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You may copy it, + give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project + Gutenberg License <a href="#pglicense" class="tei tei-ref">included with this + eBook</a> or online at <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/license" class="tei tei-xref">http://www.gutenberg.org/license</a></p></div><pre class="pre tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 3.00em; margin-top: 3.00em">Title: Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 + +Author: Mary Baker Eddy + +Release Date: February 27, 2010 [Ebook #31427] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS, 1883-1896*** +</pre></div> + </div> + <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + + </div> + + <hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.73em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Miscellaneous Writings</span></p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.73em"><span style="font-size: 173%">1883-1896</span></p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.20em"><span style="font-size: 120%">by</span></p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.44em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Mary Baker Eddy</span></p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science</p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">and Author of Science and Health with</p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">Key to the Scriptures</p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">Published by the</p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy</p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">Boston, U. S. A.</p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">Copyright, 1896</p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">By Mary Baker G. Eddy</p> + <p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">Copyright renewed, 1924</p> + </div> + <hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Contents</span></h1> + <ul class="tei tei-index tei-index-toc"><li><a href="#toc1">Dedication.</a></li><li><a href="#toc3">Epigrams.</a></li><li><a href="#toc5">Preface.</a></li><li><a href="#toc7">Chapter I. Introductory.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc9">Prospectus.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc10">A Timely Issue.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc11">Love Your Enemies.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc12">Christian Theism.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc13">The New Birth.</a></li><li><a href="#toc14">Chapter II. One Cause And Effect.</a></li><li><a href="#toc16">Chapter III. Questions And Answers.</a></li><li><a href="#toc18">Chapter IV. Addresses.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc20">Christian Science In Tremont Temple.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc21">Science And The Senses.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc22">Extract From My First Address In The Mother +Church, May 26, 1895</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc23">Address Before The Alumni Of The Massachusetts +Metaphysical College, 1895</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc24">Address Before The Christian Scientist Association +Of The Massachusetts Metaphysical College, +In 1893</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc25">Communion Address, January, 1896</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc26">Message To The Annual Meeting Of The Mother +Church, Boston, 1896</a></li><li><a href="#toc27">Chapter V. Letters.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc29">To The Mother Church.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc30">To ——, On Prayer.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc31">To The National Christian Scientist Association.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc32">To The College Association.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc33">To The National Christian Scientist Association.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc34">To The First Church Of Christ, Scientist, Boston.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc35">To Donors Of Boat, From Toronto, Canada.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc36">Address,—Laying The Corner-Stone.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc37">To The First Church Of Christ, Scientist, Boston</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc38">The First Members Of The First Church Of Christ, +Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc39">Extract From A Letter</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc40">To The Mother Church</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc41">To First Church Of Christ, Scientist, In Oconto</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc42">To First Church Of Christ, Scientist, In Scranton</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc43">To First Church Of Christ, Scientist, +In Denver</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc44">To First Church Of Christ, Scientist, +In Lawrence</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc45">To Correspondents</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc46">To Students</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc47">To A Student</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc48">To A Student</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc49">Extract From A Christmas Letter</a></li><li><a href="#toc50">Chapter VI. Sermons.</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc52">A Christmas Sermon</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc53">Editor's Extracts From Sermon</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc54">Extract From A Sermon Delivered In Boston, January 18, 1885</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc55">Sunday Services on July Fourth</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc56">Easter Services</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc57">Bible Lessons</a></li><li><a href="#toc58">Chapter VII. Pond And Purpose.</a></li><li><a href="#toc60">Chapter VIII. Precept Upon Precept</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc62">“Thy Will Be Done”</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc63">“Put Up Thy Sword”</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc64">Scientific Theism</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc65">Mental Practice</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc66">Taking Offense</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc67">Hints To The Clergy</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc68">Perfidy And Slander</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc69">Contagion</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc70">Improve Your Time</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc71">Thanksgiving Dinner</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc72">Christian Science</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc73">Injustice</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc74">Reformers</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc75">Mrs. Eddy Sick</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc76">“I've Got Cold”</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc77">“Prayer And Healing”</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc78">Veritas Odium Parit</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc79">Falsehood</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc80">Love</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc81">Address On The Fourth Of July At Pleasant View, +Concord, N. H., Before 2,500 Members Of The +Mother Church, 1897</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc82">Well Doinge Is The Fruite Of Doinge Well</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc83">Little Gods</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc84">Advantage Of Mind-Healing</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc85">A Card</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc86">Spirit And Law</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc87">Truth-Healing</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc88">Heart To Heart</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc89">Things To Be Thought Of</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc90">Unchristian Rumor</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc91">Vainglory</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc92">Compounds</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc93">Close Of The Massachusetts Metaphysical +College</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc94">Malicious Reports</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc95">Loyal Christian Scientists</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc96">The March Primary Class</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc97">Obtrusive Mental Healing</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc98">Wedlock</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc99">Judge Not</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc100">New Commandment</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc101">A Cruce Salus</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc102">Comparison to English Barmaids</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc103">A Christian Science Statute</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc104">Advice To Students</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc105">Notice</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc106">Angels</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc107">Deification Of Personality</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc108">A Card</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc109">Overflowing Thoughts</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc110">A Great Man And His Saying</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc111">Words Of Commendation</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc112">Church And School</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc113">Class, Pulpit, Students' Students</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc114">My Students And Thy Students</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc115">Unseen Sin</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc116">A Word To The Wise</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc117">Christmas</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc118">Card</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc119">Message To The Mother Church</a></li><li><a href="#toc120">Chapter IX. The Fruit Of Spirit</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc122">An Allegory</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc123">Voices Of Spring</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc124">“Where Art Thou?”</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc125">Divine Science</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc126">Fidelity</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc127">True Philosophy And Communion</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc128">Origin Of Evil</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc129">Truth Versus Error</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc130">Fallibility Of Human Concepts</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc131">The Way</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc132">Science And Philosophy</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc133">“Take Heed!”</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc134">The Cry Of Christmas-Tide</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc135">Blind Leaders</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc136">“Christ And Christmas”</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc137">Sunrise At Pleasant View</a></li><li><a href="#toc138">Chapter X. Inklings Historic</a></li><li><a href="#toc140">Chapter XI. Poems</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc142">Come Thou</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc143">Meeting Of My Departed Mother And Husband</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc144">Love</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc145">Woman's Rights</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc146">The Mother's Evening Prayer</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc147">June</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc148">Wish And Item</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc149">The Oak On The Mountain's Summit</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc150">Isle Of Wight</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc151">Hope</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc152">Rondelet</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc153">To Mr. James T. White</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc154">Autumn</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc155">Christ My Refuge</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc156">“Feed My Sheep”</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc157">Communion Hymn</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc158">Laus Deo!</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc159">A Verse</a></li><li><a href="#toc160">Chapter XII. Testimonials</a></li><li><a href="#toc162">Footnotes</a></li></ul> + </div> + + </div> +<div class="tei tei-body" style="margin-bottom: 6.00em; margin-top: 6.00em"> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagev">[pg v]</span><a name="Pgv" id="Pgv" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc1" id="toc1"></a> +<a name="pdf2" id="pdf2"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Dedication.</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Loyal Christian Scientists</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In This And Every Land</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I Lovingly Dedicate These Practical Teachings</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Indispensable To The Culture And Achievements Which</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Constitute The Success Of A Student</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Demonstrate The Ethics</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of Christian Science</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mary Baker Eddy +</p> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagevii">[pg vii]</span><a name="Pgvii" id="Pgvii" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc3" id="toc3"></a> +<a name="pdf4" id="pdf4"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Epigrams.</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To read it well; that is, to understand.</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Ben Jonson</span></span>: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Epigram</span></span> 1 +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When I would know thee ... my thought looks</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Upon thy well made choice of friends and books;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then do I love thee, and behold thy ends</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In making thy friends books, and thy books friends.</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Ben Jonson</span></span>: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Epigram</span></span> 86 +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If worlds were formed by matter,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And mankind from the dust;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Till time shall end more timely,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">There's nothing here to trust.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thenceforth to evolution's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Geology, we say,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Nothing have we gained therefrom,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And nothing have to pray:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My world has sprung from Spirit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">In everlasting day;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whereof, I've more to glory,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Wherefor, have much to pay.</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Baker Eddy</span></span> +</p> + +</div> + + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pageix">[pg ix]</span><a name="Pgix" id="Pgix" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc5" id="toc5"></a> +<a name="pdf6" id="pdf6"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Preface.</span></h1> + + + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +[Transcriber's Note: The original book includes line numbers throughout the text, +for easy reference to the text by page number and line number. This transcription +retains those page and line numbers; the numbers in [square brackets] at the right ends +of lines are the original book's line numbers. The paragraphs are not adjusted +as is customary for text in e-books, nor are words split by hyphens rejoined, +so that the lines shown below have the +same words as the lines in the original book.] +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A certain apothegm of a Talmudical philosopher [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">suits my sense of doing good. It reads thus: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">noblest charity is to prevent a man from accepting</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">charity; and the best alms are to show and to enable a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">man to dispense with alms.”</span> [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In the early history of Christian Science, among my</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thousands of students few were wealthy. Now, Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scientists are not indigent; and their comfortable fortunes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are acquired by healing mankind morally, physically,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritually. The easel of time presents pictures—once [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fragmentary and faint—now rejuvenated by the touch</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of God's right hand. Where joy, sorrow, hope, disap-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pointment, sigh, and smile commingled, now hope sits</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dove-like.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To preserve a long course of years still and uniform, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">amid the uniform darkness of storm and cloud and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tempest, requires strength from above,—deep draughts</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the fount of divine Love. Truly may it be said:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There is an old age of the heart, and a youth that never</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">grows old; a Love that is a boy, and a Psyche who is [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ever a girl. The fleeting freshness of youth, however,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is not the evergreen of Soul; the coloring glory of</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagex">[pg x]</span><a name="Pgx" id="Pgx" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">perpetual bloom; the spiritual glow and grandeur of [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a consecrated life wherein dwelleth peace, sacred and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sincere in trial or in triumph.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The opportunity has at length offered itself for me to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">comply with an oft-repeated request; namely, to collect [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my miscellaneous writings published in <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">The Christian</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Science Journal</span></span>, since April, 1883, and republish them</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in book form,—accessible as reference, and reliable as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">old landmarks. Owing to the manifold demands on my</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">time in the early pioneer days, most of these articles [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">were originally written in haste, without due preparation.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To those heretofore in print, a few articles are herein</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">appended. To some articles are affixed data, where these</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are most requisite, to serve as mile-stones measuring the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">distance,—or the difference between then and now,— [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the opinions of men and the progress of our Cause.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My signature has been slightly changed from my</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian name, Mary Morse Baker. Timidity in early</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">years caused me, as an author, to assume various +<span class="tei tei-foreign" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">noms</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-foreign" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">de plume</span></span>. After my first marriage, to +Colonel Glover [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Charleston, South Carolina, I dropped the name of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Morse to retain my maiden name,—thinking that other-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wise the name would be too long.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In 1894, I received from the Daughters of the American</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Revolution a certificate of membership made out to Mary [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Baker Eddy, and thereafter adopted that form of signature,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">except in connection with my published works.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagexi">[pg xi]</span><a name="Pgxi" id="Pgxi" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The first edition of Science and Health having been [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">copyrighted at the date of its issue, 1875, in my name</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Glover, caused me to retain the initial <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“G”</span> on my</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">subsequent books.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">These pages, although a reproduction of what has [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">been written, are still in advance of their time; and are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">richly rewarded by what they have hitherto achieved for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the race. While no offering can liquidate one's debt of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gratitude to God, the fervent heart and willing hand are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not unknown to nor unrewarded by Him. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">May this volume be to the reader a graphic guide-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">book, pointing the path, dating the unseen, and enabling</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">him to walk the untrodden in the hitherto unexplored</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fields of Science. At each recurring holiday the Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scientist will find herein a <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“canny”</span> crumb; and thus [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">may time's pastimes become footsteps to joys eternal.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Realism will at length be found to surpass imagination,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and to suit and savor all literature. The shuttlecock of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">religious intolerance will fall to the ground, if there be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">no battledores to fling it back and forth. It is reason for [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rejoicing that the <span class="tei tei-foreign" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">vox populi</span></span> +is inclined to grant us peace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">together with pardon for the preliminary battles that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">purchased it.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With tender tread, thought sometimes walks in memory,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">through the dim corridors of years, on to old battle- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">grounds, there sadly to survey the fields of the slain and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the enemy's losses. In compiling this work, I have tried</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagexii">[pg xii]</span><a name="Pgxii" id="Pgxii" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to remove the pioneer signs and ensigns of war, and to [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">retain at this date the privileged armaments of peace.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With armor on, I continue the march, command and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">countermand; meantime interluding with loving thought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this afterpiece of battle. Supported, cheered, I take my [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pen and pruning-hook, to <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“learn war no more,”</span> and with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strong wing to lift my readers above the smoke of conflict</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">into light and liberty.</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Mary Baker Eddy +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Concord, N.H.</span></span><br /> +January, 1897 +</p> + +</div> + + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page001">[pg 001]</span><a name="Pg001" id="Pg001" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc7" id="toc7"></a> +<a name="pdf8" id="pdf8"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Chapter I. Introductory.</span></h1> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc9" id="toc9"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Prospectus.</span></h2> + + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The ancient Greek looked longingly for the Olym- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">piad. The Chaldee watched the appearing of a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">star; to him, no higher destiny dawned on the dome</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of being than that foreshadowed by signs in the heav- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ens. The meek Nazarene, the scoffed of all scoffers,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">not discern the signs of the times?”</span>—for he forefelt</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and foresaw the ordeal of a perfect Christianity, hated</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by sinners. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To kindle all minds with a gleam of gratitude, the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">new idea that comes welling up from infinite Truth needs</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to be understood. The seer of this age should be a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sage.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Humility is the stepping-stone to a higher recognition [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Deity. The mounting sense gathers fresh forms and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strange fire from the ashes of dissolving self, and drops</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the world. Meekness heightens immortal attributes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">only by removing the dust that dims them. Goodness</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reveals another scene and another self seemingly rolled [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">up in shades, but brought to light by the evolutions of</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page002">[pg 002]</span><a name="Pg002" id="Pg002" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">advancing thought, whereby we discern the power of [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth and Love to heal the sick.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Pride is ignorance; those assume most who have the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">least wisdom or experience; and they steal from their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">neighbor, because they have so little of their own. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The signs of these times portend a long and strong</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">determination of mankind to cleave to the world, the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">flesh, and evil, causing great obscuration of Spirit.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When we remember that God is just, and admit the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">total depravity of mortals, <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">alias</span></em> mortal mind,—and that [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this Adam legacy must first be seen, and then must be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">subdued and recompensed by justice, the eternal attri-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bute of Truth,—the outlook demands labor, and the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">laborers seem few. To-day we behold but the first</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">faint view of a more spiritual Christianity, that embraces [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a deeper and broader philosophy and a more rational and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine healing. The time approaches when divine Life,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth, and Love will be found alone the remedy for sin,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sickness, and death; when God, man's saving Principle,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and Christ, the spiritual idea of God, will be revealed. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Man's probation after death is the necessity of his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">immortality; for good dies not and evil is self-destruc-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tive, therefore evil must be mortal and self-destroyed.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If man should not progress after death, but should re-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">main in error, he would be inevitably self-annihilated. [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Those upon whom <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the second death hath no power”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are those who progress here and hereafter out of evil,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">their mortal element, and into good that is immortal;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thus laying off the material beliefs that war against</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spirit, and putting on the spiritual elements in divine [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">While we entertain decided views as to the best method</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page003">[pg 003]</span><a name="Pg003" id="Pg003" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for elevating the race physically, morally, and spiritually, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and shall express these views as duty demands, we</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shall claim no especial gift from our divine origin, no</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">supernatural power. If we regard good as more natural</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than evil, and spiritual understanding—the true knowl- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">edge of God—as imparting the only power to heal the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sick and the sinner, we shall demonstrate in our lives the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">power of Truth and Love.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The lessons we learn in divine Science are applica-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ble to all the needs of man. Jesus taught them for this [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">very purpose; and his demonstration hath taught us</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“through his stripes”</span>—his life-experience—and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine Science, brought to the understanding through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christ, the Spirit-revelator, is man healed and saved.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">No opinions of mortals nor human hypotheses enter this [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">line of thought or action. Drugs, inert matter, never are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">needed to aid spiritual power. Hygiene, manipulation,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and mesmerism are not Mind's medicine. The Principle</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of all cure is God, unerring and immortal Mind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We have learned that the erring or mortal thought holds [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in itself all sin, sickness, and death, and imparts these</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">states to the body; while the supreme and perfect Mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as seen in the truth of being, antidotes and destroys these</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">material elements of sin and death.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Because God is supreme and omnipotent, <span class="tei tei-foreign" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">materia</span></span> +[25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-foreign" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">medica</span></span>, hygiene, and animal magnetism are +impotent;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and their only supposed efficacy is in apparently delud-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing reason, denying revelation, and dethroning Deity.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The tendency of mental healing is to uplift mankind; but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this method perverted, is <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Satan let loose.”</span> Hence the [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">deep demand for the Science of psychology to meet sin,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and uncover it; thus to annihilate hallucination.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page004">[pg 004]</span><a name="Pg004" id="Pg004" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thought imbued with purity, Truth, and Love, in- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">structed in the Science of metaphysical healing, is the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">most potent and desirable remedial agent on the earth.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">At this period there is a marked tendency of mortal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mind to plant mental healing on the basis of hypnotism, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">calling this method <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“mental science.”</span> All <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Science</span></em> is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Christian</span></em> Science; the Science of the Mind that is God,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and of the universe as His idea, and their relation to each</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">other. Its only power to heal is its power to do good,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not evil.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc10" id="toc10"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">A Timely Issue.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">At this date, 1883, a newspaper edited and published</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by the Christian Scientists has become a necessity. Many</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">questions important to be disposed of come to the Col-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lege and to the practising students, yet but little time [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">has been devoted to their answer. Further enlight-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">enment is necessary for the age, and a periodical de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">voted to this work seems alone adequate to meet the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">requirement. Much interest is awakened and expressed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on the subject of metaphysical healing, but in many [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">minds it is confounded with isms, and even infidelity, so</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that its religious specialty and the vastness of its worth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are not understood.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is often said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“You must have a very strong will-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">power to heal,”</span> or, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“It must require a great deal of +faith</span> [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">to make your demonstrations.”</span> When it is answered</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that there is no will-power required, and that something</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">more than faith is necessary, we meet with an expression</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of incredulity. It is not alone the mission of Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science to heal the sick, but to destroy sin in mortal [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page005">[pg 005]</span><a name="Pg005" id="Pg005" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thought. This work well done will elevate and purify [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the race. It cannot fail to do this if we devote our best</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">energies to the work.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science reveals man as spiritual, harmonious, and eter-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nal. This should be understood. Our College should [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be crowded with students who are willing to consecrate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">themselves to this Christian work. Mothers should be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">able to produce perfect health and perfect morals in their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">children—and ministers, to heal the sick—by study-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing this scientific method of practising Christianity. [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Many say, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I should like to study, but have not suffi-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">cient faith that I have the power to heal.”</span> The healing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">power is Truth and Love, and these do not fail in the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">greatest emergencies.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-foreign" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Materia medica</span></span> says, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I +can do no more. I have</span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">done all that can be done. There is nothing to build</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">upon. There is no longer any reason for hope.”</span> Then</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">metaphysics comes in, armed with the power of Spirit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not matter, takes up the case hopefully and builds on</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the stone that the builders have rejected, and is suc- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cessful.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Metaphysical therapeutics can seem a miracle and a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mystery to those only who do not understand the grand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reality that Mind controls the body. They acknowledge</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">an erring or mortal mind, but believe it to be brain mat- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ter. That man is the idea of infinite Mind, always perfect</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in God, in Truth, Life, and Love, is something not easily</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">accepted, weighed down as is mortal thought with mate-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rial beliefs. That which never existed, can seem solid</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">substance to this thought. It is much easier for people [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to believe that the body affects the mind, than that the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mind affects the body.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page006">[pg 006]</span><a name="Pg006" id="Pg006" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We hear from the pulpits that sickness is sent as a [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">discipline to bring man nearer to God,—even though</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sickness often leaves mortals but little time free from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">complaints and fretfulness, and Jesus cast out disease as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The most of our Christian Science practitioners have</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">plenty to do, and many more are needed for the ad-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vancement of the age. At present the majority of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">acute cases are given to the M. D.'s, and only those</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cases that are pronounced incurable are passed over to [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Scientist. The healing of such cases should cer-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tainly prove to all minds the power of metaphysics over</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">physics; and it surely does, to many thinkers, as the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rapid growth of the work shows. At no distant day,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian healing will rank far in advance of allopathy [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and homœopathy; for Truth must ultimately succeed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">where error fails.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind governs all. That we exist in God, perfect,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">there is no doubt, for the conceptions of Life, Truth, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love must be perfect; and with that basic truth we con- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quer sickness, sin, and death. Frequently it requires</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">time to overcome the patient's faith in drugs and mate-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rial hygiene; but when once convinced of the uselessness</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of such material methods, the gain is rapid.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is a noticeable fact, that in families where laws [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of health are strictly enforced, great caution is observed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in regard to diet, and the conversation chiefly confined</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the ailments of the body, there is the most sickness.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Take a large family of children where the mother has</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all that she can attend to in keeping them clothed and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fed, and health is generally the rule; whereas, in small</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">families of one or two children, sickness is by no means</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page007">[pg 007]</span><a name="Pg007" id="Pg007" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the exception. These children must not be allowed to [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eat certain food, nor to breathe the cold air, because</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">there is danger in it; when they perspire, they must be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">loaded down with coverings until their bodies become</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dry,—and the mother of one child is often busier than [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the mother of eight.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Great charity and humility is necessary in this work</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of healing. The loving patience of Jesus, we must</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strive to emulate. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou shalt love thy neighbor as</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">thyself”</span> has daily to be exemplified; and, although [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">skepticism and incredulity prevail in places where</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one would least expect it, it harms not; for if serving</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christ, Truth, of what can mortal opinion avail? Cast</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not your pearls before swine; but if you cannot bring</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">peace to all, you can to many, if faithful laborers in His [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vineyard.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Looking over the newspapers of the day, one naturally</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reflects that it is dangerous to live, so loaded with disease</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">seems the very air. These descriptions carry fears to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">many minds, to be depicted in some future time upon [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the body. A periodical of our own will counteract to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">some extent this public nuisance; for through our paper,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at the price at which we shall issue it, we shall be able</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to reach many homes with healing, purifying thought.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A great work already has been done, and a greater work [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">yet remains to be done. Oftentimes we are denied the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">results of our labors because people do not understand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the nature and power of metaphysics, and they think</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that health and strength would have returned natu-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rally without any assistance. This is not so much from [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a lack of justice, as it is that the +<span class="tei tei-foreign" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">mens populi</span></span> is not suffi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ciently enlightened on this great subject. More thought</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page008">[pg 008]</span><a name="Pg008" id="Pg008" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is given to material illusions than to spiritual facts. If [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">we can aid in abating suffering and diminishing sin,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">we shall have accomplished much; but if we can bring</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the general thought this great fact that drugs do not,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cannot, produce health and harmony, since <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“in Him</span> [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">[Mind] we live, and move, and have our being,”</span> we shall</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">have done more.”</span></div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc11" id="toc11"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Love Your Enemies.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who is thine enemy that thou shouldst love him? Is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it a creature or a thing outside thine own creation? [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Can you see an enemy, except you first formulate this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">enemy and then look upon the object of your own conception?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What is it that harms you? Can height, or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">depth, or any other creature separate you from the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love that is omnipresent good,—that blesses infinitely [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one and all?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Simply count your enemy to be that which defiles,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">defaces, and dethrones the Christ-image that you should</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reflect. Whatever purifies, sanctifies, and consecrates</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human life, is not an enemy, however much we suffer in [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the process. Shakespeare writes: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Sweet are the uses</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">of adversity.”</span> Jesus said: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Blessed are ye, when +men</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">manner of evil against you <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">falsely</span></em>, for my sake; ... for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">so persecuted they the prophets which were before [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">you.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Hebrew law with its <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou shalt not,”</span> its de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mand and sentence, can only be fulfilled through the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gospel's benediction. Then, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Blessed are ye,”</span> inso-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page009">[pg 009]</span><a name="Pg009" id="Pg009" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">much as the consciousness of good, grace, and peace, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">comes through affliction rightly understood, as sanctified</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by the purification it brings to the flesh,—to pride, self-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ignorance, self-will, self-love, self-justification. Sweet,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">indeed, are these uses of His rod! Well is it that the [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Shepherd of Israel passes all His flock under His rod</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">into His fold; thereby numbering them, and giving them</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">refuge at last from the elements of earth.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Love thine enemies”</span> is identical with <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou hast</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">no enemies.”</span> Wherein is this conclusion relative to [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">those who have hated thee without a cause? Simply, in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that those unfortunate individuals are virtually thy best</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">friends. Primarily and ultimately, they are doing thee</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good far beyond the present sense which thou canst entertain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of good. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whom we call friends seem to sweeten life's cup and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to fill it with the nectar of the gods. We lift this cup</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to our lips; but it slips from our grasp, to fall in frag-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ments before our eyes. Perchance, having tasted its</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tempting wine, we become intoxicated; become lethar- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gic, dreamy objects of self-satisfaction; else, the con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tents of this cup of selfish human enjoyment having lost</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its flavor, we voluntarily set it aside as tasteless and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unworthy of human aims.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And wherefore our failure longer to relish this fleet- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing sense, with its delicious forms of friendship,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wherewith mortals become educated to gratification in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">personal pleasure and trained in treacherous peace?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Because it is the great and only danger in the path</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that winds upward. A false sense of what consti- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tutes happiness is more disastrous to human progress</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than all that an enemy or enmity can obtrude upon</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page010">[pg 010]</span><a name="Pg010" id="Pg010" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the mind or engraft upon its purposes and achievements [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wherewith to obstruct life's joys and enhance its sor-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rows.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We have no enemies. Whatever envy, hatred, revenge</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">—the most remorseless motives that govern mortal mind [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">—whatever these try to do, shall <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“work together for good</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">to them that love God.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Why?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Because He has called His own, armed them, equipped</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">them, and furnished them defenses impregnable. Their [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God will not let them be lost; and if they fall they shall</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rise again, stronger than before the stumble. The good</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cannot lose their God, their help in times of trouble.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If they mistake the divine command, they will recover</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it, countermand their order, retrace their steps, and [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reinstate His orders, more assured to press on safely.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The best lesson of their lives is gained by crossing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">swords with temptation, with fear and the besetments</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of evil; insomuch as they thereby have tried their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strength and proven it; insomuch as they have found [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">their strength made perfect in weakness, and their fear</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is self-immolated.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This destruction is a moral chemicalization, wherein</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">old things pass away and all things become new. The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">worldly or material tendencies of human affections and [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pursuits are thus annihilated; and this is the advent of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritualization. Heaven comes down to earth, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortals learn at last the lesson, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I have no enemies.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Even in belief you have but one (that, not in reality),</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and this one enemy is yourself—your erroneous belief [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that you have enemies; that evil is real; that aught but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good exists in Science. Soon or late, your enemy will</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page011">[pg 011]</span><a name="Pg011" id="Pg011" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wake from his delusion to suffer for his evil intent; to [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">find that, though thwarted, its punishment is tenfold.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love is the fulfilling of the law: it is grace, mercy,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and justice. I used to think it sufficiently just to abide</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by our State statutes; that if a man should aim a ball at [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my heart, and I by firing first could kill him and save</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my own life, that this was right. I thought, also, that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">if I taught indigent students gratuitously, afterwards</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">assisting them pecuniarily, and did not cease teachi</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing the wayward ones at close of the class term, but [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">followed them with precept upon precept; that if my</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">instructions had healed them and shown them the sure way</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of salvation,—I had done my whole duty to students.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love metes not out human justice, but divine mercy.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If one's life were attacked, and one could save it only [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in accordance with common law, by taking another's,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">would one sooner give up his own? We must love our</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">enemies in all the manifestations wherein and whereby</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">we love our friends; must even try not to expose their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">faults, but to do them good whenever opportunity [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">occurs. To mete out human justice to those who per-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">secure and despitefully use one, is not leaving all retribu-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion to God and returning blessing for cursing. If special</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">opportunity for doing good to one's enemies occur not,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one can include them in his general effort to benefit the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">race. Because I can do much general good to such as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hate me, I do it with earnest, special care—since they</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">permit me no other way, though with tears have I striven</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for it. When smitten on one cheek, I have turned the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">other: I have but two to present. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I would enjoy taking by the hand all who love me not,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and saying to them, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“<em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">I</span></em> love <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">you</span></em>, +and would not know-</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page012">[pg 012]</span><a name="Pg012" id="Pg012" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">ingly harm you.”</span> <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Because</span></em> I thus feel, +I say to others: [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hate no one; for hatred is a plague-spot that spreads</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its virus and kills at last. If indulged, it masters us;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">brings suffering upon suffering to its possessor, through-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out time and beyond the grave. If you have been badly [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wronged, forgive and forget: God will recompense this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wrong, and punish, more severely than you could, him</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who has striven to injure you. Never return evil for evil;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and, above all, do not fancy that you have been wronged</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">when you have not been. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The present is ours; the future, big with events.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Every man and woman should be to-day a law to him-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">self, herself,—a law of loyalty to Jesus' Sermon on the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mount. The means for sinning unseen and unpunished</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have so increased that, unless one be watchful and stead- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fast in Love, one's temptations to sin are increased a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hundredfold. Mortal mind at this period mutely works</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the interest of both good and evil in a manner least</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">understood; hence the need of watching, and the danger</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of yielding to temptation from causes that at former [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">periods in human history were not existent. The action</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and effects of this so-called human mind in its silent argu-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ments, are yet to be uncovered and summarily dealt with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by divine justice.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In Christian Science, the law of Love rejoices the heart; [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and Love is Life and Truth. Whatever manifests aught</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">else in its effects upon mankind, demonstrably is not Love.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We should measure our love for God by our love for man;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and our sense of Science will be measured by our obedience</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to God,—fulfilling the law of Love, doing good to all; [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">imparting, so far as we reflect them, Truth, Life, and Love</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to all within the radius of our atmosphere of thought.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page013">[pg 013]</span><a name="Pg013" id="Pg013" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The only justice of which I feel at present capable, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is mercy and charity toward every one,—just so far as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one and all permit me to exercise these sentiments toward</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">them,—taking special care to mind my own business.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The falsehood, ingratitude, misjudgment, and sharp [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">return of evil for good—yea, the real wrongs (if wrong</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">can be real) which I have long endured at the hands of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">others—have most happily wrought out for me the law</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of loving mine enemies. This law I now urge upon the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">solemn consideration of all Christian Scientists. Jesus [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“If ye love them which love you, what thank have</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">ye? for sinners also love those that love them.”</span></div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc12" id="toc12"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Christian Theism.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scholastic theology elaborates the proposition that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil is a factor of good, and that to believe in the reality [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of evil is essential to a rounded sense of the existence of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This frail hypothesis is founded upon the basis of mate-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rial and mortal evidence—only upon what the shifting</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortal senses confirm and frail human reason accepts. [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Science of Soul reverses this proposition, overturns</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the testimony of the five erring senses, and reveals in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">clearer divinity the existence of good only; that is, of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God and His idea.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This postulate of divine Science only needs to be con- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ceded, to afford opportunity for proof of its correctness</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the clearer discernment of good.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Seek the Anglo-Saxon term for God, and you will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">find it to be good; then define good as God, and you</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will find that good is omnipotence, has all power; it fills [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page014">[pg 014]</span><a name="Pg014" id="Pg014" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all space, being omnipresent; hence, there is neither place [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nor power left for evil. Divest your thought, then, of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the mortal and material view which contradicts the ever-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">presence and all-power of good; take in only the immor-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tal facts which include these, and where will you see or [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">feel evil, or find its existence necessary either to the origin</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or ultimate of good?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is urged that, from his original state of perfec-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion, man has fallen into the imperfection that requires</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil through which to develop good. Were we to [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">admit this vague proposition, the Science of man could</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">never be learned; for in order to learn Science, we</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">begin with the correct statement, with harmony and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its Principle; and if man has lost his Principle and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its harmony, from evidences before him he is inca- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pable of knowing the facts of existence and its con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">comitants: therefore to him evil is as real and eternal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as good, God! This awful deception is evil's umpire</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and empire, that good, God, understood, forcibly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">destroys. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What appears to mortals from their standpoint to be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the necessity for evil, is proven by the law of opposites</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to be without necessity. Good is the primitive Princi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ple of man; and evil, good's opposite, has no Principle,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and is not, and cannot be, the derivative of good. [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thus evil is neither a primitive nor a derivative, but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is suppositional; in other words, a lie that is incapable</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of proof—therefore, wholly problematical.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Science of Truth annihilates error, deprives evil</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of all power, and thereby destroys all error, sin, sickness, [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">disease, and death. But the sinner is not sheltered from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">suffering from sin: he makes a great reality of evil, iden-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page015">[pg 015]</span><a name="Pg015" id="Pg015" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tifies himself with it, fancies he finds pleasure in it, and [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will reap what he sows; hence the sinner must endure</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the effects of his delusion until he awakes from it.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc13" id="toc13"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">The New Birth.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">St. Paul speaks of the new birth as <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“waiting for the</span> [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”</span> The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">great Nazarene Prophet said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Blessed are the pure in</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">heart: for they shall see God.”</span> Nothing aside from the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritualization—yea, the highest Christianization—of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thought and desire, can give the true perception of God [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and divine Science, that results in health, happiness, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">holiness.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The new birth is not the work of a moment. It begins</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with moments, and goes on with years; moments of sur-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">render to God, of childlike trust and joyful adoption [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of good; moments of self-abnegation, self-consecration,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heaven-born hope, and spiritual love.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Time may commence, but it cannot complete, the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">new birth: eternity does this; for progress is the law</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of infinity. Only through the sore travail of mortal mind [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shall soul as sense be satisfied, and man awake in His</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">likeness. What a faith-lighted thought is this! that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortals can lay off the <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“old man,”</span> until man is found</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to be the image of the infinite good that we name God,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the fulness of the stature of man in Christ appears. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In mortal and material man, goodness seems in em-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bryo. By suffering for sin, and the gradual fading out</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the mortal and material sense of man, thought is de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">veloped into an infant Christianity; and, feeding at first</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on the milk of the Word, it drinks in the sweet revealings [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page016">[pg 016]</span><a name="Pg016" id="Pg016" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of a new and more spiritual Life and Love. These nourish [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the hungry hope, satisfy more the cravings for immor-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tality, and so comfort, cheer, and bless one, that he saith:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In mine infancy, this is enough of heaven to come down</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to earth. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But, as one grows into the manhood or womanhood</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Christianity, one finds so much lacking, and so very</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">much requisite to become wholly Christlike, that one</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">saith: The Principle of Christianity is infinite: it is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">indeed God; and this infinite Principle hath infinite [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">claims on man, and these claims are divine, not human;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and man's ability to meet them is from God; for, being</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His likeness and image, man must reflect the full</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dominion of Spirit—even its supremacy over sin, sick-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness, and death. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Here, then, is the awakening from the dream of life</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in matter, to the great fact that <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">God is the only Life</span></em>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that, therefore, we must entertain a higher sense of both</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God and man. We must learn that God is infinitely</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">more than a person, or finite form, can contain; that [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God is a divine <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Whole</span></em>, and <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">All</span></em>, an all-pervading in-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">telligence and Love, a divine, infinite Principle; and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that Christianity is a divine Science. This newly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">awakened consciousness is wholly spiritual; it emanates</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from Soul instead of body, and is the new birth begun [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in Christian Science.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now, dear reader, pause for a moment with me, earn-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">estly to contemplate this new-born spiritual altitude; for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this statement demands demonstration.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Here you stand face to face with the laws of infinite [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spirit, and behold for the first time the irresistible con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">flict between the flesh and Spirit. You stand before the</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page017">[pg 017]</span><a name="Pg017" id="Pg017" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">awful detonations of Sinai. You hear and record the [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thunderings of the spiritual law of Life, as opposed to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the material law of death; the spiritual law of Love, as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">opposed to the material sense of love; the law of om-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nipotent harmony and good, as opposed to any supposi- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">titious law of sin, sickness, or death. And, before the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">flames have died away on this mount of revelation, like</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the patriarch of old, you take off your shoes—lay aside</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">your material appendages, human opinions and doc-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">trines, give up your more material religion with its rites [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and ceremonies, put off your <span class="tei tei-foreign" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">materia medica</span></span> and +hygiene</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as worse than useless—to sit at the feet of Jesus. Then,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you meekly bow before the Christ, the spiritual idea</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that our great Master gave of the power of God to heal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and to save. Then it is that you behold for the first [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">time the divine Principle that redeems man from under</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the curse of materialism,—sin, disease, and death.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This spiritual birth opens to the enraptured understand-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing a much higher and holier conception of the supremacy</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Spirit, and of man as His likeness, whereby man reflects [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the divine power to heal the sick.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A material or human birth is the appearing of a mor-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tal, not the immortal man. This birth is more or less</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">prolonged and painful, according to the timely or un-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">timely circumstances, the normal or abnormal material [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">conditions attending it.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With the spiritual birth, man's primitive, sinless,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual existence dawns on human thought,—through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the travail of mortal mind, hope deferred, the perishing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pleasure and accumulating pains of sense,—by which [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one loses himself as matter, and gains a truer sense of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spirit and spiritual man.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page018">[pg 018]</span><a name="Pg018" id="Pg018" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The purification or baptismals that come from Spirit, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">develop, step by step, the original likeness of perfect man,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and efface the mark of the beast. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Whom the Lord</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">He receiveth;”</span> therefore rejoice in tribulation, and wel- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">come these spiritual signs of the new birth under the law</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and gospel of Christ, Truth.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The prominent laws which forward birth in the divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">order of Science, are these: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou shalt have no other</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">gods before me;”</span> <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Love thy neighbor as thyself,”</span> [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">These commands of infinite wisdom, translated into</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the new tongue, their spiritual meaning, signify: Thou</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shalt love Spirit only, not its opposite, in every God-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quality, even in substance; thou shalt recognize thy-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">self as God's spiritual child only, and the true man [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and true woman, the all-harmonious <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“male and female,”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as of spiritual origin, God's reflection,—thus as chil-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dren of one common Parent,—wherein and whereby</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Father, Mother, and child are the divine Principle and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine idea, even the divine <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Us”</span>—one in good, and [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good in One.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With this recognition man could never separate him-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">self from good, God; and he would necessarily entertain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">habitual love for his fellow-man. Only by admitting</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil as a reality, and entering into a state of evil [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thoughts, can we in belief separate one man's interests</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from those of the whole human family, or thus attempt</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to separate Life from God. This is the mistake that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">causes much that must be repented of and overcome.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Not to know what is blessing you, but to believe that [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">aught that God sends is unjust,—or that those whom</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He commissions bring to you at His demand that which</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page019">[pg 019]</span><a name="Pg019" id="Pg019" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is unjust,—is wrong and cruel. Envy, evil thinking, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil speaking, covetousness, lust, hatred, malice, are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">always wrong, and will break the rule of Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science and prevent its demonstration; but the rod of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God, and the obedience demanded of His servants in [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">carrying out what He teaches them,—these are never</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unmerciful, never unwise.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The task of healing the sick is far lighter than that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of so teaching the divine Principle and rules of Chris-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tian Science as to lift the affections and motives of men [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to adopt them and bring them out in human lives. He</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who has named the name of Christ, who has virtually</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">accepted the divine claims of Truth and Love in divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science, is daily departing from evil; and all the wicked</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">endeavors of suppositional demons can never change the [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">current of that life from steadfastly flowing on to God,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its divine source.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But, taking the livery of heaven wherewith to cover</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">iniquity, is the most fearful sin that mortals can commit.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I should have more faith in an honest drugging-doctor, [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one who abides by his statements and works upon as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">high a basis as he understands, healing me, than I could</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or would have in a smooth-tongued hypocrite or mental</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">malpractitioner.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Between the centripetal and centrifugal mental forces [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of material and spiritual gravitations, we go into or we</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">go out of materialism or sin, and choose our course and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its results. Which, then, shall be our choice,—the sin-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ful, material, and perishable, or the spiritual, joy-giving,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and eternal? [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The spiritual sense of Life and its grand pursuits is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of itself a bliss, health-giving and joy-inspiring. This</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page020">[pg 020]</span><a name="Pg020" id="Pg020" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense of Life illumes our pathway with the radiance of [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine Love; heals man spontaneously, morally and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">physically,—exhaling the aroma of Jesus' own words,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">and I will give you rest.”</span> [5]</div> +</div> + +</div> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page021">[pg 021]</span><a name="Pg021" id="Pg021" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc14" id="toc14"></a> +<a name="pdf15" id="pdf15"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Chapter II. One Cause And Effect.</span></h1> + + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science begins with the First Com- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mandment of the Hebrew Decalogue, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">shalt have no other gods before me.”</span> It goes on in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">perfect unity with Christ's Sermon on the Mount, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in that age culminates in the Revelation of St. John, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who, while on earth and in the flesh, like ourselves,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">beheld <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“a new heaven and a new earth,”</span>—the spiritual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">universe, whereof Christian Science now bears testimony.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Our Master said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The works that I do shall ye do</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">also;”</span> and, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The kingdom of God is within you.”</span> This [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">makes practical all his words and works. As the ages</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">advance in spirituality, Christian Science will be seen</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to depart from the trend of other Christian denomina-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tions in no wise except by increase of spirituality.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My first plank in the platform of Christian Science [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is as follows: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">is not material; he is spiritual.”</span><a id="noteref_1" name="noteref_1" href="#note_1"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">1</span></span></a></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page022">[pg 022]</span><a name="Pg022" id="Pg022" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I am strictly a theist—believe in one God, one Christ [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or Messiah.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science is neither a law of matter nor of man. It is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the unerring manifesto of Mind, the law of God, its</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine Principle. Who dare say that matter or [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortals can evolve Science? Whence, then, is it, if not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the divine source, and what, but the contempor-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ary of Christianity, so far in advance of human knowl-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">edge that mortals must work for the discovery of even a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">portion of it? Christian Science translates Mind, God, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to mortals. It is the infinite calculus defining the line,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">plane, space, and fourth dimension of Spirit. It abso-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lutely refutes the amalgamation, transmigration, absorp-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion, or annihilation of individuality. It shows the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">impossibility of transmitting human ills, or evil, from one [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">individual to another; that all true thoughts revolve</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in God's orbits: they come from God and return to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Him,—and untruths belong not to His creation, there-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fore these are null and void. It hath no peer, no comp-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">petitor, for it dwelleth in Him besides whom <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“there is</span> [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">none other.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That Christian Science is Christian, those who have</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demonstrated it, according to the rules of its divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Principle,—together with the sick, the lame, the deaf, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the blind, healed by it,—have proven to a waiting world. [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He who has not tested it, is incompetent to condemn it;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and he who is a willing sinner, cannot demonstrate it.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A falling apple suggested to Newton more than the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">simple fact cognized by the senses, to which it seemed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to fall by reason of its own ponderosity; but the primal [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cause, or Mind-force, invisible to material sense, lay</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">concealed in the treasure-troves of Science. True,</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page023">[pg 023]</span><a name="Pg023" id="Pg023" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Newton named it gravitation, having learned so much; [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but Science, demanding more, pushes the question:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whence or what is the power back of gravitation,—the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">intelligence that manifests power? Is pantheism true?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Does mind <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“sleep in the mineral, or dream in the</span> [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">animal, and wake in man”</span>? Christianity answers this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">question. The prophets, Jesus, and the apostles, demon-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strated a divine intelligence that subordinates so-called</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">material laws; and disease, death, winds, and waves,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">obey this intelligence. Was it Mind or matter that spake [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in creation, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“and it was done”</span>? The answer is self-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evident, and the command remains, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou shalt have</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">no other gods before me.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is plain that the Me spoken of in the First Com-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mandment, must be Mind; for matter is not the Chris- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tian's God, and is not intelligent. Matter cannot even</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">talk; and the serpent, Satan, the first talker in its behalf,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lied. Reason and revelation declare that God is both</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">noumenon and phenomena,—the first and only cause.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The universe, including man, is not a result of atomic [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">action, material force or energy; it is not organized dust.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God, Spirit, Mind, are terms synonymous for the one</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God, whose reflection is creation, and man is His image</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and likeness. Few there are who comprehend what Chris-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tian Science means by the word <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">reflection</span></span>. God is seen [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">only in that which reflects good, Life, Truth, Love—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">yea, which manifests all His attributes and power, even</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as the human likeness thrown upon the mirror repeats</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">precisely the looks and actions of the object in front of it.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All must be Mind and Mind's ideas; since, according to [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">natural science, God, Spirit, could not change its species</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and evolve matter.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page024">[pg 024]</span><a name="Pg024" id="Pg024" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">These facts enjoin the First Commandment; and [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">knowledge of them makes man spiritually minded. St.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Paul writes: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“For to be carnally minded is death; but to</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">be spiritually minded is life and peace.”</span> This knowl-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">edge came to me in an hour of great need; and I give it [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to you as death-bed testimony to the daystar that dawned</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on the night of material sense. This knowledge is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">practical, for it wrought my immediate recovery from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">an injury caused by an accident, and pronounced fatal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by the physicians. On the third day thereafter, I called [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for my Bible, and opened it at Matthew ix. 2. As I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">read, the healing Truth dawned upon my sense; and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the result was that I rose, dressed myself, and ever after</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">was in better health than I had before enjoyed. That</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">short experience included a glimpse of the great fact [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that I have since tried to make plain to others, namely,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Life in and of Spirit; this Life being the sole reality of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">existence. I learned that mortal thought evolves a sub-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">jective state which it names matter, thereby shutting</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out the true sense of Spirit. <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Per contra</span></span>, Mind and man [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are immortal; and knowledge gained from mortal sense</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is illusion, error, the opposite of Truth; therefore it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cannot be true. A knowledge of both good and evil</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">(when good is God, and God is All) is impossible. Speak-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing of the origin of evil, the Master said: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“When he</span> [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">and the father of it.”</span> God warned man not to believe</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the talking serpent, or rather the allegory describing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it. The Nazarene Prophet declared that his followers</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">should handle serpents; that is, put down all subtle falsi- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ties or illusions, and thus destroy any supposed effect</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">arising from false claims exercising their supposed power</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page025">[pg 025]</span><a name="Pg025" id="Pg025" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on the mind and body of man against his holiness and [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">health.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That there is but one God or Life, one cause and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one effect, is the <span lang="la" class="tei tei-foreign" style="text-align: left" xml:lang="la"><span style="font-style: italic">multum in parvo</span></span> +of Christian Science;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and to my understanding it is the heart of Christianity, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the religion that Jesus taught and demonstrated. In</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine Science it is found that matter is a phase of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">error, and that neither one really exists, since God is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth, and All-in-all. Christ's Sermon on the Mount,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in its direct application to human needs, confirms this [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">conclusion.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science, understood, translates matter into Mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rejects all other theories of causation, restores the spir-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">itual and original meaning of the Scriptures, and ex-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">plains the teachings and life of our Lord. It is religion's [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“new tongue,”</span> with <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“signs following,”</span> spoken of by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">St. Mark. It gives God's infinite meaning to mankind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healing the sick, casting out evil, and raising the spirit-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ually dead. Christianity is Christlike only as it re-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">iterates the word, repeats the works, and manifests the [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spirit of Christ.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus' only medicine was omnipotent and omniscient</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind. As <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">omni</span></span> +is from the Latin word meaning <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">all</span></span>,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this medicine is all-power; and omniscience means as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">well, all-science. The sick are more deplorably situated [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than the sinful, if the sick cannot trust God for help and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the sinful can. If God created drugs good, they cannot be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">harmful; if He could create them otherwise, then they</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are bad and unfit for man; and if He created drugs for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healing the sick, why did not Jesus employ them and [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">recommend them for that purpose?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">No human hypotheses, whether in philosophy, medi-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page026">[pg 026]</span><a name="Pg026" id="Pg026" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cine, or religion, can survive the wreck of time; but [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whatever is of God, hath life abiding in it, and ulti-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mately will be known as self-evident truth, as demonstra-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ble as mathematics. Each successive period of progress</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is a period more humane and spiritual. The only logical [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">conclusion is that all is Mind and its manifestation, from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the rolling of worlds, in the most subtle ether, to a potato-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">patch.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The agriculturist ponders the history of a seed, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">believes that his crops come from the seedling and the [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">loam; even while the Scripture declares He made <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“every</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">plant of the field before it was in the earth.”</span> The Scien-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tist asks, Whence came the first seed, and what made</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the soil? Was it molecules, or material atoms? Whence</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">came the infinitesimals,—from infinite Mind, or from [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">matter? If from matter, how did matter originate? Was</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it self-existent? Matter is not intelligent, and thus able</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to evolve or create itself: it is the very opposite of Spirit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">intelligent, self-creative, and infinite Mind. The belief</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of mind in matter is pantheism. Natural history shows [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that neither a genus nor a species produces its opposite.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God is All, in all. What can be more than All? Noth-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing: and this is just what I call matter, <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">nothing</span></em>. Spirit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God, has no antecedent; and God's consequent is the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual cosmos. The phrase, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“express image,”</span> in the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">common version of Hebrews i. 3, is, in the Greek Tes-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tament, <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">character</span></em>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Scriptures name God as good, and the Saxon</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">term for God is also good. From this premise comes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the logical conclusion that God is naturally and divinely [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">infinite good. How, then, can this conclusion change,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or be changed, to mean that good is evil, or the creator</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page027">[pg 027]</span><a name="Pg027" id="Pg027" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of evil? What can there be besides infinity? Nothing! [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Therefore the Science of good calls evil <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">nothing</span></em>. In</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine Science the terms God and good, as Spirit, are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">synonymous. That God, good, creates evil, or aught</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that can result in evil,—or that Spirit creates its oppo- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">site, named matter,—are conclusions that destroy their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">premise and prove themselves invalid. Here is where</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science sticks to its text, and other systems</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of religion abandon their own logic. Here also is found</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the pith of the basal statement, the cardinal point in [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science, that matter and evil (including all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">inharmony, sin, disease, death) are <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">unreal</span></em>. Mortals</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">accept natural science, wherein no species ever pro-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">duces its opposite. Then why not accept divine Sci-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ence on this ground? since the Scriptures maintain [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this fact by parable and proof, asking, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Do men</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?”</span> +<span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Doth a</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">bitter?”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">According to reason and revelation, evil and matter [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are negation: for evil signifies the absence of good, God,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">though God is ever present; and matter claims some-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thing besides God, when God is really <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">All</span></em>. Creation,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evolution, or manifestation,—being in and of Spirit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind, and all that really is,—must be spiritual and [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mental. This is Science, and is susceptible of proof.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But, say you, is a stone spiritual?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To erring material sense, No! but to unerring spiritual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense, it is a small manifestation of Mind, a type of spirit-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ual substance, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the substance of things hoped for.”</span> [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mortals can know a stone as substance, only by first ad-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mitting that it is substantial. Take away the mortal sense</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page028">[pg 028]</span><a name="Pg028" id="Pg028" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of substance, and the stone itself would disappear, only [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to reappear in the spiritual sense thereof. Matter can</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">neither see, hear, feel, taste, nor smell; having no sen-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sation of its own. Perception by the five personal senses</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is mental, and dependent on the beliefs that mortals [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">entertain. Destroy the belief that you can walk, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">volition ceases; for muscles cannot move without mind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Matter takes no cognizance of matter. In dreams, things</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are only what mortal mind makes them; and the phe-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nomena of mortal life are as dreams; and this so-called [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">life is a dream soon told. In proportion as mortals turn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from this mortal and material dream, to the true sense</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of reality, everlasting Life will be found to be the only</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Life. That death does not destroy the beliefs of the flesh,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">our Master proved to his doubting disciple, Thomas. Also, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he demonstrated that divine Science alone can overbear</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">materiality and mortality; and this great truth was shown</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is by his ascension after death, whereby he arose above</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the illusion of matter.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The First Commandment, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou shalt have no other</span> [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">gods before me,”</span> suggests the inquiry, What meaneth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this Me,—Spirit, or matter? It certainly does not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">signify a graven idol, and must mean Spirit. Then</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the commandment means, Thou shalt recognize no</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">intelligence nor life in matter; and find neither pleasure [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nor pain therein. The Master's practical knowledge</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of this grand verity, together with his divine Love,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healed the sick and raised the dead. He literally</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">annulled the claims of physique and of physical law,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by the superiority of the higher law; hence his decla- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ration, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“These signs shall follow them that believe;...</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them;</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page029">[pg 029]</span><a name="Pg029" id="Pg029" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”</span> [1]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Do you believe his words? I do, and that his prom-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ise is perpetual. Had it been applicable only to his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">immediate disciples, the pronoun would be <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">you</span></em>, not +<em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">them</span></em>. [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The purpose of his life-work touches universal human-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ity. At another time he prayed, not for the twelve</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">only, but <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“for them also which shall believe on me through</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">their word.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Christ-healing was practised even before the Christ- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ian era; <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the Word was with God, and the Word was</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">God.”</span> There is, however, no analogy between Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science and spiritualism, or between it and any specu-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lative theory.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In 1867, I taught the first student in Christian Science. [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Since that date I have known of but fourteen deaths</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the ranks of my about five thousand students. The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">census since 1875 (the date of the first publication of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my work, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and Health with Key to the Scrip-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">tures”</span>) shows that longevity has <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">increased</span></em>. +Daily letters [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">inform me that a perusal of my volume is healing the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">writers of chronic and acute diseases that had defied medi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cal skill.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Surely the people of the Occident know that esoteric</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">magic and Oriental barbarisms will neither flavor Chris- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tianity nor advance health and length of days.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Miracles are no infraction of God's laws; on the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">contrary, they fulfil His laws; for they are the signs fol-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lowing Christianity, whereby matter is proven power-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">less and subordinate to Mind. Christians, like students [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in mathematics, should be working up to those higher</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rules of Life which Jesus taught and proved. Do we</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page030">[pg 030]</span><a name="Pg030" id="Pg030" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">really understand the divine Principle of Christianity [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">before we prove it, in at least some feeble demonstra-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion thereof, according to Jesus' example in healing the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sick? Should we adopt the <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“simple addition”</span> in Chris-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tian Science and doubt its higher rules, or despair of [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ultimately reaching them, even though failing at first to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demonstrate all the possibilities of Christianity?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">St. John spiritually discerned and revealed the sum</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">total of transcendentalism. He saw the real earth and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heaven. They were spiritual, not material; and they [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">were without pain, sin, or death. Death was not the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">door to this heaven. The gates thereof he declared were</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">inlaid with pearl,—likening them to the priceless under-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">standing of man's real existence, to be recognized here</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and now. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The great Way-shower illustrated Life unconfined, un-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">contaminated, untrammelled, by matter. He proved the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">superiority of Mind over the flesh, opened the door to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the captive, and enabled man to demonstrate the law of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Life, which St. Paul declares <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“hath made me free from</span> [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">the law of sin and death.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The stale saying that Christian Science <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“is neither</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Christian nor science!”</span> is to-day the fossil of wisdom-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">less wit, weakness, and superstition. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The fool hath</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">said in his heart, There is no God.”</span> [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Take courage, dear reader, for any seeming mysti-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cism surrounding realism is explained in the Scripture,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“There went up a mist from the earth [matter];”</span> and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the mist of materialism will vanish as we approach spirit-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">uality, the realm of reality; cleanse our lives in Christ's [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">righteousness; bathe in the baptism of Spirit, and awake</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in His likeness.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page031">[pg 031]</span><a name="Pg031" id="Pg031" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc16" id="toc16"></a> +<a name="pdf17" id="pdf17"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Chapter III. Questions And Answers.</span></h1> + + + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">What do you consider to be mental malpractice? [1]</span></span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mental malpractice is a bland denial of Truth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and is the antipode of Christian Science. To</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mentally argue in a manner that can disastrously</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">affect the happiness of a fellow-being—harm him [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">morally, physically, or spiritually—breaks the Golden</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rule and subverts the scientific laws of being. This,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">therefore, is not the use but the abuse of mental treat-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ment, and is mental malpractice. It is needless to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">say that such a subversion of right is not scientific. Its [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">claim to power is in proportion to the faith in evil, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">consequently to the lack of faith in good. Such false</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">faith finds no place in, and receives no aid from, the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Principle or the rules of Christian Science; for it denies</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the grand verity of this Science, namely, that God, good, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">has <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">all</span></em> power.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This leaves the individual no alternative but to re-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">linquish his faith in evil, or to argue against his own</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">convictions of good and so destroy his power to be or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to do good, because he has no faith in the <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">omnipotence</span></em> [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of God, good. He parts with his understanding of good,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in order to retain his faith in evil and so succeed with his</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page032">[pg 032]</span><a name="Pg032" id="Pg032" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wrong argument,—if indeed he desires success in this [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">broad road to destruction.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">How shall we demean ourselves towards the students</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">of disloyal students? And what about that clergyman's</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">remarks on </span><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">Christ and Christmas</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span><span style="font-style: italic">?</span></span> [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From this question, I infer that some of my students</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">seem not to know in what manner they should act towards</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the students of false teachers, or such as have strayed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the rules and divine Principle of Christian Science.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The query is abnormal, when <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“precept upon precept;</span> [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">line upon line”</span> are to be found in the Scriptures, and in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my books, on this very subject.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In Mark, ninth chapter, commencing at the thirty-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">third verse, you will find my views on this subject; love</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">alone is admissible towards friend and foe. My sym- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pathies extend to the above-named class of students more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than to many others. If I had the time to talk with all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">students of Christian Science, and correspond with them,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I would gladly do my best towards helping those un-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fortunate seekers after Truth whose teacher is straying [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the straight and narrow path. But I have not mo-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ments enough in which to give to my own flock all the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">time and attention that they need,—and charity must</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">begin at home.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Distinct denominational and social organizations and [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">societies are at present necessary for the individual,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and for our Cause. But all people can and should be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">just, merciful; they should never envy, elbow, slander,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hate, or try to injure, but always should try to bless their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fellow-mortals. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To the query in regard to some clergyman's com-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page033">[pg 033]</span><a name="Pg033" id="Pg033" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ments on my illustrated poem, I will say: It is the righteous [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">prayer that avails with God. Whatever is wrong will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">receive its own reward. The high priests of old caused</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the crucifixion of even the great Master; and thereby</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they lost, and he won, heaven. I love all ministers and [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ministries of Christ, Truth.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All clergymen may not understand the illustrations</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Christ and Christmas;”</span> or that these refer not to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">personality, but present the type and shadow of Truth's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">appearing in the womanhood as well as in the manhood [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of God, our divine Father and Mother.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Must I have faith in Christian Science in order to be</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">healed by it?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This is a question that is being asked every day. It</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">has not proved impossible to heal those who, when they [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">began treatment, had no faith whatever in the Science,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">—other than to place themselves under my care, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">follow the directions given. Patients naturally gain con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fidence in Christian Science as they recognize the help</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they derive therefrom. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">What are the advantages of your system of healing, over</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">the ordinary methods of healing disease?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Healing by Christian Science has the following advantages:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">First</span></span>: It does away with all material medicines, and [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">recognizes the fact that, as mortal mind is the cause of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the ills that flesh is heir to,”</span> the antidote for sickness,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as well as for sin, may and must be found in mortal mind's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">opposite,—the divine Mind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Second</span></span>: It is more effectual than drugs; curing where [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page034">[pg 034]</span><a name="Pg034" id="Pg034" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">these fail, and leaving none of the harmful <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“after effects”</span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of these in the system; thus proving that metaphysics</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is above physics.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Third:</span></span> One who has been healed by Christian Sci-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ence is not only healed of the disease, but is improved [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">morally. The body is governed by mind; and mortal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mind must be improved, before the body is renewed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and harmonious,—since the physique is simply thought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">made manifest.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Is spiritualism or mesmerism included in Christian</span></span> [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Science?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They are wholly apart from it. Christian Science is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">based on divine Principle; whereas spiritualism, so far</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as I understand it, is a mere speculative opinion and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human belief. If the departed were to communicate [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with us, we should see them as they were before death,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and have them with us; after death, they can no more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">come to those they have left, than we, in our present state</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of existence, can go to the departed or the adult can re-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">turn to his boyhood. We may pass on to their state [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of existence, but they cannot return to ours. Man is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">im</span></em>-mortal, and there is not a moment when he ceases to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">exist. All that are called <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“communications from spirits,”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lie within the realm of mortal thought on this present plane</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of existence, and are the antipodes of Christian Science; [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the immortal and mortal are as direct opposites as light</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and darkness.</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Who is the Founder of mental healing?</span></span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The author of <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and Health with Key to the</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Scriptures,”</span> who discovered the Science of healing em- [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page035">[pg 035]</span><a name="Pg035" id="Pg035" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bodied in her works. Years of practical proof, through [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">homœopathy, revealed to her the fact that Mind, in-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stead of matter, is the Principle of pathology; and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">subsequently her recovery, through the supremacy of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind over matter, from a severe casualty pronounced [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by the physicians incurable, sealed that proof with the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">signet of Christian Science. In 1883, a million of peo-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ple acknowledge and attest the blessings of this mental</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">system of treating disease. Perhaps the following</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">words of her husband, the late Dr. Asa G. Eddy, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">afford the most concise, yet complete, summary of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">matter:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Mrs, Eddy's works are the outgrowths of her life.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">I never knew so unselfish an individual.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Will the book Science and Health, that you offer for sale</span></span> +[15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">at three dollars, teach its readers to heal the sick,—or +is</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">one obliged to become a student under your personal in-</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">struction? And if one is obliged to study under you, of</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">what benefit is your book?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Why do we read the Bible, and then go to church to [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hear it expounded? Only because both are important.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Why do we read moral science, and then study it at</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">college?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">You are benefited by reading Science and Health, but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it is greatly to your advantage to be taught its Science [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by the author of that work, who explains it in detail.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">What is immortal Mind?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In reply, we refer you to <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and Health with</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Key to the Scriptures,”</span><a id="noteref_2" name="noteref_2" href="#note_2"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">2</span></span></a> Vol. I. page 14: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“That which</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page036">[pg 036]</span><a name="Pg036" id="Pg036" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is erring, sinful, sick, and dying, termed material or [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortal man, is neither God's man nor Mind; but to be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">understood, we shall classify evil and error as mortal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mind, in contradistinction to good and Truth, or the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Mind which is immortal.”</span> [5]</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Do animals and beasts have a mind?</span></span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Beasts, as well as men, express Mind as their origin;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but they manifest less of Mind. The first and only</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cause is the eternal Mind, which is God, and there is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but one God. The ferocious mind seen in the beast is [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortal mind, which is harmful and proceeds not from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God; for His beast is the lion that lieth down with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the lamb. Appetites, passions, anger, revenge, subtlety,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are the animal qualities of sinning mortals; and the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">beasts that have these propensities express the lower [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">qualities of the so-called animal man; in other words,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the nature and quality of mortal mind,—not immortal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">What is the distinction between mortal mind and immortal</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Mind?</span></span> [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mortal mind includes all evil, disease, and death;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">also, all beliefs relative to the so-called material laws,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and all material objects, and the law of sin and death.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Scripture says, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The carnal mind [in other words,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortal mind] is enmity against God; for it is not sub- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">ject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”</span> Mortal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mind is an illusion; as much in our waking moments</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as in the dreams of sleep. The belief that intelligence,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth, and Love, are in matter and separate from God,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is an error; for there is no intelligent evil, and no power [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page037">[pg 037]</span><a name="Pg037" id="Pg037" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">besides God, good. God would not be omnipotent if [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">there were in reality another mind creating or governing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man or the universe.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Immortal Mind is God; and this Mind is made</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">manifest in all thoughts and desires that draw man- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">kind toward purity, health, holiness, and the spiritual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">facts of being.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus recognized this relation so clearly that he said,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I and my Father are one.”</span> In proportion as we oppose</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the belief in material sense, in sickness, sin, and death, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and recognize ourselves under the control of God,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual and immortal Mind, shall we go on to leave the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">animal for the spiritual, and learn the meaning of those</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">words of Jesus, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Go ye into all the world ... heal the</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">sick.”</span> [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Can your Science cure intemperance?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science lays the axe at the root of the tree.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Its antidote for all ills is God, the perfect Mind, which</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">corrects mortal thought, whence cometh all evil. God</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">can and does destroy the thought that leads to moral [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or physical death. Intemperance, impurity, sin of every</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sort, is destroyed by Truth. The appetite for alcohol</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">yields to Science as directly and surely as do sickness</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and sin.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Does Mrs. Eddy take patients?</span></span> [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">She now does not. Her time is wholly devoted to in-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">struction, leaving to her students the work of healing;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">which, at this hour, is in reality the least difficult of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">labor that Christian Science demands.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page038">[pg 038]</span><a name="Pg038" id="Pg038" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Why do you charge for teaching Christian Science, when</span></span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">all the good we can do must be done freely?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When teaching imparts the ability to gain and main-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tain health, to heal and elevate man in every line of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">life,—as this teaching certainly does,—is it un- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reasonable to expect in return something to support</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one's self and a Cause? If so, our whole system</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of education, secular and religious, is at fault, and the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">instructors and philanthropists in our land should ex-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pect no compensation. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“If we have sown unto you</span> [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">carnal things?”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">How happened you to establish a college to instruct in</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">metaphysics, when other institutions find little interest in</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">such a dry and abstract subject?</span></span> [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Metaphysics, as taught by me at the Massachusetts</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Metaphysical College, is far from dry and abstract. It</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is a Science that has the animus of Truth. Its practical</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">application to benefit the race, heal the sick, enlighten</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and reform the sinner, makes divine metaphysics need- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ful, indispensable. Teaching metaphysics at other col-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">leges means, mainly, elaborating a man-made theory,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or some speculative view too vapory and hypothetical</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for questions of practical import.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Is it necessary to study your Science in order to be healed</span></span> +[25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">by it and keep well?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is not necessary to make each patient a student</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in order to cure his present disease, if this is what</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you mean. Were it so, the Science would be of less</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page039">[pg 039]</span><a name="Pg039" id="Pg039" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">practical value. Many who apply for help are not [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">prepared to take a course of instruction in Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To avoid being <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">subject</span></em> to disease, would require the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">understanding of how you are healed. In 1885, this [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">knowledge can be obtained in its genuineness at the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Massachusetts Metaphysical College. There are abroad</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at this early date some grossly incorrect and false</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">teachers of what they term Christian Science; of such</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">beware. They have risen up in a day to make this claim; [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whereas the Founder of genuine Christian Science has</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">been all her years in giving it birth.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Can you take care of yourself?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God giveth to every one this <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">puissance</span></em>; and I have</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">faith in His promise, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Lo, I am with you alway”</span>— [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">all the way</span></em>. Unlike the M. D.'s, Christian Scientists</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are not afraid to take their own medicine, for this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">medicine is divine Mind; and from this saving, ex-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">haustless source they intend to fill the human mind with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">enough of the leaven of Truth to leaven the whole lump. [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There may be exceptional cases, where one Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scientist who has more to meet than others needs support</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at times; then, it is right to bear <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“one another's burdens,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">and so fulfil the law of Christ.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">In what way is a Christian Scientist an instrument by</span></span> [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">which God reaches others to heal them, and what most</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">obstructs the way?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A Christian, or a Christian Scientist, assumes no more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">when claiming to work with God in healing the sick,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than in converting the sinner. Divine help is as neces-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page040">[pg 040]</span><a name="Pg040" id="Pg040" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sary in the one case as in the other. The scientific Prin- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ciple of healing demands such cooperation; but this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unison and its power would be arrested if one were to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mix material methods with the spiritual,—were to min-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gle hygienic rules, drugs, and prayers in the same pro- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cess,—and thus serve <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“other gods.”</span> Truth is as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">effectual in destroying sickness as in the destruction</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of sin.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is often asked, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“If Christian Science is the same</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">method of healing that Jesus and the apostles used, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">why do not its students perform as instantaneous cures</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">as did those in the first century of the Christian era?”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In some instances the students of Christian Science</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">equal the ancient prophets as healers. All true healing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is governed by, and demonstrated on, the same Princi- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ple as theirs; namely, the action of the divine Spirit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">through the power of Truth to destroy error, discord</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of whatever sort. The reason that the same results fol-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">low not in every ease, is that the student does not in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">every case possess sufficiently the Christ-spirit and its [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">power to cast out the disease. The Founder of Chris-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tian Science teaches her students that they must possess</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the spirit of Truth and Love, must gain the power</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">over sin in themselves, or they cannot be instantaneous</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healers. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In this Christian warfare the student or practitioner</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">has to master those elements of evil too common to other</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">minds. If it is hate that is holding the purpose to kill</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his patient by mental means, it requires more divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">understanding to conquer this sin than to nullify either [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the disease itself or the ignorance by which one unin-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tentionally harms himself or another. An element of</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page041">[pg 041]</span><a name="Pg041" id="Pg041" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">brute-force that only the cruel and evil can send forth, is [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">given vent in the diabolical practice of one who, having</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">learned the power of liberated thought to do good, per-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">verts it, and uses it to accomplish an evil purpose. This</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mental malpractice would disgrace Mind-healing, were it [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not that God overrules it, and causes <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the wrath of man”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to praise Him. It deprives those who practise it of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">power to heal, and destroys their own possibility of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">progressing.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The honest student of Christian Science is purged [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">through Christ, Truth, and thus is ready for victory in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the ennobling strife. The good fight must be fought by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">those who keep the faith and finish their course. Mental</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">purgation must go on: it promotes spiritual growth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">scales the mountain of human endeavor, and gains the [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">summit in Science that otherwise could not be reached,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">—where the struggle with sin is forever done.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Can all classes of disease be healed by your method?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We answer, Yes. Mind is the architect that builds</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its own idea, and produces all harmony that appears. [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There is no other healer in the case. If mortal mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">through the action of fear, manifests inflammation and a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">belief of chronic or acute disease, by removing the cause</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in that so-called mind the effect or disease will disappear</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and health will be restored; for health, <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">alias</span></em> harmony, [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is the normal manifestation of man in Science. The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine Principle which governs the universe, including</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man, if demonstrated, is sufficient for all emergencies.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But the practitioner may not always prove equal to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bringing out the result of the Principle that he knows to [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be true.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page042">[pg 042]</span><a name="Pg042" id="Pg042" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">After the change called death takes place, do we meet</span></span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">those gone before?—or does life continue in thought +only</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">as in a dream?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Man is not annihilated, nor does he lose his identity,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by passing through the belief called death. After the [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">momentary belief of dying passes from mortal mind, this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mind is still in a conscious state of existence; and the in-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dividual has but passed through a moment of extreme</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortal fear, to awaken with thoughts, and being, as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">material as before. Science and Health clearly states [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that spiritualization of thought is not attained by the death</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the body, but by a conscious union with God. When</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">we shall have passed the ordeal called death, or destroyed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this last enemy, and shall have come upon the same plane</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of conscious existence with those gone before, then we [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shall be able to communicate with and to recognize them.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If, before the change whereby we meet the dear de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">parted, our life-work proves to have been well done, we</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shall not have to repeat it; but our joys and means of ad-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vancing will be proportionately increased. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The difference between a belief of material existence</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the spiritual fact of Life is, that the former is a dream</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and unreal, while the latter is real and eternal. Only</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as we understand God, and learn that good, not evil,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lives and is immortal, that immortality exists only in [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual perfection, shall we drop our false sense of Life</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in sin or sense material, and recognize a better state of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">existence.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Can I be treated without being present during treatment?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind is not confined to limits; and nothing but our [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">own false admissions prevent us from demonstrating this</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page043">[pg 043]</span><a name="Pg043" id="Pg043" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">great fact. Christian Science, recognizing the capabili- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ties of Mind to act of itself, and independent of matter,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">enables one to heal cases without even having seen the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">individual,—or simply after having been made ac-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quainted with the mental condition of the patient. