Injected into other clean, fresh pieces of chalk under the theory that the use of the chalk, thus inoculated, will do awav with errors of mathematics In our puliii’ schools. Some oue may argue that the two situations are not similar — the piece of chalk and the human body. Ho will tell you that the piece of chalk is simply a piece of Inorganic Inanimate mat'er, which has neither human sense nor human Intelligence us has the body. Now we are making rapid strides. It is the human mind, then, associated with the bodv, which must be taken Into consideration and treated. Let us assume a blackboard to be tilled with erroneous, discordant, sick mathematical calculations. What Is wrong here? The blackboard cannot be said to be sick, nor the chalk, nor the hand which made the figures, nor the muscles which guided the hands. The so-called human mind which produced the erroneous results Is sick ami at fault. This human mind. It should be clearly understood. Is not the divine Mind, nor is it related to the divine, immortal Mind. The human mind is comprised in the belief that evil Is re; i and that matter is intelligent; this so-called mind is the producer of sickness and cannot he the healer of disease. Only the truth embraced in the infinite, divine Mind can correct the errors of mortal belief. In order to correct erroneous mathematical results no one will argue for a moment that it is necessary to improve the structure of tile blackboard, or of the chalk; nor that It Is necessary to strengthen the hand or the muscles which have been used in putting down the erroneous figures. What Is It that differentiates the human body from the piece of chalk? Obviously the human mind. Take away entirely the human mind from the human body and there remains— matter, just as Inanimate as the piece of chalk. It is then, the human mind that must be taken Into consideration and treated. Apart from the evidence which has been reviewed in this connection, who is willing to admit, that a material medicine has the intelligence, when taken into the system, to go to the exact part of the human system, and there do the exact thing necessary to bo done to estnhish harmony and to relieve suffering? Does any one believe that Inert matter possesses within itself the Intelligence necessary to do this? The answer can only be no. Then why continue longer subject to the idolatrous practice involved in matter medicine? Any seeming good which follows the use of material medicine is the result of hypnotic suggestion and human faith in matter. It is worthy to be noted that Christian Science healing follows a strictly legitimate line of thinking: Christian Science, recognizing sickness to be mental, a discordant sense of the mortal mind, demonstrates that only the truth or harmony of the divine Mind or God can destroy this discordant sense of the mortal mind. HUMANITY SEEKS ESCAPE FROM MORASS. Human beings are struggling in every conceivable manner to find a way out of the wilderness of belief and discord Into which mortal thinking has plunged them. It is a sad commentary, however, upon these efforts, that many of the methods which are followed produced conditions more painful than those from which humanity would escape. Never before has the need been so great as now for a definite and a final statement of being —a statement of tieing as once Christian and scientific —which will lead the individual into the true understanding of being aud selfhood. Evidence of this need accumulates upon every side. Announcements recently made in the newspapers indicate that the Britsh Medical Association has approved and adopted a system of mental therapeutics to be used in medical practice. The system adopted is said to be that of suggestion. Mental suggestion represents the action of one human mind upon another. Is it not clear then, that human thought can make use of suggestion Just as readily for eyll purposes as for good? A movement recently Inaugurated to establish Christian healing in the churches adopted the method of hypnotic or mental suggestion, and this method was said by the author of the movement to be the same as tßsi used by all other systems of mental healing. Including Christian Science, as well. One will not criticise the purpose to establish Christian healing in the churches. Indeed, if the church is to fulfill Its true functioning, it must inevitably demonstrate the ability to hear and to obey the command of Jesus not only to ‘preach the gospel,” but also to "heal the sick.” Because, however, the statement has been made in this connection that Christian Science hypxotlc or mental sug-

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gestion, it Is proper to correct this erroneous assumption. It would be difficult to make a more erroneous statement than to say that Christian Science makes use of mental suggestion or hypnotism in any manner. The use of hypnotism or suggestion contemplate! the action of one human mind upon another Sufficient has been said upon this subject to show that it is the human or mortal mind that is sick. How, then, is it possible for the mind that is sick and that produces sickness to be at the same time the healer of sickness? The same fountain does not send forth both sweet waters and bitter. The theory that the human or mortal mind heals sickness Involves hypnotism or suggestion. Moreover, when an operator who uses hypnotic suggestion endeavors to suggest to the patient that the latter is not sick, that he is all right, and that there is nothing wrong with him, this operator is stating something which, from his own viewpoint, is a plain lie. This sort of an operator believes the patient to be sick; he has no means by which he can know and Justify the statement that the patient is not sick. It is perfectly clear, therefore, that when this operator endeavors to suggest to a patient that the patient Is not sick, a process Is thus Introduced which Involves a lie at