Hammond Times, Volume 16, Number 107, Hammond, Lake County, 24 October 1922 — Page 9
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THE TIMES
LECTURE ON
CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE
A Lecture Untitled Christ an Selene. The Religion o Fulnllment.
uaa delivered In the Caristjaa sic..
e.nee Chureh, South Ilohman street..
at e'c.wK last evening, to a large
and appreciative audience.
by Judge Samuel W, Greene, C. S-,
of LoulavlUe, Kentucky, member of
The Board of Lectureship of The
Mother Church, The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass, A familiar hymn has been paraphrased as follows! "I love to tell the story of Life and Truth and Lore, It atllla the voice of error and turns my thoughts above, -I love to tell the story and prove that it Is true, By healln sin and sickness as noth
ing else can do.
love to tell the story, 'twill be my
theme In glory,
To tell the new-old story of Life 1 and Truth and Love."
Christian Science la Indeed tha new-old story of Ufa and Truth and Love. It Is the simple, sweet story a. It was taught and proved and practiced by Jesus of Nazareth nine, teen hundred years ago. It embraces Juat the aamo thought, that through tho understanding of the ever-preacnt love and power of 3od, humanity Is healed not only of sin but of all the results of tin sickness, sorrow, unhapplness, death. Tbe LHacoVrrrr and lAjundcr Mary Walter Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, like many fo us, suffered, and found no rolief from material means; fo turned to God's word with the hope and desire to be healed of sickness. Mnrrow. lack and loneliness. As
she contemplated this wonderful un
foldment of divine Love and powe
as they were taught by Jesus of
Nazareth, as she read of the heai
lngs of sick men and women, there
came to her peace, freedom, healVns
just as Jesus had promised: '"1"
shall know the truth, and the truth
shall made you free.' She realize
that what had come to her was no supernatural, not an unnatural de
velopment or result, but the perfect
ly natural result of tha operation o
God's law. Her great desire after
that was to lay hold upon the un
derstandins of this spiritual law that she might be able to help
others to rain this freedom which
had come to her.
Devoting herself for several years
lmnst Bxcluslvelv to the study of
God's word, there came to her
more perfect vision of the ever
present, omnipotent power of God dwelling among men and available
for human need. She discerned
and points out to us in her writ
ings. that always when men have understood God. they have been
able to accomplish the so-called im
nossibl or unusual things. To
verify this, we have only to study the history of Moses. Therein we
see that through the right under
tandin-r of God. Moses was able
not only to heal people through spiritual means but he was able to
accomplish other wonderful things
He negotiated the freedom of a na
tlon unlawfully enslaved, without
the expenditure of money and without an exhibition of the power of arms. He equipped and maintained
this people when newly freed, gov erned and led them wisely for i
long period of years, finding their
every supply in the knowledge that
from God Is all good.
In the lives of Elijah and Elisha we see not only that ability to heal
all manner of sickness, to even raise
the dead, but that those prophets
vfe consulted frequently by the
.ings and rulers oi weir ume uun
questions of state and government because of their better understand
ing of God. In the lives of Daniel
and hia three associates we see
through their right understanding
of God not only the power to with
stand the lions' den and the fiery furnace, but that which attracted
the attention of a heathen king,
causing him to recognize in these men. who were virtually slaves In his kingdom, a power that none of
hi wise men or advisers possessed JexriH -The CbrUt
In Jesus' life Mrs. Eddy saw, as
we can see, a fuller and more com
pleta understanding of God and
God's power than any other one had possessed. It seemed a perfectly natural thing to the Master
that he should speak and disease be
healed, devils cast out, and the dead
raised. He did not claim, however,
that it was through any great power
of his own. He did not claim that he lfved and moved in a so-called miraculous period of the world's history, as some so-called orthodox thinkers would have us believe. He
said, very simply and modestly "The Son can do nothing of him
self, but what he seeth the Father
do", for what things soever He doeth
these also doeth the Son likewise."