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Do all who at present claim to be teaching Christian</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Science, teach it correctly?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">By no means: Christian Science is not sufficiently un-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">derstood for that. The student of this Science who under-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stands it best, is the one least likely to pour into other [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">minds a trifling sense of it as being adequate to make safe</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and successful practitioners. The simple sense one gains</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of this Science through careful, unbiased, contemplative</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reading of my books, is far more advantageous to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sick and to the learner than is or can be the spurious [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">teaching of those who are spiritually unqualified. The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sad fact at this early writing is, that the letter is gained</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sooner than the spirit of Christian Science: time is re-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quired thoroughly to qualify students for the great ordeal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of this century. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If one student tries to undermine another, such sinister</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rivalry does a vast amount of injury to the Cause. To</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fill one's pocket at the expense of his conscience, or to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">build on the downfall of others, incapacitates one to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">practise or teach Christian Science. The occasional tem- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">porary success of such an one is owing, in part, to the im-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">possibility for those unacquainted with the mighty Truth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Christian</span></em> Science to recognize, as such, the barefaced</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">errors that are taught—and the damaging effects these</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">leave on the practice of the learner, on the Cause, and [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on the health of the community.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page044">[pg 044]</span><a name="Pg044" id="Pg044" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Honest students speak the truth <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“according to the</span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">pattern showed to thee in the mount,”</span> and live it: these</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are not working for emoluments, and may profitably</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">teach people, who are ready to investigate this subject,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the rudiments of Christian Science. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Can Christian Science cure acute cases where there is</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">necessity for immediate relief, as in membranous croup?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The remedial power of Christian Science is positive,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and its application direct. It cannot fail to heal in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">every case of disease, when conducted by one who un- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">derstands this Science sufficiently to demonstrate its</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">highest possibilities.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">If I have the toothache, and nothing stops it until I</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">have the tooth extracted, and then the pain ceases, has</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">the mind, or extracting, or both, caused the pain to</span></span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">cease?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What you thought was pain in the bone or nerve, could</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">only have been a belief of pain in matter; for matter</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">has no sensation. It was a state of mortal thought made</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">manifest in the flesh. You call this body matter, when [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">awake, or when asleep in a dream. That matter can re-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">report pain, or that mind is <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">in</span></em> matter, reporting sensa-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tions, is but a dream at all times. You believed that if</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the tooth were extracted, the pain would cease: this de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mand of mortal thought once met, your belief assumed [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a new form, and said, There is no more pain. When</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">your belief in pain ceases, the pain stops; for matter</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">has no intelligence of its own. By applying this men-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tal remedy or antidote directly to your belief, you scien-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page045">[pg 045]</span><a name="Pg045" id="Pg045" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tifically prove the fact that Mind is supreme. This is not [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">done by will-power, for that is not Science but mesmerism.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The full understanding that God is Mind, and that mat-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ter is but a belief, enables you to control pain. Chris-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tian Science, by means of its Principle of metaphysical [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healing, is able to do more than to heal a toothache;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">although its power to allay fear, prevent inflammation,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and destroy the necessity for ether—thereby avoiding</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the fatal results that frequently follow the use of that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">drug—render this Science invaluable in the practice [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of dentistry.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Can an atheist or a profane man be cured by metaphysics,</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">or Christian Science?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The moral status of the man demands the remedy of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth more in this than in most cases; therefore, under [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the deific law that supply invariably meets demand, this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science is effectual in treating moral ailments. Sin is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not the master of divine Science, but <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">vice versa</span></span>; and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">when Science in a single instance decides the conflict,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the patient is better both morally and physically. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">If God made all that was made, and it was good, where</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">did evil originate?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It never originated or existed as an entity. It is but a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">false belief; even the belief that God is not what the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scriptures imply Him to be, All-in-all, but that there [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is an opposite intelligence or mind termed evil. This</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">error of belief is idolatry, having <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“other gods before me.”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In John i. 3 we read, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“All things were made by Him;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">and without Him was not anything made that was made.”</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page046">[pg 046]</span><a name="Pg046" id="Pg046" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The admission of the reality of evil perpetuates the belief [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or faith in evil. The Scriptures declare, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“To whom ye</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are.”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The leading self-evident proposition of Christian Science</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is: good being real, evil, good's opposite, is unreal. This [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">truism needs only to be tested scientifically to be found</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">true, and adapted to destroy the appearance of evil to an</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">extent beyond the power of any doctrine previously</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">entertained.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Do you teach that you are equal with God?</span></span> [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A reader of my writings would not present this ques-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion. There are no such indications in the premises or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">conclusions of Christian Science, and such a misconcep-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion of Truth is not scientific. Man is not equal with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his Maker; that which is formed is not cause, but effect, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and has no power underived from its creator. It is pos-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sible, and it is man's duty, so to throw the weight of his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thoughts and acts on the side of Truth, that he be ever</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">found in the scale <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">with</span></em> his creator; not weighing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">equally with Him, but comprehending at every point, in [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine Science, the full significance of what the apostle</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">meant by the declaration, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The Spirit itself beareth wit-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Christ.”</span> In Science, man represents his divine Prin- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ciple,—the Life and Love that are God,—even as the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">idea of sound, in tones, represents harmony; but thought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">has not yet wholly attained unto the Science of being,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wherein man is perfect even as the Father, his divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Principle, is perfect. [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page047">[pg 047]</span><a name="Pg047" id="Pg047" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">How can I believe that there is no such thing as matter,</span></span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">when I weigh over two hundred pounds and carry about</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">this weight daily?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">By learning that matter is but manifest mortal mind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">You entertain an adipose belief of yourself as substance; [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whereas, substance means more than matter: it is the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">glory and permanence of Spirit: it is that which is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hoped for but unseen, that which the material senses</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cannot take in. Have you never been so preoccupied in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thought when moving your body, that you did this with- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out consciousness of its weight? If never in your waking</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hours, you have been in your night-dreams; and these</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tend to elucidate your day-dream, or the mythical nature</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of matter, and the possibilities of mind when let loose</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from its own beliefs. In sleep, a sense of the body ac- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">companies thought with less impediment than when</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">awake, which is the truer sense of being. In Science,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">body is the servant of Mind, not its master: Mind is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">supreme. Science reverses the evidence of material</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense with the spiritual sense that God, Spirit, is the only [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">substance; and that man, His image and likeness, is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual, not material. This great Truth does not de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stroy but substantiates man's identity,—together with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his immortality and preexistence, or his spiritual co-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">existence with his Maker. That which has a beginning [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">must have an ending.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">What should one conclude as to Professor Carpenter's</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">exhibitions of mesmerism?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That largely depends upon what one accepts as either</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">useful or true. I have no knowledge of mesmerism, [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page048">[pg 048]</span><a name="Pg048" id="Pg048" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">practically or theoretically, save as I measure its demon- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strations as a false belief, and avoid all that works ill. If</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mesmerism has the power attributed to it by the gentle-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man referred to, it should neither be taught nor practised,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but should be conscientiously condemned. One thing [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is quite apparent; namely, that its so-called power is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">despotic, and Mr. Carpenter deserves praise for his public</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">exposure of it. If such be its power, I am opposed to it,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as to every form of error,—whether of ignorance or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fanaticism, prompted by money-making or malice. It [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is enough for me to know that animal magnetism is neither</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of God nor Science.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is alleged that at one of his recent lectures in Bos-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ton Mr. Carpenter made a man drunk on water, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">then informed his audience that he could produce the [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">effect of alcohol, or of any drug, on the human system,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">through the action of mind alone. This honest declara-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion as to the animus of animal magnetism and the pos-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sible purpose to which it can be devoted, has, we trust,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">been made in season to open the eyes of the people to the [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hidden nature of some tragic events and sudden deaths</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at this period.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Was ever a person made insane by studying meta-</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">physics?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Such an occurrence would be impossible, for the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">proper study of Mind-healing would cure the insane.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That persons have gone away from the Massachusetts</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Metaphysical College <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“made insane by Mrs. Eddy's</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">teachings,”</span> like a hundred other stories, is a baseless</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fabrication offered solely to injure her or her school. [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The enemy is trying to make capital out of the follow-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page049">[pg 049]</span><a name="Pg049" id="Pg049" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing case. A young lady entered the College class who, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I quickly saw, had a tendency to monomania, and re-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quested her to withdraw before its close. We are cred-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ibly informed that, before entering the College, this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">young lady had manifested some mental unsoundness, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and have no doubt she could have been restored by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science treatment. Her friends employed a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">homœopathist, who had the skill and honor to state, as his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">opinion given to her friends, that <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Mrs. Eddy's teach-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">ings had not produced insanity.”</span> This is the only case [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that could be distorted into the claim of insanity ever</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">having occurred in a class of Mrs. Eddy's; while ac-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">knowledged and notable cases of insanity have been</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cured in her class.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">If all that is mortal is a dream or error, is not</span></span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">our capacity for formulating a dream, real; is it not</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">God-made; and if God-made, can it be wrong, sinful, or</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">an error?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The spirit of Truth leads into all truth, and enables</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man to discern between the real and the unreal. Enter- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">taining the common belief in the opposite of goodness,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and that evil is as real as good, opposes the leadings of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the divine Spirit that are helping man Godward: it pre-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vents a recognition of the nothingness of the dream, or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">belief, that Mind is in matter, intelligence in non-intel- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ligence, sin, and death. This belief presupposes not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">only a power opposed to God, and that God is not All-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in-all, as the Scriptures imply Him to be, but that the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">capacity to err proceeds from God.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That God is Truth, the Scriptures aver; that Truth [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">never created error, or such a capacity, is self-evident;</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page050">[pg 050]</span><a name="Pg050" id="Pg050" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that God made all that was made, is again Scriptural; [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">therefore your answer is, that error is an illusion of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortals; that God is not its author, and it cannot be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">real.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Does </span><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span></span> +[5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">explain the entire method of metaphysical healing, or is</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">there a secret back of what is contained in that book, as</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">some say?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is a complete textbook of Christian Science; and its [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">metaphysical method of healing is as lucid in presenta-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion as can be possible, under the necessity to express</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the metaphysical in physical terms. There is absolutely</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">no additional secret outside of its teachings, or that gives</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one the power to heal; but it is essential that the student [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gain the spiritual understanding of the contents of this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">book, in order to heal.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Do you believe in change of heart?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We do believe, and understand—which is more—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that there must be a change from human affections, de- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sires, and aims, to the divine standard, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Be ye therefore</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">perfect;”</span> also, that there must be a change from the be-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lief that the heart is matter and sustains life, to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">understanding that God is our Life, that we exist in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind, live thereby, and have being. This change of [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heart would deliver man from heart-disease, and ad-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vance Christianity a hundredfold. The human affections</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">need to be changed from self to benevolence and love</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for God and man; changed to having but <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">one</span></em> God and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">loving Him supremely, and helping our brother man. [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page051">[pg 051]</span><a name="Pg051" id="Pg051" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This change of heart is essential to Christianity, and [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will have its effect physically as well as spiritually,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healing disease. Burnt offerings and drugs, God does</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not require.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Is a belief of nervousness, accompanied by great mental</span></span> [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">depression, mesmerism?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All mesmerism is of one of three kinds; namely, the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ignorant, the fraudulent, or the malicious workings of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">error or mortal mind. We have not the particulars of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the case to which you may refer, and for this reason can- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not answer your question professionally.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">How can I govern a child metaphysically? Doesn't the</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">use of the rod teach him life in matter?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The use of the rod is virtually a declaration to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">child's mind that sensation belongs to matter. Motives [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">govern acts, and Mind governs man. If you make clear</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the child's thought the right motives for action, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cause him to love them, they will lead him aright: if you</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">educate him to love God, good, and obey the Golden</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rule, he will love and obey you without your having to [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">resort to corporeal punishment.</div> +</div> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">"When from the lips of Truth one mighty breath</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Shall, like a whirlwind, scatter in its breeze</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The whole dark pile of human mockeries;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Then shall the reign of Mind commence on earth, [25]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And starting fresh, as from a second birth,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Man in the sunshine of the world's new spring,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Shall walk transparent like some holy thing.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Are both prayer and drugs necessary to heal?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The apostle James said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Ye ask, and receive not,</span> [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page052">[pg 052]</span><a name="Pg052" id="Pg052" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">lusts.”</span> This text may refer to such as seek the material [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to aid the spiritual, and take drugs to support God's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">power to heal them. It is difficult to say how much</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one can do for himself, whose faith is divided be-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tween catnip and Christ; but not so difficult to know [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that if he were to serve one master, he could do vastly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">more. Whosoever understands the power of Spirit, has</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">no doubt of God's power,—even the might of Truth,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to heal, through divine Science, beyond all human means</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and methods. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">What do you think of marriage?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That it is often convenient, sometimes pleasant, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">occasionally a love affair. Marriage is susceptible of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">many definitions. It sometimes presents the most</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wretched condition of human existence. To be normal, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it must be a union of the affections that tends to lift</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortals higher.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">If this life is a dream not dispelled, but only changed,</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">by death,—if one gets tired of it, why not commit</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">suicide?</span></span> [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Man's existence is a problem to be wrought in divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science. What progress would a student of science</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">make, if, when tired of mathematics or failing to dem-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">onstrate one rule readily, he should attempt to work</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out a rule farther on and more difficult—and this, [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">because the first rule was not easily demonstrated? In</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that case he would be obliged to turn back and work</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out the previous example, before solving the advanced</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">problem. Mortals have the sum of being to work out,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and up, to its spiritual standpoint. They must work [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page053">[pg 053]</span><a name="Pg053" id="Pg053" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out of this dream or false claim of sensation and life [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in matter, and up to the spiritual realities of existence,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">before this false claim can be wholly dispelled. Com-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mitting suicide to dodge the question is not working</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it out. The error of supposed life and intelligence in [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">matter, is dissolved only as we master error with Truth.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Not through sin or suicide, but by <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">overcoming</span></em> tempta-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion and sin, shall we escape the weariness and wicked-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness of mortal existence, and gain heaven, the harmony</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of being. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Do you sometimes find it advisable to use medicine to</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">assist in producing a cure, when it is difficult to start +the</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">patient's recovery?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">You only weaken your power to heal through Mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by any compromise with matter; which is virtually ac- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">knowledging that under difficulties the former is not equal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the latter. He that resorts to physics, seeks what is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">below instead of above the standard of metaphysics;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">showing his ignorance of the meaning of the term and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Christian Science. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">If Christian Science is the same as Jesus taught, why is</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">it not more simple, so that all can readily understand it?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The teachings of Jesus were simple; and yet he found</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it difficult to make the rulers understand, because of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">their great lack of spirituality. Christian Science is [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">simple, and readily understood by the children; only</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the thought educated away from it finds it abstract or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">difficult to perceive. Its seeming abstraction is the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mystery of godliness; and godliness is simple to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">godly; but to the unspiritual, the ungodly, it is dark [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page054">[pg 054]</span><a name="Pg054" id="Pg054" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and difficult. The carnal mind cannot discern spiritual [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">things.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Has Mrs. Eddy lost her power to heal?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Has the sun forgotten to shine, and the planets to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">revolve around it? Who is it that discovered, dem- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">onstrated, and teaches Christian Science? That one,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whoever it be, does understand something of what can-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not be lost. Thousands in the field of metaphysical</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healing, whose lives are worthy testimonials, are her</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">students, and they bear witness to this fact. Instead [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of losing her power to heal, she is demonstrating the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">power of Christian Science over all obstacles that envy</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and malice would fling in her path. The reading of her</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">book, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is curing hundreds at this very time; and the sick, un- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">asked, are testifying thereto.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Must I study your Science in order to keep well all my</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">life? I was healed of a chronic trouble after one month's</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">treatment by one of your students.</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When once you are healed by Science, there is no rea- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">son why you should be liable to a return of the disease</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that you were healed of. But not to be subject again to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">any disease whatsoever, would require an understanding</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the Science by which you were healed.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Because none of your students have been able to perform</span></span> [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">as great miracles in healing as Jesus and his disciples did,</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">does it not suggest the possibility that they do not heal on</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">the same basis?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">You would not ask the pupil in simple equations to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">solve a problem involving logarithms; and then, because [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page055">[pg 055]</span><a name="Pg055" id="Pg055" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he failed to get the right answer, condemn the pupil [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the science of numbers. The simplest problem</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in Christian Science is healing the sick, and the least</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">understanding and demonstration thereof prove all its</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">possibilities. The ability to demonstrate to the extent [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that Jesus did, will come when the student possesses as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">much of the divine Spirit as he shared, and utilizes its</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">power to overcome sin.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Opposite to good, is the universal claim of evil that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">seeks the proportions of good. There may be those [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who, having learned the power of the unspoken thought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">use it to harm rather than to heal, and who are using</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that power against Christian Scientists. This giant sin</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is the sin against the Holy Ghost spoken of in Matt.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">xii. 31, 32. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Is Christian Science based on the facts of both Spirit</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">and matter?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science is based on the facts of Spirit and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its forms and representations, but these facts are the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">direct antipodes of the so-called facts of matter; and [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the eternal verities of Spirit assert themselves over their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">opposite, or matter, in the final destruction of all that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is unlike Spirit.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Man knows that he can have one God only, when</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he regards God as the only Mind, Life, and substance. [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If God is Spirit, as the Scriptures declare, and All-in-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all, matter is mythology, and its laws are mortal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">beliefs.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If Mind is in matter and beneath a skull bone, it is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in something unlike Him; hence it is either a godless and [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">material Mind, or it is God in matter,—which are theo-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page056">[pg 056]</span><a name="Pg056" id="Pg056" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ries of agnosticism and pantheism, the very antipodes [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Christian Science</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">What is organic life?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Life is inorganic, infinite Spirit; if Life, or Spirit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">were organic, disorganization would destroy Spirit and [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">annihilate man.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If Mind is not substance, form, and tangibility, God</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is substanceless; for the substance of Spirit is divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind. Life is God, the only creator, and Life is im-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortal Mind, not matter. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Every indication of matter's constituting life is mortal,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the direct opposite of immortal Life, and infringes the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rights of Spirit. Then, to conclude that Spirit consti-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tutes or ever has constituted laws to that effect, is a mor-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tal error, a human conception opposed to the divine [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">government. Mind and matter mingling in perpetual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">warfare is a kingdom divided against itself, that shall be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">brought to desolation. The final destruction of this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">false belief in matter will appear at the full revelation</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Spirit,—one God, and the brotherhood of man. [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Organic life is an error of statement that Truth destroys.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Science of Life needs only to be understood; its dem-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">onstration proves the correctness of my statements, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">brings blessings infinite.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Why did God command, </span><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">Be fruitful, and +multiply,</span></span></span> [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">and replenish the earth,</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span><span style="font-style: italic"> +if all minds (men) have existed</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">from the beginning, and have had successive stages of</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">existence to the present time?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Your question implies that Spirit, which first spirit-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ually created the universe, including man, created man [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page057">[pg 057]</span><a name="Pg057" id="Pg057" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">over again materially; and, by the aid of mankind, all [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">was later made which <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">He had made</span></em>. If the first record</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is true, what evidence have you—apart from the evi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dence of that which you admit cannot discern spiritual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">things—of any other creation? The creative <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Us”</span> [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">made all, and Mind was the creator. Man originated</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not from dust, materially, but from Spirit, spiritually.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This work had been done; the true creation was finished,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and its spiritual Science is alluded to in the first chapter</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Genesis. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus said of error, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“That thou doest, do quickly.”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">By the law of opposites, after the truth of man had been</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demonstrated, the postulate of error must appear. That</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this addendum was untrue, is seen when Truth, God,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">denounced it, and said: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I will greatly multiply thy</span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">sorrow.”</span> <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“In the day that +thou eatest thereof thou shalt</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">surely die.”</span> The opposite error said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I am true,”</span> and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">declared, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“God doth know ... that your eyes shall be</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">opened, and ye shall be as gods,”</span> creators. This was false;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the Lord God never said it. This history of a falsity [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">must be told in the name of Truth, or it would have no</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">seeming. The Science of creation is the universe with man</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">created spiritually. The false sense and error of creation</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is the sense of man and the universe created materially.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Why does the record make man a creation of the sixth</span></span> [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">and last day, if he was coexistent with God?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In its genesis, the Science of creation is stated in mathe-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">matical order, beginning with the lowest form and ascend-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing the scale of being up to man. But all that really is,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">always was and forever is; for it existed in and of the Mind [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that is God, wherein man is foremost.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page058">[pg 058]</span><a name="Pg058" id="Pg058" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">If one has died of consumption, and he has no remem-</span></span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">brance of that disease or dream, does that disease have any</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">more power over him?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Waking from a dream, one learns its <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">unreality</span></em>; then</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it has no power over one. Waking from the dream of [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">death, proves to him who thought he died that it was a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dream, and that he did not die; then he learns that con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sumption did not kill him. When the belief in the power</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of disease is destroyed, disease cannot return.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">How does Mrs. Eddy know that she has read and studied</span></span> [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">correctly, if one must deny the evidences of the senses?</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">She had to use her eyes to read.</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Having eyes, see ye not?”</span> I read the in-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spired page through a higher than mortal sense. As</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">matter, the eye cannot see; and as mortal mind, it is a [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">belief that sees. I may read the Scriptures through a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">belief of eyesight; but I must spiritually understand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">them to interpret their Science.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Does the theology of Christian Science aid its heal-</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">ing?</span></span> [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Without its theology there is no mental science, no</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">order that proceeds from God. All Science is divine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not human, in origin and demonstration. If God does</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not govern the action of man, it is inharmonious: if He</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">does govern it, the action is Science. Take away the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">theology of mental healing and you take away its science,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">leaving it a human <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“mind-cure,”</span> nothing more nor less,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">—even one human mind governing another; by which,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">if you agree that God is Mind, you admit that there is</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page059">[pg 059]</span><a name="Pg059" id="Pg059" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">more than one government and God. Having no true [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense of the healing theology of Mind, you can neither</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">understand nor demonstrate its Science, and will prac-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tise your belief of it in the name of Truth. This is the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortal <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“mind-cure”</span> that produces the effect of mes- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">merism. It is using the power of human will, instead</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the divine power understood, as in Christian Science;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and without this Science there had better be no <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“mind-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">cure,”</span>—in which the last state of patients is worse than</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the first. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Is it wrong to pray for the recovery of the sick?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Not if we pray Scripturally, with the understanding</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that God <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">has</span></em> given all things to those who love Him;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but pleading with infinite Love to love us, or to restore</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">health and harmony, and then to admit that it has been [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lost under His government, is the prayer of doubt and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortal belief that is unavailing in divine Science.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Is not all argument mind over mind?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Scriptures refer to God as saying, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Come now, and</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">let us reason together.”</span> There is but one right Mind, and [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that one should and does govern man. Any copartnership</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with that Mind is impossible; and the only benefit in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">speaking often one to another, arises from the success that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one individual has with another in leading his thoughts</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">away from the human mind or body, and guiding them [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with Truth. That individual is the best healer who as-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">serts himself the least, and thus becomes a transparency</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for the divine Mind, who is the only physician; the divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind is the scientific healer.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page060">[pg 060]</span><a name="Pg060" id="Pg060" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">How can you believe there is no sin, and that God does</span></span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">not recognize any, when He sent His Son to save from</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">sin, and the Bible is addressed to sinners? How can you</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">believe there is no sickness, when Jesus came healing the</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">sick? [5]</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To regard sin, disease, and death with less deference,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and only as the woeful unrealities of being, is the only</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">way to destroy them; Christian Science is proving this by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healing cases of disease and sin after all other means have</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">failed. The Nazarene Prophet could make the unreality [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of both apparent in a moment.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Does it not limit the power of Mind to deny the possi-</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">bility of communion with departed friends—dead only in</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">belief?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Does it limit the power of Mind to say that addition [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is not subtraction in mathematics? The Science of Mind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reveals the impossibility of two individual sleepers, in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">different phases of thought, communicating, even if touch-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing each other corporeally; or for one who sleeps to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">communicate with another who is awake. Mind's possi- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bilities are not lessened by being confined and conformed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the Science of being.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">If mortal mind and body are myths, what is the con-</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">nection between them and real identity, and why are there</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">as many identities as mortal bodies?</span></span> [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Evil in the beginning claimed the power, wisdom, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">utility of good; and every creation or idea of Spirit has</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its counterfeit in some matter belief. Every material be-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lief hints the existence of spiritual reality; and if mortals</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are instructed in spiritual things, it will be seen that ma- [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page061">[pg 061]</span><a name="Pg061" id="Pg061" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">terial belief, in all its manifestations, reversed, will be [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">found the type and representative of verities priceless,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eternal, and just at hand.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The education of the future will be instruction, in spir-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">itual Science, against the material symbolic counterfeit [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sciences. All the knowledge and vain strivings of mortal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mind, that lead to death,—even when aping the wisdom</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and magnitude of immortal Mind,—will be swallowed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">up by the reality and omnipotence of Truth over error,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and of Life over death. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Dear Mrs. Eddy</span></span>:—In the October +<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span> I read</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the following: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“But the real man, who was created in the</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">image of God, does not commit sin.”</span> +<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">What then does sin?</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">What commits theft? Or who does murder?</span></span> For instance,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the man is held responsible for the crime; for I went once [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to a place where a man was said to be <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“hanged for mur-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">der”</span>—and certainly I saw him, or his effigy, dangling</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at the end of a rope. This <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“man”</span> was held responsible</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">for the <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">‘sin.’</span> ”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">What sins?</span></span> [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">According to the Word, man is the image and likeness</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of God. Does God's essential likeness sin, or dangle at</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the end of a rope? If not, what does? A culprit, a sinner,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">—anything but a man! Then, what is a sinner? A</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortal; but man is <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">immortal</span></em>. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Again: mortals are the embodiments (or bodies, if</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you please) of error, not of Truth; of sickness, sin, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">death. Naming these His embodiment, can neither make</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">them so nor overthrow the logic that man is God's like-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness. Mortals seem very material; man in the likeness [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page062">[pg 062]</span><a name="Pg062" id="Pg062" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Spirit is spiritual. Holding the <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">right</span></em> idea of man in my [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mind, I can improve my own, and other people's individ-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">uality, health, and morals; whereas, the opposite image</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of man, a sinner, kept constantly in mind, can no more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">improve health or morals, than holding in thought the [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">form of a boa-constrictor can aid an artist in painting a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">landscape.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Man is seen only in the true likeness of his Maker.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Believing a lie veils the truth from our vision; even as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in mathematics, in summing up positive and negative [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quantities, the negative quantity offsets an equal positive</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quantity, making the aggregate positive, or true quantity,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by that much, less available.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Why do Christian Scientists hold that their theology is</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">essential to heal the sick, when +the mind-cure claims to heal</span></span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">without it?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The theology of Christian Science is Truth; opposed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to which is the error of sickness, sin, and death, that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth destroys.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“mind-cure”</span> is a matter-cure. An adherent to this [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">method honestly acknowledges this fact in her work</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">entitled <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Mind-cure on a Material Basis.”</span> In that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">work the author grapples with Christian Science, attempts</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to solve its divine Principle by the rule of human mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fails, and ends in a parody on this Science which is amus- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing to astute readers,—especially when she tells them</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that she is practising this Science.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The theology of Christian Science is based on the action</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the divine Mind over the human mind and body;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whereas, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“mind-cure”</span> rests on the notion that the human [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mind can cure its own disease, or that which it causes,</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page063">[pg 063]</span><a name="Pg063" id="Pg063" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">sickness of matter</span></em>,—which is infidel in the one [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">case, and anomalous in the other. It was said of old by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth-traducers, that Jesus healed through Beelzebub;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but the claim that one erring mind cures another one was</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at first gotten up to hinder his benign influence and to hide [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his divine power.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Our Master understood that Life, Truth, Love are the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">triune Principle of all pure theology; also, that this divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">trinity is one infinite remedy for the opposite triad, sick-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness, sin, and death. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">If there is no sin, why did Jesus come to save sinners?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If there is no reality in sickness, why does a Chris-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tian Scientist go to the bedside and address himself to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the healing of disease, on the basis of its unreality?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus came to seek and to save such as believe in the [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reality of the unreal; to save them from <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">this false belief</span></em>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that they might lay hold of eternal Life, the great reality</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that concerns man, and understand the final fact,—that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God is omnipotent and omnipresent; yea, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“that the Lord</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">He is God; there is none else beside Him,”</span> as the Scrip- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tures declare.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">If Christ was God, why did Jesus cry out, +</span><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">My God,</span></span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">why hast Thou forsaken me?</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Even as the struggling heart, reaching toward a higher</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">goal, appeals to its hope and faith, Why failest thou [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">me? Jesus as the son of man was human: Christ as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Son of God was divine. This divinity was reaching</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">humanity through the crucifixion of the human,—that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">momentous demonstration of God, in which Spirit proved</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its supremacy over matter. Jesus assumed for mortals the [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page064">[pg 064]</span><a name="Pg064" id="Pg064" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">weakness of flesh, that Spirit might be found <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“All-in-all.”</span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hence, the human cry which voiced that struggle;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thence, the way he made for mortals' escape. Our</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Master bore the cross to show his power over death;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">then relinquished his earth-task of teaching and dem- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">onstrating the nothingness of sickness, sin, and death,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and rose to his native estate, man's indestructible eternal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">life in God.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">What can prospective students of the College take for</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">preliminary studies? Do you regard the study of litera-</span></span> [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">ture and languages as objectionable?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Persons contemplating a course at the Massachusetts</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Metaphysical College, can prepare for it through no</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">books except the Bible, and <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and Health with</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Key to the Scriptures.”</span> Man-made theories are nar- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">row, else extravagant, and are always materialistic.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The ethics which guide thought spiritually must bene-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fit every one; for the only philosophy and religion that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">afford instruction are those which deal with facts and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">resist speculative opinions and fables. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Works on science are profitable; for science is not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human. It is spiritual, and not material. Literature</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and languages, to a limited extent, are aids to a student</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the Bible and of Christian Science.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Is it possible to know why we are put into this condition</span></span> +[25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">of mortality?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is quite as possible to know wherefore man is thus</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">conditioned, as to be certain that he <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">is</span></em> in a state of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortality. The only evidence of the existence of a mor-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tal man, or of a material state and universe, is gathered [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page065">[pg 065]</span><a name="Pg065" id="Pg065" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the five personal senses. This delusive evidence, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science has dethroned by repeated proofs of its falsity.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We have no more proof of human discord,—sin,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sickness, disease, or death,—than we have that the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">earth's surface is flat, and her motions imaginary. If [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man's <span class="tei tei-foreign" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">ipse dixit</span></span> as to the stellar system is +correct, this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is because Science is true, and the evidence of the senses</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is false. Then why not submit to the affirmations of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science concerning the greater subject of human weal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and woe? Every question between Truth and error, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science must and will decide. Left to the decision of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science, your query concerns a negative which the posi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tive Truth destroys; for God's universe and man are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">immortal. We must not consider the false side of exist-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ence in order to gain the true solution of Life and its [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">great realities.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Have you changed your instructions as to the right way</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">of treating disease?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I have not; and this important fact must be, and al-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ready is, apprehended by those who understand my in- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">structions on this question. Christian Science demands</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">both law and gospel, in order to demonstrate healing,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and I have taught them both in its demonstration, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with signs following. They are a unit in restoring the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">equipoise of mind and body, and balancing man's ac- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">count with his Maker. The sequence proves that strict</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">adherence to one is inadequate to compensate for the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">absence of the other, since both constitute the divine law</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of healing.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Jewish religion demands that <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“whoso sheddeth</span> [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.”</span> But this</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page066">[pg 066]</span><a name="Pg066" id="Pg066" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">law is not infallible in wisdom; and obedience thereto [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">may be found faulty, since false testimony or mistaken</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evidence may cause the innocent to suffer for the guilty.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hence the gospel that fulfils the law in righteousness,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the genius whereof is displayed in the surprising wisdom [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of these words of the New Testament: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Whatsoever</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”</span> No possible</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">injustice lurks in this mandate, and no human mis-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">judgment can pervert it; for the offender alone suffers,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and always according to divine decree. This sacred, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">solid precept is verified in all directions in Mind-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healing, and is supported in the Scripture by parallel</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">proof.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The law and gospel of Truth and Love teach, through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine Science, that sin is identical with suffering, and [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that suffering is the lighter affliction. To reach the sum-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mit of Science, whence to discern God's perfect ways</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and means, the material sense must be controlled by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the higher spiritual sense, and Truth be enthroned,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">while <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“we look not at the things which are seen, but at</span> [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">the things which are not seen.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Cynical critics misjudge my meaning as to the sci-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">entific treatment of the sick. Disease that is superin-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">duced by sin is not healed like the more physical</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ailment. The beginner in sin-healing must know this, or [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he never can reach the Science of Mind-healing, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">so <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“overcome evil with good.”</span> Error in premise is met</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with error in practice; yea, it is <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the blind leading the</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">blind.”</span> Ignorance of the cause of disease can neither</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">remove that cause nor its effect. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I endeavor to accommodate my instructions to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">present capability of the learner, and to support the</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page067">[pg 067]</span><a name="Pg067" id="Pg067" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">liberated thought until its altitude reaches beyond the [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mere alphabet of Mind-healing. Above physical wants,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lie the higher claims of the law and gospel of healing.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">First is the law, which saith:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou shalt not commit adultery;”</span> in other words, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thou shalt not adulterate Life, Truth, or Love,—men-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tally, morally, or physically. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou shalt not steal;”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that is, thou shalt not rob man of money, which is but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">trash, compared with his rights of mind and character.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou shalt not kill;”</span> that is, thou shalt not strike at the [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eternal sense of Life with a malicious aim, but shalt</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">know that by doing thus thine own sense of Life shall be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">forfeited. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou shalt not bear false witness;”</span> that is,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thou shalt not utter a lie, either mentally or audibly, nor</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cause it to be thought. Obedience to these command- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ments is indispensable to health, happiness, and length</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of days.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The gospel of healing demonstrates the law of Love.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Justice uncovers sin of every sort; and mercy demands</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that if you see the danger menacing others, you shall, [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-foreign" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Deo volente</span></span>, inform them thereof. +Only thus is the right</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">practice of Mind-healing achieved, and the wrong prac-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tice discerned, disarmed, and destroyed.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Do you believe in translation?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If your question refers to language, whereby one ex- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">presses the sense of words in one language by equiva-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lent words in another, I do. If you refer to the removal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of a person to heaven, without his subjection to death,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I modify my affirmative answer. I believe in this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">removal being possible after all the footsteps requisite [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have been taken up to the very throne, up to the</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page068">[pg 068]</span><a name="Pg068" id="Pg068" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual sense and fact of divine substance, intelligence, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Life, and Love. This translation is not the work of mo-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ments; it requires both time and eternity. It means more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than mere disappearance to the human sense; it must</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">include also man's changed appearance and diviner form [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">visible to those beholding him here.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">The Rev. —— said in a sermon: A true Christian</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">would protest against metaphysical healing being called</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Christian Science. He also maintained that pain and</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">disease are not illusions but realities; and that it is not</span></span> +[10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Christian to believe they are illusions. Is this so?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is unchristian to believe that pain and sickness are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">anything <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">but</span></em> illusions. My proof of this is, that the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">penalty for believing in their reality is the very pain and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">disease. Jesus cast out a devil, and the dumb spake; [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hence it is right to know that the works of Satan are the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">illusion and error which Truth casts out.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Does the gentleman above mentioned know the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">meaning of divine metaphysics, or of metaphysical</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">theology? [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">According to Webster, metaphysics is defined thus:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The science of the conceptions and relations which are</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">necessary to thought and knowledge; science of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">mind.”</span> Worcester defines it as <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the philosophy of +mind,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as distinguished from that of matter; a science of which [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the object is to explain the principles and causes of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">all things existing,”</span> Brande calls metaphysics +<span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">science which regards the ultimate grounds of being, as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">distinguished from its phenomenal modifications.”</span> +<span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“A</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">speculative science, which soars beyond the bounds of [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">experience,”</span> is a further definition.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page069">[pg 069]</span><a name="Pg069" id="Pg069" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Divine metaphysics is that which treats of the exist- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ence of God, His essence, relations, and attributes. A</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sneer at metaphysics is a scoff at Deity; at His goodness,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mercy, and might.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science is the unfolding of true metaphysics; [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that is, of Mind, or God, and His attributes. Science rests</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on Principle and demonstration. The Principle of Chris-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tian Science is divine. Its rule is, that man shall utilize</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the divine power.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In Genesis i. 26, we read: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Let us make man in</span> [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">our image, after our likeness: and let them have</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">the air.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I was once called to visit a sick man to whom the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">regular physicians had given three doses of Croton [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">oil, and then had left him to die. Upon my arrival I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">found him barely alive, and in terrible agony. In one</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hour he was well, and the next day he attended to his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">business. I removed the stoppage, healed him of en-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">teritis, and neutralized the bad effects of the poison- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ous oil. His physicians had failed even to move his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bowels,—though the wonder was, with the means</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">used in their effort to accomplish this result, that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they had not quite killed him. According to their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">diagnosis, the exciting cause of the inflammation and [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stoppage was—eating smoked herring. The man is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">living yet; and I will send his address to any one</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who may wish to apply to him for information about</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his case.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now comes the question: Had that sick man dominion [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">over the fish in his stomach?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His want of control over <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the fish of the sea”</span> must</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page070">[pg 070]</span><a name="Pg070" id="Pg070" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have been an illusion, or else the Scriptures misstate [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man's power. That the Bible is true I believe, not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">only, but I <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">demonstrated</span></em> its truth when I exercised</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my power over the fish, cast out the sick man's illu-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sion, and healed him. Thus it was shown that the [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healing action of Mind upon the body has its only ex-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">planation in divine metaphysics. As a man <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“thinketh</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">in his heart, so is he.”</span> When the mortal thought, or be-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lief, was removed, the man was well.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">What did Jesus mean when he said to the dying thief,</span></span> [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span><span style="font-style: italic">?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Paradisaical rest from physical agony would come to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the criminal, if the dream of dying should startle him</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the dream of suffering. The paradise of Spirit</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">would come to Jesus, in a spiritual sense of Life and [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">power. Christ Jesus lived and reappeared. He was too</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good to die; for goodness is immortal. The thief was</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not equal to the demands of the hour; but sin was de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stroying itself, and had already begun to die,—as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the poor thief's prayer for help indicated. The dy- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing malefactor and our Lord were inevitably sepa-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rated through Mind. The thief's body, as matter,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">must dissolve into its native nothingness; whereas the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">body of the holy Spirit of Jesus was eternal. That</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">day the thief would be with Jesus only in a finite [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and material sense of relief; while our Lord would</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">soon be rising to the supremacy of Spirit, working</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out, even in the silent tomb, those wonderful demon-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strations of divine power, in which none could equal his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">glory. [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page071">[pg 071]</span><a name="Pg071" id="Pg071" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Is it right for me to treat others, when I am not entirely</span></span> +[1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">well myself?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The late John B. Gough is said to have suffered from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">an appetite for alcoholic drink until his death; yet he</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">saved many a drunkard from this fatal appetite. Paul [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">had a thorn in the flesh: one writer thinks that he was</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">troubled with rheumatism, and another that he had sore</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eyes; but this is certain, that he healed others who were</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sick. It is unquestionably right to do right; and heal-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing the sick is a very right thing to do. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Does Christian Science set aside the law of transmission,</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">prenatal desires, and good or bad influences on the unborn</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">child?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science never averts law, but supports it. All actual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">causation must interpret omnipotence, the all-knowing [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind. Law brings out Truth, not error; unfolds divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Principle,—but neither human hypothesis nor matter.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Errors are based on a mortal or material formation; they</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are suppositional modes, not the factors of divine presence</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and power. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whatever is humanly conceived is a departure from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine law; hence its mythical origin and certain end.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">According to the Scriptures,—St. Paul declares astutely,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">things,”</span>—man is incapable of originating; nothing can [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be formed apart from God, good, the all-knowing Mind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What seems to be of human origin is the counterfeit</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the divine,—even human concepts, mortal shadows</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">flitting across the dial of time.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whatever is real is right and eternal; hence the im- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mutable and just law of Science, that God is good only,</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page072">[pg 072]</span><a name="Pg072" id="Pg072" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and can transmit to man and the universe nothing evil, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or unlike Himself. For the innocent babe to be born a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lifelong sufferer because of his parents' mistakes or sins,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">were sore injustice. Science sets aside man as a creator,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and unfolds the eternal harmonies of the only living and [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">true origin, God.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">According to the beliefs of the flesh, both good and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bad traits of the parents are transmitted to their help-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">less offspring, and God is supposed to impart to man</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this fatal power. It is cause for rejoicing that this belief [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is as false as it is remorseless. The immutable Word</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">saith, through the prophet Ezekiel, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“What mean ye, that</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">teeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord God, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">in Israel.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Are material things real when they are harmonious, and</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">do they disappear only to the natural sense? Does this</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Scripture, </span><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">Your heavenly Father knoweth +that ye have</span></span></span> [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">need of all these things</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span><span style="font-style: italic"> +imply that Spirit takes note of</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">matter?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Science of Mind, as well as the material unii</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">verse, shows that nothing which is material is in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">perpetual harmony. Matter is manifest mortal mind, [35]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and it exists only to material sense. Real sensation</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is not material; it is, and must be, mental: and Mind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is not mortal, it is immortal. Being is God, infinite</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spirit; therefore it cannot cognize aught material, or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">outside of infinity. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Scriptural passage quoted affords no evidence of</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page073">[pg 073]</span><a name="Pg073" id="Pg073" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the reality of matter, or that God is conscious of it. [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The so-called material body is said to suffer, but this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">supposition is proven erroneous when Mind casts out</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the suffering. The Scripture saith, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Whom the Lord</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">loveth He chasteneth;”</span> and again, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“He doth not</span> +[5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">afflict willingly.”</span> Interpreted materially, these pas-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sages conflict; they mingle the testimony of immor-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tal Science with mortal sense; but once discern their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual meaning, and it separates the false sense from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the true, and establishes the reality of what is spiritual, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the unreality of materiality.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Law is never material: it is always mental and moral,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and a commandment to the wise. The foolish disobey</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">moral law, and are punished. Human wisdom therefore</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">can get no farther than to say, He knoweth that we have [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">need of experience. Belief fulfils the conditions of a be-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lief, and these conditions destroy the belief. Hence the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">verdict of experience: We have need of <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">these</span></em> things; we</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have need to know that the so-called pleasures and pains</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of matter—yea, that all subjective states of false sensa- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion—are <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">unreal</span></em>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto +you,</span></span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory,</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the</span></span> [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">twelve tribes of Israel.</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span></span> +(Matt. xix. 28.) <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">What is meant</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">by regeneration?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is the appearing of divine law to human under-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">standing; the spiritualization that comes from spiritual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense in contradistinction to the testimony of the so- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">called material senses. The phenomena of Spirit in</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page074">[pg 074]</span><a name="Pg074" id="Pg074" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science, and the divine correspondence of [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">noumenon and phenomenon understood, are here signi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fied. This new-born sense subdues not only the false</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense of generation, but the human will, and the un-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">natural enmity of mortal man toward God. It quickly [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">imparts a new apprehension of the true basis of being,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the spiritual foundation for the affections which en-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">throne the Son of man in the glory of his Father; and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">judges, through the stern mandate of Science, all human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">systems of etiology and teleology. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">If God does not recognize matter, how did Jesus, who was</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">the way, the truth, and the life,</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span><span style="font-style: italic"> cognize it?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christ Jesus' sense of matter was the opposite of that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">which mortals entertain: his nativity was a spiritual and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">immortal sense of the ideal world. His earthly mission [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">was to translate substance into its original meaning,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind. He walked upon the waves; he turned the water</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">into wine; he healed the sick and the sinner; he raised</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the dead, and rolled away the stone from the door of his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">own tomb. His demonstration of Spirit virtually van- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quished matter and its supposed laws. Walking the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wave, he proved the fallacy of the theory that matter is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">substance; healing through Mind, he removed any sup-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">position that matter is intelligent, or can recognize or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">express pain and pleasure. His triumph over the grave [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">was an everlasting victory for Life; it demonstrated the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lifelessness of matter, and the power and permanence</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Spirit. He met and conquered the resistance of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">world.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If you will admit, with me, that matter is neither [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">substance, intelligence, nor Life, you may have all that</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page075">[pg 075]</span><a name="Pg075" id="Pg075" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is left of it; and you will have touched the hem of the [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">garment of Jesus' idea of matter, Christ was <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the way;”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">since Life and Truth were the way that gave us, through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a human person, a spiritual revelation of man's possible</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">earthly development. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Why do you insist that there is but one Soul, and that</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Soul is not in the body?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">First:</span></span> I urge this fundamental fact and grand verity</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Christian Science, because it includes a rule that must</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be understood, or it is impossible to demonstrate the Sci- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ence. Soul is a synonym of Spirit, and God is Spirit.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There is but one God, and the infinite is not within the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">finite; hence Soul is one, and is God; and God is not in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">matter or the mortal body.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Second:</span></span> Because Soul is a term for Deity, and this [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">term should seldom be employed except where the word</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">God</span></span> can be used and make complete sense. The word</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Soul</span></span> may sometimes be used metaphorically; but if this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">term is warped to signify human quality, a substitution</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">sense</span></span> for <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">soul</span></span> +clears the meaning, and assists one to [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">understand Christian Science. Mary's exclamation,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“"My <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">soul</span></em> doth magnify the Lord,”</span> is rendered in Sci-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ence, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“My <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">spiritual sense</span></em> doth magnify the Lord;”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for the name of Deity used in that place does not bring</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out the meaning of the passage. It was evidently an [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">illuminated sense through which she discovered the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual origin of man. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The soul that sinneth, it shall</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">die,”</span> means, that mortal man +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">alias</span></span> material sense) that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sinneth, shall die; and the commonly accepted view is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">soul</span></span> is deathless. Soul is the divine Mind,—for +[30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Soul cannot be formed or brought forth by human</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page076">[pg 076]</span><a name="Pg076" id="Pg076" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thought,—and must proceed from God; hence it must [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be sinless, and destitute of self-created or derived capacity</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to sin.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Third:</span></span> Jesus said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“If a man keep my saying, +he</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">shall never see death.”</span> This statement of our Master [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is true, and remains to be demonstrated; for it is the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ultimatum of Christian Science; but this immortal saying</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">can never be tested or proven true upon a false premise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">such as the mortal belief that soul is in body, and life</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and intelligence are in matter. That doctrine is not [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">theism, but pantheism. According to human belief the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bodies of mortals are mortal, but they contain immortal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">souls! hence these bodies must die for these souls to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">escape and be immortal. The theory that death must</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">occur, to set a human soul free from its environments, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is rendered void by Jesus' divine declaration, who spake</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as never man spake,—and no man can rationally reject</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his authority on this subject and accept it on other topics</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">less important.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now, exchange the term <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">soul</span></em> for <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">sense</span></em> whenever this [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">word means the so-called soul in the body, and you will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">find the right meaning indicated. The misnamed human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">soul is material sense, which sinneth and shall die; for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it is an error or false sense of mentality in matter, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">matter has no sense. You will admit that Soul is the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Life of man. Now if Soul sinned, it would die; for <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">wages of sin is death.”</span> The Scripture saith, +<span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“When</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">appear with him in glory.”</span> The Science of Soul, Spirit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">involves this appearing, and is essential to the fulfilment [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of this glorious prophecy of the master Metaphysician,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who overcame the last enemy, death.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page077">[pg 077]</span><a name="Pg077" id="Pg077" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Did the salvation of the eunuch depend merely on his</span></span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">believing that Jesus Christ was the Son of God?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It did; but this believing was more than faith in the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fact that Jesus was the Messiah. Here the verb <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">believe</span></em></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">took its original meaning, namely, to be <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">firm</span></em>,—yea, to [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">understand</span></em> those great truths asserted of the Messiah:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it meant to discern and consent to that infinite demand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">made upon the eunuch in those few words of the apostle.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Philip's requirement was, that he should not only ac-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">knowledge the incarnation,—God made manifest through [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man,—but even the eternal unity of man and God, as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the divine Principle and spiritual idea; which is the in-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dissoluble bond of union, the power and presence, in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine Science, of Life, Truth, and Love, to support their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ideal man. This is the Father's great Love that He [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hath bestowed upon us, and it holds man in endless</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Life and one eternal round of harmonious being. It</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">guides him by Truth that knows no error, and with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">supersensual, impartial, and unquenchable Love. To</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">believe</span></em> is to <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">be firm</span></em>. In adopting all this vast idea of +[20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christ Jesus, the eunuch was to <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">know</span></em> in whom he be-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lieved. To <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">believe</span></em> thus was to enter the spiritual sanctuary</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Truth, and there learn, in divine Science, somewhat</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the All-Father-Mother God. It was to understand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God and man: it was sternly to rebuke the mortal [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">belief that man has fallen away from his first estate; that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man, made in God's own likeness, and reflecting Truth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">could fall into mortal error; or, that man is the father</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of man. It was to enter unshod the Holy of Holies, where</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the miracle of grace appears, and where the miracles of [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus had their birth,—healing the sick, casting out</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evils, and resurrecting the human <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">sense</span></em> to the belief</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page078">[pg 078]</span><a name="Pg078" id="Pg078" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that Life, God, is not buried in matter. This is the spirit- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ual dawn of the Messiah, and the overture of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">angels. This is when God is made manifest in the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">flesh, and thus it destroys all sense of sin, sickness, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">death,—when the brightness of His glory encompasseth [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all being.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Can Christian Science Mind-healing be taught to those</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">who are absent?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Science of Mind-healing can no more be taught</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thus, than can science in any other direction. I know [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not how to teach either Euclid or the Science of Mind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">silently; and never dreamed that either of these partook</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the nature of occultism, magic, alchemy, or necro-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mancy. These <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“ways that are vain”</span> are the inventions</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of animal magnetism, which would deceive, if possible, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the very elect. We will charitably hope, however, that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">some people employ the <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">et cetera</span></span> +of ignorance and self-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">conceit unconsciously, in their witless ventilation of false</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">statements and claims. Misguiding the public mind and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">taking its money in exchange for this abuse, has become [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">too common: we will hope it is the froth of error passing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">off; and that Christian Science will some time appear all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the clearer for the purification of the public thought con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cerning it.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Has man fallen from a state of perfection?</span></span> [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If God is the Principle of man (and He is), man is the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">idea of God; and this idea cannot fail to express the ex-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">act nature of its Principle,—any more than goodness,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to present the quality of good. Human hypotheses are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">always human vagaries, formulated views antagonistic [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page079">[pg 079]</span><a name="Pg079" id="Pg079" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the divine order and the nature of Deity. All these [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortal beliefs will be purged and dissolved in the cru-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cible of Truth, and the places once knowing them will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">know them no more forever, having been swept clean</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by the winds of history. The grand verities of Science [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will sift the chaff from the wheat, until it is clear to hu-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man comprehension that man was, and is, God's perfect</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">likeness, that reflects all whereby we can know God. In</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Him we live, move, and have being. Man's origin and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">existence being in Him, man is the ultimatum of per- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fection, and by no means the medium of imperfection.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Immortal man is the eternal idea of Truth, that cannot</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lapse into a mortal belief or error concerning himself</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and his origin: he cannot get out of the focal distance of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">infinity. If God is upright and eternal, man as His like- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness is erect in goodness and perpetual in Life, Truth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and Love. If the great cause is perfect, its effect is per-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fect also; and cause and effect in Science are immutable</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and immortal. A mortal who is sinning, sick, and dying,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is not immortal man; and never was, and never can be, [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God's image and likeness, the true ideal of immortal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man's divine Principle. The spiritual man is that per-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fect and unfallen likeness, coexistent and coeternal with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">made alive.”</span> [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">What course should Christian Scientists take in regard</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">to aiding persons brought before the courts for violation of</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">medical statutes?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Beware of joining any medical league which in any</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">way obligates you to assist—because they chance to be [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">under arrest—vendors of patent pills, mesmerists,</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page080">[pg 080]</span><a name="Pg080" id="Pg080" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">occultists, sellers of impure literature, and authors of [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spurious works on mental healing. By rendering error</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">such a service, you lose much more than can be gained</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by mere unity on the single issue of opposition to unjust</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">medical laws. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A league which obligates its members to give money</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and influence in support and defense of medical char-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">latans in general, and possibly to aid individual rights</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in a wrong direction—which Christian Science eschews</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">—should be avoided. Anybody and everybody, who [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will fight the medical faculty, can join this league. It is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">better to be friendly with cultured and conscientious</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">medical men, who leave Christian Science to rise or fall</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on its own merit or demerit, than to affiliate with a wrong</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">class of people. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Unconstitutional and unjust coercive legislation and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">laws, infringing individual rights, must be <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“of few days,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">and full of trouble.”</span> The <span lang="la" class="tei tei-foreign" style="text-align: left" xml:lang="la"><span style="font-style: italic">vox +populi</span></span>, through the provi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dence of God, promotes and impels all true reform; and,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at the best time, will redress wrongs and rectify injus- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tice. Tyranny can thrive but feebly under our Govern-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ment. God reigns, and will <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“turn and overturn”</span> until</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">right is found supreme.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In a certain sense, we should commiserate the lot of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">regular doctors, who, in successive generations for cen- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">turies, have planted and sown and reaped in the fields</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of what they deem pathology, hygiene, and therapeutics,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but are now elbowed by a new school of practitioners,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">outdoing the healing of the old. The old will not patronize</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the new school, at least not until it shall come to understand [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the medical system of the new.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science Mind-healing rests demonstrably on</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page081">[pg 081]</span><a name="Pg081" id="Pg081" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the broad and sure foundation of Science; and this is [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not the basis of <span lang="la" class="tei tei-foreign" style="text-align: left" xml:lang="la"><span style="font-style: italic">materia medica</span></span>, +as some of the most skil-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ful and scholarly physicians openly admit.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To prevent all unpleasant and unchristian action—as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">we drift, by right of God's dear love, into more spiritual [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lines of life—let each society of practitioners, the matter-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">physicians and the metaphysicians, agree to disagree, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">then patiently wait on God to decide, as surely He will,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">which is the true system of medicine.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Do we not see in the commonly accepted teachings of the</span></span> [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">day, the Christ-idea mingled with the teachings of John</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">the Baptist? or, rather, Are not the last eighteen centuries</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">but the footsteps of Truth being baptized of John, and com-</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">ing up straightway out of the ceremonial (or ritualistic)</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">waters to receive the benediction of an honored Father, and</span></span> +[15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">afterwards to go up into the wilderness, in order to over-</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">come mortal sense, before it shall go forth into all the +cities</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">and towns of Judea, or see many of the people from beyond</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Jordan? Now, if all this be a fair or correct view of this</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">question, why does not John hear this voice, or see the</span></span> [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">dove,—or has not Truth yet reached the shore?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Every individual character, like the individual John</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Baptist, at some date must cry in the desert of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">earthly joy; and his voice be heard divinely and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">humanly. In the desolation of human understanding, [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine Love hears and answers the human call for help;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the voice of Truth utters the divine verities of being</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">which deliver mortals out of the depths of ignorance</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and vice. This <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">is</span></em> the Father's benediction. It gives</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lessons to human life, guides the understanding, peoples [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page082">[pg 082]</span><a name="Pg082" id="Pg082" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the mind with spiritual ideas, reconstructs the Judean [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">religion, and reveals God and man as the Principle and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">idea of all good.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Understanding this fact in Christian Science, brings</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the peace symbolized by a dove; and this peace floweth [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as a river into a shoreless eternity. He who knew the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">foretelling Truth, beheld the forthcoming Truth, as it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">came up out of the baptism of Spirit, to enlighten and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">redeem mortals. Such Christians as John cognize the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">symbols of God, reach the sure foundations of time, stand [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">upon the shore of eternity, and grasp and gather—in all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">glory—what eye hath not seen.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Is there infinite progression with man after the destruc-</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">tion of mortal mind?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Man is the offspring and idea of the Supreme Being, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whose law is perfect and infinite. In obedience to this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">law, man is forever unfolding the endless beatitudes of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Being; for he is the image and likeness of infinite Life,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth, and Love.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Infinite progression is concrete being, which finite [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortals see and comprehend only as abstract glory. As</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortal mind, or the material sense of life, is put off,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the spiritual sense and Science of being is brought to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">light.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mortal mind is a myth; the one Mind is immortal. [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A mythical or mortal sense of existence is consumed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as a moth, in the treacherous glare of its own flame—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the errors which devour it. Immortal Mind is God,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">immortal good; in whom the Scripture saith <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“we live,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">and move, and have our being.”</span> This Mind, then, is not [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">subject to growth, change, or diminution, but is the divine</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page083">[pg 083]</span><a name="Pg083" id="Pg083" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">intelligence, or Principle, of all real being; holding [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man forever in the rhythmic round of unfolding bliss,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as a living witness to and perpetual idea of inexhaustible</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">In your book, Science and Health,</span><a id="noteref_3" name="noteref_3" href="#note_3"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; font-style: italic; vertical-align: super">3</span></span></a><span style="font-style: italic"> page 181, you</span></span> [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">say: </span><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">Every sin is the author of itself, and +every</span></span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">invalid the cause of his own sufferings.</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span><span style="font-style: italic"> +On page</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">182 you say: </span><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">Sickness is a growth of illusion, +spring-</span></span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">ing from a seed of thought,—either your own thought</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">or another's.</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span><span style="font-style: italic"> +Will you please explain this seeming</span></span> [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">contradiction?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">No person can accept another's belief, except it be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with the consent of his own belief. If the error which</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">knocks at the door of your own thought originated in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">another's mind, you are a free moral agent to reject or [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to accept this error; hence, you are the arbiter of your</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">own fate, and sin is the author of sin. In the words</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of our Master, you are <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“a liar, and the father of it</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">[the lie].”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Why did Jesus call himself </span><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">the Son of man</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span><span style="font-style: italic">?</span></span> [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In the life of our Lord, meekness was as conspicuous</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as might. In John xvii. he declared his sonship with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee.”</span> [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The hour had come for the avowal of this great truth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and for the proof of his eternal Life and sonship. Jesus'</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page084">[pg 084]</span><a name="Pg084" id="Pg084" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wisdom ofttimes was shown by his forbearing to speak, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as well as by speaking, the whole truth. Haply he waited</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for a preparation of the human heart to receive start-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ling announcements. This wisdom, which character-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ized his sayings, did not prophesy his death, and thereby [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hasten or permit it.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The disciples and prophets thrust disputed points on</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">minds unprepared for them. This cost them their lives,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the world's temporary esteem; but the prophecies</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">were fulfilled, and their motives were rewarded by [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">growth and more spiritual understanding, which dawns</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by degrees on mortals. The spiritual Christ was infal-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lible; Jesus, as material manhood, was not Christ. The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“man of sorrows”</span> knew that the man of joys, his spiritual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">self, or Christ, was the Son of God; and that the mor- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tal mind, not the immortal Mind, suffered. The human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">manifestation of the Son of God was called the Son of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man, or Mary's son.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Please explain Paul's meaning in the text, </span><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">For to +me</span></span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">to live is Christ, and to die is gain.</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span></span> +[20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Science of Life, overshadowing Paul's sense of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">life in matter, so far extinguished the latter as forever</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to quench his love for it. The discipline of the flesh is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">designed to turn one, like a weary traveller, to the home</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Love. To lose error thus, is to live in Christ, Truth. [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A true sense of the falsity of material joys and sorrows,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pleasures and pains, takes them away, and teaches Life's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lessons aright. The transition from our lower sense of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Life to a new and higher sense thereof, even though it be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">through the door named death, yields a clearer and [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nearer sense of Life to those who have utilized the present,</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page085">[pg 085]</span><a name="Pg085" id="Pg085" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and are ripe for the harvest-home. To the battle- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">worn and weary Christian hero, Life eternal brings</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">blessings.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Is a Christian Scientist ever sick, and has he who is</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">sick been regenerated?</span></span> [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Christian Scientist learns spiritually all that he</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">knows of Life, and demonstrates what he understands.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God is recognized as the divine Principle of his being,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and of every thought and act leading to good. His pur-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pose must be right, though his power is temporarily lim- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ited. Perfection, the goal of existence, is not won in a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">moment; and regeneration leading thereto is gradual,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for it culminates in the fulfilment of this divine rule in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">which is in heaven is perfect.”</span> [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The last degree of regeneration rises into the rest of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">perpetual, spiritual, individual existence. The first</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">feeble fluttering of mortals Christward are infantile</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and more or less imperfect. The new-born Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scientist must mature, and work out his own salvation. [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spirit and flesh antagonize. Temptation, that mist of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortal mind which seems to be matter and the environ-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ment of mortals, suggests pleasure and pain in matter;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and, so long as this temptation lasts, the warfare is not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ended and the mortal is not regenerated. The pleas- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ures—more than the pains—of sense, retard regenera-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion; for pain compels human consciousness to escape</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from sense into the immortality and harmony of Soul.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Disease in error, more than ease in it, tends to destroy</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">error: the sick often are thereby led to Christ, Truth, [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and to learn their way out of both sickness and sin.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page086">[pg 086]</span><a name="Pg086" id="Pg086" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The material and physical are imperfect. The in- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dividual and spiritual are perfect; these have no fleshly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nature. This final degree of regeneration is saving, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Christian will, must, attain it; but it doth not yet</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">appear. Until this be attained, the Christian Scientist [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">must continue to strive with sickness, sin, and death—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">though in lessening degrees—and manifest growth at</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">every experience.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Is it correct to say of material objects, that they are +noth-</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">ing and exist only in imagination?</span></span> [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Nothing</span></em> and <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">something</span></em> are words which need correct</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">definition. They either mean formations of indefinite</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and vague human opinions, or scientific classifications</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the unreal and the real. My sense of the beauty of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the universe is, that beauty typifies holiness, and is some- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thing to be desired. Earth is more spiritually beautiful</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to my gaze now than when it was more earthly to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eyes of Eve. The pleasant sensations of human belief,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of form and color, must be spiritualized, until we gain the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">glorified sense of substance as in the new heaven and [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">earth, the harmony of body and Mind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Even the human conception of beauty, grandeur, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">utility is something that defies a sneer. It is more than</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">imagination. It is next to divine beauty and the gran-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">deur of Spirit. It lives with our earth-life, and is [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the subjective state of high thoughts. The atmos-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">phere of mortal mind constitutes our mortal envi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ronment. What mortals hear, see, feel, taste, smell,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">constitutes their present earth and heaven: but we must</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">grow out of even this pleasing thraldom, and find wings [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to reach the glory of supersensible Life; then we shall</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page087">[pg 087]</span><a name="Pg087" id="Pg087" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">soar above, as the bird in the clear ether of the blue tem- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">poral sky.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To take all earth's beauty into one gulp of vacuity</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and label beauty nothing, is ignorantly to caricature</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God's creation, which is unjust to human sense and [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the divine realism. In our immature sense of spirit-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ual things, let us say of the beauties of the sensuous</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">universe: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I love your promise; and shall know, some</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">time, the spiritual reality and substance of form, light,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and color, of what I now through you discern dimly; and [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">knowing this, I shall be satisfied. Matter is a frail con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ception of mortal mind; and mortal mind is a poorer</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">representative of the beauty, grandeur, and glory of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">immortal Mind.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Please inform us through your Journal; if you sent</span></span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Mrs. —— to ——. She said that +you sent her there to look</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">after the students; and also, that no one there was working</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">in Science,—which is certainly a mistake.</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I never commission any one to teach students of mine.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">After class teaching, he does best in the investigation of [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science who is most reliant on himself and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God. My students are taught the divine Principle and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rules of the Science of Mind-healing. What they need</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thereafter is to study thoroughly the Scriptures and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.”</span> To [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">watch and pray, to be honest, earnest, loving, and truth-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ful, is indispensable to the demonstration of the truth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they have been taught.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If they are haunted by obsequious helpers, who, un-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">called for, imagine they can help anybody and steady [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God's altar—this interference prolongs the struggle</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page088">[pg 088]</span><a name="Pg088" id="Pg088" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and tends to blight the fruits of my students. A faith- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ful student may even sometimes feel the need of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">physical help, and occasionally receive it from others;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but the less this is required, the better it is for that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">student. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Please give us, through your Journal, the name of</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">the author of that genuine critique in the September</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">number, </span><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">What Quibus Thinks.</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I am pleased to inform this inquirer, that the author</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the article in question is a Boston gentleman whose [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thought is appreciated by many liberals. Patience, ob-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">servation, intellectual culture, reading, writing, exten-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sive travel, and twenty years in the pulpit, have equipped</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">him as a critic who knows whereof he speaks. His allu-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sion to Christian Science in the following paragraph, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">glows in the shadow of darkling criticism like a mid-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">night sun. Its manly honesty follows like a benediction</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">after prayer, and closes the task of talking to deaf ears</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and dull debaters.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“We have always insisted that this Science is natural,</span> [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritually natural; that Jesus was the highest type of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">real nature; that Christian healing is supernatural, or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">extra-natural, only to those who do not enter into its</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sublimity or understand its modes—as imported ice</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">was miraculous to the equatorial African, who had never [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">seen water freeze.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Is it right for a Scientist to treat with a doctor?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This depends upon what kind of a doctor it is. Mind-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healing, and healing with drugs, are opposite modes of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">medicine. As a rule, drop one of these doctors when you [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page089">[pg 089]</span><a name="Pg089" id="Pg089" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">employ the other. The Scripture saith, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“No man can</span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">serve two masters;”</span> and, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Every kingdom divided</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">against itself is brought to desolation.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">If Scientists are called upon to care for a member of</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">the family, or a friend in sickness, who is employing a</span></span> [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">regular physician, would it be right to treat this patient</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">at all; and ought the patient to follow the doctor's</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">directions?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When patients are under material medical treatment,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it is advisable in most cases that Scientists do not treat [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">them, or interfere with <span class="tei tei-foreign" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">materia medica</span></span>. +If the patient</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is in peril, and you save him or alleviate his sufferings,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">although the medical attendant and friends have no</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">faith in your method, it is humane, and not unchristian,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to do him all the good you can; but your good will gen- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">erally <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“be evil spoken of.”</span> The hazard of casting <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“pearls</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">before swine”</span> caused our Master to refuse help to some</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who sought his aid; and he left this precaution for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">others.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">If mortal man is unreal, how can he be saved, and why</span></span> [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">does he need to be saved? I ask for information, not for</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">controversy, for I am a seeker after Truth.</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">You will find the proper answer to this question in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my published works. Man is immortal. Mortal man</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is a false concept that is not spared or prolonged by being [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">saved from itself, from whatever is false. This salva-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion means: saved from error, or error overcome. Im-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortal man, in God's likeness, is safe in divine Science.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mortal man is saved on this divine Principle, if he will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">only avail himself of the efficacy of Truth, and recog- [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page090">[pg 090]</span><a name="Pg090" id="Pg090" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nize his Saviour. He must know that God is omnipo- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tent; hence, that sin is impotent. He must know that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the power of sin is the pleasure in sin. Take away this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pleasure, and you remove all reality from its power. Jesus</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demonstrated sin and death to be powerless. This [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">practical Truth saves from sin, and will save all who</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">understand it.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Is it wrong for a wife to have a husband treated for</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">sin, when she knows he is sinning, or for drinking and</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">smoking?</span></span> [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is always right to act rightly; but sometimes, under</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">circumstances exceptional, it is inexpedient to attack</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil. This rule is forever golden: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“As ye would that</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">men should do to you, do ye even so to them.”</span> Do you</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">desire to be freed from sin? Then help others to be free; [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but in your measures, obey the Scriptures, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Be ye wise</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">as serpents.”</span> Break the yoke of bondage in every wise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">way. First, be sure that your means for doing good</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are equal to your motives; then judge them by their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fruits. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">If not ordained, shall the pastor of the Church of</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Christ, Scientist, administer the communion,—and</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">shall members of a church not organized receive the</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">communion?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Our great Master administered to his disciples the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Passover, or last supper, without this prerogative being</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">conferred by a visible organization and ordained priest-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hood. His spiritually prepared breakfast, after his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">resurrection, and after his disciples had left their nets</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to follow him, is the spiritual communion which Chris- [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page091">[pg 091]</span><a name="Pg091" id="Pg091" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tian Scientists celebrate in commemoration of the Christ. [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This ordinance is significant as a type of the true worship,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and it should be observed at present in our churches.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is not indispensable to organize materially Christ's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">church. It is not absolutely necessary to ordain pas- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tors and to dedicate churches; but if this be done,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">let it be in concession to the period, and not as a per-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">petual or indispensable ceremonial of the church. If</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">our church is organized, it is to meet the demand,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Suffer it to be so now.”</span> The real Christian compact [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is love for one another. This bond is wholly spiritual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and inviolate.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is imperative, at all times and under every cir-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cumstance, to perpetuate no ceremonials except as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">types of these mental conditions,—remembrance and [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">love; a real affection for Jesus' character and example.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Be it remembered, that all types employed in the ser-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vice of Christian Science should represent the most spir-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">itual forms of thought and worship that can be made</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">visible. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Should not the teacher of Christian Science have our</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">textbook, </span><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">“</span><span style="font-style: italic">Science and Health with Key to the +Scriptures,</span><span style="font-style: italic">”</span></span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">in his schoolroom and teach from it?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I never dreamed, until informed thereof, that a loyal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">student did not take his textbook with him into the class- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">room, ask questions from it, answer them according to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it, and, as occasion required, read from the book as au-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thority for what he taught. I supposed that students</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">had followed my example, and that of other teachers,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sufficiently to do this, and also to require their pupils to [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">study the lessons before recitations.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page092">[pg 092]</span><a name="Pg092" id="Pg092" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To omit these important points is anomalous, con- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sidering the necessity for understanding Science, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the present liability of deviating from Christian Science.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Centuries will intervene before the statement of the inex-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">haustible topics of that book become sufficiently under- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stood to be absolutely demonstrated. The teacher of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science needs continually to study this textbook.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His work is to replenish thought, and to spiritualize human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">life, from this open fount of Truth and Love.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He who sees most clearly and enlightens other minds [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">most readily, keeps his own lamp trimmed and burning.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He will take the textbook of Christian Science into his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">class, repeat the questions in the chapter on Recapitula-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion, and his students will answer them from the same</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">source. Throughout his entire explanations, the teacher [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">should strictly adhere to the questions and answers con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tained in that chapter of <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and Health with Key</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">to the Scriptures.”</span> It is important to point out the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lesson to the class, and to require the students thor-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">oughly to study it before the recitations; for this spirit- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ualizes their thoughts. When closing his class, the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">teacher should require each member to own a copy of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the above-named book and to continue the study of this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">textbook.