the very outset. No words are necessary to show that this process is not Christian and that It is not scientific. It is needless to say that it is not Christian Science. PROCEDURE OF HEALING EXPLAINED. A brief statement at this point indicating the procedure of Christian Science will be of interest. It has i>een seen that because the mortal mind produces sickness It can not at the same time be the healer of sickness. We come, at this point to oue of the most important points in the entire theology of Christian Science. It is this: Because the human or mortal mind can nut be its own healer, it follows naturally and inevitably that the divine Mind, or God, ia the only healer and the only- medicine which can te used in the line of strict scientific legitimacy to heal the sick. The action of the divine Mind upon the human mind diabuses aud deprives the human mind of the error that evil is real and that matter Is intelligent. The action of the divine Mind, in this way, disabuses and deprives the human mind of Its false consciousness' and the human mind, being deprived or Its false consciousness, —or its consciousness of falsity, is healed. In this way, briefly stated, the sick are healed and the erring are restored to useful lives through the ministrations of Chris tian Science. Avery different way, all will agree, from that Involved in ttie unholy practice of hypnotic suggestion. The use of hypnotism or suggestion, in any form, is to be condemned; it is an evil which can not be too strongly guarded against One hears occasionally of some person who makes use of tho erroneous method of hypnotism In the conduct of business. Oue such person endeavored to justify the use of this method by the method of the illustration of a fourhorse stage-coach saying that "with a four-horse stage coach It is necessary for someone person to hold the reins." This person overlooked the true point of this Illustration, which Is that sometimes during a dark and stormy night on a dangerous mountain trial when the driver is unable to see the road he is compelled to let the reins lie loosely upon the backs of the horses, while they pick their way to safety. The great danger In the use of hypnotic suggestion is that it deprives the person who uses it, as well as the one who Is acted upon, of tho inalienable right to think and to act under the Influence of the divine Mind, or God. Erroneous anil harmful methods are sometimes set before the public, ana said to be the same as Christian Science. A man representing himself to be a Chris tian Scientist announced tba' he would teach metaphysics or Chris'lan Science; he was not. however, authorized in nuv way to teach Christian Science, ana. therefore the teaching Involved was hot Christian Science. A lady who knew Just a little concerning Christian Science went to this man to te taught. During the first lesson she was taught to say : "I am God." She replied: "But I am not God." She >as then toid to say. "1 am Spirit.” To this the lady replied; "No, I am not God! I uia not Spirit! I am spiritual, and you do not know what you are talking about.'. The iudy was right, because the declarations referred to do not coincide In any way with the teaching of Christian Science. The evidences of confusion and the indications of wrong procedure multiply. Sufficient, however, has been said in tills connection to Indicate that there is basic need of a divine Principle, of au In fluenoe in human thought which will move mankind in the direction of their highest good. SAFEGUARDS ARE PROVIDED IN MANTAL. Someone will doubtless say that safe guards should be established to protect the public against mlsreprcsen'atlons which are made In the name of Christian Science. The answer to this is, that such safeguards already have been provided Mrs. Eddy long ago foresaw this need and provided In the Manual of The Mother Church the necessary measure to protect and to preserve Christian Science, Its teaching, and Us extension; as well as to protect the public from misrepresentations and adulterations Without this wisely conceived protection, for which Christian Scientists are profoundly grateful the teaching and extension of Christian Science might soon be filled with misrepresentations, adulterutlons and human philosophy; and thus the effectiveness of Christian Science he lost. The teachings of Jesus were lost for a time because these teachings were adulterated with philosophies aud religious dogma. Had spiritual and right unity with respect to Jesus’ teachings been maintained, those teachings never would have been contaminated by erroneous dogma and by n multiplicity of personal opinions. In the Manual of tho Mother Church the means are divinely provided which will maintain the Integrity of Christian Science, the purity of its teachings, aud the permanence of its extension. During a long and arrive career (1e voted to the demonstrations of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy learned that certain rules or methods of procedure were neres sary, desirable, and might well be used in the successful carrying forward of any Christian Science demonstration. Mrs. Eddy says in speaking of the Manual that these rules “were written at different dates, and as the occasion required” They were finally brought together by Mrs. Eddy herself; and they are recog nized today to be the Manual of the Mother Church. Speaking of these Manual rules, Mrs. Eddy says further thnt they "will do for ibe race what absolute doctrines destined for future’generations might not accomplish.” (Manual) One who has even named upon himself the name or nature of Christian Science knows that, in the degree his thought is held in obedience lo these simple rules, his demonstration is correspondingly successful and happy. Far from limiting thought and demonstration, proof is always present that