Also he said: "I eeek not mine own
will, but the will of the Father which hath sent mc, ' giving us a
rule of conduct which if followed will work wonders in our development. If we think, see, and do always the thing that is in accord with the will of the heavenly
Father, how splendid will be our
work. It will then be a perfectly
natural development in our lives
to see all these things coming to pass of which Jesus spoke when h said: "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." Christian Science is bringing to the world the right understanding of God which will enable men and women to see that they have power through this understanding to overcome lack, sorrow, disease, sin, and death. Mrs. Eddy saw In these statements of the Master: "Before Abraham was, I am." and "Lo, I am with yoj always, even unto the end of the world," a vision of the eternal Christ or Truth, as she speaks of him. Jesus expressed, manifested, reflected more of the Christ than any other one who has ever Jived. He was therefore called Jesus the Christ, or Christ Jesus, and it was through the understanding of this Truth, this God-idea ever-present among men, that he was able to do his wonderful work?. Likewise i! is in this understanding, through a knowledge of this Truth, that we shall be able to overcome, as Jesus said: "all the power of the enemy," ro,tThat nothing shall by any means hurt u.. As this great vision came to Mrs. Kcidy she was eager to give it to tho world, but she r.-isely saw that
the world would not be ready to
listen to a roes-sago so different
from its accustomed religious teach
lng until it had proof of its power.
Consequently she first taught by
heading, inviting those who were a;-
fllcted ttf come and be healed, and her first patients and students were largely the so-called incurables for whom material remedies offered no
hope. They were healed by her
teaching and practice not only pliys
ically but spiritually and mutually.
they heard this message gladly
went out and told thiulr friends and
brought them to hear the good new.
Gradually Mrs. Kddy saw by the
results of her own work that the ap
plication of this divine Principle
was unfailing; that always when it
was rightly applied and rightly re
ceived there was healing. Then
aha divined that tha world's con
aclouanesa was ready generally to hear and to receive this message of Truth, this demonstrable unfold-
mtnt of God as omnipresent, omnis
cient and omnipotent, as she expresses it in the text-book. Tet-book Accordingly she wrote what had
been revealed to hor and called t "Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures," commonly known as the Christian Science Text-book, and gave this volume to all mankind. She gave the message generously and freely to all who were willing to accept, that every man might be able with this book, this Key to the Scriptures, to sit down in the quiet of his own time and read and study and find out the truth about God. One of the wonderful things about the text-book, is that you do not have to accept anybody's word for the statement that It does give the correct Interpretation of the Bible
and the correct unfolding of the
truth about God. You can read
and study and then put it into prac
tice in your own life, and see whether or not It meete the demand which Jesus made when he said:
"A tree la known by Its fruits." This text-book, founded basolutely upon the Bible, has served to tear down for men and women tho curtain or veil of mystery, misunderstanding, superstition, and fear that has shut them out from the right concept of God, and has revealed God to be Qod who is understandable and lovable. This is why men and women are grateful to Mrs. Eddy. The Mother Church and Its Government. When Mrs. Eddy saw the great task facing her of furnishing some.
avenue through which would flow with authority during the unfolding centuries this revelation of Truth
that had come to her inspired vision
that it mi-tht go forth to the waiting world with all of Its virility
and strength unadulterated and uncontaminated. she founded The
Mother Church, The First Church
of Christ, Scientist, In Boston. Mass,
This as she says, was "designed to
commemorate tho world and works
of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its
lost element of healing" (Manual, p
17). To a sincere thinker however
orthodox there is nothing In these foundation-tones of the Christian
Science movement which can ofend
Mrs. Eddy saw that the early
Christian Church had been split into conflicting sects through following
after mera human opinions, and she
desired that this movement .should
go forth undivided. Accordingly as there appeared the need, she wrote
rules of government or by-laws, now compiled In a volume known
as the Manual of the Mother Church,
to serve as lights along the way, to
lead and guide impersonally this
movement through the centuries.