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The opinions of men cannot be substituted for God's [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">revelation. It must not be forgotten that in times past,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">arrogant ignorance and pride, in attempting to steady</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the ark of Truth, have dimmed the power and glory of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Scriptures, to which this Christian Science textbook</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is the Key. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That teacher does most for his students who most</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divests himself of pride and self, spiritualizes his own</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page093">[pg 093]</span><a name="Pg093" id="Pg093" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thought, and by reason thereof is able to empty his stu- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dents' minds, that they may be filled with Truth.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Beloved students, <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">so</span></em> teach that posterity shall call</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you blessed, and the heart of history shall be made</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">glad! [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Can fear or sin bring back old beliefs of disease that have</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">been healed by Christian Science?</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Scriptures plainly declare the allness and oneness</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of God to be the premises of Truth, and that God is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good: in Him dwelleth no evil. Christian Science au- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thorizes the logical conclusion drawn from the Scriptures,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that there is in reality none besides the eternal, infinite</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God, good. Evil is temporal: it is the illusion of time</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and mortality.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This being true, sin has no power; and fear, its coeval, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is without divine authority. Science sanctions only what</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is supported by the unerring Principle of being. Sin can</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">do nothing: all cause and effect are in God. Fear is a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">belief of sensation in matter: this belief is neither main-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tained by Science nor supported by facts, and exists only [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as fable. Your answer is, that neither fear nor sin can</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bring on disease or bring back disease, since there is in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reality no disease.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Bear in mind, however, that human consciousness does</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not test sin and the fact of its nothingness, by believing [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that sin is pardoned without repentance and reforma-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion. Sin punishes itself, because it cannot go unpun-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ished either here or hereafter. Nothing is more fatal than</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to indulge a sinning sense or consciousness for even one</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">moment. Knowing this, obey Christ's Sermon on the [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mount, even if you suffer for it in the first instance,—</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page094">[pg 094]</span><a name="Pg094" id="Pg094" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are misjudged and maligned; in the second, you will [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reign with him.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I never knew a person who knowingly indulged evil,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to be grateful; to understand me, or himself. He must</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">first see himself and the hallucination of sin; then he [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">must repent, and love good in order to understand God.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The sinner and the sin are the twain that are one flesh,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but which God hath not joined together.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page095">[pg 095]</span><a name="Pg095" id="Pg095" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc18" id="toc18"></a> +<a name="pdf19" id="pdf19"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Chapter IV. Addresses.</span></h1> + + + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc20" id="toc20"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Christian Science In Tremont Temple.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From the platform of the Monday lectureship in [2]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Tremont Temple, on Monday, March 16, 1885, as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will be seen by what follows. Reverend Mary Baker G.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Eddy was presented to Mr. Cook's audience, and allowed [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ten minutes in which to reply to his public letter con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demning her doctrines; which reply was taken in full by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a shorthand reporter who was present, and is transcribed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">below.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mrs. Eddy responding, said:— [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As the time so kindly allotted me is insufficient for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">even a synopsis of Christian Science, I shall confine my-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">self to questions and answers.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Am I a spiritualist?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I am not, and never was. I understand the impossi- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bility of intercommunion between the so-called dead and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">living. There have always attended my life phenomena</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of an uncommon order, which spiritualists have mis-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">called mediumship; but I clearly understand that no</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human agencies were employed,—that the divine Mind [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reveals itself to humanity through spiritual law. And</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to such as are <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">of our body,”</span> Christian Science reveals the in-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page096">[pg 096]</span><a name="Pg096" id="Pg096" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">finitude of divinity and the way of man's salvation from [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sickness and death, as wrought out by Jesus, who robbed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the grave of victory and death of its sting. I understand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that God is an ever-present help in all times of trouble,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have found Him so; and would have no other gods, no [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">remedies in drugs, no material medicine.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Do I believe in a personal God?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I believe in God as the Supreme Being. I know not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">what the person of omnipotence and omnipresence is,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or what the infinite includes; therefore, I worship that [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of which I can conceive, first, as a loving Father and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mother; then, as thought ascends the scale of being to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">diviner consciousness, God becomes to me, as to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">apostle who declared it, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“God is Love,”</span>—divine Prin-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ciple,—which I worship; and <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“after the manner of my</span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">fathers, so worship I God.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Do I believe in the atonement of Christ?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I do; and this atonement becomes more to me since</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it includes man's redemption from sickness as well as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from sin. I reverence and adore Christ as never before. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It brings to my sense, and to the sense of all who enter-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tain this understanding of the Science of God, a <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">whole</span></em></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">salvation.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">How is the healing done in Christian Science?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This answer includes too much to give you any con- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">clusive idea in a brief explanation. I can name some</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">means by which it is not done.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is not one mind acting upon another mind; it is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not the transference of human images of thought to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">other minds; it is not supported by the evidence before [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the personal senses,—Science contradicts this evidence;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it is not of the flesh, but of the Spirit. It is Christ come</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page097">[pg 097]</span><a name="Pg097" id="Pg097" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to destroy the power of the flesh; it is Truth over error; [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that understood, gives man ability to rise above the evi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dence of the senses, take hold of the eternal energies of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth, and destroy mortal discord with immortal har-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mony,—the grand verities of being. It is not one mortal [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thought transmitted to another's thought from the human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mind that holds within itself all evil.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Our Master said of one of his students, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“He is a devil,”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and repudiated the idea of casting out devils through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Beelzebub. Erring human mind is by no means a de- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sirable or efficacious healer. Such suppositional healing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I deprecate. It is in no way allied to divine power. All</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human control is animal magnetism, more despicable</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than all other methods of treating disease.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science is not a remedy of faith alone, but [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">combines faith with understanding, through which we</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">may touch the hem of His garment; and know that om-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nipotence has all power. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I am the Lord, and there is</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">none else, there is no God beside me.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Is there a personal man? [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Scriptures inform us that man was made in the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">image and likeness of God. I commend the Icelandic</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">translation: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“He created man in the image and likeness</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Mind, in the image and likeness of Mind created</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">He him.”</span> To my sense, we have not seen all of man; [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he is more than personal sense can cognize, who is the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">image and likeness of the infinite. I have not seen a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">perfect man in mind or body,—and such must be the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">personality of him who is the true likeness: the lost</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">image is not this personality, and corporeal man is this [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lost image; hence, it doth not appear what is the real</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">personality of man. The only cause for making this</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page098">[pg 098]</span><a name="Pg098" id="Pg098" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">question of personality a point, or of any importance, is [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that man's perfect model should be held in mind, whereby</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to improve his present condition; that his contemplation</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">regarding himself should turn away from inharmony, sick-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness, and sin, to that which is the image of his Maker. [5]</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc21" id="toc21"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Science And The Senses.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Substance of my Address at the National Convention in Chicago,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">June 13, 1888</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The National Christian Scientist Association has</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">brought us together to minister and to be ministered [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unto; mutually to aid one another in finding ways and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">means for helping the whole human family; to quicken</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and extend the interest already felt in a higher mode of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">medicine; to watch with eager joy the individual growth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Christian Scientists, and the progress of our common [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Cause in Chicago,—the miracle of the Occident. We</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">come to strengthen and perpetuate our organizations</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and institutions; and to find strength in union,—strength</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to build up, through God's right hand, that pure and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">undefiled religion whose Science demonstrates God and [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the perfectibility of man. This purpose is immense,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and it must begin with individual growth, a <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“consum-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">mation devoutly to be wished.”</span> The lives of all re-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">formers attest the authenticity of their mission, and call</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the world to acknowledge its divine Principle. Truly [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is it written:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou must be true thyself, if thou the truth would'st teach;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Thy heart must overflow, if thou another's heart would'st reach.”</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page099">[pg 099]</span><a name="Pg099" id="Pg099" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science is absolute and final. It is revolutionary in [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its very nature; for it upsets all that is not upright.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It annuls false evidence, and saith to the five material</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">senses, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Having eyes ye see not, and ears ye hear not;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">neither can you understand.”</span> To weave one thread of [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science through the looms of time, is a miracle in itself.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The risk is stupendous. It cost Galileo, what? This</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">awful price: the temporary loss of his self-respect. His</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fear overcame his loyalty; the courage of his convictions</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fell before it. Fear is the weapon in the hands of [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tyrants.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Men and women of the nineteenth century, are you</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">called to voice a higher order of Science? Then obey</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this call. Go, if you must, to the dungeon or the scaf-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fold, but take not back the words of Truth. How many [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are there ready to suffer for a righteous cause, to stand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a long siege, take the front rank, face the foe, and be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the battle every day?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In no other one thing seemed Jesus of Nazareth more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine than in his faith in the immortality of his words. [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">words shall not pass away;”</span> and they have not. The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">winds of time sweep clean the centuries, but they can</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">never bear into oblivion his words. They still live, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to-morrow speak louder than to-day. They are to-day [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as the voice of one crying in the wilderness, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Make</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">straight God's paths; make way for health, holiness,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">universal harmony, and come up hither.”</span> The gran-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">deur of the word, the power of Truth, is again casting</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out evils and healing the sick; and it is whispered, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“This</span> [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">is Science.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus taught by the wayside, in humble homes. He</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page100">[pg 100]</span><a name="Pg100" id="Pg100" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spake of Truth and Love to artless listeners and dull [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">disciples. His immortal words were articulated in a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">decaying language, and then left to the providence of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God. Christian Science was to interpret them; and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">woman, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“last at the cross,”</span> was to awaken the dull senses, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">intoxicated with pleasure or pain, to the infinite meaning</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of those words.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Past, present, future, will show the word and might of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth—healing the sick and reclaiming the sinner—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">so long as there remains a claim of error for Truth to [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">deny or to destroy. Love's labors are not lost. The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">five personal senses, that grasp neither the meaning nor</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the magnitude of self-abnegation, may lose sight thereof;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but Science voices unselfish love, unfolds infinite good,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">leads on irresistible forces, and will finally show the fruits [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Love. Human reason is inaccurate; and the scope</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the senses is inadequate to grasp the word of Truth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and teach the eternal.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science speaks when the senses are silent, and then</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the evermore of Truth is triumphant. The spiritual mon- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">itor understood is coincidence of the divine with the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human, the acme of Christian Science. Pure humanity,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">friendship, home, the interchange of love, bring to earth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a foretaste of heaven. They unite terrestrial and celes-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tial joys, and crown them with blessings infinite. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Christian Scientist loves man more because he</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">loves God most. He understands this Principle,—Love.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who is sufficient for these things? Who remembers that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">patience, forgiveness, abiding faith, and affection, are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the symptoms by which our Father indicates the dif- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ferent stages of man's recovery from sin and his en-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">trance into Science? Who knows how the feeble lips</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page101">[pg 101]</span><a name="Pg101" id="Pg101" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are made eloquent, how hearts are inspired, how heal- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing becomes spontaneous, and how the divine Mind is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">understood and demonstrated? He alone knows these</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wonders who is departing from the thraldom of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">senses and accepting spiritual truth,—that which blesses [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its adoption by the refinement of joy and the dismissal of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sorrow.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science and the senses are at war. It is a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">revolutionary struggle. We already have had two in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this nation; and they began and ended in a contest for [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the true idea, for human liberty and rights. Now cometh</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a third struggle; for the freedom of health, holiness, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the attainment of heaven.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The scientific sense of being which establishes har-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mony, enters into no compromise with finiteness and [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">feebleness. It undermines the foundations of mortality,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of physical law, breaks their chains, and sets the captive</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">free, opening the doors for them that are bound.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He who turns to the body for evidence, bases his con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">clusions on mortality, on imperfection; but Science saith</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to man, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“God hath all-power.”</span> [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Science of omnipotence demonstrates but one</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">power, and this power is good, not evil; not matter,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but Mind. This virtually destroys matter and evil, in-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cluding sin and disease. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If God is All, and God is good, it follows that all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">must be good; and no other power, law, or intelligence</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">can exist. On this proof rest premise and conclusion in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science, and the facts that disprove the evidence of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">senses. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God is individual Mind. This one Mind and His</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">individuality comprise the elements of all forms and</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page102">[pg 102]</span><a name="Pg102" id="Pg102" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">individualities, and prophesy the nature and stature of [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christ, the ideal man.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A corporeal God, as often defined by lexicographers</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and scholastic theologians, is only an infinite finite being,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">an unlimited man,—a theory to me inconceivable. If [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the unlimited and immortal Mind could originate in a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">limited body, Mind would be chained to finity, and the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">infinite forever finite.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In this limited and lower sense God is not personal.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His infinity precludes the possibility of corporeal person- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ality. His being is individual, but not physical.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God is like Himself and like nothing else. He is uni-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">versal and primitive. His character admits of no degrees</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of comparison. God is not part, but the whole. In His</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">individuality I recognize the loving, divine Father-Mother [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God. Infinite personality must be incorporeal.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God's ways are not ours. His pity is expressed in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">modes above the human. His chastisements are the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">manifestations of Love. The sympathy of His eternal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind is fully expressed in divine Science, which blots [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out all our iniquities and heals all our diseases. Human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pity often brings pain.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science supports harmony, denies suffering, and de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stroys it with the divinity of Truth. Whatever seems mate-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rial, seems thus only to the material senses, and is but the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">subjective state of mortal and material thought.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science has inaugurated the irrepressible conflict be-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tween sense and Soul. Mortal thought wars with this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense as one that beateth the air, but Science outmasters</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it, and ends the warfare. This proves daily that <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“one</span> [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">on God's side is a majority.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science defines <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">omnipresence</span></em> as universality, that which</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page103">[pg 103]</span><a name="Pg103" id="Pg103" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">precludes the presence of evil. This verity annuls the tes- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">timony of the senses, which say that sin is an evil power,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and substance is perishable. Intelligent Spirit, Soul, is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">substance, far more impregnable and solid than matter; for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one is temporal, while the other is eternal, the ultimate [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and predicate of being.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mortality, materiality, and destructive forces, such as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sin, disease, and death, mortals virtually name <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">substance</span></em>;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but these are the substance of things <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">not</span></span> hoped for. For</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lack of knowing what substance is, the senses say vaguely: [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The substance of life is sorrow and mortality; for who</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">knoweth the substance of good?”</span> In Science, form and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">individuality are never lost, thoughts are outlined, indi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vidualized ideas, which dwell forever in the divine Mind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as tangible, true substance, because eternally conscious. [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Unlike mortal mind, which must be ever in bondage,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the eternal Mind is free, unlimited, and knows not the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">temporal.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Neither does the temporal know the eternal. Mortal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man, as mind or matter, is neither the pattern nor Maker [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of immortal man. Any inference of the divine derived</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the human, either as mind or body, hides the actual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">power, presence, and individuality of God.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus' personality in the flesh, so far as material sense</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">could discern it, was like that of other men; but Science [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">exchanges this human concept of Jesus for the divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ideal, his spiritual individuality that reflected the Im-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">manuel, or <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“God with us.”</span> This God was not outlined.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He was too mighty for that. He was eternal Life, infinite</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth and Love. The individuality is embraced in Mind, [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">therefore is forever with the Father. Hence the Scrip-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ture, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I am a God at hand, saith the Lord.”</span> Even while</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page104">[pg 104]</span><a name="Pg104" id="Pg104" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his personality was on earth and in anguish, his individual [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">being, the Christ, was at rest in the eternal harmony.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His unseen individuality, so superior to that which was</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">seen, was not subject to the temptations of the flesh, to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">laws material, to death, or the grave. Formed and gov- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">erned by God, this individuality was safe in the substance</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Soul, the substance of Spirit,—yea, the substance of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God, the one inclusive good.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In Science all being is individual; for individuality is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">endless in the calculus of forms and numbers. Herein [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sin is miraculous and supernatural; for it is not in the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nature of God, and good is forever good. Accord-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing to Christian Science, perfection is normal,—not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">miraculous. Clothed, and in its right Mind, man's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">individuality is sinless, deathless, harmonious, eternal. [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His materiality, clad in a false mentality, wages feeble</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fight with his individuality,—his physical senses with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his spiritual senses. The latter move in God's grooves</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Science: the former revolve in their own orbits, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">must stand the friction of false selfhood until self- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">destroyed.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In obedience to the divine nature, man's individuality</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reflects the divine law and order of being. How shall</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">we reach our true selves? Through Love. The Prin-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ciple of Christian Science is Love, and its idea represents [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love. This divine Principle and idea are demonstrated,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in healing, to be God and the real man.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who wants to be mortal, or would not gain the true</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ideal of Life and recover his own individuality? I will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">love, if another hates. I will gain a balance on the side of [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good, my true being. This alone gives me the forces of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God wherewith to overcome all error. On this rests the</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page105">[pg 105]</span><a name="Pg105" id="Pg105" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">implicit faith engendered by Christian Science, which [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">appeals intelligently to the facts of man's spirituality, in-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dividuality, to disdain the fears and destroy the discords</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of this material personality.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On our Master's individual demonstrations over sin, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sickness, and death, rested the anathema of priesthood</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the senses; yet this demonstration is the foundation</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Christian Science. His physical sufferings, which</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">came from the testimony of the senses, were over when</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he resumed his individual spiritual being, after showing [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">us the way to escape from the material body.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science would have no conflict with Life or common</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense, if this sense were consistently sensible. Man's real</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">life or existence is in harmony with Life and its glorious</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">phenomena. It upholds being, and destroys the too [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">common sense of its opposites—death, disease, and sin.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science is an everlasting victor, and vanquish-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ment is unknown to the omnipresent Truth. I must ever</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">follow this line of light and battle.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science is my only ideal; and the individual [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and his ideal can never be severed. If either is misunder-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stood or maligned, it eclipses the other with the shadow</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cast by this error.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth destroys error. Nothing appears to the physi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cal senses but their own subjective state of thought. The [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">senses join issue with error, and pity what has no right</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">either to be pitied or to exist, and what does not exist in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science. Destroy the thought of sin, sickness, death, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you destroy their existence. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Whatsoever a man soweth,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">that shall he also reap.”</span> [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Because God is Mind, and this Mind is good, all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is good and all is Mind. God is the sum total of the</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page106">[pg 106]</span><a name="Pg106" id="Pg106" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">universe. Then what and where are sin, sickness, and [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">death?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science and Christian Scientists will, <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">must</span></em>,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have a history; and if I could write the history in poor</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">parody on Tennyson's grand verse, it would read [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thus:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Traitors to right of them,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">M. D.'s to left of them,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Priestcraft in front of them,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Volleyed and thundered! [10]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Into the jaws of hate,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Out through the door of Love,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">On to the blest above,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Marched the one hundred.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc22" id="toc22"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Extract From My First Address In The Mother +Church, May 26, 1895</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Friends and Brethren</span></span>:—Your Sunday Lesson, com-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">posed of Scripture and its correlative in <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> has fed you. In addi- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion, I can only bring crumbs fallen from this table of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth, and gather up the fragments.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It has long been a question of earnest import, How</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shall mankind worship the most adorable, but most</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unadored,—and where shall begin that praise that shall</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">never end? Beneath, above, beyond, methinks I hear [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the soft, sweet sigh of angels answering, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“So live, that</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">your lives attest your sincerity and resound His praise.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Music is the harmony of being; but the music of Soul</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">affords the only strains that thrill the chords of feeling</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and awaken the heart's harpstrings. Moved by mind, [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">your many-throated organ, in imitative tones of many</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page107">[pg 107]</span><a name="Pg107" id="Pg107" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">instruments, praises Him; but even the sweetness and [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">beauty in and of this temple that praise Him, are earth's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">accents, and must not be mistaken for the oracles of God.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Art must not prevail over Science. Christianity is not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">superfluous. Its redemptive power is seen in sore trials, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">self-denials, and crucifixions of the flesh. But these come</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the rescue of mortals, to admonish them, and plant</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the feet steadfastly in Christ. As we rise above the seem-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing mists of sense, we behold more clearly that all the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heart's homage belongs to God. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">More love is the great need of mankind. A pure af-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fection, concentric, forgetting self, forgiving wrongs and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">forestalling them, should swell the lyre of human love.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Three cardinal points must be gained before poor</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">humanity is regenerated and Christian Science is dem- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">onstrated: (1) A proper sense of sin; (2) repentance;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">(3) the understanding of good. Evil is a negation: it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">never started with time, and it cannot keep pace with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eternity. Mortals' false senses pass through three states</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and stages of human consciousness before yielding error. [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The deluded sense must first be shown its falsity through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a knowledge of evil as evil, so-called. Without a sense</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of one's oft-repeated violations of divine law, the in-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dividual may become morally blind, and this deplorable</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mental state is moral idiocy. The lack of seeing one's [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">deformed mentality, and of <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">repentance</span></em> therefor, deep,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">never to be repented of, is retarding, and in certain mor-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bid instances stopping, the growth of Christian Scientists.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Without a knowledge of his sins, and repentance so severe</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that it destroys them, no person is or can be a Christian [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scientist.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mankind thinks either too much or too little of sin.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page108">[pg 108]</span><a name="Pg108" id="Pg108" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The sensitive, sorrowing saint thinks too much of it: the [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sordid sinner, or the so-called Christian asleep, thinks too</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">little of sin.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To allow sin of any sort is anomalous in Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scientists, claiming, as they do, that good is infinite, All. [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Our Master, in his definition of Satan as a liar from the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">beginning, attested the absolute powerlessness—yea,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nothingness—of evil: since a lie, being without founda-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion in fact, is merely a falsity; spiritually, literally, it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">is nothing</span></em>. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Not to know that a false claim is false, is to be in danger</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of believing it; hence the utility of knowing evil aright,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">then reducing its claim to its proper denominator,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nobody and nothing. Sin should be conceived of only</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as a delusion. This true conception would remove mortals' [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ignorance and its consequences, and advance the second</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stage of human consciousness, repentance. The first</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">state, namely, the knowledge of one's self, the proper</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">knowledge of evil and its subtle workings wherein evil</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">seems as real as good, is indispensable; since that which [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is truly conceived of, we can handle; but the misconcep-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion of what we need to know of evil,—or the concep-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion of it at all as something real,—costs much. Sin</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">needs only to be known for what it is not; then we are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its master, not servant. Remember, and act on, Jesus' [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">definition of sin as a <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">lie</span></em>. This cognomen makes it less</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dangerous; for most of us would not be seen believing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in, or adhering to, that which we know to be untrue.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What would be thought of a Christian Scientist who be-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lieved in the use of drugs, while declaring that they have [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">no intrinsic quality and that there is no matter? What</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">should be thought of an individual believing in that</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page109">[pg 109]</span><a name="Pg109" id="Pg109" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">which is untrue, and at the same time declaring the unity [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Truth, and its allness? Beware of those who mis-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">represent facts; or tacitly assent where they should dis-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sent; or who take me as authority for what I disapprove,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or mayhap never have thought of, and try to reverse, in- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vert, or controvert, Truth; for this is a sure pretext of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">moral defilement.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Examine yourselves, and see what, and how much, sin</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">claims of you; and how much of this claim you admit</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as valid, or comply with. The knowledge of evil that [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">brings on repentance is the most hopeful stage of mortal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mentality. Even a mild mistake must be seen as a mis-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">take, in order to be corrected; how much more, then,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">should one's sins be seen and repented of, before they</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">can be reduced to their native nothingness! [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ignorance is only blest by reason of its nothingness;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for seeing the need of somethingness in its stead, blesses</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortals. Ignorance was the first condition of sin in the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">allegory of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. Their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mental state is not desirable, neither is a knowledge of [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sin and its consequences, repentance, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">per se</span></span>; but, ad-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mitting the existence of both, mortals must hasten through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the second to the third stage,—the knowledge of good;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for without this the valuable sequence of knowledge</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">would be lacking,—even the power to escape from the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">false claims of sin. To understand good, one must discern</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the nothingness of evil, and consecrate one's life anew.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Beloved brethren, Christ, Truth, saith unto you, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Be</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">not afraid!”</span>—fear not sin, lest thereby it master you;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but only <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">fear to sin</span></em>. Watch and pray for self-knowledge; [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">since then, and thus, cometh repentance,—and your</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">superiority to a delusion is won.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page110">[pg 110]</span><a name="Pg110" id="Pg110" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Repentance is better than sacrifice. The costly balm [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Araby, poured on our Master's feet, had not the value</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of a single <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">tear</span></em>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Beloved children, the world has need of you,—and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">more as children than as men and women: it needs your [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">innocence, unselfishness, faithful affection, uncontami-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nated lives. You need also to watch, and pray that you</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">preserve these virtues unstained, and lose them not through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">contact with the world. What grander ambition is there</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than to maintain in yourselves what Jesus loved, and to [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">know that your example, more than words, makes morals</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for mankind!</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc23" id="toc23"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Address Before The Alumni Of The Massachusetts +Metaphysical College, 1895</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">My Beloved Students</span></span>:—Weeks have passed into [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">months, and months into years, since last we met; but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">time and space, when encompassed by divine presence,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">do not separate us. Our hearts have kept time together,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and our hands have wrought steadfastly at the same</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">object-lesson, while leagues have lain between us. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We may well unite in thanksgiving for the continued</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">progress and unprecedented prosperity of our Cause. It</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is already obvious that the world's acceptance and the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">momentum of Christian Science, increase rapidly as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">years glide on. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As Christian Scientists, you have dared the perilous de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fense of Truth, and have succeeded. You have learned</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">how fleeting is that which men call great; and how per-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">manent that which God calls good.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page111">[pg 111]</span><a name="Pg111" id="Pg111" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">You have proven that the greatest piety is scarcely [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sufficient to demonstrate what you have adopted and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">taught; that your work, well done, would dignify angels.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Faithfully, as meekly, you have toiled all night; and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at break of day caught much. At times, your net has [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">been so full that it broke: human pride, creeping into</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its meshes, extended it beyond safe expansion; then,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">losing hold of divine Love, you lost your fishes, and pos-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sibly blamed others more than yourself. But those whom</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God makes <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“fishers of men”</span> will not pull for the shore; [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">like Peter, they launch into the depths, cast their nets</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on the right side, compensate loss, and gain a higher sense</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the true idea. Nothing is lost that God gives: had He</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">filled the net, it would not have broken.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Leaving the seed of Truth to its own vitality, it propa- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gates: the tares cannot hinder it. Our Master said,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">not pass away;”</span> and Jesus' faith in Truth must not ex-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ceed that of Christian Scientists who prove its power to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be immortal. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Christianity that is merely of sects, the pulpit, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fashionable society, is brief; but the Word of God abideth.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Plato was a pagan; but no greater difference existed be-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tween his doctrines and those of Jesus, than to-day exists</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">between the Catholic and Protestant sects. I love the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">orthodox church; and, in time, that church will love</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science. Let me specially call the attention of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this Association to the following false beliefs inclining</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortal mind more deviously:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The belief in anti-Christ: that somebody in the flesh [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is the son of God, or is another Christ, or is a spiritually</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">adopted child, or is an incarnated babe, is the evil one—</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page112">[pg 112]</span><a name="Pg112" id="Pg112" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in other words, the one evil—disporting itself with the [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">subtleties of sin!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Even honest thinkers, not knowing whence they come,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">may deem these delusions verities, before they know it,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or really look the illusions in the face. The ages are bur- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dened with material modes. Hypnotism, microbes, X-rays,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and ex-common sense, occupy time and thought; and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">error, given new opportunities, will improve them. The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">most just man can neither defend the innocent nor detect</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the guilty, unless he knows <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">how</span></em> to be just; and this knowl- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">edge demands our time and attention.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The mental stages of crime, which seem to belong to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the latter days, are strictly classified in metaphysics as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">some of the many features and forms of what is properly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">denominated, in extreme cases, moral idiocy. I visited [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in his cell the assassin of President Garfield, and found</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">him in the mental state called moral idiocy. He had no</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense of his crime; but regarded his act as one of simple</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">justice, and himself as the victim. My few words touched</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">him; he sank back in his chair, limp and pale; his flip- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pancy had fled. The jailer thanked me, and said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Other</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">visitors have brought to him bouquets, but you have</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">brought what will do him good.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This mental disease at first shows itself in extreme</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sensitiveness; then, in a loss of self-knowledge and of [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">self-condemnation,—a shocking inability to see one's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">own faults, but an exaggerating sense of other people's.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Unless this mental condition be overcome, it ends in a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">total loss of moral, intellectual, and spiritual discernment,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and is characterized in this Scripture: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The fool hath</span> [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">said in his heart, There is no God.”</span> This state of mind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is the exemplification of total depravity, and the result</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page113">[pg 113]</span><a name="Pg113" id="Pg113" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of sensuous mind in matter. Mind that is God is not in [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">matter; and God's presence gives spiritual light, wherein</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is no darkness.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If, as is indisputably true, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“God is Spirit,”</span> and Spirit</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is our Father and Mother, and that which it includes is [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all that is real and eternal, when evil seems to predomi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nate and divine light to be obscured, free moral agency</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is lost; and the Revelator's vision, that <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“no man might</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">beast, or the number of his name,”</span> is imminent. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whoever is mentally manipulating human mind, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is not gaining a higher sense of Truth by it, is losing in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the scale of moral and spiritual being, and may be car-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ried to the depths of perdition by his own consent. He</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who refuses to be influenced by any but the divine Mind, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">commits his way to God, and rises superior to sugges-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tions from an evil source. Christian Science shows that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">there is a way of escape from the latter-day ultimatum</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of evil, through scientific truth; so that all are without</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">excuse. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Already I clearly recognize that mental malpractice,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">if persisted in, will end in insanity, dementia, or moral</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">idiocy. Thank God! this evil can be resisted by true</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christianity. Divine Love is our hope, strength, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shield. We have nothing to fear when Love is at the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">helm of thought, but everything to enjoy on earth and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in heaven.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The systematized centres of Christian Science are life-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">giving fountains of truth. Our churches, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">The Christian</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Science Journal</span></span>, and the +<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Christian Science Quarterly</span></span>, [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are prolific sources of spiritual power whose intellectual,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">moral, and spiritual animus is felt throughout the land.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page114">[pg 114]</span><a name="Pg114" id="Pg114" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Our Publishing Society, and our Sunday Lessons, are [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of inestimable value to all seekers after Truth. The Com-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mittee on Sunday School Lessons cannot give too much</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">time and attention to their task, and should spare no</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">research in the preparation of the <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Quarterly</span></span> as an +educa- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tional branch.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The teachers of Christian Science need to watch inces-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">santly the trend of their own thoughts; watch that these</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be not secretly robbed, and themselves misguided, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">so made to misteach others. Teachers must conform [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strictly to the rules of divine Science announced in the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Bible and their textbook, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and Health with Key</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">to the Scriptures.”</span> They must themselves practise, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">teach others to practise, the Hebrew Decalogue, the Ser-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mon on the Mount, and the understanding and enuncia- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion of these according to Christ.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They must always have on armor, and resist the foe</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">within and without. They cannot arm too thoroughly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">against original sin, appearing in its myriad forms: pass-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sion, appetites, hatred, revenge, and all the <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">et cetera</span></span> of +[20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil. Christian Scientists cannot watch too sedulously,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or bar their doors too closely, or pray to God too fer-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vently, for deliverance from the claims of evil. Thus</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">doing, Scientists will silence evil suggestions, uncover</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">their methods, and stop their hidden influence upon the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lives of mortals. Rest assured that God in His wisdom</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will test all mankind on all questions; and then, if found</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">faithful, He will deliver us from temptation and show us</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the powerlessness of evil,—even its utter nothingness.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The teacher in Christian Science who does not spe- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cially instruct his pupils how to guard against evil and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its silent modes, and to be able, through Christ, the liv-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page115">[pg 115]</span><a name="Pg115" id="Pg115" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing Truth, to protect themselves therefrom, is commit- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ting an offense against God and humanity. With Science</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and Health for their textbook, I am astounded at the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">apathy of some students on the subject of sin and mental</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">malpractice, and their culpable ignorance of the work- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing of these—and even the teacher's own deficiency in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this department. I can account for this state of mind in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the teacher only as the result of sin; otherwise, his own</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">guilt as a mental malpractitioner, and fear of being found</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The helpless ignorance of the community on this sub-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ject is pitiable, and plain to be seen. May God enable</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my students to take up the cross as I have done, and meet</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the pressing need of a proper preparation of heart to prac-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tise, teach, and live Christian Science! Your means of [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">protection and defense from sin are, constant watchful-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness and prayer that you enter not into temptation and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are delivered from every claim of evil, till you intelligently</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">know and demonstrate, in Science, that evil has neither</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">prestige, power, nor existence, since God, good, is All- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in-all.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The increasing necessity for relying on God to de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fend us against the subtler forms of evil, turns us more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unreservedly to Him for help, and thus becomes a means</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of grace. If one lives rightly, every effort to hurt one [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will only help that one; for God will give the ability to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">overcome whatever tends to impede progress. Know</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this: that you cannot overcome the baneful effects of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sin on yourself, if you in any way indulge in sin; for,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sooner or later, you will fall the victim of your own as [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">well as of others' sins. Using mental power in the right</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">direction only, doing to others as you would have them</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page116">[pg 116]</span><a name="Pg116" id="Pg116" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">do to you, will overcome evil with good, and destroy [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">your own sensitiveness to the power of evil.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The God of all grace be with you, and save you from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“spiritual wickedness in high places.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Pleasant View, Concord</span></span>, N. H., [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">June 3, 1895</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc24" id="toc24"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Address Before The Christian Scientist Association +Of The Massachusetts Metaphysical College, +In 1893</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Subject</span></span>: <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Obedience</span></span> [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">My Beloved Students</span></span>:—This question, ever nearest</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to my heart, is to-day uppermost: Are we filling the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">measures of life's music aright, emphasizing its grand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strains, swelling the harmony of being with tones whence</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">come glad echoes? As <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">crescendo</span></span> +and <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">diminuendo</span></span> accent [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">music, so the varied strains of human chords express</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">life's loss or gain,—loss of the pleasures and pains and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pride of life: gain of its sweet concord, the courage of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">honest convictions, and final obedience to spiritual law.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The ultimate of scientific research and attainment in [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine Science is not an argument: it is not merely say-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing, but doing, the Word—demonstrating Truth—even</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as the fruits of watchfulness, prayer, struggles, tears, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">triumph.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Obeying the divine Principle which you profess to un- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">derstand and love, demonstrates Truth. Never absent</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from your post, never off guard, never ill-humored, never</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unready to work for God,—is obedience; being <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“faith-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">ful over a few things.”</span> If in one instance obedience be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lacking, you lose the scientific rule and its reward: namely, [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page117">[pg 117]</span><a name="Pg117" id="Pg117" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to be made <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“ruler over many things.”</span> A progressive [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">life is the reality of Life that unfolds its immortal Prin-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ciple.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The student of Christian Science must first separate the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tares from the wheat; discern between the thought, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">motive, and act superinduced by the wrong motive or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the true—the God-given intent and volition—arrest</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the former, and obey the latter. This will place him on</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the safe side of practice. We always know where to look</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for the real Scientist, and always find him there. I agree [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with Rev. Dr. Talmage, that <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“there are wit, humor, and</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">enduring vivacity among God's people.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Obedience is the offspring of Love; and Love is the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Principle of unity, the basis of all right thinking and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">acting; it fulfils the law. We see eye to eye and know as we [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are known, reciprocate kindness and work wisely, in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">proportion as we love.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is difficult for me to carry out a divine commission</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">while participating in the movements, or <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">modus operandi</span></span>,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of other folks. To point out every step to a student and [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">then watch that each step be taken, consumes time,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and experiments ofttimes are costly. According to my</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">calendar, God's time and mortals' differ. The neo-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">phyte is inclined to be too fast or too slow: he works</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">somewhat in the dark; and, sometimes out of season, [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he would replenish his lamp at the midnight hour and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">borrow oil of the more provident watcher. God is the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fountain of light, and He illumines one's way when one</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is obedient. The disobedient make their moves before</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God makes His, or make them too late to follow Him. [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Be sure that God <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">directs</span></em> your way; then, hasten to follow</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">under every circumstance.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page118">[pg 118]</span><a name="Pg118" id="Pg118" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Human will must be subjugated. We cannot obey [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">both God, good, and evil,—in other words, the ma-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">terial senses, false suggestions, self-will, selfish motives,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and human policy. We shall have no faith in evil</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">when faith finds a resting-place and scientific under- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">standing guides man. Honesty in every condition,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">under every circumstance, is the indispensable rule of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">obedience. To obey the principle of mathematics ninety-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nine times in one hundred and then allow one numeral</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to make incorrect your entire problem, is neither Science [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nor obedience.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">However keenly the human affections yearn to for-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">give a mistake, and pass a friend over it smoothly, one's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sympathy can neither atone for error, advance individual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">growth, nor change this immutable decree of Love: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Keep</span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">My commandments.”</span> The guerdon of meritorious</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">faith or trustworthiness rests on being willing to work</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">alone with God and for Him,—willing to suffer patiently</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for error until all error is destroyed and His rod and His</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">staff comfort you. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Self-ignorance, self-will, self-righteousness, lust, covet-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ousness, envy, revenge, are foes to grace, peace, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">progress; they must be met manfully and overcome,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or they will uproot all happiness. Be of good cheer;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the warfare with one's self is grand; it gives one plenty [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of employment, and the divine Principle worketh with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you,—and obedience crowns persistent effort with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">everlasting victory. Every attempt of evil to harm good</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is futile, and ends in the fiery punishment of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil-doer. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Not that which goeth into the mouth</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth,</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page119">[pg 119]</span><a name="Pg119" id="Pg119" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">this defileth a man.”</span> If malicious suggestions whisper [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil through the mind's tympanum, this were no apology</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for acting evilly. We are responsible for our thoughts and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">acts; and instead of aiding other people's devices by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">obeying them,—and then whining over misfortune,— [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rise and overthrow both. If a criminal coax the unwary</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man to commit a crime, our laws punish the dupe as ac-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cessory to the fact. Each individual is responsible for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">himself.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Evil is impotent to turn the righteous man from his [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">uprightness. The nature of the individual, more stub-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">born than the circumstance, will always be found argu-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing for itself,—its habits, tastes, and indulgences. This</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">material nature strives to tip the beam against the spir-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">itual nature; for the flesh strives against Spirit,—against [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whatever or whoever opposes evil,—and weighs mightily</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the scale against man's high destiny. This conclusion</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is not an argument either for pessimism or for optimism,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but is a plea for free moral agency,—full exemption</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from all necessity to obey a power that should be and is [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">found powerless in Christian Science.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Insubordination to the law of Love even in the least,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or strict obedience thereto, tests and discriminates be-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tween the real and the unreal Scientist. Justice, a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">prominent statute in the divine law, demands of all [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">trespassers upon the sparse individual rights which one</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">justly reserves to one's self,—Would you consent that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">others should tear up your landmarks, manipulate your</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">students, nullify or reverse your rules, countermand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">your orders, steal your possessions, and escape the [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">penalty therefor? No! <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Therefore all things what-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">soever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page120">[pg 120]</span><a name="Pg120" id="Pg120" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">so to them.”</span> The professors of Christian Science must [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">take off their shoes at our altars; they must unclasp</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the material sense of things at the very threshold of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science: they must obey implicitly each and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">every injunction of the divine Principle of life's long [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">problem, or repeat their work in tears. In the words</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of St. Paul, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Know ye not, that to whom ye yield your-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">selves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">obey; whether of sin unto death, or of <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">obedience</span></em> unto</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">righteousness?”</span> [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Beloved students, loyal laborers are ye that have wrought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">valiantly, and achieved great guerdons in the vineyard</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of our Lord; but a mighty victory is yet to be won, a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">great freedom for the race; and Christian success is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">under arms,—with armor on, not laid down. Let us [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rejoice, however, that the clarion call of peace will at</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">length be heard above the din of battle, and come more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sweetly to our ear than sound of vintage bells to villagers</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on the Rhine.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I recommend that this Association hereafter meet tri- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ennially; many of its members reside a long distance from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Massachusetts, and they are members of The Mother</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Church who would love to be with you on Sunday, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">once in three years is perhaps as often as they can afford</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to be away from their own fields of labor. [25]</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc25" id="toc25"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Communion Address, January, 1896</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Friends and Brethren:</span></span>—The Biblical record of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">great Nazarene, whose character we to-day commemorate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is scanty; but what is given, puts to flight every doubt as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the immortality of his words and works. Though [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page121">[pg 121]</span><a name="Pg121" id="Pg121" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">written in a decaying language, his words can never pass [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">away: they are inscribed upon the hearts of men: they</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are engraved upon eternity's tablets.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Undoubtedly our Master partook of the Jews' feast</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the Passover, and drank from their festal wine-cup. [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This, however, is not the cup to which I call your at-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tention,—even the cup of martyrdom: wherein Spirit</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and matter, good and evil, seem to grapple, and the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human struggles against the divine, up to a point of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">discovery; namely, the impotence of evil, and the om- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nipotence of good, as divinely attested. Anciently, the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">blood of martyrs was believed to be the seed of the Church.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Stalled theocracy would make this fatal doctrine just</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and sovereign, even a divine decree, a law of Love! That</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the innocent shall suffer for the guilty, is inhuman. The [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">prophet declared, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou shalt put away the guilt of</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">innocent blood from Israel.”</span> This is plain: that what-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ever belittles, befogs, or belies the nature and essence of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Deity, is not divine. Who, then, shall father or favor</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this sentence passed upon innocence? thereby giving the [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">signet of God to the arrest, trial, and crucifixion of His</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">beloved Son, the righteous Nazarene,—christened by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">John the Baptist, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the Lamb of God.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Oh! shameless insult to divine royalty, that drew</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the great Master this answer to the questions of the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rabbinical rabble: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“If I tell you, ye will not believe; and</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">if I also ask you, ye will not answer me, nor let me go.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Infinitely greater than human pity, is divine Love,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that cannot be unmerciful. Human tribunals, if just,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">borrow their sense of justice from the divine Principle [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thereof, which punishes the guilty, not the innocent. The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Teacher of both law and gospel construed the substitution</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page122">[pg 122]</span><a name="Pg122" id="Pg122" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of a good man to suffer for evil-doers—a <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">crime</span></em>! When [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">foretelling his own crucifixion, he said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Woe unto the</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">world because of offenses! for it must needs be that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">cometh!”</span> [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Would Jesus thus have spoken of what was indis-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pensable for the salvation of a world of sinners, or of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">individual instrument in this holy (?) alliance for accom-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">plishing such a monstrous work? or have said of him</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whom God foreordained and predestined to fulfil a divine [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">decree, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“It were better for him that a millstone were</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">depth of the sea”</span>?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The divine order is the acme of mercy: it is neither</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">questionable nor assailable: it is not evil producing good, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nor good ultimating in evil. Such an inference were</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">impious. Holy Writ denounces him that declares, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Let</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">us do evil, that good may come! whose damnation is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">just.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Good is not educed from its opposite: and Love divine [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spurned, lessens not the hater's hatred nor the criminal's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">crime; nor reconciles justice to injustice; nor substitutes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the suffering of the Godlike for the suffering due to sin.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Neither spiritual bankruptcy nor a religious chancery can</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">win high heaven, or the <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Well done, good and faithful</span> [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">servant,... enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Divine Love knows no hate; for hate, or the hater, is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nothing: God never made it, and He made all that was</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">made. The hater's pleasures are unreal; his sufferings,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">self-imposed; his existence is a parody, and he ends— [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with suicide.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The murder of the just Nazarite was incited by the</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page123">[pg 123]</span><a name="Pg123" id="Pg123" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">same spirit that in our time massacres our missionaries, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">butchers the helpless Armenians, slaughters innocents.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Evil was, and is, the illusion of breaking the First Com-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mandment, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou shalt have no other gods before me:”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it is either idolizing something and somebody, or hating [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">them: it is the spirit of idolatry, envy, jealousy, covet-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ousness, superstition, lust, hypocrisy, <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">witchcraft</span></em>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That man can break the forever-law of infinite Love,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">was, and is, the serpent's biggest lie! and ultimates in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a religion of pagan priests bloated with crime; a religion [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that demands human victims to be sacrificed to human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">passions and human gods, or tortured to appease the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">anger of a so-called god or a miscalled man or woman!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Assyrian Merodach, or the god of sin, was the <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“lucky</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">god;”</span> and the Babylonian Yawa, or Jehovah, was the [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jewish tribal deity. The <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Christian's</span></em> God is neither, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is too pure to behold iniquity.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Divine Science has rolled away the stone from the sepul-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">chre of our Lord; and there has risen to the awakened</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thought the majestic atonement of divine Love. The [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at-one-ment with Christ has appeared—not through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vicarious suffering, whereby the just obtain a pardon for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the unjust,—but through the eternal law of justice;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wherein sinners suffer for their own sins, repent, forsake</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sin, love God, and keep His commandments, thence to [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">receive the reward of righteousness: salvation from sin,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not through the <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">death</span></em> of a man, but through a divine +<em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Life</span></em>,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">which is our Redeemer.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Holy Writ declares that God is Love, is Spirit; hence</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it follows that those who worship Him, must worship [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Him spiritually,—far apart from physical sensation</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">such as attends eating and drinking corporeally. It is</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page124">[pg 124]</span><a name="Pg124" id="Pg124" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">plain that aught unspiritual, intervening between God [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and man, would tend to disturb the divine order, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">countermand the Scripture that those who worship the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Father must worship Him in spirit. It is also plain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that we should not seek and cannot find God in mat- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ter, or through material methods; neither do we love</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and obey Him by means of matter, or the flesh,—which</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">warreth against Spirit, and will not be reconciled</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thereto.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We turn, with sickened sense, from a pagan Jew's [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or Moslem's misconception of Deity, for peace; and find</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rest in the spiritual ideal, or Christ. For <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“who is so</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">great a God as our God!”</span> unchangeable, all-wise, all-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">just, all-merciful; the ever-loving, ever-living Life, Truth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love: comforting such as mourn, opening the prison [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">doors to the captive, marking the unwinged bird, pitying</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with more than a father's pity; healing the sick, cleansing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the leper, raising the dead, saving sinners. As we think</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thereon, man's true sense is filled with peace, and power;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and we say, It is well that Christian Science has taken [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">expressive silence wherein to muse His praise, to kiss the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">feet of Jesus, adore the white Christ, and stretch out our</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">arms to God.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The last act of the tragedy on Calvary rent the veil</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of matter, and unveiled Love's great legacy to mortals: [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Love forgiving its enemies</span></em>. This grand act crowned</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and still crowns Christianity: it manumits mortals; it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">translates love; it gives to suffering, inspiration; to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">patience, experience; to experience, hope; to hope, faith;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to faith, understanding; and to understanding, Love tri- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">umphant!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In proportion to a man's spiritual progress, he will</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page125">[pg 125]</span><a name="Pg125" id="Pg125" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">indeed drink of our Master's cup, and be baptized with [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his baptism! be purified as by fire,—the fires of suffering;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">then hath he part in Love's atonement, for <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“whom the</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Lord loveth He chasteneth.”</span> Then shall he also reign</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with him: he shall rise to know that there is no sin, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that there is no suffering; since all that is <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">real</span></em> is +<em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">right</span></em>.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This knowledge enables him to overcome the world, the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">flesh, and all evil, to have dominion over his own sinful</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense and self. Then shall he drink anew Christ's cup,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the kingdom of God—the reign of righteousness— [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">within him; he shall sit down at the Father's right hand:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">sit down</span></em>; not stand waiting and weary; but rest on the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bosom of God; rest, in the understanding of divine Love</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that passeth all understanding; rest, in that which <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“to</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">know aright is Life eternal,”</span> and whom, not having seen, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">we love.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then shall he press on to Life's long lesson, the eternal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lore of Love; and learn forever the infinite meanings of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">these short sentences: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“God is Love;”</span> and, All that is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">real is divine, for God is All-in-all. [20]</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc26" id="toc26"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Message To The Annual Meeting Of The Mother +Church, Boston, 1896</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Beloved Brethren, Children, and Grandchildren</span></span>:—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Apart from the common walks of mankind, revolving</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">oft the hitherto untouched problems of being, and [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">oftener, perhaps, the controversies which baffle it,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mother, thought-tired, turns to-day to you; turns to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">her dear church, to tell the towers thereof the remarkable</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">achievements that have been ours within the past few</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">years: the rapid transit from halls to churches, from un- [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page126">[pg 126]</span><a name="Pg126" id="Pg126" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">settled questions to permanence, from danger to escape, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from fragmentary discourses to one eternal sermon; yea,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from darkness to daylight, in physics and metaphysics.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truly, I half wish for society again; for once, at least,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to hear the soft music of our Sabbath chimes saluting the [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ear in tones that leap for joy, with love for God and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who hath not learned that when alone he has his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">own thoughts to guard, and when struggling with man-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">kind his temper, and in society his tongue? We also [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have gained higher heights; have learned that trials lift</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">us to that dignity of Soul which sustains us, and finally</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">conquers them; and that the ordeal refines while it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">chastens.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Perhaps our church is not yet quite sensible of what [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">we owe to the strength, meekness, honesty, and obedi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ence of the Christian Science Board of Directors; to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the able editors of <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">The Christian Science Journal</span></span>, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to our efficient Publishing Society.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">No reproof is so potent as the silent lesson of a good [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">example. Works, more than words, should characterize</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Scientists. Most people condemn evil-doing,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil-speaking; yet nothing circulates so rapidly: even gold</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is less current. Christian Scientists have a strong race to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">run, and foes in ambush; but bear in mind that, in the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">long race, honesty always defeats dishonesty.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God hath indeed smiled on my church,—this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">daughter of Zion: she sitteth in high places; and to de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ride her is to incur the penalty of which the Hebrew</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bard spake after this manner: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“He that sitteth in the</span> [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">derision.”</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page127">[pg 127]</span><a name="Pg127" id="Pg127" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hitherto, I have observed that in proportion as this [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">church has smiled on His <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“little ones,”</span> He has blessed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">her. Throughout my entire connection with The Mother</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Church, I have seen, that in the ratio of her love for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">others, hath His love been bestowed upon her; watering [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">her waste places, and enlarging her borders.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">One thing I have greatly desired, and again earnestly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">request, namely, that Christian Scientists, here and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">elsewhere, pray daily for themselves; not verbally, nor</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on bended knee, but mentally, meekly, and importu- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nately. When a hungry heart petitions the divine Father-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mother God for bread, it is not given a stone,—but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">more grace, obedience, and love. If this heart, humble</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and trustful, faithfully asks divine Love to feed it with the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bread of heaven, health, holiness, it will be conformed to [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a fitness to receive the answer to its desire; then will flow</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">into it the <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“river of His pleasure,”</span> the tributary of divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love, and great growth in Christian Science will follow,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">even that joy which finds one's own in another's good.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To love, and to be loved, one must do good to others. [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The inevitable condition whereby to become blessed, is to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bless others: but here, you must so know yourself, under</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God's direction, that you will do His will even though</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">your pearls be downtrodden. Ofttimes the rod is His</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">means of grace; then it must be ours,—we cannot avoid [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wielding it if we reflect Him.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wise sayings and garrulous talk may fall to the ground,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rather than on the ear or heart of the hearer; but a tender</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sentiment felt, or a kind word spoken, at the right moment,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is never wasted. Mortal mind presents phases of charac- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ter which need close attention and examination. The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human heart, like a feather bed, needs often to be <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">stirred</span></em>,</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page128">[pg 128]</span><a name="Pg128" id="Pg128" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sometimes roughly, and given a variety of <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">turns</span></em>, else it [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">grows hard and uncomfortable whereon to repose.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The lessons of this so-called life in matter are too vast</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and varied to learn or to teach briefly; and especially</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">within the limits of a letter. Therefore I close here, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with the apostle's injunction: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Finally, brethren, what-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">soever things are true, whatsoever things are honest,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">praise, think on these things. Those things, which ye</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With love, Mother,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Baker G. Eddy</span></span></div> +</div> + +</div> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page129">[pg 129]</span><a name="Pg129" id="Pg129" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc27" id="toc27"></a> +<a name="pdf28" id="pdf28"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Chapter V. Letters.</span></h1> + + + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc29" id="toc29"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To The Mother Church.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My Beloved Brethren:—If a member of the church</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is inclined to be uncharitable, or to condemn his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">brother without cause, let him put his finger to his lips,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and forgive others as he would <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">be</span></em> forgiven. One's first [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lesson is to learn one's self; having done this, one will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">naturally, through grace from God, forgive his brother and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">love his enemies. To avenge an imaginary or an actual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wrong, is suicidal. The law of our God and the rule of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">our church is to tell thy brother his fault and thereby help [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">him. If this rule fails in effect, then take the next Scrip-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tural step: drop this member's name from the church, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thereafter <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“let the dead bury their dead,”</span>—let silence</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">prevail over his remains.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If a man is jealous, envious, or revengeful, he will seek [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">occasion to balloon an atom of another man's indis-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cretion, inflate it, and send it into the atmosphere of mortal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mind—for other green eyes to gaze on: he will always</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">find somebody in his way, and try to push him aside;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will see somebody's faults to magnify under the lens that [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he never turns on himself.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What have been your Leader's precepts and example!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Were they to save the sinner, and to spare his exposure</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page130">[pg 130]</span><a name="Pg130" id="Pg130" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">so long as a hope remained of thereby benefiting him? [1]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Has her life exemplified long-suffering, meekness, charity,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">purity?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">She readily leaves the answer to those who know</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">her. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Do we yet understand how much better it is to be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wronged, than to commit wrong? What do we find in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Bible, and in the Christian Science textbook, on this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">subject? Does not the latter instruct you that looking</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">continually for a fault in somebody else, talking about it, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thinking it over, and how to meet it,—<span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“rolling sin as a</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">sweet morsel under your tongue,”</span>—has the same power</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to make you a sinner that acting thus regarding disease</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">has to make a man sick? Note the Scripture on this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">subject: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the</span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Lord.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Christian Science Board of Directors has borne</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the burden in the heat of the day, and it ought not to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be expected that they could have accomplished, without</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one single mistake, such Herculean tasks as they have [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">accomplished. He who judges others should know well</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whereof he speaks. Where the motive to do right exists,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the majority of one's acts are right, we should avoid</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">referring to past mistakes. The greatest sin that one can</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">commit against himself is to wrong one of God's <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“little</span> [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">ones.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Know ye not that he who exercises the largest charity,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and waits on God, renews his strength, and is exalted?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love is not puffed up; and the meek and loving, God</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">anoints and appoints to lead the line of mankind's tri- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">umphal march out of the wilderness, out of darkness</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">into light.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page131">[pg 131]</span><a name="Pg131" id="Pg131" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whoever challenges the errors of others and cherishes [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his own, can neither help himself nor others; he will be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">called a moral nuisance, a fungus, a microbe, a mouse</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gnawing at the vitals of humanity. The darkness in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one's self must first be cast out, in order rightly to discern [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">darkness or to reflect light.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If the man of more than average avoirdupois kneels on</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a stool in church, let the leaner sort console this brother's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">necessity by doing likewise. Christian Scientists preserve</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unity, and so shadow forth the substance of our sublime [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">faith, and the evidence of its being built upon the rock of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine oneness,—one faith, one God, one baptism.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If our Board of Directors is prepared to itemize a report</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the first financial year since the erection of the edifice of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The First Church of Christ, Scientist, let it do so; other- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wise, I recommend that you waive the church By-law</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">relating to finances this year of your firstfruits. This</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Board did not act under that By-law; it was not in ex-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">istence all of the year. It is but just to consider the great</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">struggles with perplexities and difficulties which the [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Directors encountered in Anno Domini 1894, and which</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they have overcome. May God give unto us all that loving</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense of gratitude which delights in the opportunity to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cancel accounts. I, for one, would be pleased to have the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science Board of Directors itemize a bill of this [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">church's gifts to Mother; and then to have them let her</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">state the value thereof, if, indeed, it could be estimated.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">After this financial year, when you call on the members</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the Christian Science Board of Directors to itemize or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">audit their accounts, these will be found already itemized, [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and last year's records immortalized, with perils past and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">victories won.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page132">[pg 132]</span><a name="Pg132" id="Pg132" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A motion was made, and a vote passed, at your last [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">meeting, on a subject the substance whereof you had al-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ready accepted as a By-law. But, I shall take this as a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">favorable omen, a fair token that heavy lids are opening,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">even wider than before, to the light of Love—and By-laws. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Affectionately yours,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Baker Eddy</span></span></div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc30" id="toc30"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To ——, On Prayer.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Massachusetts Metaphysical College,</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">571 Columbus Avenue,</span></span> [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Boston</span></span>, March 21, 1885</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Dear Sir</span></span>:—In your communication to +<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Zion's Herald</span></span>,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">March 18, under the heading, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Prayer and Healing; sup-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">plemental,”</span> you state that you would <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“like to hear +from</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Dr. Cullis; and, by the way, from Mrs. Eddy, also.”</span> [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Because of the great demand upon my time, consisting</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in part of dictating answers through my secretary, or an-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">swering personally manifold letters and inquiries from all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quarters,—having charge of a church, editing a maga-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">zine, teaching Christian Science, receiving calls, etc.,—I [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">find it inconvenient to accept your invitation to answer</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you through the medium of a newspaper; but, for infor-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mation as to what I believe and teach, would refer you to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Holy Scriptures, to my various publications, and to my</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian students. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It was with a thrill of pleasure that I read in your arti-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cle these words: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“If we have in any way misrepresented</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">either Dr. Cullis or Mrs. Eddy, we are sorry.”</span> Even the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">desire to be just is a vital spark of Christianity. And those</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">words inspire me with the hope that you wish to be just. [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page133">[pg 133]</span><a name="Pg133" id="Pg133" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If this is so, you will not delay corrections of the statement [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you make at the close of your article, when referring to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">me, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the pantheistic and prayerless Mrs. Eddy, of Boston.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It would be difficult to build a sentence of so few words</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">conveying ideas more opposite to the fact. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In refutation of your statement that I am a pantheist,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I request you to read my sermons and publications.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As to being <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“prayerless,”</span> I call your attention and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">deep consideration to the following Scripture, that voices</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my impressions of prayer:— [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“When thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men....</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">shall reward thee openly.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I hope I am not wrong in literally following the dictum</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Jesus; and, were it not because of my desire to set</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you right on this question, I should feel a delicacy in mak- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing the following statement:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Three times a day, I retire to seek the divine blessing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on the sick and sorrowing, with my face toward the Jeru-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">salem of Love and Truth, in silent prayer to the Father</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">which <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“seeth in secret,”</span> and with childlike confidence that [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He will reward <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“openly.”</span> In the midst of depressing care</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and labor I turn constantly to divine Love for guidance,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and find rest. It affords me great joy to be able to attest to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the truth of Jesus' words. Love makes all burdens light,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it giveth a peace that passeth understanding, and with [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“signs following.”</span> As to the peace, it is unutterable; as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“signs,”</span> behold the sick who are healed, the sorrowful</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page134">[pg 134]</span><a name="Pg134" id="Pg134" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who are made hopeful, and the sinful and ignorant who [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have become <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“wise unto salvation”</span>!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And now, dear sir, as you have expressed contrition for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">an act which you have immediately repeated, you are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">placed in this dilemma: To reiterate such words of [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">apology as characterize justice and Christianity.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Very truly,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Baker G. Eddy</span></span></div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc31" id="toc31"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To The National Christian Scientist Association.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Beloved Students</span></span>:—Meet together and meet +<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">en masse</span></span>, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in 1888, at the annual session of the National Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scientist Association. Be <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“of one mind,”</span> <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“in one place,”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and God will pour you out a blessing such as you never</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">before received. He who dwelleth in eternal light is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bigger than the shadow, and will guard and guide His [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">own.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let no consideration bend or outweigh your purpose</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to be in Chicago on June 13. Firm in your allegiance to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the reign of universal harmony, go to its rescue. In God's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hour, the powers of earth and hell are proven powerless. [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The reeling ranks of <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">materia medica</span></span>, with poisons, nos-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">trums, and knives, are impotent when at war with the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">omnipotent! Like Elisha, look up, and behold: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“They</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">that be with us, are more than they that be with them.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Error is only fermenting, and its heat hissing at the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“still, small voice”</span> of Truth; but it can neither silence</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nor disarm God's voice. Spiritual wickedness is stand-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing in high places; but, blind to its own fate, it will tumble</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">into the bottomless.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page135">[pg 135]</span><a name="Pg135" id="Pg135" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christians, and all <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">true</span></em> Scientists, marching under what- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">soever ensign, come into the ranks! Again I repeat, per-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">son is not in the question of Christian Science. Principle,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">instead of person, is next to our hearts, on our lips, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in our lives. Our watchwords are Truth and Love; and [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">if we abide in these, they will abound in us, and we shall</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be one in heart,—one in motive, purpose, pursuit. Abid-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing in Love, not one of you can be separated from me; and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the sweet sense of journeying on together, doing unto</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">others as ye would they should do unto you, conquers all [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">opposition, surmounts all obstacles, and secures success.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If you falter, or fail to fulfil this Golden Rule, though you</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">should build to the heavens, you would build on sand.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Is it a cross to give one week's time and expense to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">jubilee of Spirit? Then take this cross, and the crown [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with it. Sending forth currents of Truth, God's methods</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and means of healing, and so spreading the gospel of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love, is in itself an eternity of joy that outweighs an</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hour. Add one more noble offering to the unity of good,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and so cement the bonds of Love. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With love,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Baker Eddy</span></span></div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc32" id="toc32"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To The College Association.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Letter read at the meeting of the Massachusetts Metaphysical</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">College Association, June 3, 1891. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">To the Members of the Christian Scientists' Association +of</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">the Massachusetts Metaphysical College</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">My Beloved Students</span></span>:—You may be looking to see me</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in my accustomed place with you, but this you must no</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page136">[pg 136]</span><a name="Pg136" id="Pg136" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">longer expect. When I retired from the field of labor, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it was a departure, socially, publicly, and finally, from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the routine of such material modes as society and our</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">societies demand. Rumors are rumors,—nothing more.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I am still with you on the field of battle, taking forward [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">marches, broader and higher views, and with the hope</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that you will follow.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The eternal and infinite, already brought to your</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">earnest consideration, so grow upon my vision that I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cannot feel justified in turning aside for one hour from [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">contemplation of them and of the faith unfeigned.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When the verities of being seem to you as to me,—as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they must some time,—you will understand the neces-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sity for my seclusion, and its fulfilment of divine order.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye sepa-</span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">rate, saith the Lord.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All our thoughts should be given to the absolute</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demonstration of Christian Science. You can well</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">afford to give me up, since you have in my last re-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vised edition of Science and Health your teacher and [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">guide.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I recommend that the June session of this honorable</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">body shall close your meetings for the summer; also, that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hereafter you hold three sessions annually, convening</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">once in four months; oftener is not requisite, and the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">members coming from a distance will be accommodated</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by this arrangement.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Yours affectionately,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary B. G. Eddy</span></span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page137">[pg 137]</span><a name="Pg137" id="Pg137" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc33" id="toc33"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To The National Christian Scientist Association.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">My Dear Students and Friends</span></span>:—Accept my thanks</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for your card of invitation, your badge, and order of exer-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cise, all of which are complete.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When I gave you a meagre reception in Boston at the [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">close of the first convention of the National Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scientist Association, it was simply to give you the privi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lege, poor as it was, of speaking a few words aside to your</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">teacher. I remember my regret, when, having asked in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">general assembly if you had any questions to propose, I [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">received no reply. Since then you have doubtless realized</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that such opportunity might have been improved; but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that time has passed.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I greatly rejoice over the growth of my students within</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the last few years. It was kind of you to part so gently [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with the protecting wings of the mother-bird, and to spread</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">your own so bravely. Now, dear ones, if you take my</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">advice again, you will do—what?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Even this: Disorganize the National Christian Scientist</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Association! and each one return to his place of [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">labor, to work out individually and alone, for himself and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for others, the sublime ends of human life.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To accomplish this, you must give much time to self-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">examination and correction; you must control appetite,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">passion, pride, envy, evil-speaking, resentment, and each [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one of the innumerable errors that worketh or maketh</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a lie. Then you can give to the world the benefit of all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this, and heal and teach with increased confidence. My</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">students can <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">now</span></em> organize their students into associa-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tions, form churches, and hold these organizations of their [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page138">[pg 138]</span><a name="Pg138" id="Pg138" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">own,—until, in turn, their students will sustain them- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">selves and work for others.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The time it takes yearly to prepare for this national</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">convention is worse than wasted, if it causes thought to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wander in the wilderness or ways of the world. The de- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tail of conforming to society, in any way, costs you what</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it would to give time and attention to hygiene in your</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ministry and healing.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For students to work together is not always to co-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">operate, but sometimes to coelbow! Each student should [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">seek alone the guidance of our common Father—even</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the divine Principle which he claims to demonstrate,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and especially should he prove his faith by works, ethi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cally, physically, and spiritually. Remember that the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">first and last lesson of Christian Science is love, perfect [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">love, and love made perfect through the cross.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I once thought that in unity was human strength; but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have grown to know that human strength is weakness,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that unity is divine might, giving to human power, peace.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My counsel is applicable to the state of general growth [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the members of the National Christian Scientist Asso-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ciation, but it is not so adapted to the members of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">students' organizations. And wherefore? Because the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">growth of these at first is more gradual; but whenever</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they are equal to the march triumphant, God will give [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to all His soldiers of the cross the proper command, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">under the banner of His love, and with the <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“still, small</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">voice”</span> for the music of our march, we all shall take step</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and march on in spiritual organization.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Your loving teacher, [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Baker G. Eddy</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Concord, N. H.</span></span>, May 23, 1890</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page139">[pg 139]</span><a name="Pg139" id="Pg139" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">N. B. I recommend this honorable body to adjourn, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">if it does not disorganize, to three years from this date;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or, if it does disorganize, to meet again in three years.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then bring your tithes into the storehouse, and God will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pour you out a blessing such as you even yet have not [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">received.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">M. B. G. E.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc34" id="toc34"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To The First Church Of Christ, Scientist, Boston.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty</span></span> +[10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) casting +down</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against +the</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to +the</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">obedience of Christ.</span></span>—2 <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Cor. x.</span></span> +4, 5.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In April, 1883, I started the <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span> of Christian [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science, with a portion of the above Scripture for its</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">motto.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On December 10, 1889, I gave a lot of land—in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Boston, situated near the beautiful Back Bay Park, now</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">valued at $20,000 and rising in value—for the purpose [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of having erected thereon a church edifice to be called The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Church of Christ, Scientist.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I had this desirable site transferred in a circuitous,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">novel way, at the wisdom whereof a few persons have</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">since scrupled; but to my spiritual perception, like all [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">true wisdom, this transaction will in future be regarded</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as greatly wise, and it will be found that this act was in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">advance of the erring mind's apprehension.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As with all former efforts in the interest of Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science, I took care that the provisions for the land and [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page140">[pg 140]</span><a name="Pg140" id="Pg140" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">building were such as error could not control. I knew [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that to God's gift, foundation and superstructure, no one</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">could hold a wholly material title. The land, and the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">church standing on it, must be conveyed through a type</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">representing the true nature of the gift; a type morally [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and spiritually inalienable, but materially questionable</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">—even after the manner that all spiritual good comes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to Christian Scientists, to the end of taxing their faith</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in God, and their adherence to the superiority of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">claims of Spirit over matter or merely legal titles. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">No one could buy, sell, or mortgage my gift as I had</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it conveyed. Thus the case rested, and I supposed the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">trustee-deed was legal; but this was God's business, not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mine. Our church was prospered by the right hand of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His righteousness, and contributions to the Building Fund [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">generously poured into the treasury. Unity prevailed,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">till mortal man sought to know who owned God's temple,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and adopted and urged only the material side of this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">question.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The lot of land which I donated I redeemed from under [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortgage. The foundation on which our church was to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be built had to be rescued from the grasp of legal power,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and now it must be put back into the arms of Love, if we</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">would not be found fighting against God.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The diviner claim and means for upbuilding the Church [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Christ were prospered. Our title to God's acres will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be safe and sound—when we can <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“read our title clear”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to heavenly mansions. Built on the rock, our church</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will stand the storms of ages: though the material super-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">structure should crumble into dust, the fittest would sur- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vive,—the spiritual idea would live, a perpetual type of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the divine Principle it reflects.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page141">[pg 141]</span><a name="Pg141" id="Pg141" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The First Church of Christ, Scientist, our prayer in [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stone, will be the prophecy fulfilled, the monument up-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reared, of Christian Science. It will speak to you of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mother, and of your hearts' offering to her through whom</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">was revealed to you God's all-power, all-presence, and [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all-science. This building begun, will go up, and no one</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">can suffer from it, for no one can resist the power that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is behind it; and against this church temple <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the gates</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">of hell”</span> cannot prevail.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All loyal Christian Scientists hail with joy this pro- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">posed type of universal Love; not so, however, with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">error, which hates the bonds and methods of Truth, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shudders at the freedom, might, and majesty of Spirit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">—even the annihilating law of Love.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I vindicate both the law of God and the laws of our [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">land. I believe,—yea, I understand,—that with the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spirit of Christ actuating all the parties concerned about</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the legal quibble, it can easily be corrected to the satis-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">faction of all. Let this be speedily done. Do not, I im-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">plore you, stain the early history of Christian Science by [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the impulses of human will and pride; but let the divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will and the nobility of human meekness rule this busi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness transaction, in obedience to the law of Love and the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">laws of our land.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As the ambassador of Christ's teachings, I admonish [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you: Delay not longer to commence building our church</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in Boston; or else return every dollar that you yourselves</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">declare you have had no legal authority for obtaining, to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the several contributors,—and let them, not you, say</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">what shall be done with their money. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of our first church in Boston, O recording angel!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">write: God is in the midst of her: how beautiful are her</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page142">[pg 142]</span><a name="Pg142" id="Pg142" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">feet! how beautiful are her garments! how hath He en- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">larged her borders! how hath He made her wildernesses</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to bud and blossom as the rose!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With love,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Baker Eddy</span></span></div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc35" id="toc35"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To Donors Of Boat, From Toronto, Canada.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Written on receipt of a beautiful boat presented by Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scientists in Toronto, for the little pond at Pleasant View. The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">boat displays, among other beautiful decorations, a number of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">masonic symbols. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Beloved Students and Friends</span></span>:—Accept my thanks</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for the beautiful boat and presentation poem. Each day</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">since they arrived I have said, Let me write to the donors,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">—and what?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My first impression was to indite a poem; my second, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a psalm; my third, a letter. Why the letter alone? Be-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cause your dear hearts expressed in their lovely gift such</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">varying types of true affection, shaded as autumn leaves</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with bright hues of the spiritual, that my Muse lost her</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lightsome lyre, and imagery of thought gave place to [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">chords of feeling too deep for words.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A boat song seemed more Olympian than the psalm in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual strains of the Hebrew bard. So I send my</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">answer in a commonplace letter. Poor return, is it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not? [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The symbols of freemasonry depicted on the boat</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wakened memory, touched tender fibres of thought, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I longed to say to the masonic brothers: If as a woman</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I may not unite with you in freemasonry, nor you with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">me in Christian Science, yet as friends we can feel the [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page143">[pg 143]</span><a name="Pg143" id="Pg143" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">touch of heart to heart and hand to hand, on the broad [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">basis and sure foundation of true friendship's <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“level”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“square”</span> of moral sentiments.