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obedience to these methods of procedure enlarges and perfects thought, and Insures the attainment of harmonious experience, a stite -which reflects divine principle—government by God. Because Mrs. Edily's life reflects in so remarkable a degree the nature of pure and unselfish thought, Christian Scientists acknowledge and accept the Manual of The Mother Church to be the expression of divine Principle, uninfluenced by mortal or personal sense. This conviction is sustained by continual proof in individual experience ; hence the willing and devoted acquiescence on the part of Christian Scientists to the government of the Manual. Christian Science has uplifted the thought of mankind immeasurably with respect to the Science of pure religion. This Science hts also uplifted the thought of mankind beyond their happiest expectations with respect to tho science of healing. MANY ACCEPT STATEMENTS. These statements of fact are not only unquestioned, they are concurred in today by a large part of the thinking world. As the thought of mankind has been lifted up with respect to pure religion and to the science of healing, so the thought of mankind must be lifted up with respect to all things, including church, and church government. The Christian Science Church is demonstrating the "proof of its utility” (Science and Health), Christian Scientists are demonstrating, in their obedience to tlie requirements of the Manual, that willing consent of the governed which is the foundation of true government. This willing consent to be governed by God's perfect government to the Christian Scientist is not a fanciful theory; it is the great fact in the process of demonstration which insures individual and collective agreement. It is the mission and province of Christian Science to do with respect to church and to church government what this Science has already done with respect tfe religion and healing—to lift up thought and to prove that church aud church government to he right must stand in constant relation to the divine Mind or God. Back of this process of lifting up the true idea of church and government, the Manual of The Mother Church stands a shining light which reveals the way of obedience and cooperation. To remove these waymarks of the Manual would be like removing the markings from the way-side which guide the traveler on his Journey. Moreover, and forgetting gratitude, should one feel that he is familiar with the way and believe In his egotism that he does not require these Manual waymarks for himself, let him remember that, as Mrs. Eddy says In Science and Health, there are yet "Millions of unprejudiced nitnds—simple seekers for truth, weary wanderers athirst in the desert waiting aud watching for rest and drink," to whom these waymarks of the Manual will give proper direction in the demonstration of health und Joy, hope and happiness. Christian K-lence has proved its effee fineness to lead mankind into health and lutp better lives. It should be evident therefore that the Manual of The Mother Church which preserves the integrity of Christian Science must stand In human experience to be the type of government which is necessary to guide mankind through the mist and out of the wilderness of belief where materia! conscious ness has placed them. All thought, all religious and healing activity, all development, must, sooner or later, express this type of government. CHILDREN PROTECTED. The remark is sometimes heard that Christian Science treatment is all very well for the adult, but when it comes to the question of treating the children, some "tangible" and "substantial" form of treatment Is necessary. Christian Scientists agree decidedly with this latter statement that children should have tangible and substantial treatment; they desire it nisi) for the adult. Opinions, however, differ with respect to what con (dilutes substantial treatment, With tho object of clarifying thought upon this subject the following interesting facts arc related: During the latter half of the year 1918, and in the north"ru half of the State of California, 12.500 cases of "Spanish" influenza were treated bv Christian Science. The rate of mortality under Christian Science treatment was three out of every 1.000 persons treated: while the rate of mortality under systems of material medication was sixtyeight out of every 1.000 persons treated. In the city of New York the rate of mortality under Christian Science treatment was four out of every 1,000 persons treated, while the rata of mortality under systems of material medication was something over 100 out of every 1,000 persons treated. These facts arc gathered from reports

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of boards of health, hospitals and Christian Science practitioners located in the districts named. Were one interested to follow up this statement he would find that what has been here stated with reference to the two localities mentioned, is true in every part of the civilized globe where Christian Science Is known and practiced. Convincing evidence is by no means lacking to prove that Christian Science treatment is tangible, substantial and real. Children yield readily to the loving, compassionate influence of Christian Science treatment. In Christian Science the thought of the child is turned away from the contemplation ot evil and sickness. The pertinent question may be asked here; has the volume of evil and sickness in the world been reduced at ill where the children have been taught to regard evil and sickness to be real? If evil and sickness have not been reduced by reason of such teaching, then can it be said that evil and sickness have not been augmented and built up in human experience by reason of these teachings? Freedom from sin and sickness constitutes harmony. How can the child be conscious of harmony while he Is being taught that evil and sickness are real? One cannot be conscious of harmony and peace while the educational systems Impress upon his