She understood that these by-laws
were applicable to all men under
all conditions, and wrote: "Of this I am sure, tfiat each Rule and By
law In this Manual will increase the spirituality of him who obeys it.
Invigorate his capacity to heal the sick, to comfort such as mourn, and
to awaken the sinner" (Miscellany,
p. 33fl.
She foresaw that the time wou.d never come in human experience
when the Church and its adherence, would not need this inspired guid
ance, so she wrote of the Manual:
Notwithstanding the sacrilegious
moth of tlmo. eternity awaits our
Church Manual, whicn will maintain
its rank as in the past, (train ministries aggressive and active, and
will stand when those have passed to rest" (Miscellany, p. 230).
Loyal Christian Scientists every
where are grateful for this, further revelation of their Leader, and are conscious that they are finding In the study of these Rules of govern
ment, these By-laws, together w the Bible, the Christian Science textbook and the other writings of their Leader, that God is Indeed revealed
to be Life, Love, Truth, Soul, Mind,
Spirit, Principle.
God Perhaps the term Principle as
used for God in Christian Science
has more than any otner wora aroused an unusual Inquiry in the average orthodox thought, for men
have thought of God generally as
Just a great superman, a power to
be feared rather than understood and loved, sitting upon a throne.
waiting to Judge men, and sending
both good and evil. The world needs
to get away from this view of God It needs a larger concept of God
whir h is embraced in the use of
the term Principle.
In an eastern city after a lecture woman came to me in seeming
mental distress and said: "I want
t Iitk-iw how your God can be
everywhere at the same time." I was grateful then for the thought
or uoa Dems x-i 3 w
forded a realy answer to her in
quiry. In considering tne principle of mathematics manifest in addition, subtraction, multiplication, it
s easy to see that this principle
can be everywhere at the same time. The mililons of Europe, Asia, Africa, or America, tan all have the multi
plication table at thf- eame time
with all of Its power and facility.
without interfering in the slightest particular with Its use anywhere
else in the universe, always witn one proviso that they do understand the multiplication table and
apply it.
In a far larger 8ene God being
-livine Principle, lniinue. unraiung.
s everywhere present, able to solve
man's every problem provided man
understands Him and the availabil.
ty and application of His power.
Was not this the thought of the
Psalmist when he sang: "If I as-
end up into heaven, thou art there:
fl make mybed in hell, behord.
thou art there. If I taKe tne wings
of the morning, and dwell in tne
uttermost parts of the sea; Even
there shall thy hand lead me, and
Pacre Xine.
thy right hf.nd shall hold me" (Psalma 133). There la no problem, no condition, that can come to ua but God'a power is ever available for its satisfactory solution. Continuing thla same thought of the multiplication table, ask a schoolboy how long-he thinks eight time eight have beu sixty-four and ten tlmea tan one hundred. Doubtless hla answer will be , "always." How long lie think it will remain oT Answer "always" And that la correct. A Idea of Principle doea not change, ao tho multiplication table, aa idea of the principle of mathematics can never change.
ment is the key to your difficulty, j which he stated that in a study of
Principle docs not change nor do
Its idea or Image. Likewise divine
Principle is eternal, inviolable, un changing, always oparating. Prin
ciple Is not moved by tha breath of
praise or flattery, or by entreaty o
threat. In the thought of Ood be
lng Principle, Christian Scientist
have gotten away from tha old be lief that Ood Interferes In the af
fairs of men because they are ask
lng Him to do this, hr or sora other thing, or that Ood causes th
unnatural or supernatural to be hap
penlng In the lives and affalra o
men. It teaches that God'a work
la already perfect and complete. In
deed the Bible aays that "God eaw
everything that he had made, and
behold. It waa very good,
The mission of scientific Chris
tianity is to reveal the perfectness
and completeness of God's work, to
enable us to overcome la our own
lives and experiences everything
and every thought that is unlike
God and His creation. Doea no this thought bring us back to tha
rule of conduct which Jesus gave
that we should do always the thing
that is in accord with the Father willT
Healing
Someone aeks: What has this to
do with the healing of my sick body
or sick business, or sick home, o
sick city? These are the practical
problems that concern ua today,
Christian Science does furnish the
solution for everyone of them. How
ever serious your particular prob
lem may seem to you. however aig
niflcant and burdensome, or how
ever long you may have had it, 1
is not necessary that God should do
any specific or Individual thing in
your life to solxe your problem. Too
long we have been seeking God in
a purely material way, much as we
have sought a friend for a favor or
a banker for a loan, crying out in our Ignorance, our distress, with the
hope that God would manifest him
self in some supernatural or miraculous way. Then we begin to think
there is no power in prayer be
causs we do i-ot see this unusual or
unnatural manifestation. Jeaus
condemned this style of prayer when
he said: 'The heathen think that
they shall be heard for their much
speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of
before ye ask Him."