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My dear students may have explained to the kind par-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ticipants in beautifying this boat our spiritual points, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">above the plane of matter. If so, I may hope that a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">closer link hath bound us. Across lakes, into a kingdom,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I reach out my hand to clasp yours, with this silent bene-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">diction: May the kingdom of heaven come in each of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">your hearts! [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With love,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Baker Eddy</span></span></div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc36" id="toc36"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Address,—Laying The Corner-Stone.</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Beloved Students</span></span>:—On the 21st day of May, +<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">a.d.</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">1894, with quiet, imposing ceremony, is laid the corner- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stone of <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The First Church of Christ, Scientist,”</span> in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Boston.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It gives me great pleasure to say that you, principally</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Normal class graduates of my College, well known</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">physicians, teachers, editors, and pastors of churches, [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by contributions of one thousand dollars each, husband</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and wife reckoned as one, have, within about three</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">months, donated the munificent sum of forty-two thou-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sand dollars toward building The Mother Church. A</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quiet call from me for this extra contribution, in aid of [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">our Church Building Fund, found you all <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“with one</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">accord in one place.”</span> Each donation came promptly;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sometimes at much self-sacrifice, but always accompanied</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with a touching letter breathing the donor's privileged joy.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page144">[pg 144]</span><a name="Pg144" id="Pg144" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The granite for this church was taken from the quar- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ries in New Hampshire, my native State. The money</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for building <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Mother's Room,”</span> situated in the second</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">story of the tower on the northeast corner of this build-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing, and the name thereof, came from the dear children [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Christian Scientists; a little band called Busy Bees,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">organized by Miss Maurine R. Campbell.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On this memorable day there are laid away a copy of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this address, the subscription list on which appear your</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">several names in your own handwriting, your textbook, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">other works written by the same author, your teacher,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science;<a id="noteref_4" name="noteref_4" href="#note_4"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">4</span></span></a> without</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pomp or pride, laid away as a sacred secret in the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heart of a rock, there to typify the prophecy, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“And a man</span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the tempest; ... as the shadow of a great rock in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">a weary land:”</span> henceforth to whisper our Master's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">promise, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Upon this rock I will build my church; and</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”</span> [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To-day, be this hope in each of our hearts,—precious</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in God's sight as shall be the assembling of His people</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in this temple, sweet as the rest that remaineth for the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">righteous, and fresh as a summer morn,—that, from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">earth's pillows of stone, our visible lives are rising to [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God. As in the history of a seed, so may our earthly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sowing bear fruit that exudes the inspiration of the wine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">poured into the cup of Christ.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To-day I pray that divine Love, the life-giving Prin-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ciple of Christianity, shall speedily wake the long night [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of materialism, and the universal dawn shall break upon</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the spire of this temple. The Church, more than any</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page145">[pg 145]</span><a name="Pg145" id="Pg145" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">other institution, at present is the cement of society, and [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it should be the bulwark of civil and religious liberty.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But the time cometh when the religious element, or Church</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Christ, shall exist alone in the affections, and need no</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">organization to express it. Till then, this form of godli- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness seems as requisite to manifest its spirit, as individ-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">uality to express Soul and substance.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Does a single bosom burn for fame and power? Then</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">when that person shall possess these, let him ask him-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">self, and answer to his name in this corner-stone of our [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">temple: Am I greater for them? And if he thinks that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he is, then is he less than man to whom God gave <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“do-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">minion over all the earth,”</span> less than the meek who +<span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“in-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">herit the earth.”</span> Even vanity forbids man to be vain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and pride is a hooded hawk which flies in darkness. Over [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a wounded sense of its own error, let not mortal thought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">resuscitate too soon.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In our rock-bound friendship, delicate as dear, our</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">names may melt into one, and common dust, and their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">modest sign be nothingness. Be this as it may, the visible [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unity of spirit remains, to quicken even dust into sweet</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">memorial such as Isaiah prophesied: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The wolf also shall</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">together; and a little child shall lead them.”</span> [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When the <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">hearts</span></em> of Christian Scientists are woven to-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gether as are their names in the web of history, earth will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">float majestically heaven's heraldry, and echo the song</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of angels: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">peace, good will toward men.”</span> [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To The Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, and to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the dear children that my heart folds within it, let me</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page146">[pg 146]</span><a name="Pg146" id="Pg146" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">say, 'Tis sweet to remember thee, and God's Zion, with [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healing on her wings. May her walls be vocal with sal-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vation; and her gates with praise!</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc37" id="toc37"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To The First Church Of Christ, Scientist, Boston</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">My Beloved Students</span></span>:—I cannot conscientiously lend</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my counsel to direct your action on receiving or dismiss-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing candidates. To do this, I should need to be with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you. I cannot accept hearsay, and would need to know</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the circumstances and facts regarding both sides of the [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">subject, to form a proper judgment. This is not my</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">present province; hence I have hitherto declined to be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">consulted on these subjects, and still maintain this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">position.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">These are matters of grave import; and you cannot [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be indifferent to this, but will give them immediate at-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tention, and be governed therein by the spirit and the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">letter of this Scripture: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Whatsoever ye would that men</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">should do unto you, do ye even so to them.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I cannot be the conscience for this church; but if I [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">were, I would gather every reformed mortal that desired</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to come, into its fold, and counsel and help him to walk</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the footsteps of His flock. I feel sure that as Chris-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tian Scientists you will act, relative to this matter, up to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">your highest understanding of justice and mercy. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Affectionately yours,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Baker Eddy</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Feb. 12, 1895</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page147">[pg 147]</span><a name="Pg147" id="Pg147" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc38" id="toc38"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">The First Members Of The First Church Of Christ, +Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">My Beloved Students</span></span>:—Another year has rolled on, [3]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">another annual meeting has convened, another space of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">time has been given us, and has another duty been done [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and another victory won for time and eternity? Do you</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">meet in unity, preferring one another, and demonstrating</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the divine Principle of Christian Science? Have you</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">improved past hours, and ladened them with records</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">worthy to be borne heavenward? Have you learned [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that sin is inadmissible, and indicates a small mind?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Do you manifest love for those that hate you and de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spitefully use you?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The man of integrity is one who makes it his constant</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rule to follow the road of duty, according as Truth and [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the voice of his conscience point it out to him. He is not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">guided merely by affections which may some time give</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the color of virtue to a loose and unstable character.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The upright man is guided by a fixed Principle, which</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">destines him to do nothing but what is honorable, and to [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">abhor whatever is base or unworthy; hence we find him</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ever the same,—at all times the trusty friend, the affec-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tionate relative, the conscientious man of business, the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pious worker, the public-spirited citizen.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He assumes no borrowed appearance. He seeks no [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mask to cover him, for he acts no studied part; but he</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is indeed what he appears to be,—full of truth, candor,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and humanity. In all his pursuits, he knows no path</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but the fair, open, and direct one, and would much rather</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fail of success than attain it by reproachable means. He [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page148">[pg 148]</span><a name="Pg148" id="Pg148" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">never shows us a smiling countenance while he meditates [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil against us in his heart. We shall never find one part</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of his character at variance with another.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Lovingly yours,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Baker Eddy</span></span> [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sept. 30, 1895</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc39" id="toc39"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Extract From A Letter</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Rules and By-laws in the Manual of The First</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, originated not in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">solemn conclave as in ancient Sanhedrim. They were [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not arbitrary opinions nor dictatorial demands, such as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one person might impose on another. They were im-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pelled by a power not one's own, were written at differ-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ent dates, and as the occasion required. They sprang</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from necessity, the logic of events,—from the immedi- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ate demand for them as a help that must be supplied to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">maintain the dignity and defense of our Cause; hence</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">their simple, scientific basis, and detail so requisite to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demonstrate genuine Christian Science, and which will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">do for the race what absolute doctrines destined for future [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">generations might not accomplish.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc40" id="toc40"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To The Mother Church</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Beloved Brethren</span></span>:—Until recently, I was not aware</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that the contribution box was presented at your Friday</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evening meetings. I specially desire that you collect no</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">moneyed contributions from the people present on these</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">occasions.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let the invitation to this sweet converse be in the words</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the prophet Isaiah: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Ho, every one that thirsteth,</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page149">[pg 149]</span><a name="Pg149" id="Pg149" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">money and without price.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Invite all cordially and freely to this banquet of Chris-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tian Science, this feast and flow of Soul. Ask them to [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bring what they possess of love and light to help leaven</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">your loaf and replenish your scanty store. Then, after</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">presenting the various offerings, and one after another</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">has opened his lips to discourse and distribute what God</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">has given him of experience, hope, faith, and under- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">standing, gather up the fragments, and count the baskets</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">full of accessions to your love, and see that nothing has</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">been lost.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With love,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Baker Eddy</span></span> [15]</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc41" id="toc41"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To First Church Of Christ, Scientist, In Oconto</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">My Beloved Brethren</span></span>:—Lips nor pen can ever ex-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">press the joy you give me in parting so promptly with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">your beloved pastor, Rev. Mr. Norcross, to send him to [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">aid me. It is a refreshing demonstration of Christianity,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">brotherly love, and all the rich graces of the Spirit. May</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this sacrifice bring to your beloved church a vision of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">new church, that cometh down from heaven, whose altar</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is a loving heart, whose communion is fellowship with [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">saints and angels. This example of yours is a light that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cannot be hid.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Guided by the pillar and the cloud, this little church</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that built the first temple for Christian Science worship</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shall abide steadfastly in the faith of Jesus' words: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Fear</span> [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page150">[pg 150]</span><a name="Pg150" id="Pg150" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">give you the kingdom.”</span> May He soon give you a pastor;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">already you have the great Shepherd of Israel watch-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing over you. Give my forever-love to your dear church.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Yours in bonds of Christ,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Baker G. Eddy</span></span> [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Boston, Mass.</span></span>, 1889</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc42" id="toc42"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To First Church Of Christ, Scientist, In Scranton</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Beloved Brethren</span></span>:—Space is no separator of hearts. +[10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spiritually, I am with all who are with Truth, and whose</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hearts today are repeating their joy that God dwelleth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the congregation of the faithful, and loveth the gates</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Zion.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The outlook is cheering. We have already seen the [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">salvation of many people by means of Christian Science.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Chapels and churches are dotting the entire land. Con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">venient houses and halls can now be obtained wherein, as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whereout, Christian Scientists may worship the Father</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“in spirit and in truth,”</span> as taught by our great Master. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“If God be for us, who can be against us?”</span> If He</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be with us, the wayside is a sanctuary, and the desert a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">resting-place peopled with living witnesses of the fact</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“God is Love.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dogma, appropriated by no sect. Not more to one than</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to all, is God demonstrable as divine Life, Truth, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love; and His people are they that reflect Him—that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reflect Love. Again, this infinite Principle, with its uni-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">versal manifestation, is all that really is or can be; [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hence God is our Shepherd. He guards, guides, feeds,</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page151">[pg 151]</span><a name="Pg151" id="Pg151" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and folds the sheep of His pasture; and their ears are [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">attuned to His call. In the words of the loving disciple,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“My sheep hear my voice,... and they follow me;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">...neither shall any man pluck them out of my</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">hand.”</span> [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God is a consuming fire. He separates the dross from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the gold, purifies the human character, through the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">furnace of affliction. Those who bear fruit He purgeth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that they may bear more fruit. Through the sacred law,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He speaketh to the unfruitful in tones of Sinai: and, in [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the gospel, He saith of the barren fig-tree, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Cut it down;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">why cumbereth it the ground?”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God is our Father and our Mother, our Minister and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the great Physician: He is man's only real relative on</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">earth and in heaven. David sang, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Whom have I in</span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">desire beside thee.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Brother, sister, beloved in the Lord, knowest thou</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thyself, and art thou acquainted with God? If not, I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pray thee as a Christian Scientist, delay not to make Him [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thy first acquaintance.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Glorious things are spoken of you in His Word. Ye</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are a chosen people, whose God is—what? Even <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">All</span></em>.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">May mercy and truth go before you: may the lamp of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">your life continually be full of oil, and you be wedded</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the spiritual idea, Christ; then will you heal, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">teach, and preach, on the ascending scale of everlasting</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Life and Love.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Affectionately yours in Christ,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Baker Eddy</span></span> [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page152">[pg 152]</span><a name="Pg152" id="Pg152" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc43" id="toc43"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To First Church Of Christ, Scientist, +In Denver</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Beloved Pastor and Brethren</span></span>:—<span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“As in water +face</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">answereth to face,”</span> and in love continents clasp hands, so</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the oneness of God includes also His presence with those [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whose hearts unite in the purposes of goodness. Of this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">we may be sure: that thoughts winged with peace and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">love breathe a silent benediction over all the earth, co-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">operate with the divine power, and brood unconsciously</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">o'er the work of His hand. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I, as a corporeal person, am not in your midst: I, as a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dictator, arbiter, or ruler, am not present; but I, as a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mother whose heart pulsates with every throb of theirs</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for the welfare of her children, am present, and rejoice</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with them that rejoice. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">May meekness, mercy, and love dwell forever in the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hearts of those who worship in this tabernacle: then</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will they receive the heritage that God has prepared for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His people,—made ready for the pure in affection, the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">meek in spirit, the worshipper in truth, the follower of [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thus founded upon the rock of Christ, when storm</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and tempest beat against this sure foundation, you,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">safely sheltered in the strong tower of hope, faith, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love, are God's nestlings; and He will hide you in His [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">feathers till the storm has passed. Into His haven of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Soul there enters no element of earth to cast out angels,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to silence the right intuition which guides you safely</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">home.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Exercise more faith in God and His spiritual means [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page153">[pg 153]</span><a name="Pg153" id="Pg153" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and methods, than in man and his material ways and [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">means, of establishing the Cause of Christian Science.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If right yourself, God will confirm His inheritance. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Be</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">not weary in well doing.”</span> Truth is restful, and Love is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">triumphant. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When God went forth before His people, they were</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fed with manna: they marched through the wilderness:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they passed through the Red Sea, untouched by the bil-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lows. At His command, the rock became a fountain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the land of promise, green isles of refreshment. In [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the words of the Psalmist, when <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the Lord gave the word:</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">great was the company of those that published it.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God is good to Israel,—washed in the waters of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Meribah, cleansed of the flesh,—good to His Israel</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">encompassed not with pride, hatred, self-will, and self- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">justification; wherein violence covereth men as a gar-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ment, and as captives are they enchained.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Scientists bring forth the fruits of Spirit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not flesh; and God giveth this <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“new name”</span> to no man</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who honors Him not by positive proof of trustworthiness. [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">May you be able to say, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I have not cleansed my heart</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">in vain.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sir Edwin Arnold, to whom I presented a copy of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my first edition of <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and Health with Key to the</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Scriptures,”</span> writes:— [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Peace on earth and Good-will!</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Souls that are gentle and still</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Hear the first music of this</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Far-off, infinite, Bliss!</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">So may the God of peace be and abide with this church. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Affectionately yours,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Baker Eddy</span></span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page154">[pg 154]</span><a name="Pg154" id="Pg154" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc44" id="toc44"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To First Church Of Christ, Scientist, +In Lawrence</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Beloved Brethren</span></span>:—The spreading branches of The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Church of Christ, Scientist, are fast reaching out their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">broad shelter to the entire world. Your faith has not [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">been without works,—and God's love for His flock is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">manifest in His care. He will dig about this little church,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">prune its encumbering branches, water it with the dews</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of heaven, enrich its roots, and enlarge its borders with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine Love. God only waits for man's worthiness to [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">enhance the means and measure of His grace. You</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have already proof of the prosperity of His Zion. You</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sit beneath your own vine and fig-tree as the growth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of spirituality—even that vine whereof our Father is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">husbandman. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is the purpose of divine Love to resurrect the under-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">standing, and the kingdom of God, the reign of har-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mony already within us. Through the word that is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spoken unto you, are you made free. Abide in His word,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and it shall abide in you; and the healing Christ will [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">again be made manifest in the flesh—understood and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">glorified.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Honor thy Father and Mother, God. Continue in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His love. Bring forth fruit—<span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“signs following”</span>—that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">your prayers be not hindered. Pray without ceasing. [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Watch diligently; never desert the post of spiritual ob-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">servation and self-examination. Strive for self-abnega-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion, justice, meekness, mercy, purity, love. Let your</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">light reflect Light. Have no ambition, affection, nor</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">aim apart from holiness. Forget not for a moment, that [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page155">[pg 155]</span><a name="Pg155" id="Pg155" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God is All-in-all—therefore, that in reality there is but [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one cause and effect.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The pride of circumstance or power is the prince of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this world that has nothing in Christ. All power and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">happiness are spiritual, and proceed from goodness. [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind; then</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will you woo the weary wanderer to your door, win the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pilgrim and stranger to your church, and find access to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the heart of humanity. While pressing meekly on, be [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">faithful, be valiant in the Christian's warfare, and peace</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will crown your joy.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Lovingly yours,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Baker Eddy</span></span></div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc45" id="toc45"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To Correspondents</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Beloved Students</span></span>:—Because Mother has not the time</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">even to read all of her interesting correspondence, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">less wherein to answer it (however much she desires</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thus to do), she hereby requests: First, that you, her</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">students' students, who write such excellent letters to [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">her, will hereafter, as a general rule, send them to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">editors of <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">The Christian Science Journal</span></span> for publication,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and thereby give to us all the pleasure of hearing from you.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If my own students cannot spare time to write to God,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">—when they address me I shall be apt to forward their [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">letters to Him as our common Parent, and by way of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">The Christian Science Journal</span></span>; thus fulfilling their moral</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">obligation to furnish some reading-matter for our denomi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">national organ. Methinks, were they to contemplate the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">universal charge wherewith divine Love has entrusted us, [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page156">[pg 156]</span><a name="Pg156" id="Pg156" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in behalf of a suffering race, they would contribute oftener [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the pages of this swift vehicle of scientific thought;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for it reaches a vast number of earnest readers, and seek-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ers after Truth.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With love,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Baker Eddy</span></span></div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc46" id="toc46"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To Students</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Beloved Christian Scientists</span></span>:—Please send in your</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">contributions as usual to our <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span>. All is well at head-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quarters, and when the mist shall melt away you will see</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">clearly the signs of Truth and the heaven of Love within [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">your hearts. Let the reign of peace and harmony be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">supreme and forever yours.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I proposed to merge the adjourned meeting in the one</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">held at Chicago, because I saw no advantage, but great</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">disadvantage, in one student's opinions or <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">modus oper-</span></span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">andi</span></span> becoming the basis for others: read +<span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Retrospection”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on this subject. Science is absolute, and best under-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stood through the study of my works and the daily Chris-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tian demonstration thereof. It is their <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">materiality</span></em> that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">clogs the progress of students, and <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“this kind goeth not</span> [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">forth but by prayer and fasting.”</span> It is materialism through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">which the animal magnetizer preys, and in turn becomes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a prey. Spirituality is the basis of all true thought and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">volition. Assembling themselves together, and listening</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to each other amicably, or contentiously, is no aid to [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">students in acquiring solid Christian Science. Experi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ence and, above all, <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">obedience</span></em>, are the aids and tests of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">growth and understanding in this direction.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With love,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary B. G. Eddy</span></span> [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page157">[pg 157]</span><a name="Pg157" id="Pg157" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc47" id="toc47"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To A Student</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">My Dear Student</span></span>:—It is a great thing to be found</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">worthy to suffer for Christ, Truth. Paul said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“If we</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">suffer, we shall also reign with him.”</span> Reign then, my</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">beloved in the Lord. He that marketh the sparrow's fall [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will direct thy way.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I have written, or caused my secretary to write, to Mr.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and Mrs. Stewart, of Toronto, Canada (you will find their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">card in <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">The C. S. Journal</span></span>,) that you or your lawyer will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ask them all questions important for your case, and re- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quested that they furnish all information possible. They</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will be glad to help you. Every true Christian Scientist</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will feel <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“as bound with you,”</span> but as free in Truth and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love, safe under the shadow of His wing.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Yes, my student, my Father is your Father; and He [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">helps us most when help is most needed, for He is the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ever-present help.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I am glad that you are in good cheer. I enclose you</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the name of Mr. E. A. Kimball, C. S. D., of Chicago,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">5020 Woodlawn Ave.,—for items relative to Mrs. Steb- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bin's case.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and He shall bring it to pass. And He shall bring forth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">noonday.”</span> This I know, for God is for us. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Write me when you need me. Error has no power</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but to destroy itself. It <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">cannot harm you</span></em>; it cannot stop</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the eternal currents of Truth.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ever with love,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary B. G. Eddy</span></span> </div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page158">[pg 158]</span><a name="Pg158" id="Pg158" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc48" id="toc48"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To A Student</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">My Beloved Student:</span></span>—In reply to your letter I will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">say: God's ways are not as our ways; but higher far</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than the heavens above the earth is His wisdom above</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ours. When I requested you to be ordained, I little [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thought of the changes about to be made. When I insisted</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on your speaking without notes, I little knew that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">so soon another change in your pulpit would be demanded.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But now, after His messenger has obeyed the message</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of divine Love, comes the interpretation thereof. But you [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">see we both had first to obey, and to do this through faith,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not sight.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The meaning of it all, as now shown, is this: when</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you were bidden to be ordained, it was in reward for your</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">faithful service, thus to honor it. The second command, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to drop the use of notes, was to rebuke a lack of faith in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine help, and to test your humility and obedience in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bearing this cross.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All God's servants are minute men and women. As</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of old, I stand with sandals on and staff in hand, wait- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing for the watchword and the revelation of what, how,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whither. Let us be faithful and obedient, and God will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">do the rest.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In the April number of <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">The Christian Science Journal</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you will find the forthcoming completion (as I now think) [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the divine directions sent out to the churches. It is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">satisfactory to note, however, that the order therein given</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">corresponds to the example of our Master. Jesus was</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not ordained as our churches ordain ministers. We</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have no record that he used notes when preaching. He</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page159">[pg 159]</span><a name="Pg159" id="Pg159" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spake in their synagogues, reading the Scriptures and [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">expounding them; and God has given to this age <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> to elucidate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His Word.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">You may read this letter to your church, and then [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">send it to Rev. Mr. Norcross, and he will understand.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">May the God of all grace give you peace.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With love,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Baker Eddy</span></span></div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc49" id="toc49"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Extract From A Christmas Letter</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Beloved Students</span></span>:—My heart has many rooms: one</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of these is sacred to the memory of my students. Into</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this upper chamber, where all things are pure and of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good report,—into this sanctuary of love,—I often</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">retreat, sit silently, and ponder. In this chamber is [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">memory's wardrobe, where I deposit certain recollec-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tions and rare grand collections once in each year. This</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is my Christmas storehouse. Its goods commemorate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">—not so much the Bethlehem babe, as the man of God,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the risen Christ, and the adult Jesus. Here I deposit [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the gifts that my dear students offer at the shrine of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science, and to their lone Leader. Here I talk</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">once a year,—and this is a bit of what I said in 1890:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“O glorious Truth! O Mother Love! how has the sense</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Thy children grown to behold <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Thee</span></em>! and how have [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">many weary wings sprung upward! and how has our</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Model, Christ, been unveiled to us, and to the age!”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I look at the rich devices in embroidery, silver, gold,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and jewels,—all gifts of Christian Scientists from all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">parts of our nation, and some from abroad,—then al- [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page160">[pg 160]</span><a name="Pg160" id="Pg160" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">most marvel at the power and permanence of affection [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">under the <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">régime</span></span> of Christian Science! Never did grati-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tude and love unite more honestly in uttering the word</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">thanks</span></em>, than ours at this season. But a mother's love</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">behind words has no language; it may give no material [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">token, but lives steadily on, through time and circum-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stance, as part and paramount portion of her being.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thus may our lives flow on in the same sweet rhythm</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of head and heart, till they meet and mingle in bliss super-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nal. There is a special joy in knowing that one is gaining [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">constantly in the knowledge of Truth and divine Love.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Your progress, the past year, has been marked. It satis-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fies my present hope. Of this we rest assured, that every</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">trial of our faith in God makes us stronger and firmer in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">understanding and obedience. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Lovingly yours,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Baker G. Eddy</span></span></div> +</div> + +</div> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page161">[pg 161]</span><a name="Pg161" id="Pg161" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc50" id="toc50"></a> +<a name="pdf51" id="pdf51"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Chapter VI. Sermons.</span></h1> + + + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc52" id="toc52"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">A Christmas Sermon</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Delivered in Chickering Hall, Boston, Mass., on the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sunday Before Christmas, 1888</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Subject:</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">The Corporeal and Incorporeal +Saviour</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Text:</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">For unto us a child is born, unto +us a son is given: and the</span></span> [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be +called</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, +The</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Prince of Peace.</span></span>—<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Isaiah</span></span> ix. +6.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To the senses, Jesus was the son of man: in Science,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man is the son of God. The material senses could [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not cognize the Christ, or Son of God: it was Jesus'</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">approximation to this state of being that made him the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christ-Jesus, the Godlike, the anointed.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The prophet whose words we have chosen for our</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">text, prophesied the appearing of this dual nature, as [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">both human and divinely endowed, the personal and the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">impersonal Jesus.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The only record of our Master as a public benefactor,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or personal Saviour, opens when he was thirty years of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">age; owing in part, perhaps, to the Jewish law that none [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">should teach or preach in public under that age. Also,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it is natural to conclude that at this juncture he was</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">specially endowed with the Holy Spirit; for he was given</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the new name, Messiah, or Jesus Christ,—the God-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page162">[pg 162]</span><a name="Pg162" id="Pg162" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">anointed; even as, at times of special enlightenment, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jacob was called Israel; and Saul, Paul.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The third event of this eventful period,—a period of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">such wonderful spiritual import to mankind!—was the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">advent of a higher Christianity. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From this dazzling, God-crowned summit, the Naza-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rene stepped suddenly before the people and their schools</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of philosophy; Gnostic, Epicurean, and Stoic. He must</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stem these rising angry elements, and walk serenely over</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">their fretted, foaming billows. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Here the cross became the emblem of Jesus' history;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">while the central point of his Messianic mission was peace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good will, love, teaching, and healing.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Clad with divine might, he was ready to stem the tide</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Judaism, and prove his power, derived from Spirit, to [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be supreme; lay himself as a lamb upon the altar of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">materialism, and therefrom rise to his nativity in Spirit.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The corporeal Jesus bore our infirmities, and through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his stripes we are healed. He was the Way-shower, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">suffered in the flesh, showing mortals how to escape from [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the sins of the flesh.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There was no incorporeal Jesus of Nazareth. The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual man, or Christ, was after the similitude of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Father, without corporeality or finite mind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Materiality, worldliness, human pride, or self-will, by [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demoralizing his motives and Christlikeness, would have</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dethroned his power as the Christ.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To carry out his holy purpose, he must be oblivious of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human self.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of the lineage of David, like him he went forth, simple [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as the shepherd boy, to disarm the Goliath. Panoplied</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the strength of an exalted hope, faith, and understand-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page163">[pg 163]</span><a name="Pg163" id="Pg163" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing, he sought to conquer the three-in-one of error: the [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">world, the flesh, and the devil.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Three years he went about doing good. He had for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thirty years been preparing to heal and teach divinely;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but his three-years mission was a marvel of glory: its [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">chaplet, a grave to mortal sense dishonored—from which</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sprang a sublime and everlasting victory!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He who dated time, the Christian era, and spanned</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eternity, was the meekest man on earth. He healed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and taught by the wayside, in humble homes: to arrant [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hypocrite and to dull disciples he explained the Word</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of God, which has since ripened into interpretation</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">through Science.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His words were articulated in the language of a de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">clining race, and committed to the providence of God. [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In no one thing seemed he less human and more divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than in his unfaltering faith in the immortality of Truth.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Referring to this, he said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Heaven and earth shall</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">pass away, but my words shall not pass away!”</span> and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they have not: they still live; and are the basis of divine [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">liberty, the medium of Mind, the hope of the race.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Only three years a personal Saviour! yet the founda-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tions he laid are as eternal as Truth, the chief corner-stone.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">After his brief brave struggle, and the crucifixion of [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the corporeal man, the incorporeal Saviour—the Christ</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or spiritual idea which leadeth into all Truth—must</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">needs come in Christian Science, demonstrating the spir-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">itual healing of body and mind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This idea or divine essence was, and is, forever about [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Father's business; heralding the Principle of health,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">holiness, and immortality.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page164">[pg 164]</span><a name="Pg164" id="Pg164" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Its divine Principle interprets the incorporeal idea, or [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Son of God; hence the incorporeal and corporeal are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">distinguished thus: the former is the spiritual idea that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">represents divine good, and the latter is the human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">presentation of goodness in man. The Science of Chris- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tianity, that has appeared in the ripeness of time, re-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">veals the incorporeal Christ; and this will continue</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to be seen more clearly until it be acknowledged, under-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stood,—and the Saviour, which is Truth, be compre-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hended. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To the vision of the Wisemen, this spiritual idea of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Principle of man or the universe, appeared as a star. At</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">first, the babe Jesus seemed small to mortals; but from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the mount of revelation, the prophet beheld it from the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">beginning as the Redeemer, who would present a wonder- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ful manifestation of Truth and Love.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In our text Isaiah foretold, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“His name shall be called</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Father, The Prince of Peace.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As the Wisemen grew in the understanding of Christ, [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the spiritual idea, it grew in favor with them. Thus it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will continue, as it shall become understood, until man</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be found in the actual likeness of his Maker. Their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">highest human concept of the man Jesus, that portrayed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">him as the only Son of God, the only begotten of the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Father, full of grace and Truth, will become so magnified</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to human sense, by means of the lens of Science, as to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reveal man collectively, as individually, to be the son of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The limited view of God's ideas arose from the testimony [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the senses. Science affords the evidence that God is the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Father of man, of all that is real and eternal. This spir-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page165">[pg 165]</span><a name="Pg165" id="Pg165" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">itual idea that the personal Jesus demonstrated, casting [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out evils and healing, more than eighteen centuries ago,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">disappeared by degrees; both because of the ascension</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Jesus, in which it was seen that he had grown beyond</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the human sense of him, and because of the corruption of [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Church.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The last appearing of Truth will be a wholly spiritual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">idea of God and of man, without the fetters of the flesh, or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">corporeality. This infinite idea of infinity will be, is, as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eternal as its divine Principle. The daystar of this appear- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing is the light of Christian Science—the Science which</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rends the veil of the flesh from top to bottom. The light</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of this revelation leaves nothing that is material; neither</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">darkness, doubt, disease, nor death. The material cor-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">poreality disappears; and individual spirituality, perfect [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and eternal, appears—never to disappear.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The truth uttered and lived by Jesus, who passed on</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and left to mortals the rich legacy of what he said and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">did, makes his followers the heirs to his example; but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they can neither appreciate nor appropriate his treasures [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Truth and Love, until lifted to these by their own</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">growth and experiences. His goodness and grace pur-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">chased the means of mortals' redemption from sin; but,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they never paid the price of sin. This cost, none but the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sinner can pay; and accordingly as this account is settled [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with divine Love, is the sinner ready to avail himself of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the rich blessings flowing from the teaching, example,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and suffering of our Master.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The secret stores of wisdom must be discovered, their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">treasures reproduced and given to the world, before man [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">can truthfully conclude that he has been found in the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">order, mode, and virgin origin of man according to divine</div> +</div> + + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page166">[pg 166]</span><a name="Pg166" id="Pg166" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science, which alone demonstrates the divine Principle [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and spiritual idea of being.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The monument whose finger points upward, commemorates</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the earthly life of a martyr; but this is not all of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the philanthropist, hero, and Christian. The Truth he [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">has taught and spoken lives, and moves in our midst a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine afflatus. Thus it is that the ideal Christ—or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">impersonal infancy, manhood, and womanhood of Truth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and Love—is still with us.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And what of <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">this</span></em> child?—<span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“For +unto us a child <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">is</span></em></span> [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">born, unto us a son <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">is</span></em> given: and the government shall</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">be upon his shoulder.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This child, or spiritual idea, has evolved a more ready</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ear for the overture of angels and the scientific under-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">standing of Truth and Love. When Christ, the incor- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">poreal idea of God, was nameless, and a Mary knew not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">how to declare its spiritual origin, the idea of man was</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not understood. The Judæan religion even required the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Virgin-mother to go to the temple and be purified, for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">having given birth to the corporeal child Jesus, whose [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">origin was more spiritual than the senses could inter-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pret. Like the leaven that a certain woman hid in three</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">measures of meal, the Science of God and the spiritual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">idea, named in this century Christian Science, is leaven-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing the lump of human thought, until the whole shall [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be leavened and all materialism disappear. This action</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the divine energy, even if not acknowledged, has</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">come to be seen as diffusing richest blessings. This</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual idea, or Christ, entered into the minutiæ of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">life of the personal Jesus. It made him an honest man, [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a good carpenter, and a good man, before it could make</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">him the glorified.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page167">[pg 167]</span><a name="Pg167" id="Pg167" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The material questions at this age on the reappearing [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the infantile thought of God's man, are after the man-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ner of a mother in the flesh, though their answers per-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tain to the spiritual idea, as in Christian Science:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Is he deformed? [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He is wholly symmetrical; the one altogether lovely.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Is the babe a son, or daughter?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Both son and daughter: even the compound idea of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all that resembles God.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">How much does he weigh? [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His substance outweighs the material world.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">How old is he?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of his days there is no beginning and no ending.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What is his name?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christ Science. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who are his parents, brothers, and sisters?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His Father and Mother are divine Life, Truth, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love; and they who do the will of his Father are his is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">brethren.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Is he heir to an estate? [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The government shall be upon his shoulder!”</span> He</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">has dominion over the whole earth; and in admiration</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of his origin, he exclaims, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I thank Thee, O Father, Lord</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of heaven and earth, that Thou hast hid these things</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">babes!”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Is he wonderful?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His works thus prove him. He giveth power, peace,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and holiness; he exalteth the lowly; he giveth liberty</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page168">[pg 168]</span><a name="Pg168" id="Pg168" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the captive, health to the sick, salvation from sin to [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the sinner—and overcometh the world!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Go, and tell what things ye shall see and hear: how</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the blind, spiritually and physically, receive sight; how</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the lame, those halting between two opinions or hob- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bling on crutches, walk; how the physical and moral</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lepers are cleansed; how the deaf—those who, having</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ears, hear not, and are afflicted with <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“tympanum on the</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">brain”</span>—hear; how the dead, those buried in dogmas</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and physical ailments, are raised; that to the poor— [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the lowly in Christ, not the man-made rabbi—the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gospel is preached. Note this: only such as are pure</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in spirit, emptied of vainglory and vain knowledge, re-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ceive Truth.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Here ends the colloquy; and a voice from heaven seems [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to say, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Come and see.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The nineteenth-century prophets repeat, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Unto us a</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">son is given.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The shepherds shout, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“We behold the appearing of</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">the star!”</span>—and the pure in heart clap their hands. [20]</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc53" id="toc53"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Editor's Extracts From Sermon</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Text:</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Ye do err, not knowing the +Scriptures, nor the power of</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">God.</span></span>—<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Matt.</span></span> xxii. 29.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">The Christian Science Journal</span></span> reported as follows:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The announcement that the Rev. Mary B. G. Eddy [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">would speak before the Scientist denomination on the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">afternoon of October 26, drew a large audience. Haw-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thorne Hall was densely packed, and many had to go</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">away unable to obtain seats. The distinguished speaker</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">began by saying:— [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page169">[pg 169]</span><a name="Pg169" id="Pg169" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Within Bible pages she had found all the divine Science [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">she preaches; noticing, all along the way of her researches</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">therein, that whenever her thoughts had wandered into</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the bypaths of ancient philosophies or pagan literatures,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">her spiritual insight had been darkened thereby, till [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">she was God-driven back to the inspired pages. Early</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">training, through the misinterpretation of the Word,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">had been the underlying cause of the long years of in-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">validism she endured before Truth dawned upon her</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">understanding, through right interpretation. With the [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">understanding of Scripture-meanings, had come physical</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rejuvenation. The uplifting of spirit was the upbuild-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing of the body.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">She affirmed that the Scriptures cannot properly be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">interpreted in a literal way. The truths they teach must [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be spiritually discerned, before their message can be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">borne fully to our minds and hearts. That there is a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dual meaning to every Biblical passage, the most eminent</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divines of the world have concluded; and to get at the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">highest, or metaphysical, it is necessary rightly to read [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">what the inspired writers left for our spiritual instruction.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The literal rendering of the Scriptures makes them noth-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing valuable, but often is the foundation of unbelief and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hopelessness. The metaphysical rendering is health and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">peace and hope for all. The literal or material reading is [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the reading of the carnal mind, which is enmity toward</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God, Spirit.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Taking several Bible passages, Mrs. Eddy showed how</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">beautiful and inspiring are the thoughts when rightly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">understood. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Let the dead bury their dead; follow</span> [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">thou me,”</span> was one of the passages explained metaphysi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cally. In their fullest meaning, those words are salvation</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page170">[pg 170]</span><a name="Pg170" id="Pg170" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the belief of death, the last enemy to be overthrown; [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for by following Christ truly, resurrection and life im-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortal are brought to us. If we follow him, to us there</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">can be no dead. Those who know not this, may still</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">believe in death and weep over the graves of their beloved; [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but with him is Life eternal, which never changes to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">death. The eating of bread and drinking of wine at the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Lord's supper, merely symbolize the spiritual refresh-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ment of God's children having rightly read His Word,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whose entrance into their understanding is healthful life. [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This is the reality behind the symbol.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">So, also, she spoke of the hades, or hell of Scripture,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">saying, that we make our own heavens and our own hells,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by right and wise, or wrong and foolish, conceptions of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God and our fellow-men. Jesus interpreted all spirit- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ually: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I have bread to eat that ye know not of,”</span> he</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">said. The bread he ate, which was refreshment of divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strength, we also may all partake of.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The material record of the Bible, she said, is no more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">important to our well-being than the history of Europe [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and America; but the spiritual application bears upon</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">our eternal life. The method of Jesus was purely meta-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">physical; and no other method is Christian Science. In</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the passage recording Jesus' proceedings with the blind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man (Mark viii.) he is said to have spat upon the dust. [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spitting was the Hebrew method of expressing the utmost</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">contempt. So Jesus is recorded as having expressed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">contempt for the belief of material eyes as having any</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">power to see. Having eyes, ye see not; and ears, ye hear</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not, he had just told them. The putting on of hands [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mentioned, she explained as the putting forth of power.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Hand,”</span> in Bible usage, often means spiritual power.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page171">[pg 171]</span><a name="Pg171" id="Pg171" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“His hand is not shortened that it cannot save,”</span> can [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">never be wrested from its true meaning to signify human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hands. Jesus' first effort to realize Truth was not wholly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">successful; but he rose to the occasion with the second</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">attempt, and the blind saw clearly. To suppose that [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus did actually anoint the blind man's eyes with his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spittle, is as absurd as to think, according to the report</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of some, that Christian Scientists sit in back-to-back</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">seances with their patients, for the divine power to filter</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from vertebræ to vertebræ. When one comes to the age [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with spiritual translations of God's messages, expressed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in literal or physical terms, our right action is not to con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demn and deny, but to <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“try the spirits”</span> and see what</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">manner they are of. This does not mean communing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with spirits supposed to have departed from the earth, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but the seeking out of the basis upon which are accom-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">plished the works by which the new teacher would prove</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his right to be heard. By these signs are the true disciples</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the Master known: the sick are healed; to the poor</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the gospel is preached. [20]</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc54" id="toc54"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Extract From A Sermon Delivered In Boston, January 18, 1885</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Text:</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">The kingdom of heaven is like +unto leaven, which a woman</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was +leavened.</span></span>—<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Matt.</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">xiii. 33.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Few people at present know aught of the Science of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mental healing; and so many are obtruding upon the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">public attention their ignorance or false knowledge in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the name of Science, that it behooves all clad in the shin-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing mail to keep bright their invincible armor; to keep [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page172">[pg 172]</span><a name="Pg172" id="Pg172" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">their demonstrations modest, and their claims and lives [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">steadfast in Truth.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Dispensing the Word charitably, but separating the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tares from the wheat, let us declare the positive and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the negative of metaphysical Science; what it is, and [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">what it is not. Intrepid, self-oblivious Protestants in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a higher sense than ever before, let us meet and defeat</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the claims of sense and sin, regardless of the bans or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">clans pouring in their fire upon us; and white-winged</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">charity, brooding over all, shall cover with her feathers [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the veriest sinner.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Divine and unerring Mind measures man, until the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">three measures be accomplished, and he arrives at</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fulness of stature; for <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the Lord God omnipotent</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">reigneth.”</span> [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science is divine: it is neither of human origin nor of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human direction. That which is termed <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“natural science,”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the evidences whereof are taken in by the five personal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">senses, presents but a finite, feeble sense of the infinite</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">law of God; which law is written on the heart, received [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">through the affections, spiritually understood, and dem-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">onstrated in our lives.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This law of God is the Science of mental healing,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritually discerned, understood, and obeyed.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mental Science, and the five personal senses, are at [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">war; and peace can only be declared on the side of im-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mutable right,—the health, holiness, and immortality</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of man. To gain this scientific result, the first and funda-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mental rule of Science must be understood and adhered</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to; namely, the oft-repeated declaration in Scripture [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that God is good; hence, good is omnipotent and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">omnipresent.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page173">[pg 173]</span><a name="Pg173" id="Pg173" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ancient and modern philosophy, human reason, or [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man's theorems, misstate mental Science, its Principle</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and practice. The most enlightened sense herein sees</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nothing but a law of matter.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who has ever learned of the schools that there is but [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one Mind, and that this is God, who healeth all our sick-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness and sins?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who has ever learned from the schools, pagan phi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">losophy, or scholastic theology, that Science is the law of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind and not of matter, and that this law has no relation [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to, or recognition of, matter?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind is its own great cause and effect. Mind is God,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">omnipotent and omnipresent. What, then, of an oppo-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">site so-called science, which says that man is both matter</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and mind, that Mind is in matter? Can the infinite [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be within the finite? And must not man have preexisted</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the All and Only? Does an evil mind exist without</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">space to occupy, power to act, or vanity to pretend that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it is man?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If God is Mind and fills all space, is everywhere, matter [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is nowhere and sin is obsolete. If Mind, God, is all-power</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and all-presence, man is not met by another power</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and presence, that—obstructing his intelligence—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pains, fetters, and befools him. The perfection of man</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is intact; whence, then, is something besides Him that [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is not the counterpart but the counterfeit of man's creator?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Surely not from God, for He made man in His own</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">likeness. Whence, then, is the atom or molecule called</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">matter? Have attraction and cohesion formed it?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But are these forces laws of matter, or laws of [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For matter to be matter, it must have been self-created.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page174">[pg 174]</span><a name="Pg174" id="Pg174" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind has no more power to evolve or to create matter [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than has good to produce evil. Matter is a misstatement</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Mind; it is a lie, claiming to talk and disclaim against</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth; idolatry, having other gods; evil, having presence</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and power over omnipotence! [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let us have a clearing up of abstractions. Let us</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">come into the presence of Him who removeth all iniqui-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ties, and healeth all our diseases. Let us attach our sense</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Science to what touches the religious sentiment within</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man. Let us open our affections to the Principle that [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">moves all in harmony,—from the falling of a sparrow</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the rolling of a world. Above Arcturus and his sons,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">broader than the solar system and higher than the at-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mosphere of our planet, is the Science of mental</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healing. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What is the kingdom of heaven? The abode of Spirit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the realm of the real. No matter is there, no night is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">there—nothing that maketh or worketh a lie. Is this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">kingdom afar off? No: it is ever-present here. The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">first to declare against this kingdom is matter. Shall [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that be called heresy which pleads for Spirit—the All of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God, and His omnipresence?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The kingdom of heaven is the reign of divine Science:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it is a mental state. Jesus said it is within you, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">taught us to pray, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thy kingdom come;”</span> but he did [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not teach us to pray for death whereby to gain heaven.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We do not look into darkness for light. Death can never</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">usher in the dawn of Science that reveals the spiritual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">facts of man's Life here and now.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The leaven which a woman took and hid in three [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">measures of meal, is Divine Science; the Comforter;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Holy Ghost that leadeth into all Truth; the <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“still,</span></div> +</div> + + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page175">[pg 175]</span><a name="Pg175" id="Pg175" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">small voice”</span> that breathes His presence and power, cast- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing out error and healing the sick. And woman, the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual idea, takes of the things of God and showeth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">them unto the creature, until the whole sense of being</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is leavened with Spirit. The three measures of meal [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">may well be likened to the false sense of life, substance,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and intelligence, which says, I am sustained by bread,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">matter, instead of Mind. The spiritual leaven of divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science changes this false sense, giving better views of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Life; saying, Man's Life is God; and when this shall [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">appear, it shall be <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the substance of things hoped for.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The measure of Life shall increase by every spiritual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">touch, even as the leaven expands the loaf. Man shall</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">keep the feast of Life, not with the old leaven of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">scribes and Pharisees, neither with <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the leaven of malice</span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and wickedness; but the unleavened bread of sincerity</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">and truth.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thus it can be seen that the Science of mental healing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">must be understood. There are false Christs that would</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“deceive, if it were possible, the very elect,”</span> by institut- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing matter and its methods in place of God, Mind. Their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">supposition is, that there are other minds than His; that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one mind controls another; that one belief takes the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">place of another. But this ism of to-day has nothing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to do with the Science of mental healing which acquaints [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">us with God and reveals the one perfect Mind and His</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">laws.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The attempt to mix matter and Mind, to work by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">means of both animal magnetism and divine power, is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">literally saying, Have we not in thy name cast out devils, [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and done many wonderful works?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But remember God in all thy ways, and thou shalt</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page176">[pg 176]</span><a name="Pg176" id="Pg176" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">find the truth that breaks the dream of sense, letting the [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">harmony of Science that declares <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Him</span></em>, come in with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healing, and peace, and perfect love.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc55" id="toc55"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Sunday Services on July Fourth</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Extempore Remarks</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The great theme so deeply and solemnly expounded</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by the preacher, has been exemplified in all ages, but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">chiefly in the great crises of nations or of the human race.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is then that supreme devotion to Principle has espe-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cially been called for and manifested. It is then that we [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">learn a little more of the nothingness of evil, and more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the divine energies of good, and strive valiantly for the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">liberty of the sons of God.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The day we celebrate reminds us of the heroes and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heroines who counted not their own lives dear to them, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">when they sought the New England shores, not as the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">flying nor as conquerors, but, steadfast in faith and love,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to build upon the rock of Christ, the true idea of God—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the supremacy of Spirit and the nothingness of matter.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When first the Pilgrims planted their feet on Plymouth [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rock, frozen ritual and creed should forever have melted</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">away in the fire of love which came down from heaven.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Pilgrims came to establish a nation in true freedom,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the rights of conscience.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But what of ourselves, and our times and obligations? [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Are we duly aware of our own great opportunities and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">responsibilities? Are we prepared to meet and improve</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">them, to act up to the acme of divine energy wherewith</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">we are armored?</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page177">[pg 177]</span><a name="Pg177" id="Pg177" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Never was there a more solemn and imperious call [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than God makes to us all, right here, for fervent de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">votion and an absolute consecration to the greatest and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">holiest of all causes. The hour is come. The great</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">battle of Armageddon is upon us. The powers of evil [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are leagued together in secret conspiracy against the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Lord and against His Christ, as expressed and opera-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tive in Christian Science. Large numbers, in desperate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">malice, are engaged day and night in organizing action</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">against us. Their feeling and purpose are deadly, and [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they have sworn enmity against the lives of our standard-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bearers.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What will you do about it? Will you be equally in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">earnest for the truth? Will you doff your lavender-kid</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">zeal, and become real and consecrated warriors? Will [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you give yourselves wholly and irrevocably to the great</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">work of establishing the truth, the gospel, and the Science</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">which are necessary to the salvation of the world from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">error, sin, disease, and death? Answer at once and practi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cally, and answer aright! [20]</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc56" id="toc56"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Easter Services</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The editor of <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">The Christian Science Journal</span></span> said that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at three o'clock, the hour for the church service proper,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the pastor, Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, accompanied</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by Rev. D. A. Easton, who was announced to preach [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the sermon, came on the platform. The pastor introduced</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mr. Easton as follows:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Friends</span></span>:—The homesick traveller in foreign lands</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">greets with joy a familiar face. I am constantly home-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sick for heaven. In my long journeyings I have met [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page178">[pg 178]</span><a name="Pg178" id="Pg178" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one who comes from the place of my own sojourning [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for many years,—the Congregational Church. He is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a graduate of Bowdoin College and of Andover The-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ological School. He has left his old church, as I did,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from a yearning of the heart; because he was not sat- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">isfied with a manlike God, but wanted to become a God-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">like man. He found that the new wine could not be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">put into old bottles without bursting them, and he came</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to us.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mr. Easton then delivered an interesting discourse [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the text, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">right hand of God”</span> (Col. iii. 1), which he prefaced by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">saying:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I think it was about a year ago that I strayed into</span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this hall, a stranger, and wondered what sort of people</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you were, and of what you were worshippers. If any</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one had said to me that to-day I should stand before</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you to preach a sermon on Christian Science, I should</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have replied, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Much learning”</span>—or something else— [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“hath made thee mad.”</span> If I had not found Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science a new gospel, I should not be standing before you:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">if I had not found it truth, I could not have stood up</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">again <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">to</span></span> preach, here or elsewhere.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">At the conclusion of the sermon, the pastor again came [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">forward, and added the following:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My friends, I wished to be excused from speaking</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to-day, but will yield to circumstances. In the flesh, we</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are as a partition wall between the old and the new;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">between the old religion in which we have been educated, [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the new, living, impersonal Christ-thought that has</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">been given to the world to-day.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page179">[pg 179]</span><a name="Pg179" id="Pg179" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The old churches are saying, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“He is not here;”</span> and, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Who shall roll away the stone?”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The stone has been rolled away by human suffer-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing. The first rightful desire in the hour of loss, when</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">believing we have lost sight of Truth, is to know where [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He is laid. This appeal resolves itself into these</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">questions:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Is our consciousness in matter or in God? Have we</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">any other consciousness than that of good? If we have,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He is saying to us to-day, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Adam, where art thou?”</span> We [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are wrong if our consciousness is in sin, sickness, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">death. This is the old consciousness.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In the new religion the teaching is, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“He is not here;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth is not in matter; he is risen; Truth has become</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">more to us,—more true, more spiritual.”</span> [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Can we say this to-day? Have we left the conscious-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness of sickness and sin for that of health and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">holiness?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What is it that seems a stone between us and the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">resurrection morning? [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is the belief of mind in matter. We can only come</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">into the spiritual resurrection by quitting the old con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sciousness of Soul in sense.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">These flowers are floral apostles. God does all this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">through His followers; and He made every flower in [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind before it sprang from the earth: yet we look into</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">matter and the earth to give us these smiles of God!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We must lay aside material consciousness, and then</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">we can perceive Truth, and say with Mary, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Rabboni!”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">—Master! [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In 1866, when God revealed to me this risen Christ,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this Life that knows no death, that saith, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Because he</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page180">[pg 180]</span><a name="Pg180" id="Pg180" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">lives, I live,”</span> I awoke from the dream of Spirit in the [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">flesh so far as to take the side of Spirit, and strive to cease</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my warfare.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When, through this consciousness, I was delivered from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the dark shadow and portal of death, my friends were [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">frightened at beholding me restored to health.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A dear old lady asked me, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“How is it that you are</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">restored to us? Has Christ come again on earth?”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Christ never left,”</span> I replied; <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Christ is Truth, and</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Truth is always here,—the impersonal Saviour.”</span> [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then another person, more material, met me, and I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">said, in the words of my Master, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Touch me not.”</span> I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shuddered at her material approach; then my heart went</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out to God, and I found the open door from this sepulchre</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of matter. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">love</span></em> the Easter service: it speaks to me of Life, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not of death.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let us do our work; then we shall have part in his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">resurrection.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc57" id="toc57"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Bible Lessons</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become +the</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were +born,</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of +man, but of</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">God.</span></span>—<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">John</span></span> i. 12, 13.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Here, the apostle assures us that man has power to [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">become the son of God. In the Hebrew text, the word</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“son”</span> is defined variously; a month is called the son</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of a year. This term, as applied to man, is used in both</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a material and a spiritual sense. The Scriptures speak</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Jesus as the Son of God and the Son of man; but [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page181">[pg 181]</span><a name="Pg181" id="Pg181" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus said to call no man father; <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“for one is your Father,”</span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">even God.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Is man's spiritual sonship a personal gift to man, or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is it the reality of his being, in divine Science? Man's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">knowledge of this grand verity gives him power to dem- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">onstrate his divine Principle, which in turn is requisite</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in order to understand his sonship, or unity with God,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good. A personal requirement of blind obedience to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the law of being, would tend to obscure the order of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science, unless that requirement should express the claims [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the divine Principle. Infinite Principle and infinite</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spirit must be one. What avail, then, to quarrel over</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">what is the person of Spirit,—if we recognize infinitude</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as personality,—for who can tell what is the form of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">infinity? When we understand man's true birthright, that [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he is <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“born, not ... of the will of the flesh, nor of the</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">will of man, but of God,”</span> we shall understand that man</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is the offspring of Spirit, and not of the flesh; recognize</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">him through spiritual, and not material laws; and regard</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">him as spiritual, and not material. His sonship, referred [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to in the text, is his spiritual relation to Deity: it is not,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">then, a personal gift, but is the order of divine Science.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The apostle urges upon our acceptance this great fact:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“But as many as received him, to them gave he power</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">to become the sons of God.”</span> Mortals will lose their sense [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of mortality—disease, sickness, sin, and death—in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the proportion that they gain the sense of man's spirit-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ual preexistence as God's child; as the offspring of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good, and not of God's opposite,—evil, or a fallen</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">John the Baptist had a clear discernment of divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science: being born not of the human will or flesh, he</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page182">[pg 182]</span><a name="Pg182" id="Pg182" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">antedated his own existence, began spiritually instead [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of materially to reckon himself logically; hence the im-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">possibility of putting him to death, only in belief, through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">violent means or material methods.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“As many as received him;”</span> that is, as many as per-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ceive man's actual existence in and of his divine Princi- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ple, receive the Truth of existence; and these have no</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">other God, no other Mind, no other origin; therefore, in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">time they lose their false sense of existence, and find</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">their adoption with the Father; to wit, the redemption [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the body. Through divine Science man gains the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">power to become the son of God, to recognize his perfect</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and eternal estate.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">the flesh.”</span> This passage refers to man's primal, spirit- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ual existence, created neither from dust nor carnal desire.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Nor of the will of man.”</span> Born of no doctrine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">no human faith, but beholding the truth of being; even</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the understanding that man was never lost in Adam,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">since he is and ever was the image and likeness of God, [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good. But no mortal hath seen the spiritual man, more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than he hath seen the Father. The apostle indicates</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">no personal plan of a personal Jehovah, partial and finite;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but the possibility of all finding their place in God's great</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">love, the eternal heritage of the Elohim, His sons and [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">daughters. The text is a metaphysical statement of existence</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as Principle and idea, wherein man and his Maker</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are inseparable and eternal.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When the Word is made flesh,—that is, rendered</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">practical,—this eternal Truth will be understood; and [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sickness, sin, and death will yield to it, even as they did</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">more than eighteen centuries ago. The lusts of the flesh</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page183">[pg 183]</span><a name="Pg183" id="Pg183" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the pride of life will then be quenched in the divine [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science of being; in the ever-present good, omnipotent</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love, and eternal Life, that know no death, In the great</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">forever, the verities of being exist, and must be acknowl-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">edged and demonstrated. Man must love his neighbor [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as himself, and the power of Truth must be seen and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">felt in health, happiness, and holiness: then it will be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">found that Mind is All-in-all, and there is no matter to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cope with.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Man is free born: he is neither the slave of sense, nor a [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">silly ambler to the so-called pleasures and pains of self-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">conscious matter. Man is God's image and likeness;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whatever is possible to God, is possible to man <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">as God's</span></em></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">reflection</span></em>. Through the transparency of Science we learn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this, and receive it: learn that man can fulfil the Scrip- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tures in every instance; that if he open his mouth it shall</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be filled—not by reason of the schools, or learning, but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by the natural ability, that reflection already has bestowed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on him, to give utterance to Truth.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Who hath believed our report?”</span> Who understands [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">these sayings? He to whom the arm of the Lord is re-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vealed; to whom divine Science unfolds omnipotence,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that equips man with divine power while it shames human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pride. Asserting a selfhood apart from God, is a denial</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of man's spiritual sonship; for it claims another father. [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As many as do receive a knowledge of God through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science, will have power to reflect His power, in proof of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man's <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“dominion over all the earth.”</span> He is bravely</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">brave who dares at this date refute the evidence of material</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense with the facts of Science, and will arrive at the true [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">status of man because of it. The material senses would</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">make man, that the Scriptures declare reflects his Maker,</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page184">[pg 184]</span><a name="Pg184" id="Pg184" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the very opposite of that Maker, by claiming that God is [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spirit, while man is matter; that God is good, but man is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil; that Deity is deathless, but man dies. Science and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense conflict, from the revolving of worlds to the death</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of a sparrow.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Word will be made flesh and dwell among mortals,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">only when man reflects God in body as well as in mind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The child born of a woman has the formation of his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">parents; the man born of Spirit is spiritual, not material.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Paul refers to this when speaking of presenting our bodies [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">holy and acceptable, which is our reasonable service;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and this brings to remembrance the Hebrew strain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Who healeth all thy diseases.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If man should say of the power to be perfect which he</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">possesses, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I am the power,”</span> he would trespass upon [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine Science, yield to material sense, and lose his power;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">even as when saying, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I have the power to sin and be</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">sick,”</span> and persisting in believing that he is sick and a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sinner. If he says, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I am of God, therefore good,”</span> yet</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">persists in evil, he has denied the power of Truth, and [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">must suffer for this error until he learns that all power is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good because it is of God, and so destroys his self-de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ceived sense of power in evil. The Science of being gives</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">back the lost likeness and power of God as the seal of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man's adoption. Oh, for that light and love ineffable, [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">which casteth out all fear, all sin, sickness, and death;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that seeketh not her own, but another's good; that saith</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Abba, Father, and <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">is</span></span> born of God!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">John came baptizing with water. He employed a type</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of physical cleanliness to foreshadow metaphysical purity, [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">even mortal mind purged of the animal and human, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">submerged in the humane and divine, giving back the</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page185">[pg 185]</span><a name="Pg185" id="Pg185" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lost sense of man in unity with, and reflecting, his Maker. [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">None but the pure in heart shall see God,—shall be able</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to discern fully and demonstrate fairly the divine Principle</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Christian Science. The will of God, or power of Spirit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is made manifest as Truth, and through righteousness,— [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not as or through matter,—and it strips matter of all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">claims, abilities or disabilities, pains or pleasures. Self-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">renunciation of all that constitutes a so-called material</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man, and the acknowledgment and achievement of his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual identity as the child of God, is Science that [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">opens the very flood-gates of heaven; whence good</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">flows into every avenue of being, cleansing mortals of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all uncleanness, destroying all suffering, and demon-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strating the true image and likeness. There is no other</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">way under heaven whereby we can be saved, and man [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be clothed with might, majesty, and immortality.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“As many as received him,”</span>—as accept the truth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of being,—<span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“to them gave he power to become the sons</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">of God.”</span> The spiritualization of our sense of man opens</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the gates of paradise that the so-called material senses [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">would close, and reveals man infinitely blessed, upright,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pure, and free; having no need of statistics by which to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">learn his origin and age, or to measure his manhood, or to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">know how much of a man he ever has been: for, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“as</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">many as received him, to them gave he power to become [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">the sons of God.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living +soul;</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.</span></span>—1 +<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Cor.</span></span> xv. 45.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When reasoning on this subject of man with the Corin-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thian brethren, the apostle first spake from their stand- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">point of thought; namely, that creation is material:</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page186">[pg 186]</span><a name="Pg186" id="Pg186" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he was not at this point giving the history of the spiritual [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man who originates in God, Love, who created man</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in His own image and likeness. In the creation of Adam</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from dust,—in which Soul is supposed to enter the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">embryo-man after his birth,—we see the material self- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">constituted belief of the Jews as referred to by St. Paul.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Their material belief has fallen far below man's original</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">standard, the spiritual man made in the image and like-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness of God; for this erring belief even separates its</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">conception of man from God, and ultimates in the opposite [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">im</span></em>mortal man, namely, in a sick and sinning</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortal.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We learn in the Scriptures, as in divine Science, that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God made all; that He is the universal Father and Mother</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of man; that God is divine Love: therefore divine Love [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is the divine Principle of the divine idea named man;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in other words, the spiritual Principle of spiritual man.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now let us not lose this Science of man, but gain it clearly;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">then we shall see that man cannot be separated from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his perfect Principle, God, inasmuch as an idea cannot [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be torn apart from its fundamental basis. This scien-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tific knowledge affords self-evident proof of immortality;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">proof, also, that the Principle of man cannot produce a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">less perfect man than it produced in the beginning. A</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">material sense of existence is not the scientific fact of [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">being; whereas, the spiritual sense of God and His universe</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is the immortal and true sense of being.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As the apostle proceeds in this line of thought, he</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">undoubtedly refers to the last Adam represented by the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Messias, whose demonstration of God restored to mortals [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the lost sense of man's perfection, even the sense of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">real man in God's likeness, who restored this sense by</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page187">[pg 187]</span><a name="Pg187" id="Pg187" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the spiritual regeneration of both mind and body,— [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">casting out evils, <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">healing the sick</span></em>, and raising the dead.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The man Jesus demonstrated over sin, sickness, disease,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and death. The great Metaphysician wrought, over and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">above every sense of matter, into the proper sense of the [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">possibilities of Spirit. He established health and har-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mony, the perfection of mind and body, as the reality of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man; while discord, as seen in disease and death, was to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">him the opposite of man, hence the unreality; even as in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science a chord is manifestly the reality of music, and [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">discord the unreality. This rule of harmony must be ac-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cepted as true relative to man.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The translators of the older Scriptures presuppose a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">material man to be the first man, solely because their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">transcribing thoughts were not lifted to the inspired sense [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the spiritual man, as set forth in original Holy Writ.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Had both writers and translators in that age fully com-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">prehended the later teachings and demonstrations of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">our human and divine Master, the Old Testament might</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have been as spiritual as the New. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The origin, substance, and life of man are one, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that one is God,—Life, Truth, Love. The self-existent,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">perfect, and eternal are God; and man is their reflection</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and glory. Did the substance of God, Spirit, become a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">clod, in order to create a sick, sinning, dying man? The [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">primal facts of being are eternal; they are never extin-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">guished in a night of discord.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That man must be evil before he can be good; dying,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">before deathless; material, before spiritual; sick and a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sinner in order to be healed and saved, is but the declara- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion of the material senses transcribed by pagan religion-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ists, by wicked mortals such as crucified our Master,—</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page188">[pg 188]</span><a name="Pg188" id="Pg188" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whose teachings opposed the doctrines of Christ that [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demonstrated the opposite, Truth.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Man is as perfect now, and henceforth, and forever,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as when the stars first sang together, and creation joined</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the grand chorus of harmonious being. It is the trans-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lator, not the original Word, who presents as being first [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that which appears second, material, and mortal; and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as last, that which is primal, spiritual, and eternal. Be-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cause of human misstatement and misconception of God</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and man, of the divine Principle and idea of being, there [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">seems to be a war between the flesh and Spirit, a contest</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">between Truth and error; but the apostle says, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“There</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Spirit.”</span> [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On our subject, St. Paul first reasons upon the basis</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of what is seen, the effects of Truth on the material senses;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thence, up to the unseen, the testimony of spiritual sense;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and right there he leaves the subject.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Just there, in the intermediate line of thought, is where [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the present writer found it, when she discovered Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science. And she has <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">not</span></em> left it, but continues the ex-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">planation of the power of Spirit up to its infinite meaning,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its allness. The recognition of this power came to her</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">through a spiritual sense of the real, and of the unreal [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or mortal sense of things; not that there is, or can</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be, an actual change in the realities of being, but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that we can discern more of them. At the moment</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of her discovery, she knew that the last Adam, namely,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the true likeness of God, was the first, the only man. [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This knowledge did become to her <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“a quickening</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">spirit;”</span> for she beheld the meaning of those words</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page189">[pg 189]</span><a name="Pg189" id="Pg189" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of our Master, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The last shall be first, and the first</span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">last.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When, as little children, we are receptive, become</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">willing to accept the divine Principle and rule of being,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as unfolded in divine Science, the interpretation therein</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will be found to be the Comforter that leadeth into all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">truth. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The meek Nazarene's steadfast and true knowledge of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">preexistence, of the nature and the inseparability of God</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and man,—made him mighty. Spiritual insight of [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth and Love antidotes and destroys the errors of flesh,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and brings to light the true reflection: man as God's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">image, or <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the first man,”</span> for Christ plainly declared,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">through Jesus, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Before Abraham was, I am.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The supposition that Soul, or Mind, is breathed into [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">matter, is a pantheistic doctrine that presents a false</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense of existence, and the quickening spirit takes it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">away: revealing, in place thereof, the power and per-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fection of a released sense of Life in God and Life <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">as</span></em></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God. The Scriptures declare Life to be the infinite I [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">am</span></span>,—not a dweller in matter. For man to know Life</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as it is, namely God, the eternal good, gives him not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">merely a sense of existence, but an accompanying con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sciousness of spiritual power that subordinates matter</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and destroys sin, disease, and death. This, Jesus demon- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strated; insomuch that St. Matthew wrote, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The people</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">as one having authority, and not as the scribes.”</span> This</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual power, healing sin and sickness, was not con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fined to the first century; it extends to all time, inhabits [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eternity, and demonstrates Life without beginning or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">end.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page190">[pg 190]</span><a name="Pg190" id="Pg190" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Atomic action is Mind, not matter. It is neither the [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">energy of matter, the result of organization, nor the out-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">come of life infused into matter: it is infinite Spirit, Truth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Life, defiant of error or matter. Divine Science demon-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strates Mind as dispelling a false sense and giving the [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">true sense of itself, God, and the universe; wherein the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortal evolves not the immortal, nor does the material</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ultimate in the spiritual; wherein man is coexistent with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind, and is the recognized reflection of infinite Life and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came +to</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb +spake.</span></span>—<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Luke</span></span> xi. 14.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The meaning of the term <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“devil”</span> needs yet to be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">learned. Its definition as an individual is too limited</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and contradictory. When the Scripture is understood, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the spiritual signification of its terms will be understood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and will contradict the interpretations that the senses</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">give them; and these terms will be found to include the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">inspired meaning.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It could not have been a person that our great Master [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cast out of another person; therefore the devil herein</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">referred to was an impersonal evil, or whatever worketh</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ill. In this case it was the evil of dumbness, an error of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">material sense, cast out by the spiritual truth of being;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">namely, that speech belongs to Mind instead of matter, [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the wrong power, or the lost sense, must yield to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">right sense, and exist in Mind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In the Hebrew, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“devil”</span> is denominated Abaddon; in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Greek, Apollyon, serpent, liar, the god of this world,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">etc. The apostle Paul refers to this personality of evil [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the god of this world;”</span> and then defines this god</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page191">[pg 191]</span><a name="Pg191" id="Pg191" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“dishonesty, craftiness, handling the word of God</span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">deceitfully.”</span> The Hebrew embodies the term <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“devil”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in another term, serpent,—which the senses are supposed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to take in,—and then defines this serpent as <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“more</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">subtle than all the beasts of the field.”</span> Subsequently, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the ancients changed the meaning of the term, to their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense, and then the serpent became a symbol of wisdom.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Scripture in John, sixth chapter and seventieth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">verse, refers to a wicked man as the devil: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Have not</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?”</span> Accord- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing to the Scripture, if devil is an individuality, there is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">more than one devil. In Mark, ninth chapter and thirty-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eighth verse, it reads: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Master, we saw one casting out</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">devils in thy name.”</span> Here is an assertion indicating</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the existence of more than one devil; and by omitting the [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">first letter, the name of his satanic majesty is found</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to be evils, apparent wrong traits, that Christ, Truth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">casts out. By no possible interpretation can this passage</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mean several individuals cast out of another individual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">no bigger than themselves. The term, being here em- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ployed in its plural number, destroys all consistent sup-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">position of the existence of one personal devil. Again,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">our text refers to the devil as dumb; but the original</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">devil was a great talker, and was supposed to have out-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">talked even Truth, and carried the question with Eve. [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Also, the original texts define him as an <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“accuser,”</span> a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“calumniator,”</span> which would be impossible if he were</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">speechless. These two opposite characters ascribed to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">him could only be possible as evil beliefs, as different</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">phases of sin or disease made manifest. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let us obey St. Paul's injunction to reject fables, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">accept the Scriptures in their broader, more spiritual</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page192">[pg 192]</span><a name="Pg192" id="Pg192" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and practical sense. When we speak of a good man, we [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">do not mean that man is God because the Hebrew term</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for Deity was <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“good,”</span> and <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">vice versa</span></span>; so, when +referring</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to a liar, we mean not that he is a personal devil, because</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the original text defines devil as a <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“liar.”</span> [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is of infinite importance to man's spiritual progress,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and to his demonstration of Truth in casting out error,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">—sickness, sin, disease, and death, in all their forms,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that the terms and nature of Deity and devil be understood.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; +and</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my +Father.</span></span>—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">John</span></span> xiv. 12.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Such are the words of him who spake divinely, well</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">knowing the omnipotence of Truth. The Hebrew bard</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">saith, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“His name shall endure forever: His name shall</span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">be continued as long as the sun.”</span> Luminous with the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">light of divine Science, his words reveal the great Principle</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of a full salvation. Neither can we question the practi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cability of the divine Word, who have learned its adapta-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bility to human needs, and man's ability to prove the [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">truth of prophecy.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The fulfilment of the grand verities of Christian healing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">belongs to every period; as the above Scripture plainly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">declares, and as primitive Christianity confirms. Also,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the last chapter of Mark is emphatic on this subject; [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">making healing a condition of salvation, that extends to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all ages and throughout all Christendom. Nothing can</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be more conclusive than this: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“And these signs shall</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">follow them that believe; ... they shall lay hands on</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">the sick, and they shall recover.”</span> This declaration of [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">our Master settles the question; else we are entertaining</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page193">[pg 193]</span><a name="Pg193" id="Pg193" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the startling inquiries, Are the Scriptures inspired? Are [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they true? Did Jesus mean what he said?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If this be the cavil, we reply in the affirmative that the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scripture is true; that Jesus did mean all, and even more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than he said or deemed it safe to say at that time. His [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">words are unmistakable, for they form propositions of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">self-evident demonstrable truth. Doctrines that deny</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the substance and practicality of all Christ's teachings</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cannot be evangelical; and evangelical religion can be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">established on no other claim than the authenticity of [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Gospels, which support unequivocally the proof that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science, as defined and practised by Jesus,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heals the sick, casts out error, and will destroy death.