thought the reality of evil and sickness. The children naturally protect themselves from the Infliction of these teachings concerning evil and sickness. An illustration of this is found In the experience of a young girl who had been educated In the understanding of Christian Science. Owing to seme disturbance In thq. neighborhood where she lived, her grandparents, who were not Christian Scientists at the time, felt that It was necessary to call in a physician to examine the child. This was done, and she was kept in the house for a few days. The attitude of this girl toward sickness wns indicated by some lines she wrote In her diary at the time. She bad written: “The doctor came today, and they put It up to me—to be sick.” There you have the entire situation: It was something that was being put upon her; and it may be added that she refused to accept it. Contrast the attitude of this child with that of the official who explained in public print the reason for his absence from his office in these words: “I did not realize how tired I was, until my doctor told sue Now, I know that I am a very tired man!” Which of these two attitudes will do most to advance the good of the human race? Thousands upon thousands of Christian Science parents are glad to have their children under Christian Science treatment when the necessity for such treatment exists. It is not to be assumed that there Christian .Science parents. who are quite like other parents, would bo happy to have their children under Christian Science treatment unless they were perfectly confident ot the results to be expected from such treatment. It must be recognized also that these Christian Science parents love their children just as devotedly as do these parents who elect to give drugs and operations to their children. The situation would at least be an unusual one were the degree of parental affection to be measured by the quantity of drugs administered! MORTAL EXISTENCE IS MYSTERIOUS. Mortal existence from stir point of view involves mystery. Its beginning, its transit, its passing is a mystery; its heaven anil its hell an inexplicable mystery Mortal Consciousness Includes within itself no solution of this mystery. ('bristle n Science demonstrates that the divine Mind alone contains the remedy for mortal consciousness and its mystification. The understanding of the nature and character of the divine Mind or God unfolds in individual human con) scioußness the Chrlstlike thought, the understanding of what contatitutes man's true selfhood. In this true consciousness : he remedy for mortal mind and its mystifications is found. It is safe to say thnt there is not a person in the entire world who is not confronted with some phase of mortal existence which amounts to a problem; and every person would be happy if he could know that a way is avallabl whereby the problem may be solved. Without doubt there are those who listen to or who read these words, In whose thought there is the desire strengthened by hope that a way may he found somewhere and somehow, which will lead them out of the mystery aud wilderness Into which mortal sense has plunged them. To any such It may be said that It Is not. necessary to make a far cry to be heard by that divine Love, which has been so beautifully descritied by Mrs. Eldy to be the "Love which guards tlm nestling's faltering flight!” It is not necessary for one to make a

far journey to find this way, because the "kingdom of Heaven it. at hand.” "the kingdom of God is within you.” The kingdom of heaven Is not a place or a location far removed from present experience into Which one may enter only after he has passed the portals of human existence through the transition called death. The kingdom of heaven is a state of consciousness. Is it not true, then, that heaven, a state of consciousness, may be entered here and now? We shall know heaven only as we become conscious of heaven. We are conscious now; then why not be conscious of heaven? This kingdom of heaven may be entered at any time; nothing but one’s own consent to think wrongly, to think evil to be real and matter to be Intelligent, will shut him out of the kingdom. It is not difficult to attain this kingdom. One may may begin straightway to know that God is the only Mind. Because there is but one God. there is but one Mind. Learning therefore through the teachings of Christian Science to have only that Mind which is God, one can think and know the thoughts which belong to the divine Mind or God and can have those things which the divine Mind knows and which the divine Mind bestows. One may say that the process seems too simple to bo effective. Let us remember that truth’s way is always sim-

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pie. Mortal consciousness alone Involves mystery. Let us remember that salvation, freedom from Bin and sickness, must be a simple process. All mankind is crying out against, the inhumanity of sin, sickness, death and destruction; and they are seeking freedom therefrom. This freedom is demonstrated through the understanding of man's true selfhood, or man’s truo being as revealed in Christian Science. Hold yourself, your thought. In true relation to the divine Mind of God. One will find, as a result of thus relating thought constantly to man's divine Principle, Love, that he will come Into a realization of peace, of health, hope and Joy such as he never before had dreamed could enter his experience. Looking and striving toward this understanding one may hold these beautiful and appropriate words to be a pattern and an incentive —to thought: ‘Be true and list the voice within. Be true unto thy high ideals, Thy perfect self, that knows no sin. That self is the only reaL God is the only perfect one, My perfect self, one must it be With God, then, —and that thought begun, It solveth all the mystery.” •Christian Science Hymnal. *

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