Our prayers are answered in the realization that Love is always meeting our needs. The truth of this comes to me in a homely illus
tration from my boyhood. In childhood I lived cn a farm in Kentucky.
ajid I remember that in the spring
time we always wanted tomato plants to set out In the garden
about the middle or latter part of
April. Accordingly in February
father would sow tomato seeds in
a box In the house, and then when
the sun came out he took the box
out of the house and put it on the
porch in the sunshine, with a glass over it. and ng the sun's rays beat upon the glass they warmed the
ground, the seeds broke open, and
the tender planfs stuck their heads through the ground, and as they were carried into ths sun day after day they grew, until presently they
were large enough to put out in
the garden.
Now the sun was not shining for our box alone; it came down to warm the whole earth and to bring
again the miracle of springtime and
growth, and when we took our box
out into The e-unshine we saw
growth and life manifested. Likewise with every human prob
lem. Because of evil, hatred, jeal
ousy, injustice, envy, or secret sin
our consciousness is darkened and
we have a problem, which we call
disease, lack, sorrow, or death. We
need to bring the darkened con
sciousness into the sunlight of
God's truth and love, then the dark
ness is dispelled and the trouble
disappears as mist before the morn
ing sun.
But you may say: "I have tried
but I cannot bring my problem out
of the dark." There is a way provided. The Bible and the Christian Science text-book help you to understand divine Principle whereby
you can bring this problem out of
the dark. If you will read the last
chapter in the text-book you will
find many testimonials from men
and women from widely separated sections of the country, testifying
to how through the- study of this
truth they have been able to bring their problems to the light and find
their solution.
If it should seem to be beyond
your present ability to demonstrate, there are Christian Science practitioners, consecrating all their time
and thought to this work, and they are ever ready, when the problem is
too heavy lo be borne, to help us to bring It to the light, to that right understanding of God, to that realization, as Mrs. Eddy, expresses it, of man's at-one-ment with God. Prayer It is often asked, how do Christian Scientists pray? In the opening chapter of the text-book, entitled "PYayer," Mrs. Eddy says: "The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick Is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God a spiritual understanding of Him. an unselfed love" (Sci
ence and Hialth. p. 1: 1-4). Is not this understanding of prayer reconcilable with Paul's Injunction that we pray without ceasing? Cannot we always vnder all circumstance? have this absolute faith that all things are possible to God. and the further assurance that in the spiritual understanding of His ever-pres-ence man is t-afe? Then the thought of unselfed love, do we not find this In accord with the Master's prayer "Thy will Oh God, not mine be done"? and in his saying: "It is more blessed to give than to receive"? As we think of our prayers are they not generally petitions for self, failing to realize that the larger part of prayer is giving? I was interested in this practical point in a testimony of which I tvard recently. A man went to a Christian Science practitioner and said: "I need help this morning; I cannot get my breath"; and the
practitioner said "In your own atate-
l"ou are always trying to get some
thing. This morning it Is breath
If you had your breath you doubt
less would be wondering where you
could get orders in your business, and If you had them your deslro would probably be to get more. If
you had all you wanted you would theii be wondering where you could
get some m.alelal pleasure or recre
atlon. But I have never heard you
asking for help to know how you can give anything. If you will learn to give you will not have so much
difficulty in getting."