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Referring to The Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of which I am pastor, a certain clergyman charitably [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">expressed it, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the so-called Christian Scientists.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I am thankful even for his allusion to truth; it being</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a modification of silence on this subject, and also of what</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">had been said when critics attacked me for supplying the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">word Science to Christianity,—a word which the people [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are now adopting.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The next step for ecclesiasticism to take, is to admit</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that all Christians are properly called Scientists who</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">follow the commands of our Lord and His Christ, Truth;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and that no one is following his full command without [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this enlarged sense of the spirit and power of Christianity.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do,”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is a radical and unmistakable declaration of the right and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">power of Christianity to heal; for this is Christlike,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and includes the understanding of man's capabilities and [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual power. The condition insisted upon is, first,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“belief;”</span> the Hebrew of which implies understanding.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page194">[pg 194]</span><a name="Pg194" id="Pg194" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">How many to-day believe that the power of God equals [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">even the power of a drug to heal the sick! Divine Science</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reveals the Principle of this power, and the rule whereby</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sin, sickness, disease, and death are destroyed; and God</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is this Principle. Let us, then, seek this Science; that we [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">may know Him better, and love Him more.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Though a man were begirt with the Urim and Thum-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mim of priestly office, yet should deny the validity or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">permanence of Christ's command to heal in all ages,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this denial would dishonor that office and misinterpret [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evangelical religion. Divine Science is not an interpo-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lation of the Scriptures, but is redolent with love, health,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and holiness, for the whole human race. It only needs</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the prism of this Science to divide the rays of Truth, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bring out the entire hues of Deity, which scholastic theol- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ogy has hidden. The lens of Science magnifies the divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">power to human sight; and we then see the supremacy</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Spirit and the nothingness of matter.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The context of the foregoing Scriptural text explains</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus' words, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“because I go unto my Father.”</span> <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Because”</span> [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in following him, you understand God and <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">how</span></em> to turn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from matter to Spirit for healing; <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">how</span></em> to leave self, the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense material, for the sense spiritual; <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">how</span></em> to accept</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God's power and guidance, and become imbued with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine Love that casts out all fear. Then are you bap- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tized in the Truth that destroys all error, and you receive</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the sense of Life that knows no death, and you <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">know</span></em> that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God is the only Life.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To reach the consummate naturalness of the Life that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is God, good, we must comply with the first condition [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">set forth in the text, namely, believe; in other words,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">understand God sufficiently to exclude all faith in any</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page195">[pg 195]</span><a name="Pg195" id="Pg195" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">other remedy than Christ, the Truth that antidotes all [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">error. Thence will follow the absorption of all action,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">motive, and mind, into the rules and divine Principle of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">metaphysical healing.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whosoever learns the letter of Christian Science but [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">possesses not its spirit, is unable to demonstrate this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science; or whosoever hath the spirit without the letter,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is held back by reason of the lack of understanding. Both</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the spirit and the letter are requisite; and having these,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">every one can prove, in some degree, the validity of those [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">words of the great Master, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“For the Son of man is come</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">to save that which was lost.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It has been said that the New Testament does not au-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thorize us to expect the ministry of healing at this period.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We ask what is the authority for such a conclusion, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the premises whereof are not to be found in the Scriptures.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Master's divine logic, as seen in our text, contradicts</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this inference,—these are his words: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“He that believeth</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">on me, the works that I do shall he do also.”</span> That per-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fect syllogism of Jesus has but one correct premise and [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">conclusion, and it cannot fall to the ground beneath the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stroke of unskilled swordsmen. He who never unsheathed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his blade to try the edge of truth in Christian Science, is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unequal to the conflict, and unfit to judge in the case;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the shepherd's sling would slay this Goliath. I once be- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lieved that the practice and teachings of Jesus relative to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healing the sick, were spiritual abstractions, impractical</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and impossible to us; but deed, not creed, and practice</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">more than theory, have given me a higher sense of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christianity. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I”</span> will go to the Father when meekness, purity,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and love, informed by divine Science, the Comforter,</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page196">[pg 196]</span><a name="Pg196" id="Pg196" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lead to the one God: then the ego is found not in [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">matter but in Mind, for there is but one God, one</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind; and man will then claim no mind apart from God.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Idolatry, the supposition of the existence of many minds</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and more than one God, has repeated itself in all manner [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of subtleties through the entire centuries, saying as in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the beginning, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Believe in me, and I will make you as</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">gods;”</span> that is, I will give you a separate mind from God</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">(good), named evil; and this so-called mind shall open</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">your eyes and make you know evil, and thus become [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">material, sensual, evil. But bear in mind that a serpent</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">said that; therefore that saying came not from Mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good, or Truth. God was not the author of it; hence the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">words of our Master: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“He is a liar, and the father of it;”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">also, the character of the votaries to <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“other gods”</span> which [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sprung from it.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The sweet, sacred sense and permanence of man's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unity with his Maker, in Science, illumines our present</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">existence with the ever-presence and power of God, good.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It opens wide the portals of salvation from sin, sickness, [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and death. When the Life that is God, good, shall ap-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pear, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“we shall be like Him;”</span> we shall do the works of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christ, and, in the words of David, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the stone which the</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">builders refused is become the head stone of the corner,”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">because the <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I”</span> does go unto the Father, the ego does [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">arise to spiritual recognition of being, and is exalted,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not through death, but Life, God understood.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be +saved.</span></span>—<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Acts</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">xvi. 31.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Scriptures require more than a simple admission [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and feeble acceptance of the truths they present; they</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page197">[pg 197]</span><a name="Pg197" id="Pg197" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">require a living faith, that so incorporates their lessons [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">into our lives that these truths become the motive-power</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of every act.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ur chosen text is one more frequently used than</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">many others, perhaps, to exhort people to turn from sin [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and to strive after holiness; but we fear the full import</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of this text is not yet recognized. It means a <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">full</span></em> salva-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion,—man saved from sin, sickness, and death; for,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unless this be so, no man can be wholly fitted for heaven</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the way which Jesus marked out and bade his followers [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pursue.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In order to comprehend the meaning of the text, let</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">us see what it is to believe. It means more than an opinion</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">entertained concerning Jesus as a man, as the Son of God,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or as God; such an action of mind would be of no more [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">help to save from sin, than would a belief in any historical</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">event or person. But it does mean so to understand the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">beauty of holiness, the character and divinity which Jesus</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">presented in his power to heal and to save, that it will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">compel us to pattern after both; in other words, to <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“let</span> [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">this Mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">(Phil. ii. 5.)</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mortal man believes in, but does not understand life</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in, Christ. He believes there is another power or intelli-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gence that rules over a kingdom of its own, that is both [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good and evil; yea, that is divided against itself, and there-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fore cannot stand. This belief breaks the First Command-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ment of God.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let man abjure a theory that is in opposition to God,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">recognize God as omnipotent, having all-power; and, [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">placing his trust in this grand Truth, and working from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">no other Principle, he can neither be sick nor forever a</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page198">[pg 198]</span><a name="Pg198" id="Pg198" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sinner. When wholly governed by the one perfect Mind, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man has no sinful thoughts and will have no desire</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to sin.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To arrive at this point of unity of Spirit, God, one must</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">commence by turning away from material gods; denying [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">material so-called laws and material sensation,—or mind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in matter, in its varied forms of pleasure and pain. This</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">must be done with the understanding that matter has no</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense; thus it is that consciousness silences the mortal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">claim to life, substance, or mind in matter, with the words [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Jesus: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">own.”</span> (John viii. 44.)</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When tempted to sin, we should know that evil pro-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ceedeth not from God, good, but is a false belief of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">personal senses; and if we deny the claims of these senses [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and recognize man as governed by God, Spirit, not by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">material laws, the temptation will disappear.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On this Principle, disease also is treated and healed.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We know that man's body, as matter, has no power to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">govern itself; and a belief of disease is as much the prod- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">uct of mortal thought as sin is. All suffering is the fruit</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the tree of the knowledge of <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">both</span></em> good and evil; of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">adherence to the <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“doubleminded”</span> senses, to some belief,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fear, theory, or bad deed, based on physical material law,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">so-called as opposed to good,—all of which is corrected [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">alone by Science, divine Principle, and its spiritual laws.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Suffering is the supposition of another intelligence than</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God; a belief in self-existent evil, opposed to good; and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in whatever seems to punish man for doing good,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by saying he has overworked, suffered from inclement [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">weather, or violated a law of matter in doing good, there-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fore he must suffer for it.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page199">[pg 199]</span><a name="Pg199" id="Pg199" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God does not reward benevolence and love with pen- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">alties; and because of this, we have the right to deny the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">supposed power of matter to do it, and to allege that only</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortal, erring mind can claim to do thus, and dignify the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">result with the name of law: thence comes man's ability [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to annul his own erring mental law, and to hold himself</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">amenable only to moral and spiritual law,—God's gov-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ernment. By so doing, male and female come into their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rightful heritage, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“into the glorious liberty of the children</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">of God.”</span> [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in +necessities,</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake.</span></span>—2 +<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Cor.</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">xii. 10.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The miracles recorded in the Scriptures illustrate the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">life of Jesus as nothing else can; but they cost him the [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hatred of the rabbis. The rulers sought the life of Jesus;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they would extinguish whatever denied and defied their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">superstition. We learn somewhat of the qualities of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine Mind through the human Jesus. The power of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his transcendent goodness is manifest in the control it [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gave him over the qualities opposed to Spirit which mor-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tals name matter.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Principle of these marvellous works is divine; but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the actor was human. This divine Principle is discerned</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in Christian Science, as we advance in the spiritual under- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">standing that all substance, Life, and intelligence are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God. The so-called miracles contained in Holy Writ are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">neither supernatural nor preternatural; for God is good,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and goodness is more natural than evil. The marvellous</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healing-power of goodness is the outflowing life of Chris- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tianity, and it characterized and dated the Christian era.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page200">[pg 200]</span><a name="Pg200" id="Pg200" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It was the consummate naturalness of Truth in the [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mind of Jesus, that made his healing easy and instan-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">taneous. Jesus regarded good as the normal state of man,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and evil as the abnormal; holiness, life, and health as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the better representatives of God than sin, disease, and [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">death. The master Metaphysician understood omnipo-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tence to be All-power: because Spirit was to him All-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in-all, matter was palpably an error of premise and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">conclusion, while God was the only substance, Life,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and intelligence of man. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The apostle Paul insists on the rare rule in Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science that we have chosen for a text; a rule that is sus-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ceptible of proof, and is applicable to every stage and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">state of human existence. The divine Science of this rule</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is quite as remote from the general comprehension of man- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">kind as are the so-called miracles of our Master, and for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the sole reason that it is their basis. The foundational</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">facts of Christian Science are gathered from the supremacy</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of spiritual law and its antagonism to every supposed ma-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">terial law. Christians to-day should be able to say, with [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the sweet sincerity of the apostle, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I take pleasure in</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">infirmities,”</span>—I enjoy the touch of weakness, pain, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all suffering of the flesh, <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">because</span></em> it compels me to seek the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">remedy for it, and to find happiness, apart from the per-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sonal senses. The holy calm of Paul's well-tried hope [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">met no obstacle or circumstances paramount to the tri-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">umph of a reasonable faith in the omnipotence of good,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">involved in its divine Principle, God: the so-called pains</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and pleasures of matter were alike unreal to Jesus; for he</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">regarded matter as only a vagary of mortal belief, and sub- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dued it with this understanding.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The abstract statement that all is Mind, supports the</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page201">[pg 201]</span><a name="Pg201" id="Pg201" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">entire wisdom of the text; and this statement receives [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the mortal scoff only because it meets the immortal de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mands of Truth. The Science of Paul's declaration re-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">solves the element misnamed matter into its original sin,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or human will; that will which would oppose bringing the [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">qualities of Spirit into subjection to Spirit. Sin brought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">death; and death is an element of matter, or material</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">falsity, never of Spirit.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When Jesus reproduced his body after its burial, he</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">revealed the myth or material falsity of evil; its power- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lessness to destroy good, and the omnipotence of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind that knows this: he also showed forth the error</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and nothingness of supposed life in matter, and the great</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">somethingness of the good we possess, which is of Spirit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and immortal. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Understanding this, Paul took pleasure in infirmities,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for it enabled him to triumph over them,—he declared</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">made me free from the law of sin and death;”</span> he took</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pleasure in <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“reproaches”</span> and <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“persecutions,”</span> because [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they were so many proofs that he had wrought the prob-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lem of being beyond the common apprehension of sinners;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he took pleasure in <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“necessities,”</span> for they tested and de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">veloped latent power.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We protect our dwellings more securely after a robbery, [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and our jewels have been stolen; so, after losing those</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">jewels of character,—temperance, virtue, and truth,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the young man is awakened to bar his door against further</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">robberies.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Go to the bedside of pain, and there you can demon- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strate the triumph of good that has pleasure in infirmities;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">because it illustrates through the flesh the divine power</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page202">[pg 202]</span><a name="Pg202" id="Pg202" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Spirit, and reaches the basis of all supposed miracles; [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whereby the sweet harmonies of Christian Science are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">found to correct the discords of sense, and to lift man's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">being into the sunlight of Soul.</div> +</div> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">The chamber where the good man meets his fate</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> [5]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Is privileged beyond the walks of common life,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Quite on the verge of heaven.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></div> +</div> +</div> + +</div> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page203">[pg 203]</span><a name="Pg203" id="Pg203" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc58" id="toc58"></a> +<a name="pdf59" id="pdf59"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Chapter VII. Pond And Purpose.</span></h1> + + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Beloved Students:—In thanking you for your [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gift of the pretty pond contributed to Pleasant View,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in Concord, New Hampshire, I make no distinction be-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tween my students and your students; for here, thine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">becomes mine through gratitude and affection. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From my tower window, as I look on this smile of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science, this gift from my students and their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">students, it will always mirror their love, loyalty, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good works. Solomon saith, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“As in water face answereth</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">to face, so the heart of man to man.”</span> [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The waters that run among the valleys, and that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you have coaxed in their course to call on me, have</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">served the imagination for centuries. Theology religiously</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bathes in water, medicine applies it physically, hydrology</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">handles it with so-called science, and metaphysics appro- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">priates it topically as type and shadow. Metaphysically,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">baptism serves to rebuke the senses and illustrate Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">First:</span></span> The baptism of repentance is indeed a stricken</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">state of human consciousness, wherein mortals gain [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">severe views of themselves; a state of mind which rends</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the veil that hides mental deformity. Tears flood the eyes,</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page204">[pg 204]</span><a name="Pg204" id="Pg204" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">agony struggles, pride rebels, and a mortal seems a [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">monster, a dark, impenetrable cloud of error; and falling</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on the bended knee of prayer, humble before God, he</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cries, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Save, or I perish.”</span> Thus Truth, searching the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heart, neutralizes and destroys error. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This mental period is sometimes chronic, but oftener</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">acute. It is attended throughout with doubt, hope, sorrow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">joy, defeat, and triumph. When the good fight is fought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">error yields up its weapons and kisses the feet of Love,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">while white-winged peace sings to the heart a song of [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">angels.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Second:</span></span> The baptism of the Holy Ghost is the spirit</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Truth cleansing from all sin; giving mortals new</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">motives, new purposes, new affections, all pointing up-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ward. This mental condition settles into strength, free- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dom, deep-toned faith in God; and a marked loss of faith</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in evil, in human wisdom, human policy, ways, and means.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It develops individual capacity, increases the intellectual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">activities, and so quickens moral sensibility that the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">great demands of spiritual sense are recognized, and they [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rebuke the material senses, holding sway over human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">consciousness.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">By purifying human thought, this state of mind per-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">meates with increased harmony all the minutiae of human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">affairs. It brings with it wonderful foresight, wisdom, [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and power; it unselfs the mortal purpose, gives steadi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness to resolve, and success to endeavor. Through the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">accession of spirituality, God, the divine Principle of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science, literally governs the aims, ambition,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and acts of the Scientist. The divine ruling gives prudence [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and energy; it banishes forever all envy, rivalry,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil thinking, evil speaking and acting; and mortal</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page205">[pg 205]</span><a name="Pg205" id="Pg205" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mind, thus purged, obtains peace and power outside of [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">itself.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This practical Christian Science is the divine Mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the incorporeal Truth and Love, shining through the mists</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of materiality and melting away the shadows called sin, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">disease, and death.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In mortal experience, the fire of repentance first sepa-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rates the dross from the gold, and reformation brings</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the light which dispels darkness. Thus the operation</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the spirit of Truth and Love on the human thought, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the words of St. John, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“shall take of mine and show it</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">unto you.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Third:</span></span> The baptism of Spirit, or final immersion of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human consciousness in the infinite ocean of Love, is the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">last scene in corporeal sense. This omnipotent act drops [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the curtain on material man and mortality. After this,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man's identity or consciousness reflects only Spirit, good,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whose visible being is invisible to the physical senses: eye</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hath not seen it, inasmuch as it is the disembodied in-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dividual Spirit-substance and consciousness termed in [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian metaphysics the ideal man—forever permeated</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with eternal life, holiness, heaven. This order of Science</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is the chain of ages, which maintain their obvious corre-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spondence, and unites all periods in the divine design.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mortal man's repentance and absolute abandonment of [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sin finally dissolves all supposed material life or physical</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sensation, and the corporeal or mortal man disappears</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">forever. The encumbering mortal molecules, called man,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vanish as a dream; but man born of the great Forever,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lives on, God-crowned and blest. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mortals who on the shores of time learn Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science, and live what they learn, take rapid transit to</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page206">[pg 206]</span><a name="Pg206" id="Pg206" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heaven,—the hinge on which have turned all revolu- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tions, natural, civil, or religious, the former being servant</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the latter,—from flux to permanence, from foul to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pure, from torpid to serene, from extremes to intermediate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Above the waves of Jordan, dashing against the receding [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shore, is heard the Father and Mother's welcome, saying</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">forever to the baptized of Spirit: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“This is my beloved</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Son.”</span> What but divine Science can interpret man's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eternal existence, God's allness, and the scientific inde-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">structibility of the universe? [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The advancing stages of Christian Science are gained</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">through growth, not accretion; idleness is the foe of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">progress. And scientific growth manifests no weakness,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">no emasculation, no illusive vision, no dreamy absentness,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">no insubordination to the laws that be, no loss nor lack [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of what constitutes true manhood.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Growth is governed by intelligence; by the active,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all-wise, law-creating, law-disciplining, law-abiding Prin-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ciple, God. The real Christian Scientist is constantly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">accentuating harmony in word and deed, mentally and [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">orally, perpetually repeating this diapason of heaven:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Good is my God, and my God is good. Love is my God,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">and my God is Love.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Beloved students, you have entered the path. Press</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">patiently on; God is good, and good is the reward of all [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who diligently seek God. Your growth will be rapid, if</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you love good supremely, and understand and obey the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Way-shower, who, going before you, has scaled the steep</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ascent of Christian Science, stands upon the mount of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">holiness, the dwelling-place of our God, and bathes in the [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">baptismal font of eternal Love.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As you journey, and betimes sigh for rest <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“beside the</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page207">[pg 207]</span><a name="Pg207" id="Pg207" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">still waters,”</span> ponder this lesson of love. Learn its pur- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pose;and in hope and faith, where heart meets heart</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reciprocally blest, drink with me the living waters of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spirit of my life-purpose,—to impress humanity with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the genuine recognition of practical, operative Christian [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page208">[pg 208]</span><a name="Pg208" id="Pg208" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc60" id="toc60"></a> +<a name="pdf61" id="pdf61"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Chapter VIII. Precept Upon Precept</span></h1> + + + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc62" id="toc62"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 144%">“</span><span style="font-size: 144%">Thy Will Be Done</span><span style="font-size: 144%">”</span></span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This is the law of Truth to error, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou shalt surely</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">die.”</span> This law is a divine energy. Mortals cannot</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">prevent the fulfilment of this law; it covers all sin and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its effects. God is All, and by virtue of this nature and [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">allness He is cognizant only of good. Like a legislative</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bill that governs millions of mortals whom the legislators</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">know not, the universal law of God has no knowledge</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of evil, and enters unconsciously the human heart and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">governs it. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mortals have only to submit to the law of God, come</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">into sympathy with it, and to let His will be done. This</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unbroken motion of the law of divine Love gives, to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">weary and heavy-laden, rest. But who is willing to do</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His will or to let it be done? Mortals obey their own [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wills, and so disobey the divine order.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All states and stages of human error are met and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mastered by divine Truth's negativing error in the way</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of God's appointing. Those <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“whom the Lord loveth He</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">chasteneth.”</span> His rod brings to view His love, and inter- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">prets to mortals the gospel of healing. David said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Be-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fore I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">kept Thy word.”</span> He who knows the end from the be-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page209">[pg 209]</span><a name="Pg209" id="Pg209" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ginning, attaches to sin due penalties as its antidotes and [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">remedies.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who art thou, vain mortal, that usurpest the preroga-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tive of divine wisdom, and wouldst teach God not to punish</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sin? that wouldst shut the mouth of His prophets, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and cry, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Peace, peace; when there is no peace,”</span>—yea,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that healest the wounds of my people slightly?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Principle of divine Science being Love, the divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rule of this Principle demonstrates Love, and proves that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human belief fulfils the law of belief, and dies of its own [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">physics. Metaphysics also demonstrates this Principle of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cure when sin is self-destroyed. Short-sighted physics</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">admits the so-called pains of matter that destroy its more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dangerous pleasures.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Insomnia compels mortals to learn that neither obliv- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ion nor dreams can recuperate the life of man, whose</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Life is God, for God neither slumbers nor sleeps. The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">loss of gustatory enjoyment and the ills of indigestion</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tend to rebuke appetite and destroy the peace of a false</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense. False pleasure will be, is, chastened; it has no [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">right to be at peace. To suffer for having <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“other gods</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">before me,”</span> is divinely wise. Evil passions die in their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">own flames, but are punished before extinguished. Peace</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">has no foothold on the false basis that evil should be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">concealed and that life and happiness should still attend [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it. Joy is self-sustained; goodness and blessedness are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one: suffering is self-inflicted, and good is the master of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To this scientific logic and the logic of events, egotism</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and false charity say, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“ <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">‘Not so, Lord;’</span> it is wise to</span> [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cover iniquity and punish it not, then shall mortals have</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">peace.”</span> Divine Love, as unconscious as incapable of</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page210">[pg 210]</span><a name="Pg210" id="Pg210" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">error, pursues the evil that hideth itself, strips off its [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">disguises, and—behold the result: evil, uncovered, is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">self-destroyed.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science never healed a patient without prov-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing with mathematical certainty that error, when found [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out, is two-thirds destroyed, and the remaining third</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">kills itself. Do men whine over a nest of serpents, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">post around it placards warning people not to stir up</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">these reptiles because they have stings? Christ said,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“They shall take up serpents;”</span> and, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Be ye therefore</span> [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">wise as serpents and harmless as doves.”</span> The wisdom</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of a serpent is to hide itself. The wisdom of God, as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">revealed in Christian Science, brings the serpent out of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its hole, handles it, and takes away its sting. Good deeds</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are harmless. He who has faith in woman's special adapt- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ability to lead on Christian Science, will not be shocked</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">when she puts her foot on the head of the serpent, as it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">biteth at the heel.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Intemperance begets a belief of disordered brains,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">membranes, stomach, and nerves; and this belief serves [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to uncover and kill this lurking serpent, intemperance,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that hides itself under the false pretense of human need,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">innocent enjoyment, and a medical prescription. The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">belief in venereal diseases tears the black mask from the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shameless brow of licentiousness, torments its victim, and [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thus may save him from his destroyer.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Charity has the courage of conviction; it may suffer</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">long, but has neither the cowardice nor the foolhardiness</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to cover iniquity. Charity is Love; and Love opens</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the eyes of the blind, rebukes error, and casts it out. [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Charity never flees before error, lest it should suffer</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from an encounter. Love your enemies, or you will not</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page211">[pg 211]</span><a name="Pg211" id="Pg211" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lose them; and if you love them, you will help to reform [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">them.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christ points the way of salvation. His mode is not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cowardly, uncharitable, nor unwise, but it teaches mor-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tals to handle serpents and cast out evil. Our own vision [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">must be clear to open the eyes of others, else the blind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will lead the blind and both shall fall. The sickly charity</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that supplies criminals with bouquets has been dealt</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with summarily by the good judgment of people in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the old Bay State. Inhuman medical bills, class legisla- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion, and Salem witchcraft, are not indigenous to her</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">soil.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Out of the depths have I delivered thee.”</span> The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">drowning man just rescued from the merciless wave is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unconscious of suffering. Why, then, do you break his [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">peace and cause him to suffer in coming to life? Because</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you wish to save him from death. Then, if a criminal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is at peace, is he not to be pitied and brought back to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">life? Or, are you afraid to do this lest he suffer, trample</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on your pearls of thought, and turn on you and rend you? [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Cowardice is selfishness. When one protects himself at</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his neighbor's cost, let him remember, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Whosoever will</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">save his life shall lose it.”</span> He risks nothing who obeys</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the law of God, and shall find the Life that cannot be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lost. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Our Master said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Ye shall drink indeed of my cup.”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus stormed sin in its citadels and kept peace with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God. He drank this cup giving thanks, and he said to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his followers, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Drink ye all of it,”</span>—drink it all, and let</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all drink of it. He lived the spirit of his prayer,—<span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thy</span> +[30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">kingdom come.”</span> Shall we repeat our Lord's Prayer</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">when the heart denies it, refuses to bear the cross and</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page212">[pg 212]</span><a name="Pg212" id="Pg212" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to fulfil the conditions of our petition? Human policy [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is a fool that saith in his heart, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“No God”</span>—a caressing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Judas that betrays you, and commits suicide. This god-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">less policy never knows what happiness is, and how it is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">obtained. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus did his work, and left his glorious career for our</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">example. On the shore of Gennesaret he tersely re-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">minded his students of their worldly policy. They had</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">suffered, and seen their error. This experience caused</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">them to remember the reiterated warning of their Mas- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ter and cast their nets on the right side. When they</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">were fit to be blest, they received the blessing. The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ultimatum of their human sense of ways and means</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ought to silence ours. One step away from the direct</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">line of divine Science cost them—what? A speedy re- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">turn under the reign of difficulties, darkness, and unre-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quited toil.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The currents of human nature rush in against the right</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">course; health, happiness, and life flow not into one of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">their channels. The law of Love saith, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Not my will,</span> [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">but Thine, be done,”</span> and Christian Science proves that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human will is lost in the divine; and Love, the white</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christ, is the remunerator.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If, consciously or unconsciously, one is at work in a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wrong direction, who will step forward and open his [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eyes to see this error? He who <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">is</span></em> a Christian Scientist,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who has cast the beam out of his own eye, speaks plainly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the offender and tries to show his errors to him before</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">letting another know it.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Pitying friends took down from the cross the fainting [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">form of Jesus, and buried it out of their sight. His dis-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ciples, who had not yet drunk of his cup, lost sight of</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page213">[pg 213]</span><a name="Pg213" id="Pg213" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">him; they could not behold his immortal being in the [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">form of Godlikeness.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All that I have written, taught, or lived, that is good,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">flowed through cross-bearing, self-forgetfulness, and my</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">faith in the right. Suffering or Science, or both, in the [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">proportion that their instructions are assimilated, will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">point the way, shorten the process, and consummate the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">joys of acquiescence in the methods of divine Love. The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scripture saith, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“He that covereth his sins shall not pros-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">per.”</span> No risk is so stupendous as to neglect opportuni- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ties which God giveth, and not to forewarn and forearm</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">our fellow-mortals against the evil which, if seen, can</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be destroyed.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">May my friends and my enemies so profit by these</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">waymarks, that what has chastened and illumined [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">another's way may perfect their own lives by gentle</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">benedictions. In every age, the pioneer reformer must</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pass through a baptism of fire. But the faithful adher-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ents of Truth have gone on rejoicing. Christian Science</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gives a fearless wing and firm foundation. These are [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its inspiring tones from the lips of our Master, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“My</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">my hand.”</span> He is but <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“an hireling”</span> who fleeth when he [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">seeth the wolf coming.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Loyal Christian Scientists, be of good cheer: the night</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is far spent, the day dawns; God's universal kingdom</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will appear, Love will reign in every heart, and <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">His</span></em> will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be done on earth as in heaven. [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page214">[pg 214]</span><a name="Pg214" id="Pg214" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc63" id="toc63"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 144%">“</span><span style="font-size: 144%">Put Up Thy Sword</span><span style="font-size: 144%">”</span></span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">While Jesus' life was full of Love, and a demonstra-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion of Love, it appeared hate to the carnal mind, or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortal thought, of his time. He said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Think not that</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">variance against his father, and the daughter against her</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own house-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">hold.”</span> [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This action of Jesus was stimulated by the same Love</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that closed—to the senses—that wondrous life, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that summed up its demonstration in the command,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Put up thy sword.”</span> The very conflict his Truth brought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in accomplishing its purpose of Love, meant, all [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the way through, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Put up thy sword;”</span> but the sword</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">must have been drawn before it could be returned into</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the scabbard.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My students need to search the Scriptures and <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> to understand [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the personal Jesus' labor in the flesh for their salvation:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they need to do this even to understand my works, their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">motives, aims, and tendency.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The attitude of mortal mind in being healed morally,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is the same as its attitude physically. The Christian [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scientist cannot heal the sick, and take error along with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth, either in the recognition or approbation of it.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This would prevent the possibility of destroying the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tares: they must be separated from the wheat before</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they can be burned, and Jesus foretold the harvest hour [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page215">[pg 215]</span><a name="Pg215" id="Pg215" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the final destruction of error through this very pro- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cess,—the sifting and the fire. The tendency of mortal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mind is to go from one extreme to another: Truth comes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">into the intermediate space, saying, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I wound to heal;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I punish to reform; I do it all in love; my peace I leave [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with thee: not as the world giveth, give I unto thee.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Arise, let us go hence; let us depart from the material</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense of God's ways and means, and gain a spiritual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">understanding of them.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But let us not seek to climb up some other way, as we [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shall do if we take the end for the beginning or start</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from wrong motives. Christian Science demands order</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and truth. To abide by these we must first understand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Principle and object of our work, and be clear that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it is Love, peace, and good will toward men. Then we [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shall demonstrate the Principle in the way of His ap-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pointment, and not according to the infantile concep-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion of our way; as when a child in sleep walks on the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">summit of the roof of the house because he is a som-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nambulist, and thinks he is where he is not, and would [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fall immediately if he knew where he was and what he</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">was doing.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My students are at the beginning of their demonstra-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion; they have a long warfare with error in themselves</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and in others to finish, and they must at this stage use [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the sword of Spirit.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They cannot in the beginning take the attitude, nor</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">adopt the words, that Jesus used at the <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">end</span></em> of his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demonstration.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If you would follow in his footsteps, you must not try [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to gather the harvest while the corn is in the blade, nor</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">yet when it is in the ear; a wise spiritual discernment</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page216">[pg 216]</span><a name="Pg216" id="Pg216" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">must be used in your application of his words and infer- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ence from his acts, to guide your own state of combat</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with error. There <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">remaineth</span></em>, it is true, a Sabbath rest</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for the people of God; but we must first have done our</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">work, and entered into our rest, as the Scriptures give [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">example.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc64" id="toc64"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Scientific Theism</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In the May number of our <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span>, there appeared a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">review of, and some extracts from, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Scientific Theism,”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by Phare Pleigh. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now, Phare Pleigh evidently means more than <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“hands</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">off.”</span> A live lexicographer, given to the Anglo-Saxon</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tongue, might add to the above definition the <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“laying</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">on of hands,”</span> as well. Whatever his <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">nom de +plume</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">means, an acquaintance with the author justifies one [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the conclusion that he is a power in criticism, a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">big protest against injustice; but, the best may be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mistaken.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">One of these extracts is the story of the Cheshire Cat,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">which <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end</span> [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">some time after the rest of it had gone.”</span> Was this a witty</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or a happy hit at idealism, to illustrate the author's fol-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lowing point?—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“When philosophy becomes fairy-land, in which neither</span> [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">laws of nature nor the laws of reason hold good, the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">attempt of phenomenism to conceive the universe as a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">phenomenon without a noumenon</span></em> may succeed, but not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">before; for it is an attempt to conceive a grin without</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">a cat.”</span> [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page217">[pg 217]</span><a name="Pg217" id="Pg217" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">True idealism is a divine Science, which combines in [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">logical sequence, nature, reason, and revelation. An</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">effect without a cause is inconceivable; neither philoso-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">phy nor reason attempts to find one; but all should con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ceive and understand that Spirit cannot become less than [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spirit; hence that the universe of God is spiritual,—even</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the ideal world whose cause is the self-created Principle,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with which its ideal or phenomenon must correspond in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quality and quantity.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The fallacy of an unscientific statement is this: that [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">matter and Spirit are one and eternal; or, that the phe-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nomenon of Spirit is the antipode of Spirit, namely, mat-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ter. Nature declares, throughout the mineral, vegetable,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and animal kingdoms, that the specific nature of all things</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is unchanged, and that nature is constituted of and by [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spirit.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sensuous and material realistic views presuppose that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nature is matter, and that Deity is a finite person con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">taining infinite Mind; and that these opposites, in sup-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">positional unity and personality, produce matter,—a [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">third quality unlike God. Again, that matter is both</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cause and effect, but that the effect is antagonistic to its</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cause; that death is at war with Life, evil with good,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and man a rebel against his Maker. This is neither</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science nor theism. According to Holy Writ, it is a [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">kingdom divided against itself, that shall be brought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to desolation.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The nature of God must change in order to become</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">matter, or to become both finite and infinite; and matter</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">must <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">dis</span></em>appear, for Spirit to appear. To the material [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense, everything is matter; but spiritualize human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thought, and our convictions change: for spiritual sense</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page218">[pg 218]</span><a name="Pg218" id="Pg218" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">takes in new views, in which nature becomes Spirit; and [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spirit is God, and God is good. Science unfolds the fact</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that Deity was forever Mind, Spirit; that matter never</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">produced Mind, and <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">vice versa</span></span>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The visible universe declares the invisible only by re- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">version, as error declares Truth. The testimony of mate-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rial sense in relation to existence is false; for matter can</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">neither see, hear, nor feel, and mortal mind must change</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all its conceptions of life, substance, and intelligence,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">before it can reach the immortality of Mind and its ideas. [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is erroneous to accept the evidence of the material</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">senses whence to reason out God, when it is conceded</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that the five personal senses can take no cognizance of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spirit or of its phenomena. False realistic views sap the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science of Principle and idea; they make Deity unreal [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and inconceivable, either as mind or matter; but Truth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">comes to the rescue of reason and immortality, and unfolds</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the real nature of God and the universe to the spiri-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ual sense, which beareth witness of things spiritual, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not material. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To begin with, the notion of Spirit as cause and end,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with matter as its effect, is more ridiculous than the <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“grin</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">without a cat;”</span> for a grin expresses the nature of a cat,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and this nature may linger in memory: but matter does</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not express the nature of Spirit, and matter's graven [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">grins are neither eliminated nor retained by Spirit. What</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">can illustrate Dr. ——'s views better than Pat's echo,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">when he said <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“How do you do?”</span> and echo answered,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Pretty well, I thank you!”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Dr. —— says: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The recognition of teleology in nature</span> +[30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is necessarily the recognition of purely spiritual personality</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">in God.”</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page219">[pg 219]</span><a name="Pg219" id="Pg219" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">According to lexicography, teleology is the science of [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the final cause of things; and divine Science (and all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science is divine) neither reveals God in matter, cause</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in effect, nor teaches that nature and her laws are the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">material</span></em> universe, or that the personality of infinite Spirit [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is finite or material. Jesus said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Ye do err, not know-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">ing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.”</span> Now, what</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">saith the Scripture? <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“God is a Spirit: and they that</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">truth.”</span> [10]</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc65" id="toc65"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Mental Practice</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is admitted that mortals think wickedly and act</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wickedly: it is beginning to be seen by thinkers, that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortals think also after a sickly fashion. In common</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">parlance, one person feels sick, another feels wicked. A [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">third person knows that if he would remove this feeling</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in either case, in the one he must change his patient's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">consciousness of dis-ease and suffering to a consciousness</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of ease and loss of suffering; while in the other he must</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">change the patient's sense of sinning at ease to a sense of [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">discomfort in sin and peace in goodness.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This is Christian Science: that mortal mind makes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sick, and immortal Mind makes well; that mortal mind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">makes sinners, while immortal Mind makes saints; that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a state of health is but a state of consciousness made mani- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fest on the body, and <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">vice versa</span></span>; that while one person</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">feels wickedly and acts wickedly, another knows that if</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he can change this evil sense and consciousness to a good</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense, or conscious goodness, the fruits of goodness will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">follow, and he has reformed the sinner. [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page220">[pg 220]</span><a name="Pg220" id="Pg220" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now, demonstrate this rule, which obtains in every [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">line of mental healing, and you will find that a good rule</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">works one way, and a false rule the opposite way.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let us suppose that there is a sick person whom an-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">other would heal mentally. The healer begins by mental [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">argument. He mentally says, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“You are well, and you</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">know it;”</span> and he supports this silent mental force by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">audible explanation, attestation, and precedent. His</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mental and oral arguments aim to refute the sick man's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thoughts, words, and actions, in certain directions, and [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">turn them into channels of Truth. He persists in this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">course until the patient's mind yields, and the harmonious</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thought has the full control over this mind on the point</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at issue. The end is attained, and the patient says and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">feels, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I am well, and I know it.”</span> [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This mental practitioner has changed his patient's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">consciousness from sickness to health. The patient's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mental state is now the diametrical opposite of what it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">was when the mental practitioner undertook to transform</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it, and he is improved morally and physically. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That this mental method has power and bears fruit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is patent both to the conscientious Christian Scientist and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the observer. Both should understand with equal clear-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness, that if this mental process and power be reversed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and people believe that a man is sick and knows it, and [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">speak of him as being sick, put it into the minds of others</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that he is sick, publish it in the newspapers that he is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">failing, and persist in this action of mind over mind, it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">follows that he will believe that he is sick,—and Jesus</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">said it would be according to the woman's belief; but if [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with the certainty of Science he knows that an error of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">belief has not the power of Truth, and cannot, does</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page221">[pg 221]</span><a name="Pg221" id="Pg221" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not, produce the slightest effect, it has no power over [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">him. Thus a mental malpractitioner may lose his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">power to harm by a false mental argument; for it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gives one opportunity to handle the error, and when</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mastering it one gains in the rules of metaphysics, and [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thereby learns more of its divine Principle. Error pro-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">duces physical sufferings, and these sufferings show</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the fundamental Principle of Christian Science; namely,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that error and sickness are one, and Truth is their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">remedy. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The evil-doer can do little at removing the effect of sin</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on himself, unless he believes that sin has produced the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">effect and knows he is a sinner: or, knowing that he is a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sinner, if he denies it, the good effect is lost. Either of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">these states of mind will stultify the power to heal men- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tally. This accounts for many helpless mental practi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tioners and mysterious diseases.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Again: If error is the cause of disease, Truth being</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the cure, denial of this fact in one instance and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">acknowledgment of it in another saps one's under- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">standing of the Science of Mind-healing, Such denial</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dethrones demonstration, baffles the student of Mind-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healing, and divorces his work from Science. Such de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nial also contradicts the doctrine that we must mentally</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">struggle against both evil and disease, and is like saying [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that five times ten are fifty while ten times five are not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fifty; as if the multiplication of the same two numbers</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">would not yield the same product whichever might serve</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as the multiplicand.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who would tell another of a crime that he himself is [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">committing, or call public attention to that crime? The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">belief in evil and in the process of evil, holds the issues</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page222">[pg 222]</span><a name="Pg222" id="Pg222" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of death to the evil-doer. It takes away a man's proper [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense of good, and gives him a false sense of both evil</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and good. It inflames envy, passion, evil-speaking, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strife. It reverses Christian Science in all things. It</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">causes the victim to believe that he is advancing while [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">injuring himself and others. This state of false conscious-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness in many cases causes the victim great physical suffering;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and conviction of his wrong state of feeling reforms</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">him, and so heals him: or, failing of conviction and re-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">form, he becomes morally paralyzed—in other words, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a moral idiot.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In this state of misled consciousness, one is ready to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">listen complacently to audible falsehoods that once he</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">would have resisted and loathed; and this, because the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">false seems true. The malicious mental argument and [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its action on the mind of the perpetrator, is fatal, morally</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and physically. From the effects of mental malpractice</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the subject scarcely awakes in time, and must suffer its</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">full penalty after death. This sin against divine Science</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is cancelled only through human agony: the measure it [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">has meted must be remeasured to it.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The crimes committed under this new <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">régime</span></span> of mind-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">power, when brought to light, will make stout hearts quail.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Its mystery protects it now, for it is not yet known. Error</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is more abstract than Truth. Even the healing Principle, [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whose power seems inexplicable, is not so obscure; for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this is the power of God, and good should seem more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">natural than evil.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I shall not forget the cost of investigating, for this age,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the methods and power of error. While the ways, means, [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and potency of Truth had flowed into my consciousness</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as easily as dawns the morning light and shadows flee,</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page223">[pg 223]</span><a name="Pg223" id="Pg223" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the metaphysical mystery of error—its hidden paths, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">purpose, and fruits—at first defied me. I was say-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing all the time, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Come not thou into the secret”</span>—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but at length took up the research according to God's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">command. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Streams which purify, necessarily have pure fountains;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">while impure streams flow from corrupt sources. Here,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine light, logic, and revelation coincide.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science proves, beyond cavil, that the tree is known</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by its fruit; that mind reaches its own ideal, and cannot [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be separated from it. I respect that moral sense which</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is sufficiently strong to discern what it believes, and to say,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">if it must, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I discredit Mind with having the power to</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">heal.”</span> This individual disbelieves in Mind-healing, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is consistent. But, alas! for the mistake of believing in [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mental healing, claiming full faith in the divine Principle,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and saying, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I am a Christian Scientist,”</span> while doing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unto others what we would resist to the hilt if done unto</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ourselves.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">May divine Love so permeate the affections of all those [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who have named the name of Christ in its fullest sense,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that no counteracting influence can hinder their growth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or taint their examples.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc66" id="toc66"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Taking Offense</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There is immense wisdom in the old proverb, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“He</span> [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">that is slow to anger is better than the mighty.”</span> Hannah</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">More said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“If I wished to punish my enemy, I should</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">make him hate somebody.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To punish ourselves for others' faults, is superlative</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">folly. The mental arrow shot from another's bow is [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page224">[pg 224]</span><a name="Pg224" id="Pg224" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">practically harmless, unless our own thought barbs it. [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is our pride that makes another's criticism rankle, our</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">self-will that makes another's deed offensive, our egotism</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that feels hurt by another's self-assertion. Well may we</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">feel wounded by our own faults; but we can hardly afford [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to be miserable for the faults of others.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A courtier told Constantine that a mob had broken</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the head of his statue with stones. The emperor lifted</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his hands to his head, saying: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“It is very surprising, but</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">I don't feel hurt in the least.”</span> [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We should remember that the world is wide; that there</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are a thousand million different human wills, opinions,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ambitions, tastes, and loves; that each person has a differ-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ent history, constitution, culture, character, from all the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rest; that human life is the work, the play, the ceaseless [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">action and reaction upon each other of these different</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">atoms. Then, we should go forth into life with the smallest</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">expectations, but with the largest patience; with a keen</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">relish for and appreciation of everything beautiful, great,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and good, but with a temper so genial that the friction [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the world shall not wear upon our sensibilities; with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">an equanimity so settled that no passing breath nor</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">accidental disturbance shall agitate or ruffle it; with a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">charity broad enough to cover the whole world's evil, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sweet enough to neutralize what is bitter in it,—de- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">termined not to be offended when no wrong is meant, nor</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">even when it is, unless the offense be against God.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Nothing short of our own errors should offend us. He</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who can wilfully attempt to injure another, is an object</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of pity rather than of resentment; while it is a question [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in my mind, whether there is enough of a flatterer, a fool,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or a liar, <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">to</span></em> offend a whole-souled woman.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page225">[pg 225]</span><a name="Pg225" id="Pg225" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc67" id="toc67"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Hints To The Clergy</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">At the residence of Mr. Rawson, of Arlington, Massa-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">chusetts, a happy concourse of friends had gathered to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">celebrate the eighty-second birthday of his mother—a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">friend of mine, and a Christian Scientist. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Among the guests, were an orthodox clergyman, his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wife and child.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In the course of the evening, conversation drifted to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the seventh modern wonder, Christian Science; where-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">upon the mother, Mrs. Rawson, who had drunk at its [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fount, firmly bore testimony to the power of Christ, Truth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to heal the sick.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Soon after this conversation, the clergyman's son</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">was taken violently ill. Then was the clergyman's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">opportunity to demand a proof of what the Christian [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scientist had declared; and he said to this venerable</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“If you heal my son, when seeing, I may be led to</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">believe.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mrs. Rawson then rose from her seat, and sat down [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">beside the sofa whereon lay the lad with burning brow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">moaning in pain.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Looking away from all material aid, to the spiritual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">source and ever-present help, silently, through the divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">power, she healed him. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The deep flush faded from the face, a cool perspiration</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spread over it, and he slept.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In about one hour he awoke, and was hungry.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The parents said:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Wait until we get home, and you shall have some</span> [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">gruel.”</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page226">[pg 226]</span><a name="Pg226" id="Pg226" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But Mrs. Rawson said:—[1]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Give the child what he relishes, and doubt not that</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">the Father of all will care for him.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thus, the unbiased youth and the aged Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">carried the case on the side of God; and, after eating [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">several ice-creams, the clergyman's son returned home</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">—<em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">well</span></em>.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc68" id="toc68"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Perfidy And Slander</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What has an individual gained by losing his own self-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">respect? or what has he lost when, retaining his own, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he loses the homage of fools, or the pretentious praise of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hypocrites, false to themselves as to others?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Shakespeare, the immortal lexicographer of mortals,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">writes:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 13.50em"><span style="font-size: 90%">To thine own self be true, [15]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And it must follow, as the night the day,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Thou canst not then be false to any man.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When Aristotle was asked what a person could gain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by uttering a falsehood, he replied, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Not to be credited</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">when he shall tell the truth.”</span> [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The character of a liar and hypocrite is so contempti-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ble, that even of those who have lost their honor it might</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be expected that from the violation of truth they should</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be restrained by their pride.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Perfidy of an inferior quality, such as manages to evade [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the law, and which dignified natures cannot stoop to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">notice, except legally, disgraces human nature more than</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">do most vices.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Slander is a midnight robber; the red-tongued assas-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sin of radical worth; the conservative swindler, who [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page227">[pg 227]</span><a name="Pg227" id="Pg227" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sells himself in a traffic by which he can gain nothing [1].</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It can retire for forgiveness to no fraternity where its</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">crime may stand in the place of a virtue; but must at</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">length be given up to the hisses of the multitude, with-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out friend and without apologist. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Law has found it necessary to offer to the innocent,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">security from slanderers—those pests of society—when</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">their crime comes within its jurisdiction. Thus, to evade</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the penalty of law, and yet with malice aforethought to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">extend their evil intent, is the nice distinction by which [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they endeavor to get their weighty stuff into the hands</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of gossip! Some uncharitable one may give it a forward</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">move, and, ere that one himself become aware, find</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">himself responsible for kind (?) endeavors.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Would that my pen or pity could raise these weak, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pitifully poor objects from their choice of self-degrada-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion to the nobler purposes and wider aims of a life made</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">honest: a life in which the fresh flowers of feeling blos-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">som, and, like the camomile, the more trampled upon,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the sweeter the odor they send forth to benefit mankind; [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a life wherein calm, self-respected thoughts abide in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tabernacles of their own, dwelling upon a holy hill, speak-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing the truth in the heart; a life wherein the mind can</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rest in green pastures, beside the still waters, on isles</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of sweet refreshment. The sublime summary of an [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">honest life satisfies the mind craving a higher good, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bathes it in the cool waters of peace on earth; till it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">grows into the full stature of wisdom, reckoning its</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">own by the amount of happiness it has bestowed upon</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">others. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Not to avenge one's self upon one's enemies, is the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">command of almighty wisdom; and we take this to be</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page228">[pg 228]</span><a name="Pg228" id="Pg228" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a safer guide than the promptings of human nature. [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To know that a deception dark as it is base has been</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">practised upon thee,—by those deemed at least indebted</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">friends whose welfare thou hast promoted,—and yet</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not to avenge thyself, is to do good to thyself; is to take [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a new standpoint whence to look upward; is to be calm</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">amid excitement, just amid lawlessness, and pure amid</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">corruption.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To be a great man or woman, to have a name whose</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">odor fills the world with its fragrance, is to bear with [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">patience the buffetings of envy or malice—even while</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">seeking to raise those barren natures to a capacity for a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">higher life. We should look with pitying eye on the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">momentary success of all villainies, on mad ambition</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and low revenge. This will bring us also to look on a [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">kind, true, and just person, faithful to conscience and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">honest beyond reproach, as the only suitable fabric out</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of which to weave an existence fit for earth and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heaven.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc69" id="toc69"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Contagion</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whatever man sees, feels, or in any way takes cog-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nizance of, must be caught through mind; inasmuch</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as perception, sensation, and consciousness belong to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mind and not to matter. Floating with the popular</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">current of mortal thought without questioning the re- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">liability of its conclusions, we do what others do,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">believe what others believe, and say what others say.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Common consent is contagious, and it makes disease</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">catching.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">People believe in infectious and contagious diseases, [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page229">[pg 229]</span><a name="Pg229" id="Pg229" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and that any one is liable to have them under certain [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">predisposing or exciting causes. This mental state pre-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pares one to have any disease whenever there appear the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">circumstances which he believes produce it. If he believed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as sincerely that health is catching when exposed to con- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tact with healthy people, he would catch their state of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">feeling quite as surely and with better effect than he does</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the sick man's.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If only the people would believe that good is more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">contagious than evil, since God is omnipresence, how [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">much more certain would be the doctor's success, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the clergyman's conversion of sinners. And if only the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pulpit would encourage faith in God in this direction,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and faith in Mind over all other influences governing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the receptivity of the body, theology would teach man [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as David taught: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Because thou hast made the Lord,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">which is my refuge, even the most High thy habitation;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">come nigh thy dwelling.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The confidence of mankind in contagious disease would [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thus become beautifully less; and in the same propor-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion would faith in the power of God to heal and to save</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mankind increase, until the whole human race would</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">become healthier, holier, happier, and longer lived. A</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">calm, Christian state of mind is a better preventive of [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">contagion than a drug, or than any other possible sana-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tive method; and the <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“perfect Love”</span> that <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“casteth out</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">fear”</span> is a sure defense.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page230">[pg 230]</span><a name="Pg230" id="Pg230" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc70" id="toc70"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Improve Your Time</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Success in life depends upon persistent effort, upon [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the improvement of moments more than upon any other</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one thing. A great amount of time is consumed in talking</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nothing, doing nothing, and indecision as to what one</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">should do. If one would be successful in the future, let [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">him make the most of the present.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Three ways of wasting time, one of which is con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">temptible, are gossiping mischief, making lingering calls,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and mere motion when at work, thinking of nothing or [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">planning for some amusement,—travel of limb more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than mind. Rushing around smartly is no proof of ac-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">complishing much.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All successful individuals have become such by hard</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of pleasure. They spend no time in sheer idleness, in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">talking when they have nothing to say, in building air-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">castles or floating off on the wings of sense: all of which</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">drop human life into the ditch of nonsense, and worse [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than waste its years.</div> +</div> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">Let us, then, be up and doing,</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">With a heart for any fate;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Still achieving, still pursuing,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Learn to labor and to wait.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> [25]</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc71" id="toc71"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Thanksgiving Dinner</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It was a beautiful group! needing but canvas and the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">touch of an artist to render it pathetic, tender, gorgeous.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page231">[pg 231]</span><a name="Pg231" id="Pg231" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Age, on whose hoary head the almond-blossom formed a [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">crown of glory; middle age, in smiles and the full fruition</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of happiness; infancy, exuberant with joy,—ranged side</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by side. The sober-suited grandmother, rich in ex-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">perience, had seen sunshine and shadow fall upon ninety- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">six years. Four generations sat at that dinner-table.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The rich viands made busy many appetites; but, what</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the poor! Willingly—though I take no stock in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spirit-rappings—would I have had the table give a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual groan for the unfeasted ones. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Under the skilful carving of the generous host, the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mammoth turkey grew beautifully less. His was the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">glory to vie with guests in the dexterous use of knife and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fork, until delicious pie, pudding, and fruit caused un-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">conditional surrender. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And the baby! Why, he made a big hole, with two</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">incisors, in a big pippin, and bit the finger presump-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tuously poked into the little mouth to arrest the peel!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then he was caught walking! one, two, three steps,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and papa knew that he could walk, but grandpa was [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">taken napping. Now! baby has tumbled, soft as thistle-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">down, on the floor; and instead of a real set-to at crying,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a look of cheer and a toy from mamma bring the soft</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">little palms patting together, and pucker the rosebud</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mouth into saying, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Oh, pretty!”</span> That was a scientific [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">baby; and his first sitting-at-table on Thanksgiving Day—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">yes, and his little rainbowy life—brought sunshine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to every heart. How many homes echo such tones of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heartfelt joy on Thanksgiving Day! But, alas! for the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">desolate home; for the tear-filled eyes looking longingly [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at the portal through which the loved one comes not, or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gazing silently on the vacant seat at fireside and board—</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page232">[pg 232]</span><a name="Pg232" id="Pg232" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God comfort them all! we inwardly prayed—but the [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">memory was too much; and, turning from it, in a bumper</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of pudding-sauce we drank to peace, and plenty, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">happy households.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc72" id="toc72"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Christian Science</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This age is reaching out towards the perfect Principle</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of things; is pushing towards perfection in art, inven-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion, and manufacture. Why, then, should religion be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stereotyped, and we not obtain a more perfect and prac-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tical Christianity? It will never do to be behind the [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">times in things most essential, which proceed from the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">standard of right that regulates human destiny. Human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">skill but foreshadows what is next to appear as its divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">origin. Proportionately as we part with material systems</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and theories, personal doctrines and dogmas, meekly to [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ascend the hill of Science, shall we reach the maximum</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of perfection in all things.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spirit is omnipotent; hence a more spiritual Chris-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tianity will be one having more power, having perfected</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in Science that most important of all arts,—healing. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Metaphysical healing, or Christian Science, is a de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mand of the times. Every man and every woman would</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">desire and demand it, if he and she knew its infinite</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">value and firm basis. The unerring and fixed Principle</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of all healing is God; and this Principle should be [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sought from the love of good, from the most spiritual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and unselfish motives. Then will it be understood to be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of God, and not of man; and this will prevent mankind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from striking out promiscuously, teaching and practising</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page233">[pg 233]</span><a name="Pg233" id="Pg233" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">name</span></em> of Science without knowing its fundamental [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Principle.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is important to know that a malpractice of the best</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">system will result in the worst form of medicine. More-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">over, the feverish, disgusting pride of those who call [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">themselves metaphysicians or Scientists,—but are such</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in name only,—fanned by the breath of mental mal-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">practice, is the death's-head at the feast of Truth; the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">monkey in harlequin jacket that will retard the onward</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">march of life-giving Science, if not understood and with- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stood, and so strangled in its attempts.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The standard of metaphysical healing is traduced by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thinking to put into the old garment of drugging the new</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cloth of metaphysics; or by trying to twist the fatal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">magnetic force of mortal mind, termed hypnotism, into [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a more fashionable cut and naming that <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“mind-cure,”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or—which is still worse in the eyes of Truth—terming</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it metaphysics! Substituting good words for a good life,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fair-seeming for straightforward character, mental mal-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">practice for the practice of true medicine, is a poor shift [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for the weak and worldly who think the standard of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science too high for them.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What think you of a scientist in mathematics who finds</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fault with the exactness of the rule because unwilling to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">work hard enough to practise it? The perfection of the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rule of Christian Science is what constitutes its utility:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">having a true standard, if some fall short, others will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">approach it; and these are they only who adhere to that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">standard.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Matter must be understood as a false belief or product so [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of mortal mind: whence we learn that sensation is not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in matter, but in this so-called mind; that we see and</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page234">[pg 234]</span><a name="Pg234" id="Pg234" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">feel disease only by reason of our belief in it: then shall [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">matter remain no longer to blind us to Spirit, and clog</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the wheels of progress. We spread our wings in vain when</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">we attempt to mount above error by speculative views</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Truth. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love is the Principle of divine Science; and Love is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not learned of the material senses, nor gained by a culpa-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ble attempt to seem what we have not lifted ourselves</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">be</span></em>, namely, a Christian. In love for man, we gain a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">true sense of Love as God; and in no other way can we [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reach this spiritual sense, and rise—and still rise—to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">things most essential and divine. What hinders man's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">progress is his vain conceit, the Phariseeism of the times,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">also his effort to steal from others and avoid hard work;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">errors which can never find a place in Science. Empiri- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cal knowledge is worse than useless: it never has advanced</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man a single step in the scale of being.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That one should have ventured on such unfamiliar</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ground, and, self-forgetful, should have gone on to estab-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lish this mighty system of metaphysical healing, called [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science, against such odds,—even the entire</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">current of mortality,—is matter of grave wonderment to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">profound thinkers. That, in addition to this, she has made</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">some progress, has seen far into the spiritual facts of be-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing which constitute physical and mental perfection, in [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the midst of an age so sunken in sin and sensuality, seems</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to them still more inconceivable.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In this new departure of metaphysics, God is regarded</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">more as absolute, supreme; and Christ is clad with a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">richer illumination as our Saviour from sickness, sin, [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and death. God's fatherliness as Life, Truth, and Love,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">makes His sovereignty glorious.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page235">[pg 235]</span><a name="Pg235" id="Pg235" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">By this system, too, man has a changed recognition [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of his relation to God. He is no longer obliged to sin,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be sick, and die to reach heaven, but is required and em-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">powered to conquer sin, sickness, and death; thus, as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">image and likeness, to reflect Him who destroys death [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and hell. By this reflection, man becomes the partaker</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of that Mind whence sprang the universe.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In Christian Science, progress is demonstration, not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">doctrine. This Science is ameliorative and regenerative,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">delivering mankind from all error through the light and [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">love of Truth. It gives to the race loftier desires and new</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">possibilities. It lays the axe at the root of the tree of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">knowledge, to cut down all that bringeth not forth good</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fruit; <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“and blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">in me.”</span> It touches mind to more spiritual issues, sys- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tematizes action, gives a keener sense of Truth and a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stronger desire for it.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hungering and thirsting after a better life, we shall</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have it, and become Christian Scientists; learn God</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">aright, and know something of the ideal man, the real [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man, harmonious and eternal. This movement of thought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">must push on the ages: it must start the wheels of reason</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">aright, educate the affections to higher resources, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">leave Christianity unbiased by the superstitions of a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">senior period. [25]</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc73" id="toc73"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Injustice</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who that has tried to follow the divine precept, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“All</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">you, do ye even so to them,”</span> has not suffered from the</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page236">[pg 236]</span><a name="Pg236" id="Pg236" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">situation?—has not found that human passions in their [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reaction have misjudged motives?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Throughout our experience since undertaking the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">labor of uplifting the race, we have been made the re-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pository of little else than the troubles, indiscretions, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and errors of others; until thought has shrunk from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">contact with family difficulties, and become weary with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">study to counsel wisely whenever giving advice on per-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sonal topics.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To the child complaining of his parents we have said, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Love and honor thy parents, and yield obedience to</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">them in all that is right; but you have the rights of con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">science, as we all have, and must follow God in all your</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">ways.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When yielding to constant solicitations of husband or [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wife to give, to one or the other, advice concerning diffi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">culties and the best way to overcome them, we have done</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this to the best of our ability,—and always with the pur-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pose to restore harmony and prevent dishonor. In such</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cases we have said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Take no counsel of a mortal, even</span> [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">though it be your best friend; but be guided by God</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">alone;”</span> meaning by this, Be not estranged from each</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">other by anything that is said to you, but seek in divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love the remedy for all human discord.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Yet, notwithstanding one's good intentions, in some [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">way or at some step in one's efforts to help another, as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a general rule, one will be blamed for all that is not right:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but this must not deter us from doing our duty, whatever</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">else may appear, and at whatever cost.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page237">[pg 237]</span><a name="Pg237" id="Pg237" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc74" id="toc74"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Reformers</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The olden opinion that hell is fire and brimstone, has</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">yielded somewhat to the metaphysical fact that suffering</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is a thing of mortal mind instead of body: so, in place</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of material flames and odor, mental anguish is generally [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">accepted as the penalty for sin. This changed belief</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">has wrought a change in the actions of men. Not a few</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">individuals serve God (or try to) from fear; but remove</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that fear, and the worst of human passions belch forth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">their latent fires. Some people never repent until earth [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gives them such a cup of gall that conscience strikes home;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">then they are brought to realize how impossible it is to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sin and not suffer. All the different phases of error in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human nature the reformer must encounter and help to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eradicate. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This period is not essentially one of conscience: few</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">feel and live now as when this nation began, and our</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">forefathers' prayers blended with the murmuring winds</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of their forest home. This is a period of doubt, inquiry,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">speculation, selfishness; of divided interests, marvellous [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good, and mysterious evil. But sin can only work out</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its own destruction; and reform does and must push on</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the growth of mankind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Honor to faithful merit is delayed, and always has</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">been; but it is sure to follow. The very streets through [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">which Garrison was dragged were draped in honor of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the dead hero who did the hard work, the immortal work,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of loosing the fetters of one form of human slavery. I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">remember, when a girl, and he visited my father, how a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">childish fear clustered round his coming. I had heard [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page238">[pg 238]</span><a name="Pg238" id="Pg238" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the awful story that <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“he helped <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">‘niggers’</span> kill the white</span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">folks!”</span> Even the loving children are sometimes made</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to believe a lie, and to hate reformers. It is pleasant,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">now, to contrast with that childhood's wrong the reverence</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of my riper years for all who dare to be true, honest to [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">their convictions, and strong of purpose.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The reformer has no time to give in defense of his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">own life's incentive, since no sacrifice is too great for the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">silent endurance of his love. What has not unselfed love</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">achieved for the race? All that ever was accomplished, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and more than history has yet recorded. The reformer</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">works on unmentioned, save when he is abused or his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">work is utilized in the interest of somebody. He may</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">labor for the establishment of a cause which is fraught</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with infinite blessings,—health, virtue, and heaven; [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but what of all that? Who should care for everybody?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is enough, say they, to care for a few. Yet the good</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is done, and the love that foresees more to do, stimulate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">philanthropy and are an ever-present reward. Let one's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">life answer well these questions, and it already hath a [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">benediction:</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Have you renounced self? Are you faithful? Do</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you love?</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc75" id="toc75"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Mrs. Eddy Sick</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The frequent public allegement that I am <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“sick, unable</span> [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">to speak a loud word,”</span> or that I died of palsy, and am</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dead,—is but another evidence of the falsehoods kept</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">constantly before the public.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">While I accord these evil-mongers due credit for their</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page239">[pg 239]</span><a name="Pg239" id="Pg239" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">desire, let me say to you, dear reader: Call at the [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Massachusetts Metaphysical College, in 1889, and judge</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for yourself whether I can talk—and laugh too! I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">never was in better health. I have had but four</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">days' vacation for the past year, and am about to com- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mence a large class in Christian Science. Lecturing,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">writing, preaching, teaching, etc., give fair proof that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my shadow is not growing less; and substance is taking</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">larger proportions.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc76" id="toc76"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 144%">“</span><span style="font-size: 144%">I've Got Cold</span><span style="font-size: 144%">”</span></span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Out upon the sidewalk one winter morning, I observed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a carriage draw up before a stately mansion; a portly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gentleman alight, and take from his carriage the ominous</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hand-trunk.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Ah!”</span> thought I, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“somebody has to take it; and what</span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">may the potion be?”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Just then a tiny, sweet face appeared in the vestibule,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and red nose, suffused eyes, cough, and tired look, told</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the story; but, looking up quaintly, the poor child said,—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I've got cold, doctor.”</span> [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her apparent pride at sharing in a popular influenza</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">was comical. However, her dividend, when compared</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with that of the household stockholders, was new; and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">doubtless their familiarity with what the stock paid, made</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">them more serious over it. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What if that sweet child, so bravely confessing that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">she had something that she ought not to have, and which</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mamma thought must be gotten rid of, had been taught</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the value of saying even more bravely, and believing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it,— [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page240">[pg 240]</span><a name="Pg240" id="Pg240" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I have <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">not</span></em> got cold.”</span> [1]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Why, the doctor's squills and bills would have been</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">avoided; and through the cold air the little one would</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have been bounding with sparkling eyes, and ruby cheeks</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">painted and fattened by metaphysical hygiene. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Parents and doctors must not take the sweet freshness</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out of the children's lives by that flippant caution, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“You</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">will get cold.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Predicting danger does not dignify life, whereas fore-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">casting liberty and joy does; for these are strong pro- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">moters of health and happiness. All education should</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">contribute to moral and physical strength and freedom.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If a cold could get into the body without the assent of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mind, nature would take it out as gently, or let it remain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as harmlessly, as it takes the frost out of the ground or [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">puts it into the ice-cream to the satisfaction of all.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The sapling bends to the breeze, while the sturdy oak,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with form and inclination fixed, breasts the tornado. It</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is easier to incline the early thought rightly, than the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">biased mind. Children not mistaught, naturally love [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God; for they are pure-minded, affectionate, and gen-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">erally brave. Passions, appetites, pride, selfishness, have</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">slight sway over the fresh, unbiased thought.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Teach the children early self-government, and teach</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">them nothing that is wrong. If they see their father with [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a cigarette in his mouth—suggest to them that the habit</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of smoking is not nice, and that nothing but a loathsome</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">worm <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">naturally</span></em> chews tobacco. Likewise soberly inform</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">them that <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Battle-Axe Plug”</span> takes off men's heads; or,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">leaving these on, that it takes from their bodies a sweet [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">something which belongs to nature,—namely, pure</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">odors.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page241">[pg 241]</span><a name="Pg241" id="Pg241" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From a religious point of view, the faith of both youth [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and adult should centre as steadfastly in God to benefit</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the body, as to benefit the mind. Body and mind are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">correlated in man's salvation; for man will no more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">enter heaven sick than as a sinner, and Christ's Christi- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">anity casts out sickness as well as sin of every sort.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Test, if you will, metaphysical healing on two patients:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one having morals to be healed, the other having a physi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cal ailment. Use as your medicine the great alterative,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth: give to the immoralist a mental dose that says, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“You have no pleasure in sin,”</span> and witness the effects.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Either he will hate you, and try to make others do like-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wise, so taking a dose of error big enough apparently to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">neutralize your Truth, else he will doubtingly await the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">result; during which interim, by constant combat and [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">direful struggles, you get the victory and Truth heals him</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the moral malady.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On the other hand, to the bedridden sufferer admin-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ister this alternative Truth: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“God never made you sick:</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">there is no necessity for pain; and Truth destroys the [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">error that insists on the necessity of any man's bondage</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to sin and sickness. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Ye shall know the truth, and the</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">truth shall make you free.’</span> ”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then, like blind Bartimeus, the doubting heart looks</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">up through faith, and your patient rejoices in the gospel [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of health.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thus, you see, it is easier to heal the physical than the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">moral ailment. When divine Truth and Love heal, of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sin, the sinner who is at ease in sin, how much more should</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">these heal, of sickness, the sick who are dis-eased, dis- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">comforted, and who long for relief!</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page242">[pg 242]</span><a name="Pg242" id="Pg242" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc77" id="toc77"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 144%">“</span><span style="font-size: 144%">Prayer And Healing</span><span style="font-size: 144%">”</span></span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The article of Professor T——, having the above cap- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion, published in <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Zion's Herald</span></span>, December third, came</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not to my notice until January ninth. In it the Professor</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">offered me, as President of the Metaphysical College in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Boston, or one of my students, the liberal sum of one [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thousand dollars if either would reset certain dislocations</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">without the use of hands, and two thousand dollars if</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">either would give sight to one born blind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Will the gentleman accept my thanks due to his gener- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">osity; for, if I should accept his bid on Christianity, he</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">would lose his money.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Why?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Because I performed more difficult tasks fifteen years</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ago. At present, I am in another department of Christian [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">work, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“where there shall no signs be given them,”</span> for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they shall be instructed in the Principle of Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science that furnishes its own proof.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But, to reward his liberality, I offer him three thou-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sand dollars if he will heal one single case of opium-eating [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">where the patient is very low and taking morphine powder</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in its most concentrated form, at the rate of one ounce in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">two weeks,—having taken it twenty years; and he is to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cure that habit in three days, leaving the patient well. I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cured precisely such a case in 1869. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Also, Mr. C. M. H——, of Boston, formerly partner</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of George T. Brown, pharmacist, No. 5 Beacon St., will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tell you that he was my student in December, 1884; and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that before leaving the class he took a patient thoroughly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">addicted to the use of opium—if she went without it [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page243">[pg 243]</span><a name="Pg243" id="Pg243" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">twenty-four hours she would have delirium—and in [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">forty-eight hours cured her perfectly of this habit,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with no bad results, but with decided improvement in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">health.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I have not yet made surgery one of the mental branches [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">taught in my college; although students treat sprains,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">contusions, etc., successfully. In the case of sprain of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wrist-joint, where the regular doctor had put on splints</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and bandages to remain six weeks, a student of mine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">removed these appliances the same day and effected the [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cure in less than one week. Reference, Mrs. M. A. F——,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">107 Eutaw Street, East Boston.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I agree with the Professor, that every system of medi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cine claims more than it practises. If the system is Science,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it includes of necessity the Principle, which the learner [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">can demonstrate only in proportion as he understands it.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Boasting is unbecoming a mortal's poor performances.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My Christian students are proverbially modest: their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">works alone should declare them, since my system of medi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cine is not generally understood. There are charlatans [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“mind-cure,”</span> who practise on the basis of matter, or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human will, not Mind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Professor alludes to Paul's advice to Timothy.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Did he refer to that questionable counsel, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Take a little</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">wine for thy stomach's sake”</span>? Even doctors disagree [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on that prescription: some of the medical faculty will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tell you that alcoholic drinks cause the coats of the stomach</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to thicken and the organ to contract; will prevent the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">secretions of the gastric juice, and induce ulceration,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bleeding, vomiting, death. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Again, the Professor quotes, in justification of material</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">methods, and as veritable: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“He took a bone from the</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page244">[pg 244]</span><a name="Pg244" id="Pg244" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">side of Adam, closed up the wound thereof, and builded [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">up the woman.”</span> (Gen. ii. 21.)</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Here we have the Professor on the platform of Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science! even a <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“surgical operation”</span> that he says was</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">performed by divine power,—Mind alone constructing [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the human system, before surgical instruments were</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">invented, and closing the incisions of the flesh.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He further states that God cannot save the soul without</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">compliance to ordained conditions. But, we ask, have</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">those conditions named in Genesis been perpetuated in [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the multiplication of mankind? And, are the conditions</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of salvation mental, or physical; are they bodily penance</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and torture, or repentance and reform, which are the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">action of mind?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He asks, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Has the law been abrogated that demands</span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">the employment of visible agencies for specific ends?”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Will he accept my reply as derived from the life and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">teachings of Jesus?—who annulled the so-called laws of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">matter by the higher law of Spirit, causing him to walk</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the wave, turn the water into wine, make the blind to see, [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the deaf to hear, the lame to walk, and the dead to be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">raised without matter-agencies. And he did this for man's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">example; not to teach himself, but others, the way of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healing and salvation. He said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“And other sheep I have,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">which are not of this fold.”</span> [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The teachings and demonstration of Jesus were for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all peoples and for all time; not for a privileged class or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a restricted period, but for as many as should believe in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">him.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Are the discoverers of quinine, cocaine, etc., espe- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cially the children of our Lord because of their medical</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">discoveries?</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page245">[pg 245]</span><a name="Pg245" id="Pg245" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We have no record showing that our Master ever used, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or recommended others to use, drugs; but we have his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">words, and the prophet's, as follows: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Take no thought,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink?”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“And Asa ... sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.</span> [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">And Asa slept with his fathers.”</span></div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc78" id="toc78"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Veritas Odium Parit</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The combined efforts of the materialistic portion of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the pulpit and press in 1885, to retard by misrepresen-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tation the stately goings of Christian Science, are giving [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it new impetus and energy; calling forth the <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">vox populi</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and directing more critical observation to its uplifting</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">influence upon the health, morals, and spirituality of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mankind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Their movements indicate fear and weakness, a physi- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cal and spiritual need that Christian Science should re-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">move with glorious results. The conclusion cannot now</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be pushed, that women have no rights that man is bound</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to respect. This is woman's hour, in all the good tend-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">encies, charities, and reforms of to-day. It is difficult [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to say which may be most mischievous to the human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heart, the praise or the dispraise of men.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I have loved the Church and followed it, thinking that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it was following Christ; but, if the pulpit allows the people</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to go no further in the direction of Christlikeness, and [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rejects apostolic Christianity, seeking to stereotype infinite</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth, it is a thing to be thankful for that one can walk</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">alone the straight and narrow way; that, in the words of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wendell Phillips, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“one with God is a majority.”</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page246">[pg 246]</span><a name="Pg246" id="Pg246" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is the pulpit and press, clerical robes and the pro- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hibiting of free speech, that cradles and covers the sins of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the world,—all unmitigated systems of crime; and it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">requires the enlightenment of these worthies, through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">civil and religious reform, to blot out all inhuman codes. [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It was the Southern pulpit and press that influenced the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">people to wrench from man both human and divine rights,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in order to subserve the interests of wealth, religious caste,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">civil and political power. And the pulpit had to be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">purged of that sin by human gore,—when the love of [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christ would have washed it divinely away in Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The cry of the colored slave has scarcely been heard</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and hushed, when from another direction there comes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">another sharp cry of oppression. Another form of inhumanity [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lifts its hydra head to forge anew the old fetters;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to shackle conscience, stop free speech, slander, vilify;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to invite its prey, then turn and refuse the victim a solitary</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vindication in this most unprecedented warfare.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A conflict more terrible than the battle of Gettysburg [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">awaits the crouching wrong that refused to yield its</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">prey the peace of a desert, when a voice was heard</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">crying in the wilderness,—the spiritual famine of 1866,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">—<span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His paths</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">straight.”</span> [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Shall religious intolerance, arrayed against the rights</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of man, again deluge the earth in blood? The question</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at issue with mankind is: Shall we have a spiritual Chris-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tianity and a spiritual healing, or a materialistic religion</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and a <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">materia medica</span></span>? [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The advancing faith and hope of Christianity, the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">earnest seeking after practical truth that shall cast out</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page247">[pg 247]</span><a name="Pg247" id="Pg247" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">error and heal the sick, wisely demand for man his God- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">given heritage, both human and divine rights; namely,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that his honest convictions and <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">proofs</span></em> of advancing truth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be allowed due consideration, and treated not as pearls</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">trampled upon. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Those familiar with my history are more tolerant; those</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who know me, know that I found health in just what I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">teach. I have professed Christianity a half-century; and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">now I calmly challenge the world, upon fair investigation,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to furnish a single instance of departure in one of my [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">works from the highest possible ethics.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The charges against my views are false, but natural,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">since those bringing them do not understand my state-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ment of the Science I introduce, and are unwilling to be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">taught it, even gratuitously. If they did understand it, they [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">could demonstrate this Science by healing the sick; hence</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the injustice of their interpretations.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To many, the healing force developed by Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science seems a mystery, because they do not understand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that Spirit controls body. They acknowledge the exist- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ence of mortal mind, but believe it to reside in matter</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the brain; but that man is the idea of infinite Mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is not so easily accepted. That which is temporary</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">seems, to the common estimate, solid and substantial.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is much easier for people to believe that the body [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">affects mind, than that the body is an expression of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mind, and reflects harmony or discord according to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thought.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Everything that God created, He pronounced good.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He never made sickness. Hence <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">that</span></em> is only an evil belief [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of mortal mind, which must be met, in every instance,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with a denial by Truth.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page248">[pg 248]</span><a name="Pg248" id="Pg248" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This is the <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“new tongue,”</span> the language of them that [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover,”</span> whose</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual interpretation they refuse to hear. For instance:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the literal meaning of the passage <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“lay hands on the sick”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">would be manipulation; its moral meaning, found in the [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“new tongue,”</span> is spiritual power,—as, in another Scripture,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I will triumph in the works of Thy hands.”</span></div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc79" id="toc79"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Falsehood</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Greeks showed a just estimate of the person they</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">called slanderer, when they made the word synonymous [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with devil. If the simple falsehoods uttered about me</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">were compounded, the mixture would be labelled thus:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Religionists' mistaken views of Mrs. Eddy's book, +<span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">‘Sci-</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">ence and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> and the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">malice aforethought of sinners.”</span> [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That I take opium; that I am an infidel, a mesmerist,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a medium, a <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“pantheist;”</span> or that my hourly life is prayerless,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or not in strict obedience to the Mosaic Decalogue,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is not more true than that I am dead, as is oft reported.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">St. Louis Democrat</span></span> is alleged to have reported my [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demise, and to have said that I died of poison, and bequeathed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my property to Susan Anthony.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The opium falsehood has only this to it: Many years</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ago my regular physician prescribed morphine, which I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">took, when he could do no more for me. Afterwards, [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the glorious revelations of Christian Science saved me</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from that necessity and made me well, since which time</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I have not taken drugs, with the following exception:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When the mental malpractice of poisoning people was</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page249">[pg 249]</span><a name="Pg249" id="Pg249" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">first undertaken by a mesmerist, to test that malprac- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tice I experimented by taking some large doses of mor-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">phine, to see if Christian Science could not obviate its</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">effect; and I say with tearful thanks, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The drug had</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">no effect upon me whatever.”</span> The hour has struck, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">—<span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“If they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">them.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The false report that I have appropriated other people's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">manuscripts in my works, has been met and answered</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">legally</span></em>. Both in private and public life, and especially [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">through my teachings, it is well known that I am not a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritualist, a pantheist, or prayerless. The most devout</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">members of evangelical churches will say this, as well as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my intimate acquaintances. None are permitted to re-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">main in my College building whose morals are not un- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">questionable. I have neither purchased nor ordered a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">drug since my residence in Boston; and to my knowledge,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not one has been sent to my house, unless it was something</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to remove stains or vermin.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The report that I was dead arose no doubt from the [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">combined efforts of some malignant students, expelled</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from my College for immorality, to kill me: of their mental</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">design to do this I have proof, but no fear. My heavenly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Father will never leave me comfortless, in the amplitude</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of His love; coming nearer in my need, more tenderly to [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">save and bless.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc80" id="toc80"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Love</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What a word! I am in awe before it. Over what</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">worlds on worlds it hath range and is sovereign! the un-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page250">[pg 250]</span><a name="Pg250" id="Pg250" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">derived, the incomparable, the infinite All of good, the [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">alone</span></em> God, is Love.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">By what strange perversity is the best become the most</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">abused,—either as a quality or as an entity? Mortals</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">misrepresent and miscall affection; they make it what [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it is not, and doubt what it is. The so-called affection</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pursuing its victim is a butcher fattening the lamb to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">slay it. What the lower propensities express, should be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">repressed by the sentiments. No word is more mis-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">construed; no sentiment less understood. The divine [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">significance of Love is distorted into human qualities,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">which in their human abandon become jealousy and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hate.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love is not something put upon a shelf, to be taken</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">down on rare occasions with sugar-tongs and laid on a [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rose-leaf. I make strong demands on love, call for active</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">witnesses to prove it, and noble sacrifices and grand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">achievements as its results. Unless these appear, I cast</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">aside the word as a sham and counterfeit, having no ring</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the true metal. Love cannot be a mere abstraction, or [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">goodness without activity and power. As a human quality,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the glorious significance of affection is more than words:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it is the tender, unselfish deed done in secret; the silent,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ceaseless prayer; the self-forgetful heart that overflows;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the veiled form stealing on an errand of mercy, out of a [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">side door; the little feet tripping along the sidewalk; the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gentle hand opening the door that turns toward want and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">woe, sickness and sorrow, and thus lighting the dark</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">places of earth.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page251">[pg 251]</span><a name="Pg251" id="Pg251" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc81" id="toc81"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Address On The Fourth Of July At Pleasant View, +Concord, N. H., Before 2,500 Members Of The +Mother Church, 1897</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My beloved brethren, who have come all the way from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Pacific to the Atlantic shore, from the Palmetto to the [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Pine Tree State, I greet you; my hand may not touch</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">yours to-day, but my heart will with tenderness untalkable.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His Honor, Mayor Woodworth, has welcomed you to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Concord most graciously, voicing the friendship of this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">city and of my native State—loyal to the heart's core to [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">religion, home, friends, and country.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To-day we commemorate not only our nation's civil</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and religious freedom, but a greater even, the liberty of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the sons of God, the inalienable rights and radiant reality</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Christianity, whereof our Master said: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The works</span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">that I do shall he do;”</span> and, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The kingdom of God +cometh</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">not with observation”</span> (with knowledge obtained from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the senses), but <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the kingdom of God is within you,”</span>—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">within the present possibilities of mankind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Think of this inheritance! Heaven right here, where [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">angels are as men, clothed more lightly, and men as angels</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who, burdened for an hour, spring into liberty, and the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good they would do, that they do, and the evil they would</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not do, that they do not.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From the falling leaves of old-time faiths men learn a [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">parable of the period, that all error, physical, moral, or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">religious, will fall before Truth demonstrated, even as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dry leaves fall to enrich the soil for fruitage.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sin, sickness, and disease flee before the evangel of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth as the mountain mists before the sun. Truth is [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page252">[pg 252]</span><a name="Pg252" id="Pg252" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the tonic for the sick, and this medicine of Mind is not [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">necessarily infinitesimal but infinite. Herein the mental</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">medicine of divine metaphysics and the medical systems</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of allopathy and homœopathy differ. Mental medi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cine gains no potency by attenuation, and its largest [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dose is never dangerous, but the more the better in every</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">case.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science classifies thought thus: Right thoughts</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are reality and power; wrong thoughts are unreality and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">powerless, possessing the nature of dreams. Good thoughts [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are potent; evil thoughts are impotent, and they should</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">appear thus. Continuing this category, we learn that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sick thoughts are unreality and weakness; while healthy</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thoughts are reality and strength. My proof of these</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">novel propositions is demonstration, whereby any man [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">can satisfy himself of their verity.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science is not only the acme of Science</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but the crown of Christianity. It is universal. It ap-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">peals to man as man; to the whole and not to a por-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion; to man physically, as well as spiritually, and to all [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mankind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It has one God. It demonstrates the divine Principle,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rules and practice of the great healer and master of meta-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">physics, Jesus of Nazareth. It spiritualizes religion and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">restores its lost element, namely, healing the sick. It [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">consecrates and inspires the teacher and preacher; it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">equips the doctor with safe and sure medicine; it en-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">courages and empowers the business man and secures</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the success of honesty. It is the dear children's toy and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strong tower; the wise man's spiritual dictionary; the [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">poor man's money; yea, it is the pearl priceless whereof</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">our Master said, if a man findeth, he goeth and selleth</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page253">[pg 253]</span><a name="Pg253" id="Pg253" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all that he hath and buyeth it. Buyeth it! Note the [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">scope of that saying, even that Christianity is not merely</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a gift, as St. Paul avers, but is bought with a price, a great</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">price; and what man knoweth as did our Master its</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">value, and the price that he paid for it? [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Friends, I am not enough the new woman of the period</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for outdoor speaking, and the incidental platform is not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">broad enough for me, but the speakers that will now ad-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dress you—one a congressman—may improve our</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">platforms; and make amends for the nothingness of [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">matter with the allness of Mind.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc82" id="toc82"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Well Doinge Is The Fruite Of Doinge Well</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Herrick</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This period is big with events. Fraught with history,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it repeats the past and portends much for the future. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Scriptural metaphors,—of the woman in travail,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the great red dragon that stood ready to devour the child</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as soon as it was born, and the husbandmen that said,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the in-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">heritance may be ours,”</span>—are type and shadow of this [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hour.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A mother's love touches the heart of God, and should</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it not appeal to human sympathy? Can a mother tell</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">her child one tithe of the agonies that gave that child</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">birth? Can that child conceive of the anguish, until she [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">herself is become a mother?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Do the children of this period dream of the spiritual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mother's sore travail, through the long night, that has</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">opened their eyes to the light of Christian Science? Cherish</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page254">[pg 254]</span><a name="Pg254" id="Pg254" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">these new-born children that filial obedience to which the [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Decalogue points with promise of prosperity? Should not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the loving warning, the far-seeing wisdom, the gentle entreaty,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the stern rebuke have been heeded, in return for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all that love which brooded tireless over their tender [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">years? for all that love that hath fed them with Truth,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">even the bread that cometh down from heaven,—as the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mother-bird tendeth her young in the rock-ribbed nest of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the raven's callow brood!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And what of the hope of that parent whose children [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rise up against her; when brother slays brother, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the strength of union grows weak with wickedness?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The victim of mad ambition that saith, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“This is</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">may be ours,”</span> goes on to learn that he must at last [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">kill this evil in <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“self”</span> in order to gain the kingdom</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of God.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Envy, the great red dragon of this hour, would obscure</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the light of Science, take away a third part of the stars</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the spiritual heavens, and cast them to the earth. [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This is not Science. <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Per contra</span></span>, it is the mortal mind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense—mental healing on a material basis—hurling</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its so-called healing at random, filling with hate its</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">deluded victims, or resting in silly peace upon the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">laurels of headlong human will. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“What shall, therefore,</span> [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">others.”</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page255">[pg 255]</span><a name="Pg255" id="Pg255" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc83" id="toc83"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Little Gods</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is sometimes said, cynically, that Christian Scien-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tists set themselves on pedestals, as so many petty deities;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but there is no fairness or propriety in the aspersion.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Man is not equal to his Maker. That which is formed [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is not cause, but effect; and has no underived power.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But it is possible, and dutiful, to throw the weight of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thought and action on the side of right, and to be thus</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lifted up.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Man should be found not claiming equality with, but [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">growing into, that altitude of Mind which was in Christ</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus. He should comprehend, in divine Science, a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">recognition of what the apostle meant when he said:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.”</span></div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc84" id="toc84"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Advantage Of Mind-Healing</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is sometimes asked, What are the advantages of your</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">system of healing?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I claim for healing by Christian Science the following [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">advantages:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">First:</span></span> It does away with material medicine, and rec-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ognizes the fact that the antidote for sickness, as well</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as for sin, may be found in God, the divine Mind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Second:</span></span> It is more effectual than drugs, and cures [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">where they fail, because it is this divine antidote, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">metaphysics is above physics.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page256">[pg 256]</span><a name="Pg256" id="Pg256" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Third:</span></span> Persons who have been healed by Christian [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science are not only cured of their belief in disease, but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they are at the same time improved morally. The body</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is governed by Mind, and mortal mind must be corrected</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in order to make the body harmonious. [5]</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc85" id="toc85"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">A Card</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">While gratefully acknowledging the public confidence</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">manifested in daily letters that protest against receiving</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">instruction in the Massachusetts Metaphysical College</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from any other than Mrs. Eddy, I feel, deeply, that of [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">necessity this imposes on me the severe task of remaining</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at present a public servant: also, that this must prevent</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my classes from forming as frequently as was an-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nounced in the October number of the <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span>, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">necessitates receiving but a select number of students. [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To meet the old impediment, lack of time, that has oc-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">casioned the irregular intervals between my class terms,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I shall continue to send to each applicant a notice from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one to two weeks previous to the opening term.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Baker G. Eddy</span></span></div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc86" id="toc86"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Spirit And Law</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We are accustomed to think and to speak of gravitation</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as a law of matter; while every quality of matter,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in and of itself, is inert, inanimate, and non-intelligent.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The assertion that matter is a law, or a lawgiver, is [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">anomalous. Wherever law is, Mind is; and the notion</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page257">[pg 257]</span><a name="Pg257" id="Pg257" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that Mind can be in matter is rank infidelity, which either [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">excludes God from the universe, or includes Him in every</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mode and form of evil. Pantheism presupposes that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God sleeps in the mineral, dreams in the animal, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wakes in a wicked man. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The distinction between that which is and that which</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is not law, must be made by Mind and as Mind. Law is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">either a moral or an immoral force. The law of God is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the law of Spirit, a moral and spiritual force of immor-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tal and divine Mind. The so-called law of matter is an [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">immoral force of erring mortal mind, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">alias</span></span> the minds of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortals. This so-called force, or law, at work in nature</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as a power, prohibition, or license, is cruel and merciless.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It punishes the innocent, and repays our best deeds</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with sacrifice and suffering. It is a code whose modes [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">trifle with joy, and lead to immediate or ultimate death.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It fosters suspicion where confidence is due, fear where</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">courage is requisite, reliance where there should be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">avoidance, a belief in safety where there is most</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">danger. Our Master called it <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“a murderer from the</span> [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">beginning.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Electricity, governed by this so-called law, sparkles</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on the cloud, and strikes down the hoary saint. Floods</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">swallow up homes and households; and childhood, age,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and manhood go down in the death-dealing wave. Earth- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quakes engulf cities, churches, schools, and mortals.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Cyclones kill and destroy, desolating the green earth.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This pitiless power smites with disease the good Samari-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tan ministering to his neighbor's need. Even the chamber</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">where the good man surrenders to death is not exempt [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from this law. Smoothing the pillow of pain may infect</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you with smallpox, according to this lawless law which</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page258">[pg 258]</span><a name="Pg258" id="Pg258" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dooms man to die for loving his neighbor as himself,— [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">when Christ has said that love is the fulfilling of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">law.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Our great Ensample, Jesus of Nazareth, met and abol-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ished this unrelenting false claim of matter with the [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">righteous scorn and power of Spirit. When, through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind, he restored sight to the blind, he figuratively and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">literally spat upon matter; and, anointing the wounded</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spirit with the great truth that God is All, he demon-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strated the healing power and supremacy of the law of [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Life and Love.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In the spiritual Genesis of creation, all law was vested</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the Lawgiver, who was a law to Himself. In divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science, God is One and All; and, governing Himself,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He governs the universe. This is the law of creation: [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“My defense is of God, which saveth the upright in</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">heart.”</span> And that infinite Mind governs all things. On</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this infinite Principle of freedom, God named Him-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">self, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">i am</span></span>. Error, or Adam, might give names to itself,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and call Mind by the name of matter, but error could [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">neither name nor demonstrate Spirit. The name, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">i</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">am</span></span>, indicated no personality that could be paralleled</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with it; but it did declare a mighty individuality,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">even the everlasting Father, as infinite consciousness,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ever-presence, omnipotence; as all law, Life, Truth, and [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God's interpretation of Himself furnishes man with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the only suitable or true idea of Him; and the divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">definition of Deity differs essentially from the human.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It interprets the law of Spirit, not of matter. It explains [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the eternal dynamics of being, and shows that nature</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and man are as harmonious to-day as in the beginning,</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page259">[pg 259]</span><a name="Pg259" id="Pg259" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">when <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“all things were made by Him; and without Him</span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">was not any thing made.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whatever appears to be law, but partakes not of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nature of God, is not law, but is what Jesus declared</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“a liar, and the father of it.”</span> God is the law of Life, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not of death; of health, not of sickness; of good, not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of evil. It is this infinitude and oneness of good that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">silences the supposition that evil is a claimant or a claim.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The consciousness of good has no consciousness or knowl-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">edge of evil; and evil is not a quality to be known or [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eliminated by good: while iniquity, too evil to conceive</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of good as being unlike itself, declares that God knows</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">iniquity!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When the Lawgiver was the only law of creation, free-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dom reigned, and was the heritage of man; but this [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">freedom was the moral power of good, not of evil: it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">was divine Science, in which God is supreme, and the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">only law of being. In this eternal harmony of Science,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man is not fallen: he is governed in the same rhythm</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that the Scripture describes, when <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the morning stars</span> [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.”</span></div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc87" id="toc87"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Truth-Healing</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The spiritual elevator of the human race, physically,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">morally, and Christianly, is the truism that Truth dem-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">onstrates good, and is natural; while error, or evil, [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is really non-existent, and must have produced its own</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">illusion,—for it belongs not to nature nor to God. Truth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is the power of God which heals the sick and the sinner,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and is applicable to all the needs of man. It is the uni-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page260">[pg 260]</span><a name="Pg260" id="Pg260" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">versal, intelligent Christ-idea illustrated by the life of [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus, through whose <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“stripes we are healed.”</span> By con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">flicts, defeats, and triumphs, Christian Science has been</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reduced to the understanding of mortals, and found able</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to heal them. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Pagan mysticism, Grecian philosophy, or Jewish reli-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gion, never entered into the line of Jesus' thought or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">action. His faith partook not of drugs, matter, nor of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the travesties of mortal mind. The divine Mind was</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his only instrumentality and potency, in religion or medi- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cine. The Principle of his cure was God, in the laws</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Spirit, not of matter; and these laws annulled all other</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">laws.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus knew that erring mortal thought holds only in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">itself the supposition of evil, and that sin, sickness, and [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">death are its subjective states; also, that pure Mind is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the truth of being that subjugates and destroys any sup-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">positional or elementary opposite to Him who is All.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth is supreme and omnipotent. Then, whatever</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">else seemeth to be intelligence or power is false, delud- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing reason and denying revelation, and seeking to dethrone</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Deity. The truth of Mind-healing uplifts mankind, by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">acknowledging pure Mind as absolute and entire, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that evil is naught, although it seems to be.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Pure Mind gives out an atmosphere that heals and [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">saves. Words are not always the auxiliaries of Truth.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The spirit, and not the letter, performs the vital func-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tions of Truth and Love. Mind, imbued with this Science</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of healing, is a law unto itself, needing neither license</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nor prohibition; but lawless mind, with unseen motives, [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and silent mental methods whereby it may injure the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">race, is the highest attenuation of evil.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page261">[pg 261]</span><a name="Pg261" id="Pg261" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Again: evil, as <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">mind</span></em>, is doomed, already sentenced, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">punished; for suffering is commensurate with evil, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lasts as long as the evil. As <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">mind</span></em>, evil finds no escape</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from itself; and the sin and suffering it occasions can</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">only be removed by reformation. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">According to divine law, sin and suffering are not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cancelled by repentance or pardon. Christian Science</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not only elucidates but demonstrates this verity of be-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing; namely, that mortals suffer from the wrong they</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">commit, whether intentionally or ignorantly; that every [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">effect and amplification of wrong will revert to the wrong-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">doer, until he pays his full debt to divine law, and the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">measure he has meted is measured to him again, full,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pressed down, and running over. Surely <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the way of</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">the transgressor is hard.”</span> [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In this law of justice, the atonement of Christ loses</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">no efficacy. Justice is the handmaid of mercy, and show-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eth mercy by punishing sin. Jesus said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I came not to</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">destroy the law,”</span>—the divine requirements typified in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the law of Moses,—<span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“but to fulfil it”</span> in righteousness, [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by Truth's destroying error. No greater type of divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love can be presented than effecting so glorious a purpose.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This spirit of sacrifice always has saved, and still saves</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mankind; but by mankind I mean mortals, or a kind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of men after man's own making. Man as God's idea [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is already saved with an everlasting salvation. It is impossible</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to be a Christian Scientist without apprehend-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing the moral law so clearly that, for conscience' sake,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one will either abandon his claim to even a knowledge</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of this Science, or else make the claim valid. All Science [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is divine. Then, to be Science, it must produce physical</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and moral harmony.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page262">[pg 262]</span><a name="Pg262" id="Pg262" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Dear readers, our <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span> is designed to bring health [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and happiness to all households wherein it is permitted</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to enter, and to confer increased power to be good and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to do good. If you wish to brighten so pure a purpose,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you will aid our prospect of fulfilling it by your kind [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">patronage of <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">The Christian Science Journal</span></span>, now enter-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing upon its fifth volume, clad in Truth-healing's new</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and costly spring dress.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc88" id="toc88"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Heart To Heart</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When the heart speaks, however simple the words, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its language is always acceptable to those who have</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hearts.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I just want to say, I thank you, my dear students, who</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are at work conscientiously and assiduously, for the good</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you are doing. I am grateful to you for giving to the [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sick relief from pain; for giving joy to the suffering and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hope to the disconsolate; for lifting the fallen and strength-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ening the weak, and encouraging the heart grown faint</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with hope deferred. We are made glad by the divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love which looseth the chains of sickness and sin, open- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing the prison doors to such as are bound; and we should</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be more grateful than words can express, even through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this white-winged messenger, our <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With all the homage beneath the skies, yet were our</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">burdens heavy but for the Christ-love that makes them [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">light and renders the yoke easy. Having his word, you</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have little need of words of approval and encouragement</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from me. Perhaps it is even selfish in me sometimes to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">relieve my heart of its secrets, because I take so much</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page263">[pg 263]</span><a name="Pg263" id="Pg263" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pleasure in thus doing; but if my motives are sinister, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they will harm myself only, and I shall have the unself-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ish joy of knowing that the wrong motives are not yours,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to react on yourselves.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">These two words in Scripture suggest the sweetest [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">similes to be found in any language—<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">rock</span></span> +and <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">feathers</span></span>:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Upon this rock I will build my church;”</span> <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“He shall</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">cover thee with His feathers.”</span> How blessed it is to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">think of you as <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“beneath the shadow of a great rock in</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">a weary land,”</span> safe in His strength, building on His [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">foundation, and covered from the devourer by divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">protection and affection. Always bear in mind that His</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">presence, power, and peace meet all human needs and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reflect all bliss.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc89" id="toc89"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Things To Be Thought Of</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The need of their teacher's counsel, felt by students, [16]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">especially by those at a distance, working assiduously for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">our common Cause,—and their constant petitions for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the same, should be met in the most effectual way.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To be responsible for supplying this want, and poise [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the wavering balance on the right side, is impracticable</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">without a full knowledge of the environments. The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">educational system of Christian Science lacks the aid</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and protection of State laws. The Science is hampered</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by immature demonstrations, by the infancy of its dis- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">covery, by incorrect teaching; and especially by unprin-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cipled claimants, whose mad ambition drives them to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">appropriate my ideas and discovery, without credit, ap-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">preciation, or a single original conception, while they</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page264">[pg 264]</span><a name="Pg264" id="Pg264" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quote from other authors and give them credit for every [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">random thought in line with mine.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My noble students, who are loyal to Christ, Truth, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human obligations, will not be disheartened in the midst</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of this seething sea of sin. They build for time and eter- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nity. The others stumble over misdeeds, and their own</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unsubstantiality, without the groundwork of right, till,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">like camera shadows thrown upon the mists of time, they</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">melt into darkness.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Unity is the essential nature of Christian Science. Its [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Principle is One, and to demonstrate the divine One,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demands oneness of thought and action.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Many students enter the Normal class of my College</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whom I have not fitted for it by the Primary course.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They are taught their first lessons by my students; hence [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the aptness to assimilate pure and abstract Science is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">somewhat untested.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“As the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”</span> As mortal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mind is directed, it acts for a season. Some students</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">leave my instructions before they are quite free from [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the bias of their first impressions, whether those be cor-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rect or incorrect. Such students are more or less subject</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the future mental influence of their former teacher.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Their knowledge of Mind-healing may be right theo-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">retically, but the moral and spiritual status of thought [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">must be right also. The tone of the teacher's mind must</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be pure, grand, true, to aid the mental development of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the student; for the tint of the instructor's mind must</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">take its hue from the divine Mind. A single mistake in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">metaphysics, or in ethics, is more fatal than a mistake in [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">physics.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If a teacher of Christian Science unwittingly or inten-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page265">[pg 265]</span><a name="Pg265" id="Pg265" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tionally offers his own thought, and gives me as authority [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for it; if he diverges from Science and knows it not, or,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">knowing it, makes the venture from vanity, in order to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be thought original, or wiser than somebody else,—this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divergence widens. He grows dark, and cannot regain, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at will, an upright understanding. This error in the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">teacher also predisposes his students to make mistakes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and lose their way. Diverse opinions in Science are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stultifying. All must have <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">one</span></span> Principle and the same</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rule; and all <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">who follow the Principle and rule</span></em> have but [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one opinion of it.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whosoever understands a single rule in Science, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demonstrates its Principle according to rule, is master</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the situation. Nobody can gainsay this. The ego-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tistical theorist or shallow moralist may presume to [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">make innovations upon simple proof; but his mistake</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is visited upon himself and his students, whose minds</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are, must be, disturbed by this discord, which extends</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">along the whole line of reciprocal thought. An error</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in premise can never bring forth the real fruits of Truth. [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">After thoroughly explaining spiritual Truth and its ethics</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to a student, I am not morally responsible for the mis-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">statements or misconduct of this student. My teachings</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are uniform. Those who abide by them do well. If</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">others, who receive the same instruction, do ill, the fault [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is not in the culture but the soil.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I am constantly called to settle questions and disaf-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fections toward Christian Science growing out of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">departures from Science of self-satisfied, unprincipled</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">students. If impatient of the loving rebuke, the stu- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dent must stop at the foot of the grand ascent, and there</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">remain until suffering compels the downfall of his self-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page266">[pg 266]</span><a name="Pg266" id="Pg266" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">conceit. Then that student must struggle up, with bleed- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing footprints, to the God-crowned summit of unselfish</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and pure aims and affections.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To be two-sided, when these sides are moral oppo-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sites, is neither politic nor scientific; and to abridge a [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">single human right or privilege is an error. Whoever</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">does this may represent me as doing it; but he mistakes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">me, and the subjective state of his own mind for mine.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The true leader of a true cause is the unacknowledged</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">servant of mankind. Stationary in the background, this [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">individual is doing the work that nobody else can or will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">do. An erratic career is like the comet's course, dash-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing through space, headlong and alone. A clear-headed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and honest Christian Scientist will demonstrate the Prin-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ciple of Christian Science, and hold justice and mercy as [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">inseparable from the unity of God.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc90" id="toc90"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Unchristian Rumor</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The assertion that I have said hard things about my</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">loyal students in Chicago, New York, or any other place,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is utterly false and groundless. I speak of them as I feel, [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and I cannot find it in my heart not to love them. They</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are essentially dear to me, who are toiling and achieving</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">success in unison with my own endeavors and prayers.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If I correct mistakes which may be made in teaching or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lecturing on Christian Science, this is in accordance with [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my students' desires, and thus we mutually aid each other,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and obey the Golden Rule.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The spirit of lies is abroad. Because Truth has spoken</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">aloud, error, running to and fro in the earth, is scream-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page267">[pg 267]</span><a name="Pg267" id="Pg267" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing, to make itself heard above Truth's voice. The [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">audible and inaudible wail of evil never harms Scientists,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">steadfast in their consciousness of the nothingness of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wrong and the supremacy of right.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Our worst enemies are the best friends to our growth. [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Charity students, for whom I have sacrificed the most</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">time,—those whose chief aim is to injure me,—have</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">caused me to exercise most patience. When they report</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">me as <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“<em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">hating</span></em> those whom I do not love,”</span> let them re-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">member that there never was a time when I saw an op- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">portunity really to help them and failed to improve it;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and this, too, when I knew they were secretly striving</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to injure me.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc91" id="toc91"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Vainglory</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Comparisons are +odorous.</span></span>—<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Shakespeare</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Through all human history, the vital outcomes of [16]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth have suffered temporary shame and loss from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">individual conceit, cowardice, or dishonesty. The bird</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whose right wing flutters to soar, while the left beats its</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">way downward, falls to the earth. Both wings must be [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">plumed for rarefied atmospheres and upward flight.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mankind must gravitate from sense to Soul, and human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">affairs should be governed by Spirit, intelligent good.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The antipode of Spirit, which we name <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">matter</span></span>, or +<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">non-</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">intelligent evil</span></span>, is no real aid to being. The predisposing +[25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and exciting cause of all defeat and victory under the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sun, rests on this scientific basis: that action, in obedi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ence to God, spiritualizes man's motives and methods,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and crowns them with success; while disobedience to</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page268">[pg 268]</span><a name="Pg268" id="Pg268" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this divine Principle materializes human modes and con- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sciousness, and defeats them.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Two personal queries give point to human action: Who</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shall be greatest? and, Who shall be best? Earthly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">glory is vain; but not vain enough to attempt pointing [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the way to heaven, the harmony of being. The imaginary</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">victories of rivalry and hypocrisy are defeats. The Holy</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">One saith, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“O that thou hadst hearkened to My com-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">mandments! then had thy peace been as a river.”</span> He</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is unfit for Truth, and the demonstration of divine power, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who departs from Mind to matter, and from Truth to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">error, in pursuit of better means for healing the sick and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">casting out error.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Christian Scientist keeps straight to the course.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His whole inquiry and demonstration lie in the line of [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth; hence he suffers no shipwreck in a starless night</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on the shoals of vainglory. His medicine is Mind—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the omnipotent and ever-present good. His <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“help is</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">from the Lord,”</span> who heals body and mind, head and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heart; changing the affections, enlightening the mis- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">guided senses, and curing alike the sin and the mortal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sinner. God's preparations for the sick are potions of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His own qualities. His therapeutics are antidotes for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the ailments of mortal mind and body. Then let us not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">adulterate His preparations for the sick with material [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">means.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From lack of moral strength empires fall. Right alone</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is irresistible, permanent, eternal. Remember that hu-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man pride forfeits spiritual power, and either vacillating</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good or self-assertive error dies of its own elements. [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Through patience we must possess the sense of Truth;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and Truth is used to waiting. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Commit thy way unto</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page269">[pg 269]</span><a name="Pg269" id="Pg269" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">pass.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">By using falsehood to regain his liberty, Galileo vir-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tually lost it. He cannot escape from barriers who commits</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his moral sense to a dungeon. Hear the Master [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on this subject: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“No man can serve two masters: for</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">serve God and mammon.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Lives there a man who can better define ethics, better [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">elucidate the Principle of being, than he who <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“spake as</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">never man spake,”</span> and whose precepts and example have</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a perpetual freshness in relation to human events?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who is it that understands, unmistakably, a fraction</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the actual Science of Mind-healing? [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is he who has fairly proven his knowledge on a Chris-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tian, mental, scientific basis; who has made his choice</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">between matter and Mind, and proven the divine Mind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to be the only physician. These are self-evident proposi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tions: That man can only be Christianized through Mind; [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that without Mind the body is without action; that Science</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is a law of divine Mind. The conclusion follows that the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">correct Mind-healing is the proper means of Christianity,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and is Science.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science may be sold in the shambles. Many [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are bidding for it,—but are not willing to pay the price.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Error is vending itself on trust, well knowing the will-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ingness of mortals to buy error at par value. The Reve-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lator beheld the opening of this silent mental seal, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heard the great Red Dragon <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">whispering</span></em> that <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“no man</span> +[30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">of the beast, or the number of his name.”</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page270">[pg 270]</span><a name="Pg270" id="Pg270" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We are in the Valley of Decision. Then, let us take [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the side of him who <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“overthrew the tables of the money-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">changers, and the seats of them that sold doves,”</span>—of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">such as barter integrity and peace for money and fame.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What artist would question the skill of the masters in [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sculpture, music, or painting? Shall we depart from the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">example of the Master in Christian Science, Jesus of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Nazareth,—than whom mankind hath no higher ideal?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He who demonstrated his power over sin, disease, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">death, is the master Metaphysician. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To seek or employ other means than those the Master</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">used in demonstrating Life scientifically, is to lose the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">priceless knowledge of his Principle and practice. He</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His right-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">eousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”</span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Gain a pure Christianity; for that is requisite for heal-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing the sick. Then you will need no other aid, and will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have full faith in his prophecy, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“And there shall be one</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">fold, and one shepherd;”</span> but, the Word must abide in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">us, if we would obtain that promise. We cannot depart [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from his holy example,—we cannot leave Christ for the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">schools which crucify him, and yet follow him in heal-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing. Fidelity to his precepts and practice is the only pass-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">port to his power; and the pathway of goodness and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">greatness runs through the modes and methods of God. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.”</span></div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc92" id="toc92"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Compounds</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Homœopathy is the last link in material medicine.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The next step is Mind-medicine. Among the foremost</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page271">[pg 271]</span><a name="Pg271" id="Pg271" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">virtues of homœopathy is the exclusion of compounds [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from its pharmacy, and the attenuation of a drug up to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the point of its disappearance as matter and its manifesta-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion in effect as a thought, instead of a thing.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Students of Christian Science (and many who are not [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">students) understand enough of this to keep out of their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heads the notion that compounded metaphysics (so-called)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is, or can be, Christian Science,—that rests on oneness;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one cause and one effect.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They should take our magazine, work for it, write for [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it, and read it. They should eschew all magazines and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">books which are less than the best.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Choose you this day whom ye will serve.”</span> Cleanse</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">your mind of the cobwebs which spurious <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“compounds”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">engender. Before considering a subject that is unworthy [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of thought, take in this axiomatic truism: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Trust her</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">not, she's fooling thee;”</span> and Longfellow is right.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc93" id="toc93"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Close Of The Massachusetts Metaphysical +College</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Much is said at this date, 1889, about Mrs. Eddy's [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Massachusetts Metaphysical College being the only</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">chartered College of Metaphysics. To make this plain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Publishing Committee of the Christian Scientist</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Association has published in the <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Boston Traveler</span></span> the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">following:— [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“To benefit the community, and more strongly mark</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the difference between true and false teachers of mental</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healing, the following history and statistics are officially</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">submitted:—</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page272">[pg 272]</span><a name="Pg272" id="Pg272" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy obtained a college charter</span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in January, 1881, with all the rights and privileges per-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">taining thereunto (<em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">including the right to grant degrees</span></em>)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">under Act of 1874, Chapter 375, Section 4.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“This Act was <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">repealed</span></em> from and after January 31,</span> [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">1882. Mrs. Eddy's grant for a college, for metaphysical</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">purposes <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">only</span></em>, is the first on record in history, and no</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">charters were granted for similar colleges, except hers,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from January, 1881, till the repealing of said Act in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">January, 1882. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The substance of this Act is at present incorporated</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in Public Statutes, Chapter 115, Section 2, with the fol-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lowing important restrictions: In accordance with Statutes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of 1883, Chapter 268, any officer, agent, or servant of any</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">corporation or association, who confers, or authorizes [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to be conferred, any diploma or degree, shall be pun-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ished by a fine not less than five hundred dollars and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not more than one thousand dollars.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“All the mind-healing colleges (except Rev. Mrs.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Eddy's) have simply an incorporated grant, which may [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be called a charter, such as any stock company may ob-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tain for any secular purposes; but these so-called char-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ters bestow no rights to <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">confer degrees</span></em>. Hence to name</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">these institutions, under such charters, <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">colleges</span></em>, is a fraud-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ulent claim. There is but one legally chartered college [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of metaphysics, with powers to confer diplomas and de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">grees, and that is the Massachusetts Metaphysical College,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">of which Rev. Mrs. Eddy is founder and president.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I have endeavored to act toward all students of Chris-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tian Science with the intuition and impulse of love. If [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">certain natures have not profited by my rebukes,—</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page273">[pg 273]</span><a name="Pg273" id="Pg273" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">some time, as Christian Scientists, they will know the [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">value of these rebukes. I am thankful that the neo-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">phyte will be benefited by experience, although it will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cost him much, and in proportion to its worth.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I close my College in order to work in other directions, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">where I now seem to be most needed, and where none</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">other can do the work. I withdraw from an overwhelm-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing prosperity. My students have never expressed so</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">grateful a sense of my labors with them as now, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">never have been so capable of relieving my tasks as at [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">present.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God bless my enemies, as well as the better part of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mankind, and gather all my students, in the bonds of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">love and perfectness, into one grand family of Christ's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">followers. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Loyal Christian Scientists should go on in their pres-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ent line of labor for a good and holy cause. Their insti-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tutes have not yet accomplished all the good they are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">capable of accomplishing; therefore they should con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tinue, as at present, to send out students from these [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sources of education, to promote the growing interest in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science Mind-healing.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There are one hundred and sixty applications lying on</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the desk before me, for the Primary class in the Massa-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">chusetts Metaphysical College, and I cannot do my best [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">work for a class which contains that number. When</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">these were taught, another and a larger number would</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be in waiting for the same class instruction; and if I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">should teach that Primary class, the other three classes—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one Primary and two Normal—would be delayed. [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The work is more than one person can well accomplish,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the imperative call is for my exclusive teaching.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page274">[pg 274]</span><a name="Pg274" id="Pg274" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From the scant history of Jesus and of his disciples, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">we have no Biblical authority for a public institution.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This point, however, had not impressed me when I opened</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my College. I desire to revise my book <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> and in order to do [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this I must stop teaching at present. The work that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">needs to be done, and which God calls me to outside</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of College work, if left undone might hinder the progress</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of our Cause more than my teaching would advance it:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">therefore I leave all for Christ. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Deeply regretting the disappointment this will occa-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sion, and with grateful acknowledgments to the public</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for its liberal patronage, I close my College.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Baker G. Eddy</span></span></div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc94" id="toc94"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Malicious Reports</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot +enter.</span></span>—<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Isaiah</span></span> lix. 14.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When the press is gagged, liberty is besieged; but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">when the press assumes the liberty to lie, it discounts</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">clemency, mocks morality, outrages humanity, breaks</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">common law, gives impulse to violence, envy, and hate, [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and prolongs the reign of inordinate, unprincipled clans.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">At this period, 1888, those quill-drivers whose consciences</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are in their pockets hold high carnival. When news-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dealers shout for class legislation, and decapitated reputa-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tions, headless trunks, and quivering hearts are held up [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">before the rabble in exchange for money, place, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">power, the <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">vox populi</span></span> is suffocated, individual rights</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are trodden under foot, and the car of the modern In-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quisition rolls along the streets besmeared with blood.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page275">[pg 275]</span><a name="Pg275" id="Pg275" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Would not our Master say to the chief actors in scenes [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">like these, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Ye fools and blind!”</span> Oh, tardy human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">justice! would you take away even woman's trembling,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">clinging faith in divine power? Who can roll away the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stone from the door of this sepulchre? Who—but God's [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">avenging angel!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In times like these it were well to lift the veil on the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sackcloth of home, where weepeth the faithful, stricken</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mother, and the bruised father bendeth his aching head;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">where the bereft wife or husband, silent and alone, looks [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in dull despair at the vacant seat, and the motherless</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">little ones, wondering, huddle together, and repeat with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quivering lips words of strange import. May the great</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Shepherd that <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and binds up the wounds of bleeding hearts, just comfort, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">encourage, and bless all who mourn.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Father, we thank Thee that Thy light and Thy love</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reach earth, open the prison to them that are bound, con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sole the innocent, and throw wide the gates of heaven.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc95" id="toc95"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Loyal Christian Scientists</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Pen can never portray the satisfaction that you afforded</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">me at the grand meeting in Chicago of the National Chris-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tian Scientist Association in 1888. Your public and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">private expressions of love and loyalty were very touch-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing. They moved me to speechless thanks. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Chicago is the wonder of the western hemisphere. The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Palmer House, where we stopped, is magnificent and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">orderly. The servants are well-mannered, and the fare</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is appetizing. The floral offerings sent to my apartments</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page276">[pg 276]</span><a name="Pg276" id="Pg276" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">were superb, especially the large book of rare flowers, and [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the crescent with a star.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The reception in the spacious rooms of the Palmer</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">House, like all else, was purely Western in its cordiality</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and largeness. I did not hold interviews with all with [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whom I desired to, solely because so many people and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">circumstances demanded my attention that my person-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ality was not big enough to fill the order; but rest as-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sured my heart's desire met the demand.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My students, our delegates, about one thousand Chris- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tian Scientists, active, earnest, and loyal, formed a goodly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">assemblage for the third convention of our National As-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sociation,—an assemblage found waiting and watching</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for the full coming of our Lord and Christ.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In Christian Science the midnight hour will always be [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the bridal hour, until <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“no night is there.”</span> The wise</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will have their lamps aglow, and light will illumine the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">darkness.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Out of the gloom comes the glory of our Lord, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His divine Love is found in affliction. When a false [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense suffers, the true sense comes out, and the bride-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">groom appears. We are then wedded to a purer, higher</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">affection and ideal.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I pray that all my students shall have their lamps</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">trimmed and burning at the noon of night, that not one [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of them be found borrowing oil, and seeking light from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">matter instead of Spirit, or at work erroneously, thus</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shutting out spiritual light. Such an error and loss will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be quickly learned when the door is shut. Error giveth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">no light, and it closes the door on itself. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In the dark hours, wise Christian Scientists stand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">firmer than ever in their allegiance to God. Wisdom</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page277">[pg 277]</span><a name="Pg277" id="Pg277" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is wedded to their love, and their hearts are not [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">troubled.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Falsehood is on the wings of the winds, but Truth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will soar above it. Truth is speaking louder, clearer,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and more imperatively than ever. Error is walking to [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and fro in the earth, trying to be heard above Truth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but its voice dies out in the distance. Whosoever pro-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">claims Truth loudest, becomes the mark for error's shafts.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The archers aim at Truth's mouthpiece; but a heart</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">loyal to God is patient and strong. Justice waits, and [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is used to waiting; and right wins the everlasting</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">victory.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The stake and scaffold have never silenced the mes-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sages of the Most High. Then can the present mode of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">attempting this—namely, by slanderous falsehoods, and [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a secret mind-method, through which to effect the pur-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">poses of envy and malice—silence Truth? Never. They</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but open the eyes to the truth of Benjamin Franklin's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">report before the French Commissioners on Mesmerism:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“It is one more fact to be recorded in the history of the</span> [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">errors of the human mind.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">No evidence before the material senses can close my</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eyes to the scientific proof that God, good, is supreme.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Though clouds are round about Him, the divine justice [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and judgment are enthroned. Love is especially near</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in times of hate, and never so near as when one can be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">just amid lawlessness, and render good for evil.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I thunder His law to the sinner, and sharply lighten</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on the cloud of the intoxicated senses. I cannot help [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">loathing the phenomena of drunkenness produced by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">animality. I rebuke it wherever I see it. The vision</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page278">[pg 278]</span><a name="Pg278" id="Pg278" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the Revelator is before me. The wines of fornica- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion, envy, and hatred are the distilled spirits of evil,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and are the signs of these times; but I am not dismayed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and my peace returns unto me.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Error will hate more as it realizes more the presence [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of its tormentor. I shall fulfil my mission, fight the good</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fight, and keep the faith.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There is great joy in this consciousness, that through-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out my labors, and in my history as connected with the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Cause of Christian Science, it can be proven that I have [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">never given occasion for a single censure, when my mo-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tives and acts are understood and seen as my Father</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">seeth them. I once wondered at the Scriptural declara-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion that Job sinned not in all he said, even when he cursed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the hour of his birth; but I have learned that a curse on [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sin is always a blessing to the human race.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Those only who are tried in the furnace reflect the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">image of their Father. You, my beloved students, who</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are absent from me, and have shared less of my labors</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than many others, seem stronger to resist temptation [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than some of those who have had line upon line and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">precept upon precept. This may be a serviceable hint,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">since necessities and God's providence are foreshadowed.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I have felt for some time that perpetual instruction of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my students might substitute my own for their growth, [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and so dwarf their experience. If they must learn by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the things they suffer, the sooner this lesson is gained</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the better.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For two years I have been gradually withdrawing from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">active membership in the Christian Scientist Association. [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This has developed higher energies on the part of true</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">followers, and led to some startling departures on the</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page279">[pg 279]</span><a name="Pg279" id="Pg279" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">other hand. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Offenses will come: but woe unto him,</span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">through whom they come.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Why does not the certainty of individual punishment</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for sin prevent the wrong action? It is the love of God,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and not the fear of evil, that is the incentive in Science. [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I rejoice with those who rejoice, and am too apt to weep</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with those who weep, but over and above it all are eter-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nal sunshine and joy unspeakable.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc96" id="toc96"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">The March Primary Class</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">To the Primary Class of the Massachusetts Metaphysical</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">College, 571 Columbus Avenue, that Assembled Feb. 25,</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">1889, with an Attendance of Sixty-five Students</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My students, three picture-stories from the Bible pre-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sent themselves to my thought; three of those pictures</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from which we learn without study. The first is that of [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Joshua and his band before the walls of Jericho. They</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">went seven times around these walls, the seven times</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">corresponding to the seven days of creation: the six days</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are to find out the nothingness of matter; the seventh</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is the day of rest, when it is found that evil is naught [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and good is all.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The second picture is of the disciples met together in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">an upper chamber; and they were of one mind. Mark,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that in the case of Joshua and his band they had all to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shout <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">together</span></em> in order that the walls might fall; and the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">disciples, too, were of one mind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We, to-day, in this class-room, are enough to con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vert the world if we are of one Mind; for then the whole</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">world will feel the influence of this Mind; as when</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page280">[pg 280]</span><a name="Pg280" id="Pg280" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">earth was without form, and Mind spake and form [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">appeared.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The third picture-lesson is from Revelation, where, at</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the opening of the seals, one of the angels presented him-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">self with balances to weigh the thoughts and actions of [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">men; not angels with wings, but messengers of pure and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">holy thoughts that say, See thou hurt not the holy things</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Truth.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">You have come to be weighed; and yet, I would not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">weigh you, nor have you weighed. How is this? Be- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cause God does all, and there is nothing in the opposite</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">scale. There are not two,—Mind <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">and</span></em> matter. We</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">must get rid of that notion. As we commonly think, we</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">imagine all is well if we cast something into the scale of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind, but we must realize that Mind is not put into the [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">scales with matter; then only are we working on one side</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and in Science.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The students of this Primary class, dismissed the fifth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of March, at close of the lecture on the fourth presented</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">their teacher with an elegant album costing fifty dollars, [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and containing beautiful hand-painted flowers on each</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">page, with their autographs. The presentation was made</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in a brief address by Mr. D.A. Easton, who in appro-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">priate language and metaphor expressed his fellow-students'</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thanks to their teacher. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On the morning of the fifth, I met the class to answer</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">some questions before their dismissal, and allude briefly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to a topic of great import to the student of Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science,—the rocks and sirens in their course, on and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by which so many wrecks are made. The doors of animal [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">magnetism open wide for the entrance of error, some-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">times just at the moment when you are ready to enter on</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page281">[pg 281]</span><a name="Pg281" id="Pg281" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the fruition of your labors, and with laudable ambition [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are about to chant hymns of victory for triumphs.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The doors that this animal element flings open are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">those of rivalry, jealousy, envy, revenge. It is the self-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">asserting mortal will-power that you must guard against. [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But I find also another mental condition of yours that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fills me with joy. I learned long ago that the world could</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">neither deprive me of something nor give me anything,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and I have now one ambition and one joy. But if</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one cherishes ambition unwisely, one will be chastened [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for it.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Admiral Coligny, in the time of the French Huguenots,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">was converted to Protestantism through a stray copy of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Scriptures that fell into his hands. He replied to his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wife, who urged him to come out and confess his faith, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“It is wise to count the cost of becoming a true Chris-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">tian.”</span> She answered him, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“It is wiser to count the +cost</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">of <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">not</span></em> becoming a true Christian.”</span> +So, whatever we meet</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that is hard in the Christian warfare we must count as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nothing, and must think instead, of our poverty and help- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lessness without this understanding, and count ourselves</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">always as debtors to Christ, Truth.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Among the gifts of my students, this of yours is one</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the most beautiful and the most costly, because you</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have signed your names. I felt the weight of this yes- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">terday, but it came to me more clearly this morning when</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I realized what a responsibility you assume when sub-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">scribing to Christian Science. But, whatever may come</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to you, remember the words of Solomon, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Though hand</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">join in hand, the wicked shall not go unpunished: but [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">You will need, in future, <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">practice</span></em> more than theory.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page282">[pg 282]</span><a name="Pg282" id="Pg282" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">You are going out to demonstrate a living faith, a true [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense of the infinite good, a sense that does not limit God,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but brings to human view an enlarged sense of Deity.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Remember, it is personality, and the sense of personality</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in God or in man, that limits man. [5]</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc97" id="toc97"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Obtrusive Mental Healing</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The question will present itself: Shall people be treated</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mentally without their knowledge or consent? The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">direct rule for practice of Christian Science is the Golden</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rule, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“As ye would that men should do to you, do ye,”</span> [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who of us would have our houses broken open or our</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">locks picked? and much less would we have our minds</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tampered with.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Our Master said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“When ye enter a house, salute it.”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Prolonging the metaphysical tone of his command, I say, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When you enter mentally the personal precincts of human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thought, you should know that the person with whom</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you hold communion desires it. There are solitary ex-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ceptions to most given rules: the following is an exception</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the above rule of mental practice. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If the friends of a patient desire you to treat him with-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out his knowing it, and they believe in the efficacy of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind-healing, it is sometimes wise to do so, and the end</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">justifies the means; for he is restored through Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science when other means have failed. One other oc- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">casion which may call for aid unsought, is a case from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">accident, when there is no time for ceremony and no other</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">aid is near.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The abuse which I call attention to, is promiscuous</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page283">[pg 283]</span><a name="Pg283" id="Pg283" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and unannounced mental practice where there is no neces- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sity for it, or the motive is mercenary, or one can to ad-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vantage speak the truth audibly; then the case is not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">exceptional. As a rule, one has no more right to enter</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the mind of a person, stir, upset, and adjust his thoughts [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">without his knowledge or consent, than one has to enter</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a house, unlock the desk, displace the furniture, and suit</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one's self in the arrangement and management of another</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man's property.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It would be right to break into a burning building and [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rouse the slumbering inmates, but wrong to burst open</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">doors and break through windows if no emergency de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">manded this. Any exception to the old wholesome rule,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Mind your own business,”</span> is rare. For a student of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mine to treat another student without his knowledge, is [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a breach of good manners and morals; it is nothing less</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than a mistaken kindness, a culpable ignorance, or a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">conscious trespass on the rights of mortals.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I insist on the etiquette of Christian Science, as well</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as its morals and Christianity. The Scriptural rule of [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this Science may momentarily be forgotten; but this is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">seldom the case with loyal students, or done without</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">incriminating the person who did it.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Each student should, must, work out his own problem</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of being; conscious, meanwhile, that God worketh with [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">him, and that he needs no personal aid. It is the genius</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Christian Science to demonstrate good, not evil,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">harmony, not discord; for Science is the mandate of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth which destroys all error.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whoever is honestly laboring to learn the principle of [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">music and practise it, seldom calls on his teacher or mu-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sician to practise for him. The only personal help re-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page284">[pg 284]</span><a name="Pg284" id="Pg284" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quired in this Science is for each one to do his own work [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">well, and never try to hinder others from doing theirs</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thus.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science, more than any other system of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">religion, morals, or medicine, is subject to abuses. Its [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">infinite nature and uses occasion this. Even the human-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">itarian at work in this field of limitless power and good</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">may possess a zeal without knowledge, and thus mistake</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the sphere of his present usefulness.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Students who strictly adhere to the right, and make the [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Bible and Science and Health a study, are in no danger</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of mistaking their way.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This question is often proposed, How shall I treat</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">malicious animal magnetism? The hour has passed for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this evil to be treated personally, but it should have been [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">so dealt with at the outset. Christian Scientists should</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have gone personally to the malpractitioner and told</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">him his fault, and vindicated divine Truth and Love</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">against human error and hate. This growing sin must</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">now be dealt with as evil, and not as an evil-doer or per- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sonality It must also be remembered that neither an evil</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">claim nor an evil person is <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">real</span></em>, hence is neither to be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">feared</span></em> nor honored.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Evil is not something to fear and flee before, or that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">becomes more real when it is grappled with. Evil let [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">alone grows more real, aggressive, and enlarges its claims;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but, met with Science, it can and will be mastered by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I deprecate personal animosities and quarrels. But if</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one is intrusted with the rules of church government, to [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fulfil that trust those rules must be carried out; thus it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is with all moral obligations. I am opposed to all personal</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page285">[pg 285]</span><a name="Pg285" id="Pg285" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">attacks, and in favor of combating evil only, rather than [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">person.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">An edition of one thousand pamphlets I ordered to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be laid away and not one of them circulated, because I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">had been personal in condemnation. Afterwards, by a [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">blunder of the gentleman who fills orders for my books,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">some of these pamphlets were mistaken for the corrected</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">edition, and sold.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love is the fulfilling of the law. Human life is too</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">short for foibles or failures. <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">The Christian Science Jour-</span></span> +[10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">nal</span></span> will hold high the banner of Truth and Love, and be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">impartial and impersonal in its tenor and tenets.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc98" id="toc98"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Wedlock</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It was about the year 1875 that Science and Health</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">first crossed swords with free-love, and the latter fell <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">hors</span></span> +[15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">de combat</span></span>; but the whole warfare of sensuality was not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">then ended. Science and Health, the book that cast the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">first stone, is still at work, deep down in human conscious-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness, laying the axe at the root of error.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We have taken the precaution to write briefly on mar- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">riage, showing its relation to Christian Science. In the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">present or future, some extra throe of error may conjure</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">up a new-style conjugality, which, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">ad libitum</span></span>, severs the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">marriage covenant, puts virtue in the shambles, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">coolly notifies the public of broken vows. Springing [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">up from the ashes of free-love, this nondescript phoenix,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the face and eyes of common law, common sense, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">common honesty, may appear in the <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">rôle</span></span> of a superfine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">conjugality; but, having no Truth, it will have no past,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">present, or future. [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page286">[pg 286]</span><a name="Pg286" id="Pg286" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The above prophecy, written years ago, has already [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">been fulfilled. It is seen in Christian Science that the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gospel of marriage is not without the law, and the solemn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vow of fidelity, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“until death do us part;”</span> this verity in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human economy can neither be obscured nor throttled. [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Until time matures human growth, marriage and progeny</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will continue unprohibited in Christian Science. We look</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to future generations for ability to comply with absolute</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science, when marriage shall be found to be man's one-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness with God,—the unity of eternal Love. At present, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">more spiritual conception and education of children will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">serve to illustrate the superiority of spiritual power over</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sensuous, and usher in the dawn of God's creation,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wherein they neither marry nor are given in marriage,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but are as the angels. To abolish marriage at this period, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and maintain morality and generation, would put inge-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nuity to ludicrous shifts; yet this is possible in <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Science</span></em>,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">although it is to-day problematic.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The time cometh, and now is, for spiritual and eternal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">existence to be recognized and understood in Science. [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All is Mind. Human procreation, birth, life, and death</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are subjective states of the human erring mind; they</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are the phenomena of mortality, nothingness, that illus-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">trate mortal mind and body as <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">one</span></em>, and neither real nor</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eternal. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It should be understood that Spirit, God, is the only</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">creator: we should recognize this verity of being, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shut out all sense of other claims. Until this absolute</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science of being is seen, understood, and demonstrated</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the offspring of divine Mind, and man is perfect even [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as the Father is perfect, human speculation will go on,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and stop at length at the spiritual ultimate: creation</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page287">[pg 287]</span><a name="Pg287" id="Pg287" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">understood as the most exalted divine conception. The [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">offspring of an improved generation, however, will go out</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">before the forever fact that man is eternal and has no</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human origin. Hence the Scripture: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“It is He that hath</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">made us, and not we ourselves;”</span> and the Master's de- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mand, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Call no man your father upon the earth: for one</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">is your Father, which is in heaven.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To an ill-attuned ear, discord is harmony; so personal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense, discerning not the legitimate affection of Soul,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">may place love on a false basis and thereby lose it. Science [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">corrects this error with the truth of Love, and restores</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lost Eden. Soul is the infinite source of bliss: only high</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and holy joy can satisfy immortal cravings. The good</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in human affections should preponderate over the evil,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the spiritual over the animal,—until progress lifts [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortals to discern the Science of mental formation and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">find the highway of holiness.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In the order of wisdom, the higher nature of man</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">governs the lower. This lays the foundations of human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">affection in line with progress, giving them strength and [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">permanence.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When asked by a wife or a husband important ques-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tions concerning their happiness, the substance of my reply</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is: God will guide you. Be faithful over home rela-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tions; they lead to higher joys: obey the Golden Rule [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for human life, and it will spare you much bitterness.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is pleasanter to do right than wrong; it makes one</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ruler over one's self and hallows home,—which is woman's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">world. Please your husband, and he will be apt to please</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you; preserve affection on both sides. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">people's altars, venturing on valor without discretion,</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page288">[pg 288]</span><a name="Pg288" id="Pg288" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">which is virtually meddlesomeness. Even your sincere [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and courageous convictions regarding what is best for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">others may be mistaken; you must be demonstratively</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">right yourself, and work out the greatest good to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">greatest number, before you are sure of being a fit coun- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sellor. Positive and imperative thoughts should be dropped</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">into the balances of God and weighed by spiritual Love,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and not be found wanting, before being put into action.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A rash conclusion that regards only one side of a ques-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion, is weak and wicked; this error works out the results [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of error. If the premise of mortal existence is wrong,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">any conclusion drawn therefrom is not absolutely right.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Wisdom in human action begins with what is nearest</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">right under the circumstances, and thence achieves the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">absolute. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Is marriage nearer right than celibacy?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Human knowledge inculcates that it is, while Science</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">indicates that it <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">is not</span></em>. But to force the consciousness</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of scientific being before it is understood is impossible,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and believing otherwise would prevent scientific demon- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stration. To reckon the universal cost and gain, as well</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as thine own, is right in every state and stage of being.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The selfish <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">rôle</span></span> of a martyr is the shift of a dishonest</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mind, nothing short of self-seeking; and real suffering</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">would stop the farce. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The cause of temperance receives a strong impulse</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the cause of Christian Science: temperance and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">truth are allies, and their cause prospers in proportion</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the spirit of Love that nerves the struggle. People</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will differ in their opinions as to means to promote the [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ends of temperance; that is, abstinence from intoxicat-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing beverages. Whatever intoxicates a man, stultifies,</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page289">[pg 289]</span><a name="Pg289" id="Pg289" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and causes him to degenerate physically and morally. [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Strong drink is unquestionably an evil, and evil cannot</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be used temperately: its slightest use is abuse; hence</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the only temperance is total abstinence. Drunkenness</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is sensuality let loose, in whatever form it is made [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">manifest.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What is evil? It is suppositional absence of good.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From a human standpoint of good, mortals must first</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">choose between evils, and of two evils choose the less;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and at present the application of scientific rules to hu- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man life seems to rest on this basis.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All partnerships are formed on agreements to certain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">compacts: each party voluntarily surrenders independ-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ent action to act as a whole and per agreement. This</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fact should be duly considered when by the marriage [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">contract two are made one, and, according to the divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">precept, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“they twain shall be one flesh.”</span> Oneness in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spirit is Science, compatible with home and heaven.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Neither divine justice nor human equity has <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">divorced</span></em></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">two minds in one. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rights that are bargained away must not be retaken</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by the contractors, except by mutual consent. Human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nature has bestowed on a wife the right to become a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mother; but if the wife esteems not this privilege, by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mutual consent, exalted and increased affections, she [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">may win a higher. Science touches the conjugal ques-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion on the basis of a bill of rights. Can the bill of con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">jugal rights be fairly stated by a magistrate, or by a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">minister? Mutual interests and affections are the spirit</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of these rights, and they should be consulted, augmented, [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and allowed to rise to the spiritual altitude whence they</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">can choose only good.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page290">[pg 290]</span><a name="Pg290" id="Pg290" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A third person is not a party to the compact of two [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hearts. Let other people's marriage relations <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">alone</span></em>: two</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">persons only, should be found within their precincts.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The nuptial vow is never annulled so long as the animus</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the contract is preserved intact. Science lifts humanity [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">higher in the scale of harmony, and must ultimately break</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all bonds that hinder progress.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc99" id="toc99"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Judge Not</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mistaken views ought to be dissolving views, since</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whatever is false should disappear. To suppose that hu- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man love, guided by the divine Principle, which is Love,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is partial, unmerciful, or unjust, indicates misapprehen-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sion of the divine Principle and its workings in the human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heart.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A person wrote to me, naming the time of the occur- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rence, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I felt the influence of your thought on my mind,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and it produced a wonderful illumination, peace, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">understanding;”</span> but, I had not thought of the writer</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at that time. I knew that this person was doing well,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and my affections involuntarily flow out towards all. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When will the world cease to judge of causes from a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">personal sense of things, conjectural and misapprehen-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sive! When thought dwells in God,—and it should not,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to our consciousness, dwell elsewhere,—one must bene-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fit those who hold a place in one's memory, whether it [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be friend or foe, and each share the benefit of that radia-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion. This individual blessedness and blessing comes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not so much from individual as from universal love: it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">emits light because it reflects; and all who are receptive</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">share this equally. [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page291">[pg 291]</span><a name="Pg291" id="Pg291" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mistaken or transient views are human: they are not [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">governed by the Principle of divine Science: but the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">notion that a mind governed by Principle can be forced</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">into personal channels, affinities, self-interests, or obliga-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tions, is a grave mistake; it dims the true sense of God's [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reflection, and darkens the understanding that demon-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strates above personal motives, unworthy aims and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ambitions.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Too much and too little is attached to me as authority</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for other people's thoughts and actions. A tacit acqui- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">escence with others' views is often construed as direct</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">orders,—or at least it so appears in results. I desire</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the equal growth and prosperity of all Christian Scien-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tists, and the world in general; each and every one has</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">equal opportunity to be benefited by my thoughts and [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">writings. If any are not partakers thereof, this is not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my fault, and is far from my desire; the possible per-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">version of Christian Science is the irony of fate, if the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spirit thereof be lacking. I would part with a blessing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">myself to bestow it upon others, but could not deprive [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">them of it. False views, however engendered, relative</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the true and unswerving course of a Christian Scientist,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will at length dissolve into thin air. The dew of heaven</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will fall gently on the hearts and lives of all who are found</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">worthy to suffer for righteousness,—and have taught [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the truth which is energizing, refreshing, and consecrat-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing mankind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To station justice and gratitude as sentinels along the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lines of thought, would aid the solution of this problem,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and counteract the influence of envious minds or the mis- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">guided individual who keeps not watch over his emotions</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and conclusions.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page292">[pg 292]</span><a name="Pg292" id="Pg292" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc100" id="toc100"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">New Commandment</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The divinity of St. John's Gospel brings to view over- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whelming tides of revelation, and its spirit is baptismal;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he chronicles this teaching, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“A new commandment I</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">give unto you, That ye love one another.”</span> [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus, who so loved the world that he gave his life</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">(in the flesh) for it, saw that Love had a new command-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ment even for him. What was it?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It must have been a rare revelation of infinite Love, a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">new tone on the scale ascending, such as eternity is ever [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sounding. Could I impart to the student the higher</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense I entertain of Love, it would partly illustrate the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine energy that brings to human weakness might and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">majesty. Divine Love eventually causes mortals to turn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">away from the open sepulchres of sin, and look no more [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">into them as realities. It calls loudly on them to bury</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the dead out of sight; to forgive and forget whatever is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unlike the risen, immortal Love; and to shut out all op-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">posite sense. Christ enjoins it upon man to help those</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who know not what he is doing in their behalf, and there- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fore curse him; enjoins taking them by the hand and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">leading them, if <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">possible</span></em>, to Christ, by loving words and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">deeds. Charity thus serves as admonition and instruc-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion, and works out the purposes of Love.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science, full of grace and truth, is accom- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">plishing great good, both seen and unseen; but have</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortals, with the penetration of Soul, searched the secret</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">chambers of sense? I never knew a student who fully</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">understood my instructions on this point of handling</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil,—as to just how this should be done,—and carried [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page293">[pg 293]</span><a name="Pg293" id="Pg293" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out my ideal. It is safe not to teach prematurely the [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">infant thought in Christian Science—just breathing new</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Life and Love—all the claims and modes of evil; there-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fore it is best to leave the righteous unfolding of error</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">(as a general rule) alone, and to the special care of the [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unerring modes of divine wisdom. This uncovering and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">punishing of sin must, will come, at some date, to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rescue of humanity. The teacher of divine metaphysics</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">should impart to his students the general knowledge that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he has gained from instruction, observation, and mental [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">practice.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Experience weighs in the scales of God the sense and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">power of Truth against the opposite claims of error.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If spiritual sense is not dominant in a student, he will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not understand all your instructions; and if evil domi- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nates his character, he will pervert the rules of Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science, and the last error will be worse than the first—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">inasmuch as wilful transgression brings greater torment</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than ignorance.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc101" id="toc101"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">A Cruce Salus</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The sum total of Love reflected is exemplified, and [21]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">includes the whole duty of man: Truth perverted, in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">belief, becomes the creator of the claim of error. To</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">affirm mentally and audibly that God is All and there is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">no sickness and no sin, makes mortals either saints or [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sinners.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth talked and not lived, rolls on the human heart</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a stone; consigns sensibility to the charnel-house of sen-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">suality, ease, self-love, self-justification, there to moulder</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and rot. [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page294">[pg 294]</span><a name="Pg294" id="Pg294" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The noblest work of God is man in the image of his [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Maker; the last infirmity of evil is so-called man, swayed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by the maëlstrom of human passions, elbowing the con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cepts of his own creating, making place for himself and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">displacing his fellows. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A real Christian Scientist is a marvel, a miracle in the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">universe of mortal mind. With selfless love, he inscribes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on the heart of humanity and transcribes on the page</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of reality the living, palpable presence—the might and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">majesty!—of goodness. He lives for all mankind, and [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">honors his creator.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">vice versa</span></span> of this man is sometimes called a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man, but he is a small animal: a hived bee, with sting</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ready for each kind touch, he makes honey out of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the flowers of human hearts and hides it in his cell of [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ingratitude.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O friendly hand! keep back thy offerings from asps</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and apes, from wolves in sheep's clothing and all raven-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing beasts. Love such specimens of mortality just enough</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to reform and transform them,—if it be possible,— [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and then, look out for their stings, and jaws, and claws;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but thank God and take courage,—that you desire to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">help even such as these.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc102" id="toc102"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Comparison to English Barmaids</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Since my residence in Concord, N. H., I have read [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the daily paper, and had become an admirer of Edgar</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">L. Wakeman's terse, graphic, and poetic style in his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Wanderings,”</span> richly flavored with the true ideas of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">humanity and equality. In an issue of January 17, how-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page295">[pg 295]</span><a name="Pg295" id="Pg295" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ever, were certain references to American women which [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">deserve and elicit brief comment.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mr. Wakeman writes from London, that a noted Eng-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lish leader, whom he quotes without naming, avers that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“cursed barmaid system”</span> in England is evolved by [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the same power which in America leads women <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“along</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a gamut of isms and ists, from female suffrage, past a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">score of reforms, to Christian Science.”</span> This anony-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mous talker further declares, that the central cause of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“same original evil”</span> is <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“a female passion for some</span> [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">manner of notoriety.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Is Mr. Wakeman <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">awake</span></em>, and caught napping? While</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">praising the Scotchman's national pride and affection,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">has our American correspondent lost these sentiments</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from his own breast? Has he forgotten how to honor [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his native land and defend the dignity of her daughters</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with his ready pen and pathos?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The flaunting and floundering statements of the great</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unknown for whose ability and popularity Mr. Wakeman</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strongly vouches, should not only be queried, but flatly [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">contradicted, as both untrue and uncivil. English senti-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ment is not wholly represented by one man. Nor is the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">world ignorant of the fact that high and pure ethical</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tones do resound from Albion's shores. The most ad-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vanced ideas are inscribed on tablets of such an organi- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">zation as the Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Great Britain, an institution which names itself after</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">her who is unquestionably the best queen on earth; who</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for a half century has with such dignity, clemency, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">virtue worn the English crown and borne the English [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sceptre.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now, I am a Christian Scientist,—the Founder of</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page296">[pg 296]</span><a name="Pg296" id="Pg296" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this system of religion,—widely known; and, by special [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">invitation, have allowed myself to be elected an associate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">life-member of the Victoria Institute, which numbers</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">among its constituents and managers—not barmaids,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but bishops—profound philosophers, brilliant scholars. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Was it ignorance of American society and history,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">together with unfamiliarity with the work and career</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of American women, which led the unknown author</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cited by Mr. Wakeman to overflow in shallow sarcasm,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and place the barmaids of English alehouses and rail- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ways in the same category with noble women who min-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ister in the sick-room, give their time and strength to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">binding up the wounds of the broken-hearted, and live</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on the plan of heaven?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This writer classes Christian Science with theosophy [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and spiritualism; whereas, they are by no means iden-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tical—nor even similar. Christian Science, antagonis-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tic to intemperance, as to all immorality, is by no means</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">associated therewith. Do manly Britons patronize tap-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rooms and lazar-houses, and thus note or foster a fem- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">inine ambition which, in this unknown gentleman's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">language, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“poises and poses, higgles and wriggles”</span> it-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">self into publicity? Why fall into such patronage, unless</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from their affinity for the worst forms of vice?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And the barmaids! Do they enter this line of occu- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pation from a desire for notoriety and a wish to promote</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">female suffrage? or are they incited thereto by their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">own poverty and the bad appetites of men? What man-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ner of man <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">is</span></em> this unknown individual who utters bar-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">maid and Christian Scientist in the same breath? If he [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but knew whereof he speaks, <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">his</span></em> shame would not lose</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its blush!</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page297">[pg 297]</span><a name="Pg297" id="Pg297" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Taking into account the short time that has elapsed [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">since the discovery of Christian Science, one readily sees</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that this Science has distanced all other religious and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pathological systems for physical and moral reforma-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion. In the direction of temperance it has achieved far [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">more than has been accomplished by legally coercive</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">measures,—and because this Science bases its work on</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ethical conditions and mentally destroys the appetite for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">alcoholic drinks.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Smart journalism is allowable, nay, it is commend- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">able; but the public cannot swallow reports of American</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">affairs from a surly censor ventilating his lofty scorn of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the sects, or societies, of a nation that perhaps he has</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">never visited.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc103" id="toc103"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">A Christian Science Statute</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I hereby state, in unmistakable language, the follow- [16]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing statute in the <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">morale</span></span> of Christian Science:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A man or woman, having voluntarily entered into</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wedlock, and accepted the claims of the marriage cove-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nant, is held in Christian Science as morally bound to [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fulfil all the claims growing out of this contract, unless</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">such claims are relinquished by mutual consent of both</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">parties, or this contract is legally dissolved. If the man</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is dominant over the animal, he will count the conse-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quences of his own conduct; will consider the effects, [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on himself and his progeny, of selfishness, unmerciful-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness, tyranny, or lust.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Trust Truth, not error; and Truth will give you all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that belongs to the rights of freedom. The Hebrew bard</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page298">[pg 298]</span><a name="Pg298" id="Pg298" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wrote, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean</span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">not unto thine own understanding.”</span> Nothing is gained</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by wrong-doing. St. Paul's words take in the situation:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Not ... (as we be slanderously reported, and as some</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">whose damnation is just.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When causing others to go astray, we also are wan-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">derers. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“With what measure ye mete, it shall be meas-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">ured to you again.”</span> Ask yourself: Under the same</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">circumstances, in the same spiritual ignorance and power [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of passion, would I be strengthened by having my best</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">friend break troth with me? These words of St. Matthew</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have special application to Christian Scientists; namely,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“It is not good to marry.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To build on selfishness is to build on sand. When [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus received the material rite of water baptism, he did</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not say that it was God's command; but implied that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the period demanded it. Trials purify mortals and deliver</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">them from themselves,—all the claims of sensuality.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Abide by the <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">morale</span></span> of absolute Christian Science,— +[20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">self-abnegation and purity; then Truth delivers you from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the seeming power of error, and faith vested in righteous-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness triumphs!</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc104" id="toc104"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Advice To Students</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The true consciousness is the true health. One says, [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I find relief from pain in unconscious sleep.”</span> I say,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">You mistake; through unconsciousness one no more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gains freedom from pain than immunity from evil. When</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unconscious of a mistake, one thinks he is not mistaken;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but this false consciousness does not change the fact, or [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page299">[pg 299]</span><a name="Pg299" id="Pg299" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its results; suffering and mistakes recur until one is awake [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to their cause and character. To know the what, when,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and how of error, destroys error. The error that is seen</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">aright as error, has received its death-blow; but never</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">until then. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let us look through the lens of Christian Science,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not of <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“self,”</span> at the following mistake, which demands</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">our present attention. I have no time for detailed report</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of this matter, but simply answer the following question</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sent to me; glad, indeed, that this query has finally come [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with the courage of conviction to the minds of many</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">students.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Is it right to copy your works and read them for our</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">public services?”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The good which the material senses see not is the only [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">absolute good; the evil which these senses see not is the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">only absolute evil.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If I enter Mr. Smith's store and take from it his gar-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ments that are on sale, array myself in them, and put</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">myself and them on exhibition, can I make this right [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by saying, These garments are Mr. Smith's; he manu-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">factured them and owns them, but you must pay me,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not him, for this exhibit?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The spectators may ask, Did he give you permission</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to do this, did he sell them or loan them to you? No. [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then have you asked yourself this question on the sub-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ject, namely, What right have I to do this? True, it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">saves your purchasing these garments, and gives to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">public new patterns which are useful to them; but does</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this silence your conscience? or, because you have con- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fessed that they are the property of a noted firm, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you wished to handle them, does it justify you in appro-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page300">[pg 300]</span><a name="Pg300" id="Pg300" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">priating them, and so avoiding the cost of hiring or [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">purchasing?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Copying my published works <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">verbatim</span></span>, compiling them</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in connection with the Scriptures, taking this copy into</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the pulpit, announcing the author's name, then reading [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it publicly as your own compilation, is—what?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We answer, It is a mistake; in common parlance, it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is an <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">ignorant</span></em> wrong.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If you should print and publish your copy of my works,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you would be liable to arrest for infringement of copy- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">right, which the law defines and punishes as theft. Read-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing in the pulpit from copies of my publications gives</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you the clergyman's salary and spares you the printer's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bill, but does it spare you our Master's condemnation?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">You literally publish my works through the pulpit, instead [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the press, and thus evade the law, <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">but not the gospel</span></em>.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When I consent to this act, you will then be justified</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in it.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Your manuscript copy is liable, in some way, to be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">printed as your original writings, thus incurring the pen- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">alty of the law, and increasing the record of theft in the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">United States Circuit Court.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To The Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, which I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">had organized and of which I had for many years been</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pastor, I gave permission to cite, in the <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Christian Science</span></span> +[25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Quarterly</span></span>, from my work Science and Health, passages</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">giving the spiritual meaning of Bible texts; but this was</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a special privilege, and the author's gift.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science demonstrates that the patient who</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pays whatever he is able to pay for being healed, is more [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">apt to recover than he who withholds a slight equiva-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lent for health. Healing morally and physically are one.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page301">[pg 301]</span><a name="Pg301" id="Pg301" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then, is compiling and delivering that sermon for which [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you pay nothing, and which you deliver without the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">author's consent, and receive pay therefor, the <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">precedent</span></em></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for preaching Christian Science,—and are you doing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the author of the above-named book as you would [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have others do unto you?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Those authors and editors of pamphlets and periodi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cals whose substance is made up of my publications, are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">morally responsible for what the law construes as crime.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There are startling instances of the above-named law- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">breaking and gospel-opposing system of authorship, which</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">characterize the writings of a few professed Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scientists. My Christian students who have read copies</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of my works in the pulpit require only a word to be wise;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">too sincere and morally statuesque are they to be long [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">led into temptation; but I must not leave persistent</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">plagiarists without this word of warning in public, since</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my private counsel they disregard.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To the question of my true-hearted students, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Is it</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">right to copy your works and read them for our public [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">services?”</span> I answer: It is not right to copy my book</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and read it publicly <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">without my consent</span></em>. My reasons are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as follows:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">First:</span></span> This method is an unseen form of injustice</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">standing in a holy place. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Second:</span></span> It breaks the Golden Rule,—a divine rule</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for human conduct.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Third:</span></span> All error tends to harden the heart, blind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the eyes, stop the ears of understanding, and inflate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">self; counter to the commands of our hillside Priest, to [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whom Isaiah alluded thus: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I have trodden the wine-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">press alone; and of the people there was none with me.”</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page302">[pg 302]</span><a name="Pg302" id="Pg302" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Behind the scenes lurks an evil which you can prevent: [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it is a purpose to kill the reformation begun and increas-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing through the instructions of <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and Health with</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Key to the Scriptures;”</span> it encourages infringement of my</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">copyright, and seeks again to <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“cast lots for his vesture,”</span>—while [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the perverter preserves in his own consciousness</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and teaching the name without the Spirit, the skeleton</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">without the heart, the form without the comeliness, the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense without the Science, of Christ's healing. My stu-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dents are expected to know the teaching of Christian Sci- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ence sufficiently to discriminate between error and Truth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thus sparing their teacher a task and themselves the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">temptation to be misled.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Much good has been accomplished through Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science Sunday services. If Christian Scientists occasion- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ally mistake in interpreting revealed Truth, of two evils</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the less would be <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">not</span></em> to leave the Word unspoken and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">untaught. I allowed, till this permission was <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">withdrawn</span></em>,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">students working faithfully for Christ's cause on earth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the privilege of copying and reading my works for Sunday [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">service; <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">provided</span></em>, they each and all destroyed the copies</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at once after said service. When I should so elect and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">give suitable notice, they were to desist from further copy-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing of my writings as aforesaid.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This injunction did not curtail the benefit which the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">student derived from making his copy, nor detract from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the good that his hearers received from his reading thereof;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but it was intended to forestall the possible evil of putting</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the divine teachings contained in <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and Health</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">with Key to the Scriptures”</span> into human hands, to sub- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vert or to liquidate.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I recommend that students stay within their own fields</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page303">[pg 303]</span><a name="Pg303" id="Pg303" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of labor, to work for the race; they are lights that can- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not be hid, and need only to shine from their home sum-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mits to be sought and found as healers physical and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">moral.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The kindly shepherd has his own fold and tends his [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">own flock. Christian students should have their own</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">institutes and, <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">unmolested</span></em>, be governed by divine Love</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">alone in teaching and guiding their students. When</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wisdom garrisons these strongholds of Christian Science,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">peace and joy, the fruits of Spirit, will rest upon us all. [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We are brethren in the fullest sense of that word; there-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fore no queries should arise as to <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“who shall be great-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">est.”</span> Let us serve instead of rule, knock instead of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">push at the door of human hearts, and allow to each</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and every one the same rights and privileges that we [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">claim for ourselves. If ever I wear out from serving</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">students, it shall be in the effort to help them to obey</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Ten Commandments and imbibe the spirit of Christ's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Beatitudes.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc105" id="toc105"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Notice</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Editor of Christian Science Journal</span></span>:—You will oblige</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">me by giving place in your <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span> to the following notice.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The idea and purpose of a Liberty Bell is pleasing, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">can be made profitable to the heart of our country. I feel</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">assured that many Christian Scientists will respond to this [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">letter by contributions.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Baker Eddy</span></span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page304">[pg 304]</span><a name="Pg304" id="Pg304" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Columbian Liberty Bell Committee,</span></span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">1505 Penna. Ave., Washington, D. C.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">To the Daughters of the American Revolution:—</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It has been determined to create a Columbian Liberty</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Bell, to be placed by the lovers of liberty and peace in [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the most appropriate place in the coming World's Expo-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sition at Chicago. After the close of the Exhibition this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bell will pass from place to place throughout the world</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as a missionary of freedom, coming first to the capital</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the nation under the care of our society. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then it will go to Bunker Hill or Liberty Island, to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the battle-field of New Orleans (1812), to San Francisco,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the place where any great patriotic celebration is being</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">held, until 1900, when it will be sent to the next World's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Exhibition, which takes place at Paris, France. There it [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will continue until that Exhibition closes.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When not in use in other places, it will return to Wash-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ington under the care of the Daughters of the American</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Revolution. Washington will be its home, and from there</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it will journey from place to place, fulfilling its mission [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">throughout the world.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The following is the proposed use of the bell: It shall</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ring at sunrise and sunset; at nine o'clock in the morn-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing on the anniversaries of the days on which great events</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have occurred marking the world's progress toward liberty; [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at twelve o'clock on the birthdays of the <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“creators of</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">liberty;”</span> and at four o'clock it will toll on the anniver-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">saries of their death. (It will always ring at nine o'clock</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on October 11th, in recognition of the organization on</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that day of the Daughters of the American Revolution.) [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">... The responsibility of its production, and the direc-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion of its use, have been placed in the hands of a</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page305">[pg 305]</span><a name="Pg305" id="Pg305" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">committee of women representing each State and Ter- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ritory, one representative from each Republic in the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">world, and a representative from the patriotic societies,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">—Daughters and Sons of the American Revolution,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Lyceum League of America, the Society of Ger- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man Patriots, the Human Freedom League, and kindred</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">organizations.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The National Board of Management has placed upon</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">me the responsibility of representing the National Society</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the Daughters of the American Revolution upon the [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">General Committee, and this circular is sent to every</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">member of the society, asking for her personal coopera-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion in making the undertaking successful. In creating</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the bell it is particularly desired that the largest number</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of persons possible shall have a part in it. For this reason [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">small contributions from many persons are to be asked</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for, rather than large contributions from a few. They</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are to be of two kinds:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">First:</span></span> Material that can be made a part of the bell;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">articles of historic interest will be particularly appre- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ciated—gold, silver, bronze, copper, and nickel can be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fused.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Second:</span></span> Of money with which to pay for the bell.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Each member of the society is asked to contribute one</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cent to be fused into the bell, and twenty-five cents to [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pay for it. She is also asked to collect two dollars from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">others, in pennies, if possible, and send with the amount</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the name of each contributor. In order that the bell</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shall be cast April 30th, the anniversary of the inaugu-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ration of George Washington as the first President of [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the United States, we ask every one receiving this cir-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cular <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">to act at once</span></span>.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page306">[pg 306]</span><a name="Pg306" id="Pg306" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In forwarding material to be melted into the bell, please [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">send fullest historical description. This will be entered</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">carefully in a book which will accompany the bell wherever</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it goes.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">... As the motto has not yet been decided upon, any [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ideas on that subject will be gratefully received; we will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">also welcome suggestions of events to be celebrated and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">names to be commemorated.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Very cordially yours,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mary Desha</span></span>,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">ex-Vice-President General, D. A. R.</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Contributions should be sent to the Liberty National</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Bank, corner Liberty and West Streets, New York, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a duplicate letter written, as a notification of the same,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to Miss Mary Desha, 1505 Penna. Ave., Washington, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">D. C., or to Miss Minnie F. Mickley, Mickleys, Pa.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We would add, as being of interest, that Mrs. Eddy is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a member of the above organization, having been made</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">such by the special request of the late Mrs. Harrison,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wife of the ex-President, who was at that time the Presi- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dent thereof.—<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Ed.</span></span></div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc106" id="toc106"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Angels</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">we know their presence by the love they create in our [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hearts. Oh, may you feel <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">this</span></em> touch,—it is not the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">clasping of hands, nor a loved person present; it is more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than this: it is a spiritual idea that lights your path!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Psalmist saith: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“He shall give His angels charge</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page307">[pg 307]</span><a name="Pg307" id="Pg307" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">over thee.”</span> God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">turn, they give you daily supplies. Never ask for to-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">morrow: it is enough that divine Love is an ever-present</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">help; and if you wait, never doubting, you will have</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all you need every moment. What a glorious inheritance [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is given to us through the understanding of omnipresent</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love! More we cannot ask: more we do not want:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">more we cannot have. This sweet assurance is the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Peace, be still”</span> to all human fears, to suffering of every</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sort. [10]</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc107" id="toc107"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Deification Of Personality</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Notwithstanding the rapid sale already of two editions</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Christ and Christmas,”</span> and many orders on hand, I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have thought best to stop its publication.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In this revolutionary religious period, the increasing [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">inquiry of mankind as to Christianity and its unity—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and above all, God's love opening the eyes of the blind—is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fast fitting all minds for the proper reception of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science healing.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But I must stand on this absolute basis of Christian [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science; namely, Cast not pearls before the unprepared</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thought. Idolatry is an easily-besetting sin of all peoples.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The apostle saith, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Little children, keep yourselves from</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">idols.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The illustrations were not intended for a golden calf, [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at which the sick may look and be healed. Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scientists should beware of unseen snares, and adhere</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the divine Principle and rules for demonstration.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They must guard against the deification of finite personality.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Every human thought must turn instinctively to [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page308">[pg 308]</span><a name="Pg308" id="Pg308" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the divine Mind as its sole centre and intelligence. Until [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this be done, man will never be found harmonious and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">immortal.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whosoever looks to me personally for his health or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">holiness, mistakes. He that by reason of human love or [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hatred or any other cause clings to my material per-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sonality, greatly errs, stops his own progress, and loses</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the path to health, happiness, and heaven. The Scrip-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tures and Christian Science reveal <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the way,”</span> and per-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sonal revelators will take their proper place in history, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but will not be deified.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Advanced scientific students are ready for <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Christ</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">and Christmas;”</span> but those are a minority of its readers,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and even they know its practicality only by healing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the sick on its divine Principle. In the words of the [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">prophet, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Lord.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Friends, strangers, and Christian Scientists, I thank</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you, each and all, for your liberal patronage and scholarly,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">artistic, and scientific notices of my book. This little [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">messenger has done its work, fulfilled its mission, retired</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with honor (and mayhap taught me more than it has</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">others), only to reappear in due season. The knowledge</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that I have gleaned from its fruitage is, that intensely</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">contemplating personality impedes spiritual growth; even [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as holding in mind the consciousness of disease prevents</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the recovery of the sick.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science is taught through its divine Prin-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ciple, which is invisible to corporeal sense. A material</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human likeness is the antipode of man in the image and [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">likeness of God. Hence, a finite person is not the model</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for a metaphysician. I earnestly advise all Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scientists to remove from their observation or study</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page309">[pg 309]</span><a name="Pg309" id="Pg309" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the personal sense of any one, and not to dwell in thought [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">upon their own or others' corporeality, either as good or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">According to Christian Science, material personality is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">an error in premise, and must result in erroneous con- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">clusions. All will agree with me that material portraiture</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">often fails to express even mortal man, and this declares</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its unfitness for fable or fact to build upon.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The face of Jesus has uniformly been so unnaturally</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">delineated that it has turned many from the true con- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">templation of his character. He advances most in divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science who meditates most on infinite spiritual sub-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stance and intelligence. Experience proves this true.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Pondering on the finite personality of Jesus, the son of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man, is not the channel through which we reach the [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christ, or Son of God, the true idea of man's divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Principle.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I warn students against falling into the error of anti-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christ. The consciousness of corporeality, and what-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ever is connected therewith, must be outgrown. Corporeal [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">falsities include all obstacles to health, holiness, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heaven. Man's individual life is infinitely above a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bodily form of existence, and the human concept an-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tagonizes the divine. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and Health with Key</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">to the Scriptures,”</span> on page 229, third and fourth para- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">graphs, elucidates this topic.<a id="noteref_5" name="noteref_5" href="#note_5"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">5</span></span></a></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My Christmas poem and its illustrations are not a text-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">book. Scientists sometimes take things too intensely.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let them soberly adhere to the Bible and Science and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Health, which contain all and much more than they [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have yet learned. We should prohibit ourselves the</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page310">[pg 310]</span><a name="Pg310" id="Pg310" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">childish pleasure of studying Truth through the senses, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for this is neither the intent of my works nor possible</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in Science.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Even the teachings of Jesus would be misused by sub-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stituting personality for the Christ, or the impersonal [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">form of Truth, amplified in this age by the discovery of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science. To impersonalize scientifically the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">material sense of existence—rather than cling to per-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sonality—is the lesson of to-day.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc108" id="toc108"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">A Card</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My answer to manifold letters relative to the return</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of members that have gone out of The First Church of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christ, Scientist, in Boston, is this: While my affec-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tions plead for all and every one, and my desire is that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all shall be redeemed, I am not unmindful that the Scrip- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tures enjoin, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Let all things be done decently and in</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">order.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To continue one's connection with this church, or to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">regain it, one must comply with the church rules. All</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who desire its fellowship, and to become members of it, [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">must send in their petitions to this effect to the Clerk</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the church; and upon a meeting being called, the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">First Members will determine the action of the church</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on this subject.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc109" id="toc109"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Overflowing Thoughts</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In this receding year of religious jubilee, 1894, I as [26]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">an individual would cordially invite all persons who</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have left our fold, together with those who never have</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page311">[pg 311]</span><a name="Pg311" id="Pg311" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">been in it,—all who love God and keep His command- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ments,—to come and unite with The Mother Church in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Boston. The true Christian Scientists will be welcomed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">greeted as brethren endeavoring to walk with us hand</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in hand, as we journey to the celestial city. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Also, I would extend a tender invitation to Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scientists' students, those who are ready for the table of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">our Lord: so, should we follow Christ's teachings; so,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bury the dead past; so, loving one another, go forth to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the full vintage-time, exemplifying what we profess. But [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">some of the older members are not quite ready to take</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this advanced step in the full spirit of that charity which</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thinketh no evil; and if it be not taken thus, it is impracti-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cal, unfruitful, Soul-less.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My deepest desires and daily labors go to prove that [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I love my enemies and would help all to gain the abiding</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">consciousness of health, happiness, and heaven.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I hate no one; and love others more than they can</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">love me. As I now understand Christian Science, I would</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as soon harm myself as another; since by breaking [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christ's command, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou shalt love thy neighbor as</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">thyself,”</span> I should lose my hope of heaven.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The works I have written on Christian Science con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tain absolute Truth, and my necessity was to tell it;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">therefore I did this even as a surgeon who wounds [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to heal. I was a scribe under orders; and who can</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">refrain from transcribing what God indites, and ought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not that one to take the cup, drink all of it, and give</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thanks?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Being often reported as saying what never escaped [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from my lips, when rehearsing facts concerning others</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who were reporting false charges, I have been sorry that</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page312">[pg 312]</span><a name="Pg312" id="Pg312" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I spoke at all, and wished I were wise enough to guard [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">against that temptation. Oh, may the love that is talked,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">felt</span></em>! and so <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">lived</span></em>, that when weighed in the scale of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God we be not found wanting. Love is consistent, uni-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">form, sympathetic, self-sacrificing, unutterably kind; even [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that which lays all upon the altar, and, speechless and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">alone, bears all burdens, suffers all inflictions, endures</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all piercing for the sake of others, and for the kingdom</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of heaven's sake.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc110" id="toc110"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">A Great Man And His Saying</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hon. Charles Carrol Bonney, President of the World's [11]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Congress Auxiliary, in his remarks before that body,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“No more striking manifestation of the interposi-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion of divine Providence in human affairs has come in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">recent years, than that shown in the raising up of the [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">body of people known as Christian Scientists, who are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">called to declare the real harmony between religion and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science, and to restore the waning faith of many in the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">verities of the sacred Scriptures.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In honest utterance of veritable history, and his own [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual discernment, this man must have risen above</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">worldly schemes, human theorems or hypotheses, to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">conclusions which reason too supine or misemployed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cannot fasten upon. He spake inspired; he touched a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tone of Truth that will continue to reverberate and renew [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its emphasis throughout the entire centuries, into the vast</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">forever.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page313">[pg 313]</span><a name="Pg313" id="Pg313" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc111" id="toc111"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Words Of Commendation</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Editor of The Christian Science Journal</span></span>:—Permit me</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to say that your editorial in the August number is <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">par</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">excellence</span></span>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is a digest of good manners, morals, methods, and [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">means. It points to the scientific spiritual molecule,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pearl, and pinnacle, that everybody needs. May the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christlikeness it reflects rest on the dear readers, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">throw the light of penetration on the page; even as the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dawn, kindling its glories in the east, lightens earth's [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">landscape.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I thank the contributors to <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">The Christian Science</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span> for their jewels of thought, so adapted to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hour, and without ill-humor or hyperbolic tumor. I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">was impressed by the articles entitled <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The New Pas-</span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">tor,”</span> by Rev. Lanson P. Norcross, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The Lamp,”</span> by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Walter Church, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The Temptation,”</span> a poem by J. J.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rome, etc.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The field waves its white ensign, the reapers are strong,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the rich sheaves are ripe, the storehouse is ready: pray [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ye therefore the God of harvest to send forth more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">laborers of the excellent sort, and garner the supplies</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for a world.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc112" id="toc112"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Church And School</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Humbly, and, as I believe, divinely directed, I hereby [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ordain the Bible, and <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and Health with Key</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">to the Scriptures,”</span> to be hereafter the only pastor of</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page314">[pg 314]</span><a name="Pg314" id="Pg314" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Church of Christ, Scientist, throughout our land [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and in other lands.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From this date the Sunday services of our denomina-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion shall be conducted by Readers in lieu of pastors.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Each church, or society formed for Sunday worship, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shall elect two Readers: a male, and a female. One of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">these individuals shall open the meeting by reading the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hymns, and chapter (or portion of the chapter) in the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Bible, lead in silent prayer, and repeat in concert with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the congregation the Lord's Prayer. Also, this First [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Reader shall give out any notices from the pulpit, shall</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">read the Scriptures indicated in the Sunday School Les-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">son of the <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Christian Science Quarterly</span></span>, and shall pro-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nounce the benediction.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The First Reader shall read from my book, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science</span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> alternately in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">response to the congregation, the spiritual interpreta-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion of the Lord's Prayer; also, shall read all the selec-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tions from Science and Health referred to in the Sunday</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Lessons. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Reader of the Scriptures shall name, at each</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reading, the book, chapter, and verses. The Reader of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures”</span> shall</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">commence by announcing the full title of this book, with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the name of its author, and add to this announcement, [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the Christian Science textbook.”</span> It is unnecessary to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">repeat the title or page. This form shall also be observed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at the Communion service; the selections from both the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Bible and the Christian Science textbook shall be taken</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Quarterly</span></span>, as heretofore, and this Lesson shall +[30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be such as is adapted to that service. On the first Sunday</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of each month, except Communion Sunday, a sermon</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page315">[pg 315]</span><a name="Pg315" id="Pg315" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shall be preached to the children, from selections taken [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the Scriptures and Science and Health, especially</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">adapted to the occasion, and read after the manner of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Sunday service. The children's service shall be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">held on the Sunday following Communion Day. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">No copies from my books are allowed to be written,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and read from manuscripts, either in private or in pub-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lic assemblies, except by their author.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Scientists, all over the world, who are let-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">terly fit and specially spiritually fitted for teachers, can [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">teach annually three classes only. They shall teach</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the Christian Science textbook. Each class shall</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">consist of not over thirty-three students, carefully selected,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and only of such as have promising proclivities toward</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science. The teacher shall hold himself mor- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ally obligated to look after the welfare of his students,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not only through class term, but after it; and to watch</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">well that they prove sound in sentiment, health, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">practical Christian Science.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Teaching Christian Science shall be no question of [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">money, but of morals and of uplifting the race. Teachers</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shall form associations for this purpose; and for the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">first few years, convene as often as once in three months.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Teachers shall not silently mentally address the thought,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to handle it, nor allow their students to do thus, except [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the individual needing it asks for mental treatment.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They shall steadily and patiently strive to educate their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">students in conformity to the unerring wisdom and law</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of God, and shall enjoin upon them habitually to study</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His revealed Word, the Scriptures, and <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and</span> [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Health with Key to the Scriptures.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They shall teach their students how to defend them-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page316">[pg 316]</span><a name="Pg316" id="Pg316" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">selves against mental malpractice, but never to return [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil for evil; never to attack the malpractitioner, but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to know the truth that makes free,—and so to be a law</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not unto others, but themselves.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc113" id="toc113"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Class, Pulpit, Students' Students</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When will you take a class in Christian Science or [6]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">speak to your church in Boston? is often asked.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I shall speak to my dear church at Boston very seldom.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Mother Church must be self-sustained by God.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The date of a class in Christian Science should depend [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on the fitness of things, the tide which flows heavenward,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the hour best for the student. Until minds become less</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">worldly-minded, and depart farther from the primitives</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the race, and have profited up to their present capac-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ity from the written word, they are not ready for the [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">word spoken at this date.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My juniors can tell others what they know, and turn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">them slowly toward the haven. Imperative, accumula-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tive, sweet demands rest on my retirement from life's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bustle. What, then, of continual recapitulation of tired [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">aphorisms and disappointed ethics; of patching breaches</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">widened the next hour; of pounding wisdom and love</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">into sounding brass; of warming marble and quench-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing volcanoes! Before entering the Massachusetts Meta-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">physical College, had my students achieved the point [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whence they could have derived most benefit from their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pupilage, to-day there would be on earth paragons of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christianity, patterns of humility, wisdom, and might</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for the world.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page317">[pg 317]</span><a name="Pg317" id="Pg317" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To the students whom I have not seen that ask, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“May</span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">I call you mother?”</span> my heart replies, <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Yes</span></em>, if you +are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">doing God's work. When born of Truth and Love, we</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are all of one kindred.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The hour has struck for Christian Scientists to do their [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">own work; to appreciate the signs of the times; to dem-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">onstrate self-knowledge and self-government; and to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demonstrate, as this period demands, over all sin, disease,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and death. The dear ones whom I would have great</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pleasure in instructing, know that the door to my teaching [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">was shut when my College closed.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Again, it is not absolutely requisite for some people</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to be taught in a class, for they can learn by spiritual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">growth and by the study of what is written. Scarcely a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">moiety, compared with the whole of the Scriptures and [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Christian Science textbook, is yet assimilated spirit-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ually by the most faithful seekers; yet this assimilation is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">indispensable to the progress of every Christian Scientist.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">These considerations prompt my answers to the above</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">questions. Human desire is inadequate to adjust the [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">balance on subjects of such earnest import. These</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">words of our Master explain this hour: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“What I do</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My sympathies are deeply enlisted for the students</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of students; having already seen in many instances their [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">talents, culture, and singleness of purpose to uplift the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">race. Such students should not pay the penalty for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">other people's faults; and divine Love will open the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">way for them. My soul abhors injustice, and loves</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mercy. St. John writes: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Whom God hath sent speaketh</span> [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by meas-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">ure unto him.”</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page318">[pg 318]</span><a name="Pg318" id="Pg318" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc114" id="toc114"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">My Students And Thy Students</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mine and thine are obsolete terms in absolute Christian [2]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science, wherein and whereby the universal brotherhood</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of man is stated and demands to be demonstrated. I have</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a large affection, not alone for my students, but for thy [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">students,—for students of the second generation. I can-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not but love some of those devoted students better than</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">some of mine who are less lovable or Christly. This</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">natural affection for goodness must go on <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">ad libitum</span></span> unto</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the third and fourth and final generation of those who [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">love God and keep His commandments. Hence the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">following is an amendment of the paragraph on page 47<a id="noteref_6" name="noteref_6" href="#note_6"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">6</span></span></a></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Retrospection and Introspection”</span>:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Any student, having received instructions in a Primary</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">class from me, or from a loyal student of Christian Science, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and afterwards studied thoroughly <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and Health</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> can enter upon the gospel</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">work of teaching Christian Science, and so fulfil the command</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Christ. Before entering this sacred field of labor,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the student must have studied faithfully the latest edi- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tions of my works, and be a good Bible scholar and a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">devout, consecrated Christian.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">These are the indispensable demands on all those who</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">become teachers.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc115" id="toc115"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Unseen Sin</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Two points of danger beset mankind; namely, making [26]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sin seem either too large or too little: if too large, we</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page319">[pg 319]</span><a name="Pg319" id="Pg319" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are in the darkness of all the ages, wherein the true sense [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the unity of good and the unreality of evil is lost.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If good is God, even as God is good, then good and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil can neither be coeval nor coequal, for God is All-in-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all. This closes the argument of aught besides Him, aught [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">else than good.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If the sense of sin is too little, mortals are in danger</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of not seeing their own belief in sin, but of seeing too</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">keenly their neighbor's. Then they are beset with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">egotism and hypocrisy. Here Christian Scientists must [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be most watchful. Their habit of mental and audible</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">protest against the reality of sin, tends to make sin less</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or more to them than to other people. They must either</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be overcoming sin in themselves, or they must not lose</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sight of sin; else they are self-deceived sinners of the [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">worst sort.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc116" id="toc116"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">A Word To The Wise</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Will all the dear Christian Scientists accept my tender</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">greetings for the forthcoming holidays, and grant me</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this request,—let the present season pass without one [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gift to me.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Our church edifice must be built in 1894. Take thither</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thy saintly offerings, and lay them in the outstretched</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hand of God. The object to be won affords ample oppor-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tunity for the grandest achievement to which Christian [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scientists can direct attention, and feel themselves alone</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">among the stars.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">No doubt must intervene between the promise and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">event; faith and resolve are friends to Truth; seize them,</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page320">[pg 320]</span><a name="Pg320" id="Pg320" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">trust the divine Providence, push upward our prayer in [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stone,—and God will give the benediction.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc117" id="toc117"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Christmas</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This interesting day, crowned with the history of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth's idea,—its earthly advent and nativity,—is [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">especially dear to the heart of Christian Scientists; to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">whom Christ's appearing in a fuller sense is so precious,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and fraught with divine benedictions for mankind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The star that looked lovingly down on the manger of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">our Lord, lends its resplendent light to this hour: the [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">light of Truth, to cheer, guide, and bless man as he</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reaches forth for the infant idea of divine perfection</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dawning upon human imperfection,—that calms man's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fears, bears his burdens, beckons him on to Truth and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love and the sweet immunity these bring from sin, sick- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness, and death.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This polar star, fixed in the heavens of divine Science,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shall be the sign of his appearing who <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“healeth all our</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">diseases;”</span> it hath traversed night, wading through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">darkness and gloom, on to glory. It doth meet the [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">antagonism of error; addressing to dull ears and undis-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ciplined beliefs words of Truth and Life.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The star of Bethlehem is the star of Boston, high in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the zenith of Truth's domain, that looketh down on the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">long night of human beliefs, to pierce the darkness and [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">melt into dawn.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The star of Bethlehem is the light of all ages; is the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">light of Love, to-day christening religion undefiled, divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science; giving to it a new name, and the white stone in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">token of purity and permanence. [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page321">[pg 321]</span><a name="Pg321" id="Pg321" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The wise men follow this guiding star; the watchful [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shepherd chants his welcome over the cradle of a great</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">truth, and saith, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Unto us a child is born,”</span> whose birth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is less of a miracle than eighteen centuries ago; and <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“his</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My heart is filled with joy, that each receding year sees</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the steady gain of Truth's idea in Christian Science; that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">each recurring year witnesses the balance adjusted more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on the side of God, the supremacy of Spirit; as shown [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by the triumphs of Truth over error, of health over sick-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness, of Life over death, and of Soul over sense.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The hour cometh, and now is, when the true wor-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">shippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth.”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made</span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">me free from the law of sin and death.”</span> <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Fear not, +little</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">the kingdom.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Press on, press on! ye sons of light,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Untiring in your holy fight, [20]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Still treading each temptation down,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And battling for a brighter crown.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc118" id="toc118"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Card</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In reply to all invitations from Chicago to share the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hospitality of their beautiful homes at any time during [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the great wonder of the world, the World's Fair, I say,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Do not expect me. I have no desire to see or to hear</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">what is to be offered upon this approaching occasion.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I have a world of wisdom and Love to contemplate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that concerns me, and you, infinitely beyond all earthly [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page322">[pg 322]</span><a name="Pg322" id="Pg322" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">expositions or exhibitions. In return for your kindness, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I earnestly invite you to its contemplation with me, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to preparation to behold it.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc119" id="toc119"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Message To The Mother Church</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Beloved Brethren</span></span>:—People coming from a distance [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">expecting to hear me speak in The Mother Church,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are frequently disappointed. To avoid this, I may here-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">after notify the Directors when I shall be present to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">address this congregation, and the Clerk of the church</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">can inform correspondents. Your dual and impersonal [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pastor, the Bible, and <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and Health with Key to</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">the Scriptures,”</span> is with you; and the Life these give, the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth they illustrate, the Love they demonstrate, is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the great Shepherd that feedeth my flock, and leadeth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">them <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“beside the still waters.”</span> By any personal pres- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ence, or word of mine, your thought must not be diverted</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or diverged, your senses satisfied, or self be justified.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Therefore, beloved, my often-coming is unnecessary;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for, though I be present or absent, it is God that feed-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eth the hungry heart, that giveth grace for grace, that [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healeth the sick and cleanseth the sinner. For this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">consummation He hath given you Christian Science,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and my past poor labors and love. He hath shown you</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the amplitude of His mercy, the justice of His judgment,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the omnipotence of His love; and this, to compensate [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">your zealous affection for seeking good, and for labor-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing in its widening grooves from the infinitesimal to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">infinite.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page323">[pg 323]</span><a name="Pg323" id="Pg323" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc120" id="toc120"></a> +<a name="pdf121" id="pdf121"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Chapter IX. The Fruit Of Spirit</span></h1> + + + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc122" id="toc122"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">An Allegory</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Picture to yourself <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“a city set upon a hill,”</span> a [2]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">celestial city above all clouds, in serene azure and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unfathomable glory: having no temple therein, for God is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the temple thereof; nor need of the sun, neither of the [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">moon, for God doth lighten it. Then from this sacred</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">summit behold a Stranger wending his way downward,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to where a few laborers in a valley at the foot of the moun-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tain are working and watching for his coming.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The descent and ascent are beset with peril, priva- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion, temptation, toil, suffering. Venomous serpents hide</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">among the rocks, beasts of prey prowl in the path, wolves</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in sheep's clothing are ready to devour; but the Stranger</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">meets and masters their secret and open attacks with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">serene confidence. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Stranger eventually stands in the valley at the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">foot of the mountain. He saith unto the patient toilers</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">therein: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“What do ye here? Would ye ascend the moun-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tain,—climbing its rough cliffs, hushing the hissing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">serpents, taming the beasts of prey,—and bathe in its [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">streams, rest in its cool grottos, and drink from its living</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fountains? The way winds and widens in the valley;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">up the hill it is straight and narrow, and few there be that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">find it.”</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page324">[pg 324]</span><a name="Pg324" id="Pg324" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His converse with the watchers and workers in the [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">valley closes, and he makes his way into the streets of a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">city made with hands.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Pausing at the threshold of a palatial dwelling, he</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">knocks and waits. The door is shut. He hears the [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sounds of festivity and mirth; youth, manhood, and age</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gayly tread the gorgeously tapestried parlors, dancing-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">halls, and banquet-rooms. But a little while, and the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">music is dull, the wine is unsipped, the footfalls abate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the laughter ceases. Then from the window of this dwel- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ling a face looks out, anxiously surveying him who waiteth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at the door.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Within this mortal mansion are adulterers, fornicators,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">idolaters; drunkenness, witchcraft, variance, envy, emu-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lation, hatred, wrath, murder. Appetites and passions [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have so dimmed their sight that he alone who looks from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that dwelling, through the clearer pane of his own heart</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tired of sin, can see the Stranger.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Startled beyond measure at beholding him, this mortal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">inmate withdraws; but growing more and more troubled, [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he seeks to leave the odious company and the cruel walls,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and to find the Stranger. Stealing cautiously away from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his comrades, he departs; then turns back,—he is afraid</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to go on and to meet the Stranger. So he returns to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">house, only to find the lights all wasted and the music [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fled. Finding no happiness within, he rushes again</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">into the lonely streets, seeking peace but finding none.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Naked, hungry, athirst, this time he struggles on, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">at length reaches the pleasant path of the valley at the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">foot of the mountain, whence he may hopefully look for [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the reappearance of the Stranger, and receive his heavenly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">guidance.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page325">[pg 325]</span><a name="Pg325" id="Pg325" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Stranger enters a massive carved stone mansion, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and saith unto the dwellers therein, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Blessed are the</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”</span> But</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they understand not his saying.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">These are believers of different sects, and of no sect; [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">some, so-called Christian Scientists in sheep's clothing;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and all <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“drunken without wine.”</span> They have small con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ceptions of spiritual riches, few cravings for the immortal,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but are puffed up with the applause of the world: they</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have plenty of pelf, and fear not to fall upon the Stranger, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">seize his pearls, throw them away, and afterwards try to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">kill him.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Somewhat disheartened, he patiently seeks another</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dwelling,—only to find its inmates asleep at noontide!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Robust forms, with manly brow nodding on cushioned [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">chairs, their feet resting on footstools, or, flat on their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">backs, lie stretched on the floor, dreaming away the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hours. Balancing on one foot, with eyes half open,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the porter starts up in blank amazement and looks at</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Stranger, calls out, rubs his eyes,—amazed beyond [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">measure that anybody is animated with a purpose, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">seen working for it!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They in this house are those that <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“provoke Him in</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">the wilderness, and grieve Him in the desert.”</span> Away</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from this charnel-house of the so-called living, the Stranger [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">turns quickly, and wipes off the dust from his feet as a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">testimony against sensualism in its myriad forms. As</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he departs, he sees robbers finding ready ingress to that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dwelling of sleepers in the midst of murderous hordes,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">without watchers and the doors unbarred! [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Next he enters a place of worship, and saith unto them,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Go ye into all the world; preach the gospel, heal the</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page326">[pg 326]</span><a name="Pg326" id="Pg326" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sick, cast out devils, raise the dead; for the Scripture [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">saith the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">made you free from the law of sin and death.”</span> +And <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">they</span></em></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">cast him out</span></em>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Once more he seeks the dwelling-place of mortals and [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">knocks loudly. The door is burst open, and sufferers</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shriek for help: that house is on fire! The flames caught</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the dwelling of luxury, where the blind saw them not,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but the flesh at length did feel them; thence they spread</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the house of slumberers who heeded them not, until [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they became unmanageable; fed by the fat of hypocrisy</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and vainglory, they consumed the next dwelling; then</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">crept unseen into the synagogue, licking up the blood</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of martyrs and wrapping their altars in ruins. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“God is a</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">consuming fire.”</span> [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thus are all mortals, under every hue of circumstances,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">driven out of their houses of clay and, homeless wan-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">derers in a beleaguered city, forced to seek the Father's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">house, if they would be led to the valley and up the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mount. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Seeing the wisdom of withdrawing from those who</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">persistently rejected him, the Stranger returned to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">valley; first, to meet with joy his own, to wash their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">feet, and take them up the mountain. Well might this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heavenly messenger exclaim, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,</span> [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are sent unto thee,... Behold, your house is left unto</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">you desolate.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Discerning in his path the penitent one who had groped</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his way from the dwelling of luxury, the Stranger saith [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unto him, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Wherefore comest thou hither?”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He answered, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The sight of thee unveiled my sins, and</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page327">[pg 327]</span><a name="Pg327" id="Pg327" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">turned my misnamed joys to sorrow. When I went back [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">into the house to take something out of it, my misery</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">increased; so I came hither, hoping that I might follow</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">thee whithersoever thou goest.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And the Stranger saith unto him, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Wilt thou climb</span> [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">the mountain, and take nothing of thine own with thee?”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He answered, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I will.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Then,”</span> saith the Stranger, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“thou hast chosen the</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">good part; follow me.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Many there were who had entered the valley to specu- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">late in worldly policy, religion, politics, finance, and to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">search for wealth and fame. These had heavy baggage</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of their own, and insisted upon taking all of it with them,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">which must greatly hinder their ascent.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The journey commences. The encumbered travellers [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">halt and disagree. They stoutly belay those who, hav-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing less baggage, ascend faster than themselves, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">betimes burden them with their own. Despairing of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gaining the summit, loaded as they are, they conclude to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stop and lay down a few of the heavy weights,—but [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">only to take them up again, more than ever determined</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not to part with their baggage.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All this time the Stranger is pointing the way, show-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing them their folly, rebuking their pride, consoling their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">afflictions, and helping them on, saying, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“He that loseth</span> [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">his life for my sake, shall find it.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Obstinately holding themselves back, and sore-footed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they fall behind and lose sight of their guide; when,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stumbling and grumbling, and fighting each other, they</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">plunge headlong over the jagged rocks. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then he who has no baggage goes back and kindly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">binds up their wounds, wipes away the blood stains, and</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page328">[pg 328]</span><a name="Pg328" id="Pg328" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">would help them on; but suddenly the Stranger shouts, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Let them alone; they must learn from the things they</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">suffer. Make thine own way; and if thou strayest, listen</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for the mountain-horn, and it will call thee back to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">path that goeth upward.”</span> [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Dear reader, dost thou suspect that the valley is hu-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mility, that the mountain is heaven-crowned Christianity,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the Stranger the ever-present Christ, the spiritual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">idea which from the summit of bliss surveys the vale of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the flesh, to burst the bubbles of earth with a breath of [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heaven, and acquaint sensual mortals with the mystery</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of godliness,—unchanging, unquenchable Love? Hast</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not thou heard this Christ knock at the door of thine own</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heart, and closed it against Truth, to <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“eat and drink</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">with the drunken”</span>? Hast thou been driven by suffer- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing to the foot of the mount, but earth-bound, burdened</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by pride, sin, and self, hast thou turned back, stumbled,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and wandered away? Or hast thou tarried in the habita-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion of the senses, pleased and stupefied, until wakened</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">through the baptism of fire? [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He alone ascends the hill of Christian Science who</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">follows the Way-shower, the spiritual presence and idea</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of God. Whatever obstructs the way,—causing to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stumble, fall, or faint, those mortals who are striving</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to enter the path,—divine Love will remove; and up- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lift the fallen and strengthen the weak. Therefore, give</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">up thy earth-weights; and observe the apostle's admoni-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Forgetting those things which are behind, and</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">reaching forth unto those which are before.”</span> Then,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">loving God supremely and thy neighbor as thyself, thou [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wilt safely bear thy cross up to the throne of everlasting</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">glory.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page329">[pg 329]</span><a name="Pg329" id="Pg329" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc123" id="toc123"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Voices Of Spring</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mine is an obstinate <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">penchant</span></em> for nature in all her [2]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">moods and forms, a satisfaction with whatever is hers.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And what shall this be named, a weakness, or a—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">virtue? [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In spring, nature like a thrifty housewife sets the earth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in order; and between taking up the white carpets and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">putting down the green ones, her various apartments are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dismally dirty.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spring is my sweetheart, whose voices are sad or glad, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">even as the heart may be; restoring in memory the sweet</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rhythm of unforgotten harmonies, or touching tenderly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its tearful tones.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spring passes over mountain and meadow, waking up</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the world; weaving the wavy grass, nursing the timid [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spray, stirring the soft breeze; rippling all nature in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ceaseless flow, with <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“breath all odor and cheek all bloom.”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whatever else droops, spring is gay: her little feet trip</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lightly on, turning up the daisies, paddling the water-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cresses, rocking the oriole's cradle; challenging the sed- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">entary shadows to activity, and the streams to race for the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sea. Her dainty fingers put the fur cap on pussy-willow,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">paint in pink the petals of arbutus, and sweep in soft</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strains her Orphean lyre. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The voice of the turtle is</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">heard in our land.”</span> The snow-bird that tarried through [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the storm, now chirps to the breeze; the cuckoo sounds</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">her invisible lute, calling the feathered tribe back to their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">summer homes. Old robin, though stricken to the heart</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with winter's snow, prophesies of fair earth and sunny</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">skies. The brooklet sings melting murmurs to merry [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page330">[pg 330]</span><a name="Pg330" id="Pg330" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">meadows; the leaves clap their hands, and the winds [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">make melody through dark pine groves.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What is the anthem of human life?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Has love ceased to moan over the new-made grave,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and, looking upward, does it patiently pray for the per- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">petual springtide wherein no arrow wounds the dove?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Human hope and faith should join in nature's grand har-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mony, and, if on minor key, make music in the heart.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And man, more friendly, should call his race as gently</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to the springtide of Christ's dear love. St. Paul wrote, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Rejoice in the Lord always.”</span> And why not, since man's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">possibilities are infinite, bliss is eternal, and the conscious-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness thereof is here and now?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The alders bend over the streams to shake out their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tresses in the water-mirrors; let mortals bow before the [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">creator, and, looking through Love's transparency, behold</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man in God's own image and likeness, arranging in the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">beauty of holiness each budding thought. It is good to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">talk with our past hours, and learn what report they</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bear, and how they might have reported more spirit- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ual growth. With each returning year, higher joys,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">holier aims, a purer peace and diviner energy, should</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">freshen the fragrance of being. Nature's first and last</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lessons teach man to be kind, and even pride should</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sanction what our natures need. Popularity,—what is [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it? A mere mendicant that boasts and begs, and God</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">denies charity.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When gentle violet lifts its blue eye to heaven, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">crown imperial unveils its regal splendor to the sun;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">when the modest grass, inhabiting the whole earth, stoops [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">meekly before the blast; when the patient corn waits</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on the elements to put forth its slender blade, construct</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page331">[pg 331]</span><a name="Pg331" id="Pg331" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the stalk, instruct the ear, and crown the full corn in the [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ear,—then, are mortals looking up, waiting on God,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and committing their way unto Him who tosses earth's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mass of wonders into their hands? When downtrodden</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">like the grass, did it make them humble, loving, obedi- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ent, full of good odor, and cause them to wait patiently</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on God for man's rich heritage,—<span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“dominion over all</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">the earth”</span>? Thus abiding in Truth, the warmth and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sunlight of prayer and praise and understanding will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ripen the fruits of Spirit, and goodness will have its spring- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tide of freedom and greatness.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When the white-winged dove feeds her callow brood,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nestles them under her wings, and, in tones tremulous</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with tenderness, calls them to her breast, do mortals</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">remember <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">their</span></em> cradle hymns, and thank God for those [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">redemptive words from a mother's lips which taught</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">them the Lord's Prayer?</div> +</div> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">O gentle presence, peace and joy and power;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Thou Love that guards the nestling's faltering flight! [20]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Keep Thou my child on upward wing to-night.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Midst the falling leaves of old-time faiths, above the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">frozen crust of creed and dogma, the divine Mind-force,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">filling all space and having all power, upheaves the earth.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In sacred solitude divine Science evolved nature as thought, [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and thought as things. This supreme potential Principle</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reigns in the realm of the real, and is <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“God with us,”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">I am</span></span>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As mortals awake from their dream of material sen-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sation, this adorable, all-inclusive God, and all earth's [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hieroglyphics of Love, are understood; and infinite Mind</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page332">[pg 332]</span><a name="Pg332" id="Pg332" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is seen kindling the stars, rolling the worlds, reflecting [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all space and Life,—but not life in matter. Wisely</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">governing, informing the universe, this Mind is Truth,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not laws of matter. Infinitely just, merciful, and wise,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this Mind is Love,—but not fallible love. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Spring is here! and doors that closed on Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science in <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the long winter of our discontent,”</span> are open</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">flung. Its seedtime has come to enrich earth and en-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">robe man in righteousness; may its sober-suited autumn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">follow with hues of heaven, ripened sheaves, and harvest [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">songs.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc124" id="toc124"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 144%">“</span><span style="font-size: 144%">Where Art Thou?</span><span style="font-size: 144%">”</span></span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In the allegory of Genesis, third chapter and ninth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">verse, two mortals, walking in the cool of the day midst</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the stately palms, many-hued blossoms, perfume-laden [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">breezes, and crystal streams of the Orient, pondered the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">things of man and God.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A sense of evil is supposed to have spoken, been listened</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to, and afterwards to have formed an evil sense that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">blinded the eyes of reason, masked with deformity the [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">glories of revelation, and shamed the face of mortals.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What was this sense? Error versus Truth: first, a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">supposition; second, a false belief; third, suffering;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fourth, death.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Is man the supposer, false believer, sufferer? [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Not man, but a mortal—the antipode of immortal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man. Supposing, false believing, suffering are not fac-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ulties of Mind, but are qualities of error.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The supposition is, that God and His idea are not all-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">power; that there is something besides Him; that this [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page333">[pg 333]</span><a name="Pg333" id="Pg333" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">something is intelligent matter; that sin—yea, self- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hood—is apart from God, where pleasure and pain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good and evil, life and death, commingle, and are for-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ever at strife; even that every ray of Truth, of infinity,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">omnipotence, omnipresence, goodness, could be absorbed [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in error! God cannot be obscured, and this renders error</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a palpable falsity, yea, nothingness; on the basis that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">black is not a color because it absorbs all the rays of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">light.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Alpha and Omega”</span> of Christian Science voices [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this question: Where do we hold intelligence to be? Is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it in both evil and good, in matter as well as Spirit?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If so, we are literally and practically denying that God,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good, is supreme, <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">all</span></em> power and presence, and are turn-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing away from the only living and true God, to <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“lords</span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">many and gods many.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where art thou, O mortal! who turnest away from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the divine source of being,—calling on matter to work</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out the problem of Mind, to aid in understanding and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">securing the sweet harmonies of Spirit that relate to the [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">universe, including man?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Paul asked: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“What communion hath light with dark-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">ness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial?”</span> The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">worshippers of Baal worshipped the sun. They believed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that something besides God had authority and power, [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">could heal and bless; that God wrought through matter</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">—by means of that which does not reflect Him in a single</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quality or quantity!—the grand realities of Mind, thus</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to exemplify the power of Truth and Love.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The ancient Chaldee hung his destiny out upon the [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heavens; but ancient or modern Christians, instructed in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine Science, know that the prophet better understood</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page334">[pg 334]</span><a name="Pg334" id="Pg334" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Him who said: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“He doeth according to His will in the</span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and none can stay His hand, or say unto Him, What doest</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Thou?”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Astrology is well in its place, but this place is second- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ary. Necromancy has no foundation,—in fact, no</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">intelligence; and the belief that it has, deceives itself.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whatever simulates power and Truth in matter, does this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as a lie declaring itself, that mortals' faith in matter may</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have the effect of power; but when the whole fabrication [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is found to be a lie, away goes all its supposed power and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">prestige.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Why do Christian Scientists treat disease <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">as</span></em> disease,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">since there is no disease?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This is done only as one gives the lie to a lie; because [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it is a lie, without one word of Truth in it. You must</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">find error to be <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">nothing</span></em>: then, and <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">only</span></em> then, do you</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">handle it in Science. The diabolism of suppositional</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil at work in the name of good, is a lie of the highest</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">degree of nothingness: just reduce this falsity to its proper [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">denomination, and you have done with it.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">How shall we treat a negation, or error—by means</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of matter, or Mind? Is matter Truth? No! Then it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cannot antidote error.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Can belief destroy belief? No: understanding is re- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quired to do this. By the substitution of Truth demon-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strated, Science remedies the ills of material beliefs.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Because I have uncovered evil, and dis-covered for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">you divine Science, which saith, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Be not overcome of</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">evil, but overcome evil with good,”</span> and you have not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">loved sufficiently to understand this Golden Rule and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demonstrate the might of perfect Love that casteth out</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page335">[pg 335]</span><a name="Pg335" id="Pg335" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">all fear, shall you turn away from this divine Principle [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to graven images? Remember the Scripture:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">My lord delayeth his coming;”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“And shall begin to smite his fellow-servants, and to</span> [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eat and drink with the drunken;</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The lord of that servant shall come in a day when</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">aware of,</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his por-</span> [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">tion with the hypocrites.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">One mercilessly assails me for opposing the subtle lie,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">others charge upon me with full-fledged invective for, as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they say, having too much charity; but neither moves</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">me from the path made luminous by divine Love. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In my public works I lay bare the ability, in belief, of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil to break the Decalogue,—to murder, steal, commit</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">adultery, and so on. Those who deny my wisdom or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">right to expose error, are either willing participants in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wrong, afraid of its supposed power, or ignorant of it. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The notion that one is covering iniquity by asserting</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its nothingness, is a fault of zealots, who, like Peter,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sleep when the Watcher bids them watch, and when the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hour of trial comes would cut off somebody's ears. Such</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">people say, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Would you have me get out of a burning</span> [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">house, or stay in it?”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I would have you already out, and <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">know</span></em> that you are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out; also, to remember the Scripture concerning those</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who do evil that good may come,—<span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“whose damnation</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">is just;”</span> and that whoso departeth from divine Science, [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">seeking power or good aside from God, has done himself</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">harm.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page336">[pg 336]</span><a name="Pg336" id="Pg336" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind is supreme: Love is the master of hate; Truth, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the victor over a lie. Hath not Science voiced this les-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">son to you,—that evil is powerless, that a lie is never</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">true? It is your province to wrestle with error, to handle</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the serpent and bruise its head; but you cannot, as a [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Scientist, resort to stones and clubs,—yea, to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">matter,—to kill the serpent of a material mind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Do you love that which represents God most, His highest</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">idea as seen to-day? No!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then you would hate Jesus if you saw him personally, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and knew your right obligations towards him. He would</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">insist on the rule and demonstration of divine Science:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">even that you first cast out your own dislike and hatred</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of God's idea,—the beam in your own eye that hinders</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">your seeing clearly how to cast the mote of evil out of [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">other eyes. You cannot demonstrate the Principle of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science and not love its idea: we gather not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">grapes of thorns, nor figs of thistles.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where art thou?</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc125" id="toc125"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Divine Science</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What is it but another name for Christian Science, [21]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the cognomen of all true religion, the quintessence of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christianity, that heals disease and sin and destroys</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">death! Part and parcel of Truth and Love, wherever</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one ray of its effulgence looks in upon the heart, behold [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a better man, woman, or child.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science is the fiat of divine intelligence, which, hoary</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with eternity, touches time only to take away its frailty.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That it rests on everlasting foundations, the sequence</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">proves. [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page337">[pg 337]</span><a name="Pg337" id="Pg337" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Have I discovered and founded at this period Chris- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tian Science, that which reveals the truth of Love,—is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the question.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And how can you be certain of so momentous an</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">affirmative? By proving its effect on yourself to be— [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What is the Principle and rule of Christian Science?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Infinite query! Wonder in heaven and on earth,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who shall say? The immaculate Son of the Blessed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">has spoken of them as the Golden Rule and its Principle, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God who is Love. Listen, and <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">he</span></em> illustrates the rule:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">midst of them, and said,... Whosoever ... shall</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">in the kingdom of heaven.”</span> [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Harmony is heaven. Science brings out harmony;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but this harmony is not understood unless it produces a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">growing affection for all good, and consequent disaffec-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion for all evil, hypocrisy, evil-speaking, lust, envy, hate.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where these exist, Christian Science has no sure foot- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hold: they obscure its divine element, and thus seem</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to extinguish it. Even the life of Jesus was belittled</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and belied by personalities possessing these defacing de-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">formities. Only the devout Marys, and such as lived</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">according to his precepts, understood the concrete char- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">acter of him who taught—by the wayside, in humble</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">homes, to itching ears and to dull disciples—the words</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Life.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The ineffable Life and light which he reflected through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine Science is again reproduced in the character which [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sensualism, as heretofore, would hide or besmear. Sin</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of any sort tends to hide from an individual this grand</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page338">[pg 338]</span><a name="Pg338" id="Pg338" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">verity in Science, that the appearing of good in an in- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dividual involves the disappearing of evil. He who first</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">brings to humanity some great good, must have gained</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its height beforehand, to be able to lift others toward</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it. I first proved to myself, not by <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“words,”</span>—these [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">afford no proof,—but by demonstration of Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science, that its Principle is divine. All must go and do</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">likewise.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Faith illumined by works; the spiritual understanding</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">which cannot choose but to labor and love; hope hold- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing steadfastly to good in the midst of seething evil;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">charity that suffereth long and is kind, but cancels not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sin until it be destroyed,—these afford the only rule I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have found which demonstrates Christian Science.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And remember, a pure faith in humanity will subject [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one to deception; the uses of good, to abuses from evil;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and calm strength will enrage evil. But the very heavens</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shall laugh at them, and move majestically to your defense</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">when the armies of earth press hard upon you.</div> +</div> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">Thou must be true thyself,</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> [20]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">If thou the truth wouldst teach;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Thy soul must overflow, if thou</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Another's soul wouldst reach;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">It needs the overflow of heart,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">To give the lips full speech.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> [25]</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">Think truly, and thy thoughts</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Shall the world's famine feed;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Speak truly, and each word of thine</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Shall be a fruitful seed;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Live truly, and thy life shall be [30]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">A great and noble creed.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page339">[pg 339]</span><a name="Pg339" id="Pg339" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc126" id="toc126"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Fidelity</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If people would confine their talk to subjects that are [2]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">profitable, that which St. John informs us took place</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">once in heaven, would happen very frequently on earth,—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">silence for the space of half an hour. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Experience is victor, never the vanquished; and out</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of defeat comes the secret of victory. That to-morrow</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">starts from to-day and is one day beyond it, robes the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">future with hope's rainbow hues.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In the battle of life, good is made more industrious [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and persistent because of the supposed activity of evil.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The elbowing of the crowd plants our feet more firmly.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In the mental collisions of mortals and the strain of in-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tellectual wrestlings, moral tension is tested, and, if it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">yields not, grows stronger. The past admonishes us: [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with finger grim and cold it points to every mortal mistake;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or smiling saith, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou hast been faithful over a few</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">things.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Art thou a child, and hast added one furrow to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">brow of care? Art thou a husband, and hast pierced [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the heart venturing its all of happiness to thy keeping?</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Art thou a wife, and hast bowed the o'erburdened head</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of thy husband? Hast thou a friend, and forgettest to be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">grateful? Remember, that for all this thou alone canst</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and must atone. Carelessly or remorselessly thou mayest [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have sent along the ocean of events a wave that will some</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">time flood thy memory, surge dolefully at the door of con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">science, and pour forth the unavailing tear.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Change and the grave may part us; the wisdom that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">might have blessed the past may come too late. One [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page340">[pg 340]</span><a name="Pg340" id="Pg340" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">backward step, one relinquishment of right in an evil [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hour, one faithless tarrying, has torn the laurel from many</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a brow and repose from many a heart. Good is never</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the reward of evil, and <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">vice versa</span></span>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There is no excellence without labor; and the time to [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">work, is <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">now</span></em>. Only by persistent, unremitting, straight-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">forward toil; by turning neither to the right nor to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">left, seeking no other pursuit or pleasure than that which</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cometh from God, can you win and wear the crown of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">faithful. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That law-school is not at fault which sends forth a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">barrister who never brings out a brief. Why? Because</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he followed agriculture instead of litigation, forsook</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Blackstone for gray stone, dug into soils instead of delv-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing into suits, raised potatoes instead of pleas, and drew [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">up logs instead of leases. He has not been faithful over</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a few things.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Is a musician made by his teacher? He makes him-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">self a musician by practising what he was taught. The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">conscientious are successful. They follow faithfully; [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">through evil or through good report, they work on to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">achievement of good; by patience, they inherit the prom-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ise. Be active, and, however slow, thy success is sure:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">toil is triumph; and—thou hast been faithful over a few</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">things. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The lives of great men and women are miracles of pa-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tience and perseverance. Every luminary in the constel-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Material philosophy, human ethics, scholastic theology, [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and physics have not sufficiently enlightened mankind.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Human wrong, sickness, sin, and death still appear in</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page341">[pg 341]</span><a name="Pg341" id="Pg341" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortal belief, and they never bring out the right action [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of mind or body. When will the whole human race have</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one God,—an undivided affection that leaves the unreal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">material basis of things, for the spiritual foundation and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">superstructure that is real, right, and eternal? [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">First purify thought, then put thought into words,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and words into deeds; and after much slipping and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">clambering, you will go up the scale of Science to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">second rule, and be made ruler over many things. Fidelity</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">finds its reward and its strength in exalted purpose. Seek- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing is not sufficient whereby to arrive at the results of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science: you must strive; and the glory of the strife</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">comes of honesty and humility.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Do human hopes deceive? is joy a trembler? Then,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">weary pilgrim, unloose the latchet of thy sandals; for the [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">place whereon thou standest is sacred. By that, you may</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">know you are parting with a material sense of life and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">happiness to win the spiritual sense of good. O learn to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lose with God! and you find Life eternal: you gain all.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To doubt this is implicit treason to divine decree. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The parable of <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the ten virgins”</span> serves to illustrate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the evil of inaction and delay. This parable is drawn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the sad history of Vesta,—a little girl of eight</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">years, who takes the most solemn vow of celibacy for thirty</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">years, and is subject to terrible torture if the lamp she [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tends is not replenished with oil day and night, so that the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">flame never expires. The moral of the parable is pointed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the diction purely Oriental.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We learn from this parable that neither the cares of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this world nor the so-called pleasures or pains of mate- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rial sense are adequate to plead for the neglect of spiritual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">light, that must be tended to keep aglow the flame of</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page342">[pg 342]</span><a name="Pg342" id="Pg342" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">devotion whereby to enter into the joy of divine Science [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demonstrated.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The foolish virgins had no oil in their lamps: their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">way was material; thus they were in doubt and dark-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness. They heeded not their sloth, their fading warmth [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of action; hence the steady decline of spiritual light,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">until, the midnight gloom upon them, they must borrow</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the better-tended lamps of the faithful. By entering</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the guest-chamber of Truth, and beholding the bridal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Life and Love, they would be wedded to a higher [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">understanding of God. Each moment's fair expect-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ancy was to behold the bridegroom, the One <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“altogether</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">lovely.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It was midnight: darkness profound brooded over</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">earth's lazy sleepers. With no oil in their lamps, no [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual illumination to look upon him whom they had</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pierced, they heard the shout, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The bridegroom cometh!”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But how could they behold him? Hear that human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cry: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Oh, lend us your oil! our lamps have gone out,—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">no light! earth's fables flee, and heaven is afar [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">off.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The door is shut. The wise virgins had no oil to spare,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and they said to the foolish, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Go to them that sell, and</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">buy for yourselves.”</span> Seek Truth, and pursue it. It should</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cost you something: you are willing to pay for error [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and receive nothing in return; but if you pay the price of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth, you shall receive <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">all</span></em>.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The children of this world are in their generation</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">wiser than the children of light;”</span> they watch the market,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">acquaint themselves with the etiquette of the exchange, [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and are ready for the next move. How much more should</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">we be faithful over the few things of Spirit, that are able</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page343">[pg 343]</span><a name="Pg343" id="Pg343" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to make us wise unto salvation! Let us watch and pray [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that we enter not into the temptation of ease in sin; and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">let us not forget that others before us have laid upon the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">altar all that we have to sacrifice, and have passed to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">their reward. Too soon we cannot turn from disease [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the body to find disease in the mortal mind, and its cure,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in working for God. Thought must be made better, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human life more fruitful, for the divine energy to move</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it onward and upward.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Warmed by the sunshine of Truth, watered by the [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heavenly dews of Love, the fruits of Christian Science</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spring upward, and away from the sordid soil of self and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">matter. Are we clearing the gardens of thought by up-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rooting the noxious weeds of passion, malice, envy, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strife? Are we picking away the cold, hard pebbles of [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">selfishness, uncovering the secrets of sin and burnishing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">anew the hidden gems of Love, that their pure perfection</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shall appear? Are we feeling the vernal freshness and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sunshine of enlightened faith?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The weeds of mortal mind are not always destroyed [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by the first uprooting; they reappear, like devastating</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">witch-grass, to choke the coming clover. O stupid gar-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dener! watch their reappearing, and tear them away from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">their native soil, until no seedling be left to propagate—</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and rot.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Among the manifold soft chimes that will fill the haunted [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">chambers of memory, this is the sweetest: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Thou hast</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">been faithful!”