Realising In a aalflahness, the man began to sea what he could give to help the world and the men and
women around him. As he learned
to give, he found that he did get
his breatli, and his buklnosilso increased, proving the truth of Jesus' statement: "Seek ye flrat the kingdom or God and Hi righteousness, and all these things haU be added unto you." Tha world needs much giving. Tou ask: What can I give? You can give jtnora consideration, patience, love, thoughtf ulness, justice, unselfishness, joy, tenderness and when we bring these treasures to God's storehouse we shall find that we have already received abundantly more th.m we Havj brought. Do we stop to consider the attitude of mind that is ordinarily brought to Ood In piayer? In our limited thought of prayer have we not prayed much like the little girl of whom I read who knelt at mother's knee nnd prayer for father, mother, brother and little sister, and finally wound up by saying: "And, Oh Lord, please make Rome the Capital of Turkey." Ker mother had never heard a prayer like that. She said: "Why, daughter, what In the world do you mean jy praying Hko that?" The child answered: "On, Mother, He must answer that prayer or I am ruined, because that la the way I wrote' it down today on my examination paper." The little
girl was not thinking about all tli
inconvenience it might have brougl
to Italy and Turkey by changing
their capitals, but only of her ex.
amination marks.
We have cried out to God to d
this or that, without ever stopping
to consider whether it would help
anyone else or not. end so we can
understand why our prayers hav
not been answered. We can se
why men have been driven from tne
church ; because they hav though
there is no r.nswer to prayer. They
have not known how to pray. I you go to a blackboard to work ou
a problem in mathematics you will
not stand facing the board and cry
out to the principle of mathematics
Tell me how to so'.ve this prob
lem." If you do. It will never do solved. Yo i t'iay to undj-'sta-id the principle Involved and then to
obey the rul. and with this under
and obedience you ara able to solve
your problem correctly.
All of us are called to stand be-
fo.-e the great Principle of all being to solve our human problems, and
we shall only solve them correctly
and happily and finally as we get
the right .inderstanding of God to
be divine Principle, and apply that
understanding in their solution.
After"all. it resolves itself Into
one great problem, and that la tp know the nothingness of matter c-r
material existence which is summed
up in what is known in Christian
Science to be the scientific state ment of being.
There is no life, truth, intelll
gence, nor substance in matter. All
s Infinite Mind and its infinite man.
festation, for God is All-in-all
fSnlrit im immortal 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"
(S. & It. p. 468).
Did not Jesus enunciate this basic
truth when he said to the woman
at the well in Samaria: "God is a spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in
truth"; bringing home to the world's
consciousness the absolute opposite
of the belief in material existence.
To know God to be Snlrlt and man
to be spiritual is the reed of the
ages, ana mis is tno mousui
Christian Science brings to the world today. If a man would un
derstand God aright he must un
deratand God to be Spirit; Ie he
would understand man aright and
know man's power and possibility
n'his right relation to God, it must
be through knowing spiritual man
This is the message of Christian
Science.
John, the beloved, writes: 'By
Him were all things made, anu
without Him was not anything made
thst w made." If this be true, .the
things we call pain, lack, sorrow
and death -are untrue, because God
never made them. He could not
have made them; na could not nave
been the author of anything so un
like eoodness as the pains, aches,
and Imperfections of our human be
liefs.
Someone said: "Well, where do
these beliefs originate?" They are
illusions, delusions, false neneis.
thev are the result of our wrong
thinking, our ignorance of God. our
K.iief in the false testimony
what we call tne pnysicai sense-. We have laid great store by the testimony of the senses sight.
earing, touch, taste, and smell, yet
we have only to test a few results
to see how unreliable and how un-
rue this sense testimony really is.
Take the sense ol signt, lor
stance. Tou can pioDaDiy every day a number of instances, if
you look for them, wnere it
proven unreliable. I read only re-
ently the story ot a man wno waa
hown a locomotive for the iirsc
ime. As ne iookcu miciunj
great machine, its movement upon
the tracks, his final question
But what will happen to the loco-
mntlre when it goes lar down tne
tracks and the rails come closer and closer together?" He had failed to take into account that delusion which seems in the distance to draw rails to a point. The. delusion the sun seeming to move from, east to west is always with us. So we can go on multiplying these instances. Not only arc you and I
deceived, but the so-r-alled physical scientists, the medical men, are deceived by this false testimony of the senses. Whenever a doctor makes a diagnosis and very wisely and solemnly pronounces that you have an incurable disease, he Is founding that diagnosis largely upon the testimony of the physical senses, which testimony is untrue. I read recently of a report published in the "Journal of the American Medical Association" and written by Dr. Richard C. Cabot of Boston, Assistant Professor of Med-
tnree thousand auicpsies it developed that only fifty-three per cent of the diagnoses were correct. In other words, nearly one-half of the time the Joctors had made an incorrect diagnosis. This shows that we need never be
unnappy about -these grave dlag
noses, for they are unreliable and
misleading. When .you analyz
seneu testimony It is easy to see
how It la unreal. You cannot see
God with tho sense of sight; you
cannot hear Ood with tho aenue o
hearing; you cannot apprthen
Spirit with any of theae phyalca
seii a en. None jf the realities come
through the physical senses. A
Paul aaya: "The things which aro seen are temporal ; s but the things
which are not seen are eternal."
We muat turn from this material
ox physical sense testlomny to the apprehension of spiritual things. We
must flgln to. know and understand
that there la a spiritual law, the aupreme law of tha universe. We
muat bring cur thinking Into bar
mony, into consonance with this spiritual law. Someone asks: "But
what do you mean? How do you
apprehend -spiritually?" One of thsimplest thoughts that came to me of God being Spirit and God being
all-good in the beginning of my
study of Christian Science was when I looked upon the suffering of a
babe. I thought, if God is good
surely He would not send suffer
lng into the life of a child. The
child has done nothing for which
he should suffer; he knows noth
lng of the so-called laws of health
that! we have been taught" to ob
serve, and I deny that there can be any evil come to this child from God, who is good. If we take some
simple thought like this and at every opportunity deny the possibility of anything so unloving as God's sending evil Into the life of a child, then affirm that which is
true, we shall find our thought Improving, through right thinking and
knowing, until with this spiritual
Ized consciousness, we can see that
tho child is not the recipient of evil
from the hand of God. but that it is reflecting only good, that it is
the manifestation of Spirit, not matter. Likewise in this larger view
we can see that man is spiritual
not material, and that God is the great governor of the universe.
sending good, and only good into man's life, and that abundantly and unceasingly: then we begin to know that all good is ours and we prepare ourselves to receive that good
and understand that there Is no
truth in the belief yf evil or devil, of which we hear so much. In the
eighth chapter of John, 44th verse, we read that Jesus when speaking
of this devil or Satan said "He was
a murderer frcm the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there
Is no truth in him. When he speak-
eth a lie, he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar, and the father of it" That great bug-bear, that bogy of the ages we must get away from, by realizing that God is all. Did you ever stop to realize that when you make a reality of this devil or Satan you are violating the First Commandment: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me"? In our so-called orthodox beliefs we have sometimes paid more attention to scaring men through a belief In this so-called devil than we have to helping them through loving and understanding God. Salvation To progress in our spiritual understanding we need to be more child-Iiko and simple, with more confidence in God. We are too material, too Intellectual, or too formal in our seeking. A hen the question was asked of Jesus who would be greatest in tho Kingdom of HeaTen. he did not take any of the
great lawyers, or merchants, or phy
sicians, or business men of the time, and prInt to cne of them as the great one 1 nthe kingdom, but ie took the impli?5t, purest example that ho cVild find, a little child.
and set hfm In the midst and said:
He that humbleth himself as this
little child shall be greatest in the
kingdom of heaven."
We need more of this child-l.k
understanding of God. I love to
think of some of the .instances of
child-like faith and understanding
that ha-fe come to my attention. In
a western city rece-itly I heard of
a little girl, six years old, who had attended the Christian Science Sun
day school for a year and was much interested. Presently she had a spell of sickness, and the parents.
not being Christian Scientists, called
in a doctor. It was a severe illness
and no cure was effected by the doctors. They finally said that she
could never be well -as she had
curvature of the spine. After the doctors had given her up she asked
her mother if she might see her
Christian Science Sunday school teacher. Upon the occasion of the teacher's visit, when she saw the little bent figure Bitting in the bed. the first thought that came to her
was. God makes crooked things straight," and involuntarily she repeated this. The child looked up with great wonderment and asked.
Where does it say that?" The
teacher pointed out to her the 16th
verse of the 42nd chapter of Isaiah, where it is found. The mother states that the little girl kept the Bible by her In the bed and -studied the
verse until it seemed to become a
part of her own thought, and she
would say to her mother day after
day, "Don't feel too sorry for me, you know God makes the crooked
things straight, and He will heal j
me. men she would eay to ner playmates as they would come in to j
see ner. you need not reel naaly about me, because I am not going to be this way long; God makes tlic
crooked things straipht and He will
make me well." With her simple faith and trust in God. this baby
girl was back in the Sunday school in a few weeks, perfectly healed
and straight, for God does make the
rooked things straight. Was not this the faith of which
Jesus thought when he said: "What
things soever ye desire, when ye
pray, nelleve that ye receive tnem.
and ye (shall have them"? We newl more of this prayer of confidence,
of understandlne;, of victory, of achievement. We need less whining and moaning and wailing. We need to do as Mrs. Eddy says in the text-book: "Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good. God has made man capable of this, and nothing can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed on man" (S. & H., p. 393). There is no condition of lack, discord, Imperfection, that can come to your life or business but that you can rifje above it It is not true. God sends good, not evil, and there Is
into our Uvea, and wc need to rise in thla chill-like atrength and confidence in God and know that victory la ours. Was not thla tha example Jesug gwve us as he stood before tho tomb of his well-beloved friend? He did not pray asking God that this man be healed, but his words are: "Father. I thank
Thee that Thou hast heard me. And I knew that Thou hearest me always"; and thn he called, "Lazarus, come forth." This Is the faith we need, this is tho prayer w0 need today. No matter If you tire out of a job, or your business seems to be on the verge of bankruptcy; If you will purge your conact jusnc-sa of every evil, unjust, envl.ms. un-God-llke thought look to the Father and say, as the Master said, "1 thank Thee that Thou hast heard me, and that Thou dost always hear me," you can know that even In this hour your prob
lem is solved. The power of God Is omnipresent, omnipotent. Let us quit trusting In a material power. Let us stop fearing the physical sense-testl-rnony, let us look to Goi approach Him with the right thought, the right understanding, and know that in Him is healing, is victory, is salvation, is life; for tho Master said: "And this la life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent." Someone kks: "Well,"' What shall I doT' "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; anr all these things shall be added unto you." That is what you need to do. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy htarf, and with all thy soul, and with al Ithy mind," and "thou Bhalt love thy neighbor as thyself." That Is what you need to do. "How shall I love God?"
you say. Love your lellowman. It
is said in the Bible that the man
who says he loves God and does not love his fellowman Is a liar. How can he love God whom he bath
not seen If he does not love ins fellowman?
Let us change our thought toward
the world. Let us understand that I
man is spiritual. Let us begin, as
the text-book says, to rise above
the physical sense, to jfeplace
the objects of material sense with spiritual ideas. Christian Science teaches that true creation is not
moulding forms out of matter, but
it la the unfoldment of spiritual
ideas. It teaches that men and.
women are thoughts of God, are
spiritual Ideas. Suppose you and I should think of our fellow beings
not as so many selfish, unhappy.
diseased, miserable people, but see
them as God's ideas, how wonderful
it would be.
Suppose parents and teachers
should begin tc see the children not
as diseased, impatient, or unhappy.
but should see them as spiritual thoughts, the expression of God's
goodnesg, God's love, the reflection of divine intelligence. The
children would quickly respond. to
this thought. Jesus, you will re
member, said: "Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine
own eye, and then shalt thou see
clearly to pull out the mote that Is in thy brother's eye." Let us begin
to see the children right. I heard
this beauti'ul story ot a boy four years old who had aever walked or
talked. At birth the doctors had
said he was an idiot. The parents had tried nil material remedies
without avail, and finally Christian Science waa recommended to them. It was pointed out that the child should be seen as the reflection of
divine intelligence. They were will-
Incr to try anythii-a- accordingly
called a Christian Science practitioner and began with ths assistance to see tho child aright, as God's gift to them. I read a letter from the mother written at that time in which she said that every day she thanked O-od for the perfect gift of Love, although to sense testimony her child was but a eickly babe. In a few months that child was perfectly healed, was In a kindergarten, running, Jumping, laughing, talking, learning. I read recently a letter from tha father and mother written three years later, in which they say: "Our boy at seven Is the hardiest, sturdiest, strongest boy In all his class." If the truth revealed In Christian Science will htal one. It will hea. millions. It Is the understanding of divine Principle, the eternal law oi God. It has always been in thf world. It will always be amons men to be understood and azDlied.
Shall we hesitate longer to understand that God la Spirit and man Is spiritual, tnd to apply that understanding our lives? Instead of seeing so much cheating, lying, stealing, disease, we need to see that men and women are
God s ideas, expressions "of God's goodness anl God's love, reflecting good, existing to bless one another and all the world. In so seeing, how much more happiness we would get out of our lives and be able to give to the world. Truth, God, understood and applied in our lives, heals sin, sickness, lack, sorrow, every unhappy condition. Someone asks: "How did all this evil begin? Tou say God did not send sin to us?" "No." "You say there Is no devil?" "No." "How did I ever begin to think
wrong?" For centuries the world has been steeped in material thinking, learning, living. . It has gotten away from Gpd, from Spirit, until rarely have wo thought on Him. Suppose a book were written in the Chinese language, that we had never studied, and we should open it to read. We would not know a letter, word, or a line on the written page. Can we blame anybody for our ignorance? Can wo blame God Did he make us Ignorant of the Chinese
language? No. Did the devil? No. Did man? No. We have studied other languages, perhaps, Latin, French, English, to the exclusion of the Chinese, therefore we are not able to read it; we are ignorant of It. Likewise ara we Ignorant of spiritual things because we have not studied spiritual things. We have violated and disobeyed the command of God: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness." We have been seeking first the other things iwealth, power, position. How can we expect to do well, to be well, to be happy, to be saved, when we wilfully, knowingly, day after day and year after year violate God's command? Let us begin as children to think more and to learn more of tho things of God and His kingdom. Let us not fear to begin simply, to learn and to put into practice in childlike simplicity the commands of God. There is rich reward In the fulfillment of God's promises as we lear nto obey. Tho value of childlike thinking and living is voiced In this quotation from Mrs. Eddy's "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 110. 4-12): "Beloved children: The world
(has need of you and more as chil
dren than as men and women: Tt needs your Innocence, unselfishness, faithful affection, uncontamlnated lives. Tou need also to watch and pray that you preserve these virtues unstained, and lose them not through contact with the world. T'-'at trrai-lor ambition Is there
than to maintain in yourselves what Jesua loved, and to know that youi example, more than words, maker morals for mankind!"
MUNCIE. Oct. Nina Howard anj Fannie Wiley, both colored, are it the Indiana women's prison today, serving six month sentences for violation of the liquor laws. Their sentences were made a little more stringent because they re., slsted an officer who went to the. house In search of liquor suspected of belnir secreted thor-
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