</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page344">[pg 344]</span><a name="Pg344" id="Pg344" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc127" id="toc127"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">True Philosophy And Communion</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is related of Justin Martyr that, hearing of a Pythag- [2]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">orean professor of ethics, he expressed the wish to be-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">come one of his disciples. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Very well,”</span> the teacher</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">replied; <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“but have you studied music, astronomy, and</span> [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">geometry, and do you think it possible for you to under-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stand aught of that which leads to bliss, without hav-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing mastered the sciences that disengage the soul from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">objects of sense, so rendering it a fit habitation for</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">the intelligences?”</span> On Justin's confessing that he had [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not studied those branches, he was dismissed by the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">professor.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Alas for such a material science of life! Of what</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">avail would geometry be to a poor sinner struggling with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">temptation, or to a man with the smallpox? [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ancient and modern philosophies are spoiled by lack</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Science. They would place Soul wholly inside of body,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">intelligence in matter; and from error of premise would</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">seek a correct conclusion. Such philosophy can never</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demonstrate the Science of Life,—the Science which [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Paul understood when he spoke of willingness <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“to be</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">absent from the body, and present with the Lord.”</span> Such</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">philosophy is far from the rules of the mighty Nazarene</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Prophet. His words, living in our hearts, were these:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as</span> [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">a little child, shall in no wise enter therein.”</span> Not through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">astronomy did he point out the way to heaven and the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reign of harmony.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We need the spirit of St. Paul, when he stood on Mars'</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hill at Athens, bringing Christianity for the first time [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page345">[pg 345]</span><a name="Pg345" id="Pg345" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">into Europe. The Spirit bestows spiritual gifts, God's [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">presence and providence. St. Paul stood where Socrates</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">had stood four hundred years before, defending himself</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">against the charge of atheism; in the place where De-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mosthenes had pleaded for freedom in immortal strains [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of eloquence.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We need the spirit of the pious Polycarp, who, when</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the proconsul said to him, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I will set the beasts upon</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">you, unless you yield your religion,”</span> replied: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Let +them</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">come; I cannot change from good to bad.”</span> Then they [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bound him to the stake, set fire to the fagots, and his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pure and strong faith rose higher through the baptism</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of flame.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Methinks the infidel was blind who said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Christianity</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">is fit only for women and weak men;”</span> but even infidels [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">may disagree. Bonaparte declared, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Ever since the</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reign of Christianity began the loftiest intellects have had</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">a practical faith in God.”</span> Daniel Webster said, +<span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“My</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heart has always assured and reassured me that Chris-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">tianity must be a divine reality.”</span> [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To turn the popular indignation against an advanced</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">form of religion, the pagan slanderers affirmed that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christians took their infants to a place of worship in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">order to offer them in sacrifice,—a baptism not of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">water but of blood, thus distorting or misapprehending [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the purpose of Christian sacraments. Christians met</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in midnight feasts in the early days, and talked of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">crucified Saviour; thence arose the rumor that it was</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a part of Christian worship to kill and eat a human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">being. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Really, Christianity turned men away from the thought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of fleshly sacrifice, and directed them to spiritual attain-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page346">[pg 346]</span><a name="Pg346" id="Pg346" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ments. Life, not death, was and is the very centre of [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its faith. Christian Science carries this thought even</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">higher, and insists on the demonstration of moral and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual healing as eminent proof that God is understood</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and illustrated. [5]</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc128" id="toc128"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Origin Of Evil</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The origin of evil is the problem of ages. It confronts</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">each generation anew. It confronts Christian Science.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The question is often asked, If God created only the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good, whence comes the evil? [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To this question Christian Science replies: Evil never</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">did exist as an entity. It is but a belief that there is an</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">opposite intelligence to God. This belief is a species of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">idolatry, and is not more true or real than that an image</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">graven on wood or stone is God. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The mortal admission of the reality of evil perpetuates</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">faith in evil; and the Scriptures declare that <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“to whom</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">are.”</span> This leading, self-evident proposition of Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science, that, good being real, its opposite is necessarily [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unreal, needs to be grasped in all its divine requirements.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc129" id="toc129"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Truth Versus Error</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">of silver.”</span> It is a rule in Christian Science never to re-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">peat error unless it becomes requisite to bring out Truth. [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then lift the curtain, let in the light, and countermand</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page347">[pg 347]</span><a name="Pg347" id="Pg347" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this first command of Solomon, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Answer not a fool accord-</span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">ing to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him,”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A distant rumbling and quivering of the earth foretell</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the internal action of pent-up gas. To avoid danger from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this source people have to escape from their houses to the [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">open space. A conical cloud, hanging like a horoscope</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the air, foreshadows a cyclone. To escape from this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">calamity people prepare shelter in caves of the earth.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">They who discern the face of the skies cannot always</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">discern the mental signs of these times, and peer through [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the opaque error. Where my vision begins and is clear,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">theirs grows indistinct and ends.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There are diversities of operation by the same spirit.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Two individuals, with all the goodness of generous na-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tures, advise me. One says, Go this way; the other [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">says, Take the opposite direction! Between the two I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stand still; or, accepting the premonition of one of them,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I follow his counsel, take a few steps, then halt. A true</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense not unfamiliar has been awakened. I see the way</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">now. The guardians of His presence go before me. I [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">enter the path. It may be smooth, or it may be rugged;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but it is always straight and narrow; and if it be up-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hill all the way, the ascent is easy and the summit can</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">be gained.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God is responsible for the mission of those whom He [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">has anointed. Those who know no will but His take</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His hand, and from the night He leads to light. None</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">can say unto Him, What doest Thou?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">The Christian Science Journal</span></span> was the oldest and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">only authenticated organ of Christian Science up to [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">1898. Loyal Scientists are targets for envy, rivalry,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">slander; and whoever hits this mark is well paid by the</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page348">[pg 348]</span><a name="Pg348" id="Pg348" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">umpire. But the Scientists aim highest. They press for- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ward towards the mark of a high calling. They recog-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nize the claims of the law and the gospel. They know</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he reap. They</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">infringe neither the books nor the business of others; and [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with hearts overflowing with love for God, they help on the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">brotherhood of men. It is not <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">mine</span></em> but <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Thine</span></em> they seek.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When God bids one uncover iniquity, in order to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">exterminate it, one should lay it bare; and divine Love</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will bless this endeavor and those whom it reaches. [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Nothing is hid that shall not be revealed.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is only a question of time when God shall reveal His</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rod, and show the plan of battle. Error, left to itself,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">accumulates. Hence, Solomon's transverse command:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Answer a fool according, to his folly, lest he be wise in</span> [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">his own conceit.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To quench the growing flames of falsehood, once in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">about seven years I have to repeat this,—that I use no</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">drugs whatever, not even coffea (coffee), thea (tea), cap-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sicum (red pepper); though every day, and especially at [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dinner, I indulge in homœopathic doses of <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Natrum muri-</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">aticum</span></span> (common salt).</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When I found myself under this new <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">régime</span></span> of medi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cine, the medicine of Mind, I wanted to satisfy my curi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">osity as to the effect of drugs on one who had lost all [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">faith in them. Hence I tried several doses of medicine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and so proved to myself that drugs have no beneficial</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">effect on an individual in a proper state of mind.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I have by no means encouraged students of the Massa-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">chusetts Metaphysical College to enter medical schools, [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and afterwards denied this and objected to their entering</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">those schools. A student who consulted me on this sub-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page349">[pg 349]</span><a name="Pg349" id="Pg349" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ject, received my consent and even the offer of pecuniary [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">assistance to take lessons outside of my College, provided</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he received these lessons of a certain regular-school physi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cian, whose instructions included about twelve lessons,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">three weeks' time, and the surgical part of midwifery. I [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have students with the degree of M. D., who are skilful</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">obstetricians. Such a course with such a teacher would</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not necessitate essential materialization of a student's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thought, nor detract from the metaphysical mode of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">obstetrics taught in my College. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This student had taken the above-named course in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">obstetrics when he consulted me on the feasibility of enter-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing a medical school; and to this I objected on the ground</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that it was inconsistent with Christian Science, which he</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">claimed to be practising; but I was willing, and said [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">so, that, notwithstanding my objection, he should do as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he deemed best, for I claim no jurisdiction over any stu-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dents. He entered the medical school, and several other</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">students with him. My counsel to all of them was in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">substance the same as the foregoing, and some of these [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">students have openly acknowledged this.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In answer to a question on the following subject, I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">will state that I preached four years, and built up the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">church, before I would accept the slightest remuneration.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When the church had sufficient members and means to [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pay a salary, and refused to give me up or to receive my</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gratuitous services, I accepted, for a time, fifteen dollars</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">each Sunday when I preached. I never received more</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">than this; and the contributions, when I preached,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">doubled that amount. I have accepted no pay from my [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">church for about three years, and believe that I have</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">put into the church-fund about two thousand dollars of</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page350">[pg 350]</span><a name="Pg350" id="Pg350" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my own contributions. I hold receipts for $1,489.50 paid [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in, and the balance was never receipted for.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I temporarily organized a secret society known as the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">P. M., the workings whereof were not <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“terrible and too</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">shocking to relate.”</span> By and with advice of the very [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">student who brings up the question of this society, it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">was formed. The P. M. (Private Meeting) Society met</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">only twice. The first subject given out for considera-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion was this: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“There is no Animal Magnetism.”</span> There</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">was no advice given, no mental work, and there were [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">no transactions at those meetings which I would hesitate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to have known. On the contrary, our deliberations</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">were, as usual, Christian, and like my public instruction.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The second P. M. convened in about one week from the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">first. The subject given out at that meeting was, in sub- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stance, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“God is All; there is none beside Him.”</span> This</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">proved to be our last meeting. I dissolved the society,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and we have not met since. If harm could come from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the consideration of these two topics, it was because of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the misconception of those subjects in the mind that [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">handled them. An individual state of mind sometimes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">occasions effects on patients which are not in harmony</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with Science and the soundness of the argument used.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hence it prevents the normal action, and the benefit that +would otherwise accrue. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I issue no arguments, and cause none to be used in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mental practice, which consign people to suffering. On</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the contrary, I cannot serve two masters; therefore I</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">teach the use of such arguments only as promote health</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and spiritual growth. My life, consecrated to humanity [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">through nameless suffering and sacrifice, furnishes its</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">own proof of my practice.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page351">[pg 351]</span><a name="Pg351" id="Pg351" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I have sometimes called on students to test their ability [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and meet the mental malpractice, so as to lift the burdens</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">imposed by students.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The fact is, that for want of time, and for the purpose</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of blessing even my enemies, I neglect myself. I never [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have practised by arguments which, perverted, are the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">weapons of the silent mental malpractice. I have no skill</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in occultism; and I could not if I would, and would not</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">if I could, harm any one through the mental method of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind-healing, or in any manner. [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The late much-ado-about-nothing arose solely from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mental malicious practice, and the audible falsehood</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">designed to stir up strife between brethren, for the purpose</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of placing Christian Science in the hands of aspirants</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for place and power. These repeated attempts of mad [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ambition may retard our Cause, but they never can place</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it in the wrong hands and hold it there, nor benefit</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mankind by such endeavors.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc130" id="toc130"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Fallibility Of Human Concepts</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Evil counterfeits good: it says, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I am Truth,”</span> though [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it is a lie; it says, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I am Love,”</span>—but Love is spirit-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ual, and sensuous love is material, wherefore it is hate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">instead of Love; for the five senses give to mortals pain,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sickness, sin, and death,—pleasure that is false, life that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">leads unto death, joy that becomes sorrow. Love that is [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not the procurator of happiness, declares itself the anti-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pode of Love; and Love divine punishes the joys of this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">false sense of love, chastens its affection, purifies it, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">turns it into the opposite channels.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Material life is the antipode of spiritual life; it mocks [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page352">[pg 352]</span><a name="Pg352" id="Pg352" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the bliss of spiritual being; it is bereft of permanence and [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">peace.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When human sense is quickened to behold aright the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">error,—the error of regarding Life, Truth, Love as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">material and not spiritual, or as both material and spirit- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ual,—it is able for the first time to discern the Science</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of good. But it must first see the error of its present</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">erroneous course, to be able to behold the facts of Truth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">outside of the error; and, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">vice versa</span></span>, when it discovers</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the truth, this uncovers the error and quickens the true [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">consciousness of God, good. May the human shadows of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thought lengthen as they approach the light, until they</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are lost in light and no night is there!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In Science, sickness is healed upon the same Principle</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and by the same rule that sin is healed. To know the [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">supposed bodily belief of the patient and what has claimed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to produce it, enables the practitioner to act more under-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">standingly in destroying this belief. Thus it is in heal-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing the moral sickness; the malicious mental operation</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">must be understood in order to enable one to destroy [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it and its effects. There is not sufficient spiritual power</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the human thought to heal the sick or the sinful.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Through the divine energies alone one must either get</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out of himself and into God so far that his consciousness</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is the reflection of the divine, or he must, through argu- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ment and the human consciousness of both evil and good,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">overcome evil.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The only difference between the healing of sin and the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healing of sickness is, that sin must be <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">un</span></em>covered before</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it can be destroyed, and the moral sense be aroused to [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reject the sense of error; while sickness must be cov-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ered with the veil of harmony, and the consciousness be</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page353">[pg 353]</span><a name="Pg353" id="Pg353" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">allowed to rejoice in the sense that it has nothing to mourn [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">over, but something to forget.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Human concepts run in extremes; they are like the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">action of sickness, which is either an excess of action or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not action enough; they are fallible; they are neither [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">standards nor models.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If one asks me, Is my concept of you right? I reply, The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human concept is always imperfect; relinquish your human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">concept of me, or of any one, and find the divine, and you</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have gained the right one—and never until then. People [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">give me too much attention of the misguided, fallible sort,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and this misrepresents one through malice or ignorance.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My brother was a manufacturer; and one day a work-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man in his mills, a practical joker, set a man who applied</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for work, in the overseer's absence, to pour a bucket of [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">water every ten minutes on the regulator. When my</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">brother returned and saw it, he said to the jester, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“You</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">must pay that man.”</span> Some people try to tend folks, as</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">if they should steer the regulator of mankind. God makes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">us</span></em> pay for tending the action that He adjusts. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The regulator is governed by the principle that makes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the machinery work rightly; and because it <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">is</span></em> thus gov-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">erned, the folly of tending it is no mere jest. The divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Principle carries on His harmony.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now turn from the metaphor of the mill to the Mother's [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">four thousand children, most of whom, at about three</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">years of scientific age, set up housekeeping alone. Certain</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">students, being too much interested in themselves to think</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of helping others, go their way. They do not love Mother,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but pretend to; they constantly go to her for help, interrupt [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the home-harmony, criticise and disobey her; then <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“return</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">to their vomit,”</span>—world worship, pleasure seeking, and</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page354">[pg 354]</span><a name="Pg354" id="Pg354" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sense indulgence,—meantime declaring they <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“never dis-</span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">obey Mother”</span>! It exceeds my conception of human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nature. Sin in its very nature is marvellous! Who but a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">moral idiot, sanguine of success in sin, can steal, and lie</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and lie, and lead the innocent to doom? History needs it, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and it has the grandeur of the loyal, self-forgetful, faith-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ful Christian Scientists to overbalance this foul stuff.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When the Mother's love can no longer promote peace</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the family, wisdom is not <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“justified of her children.”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When depraved reason is preferred to revelation, error [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to Truth, and evil to good, and sense seams sounder than</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Soul, the children are tending the regulator; they are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">indeed losing the knowledge of the divine Principle and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rules of Christian Science, whose fruits prove the nature</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of their source. A little more grace, a motive made pure, [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the right action</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the mental mechanism, and make manifest the move-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ment of body and soul in accord with God.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Instead of relying on the Principle of all that really [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">exists,—to govern His own creation,—self-conceit, igno-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rance, and pride would regulate God's action. Expe-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rience shows that humility is the first step in Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science, wherein all is controlled, not by man or laws</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">material, but by wisdom, Truth, and Love. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Go gaze on the eagle, his eye on the sun,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Fast gathering strength for a flight well begun,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">As rising he rests in a liberty higher</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Than genius inflated with worldly desire.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">No tear dims his eye, nor his pinions lose power [30]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">To gaze on the lark in her emerald bower—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Whenever he soareth to fashion his nest,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">No vision more bright than the dream in his breast.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page355">[pg 355]</span><a name="Pg355" id="Pg355" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc131" id="toc131"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">The Way</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The present stage of progress in Christian Science pre- [2]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sents two opposite aspects,—a full-orbed promise, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">a gaunt want. The need, however, is not of the letter,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but the spirit. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Less teaching and good healing is to-day the acme of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“well done;”</span> a healing that is not guesswork,—chronic</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">recovery ebbing and flowing,—but instantaneous cure.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This absolute demonstration of Science must be revived.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To consummate this <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">desideratum</span></span>, mortal mind must pass [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">through three stages of growth.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">First, self-knowledge. The physician must know him-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">self and understand the mental state of his patient. Error</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">found out is two-thirds destroyed, and the last third</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pierces itself, for the remainder only stimulates and gives [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">scope to higher demonstration. To strike out right and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">left against the mist, never clears the vision; but to lift</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">your head above it, is a sovereign panacea. Mental dark-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness is senseless error, neither intelligence nor power, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its victim is responsible for its supposititious presence. [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Cast the beam out of thine own eye.”</span> Learn what in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thine own mentality is unlike <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the anointed,”</span> and cast</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it out; then thou wilt discern the error in thy patient's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mind that makes his body sick, and remove it, and rest</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">like the dove from the deluge. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Physician, heal thyself.”</span> Let no clouds of sin gather</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and fall in mist and showers from thine own mental</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">atmosphere. Hold thy gaze to the light, and the iris of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">faith, more beautiful than the rainbow seen from my</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">window at the close of a balmy autumnal day, will span [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thy heavens of thought.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page356">[pg 356]</span><a name="Pg356" id="Pg356" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A radiant sunset, beautiful as blessings when they take [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">their flight, dilates and kindles into rest. Thus will a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">life corrected illumine its own atmosphere with spiritual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">glow and understanding.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The pent-up elements of mortal mind need no terrible [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">detonation to free them. Envy, rivalry, hate need no</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">temporary indulgence that they be destroyed through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">suffering; they should be stifled from lack of air and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">freedom.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My students, with cultured intellects, chastened affec- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tions, and costly hopes, give promise of grand careers.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But they must remember that the seedtime is passed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the harvest hour has come; and songs should ascend</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the mount of revelation, sweeter than the sound of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vintage bells. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The seed of Christian Science, which when sown was</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the least of all seeds,”</span> has sprung up, borne fruit, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the birds of the air, the uplifted desires of the human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heart, have lodged in its branches. Now let my faithful</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">students carry the fruit of this tree into the rock-ribbed [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nests of the raven's callow brood.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The second stage of mental development is humility.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This virtue triumphs over the flesh; it is the genius of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science. One can never go up, until one has</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gone down in his own esteem. Humility is lens and [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">prism to the understanding of Mind-healing; it must be</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">had to understand our textbook; it is indispensable to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">personal growth, and points out the chart of its divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Principle and rule of practice.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Cherish humility, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“watch,”</span> and <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“pray without ceasing,”</span> [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or you will miss the way of Truth and Love. Humility</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is no busybody: it has no moments for trafficking</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page357">[pg 357]</span><a name="Pg357" id="Pg357" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in other people's business, no place for envy, no time for [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">idle words, vain amusements, and all the <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">et cetera</span></span> of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ways and means of personal sense.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let Christian Scientists minister to the sick; the school-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">room is the <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">dernier ressort</span></span>. Let them seek the lost sheep +[5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who, having strayed from the true fold, have lost their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">great Shepherd and yearn to find living pastures and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rest beside still waters. These long for the Christlike-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness that is above the present status of religion and be-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">yond the walks of common life, quite on the verge of [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heaven. Without the cross and healing, Christianity has</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">no central emblem, no history.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The seeds of Truth fall by the wayside, on artless</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">listeners. They fall on stony ground and shallow soil.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The fowls of the air pick them up. Much of what has [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">been sown has withered away, but what remaineth has</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fallen into the good and honest hearts and is bearing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fruit.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The third stage of mental growth is manifested in <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">love</span></em>,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the greatest of all stages and states of being; love that [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is irrespective of self, rank, or following. For some time</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it has been clear to my thought that those students of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science whose Christian characters and lives</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">recommend them, should receive full fellowship from us,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">no matter who has taught them. If they have been taught [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wrongly, they are not morally responsible for this, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">need special help. They are as lambs that have sought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the true fold and the great Shepherd, and strayed inno-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cently; hence we should be ready and glad to help them</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and point the way. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Divine Love is the substance of Christian Science, the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">basis of its demonstration, yea, its foundation and super-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page358">[pg 358]</span><a name="Pg358" id="Pg358" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">structure. Love impels good works. Love is greatly [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">needed, and must be had to mark the way in divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The student who heals by teaching and teaches by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healing, will graduate under divine honors, which are [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the only appropriate seals for Christian Science. State</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">honors perish, and their gain is loss to the Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scientist. They include for him at present naught but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tardy justice, hounded footsteps, false laurels. God</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">alone is his help, his shield and great reward. He that [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">seeketh aught besides God, loseth in Life, Truth, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Love. All men shall be satisfied when they <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“awake in</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">His likeness,”</span> and they never should be until then. Hu-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man pride is human weakness. Self-knowledge, humility,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and love are divine strength. Christ's vestures are put [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on only when mortals are <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“washed in the blood of the</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Lamb;”</span> we must walk in the way which Jesus marked</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out, if we would reach the heaven-crowned summit of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Be it understood that I do not require Christian Sci- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">entists to stop teaching, to dissolve their organizations,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or to desist from organizing churches and associations.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Massachusetts Metaphysical College, the first</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and only College for teaching Christian Science Mind-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healing, after accomplishing the greatest work of the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ages, and at the pinnacle of prosperity, is closed. Let</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scientists who have grown to self-sacrifice do their</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">present work, awaiting, with staff in hand, God's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">commands.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When students have fulfilled all the good ends of [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">organization, and are convinced that by leaving the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">material forms thereof a higher spiritual unity is won,</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page359">[pg 359]</span><a name="Pg359" id="Pg359" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">then is the time to follow the example of the <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Alma Mater</span></span>. +[1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Material organization is requisite in the beginning; but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">when it has done its work, the purely Christly method</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of teaching and preaching must be adopted. On the same</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">principle, you continue the mental argument in the prac- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tice of Christian healing until you can cure without it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">instantaneously, and through Spirit alone.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">St. Paul says: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“When I was a child, I spake as a</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">when I became a man, I put away childish things. For [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">face.”</span> Growth is restricted by forcing humanity out of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the proper channels for development, or by holding it in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fetters.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For Jesus to walk the water was scientific, insomuch [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as he was able to do this; but it is neither wisdom nor</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science for poor humanity to step upon the Atlantic until</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">we can walk on the water.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Peter's impetuosity was rebuked. He had to learn</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from experience; so have we. The methods of our [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Master were in advance of the period in which he per-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sonally appeared; but his example was right, and is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">available at the right time. The <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">way</span></em> is absolute divine</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science: walk ye in it; but remember that Science is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demonstrated by degrees, and our demonstration rises [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">only as we rise in the scale of being.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc132" id="toc132"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Science And Philosophy</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Men give counsel; but they give not the wisdom to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">profit by it. To ask wisdom of God, is the beginning of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wisdom. [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page360">[pg 360]</span><a name="Pg360" id="Pg360" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Meekness, moderating human desire, inspires wisdom [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and procures divine power. Human lives are yet un-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">carved,—in the rough marble, encumbered with crude,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rude fragments, and awaiting the hammering, chiselling,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and transfiguration from His hand. [5]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Great only as good, because fashioned divinely, were</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">those unpretentious yet colossal characters, Paul and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus. Theirs were modes of mind cast in the moulds</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Christian Science: Paul's, by the supremely natural</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">transforming power of Truth; and the character of [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus, by his original scientific sonship with God. Phi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">losophy never has produced, nor can it reproduce, these</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stars of the first magnitude—fixed stars in the heavens</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Soul. When shall earth be crowned with the true</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">knowledge of Christ? [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When Christian Science has melted away the cloud of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">false witnesses; and the dews of divine grace, fall-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing upon the blighted flowers of fleeting joys, shall</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lift every thought-leaflet Spiritward; and <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Israel after</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">the flesh,”</span> who partaketh of its own altars, shall be [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">no more,—then, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the Israel according to Spirit”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shall fill earth with the divine energies, understanding,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and ever-flowing tides of spiritual sensation and consciousness.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When mortal mind is silenced by the <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“still, small voice”</span> [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Truth that regenerates philosophy and logic; and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus, as the true idea of Him, is heard as of yore saying</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to sensitive ears and dark disciples, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“I came from the</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Father,”</span> <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Before Abraham was, I am,”</span> coexistent and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">coeternal with God,—and this idea is understood,— [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">then will the earth be filled with the true knowledge of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christ. No advancing modes of human mind made</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page361">[pg 361]</span><a name="Pg361" id="Pg361" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jesus; rather was it their subjugation, and the pure [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heart that sees God.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When the belief in material origin, mortal mind, sen-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sual conception, dissolves through self-imposed suffering,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and its substances are found substanceless,—then its [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">miscalled life ends in death, and death itself is swallowed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">up in Life,—spiritual Life, whose myriad forms are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">neither material nor mortal.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When every form and mode of evil disappear to hu-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">man thought, and mollusk and radiate are spiritual con- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cepts testifying to one creator,—then, earth is full of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His glory, and Christian Science has overshadowed all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human philosophy, and being is understood in startling</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">contradiction of human hypotheses; and Socrates, Plato,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Kant, Locke, Berkeley, Tyndall, Darwin, and Spencer [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sit at the feet of Jesus.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To this great end, Paul admonished, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Let us lay aside</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and let us run with patience the race that is set before</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">faith.”</span> So shall mortals soar to final freedom, and rest</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the subtlety of speculative wisdom and human</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">woe.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God is the only Mind, and His manifestation is the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">spiritual universe, including man and all eternal indi- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">viduality. God, the only substance and divine Principle</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of creation, is by no means a creative partner in the firm</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of error, named matter, or mortal mind. He elucidates</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His own idea, wherein Principle and idea, God and man,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are not one, but are inseparable as cause and effect. If [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">one, who could say which that <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“one”</span> was?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His ways are not as our ways. The divine modes</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page362">[pg 362]</span><a name="Pg362" id="Pg362" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and manifestations are not those of the material senses; [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for instance, intelligent matter, or mortal mind, material</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">birth, growth, and decay: they are the forever-existing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">realities of divine Science; wherein God and man are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">perfect, and man's reason is at rest in God's wisdom,— [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">who comprehends and reflects all real mode, form, indi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">viduality, identity.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scholastic dogma has made men blind. Christ's <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">logos</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gives sight to these blind, ears to these deaf, feet to these</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lame,—physically, morally, spiritually. Theologians [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">make the mortal mistake of believing that God, having</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">made <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">all</span></em>, made evil; but the Scriptures declare that all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that He made was good. Then, was evil part and parcel</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of His creation?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Philosophy hypothetically regards creation as its own [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">creator, puts cause into effect, and out of nothing would</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">create something, whose noumenon is mortal mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with its phenomenon matter,—an evil mind already</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">doomed, whose modes are material manifestations of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil, and that continually, until self-extinguished by [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">suffering!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Here revelation must come to the rescue of mortals,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to remove this mental millstone that is dragging them</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">downward, and refute erring reason with the spiritual</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cosmos and Science of Soul. We all must find shelter [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the storm and tempest in the tabernacle of Spirit.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth is won through Science or suffering: O vain mor-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tals! which shall it be? And suffering has no reward,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">except when it is necessary to prevent sin or reform</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the sinner. And pleasure is no crime except when it [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strengthens the influence of bad inclinations or lessens</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the activities of virtue. The more nearly an erring so-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page363">[pg 363]</span><a name="Pg363" id="Pg363" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">called mind approaches purity, the more conscious it [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">becomes of its own unreality, and of the great reality of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine Mind and true happiness.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“ego”</span> that claims selfhood in error, and passes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from molecule and monkey up to man, is no ego, but is [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">simply the supposition that the absence of good is mind</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and makes men,—when its greatest flatterer, identifica-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion, is piqued by Him who compensateth vanity with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nothingness, dust with dust!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The mythology of evil and mortality is but the ma- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">terial mode of a suppositional mind; while the immortal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">modes of Mind are spiritual, and pass through none of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the changes of matter, or evil. Truth said, and said from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the beginning, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Let us [Spirit] make man perfect;”</span> and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">there is no other Maker: a perfect man would not desire [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to make himself imperfect, and God is not chargeable</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with imperfection. His modes declare the beauty of holi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness, and His manifold wisdom shines through the visible</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">world in glimpses of the eternal verities. Even through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the mists of mortality is seen the brightness of His [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">coming.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We must avoid the shoals of a sensual religion or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">philosophy that misguides reason and affection, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hold fast to the Principle of Christian Science as the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Word that <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">is</span></em> God, Spirit, and Truth. This Word cor- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rects the philosopher, confutes the astronomer, exposes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the subtle sophist, and drives diviners mad. The Bible</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is the learned man's masterpiece, the ignorant man's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dictionary, the wise man's directory.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I foresee and foresay that every advancing epoch of so [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth will be characterized by a more spiritual appre-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hension of the Scriptures, that will show their marked</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page364">[pg 364]</span><a name="Pg364" id="Pg364" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">consonance with the textbook of Christian Science Mind- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">healing, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Interpreting the Word in the <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“new tongue,”</span> whereby</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the sick are healed, naturally evokes new paraphrase</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the world of letters. <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Wait patiently on the Lord,</span> [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">and He will renew your strength.”</span> In return for indi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">vidual sacrifice, what a recompense to have healed, through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth, the sick and sinful, made the public your friend,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and posterity your familiar!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science refutes everything that is not a [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">postulate of the divine Principle, God. It is the soul of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">divine philosophy, and there is no other philosophy. It</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is not a search after wisdom, it <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">is</span></em> wisdom: it is God's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">right hand grasping the universe,—all time, space,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">immortality, thought, extension, cause, and effect; con- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">stituting and governing all identity, individuality, law,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and power. It stands on this Scriptural platform:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that He made all that was made, and it is good, reflects</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the divine Mind, is governed by it; and that nothing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">apart from this Mind, one God, is self-created or evolves [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the universe.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Human hypotheses predicate matter of Spirit and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil of good; hence these opposites must either cooperate</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or quarrel throughout time and eternity,—or until</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this impossible partnership is dissolved. If Spirit is the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lawgiver to matter, and good has the same power or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">modes as evil, it has the same consciousness, and there</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is no absolute good. This error, carried to its ultimate,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">would either extinguish God and His modes, or give</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">reality and power to evil <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">ad infinitum</span></span>. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science rends this veil of the temple of gods,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and reproduces the divine philosophy of Jesus and Paul.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page365">[pg 365]</span><a name="Pg365" id="Pg365" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This philosophy alone will bear the strain of time and [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bring out the glories of eternity; for <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“other founda-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">tion can no man lay than that is laid,”</span> which is Christ,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Truth.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Human theories weighed in the balances of God are [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">found wanting; and their highest endeavors are to Science</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">what a child's love of pictures is to art. The school whose</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">schoolmaster is not Christ, gets things wrong, and is ignorant</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thereof.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If Christian Science lacked the proof of its goodness [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and utility, it would destroy itself; for it rests alone on</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demonstration. Its genius is right thinking and right</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">acting, physical and moral harmony; and the secret of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its success lies in supplying the universal need of better</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">health and better men. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Good health and a more spiritual religion form the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">common want, and this want has worked out a moral</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">result; namely, that mortal mind is calling for what im-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mortal Mind alone can supply. If the uniform moral</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and spiritual, as well as physical, effects of divine Science [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">were lacking, the demand would diminish; but it con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tinues, and increases, which shows the real value of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science to the race. Even doctors agree that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">infidelity, bigotry, or sham has never met the growing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wants of humanity. [25]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As a literature, Christian metaphysics is hampered by</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lack of proper terms in which to express what it means.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As a Science, it is held back by the common ignorance</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of what it is and of what it does,—and more than all</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">else, by the impostors that come in its name. To be [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">appreciated, it must be conscientiously understood and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">introduced.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page366">[pg 366]</span><a name="Pg366" id="Pg366" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If the Bible and <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and Health with Key to the</span> [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Scriptures”</span> had in our schools the time or attention that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">human hypotheses consume, they would advance the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">world. True, it requires more study to understand and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demonstrate what they teach than to learn the doctrine [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of theology, philosophy, or physics, because they con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tain and offer Science, with fixed Principle, given rule,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and unmistakable proof.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Scriptures give the keynote of Christian Science</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from Genesis to Revelation, and this is the prolonged [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tone: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“For the Lord He is God, and there is</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">none beside Him</span></em>.”</span> And because He is All-in-all,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He is in nothing unlike Himself; and nothing that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">worketh or maketh a lie is in Him, or can be divine con-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sciousness. [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">At this date, poor jaded humanity needs to get her</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eyes open to a new style of imposition in the field of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">medicine and of religion, and to <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“beware of the leaven</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">of the scribes and Pharisees,”</span> the doctrines of men, even</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as Jesus admonished. From first to last, evil insists on [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the unity of good and evil as the purpose of God; and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on drugs, electricity, and animal magnetism as modes</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of medicine. To a greater or less extent, all mortal conclusions</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">start from this false premise, and they necessarily</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">culminate in sickness, sin, disease, and death. [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Erroneous doctrines never have abated and never will</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">abate dishonesty, self-will, envy, and lust. To destroy</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sin and its sequence, is the office of Christ, Truth,—ac-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cording to His mode of Christian Science; and this is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">being done daily. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The false theories whose names are legion, gilded with</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sophistry and what Jesus had not, namely, mere book-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page367">[pg 367]</span><a name="Pg367" id="Pg367" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">learning,—letter without law, gospel, or demonstration, [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">—have no place in Christian Science. This Science re-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">quires man to be honest, just, pure; to love his neighbor</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">as himself, and to love God supremely.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Matter and evil are subjective states of error or mortal [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mind. But Mind is immortal; and the fact of there</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">being no mortal mind, exposes the lie of suppositional</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">evil, showing that error is not Mind, substance, or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Life. Thus, whatever is wrongfully-minded will dis-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">appear in the proportion that Science is understood, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the reality of being—goodness and harmony—is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demonstrated.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Error says that knowing all things implies the neces-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sity of knowing evil, that it dishonors God to claim that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He is ignorant of anything; but God says of this fruit [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the tree of knowledge of <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">both</span></em> good and evil, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“In +the</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.”</span> If</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">God is infinite good, He knows nothing but good; if He</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">did know aught else, He would not be infinite. Infinite</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind knows nothing beyond Himself or Herself. To [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">good, evil is never present; for evil is a different state of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">consciousness. It was not against evil, but against <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">know-</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">ing</span></span> evil, that God forewarned. He dwelleth in light;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and in the light He sees light, and cannot see darkness.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The opposite conclusion, that darkness dwelleth in light, [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">has neither precedent nor foundation in nature, in logic,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or in the character of Christ.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The senses would say that whatever saves from sin,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">must know sin. Truth replies that God is too pure</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to behold iniquity; and by virtue of His ignorance of [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that which is not, He knoweth that which <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">is</span></em>, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">abideth in Himself, the only Life, Truth, and Love,</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page368">[pg 368]</span><a name="Pg368" id="Pg368" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">—and is reflected by a universe in His own image [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and likeness.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Even so, Father, let the light that shineth in dark-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not, dispel this</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">illusion of the senses, open the eyes of the blind, and cause [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the deaf to hear.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own.”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 20.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Lowell</span></span></div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc133" id="toc133"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 144%">“</span><span style="font-size: 144%">Take Heed!</span><span style="font-size: 144%">”</span></span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We regret to be obliged to say that all are not meta-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">physicians, or Christian Scientists, who call themselves</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">so. Charlatanism, fraud, and malice are getting into</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the ranks of the good and pure, sending forth a poison [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">more deadly than the upas-tree in the eastern archi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pelago. This evil obtains in the present false teaching</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and false practice of the Science of treating disease through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mind. The silent address of a mental malpractitioner</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">can only be portrayed in these words of the apostle, [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“whisperers,”</span> and <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the poison of asps is under their</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">tongue.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Some of the mere puppets of the hour are playing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">only for money, and at a fearful stake. Others, from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">malice and envy, are working out the destinies of the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">damned. But while the best, perverted, on the mortal</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">plane may become the worst, let us not forget that the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Lord reigns, and that this earth shall some time rejoice</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in His supreme rule,—that the tired watchmen on the</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page369">[pg 369]</span><a name="Pg369" id="Pg369" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">walls of Zion, and the true Christian Scientist at the foot [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the mount of revelation, shall look up with shouts and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thanksgiving,—that God's law, as in divine Science,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">shall be finally understood; and the gospel of glad tidings</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">bring <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“on earth peace, good will toward men.”</span> [5]</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc134" id="toc134"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">The Cry Of Christmas-Tide</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Metaphysics, not physics, enables us to stand erect</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on sublime heights, surveying the immeasurable universe</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Mind, peering into the cause which governs all effects,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">while we are strong in the unity of God and man. There [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“method”</span> in the <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“madness”</span> of this system,—since</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">madness it seems to many onlookers. This method sits</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">serene at the portals of the temple of thought, while</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the leaders of materialistic schools indulge in mad</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">antics. Metaphysical healing seeks a wisdom that is [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">higher than a rhubarb tincture or an ipecacuanha pill.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This method is devout enough to trust Christ more than</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">it does drugs.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Meekly we kneel at our Master's feet, for even a crumb</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that falleth from his table. We are hungry for Love, [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for the white-winged charity that heals and saves; we</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are tired of theoretic husks,—as tired as was the prodi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gal son of the carobs which he shared with the swine,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to whom he fed that wholesome but unattractive food.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Like him, we would find our Father's house again— [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the perfect and eternal Principle of man. We thirst</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for inspiring wine from the vine which our Father tends.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">We crave the privilege of saying to the sick, when their</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page370">[pg 370]</span><a name="Pg370" id="Pg370" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">feebleness calls for help, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Rise and walk.”</span> We rejoice [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to say, in the spirit of our Master, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Stretch forth thy</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">hand, and be whole!”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When the Pharisees saw Jesus do such deeds of mercy,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">they went away and took counsel how they might remove [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">him. The antagonistic spirit of evil is still abroad; but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the greater spirit of Christ is also abroad,—risen from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the grave-clothes of tradition and the cave of ignorance.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let the sentinels of Zion's watch-towers shout once</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">again, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is</span> [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">given.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In different ages the divine idea assumes different</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">forms, according to humanity's needs. In this age it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">assumes, more intelligently than ever before, the form</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Christian healing. This is the babe we are to cherish. [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This is the babe that twines its loving arms about the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">neck of omnipotence, and calls forth infinite care from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His loving heart.</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc135" id="toc135"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Blind Leaders</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">What figure is less favorable than a wolf in sheep's [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">clothing? The braying donkey whose ears stick out is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">less troublesome. What manner of man is it that has</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">discovered an improvement on Christian Science, a <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“met-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">aphysical healing”</span> by which error destroys error, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">would gather all sorts into a <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“national convention”</span> by [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the sophistry that such is the true fold for Christian heal-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ers, since the good shepherd cares for all?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Yes; the <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">good</span></em> Shepherd does care for all, and His</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">first care is to separate the sheep from the goats; and</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page371">[pg 371]</span><a name="Pg371" id="Pg371" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this is among the first lessons on healing taught by our [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">great Master.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">If, as the gentleman aforesaid states, large flocks of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">metaphysicians are wandering about without a leader,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">what has opened his eyes to see the need of taking them [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">out of the care of the great Shepherd, and behold the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">remedy, to help them by his own leadership? Is it that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he can guide Christian Scientists better than they, through</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the guidance of our common Father, can guide them-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">selves? or is it that they are incapable of helping them- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">selves thus?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I as their teacher can say, They know far more of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science than he who deprecates their condition</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">appears to, and my heart pleads for them to possess</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">more and more of Truth and Love; but mixing all grades [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of persons is not productive of the better sort, although</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">he who has self-interest in this mixing is apt to pro-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pose it.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whoever desires to say, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“good right, and good wrong,”</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">has no truth to defend. It is a wise saying that <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“men</span> [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">are known by their enemies.”</span> To sympathize in any</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">degree with error, is not to rectify it; but error always</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">strives to unite, in a definition of purpose, with Truth,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to give it buoyancy. What is under the mask, but error</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in borrowed plumes? [25]</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc136" id="toc136"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 144%">“</span><span style="font-size: 144%">Christ And Christmas</span><span style="font-size: 144%">”</span></span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">An Illustrated Poem</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This poem and its illustrations are as hopelessly origi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">nal as is <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and Health with Key to the Scrip-</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page372">[pg 372]</span><a name="Pg372" id="Pg372" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">tures.”</span> When the latter was first issued, critics declared [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that it was incorrect, contradictory, unscientific, unchris-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tian; but those human opinions had not one feather's</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">weight in the scales of God. The fact remains, that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the textbook of Christian Science is transforming the [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">universe.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Christ and Christmas”</span> voices Christian Science</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">through song and object-lesson. In two weeks from the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">date of its publication in December, 1893, letters extoll-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing it were pouring in from artists and poets. A mother [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wrote, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Looking at the pictures in your wonderful book</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">has healed my child.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Knowing that this book would produce a stir, I sought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the judgment of sound critics familiar with the works</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of masters in France and Italy. From them came such [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">replies as the following: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The illustrations of your poem</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are truly a work of art, and the artist seems quite familiar</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">with delineations from the old masters.”</span> I am delighted</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to find <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Christ and Christmas”</span> in accord with the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ancient and most distinguished artists. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">The Christian Science Journal</span></span> gives no uncertain dec-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">laration concerning the spirit and mission of <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Christ and</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Christmas.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I aimed to reproduce, with reverent touch, the modest</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">glory of divine Science. Not by aid of foreign device [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or environment could I copy art,—never having seen</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the painter's masterpieces; but the <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">art</span></em> of Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science, with true hue and character of the living God,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is akin to its <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Science</span></em>: and Science and Health gives</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">scopes and shades to the shadows of divinity, thus im- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">parting to humanity the true sense of meekness and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">might.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page373">[pg 373]</span><a name="Pg373" id="Pg373" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">One incident serves to illustrate the simple nature of [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">art.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I insisted upon placing the serpent behind the woman</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in the picture <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Seeking and Finding.”</span> My artist at the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">easel objected, as he often did, to my sense of Soul's [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">expression through the brush; but, as usual, he finally</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">yielded. A few days afterward, the following from Roth-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">erham's translation of the New Testament was handed</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to me,—I had never before seen it: <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“And the serpent</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cast out of his mouth, <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">behind</span></em> the woman, water as a [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">river, that he might cause her to be river-borne.”</span> Neither</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">material finesse, standpoint, nor perspective guides the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">infinite Mind and spiritual vision that should, does, guide</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His children.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">One great master clearly delineates Christ's appear- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing in the flesh, and his healing power, as clad not in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">soft raiment or gorgeous apparel; and when forced out</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of its proper channel, as living feebly, in kings' courts.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This master's thought presents a sketch of Christian-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ity's state, in the early part of the Christian era, as [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">homelessness in a wilderness. But in due time Chris-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tianity entered into synagogues, and, as St. Mark</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">writes, it has rich possession here, with houses and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">lands. In Genesis we read that God gave man do-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">minion over all things; and this assurance is followed [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by Jesus' declaration, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“All power is given unto me</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">in heaven and in earth,”</span> and by his promise that the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christlike shall finally sit down at the right hand of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Father.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science is more than a prophet or a proph- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ecy: it presents not words alone, but works,—the daily</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">demonstration of Truth and Love. Its healing and sav-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page374">[pg 374]</span><a name="Pg374" id="Pg374" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ing power was so great a proof of Immanuel and the [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">realism of Christianity, that it caused even the publi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cans to justify God. Although clad in panoply of power,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Pharisees scorned the spirit of Christ in most of its</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">varied manifestations. To them it was cant and carica- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ture,—always the opposite of what it was. Keen and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">alert was their indignation at whatever rebuked hypocrisy</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and demanded Christianity in life and religion. In view</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of this, Jesus said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Wisdom is justified of all her</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">children.”</span> [10]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Above the fogs of sense and storms of passion, Chris-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tian Science and its art will rise triumphant; ignorance,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">envy, and hatred—earth's harmless thunder—pluck</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not their heaven-born wings. Angels, with overtures,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hold charge over both, and announce their Principle and [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">idea.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It is most fitting that Christian Scientists memorize</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the nativity of Jesus. To him who brought a great light</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to all ages, and named his burdens light, homage is in-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">deed due,—but is bankrupt. I never looked on my [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ideal of the face of the Nazarite Prophet; but the one</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">illustrating my poem approximates it.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Extremists in every age either doggedly deny or fran-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tically affirm what is what: one renders not unto Cæsar</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“the things that are Cæsar's;”</span> the other sees <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Helen's</span> [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">beauty in a brow of Egypt.”</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Pictures are portions of one's ideal, but this ideal is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">not one's personality. Looking behind the veil, he that</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">perceives a semblance between the thinker and his thought</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on canvas, blames him not. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Because my ideal of an angel is a woman without</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">feathers</span></em> on her wings,—is it less artistic or less natu-</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page375">[pg 375]</span><a name="Pg375" id="Pg375" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ral? Pictures which present disordered phases of ma- [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">terial conceptions and personality blind with animality,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">are not my concepts of angels. What is the material ego,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">but the counterfeit of the spiritual?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The truest art of Christian Science is to be a Chris- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tian Scientist; and it demands more than a Raphael to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">delineate <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">this</span></em> art.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The following is an extract from a letter reverting to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the illustrations of <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Christ and Christmas”</span>:—</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“In my last letter, I did not utter all I felt about the</span> [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">wonderful new book you have given us. Years ago,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">while in Italy, I studied the old masters and their great</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">works of art thoroughly, and so got quite an idea of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">what constitutes true art. Then I spent two years in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Paris, devoting every moment to the study of music and [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">art.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The first thing that impressed me in your illustra-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tions was the conscientious application to detail, which is</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is the foundation of true art. From that, I went on to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">study each illustration thoroughly, and to my amazement [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and delight I find an almost identical resemblance, in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">many things, to the old masters! In other words, the art</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is perfect.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“The hands and feet of the figures—how many times</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">have I seen these hands and feet in Angelico's <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Jesus,”</span> [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or Botticelli's <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Madonna”</span>!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“It gave me such a thrill of joy as no words can ex-</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">press, to see produced to-day that art—the only true</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">art—that we have identified with the old masters, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mourned as belonging to them exclusively,—a thing of [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the past, impossible of reproduction.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“All that I can say to you, as one who gives no mean</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page376">[pg 376]</span><a name="Pg376" id="Pg376" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">attention to such matters, is that the art is perfect. It [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is the true art of the oldest, most revered, most authen-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tic Italian school, revived. I use the words <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">most au-</span></em></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">thentic</span></em> in the following sense: the face, figure, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">drapery of Jesus, very closely resemble in detail the [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">face, figure, and drapery of that Jesus portrayed by the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">oldest of the old masters, and said to have been authen-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tic; the face having been taken by Fra Angelico from</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Cæsar's Cameo, the figure and garments from a descrip-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tion, in <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">The Galaxy</span></span>, of a small sketch handed down [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from the <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">living reality</span></em>. <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Their</span></em> productions are expres-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sionless copies of an engraving cut in a stone. <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Yours</span></em></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is a palpitating, living Saviour engraven on the heart.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">You have given us back our Jesus, and in a much better</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">is form.”</span> [15]</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc137" id="toc137"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Sunrise At Pleasant View</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who shall describe the brave splendor of a November</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sky that this morning burst through the lattice for me,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on my bed? According to terrestrial calculations, above</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the horizon, in the east, there rose one rod of rainbow [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hues, crowned with an acre of eldritch ebony. Little</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by little this topmost pall, drooping over a deeply daz-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">zling sunlight, softened, grew gray, then gay, and glided</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">into a glory of mottled marvels. Fleecy, faint, fairy</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">blue and golden flecks came out on a background of [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cerulean hue; while the lower lines of light kindled into</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">gold, orange, pink, crimson, violet; and diamond, topaz,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">opal, garnet, turquoise, and sapphire spangled the gloom</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in celestial space as with the brightness of His glory.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then thought I, What are we, that He who fashions for- [30]</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page377">[pg 377]</span><a name="Pg377" id="Pg377" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ever such forms and hues of heaven, should move our [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">brush or pen to paint frail fairness or to weave a web</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of words that glow with gladdening gleams of God, so</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">unapproachable, and yet so near and full of radiant relief</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in clouds and darkness! [5]</div> +</div> + +</div> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page378">[pg 378]</span><a name="Pg378" id="Pg378" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc138" id="toc138"></a> +<a name="pdf139" id="pdf139"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Chapter X. Inklings Historic</span></h1> + + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">About the year 1862, while the author of this work [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">was at Dr. Vail's Hydropathic Institute in New</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hampshire, this occurred: A patient considered incur-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">able left that institution, and in a few weeks returned</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">apparently well, having been healed, as he informed [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the patients, by one Mr. P. P. Quimby of Portland,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Maine.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">After much consultation among ourselves, and a struggle</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with pride, the author, in company with several other</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">patients, left the water-cure, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">en route</span></span> for the aforesaid +[10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">doctor in Portland. He proved to be a magnetic practi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tioner. His treatment seemed at first to relieve her, but</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">signally failed in healing her case.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Having practised homœopathy, it never occurred to the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">author to learn his practice, but she did ask him how [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">manipulation could benefit the sick. He answered kindly</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and squarely, in substance, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Because it conveys +<em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">electricity</span></em></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">to them.”</span> That was the sum of what he taught her of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his medical profession.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The readers of my books cannot fail to see that meta- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">physical therapeutics, as in Christian Science, are farther</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">removed from such thoughts than the nebulous system</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">is from the earth.</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page379">[pg 379]</span><a name="Pg379" id="Pg379" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">After treating his patients, Mr. Quimby would retire [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to an anteroom and write at his desk. I had a curiosity</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">to know if he indited anything pathological relative to</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his patients, and asked if I could see his pennings on</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">my case. He immediately presented them. I read the [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">copy in his presence, and returned it to him. The com-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">position was commonplace, mostly descriptive of the gen-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">eral appearance, height, and complexion of the individual,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and the nature of the case: it was not at all metaphysi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cal or scientific; and from his remarks I inferred that [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his writings usually ran in the vein of thought presented</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">by these. He was neither a scholar nor a metaphysician.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I never heard him say that matter was not as real as Mind,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">or that electricity was not as potential or remedial, or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">allude to God as the divine Principle of all healing. He [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">certainly had advanced views of his own, but they com-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">mingled error with truth, and were not Science. On</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">his rare humanity and sympathy one could write a</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sonnet.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I had already experimented in medicine beyond the [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">basis of <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">materia medica</span></span>,—up to the highest attenuation</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in homoeopathy, thence to a mental standpoint not un-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">derstood and with phenomenally good results;<a id="noteref_7" name="noteref_7" href="#note_7"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">7</span></span></a> mean-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">while assiduously pondering the solution of this great</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">question: Is it matter, or is it Mind, that heals the [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sick?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It was after Mr. Quimby's death that I discovered,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in 1866, the momentous facts relating to Mind and its</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">superiority over matter, and named my discovery Chris-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">tian Science. Yet, there remained the difficulty of ad- [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">justing in the scale of Science a metaphysical <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">practice</span></em>,</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page380">[pg 380]</span><a name="Pg380" id="Pg380" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and settling the question, What shall be the outward [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">sign of such a practice: if a divine Principle alone heals,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">what is the human modus for demonstrating this,—in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">short, how can sinful mortals prove that a divine Principle</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">heals the sick, as well as governs the universe, time, [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">space, immortality, man?</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When contemplating the majesty and magnitude of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this query, it looked as if centuries of spiritual growth</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">were requisite to enable me to elucidate or to dem-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">onstrate what I had discovered: but an unlooked-for, [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">imperative call for help impelled me to begin this stu-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">pendous work at once, and teach the first student in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science. Even as when an accident, called</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">fatal to life, had driven me to discover the Science of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Life, I again, in faith, turned to divine help,—and com- [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">menced teaching.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">My students at first practised in slightly differing</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">forms. Although <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">I</span></em> could heal mentally, without a sign</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">save the immediate recovery of the sick, my students'</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">patients, and people generally, called for a sign—a ma- [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">terial evidence wherewith to satisfy the sick that something</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">was being done for them; and I said, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Suffer it</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">to be so now,”</span> for thus saith our Master. Experience,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">however, taught me the impossibility of demonstrating</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the Science of metaphysical healing by any outward form [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of practice.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In April, 1883, a bill in equity was filed in the United</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">States Circuit Court in Boston, to restrain, by decree and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">order of the Court, the unlawful publishing and use of an</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">infringing pamphlet printed and issued by a student of [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Answer was filed by the defendant, alleging that the</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page381">[pg 381]</span><a name="Pg381" id="Pg381" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">copyrighted works of Mrs. Eddy were not original with [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">her, but had been copied by her, or by her direction,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">from manuscripts originally composed by Dr. P. P.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Quimby.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Testimony was taken on the part of Mrs. Eddy, the [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">defendant being present personally and by counsel. The</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">time for taking testimony on the part of the defendant</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">having nearly expired, he gave notice through his counsel</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">that he should not put in testimony. Later, Mrs.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Eddy requested her lawyer to inquire of defendant's [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">counsel why he did not present evidence to support his</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">claim that Dr. Quimby was the author of her writings!</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Accordingly, her counsel asked the defendant's counsel</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this question, and he replied, in substance, <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“There is</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">no evidence to present.”</span> [15]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The stipulation for a judgment and a decree in favor</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of Mrs. Eddy was drawn up and signed by counsel.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It was ordered that the complainant (Mrs. Eddy)</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">recover of the defendant her cost of suit, taxed at</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">($113.09) one hundred thirteen and 9/100 dollars. [20]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A writ of injunction was issued under the seal of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">said Court, restraining the defendant from directly or</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">indirectly printing, publishing, selling, giving away,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">distributing, or in any way or manner disposing of,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the enjoined pamphlet, on penalty of ten thousand [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">dollars.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The infringing books, to the number of thirty-eight</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">hundred or thereabouts, were put under the edge of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the knife, and their unlawful existence destroyed, in</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Boston, Massachusetts. [30]</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">It has been written that <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“nobody can be both founder</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">and discoverer of the same thing.”</span> If this declaration</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page382">[pg 382]</span><a name="Pg382" id="Pg382" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">were either a truism or a rule, my experience would [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">contradict it and prove an exception.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">No works on the subject of Christian Science existed,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">prior to my discovery of this Science. Before the publi-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">cation of my first work on this doctrine, a few manu- [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">scripts of mine were in circulation. The discovery and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">founding of Christian Science has cost more than thirty</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">years of unremitting toil and unrest; but, comparing those</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">with the joy of knowing that the sinner and the sick are</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">helped thereby, that time and eternity bear witness to [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">this gift of God to the race, I am the debtor.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In the latter half of the nineteenth century I discov-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ered the Science of Christianity, and restored the first</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">patient healed in this age by Christian Science. I taught</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">the first student in Christian Science Mind-healing; was [15]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">author and publisher of the first books on this subject;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">obtained the first charter for the first Christian Science</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">church, originated its form of government, and was its</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">first pastor. I donated to this church the land on which</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in 1894 was erected the first church edifice of this denomination [20]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">in Boston; obtained the first and only charter</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">for a metaphysical medical college,—was its first and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">only president; was editor and proprietor of the first</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Christian Science periodical; organized the first Christian</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Scientist Association, wrote its constitution and by- [25]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">laws,—as also the constitution and by-laws of the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">National Christian Science Association; and gave it</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">The Christian Science Journal</span></span>; inaugurated our denom-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">inational form of Sunday services, Sunday School, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">so the entire system of teaching and practising Christian [30]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Science.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In 1895 I ordained that the Bible, and <span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Science and</span></div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page383">[pg 383]</span><a name="Pg383" id="Pg383" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> the Christian Science [1]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">textbook, be the pastor, on this planet, of all the churches</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of the Christian Science denomination. This ordinance</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">took effect the same year, and met with the universal ap-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">proval and support of Christian Scientists. Whenever [5]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">and wherever a church of Christian Science is established,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">its pastor is the Bible and my book.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In 1896 it goes without saying, preeminent over igno-</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">rance or envy, that Christian Science <em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">is founded by its</span></em></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><em class="tei tei-emph" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">discoverer</span></em>, and built upon the rock of Christ. The el- [10]</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ements of earth beat in vain against the immortal parapets</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">of this Science. Erect and eternal, it will go on with the</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">ages, go down the dim posterns of time unharmed, and</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">on every battle-field rise higher in the estimation of</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">thinkers and in the hearts of Christians. [15]</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page384">[pg 384]</span><a name="Pg384" id="Pg384" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc140" id="toc140"></a> +<a name="pdf141" id="pdf141"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Chapter XI. Poems</span></h1> + + + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc142" id="toc142"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Come Thou</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Come, in the minstrel's lay; [2]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">When two hearts meet,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">And true hearts greet,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And all is morn and May. [5]</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Come Thou! and now, anew,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">To thought and deed</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Give sober speed,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Thy will to know, and do.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Stay! till the storms are o'er— [10]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">The cold blasts done,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">The reign of heaven begun,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And Love, the evermore.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Be patient, waiting heart:</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Light, Love divine [15]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Is here, and thine;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">You therefore cannot part.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">The seasons come and go:</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Love, like the sea,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Rolls on with thee,— [20]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">But knows no ebb and flow.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page385">[pg 385]</span><a name="Pg385" id="Pg385" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">Faith, hope, and tears, triune,</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> [1]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Above the sod</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Find peace in God,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And one eternal noon.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Oh, Thou hast heard my prayer; [5]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">And I am blest!</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">This is Thy high behest:</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Thou, here and </span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">everywhere</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc143" id="toc143"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Meeting Of My Departed Mother And Husband</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">Joy for thee, happy friend! thy bark is past</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> [10]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The dangerous sea, and safely moored at last—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Beyond rough foam.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Soft gales celestial, in sweet music bore—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Spirit emancipate for this far shore—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Thee to thy home. [15]</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">You've travelled long, and far from mortal joys,</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">To Soul's diviner sense, that spurns such toys,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Brave wrestler, lone.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Now see thy ever-self; Life never fled;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Man is not mortal, never of the dead: [20]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">The dark unknown.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">When hope soared high, and joy was eagle-plumed,</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Thy pinions drooped; the flesh was weak, and doomed</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">To pass away.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">But faith triumphant round thy death-couch shed [25]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Majestic forms; and radiant glory sped</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">The dawning day.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page386">[pg 386]</span><a name="Pg386" id="Pg386" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">Intensely grand and glorious life's sphere,—</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> [1]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Beyond the shadow, infinite appear</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Life, Love divine,—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Where mortal yearnings come not, sighs are stilled,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And home and peace and hearts are found and filled, [5]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Thine, ever thine.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">Bearest thou no tidings from our loved on earth,</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The toiler tireless for Truth's new birth</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">All-unbeguiled?</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Our joy is gathered from her parting sigh: [10]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">This hour looks on her heart with pitying eye,—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">What of my child?</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">When, severed by death's dream, I woke to Life,</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">She deemed I died, and could not know the strife</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">At first to fill [15]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">That waking with a love that steady turns</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">To God; a hope that ever upward yearns,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Bowed to His will.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">Years had passed o'er thy broken household band,</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">When angels beckoned me to this bright land, [20]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">With thee to meet.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">She that has wept o'er thee, kissed my cold brow,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Rears the sad marble to our memory now,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">In lone retreat.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">By the remembrance of her loyal life,</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> [25]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And parting prayer, I only know my wife,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Thy child, shall come—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Where farewells cloud not o'er our ransomed rest—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Hither to reap, with all the crowned and blest,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Of bliss the sum. [30]</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page387">[pg 387]</span><a name="Pg387" id="Pg387" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">When Love's rapt sense the heart-strings gently sweep,</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> [1]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">With joy divinely fair, the high and deep,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">To call her home,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">She shall mount upward unto purer skies;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">We shall be waiting, in what glad surprise, [5]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Our spirits' own!</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></div> +</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc144" id="toc144"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Love</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Brood o'er us with Thy shelt'ring wing,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">'Neath which our spirits blend</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Like brother birds, that soar and sing, [10]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">And on the same branch bend.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The arrow that doth wound the dove</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Darts not from those who watch and love.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">If thou the bending reed wouldst break</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">By thought or word unkind, [15]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Pray that his spirit you partake,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Who loved and healed mankind:</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Seek holy thoughts and heavenly strain,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">That make men one in love remain.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Learn, too, that wisdom's rod is given [20]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">For faith to kiss, and know;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">That greetings glorious from high heaven,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Whence joys supernal flow,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Come from that Love, divinely near,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Which chastens pride and earth-born fear, [25]</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page388">[pg 388]</span><a name="Pg388" id="Pg388" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Through God, who gave that word of might [1]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Which swelled creation's lay:</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">Let there be light, and there was light.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">What chased the clouds away?</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">'Twas Love whose finger traced aloud [5]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">A bow of promise on the cloud.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Thou to whose power our hope we give,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Free us from human strife.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Fed by Thy love divine we live, [10]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">For Love alone is Life;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And life most sweet, as heart to heart</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Speaks kindly when we meet and part.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc145" id="toc145"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Woman's Rights</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Grave on her monumental pile:</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">She won from vice, by virtue's smile, [15]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Her dazzling crown, her sceptred throne,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Affection's wreath, a happy home;</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The right to worship deep and pure,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">To bless the orphan, feed the poor;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Last at the cross to mourn her Lord, [20]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">First at the tomb to hear his word:</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">To fold an angel's wings below;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And hover o'er the couch of woe;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">To nurse the Bethlehem babe so sweet,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The right to sit at Jesus' feet; [25]</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page389">[pg 389]</span><a name="Pg389" id="Pg389" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">To form the bud for bursting bloom, [1]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The hoary head with joy to crown;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">In short, the right to work and pray,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">To point to heaven and lead the way.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></div> +</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc146" id="toc146"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">The Mother's Evening Prayer</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">O gentle presence, peace and joy and power;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Thou Love that guards the nestling's faltering flight!</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Keep Thou my child on upward wing to-night.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Love is our refuge; only with mine eye [10]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Can I behold the snare, the pit, the fall:</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">His habitation high is here, and nigh,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">His arm encircles me, and mine, and all.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">O make me glad for every scalding tear,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain! [15]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">No ill,—since God is good, and loss is gain.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Beneath the shadow of His mighty wing;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">In that sweet secret of the narrow way,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Seeking and finding, with the angels sing: [20]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">Lo, I am with you alway,</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">—watch and pray.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">No snare, no fowler, pestilence or pain;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">No night drops down upon the troubled breast,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">When heaven's aftersmile earth's tear-drops gain,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">And mother finds her home and heavenly rest. [25]</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page390">[pg 390]</span><a name="Pg390" id="Pg390" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc147" id="toc147"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">June</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Whence are thy wooings, gentle June?</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Thou hast a Naiad's charm;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Thy breezes scent the rose's breath;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Old Time gives thee her palm. [5]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The lark's shrill song doth wake the dawn;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">The eve-bird's forest flute</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Gives back some maiden melody,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Too pure for aught so mute.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The fairy-peopled world of flowers, [10]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Enraptured by thy spell,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Looks love unto the laughing hours,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Through woodland, grove, and dell;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And soft thy footstep falls upon</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">The verdant grass it weaves; [15]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">To melting murmurs ye have stirred</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">The timid, trembling leaves.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">When sunshine beautifies the shower,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">As smiles through teardrops seen,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Ask of its June, the long-hushed heart, [20]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">What hath the record been?</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And thou wilt find that harmonies,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">In which the Soul hath part,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Ne'er perish young, like things of earth,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">In records of the heart. [25]</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page391">[pg 391]</span><a name="Pg391" id="Pg391" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc148" id="toc148"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Wish And Item</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Written to the Editor of the <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-style: italic">Item</span></span>, Lynn, Mass.</div> +</div> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">I hope the heart that's hungry</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">For things above the floor,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Will find within its portals [5]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">An item rich in store;</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">That melancholy mortals</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Will count their mercies o'er,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And learn that Truth and wisdom</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Have many items more; [10]</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">That when a wrong is done us,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">It stirs no thought of strife;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And Love becomes the substance,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">As item, of our life;</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">That every ragged urchin, [15]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">With bare feet soiled or sore,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Share God's most tender mercies,—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Find items at our door.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Then if we've done to others</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Some good ne'er told before, [20]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">When angels shall repeat it,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">'T will be an item more.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page392">[pg 392]</span><a name="Pg392" id="Pg392" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc149" id="toc149"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">The Oak On The Mountain's Summit</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Oh, mountain monarch, at whose feet I stand,—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Clouds to adorn thy brow, skies clasp thy hand,—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Nature divine, in harmony profound,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">With peaceful presence hath begirt thee round. [5]</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And thou, majestic oak, from yon high place</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Guard'st thou the earth, asleep in night's embrace,—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And from thy lofty summit, pouring down</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Thy sheltering shade, her noonday glories crown?</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Whate'er thy mission, mountain sentinel, [10]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">To my lone heart thou art a power and spell;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">A lesson grave, of life, that teacheth me</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">To love the Hebrew figure of a tree.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Faithful and patient be my life as thine;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">As strong to wrestle with the storms of time; [15]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">As deeply rooted in a soil of love;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">As grandly rising to the heavens above.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc150" id="toc150"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Isle Of Wight</span></h2> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Written on receiving a painting of the Isle</div> +</div> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Isle of beauty, thou art singing [20]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">To my sense a sweet refrain;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">To my busy mem'ry bringing</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Scenes that I would see again.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page393">[pg 393]</span><a name="Pg393" id="Pg393" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Chief, the charm of thy reflecting, [1]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Is the moral that it brings;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Nature, with the mind connecting,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Gives the artist's fancy wings.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Soul, sublime 'mid human </span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">débris</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, [5]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Paints the limner's work, I ween,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Art and Science, all unweary,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Lighting up this mortal dream.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Work ill-done within the misty</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Mine of human thoughts, we see [10]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Soon abandoned when the Master</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Crowns life's Cliff for such as we.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Students wise, he maketh now thus</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Those who fish in waters deep,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">When the buried Master hails us [15]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">From the shores afar, complete.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Art hath bathed this isthmus-lordling</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">In a beauty strong and meek</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">As the rock, whose upward tending</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Points the plane of power to seek. [20]</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Isle of beauty, thou art teaching</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Lessons long and grand, to-night,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">To my heart that would be bleaching</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">To thy whiteness, Cliff of Wight.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page394">[pg 394]</span><a name="Pg394" id="Pg394" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc151" id="toc151"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Hope</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">'T is borne on the zephyr at eventide's hour;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">It falls on the heart like the dew on the flower,—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">An infinite essence from tropic to pole,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The promise, the home, and the heaven of Soul. [5]</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Hope happifies life, at the altar or bower,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And loosens the fetters of pride and of power;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">It comes through our tears, as the soft summer rain,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">To beautify, bless, and make joyful again.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The harp of the minstrel, the treasure of time; [10]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">A rainbow of rapture, o'erarching, divine;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The God-given mandate that speaks from above,—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">No place for earth's idols, but hope thou, and love.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc152" id="toc152"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Rondelet</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">The flowers of June</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The gates of memory unbar:</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">The flowers of June</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Such old-time harmonies </span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">re</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">tune,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">I fain would keep the gates ajar,—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">So full of sweet enchantment are [20]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The flowers of June.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 3.60em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">James T. White</span></span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page395">[pg 395]</span><a name="Pg395" id="Pg395" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc153" id="toc153"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">To Mr. James T. White</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Who loves not June [2]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Is out of tune</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">With love and God;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The rose his rival reigns, [5]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The stars reject his pains,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">His home the clod!</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And yet I trow,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">When sweet </span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">rondeau</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Doth play a part, [10]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The curtain drops on June;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Veiled is the modest moon—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Hushed is the heart.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc154" id="toc154"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Autumn</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Written in childhood, in a maple grove [15]</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Quickly earth's jewels disappear;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">The turf, whereon I tread,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Ere autumn blanch another year,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">May rest above my head.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Touched by the finger of decay [20]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Is every earthly love;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">For joy, to shun my weary way,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Is registered above.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The languid brooklets yield their sighs,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">A requiem o'er the tomb [25]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Of sunny days and cloudless skies,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Enhancing autumn's gloom.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page396">[pg 396]</span><a name="Pg396" id="Pg396" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The wild winds mutter, howl, and moan, [1]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">To scare my woodland walk,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And frightened fancy flees, to roam</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Where ghosts and goblins stalk.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">The cricket's sharp, discordant scream [5]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Fills mortal sense with dread;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">More sorrowful it scarce could seem;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">It voices beauty fled.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Yet here, upon this faded sod,—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">O happy hours and fleet,— [10]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">When songsters' matin hymns to God</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Are poured in strains so sweet,</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">My heart unbidden joins rehearse;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">I hope it's better made,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">When mingling with the universe, [15]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Beneath the maple's shade.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc155" id="toc155"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Christ My Refuge</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">O'er waiting harpstrings of the mind</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">There sweeps a strain,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Low, sad, and sweet, whose measures bind [20]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">The power of pain,</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And wake a white-winged angel throng</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Of thoughts, illumed</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">By faith, and breathed in raptured song,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">With love perfumed. [25]</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page397">[pg 397]</span><a name="Pg397" id="Pg397" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Then His unveiled, sweet mercies show [1]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Life's burdens light.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">I kiss the cross, and wake to know</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">A world more bright.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And o'er earth's troubled, angry sea [5]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">I see Christ walk,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And come to me, and tenderly,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Divinely talk.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Thus Truth engrounds me on the rock,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Upon Life's shore, [10]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">'Gainst which the winds and waves can shock,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Oh, nevermore!</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">From tired joy and grief afar,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">And nearer Thee,—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Father, where Thine own children are, [15]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">I love to be.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">My prayer, some daily good to do</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">To Thine, for Thee;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">An offering pure of Love, whereto</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">God leadeth me. [20]</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc156" id="toc156"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 144%">“</span><span style="font-size: 144%">Feed My Sheep</span><span style="font-size: 144%">”</span></span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Shepherd, show me how to go</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">O'er the hillside steep,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">How to gather, how to sow,—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">How to feed Thy sheep;</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page398">[pg 398]</span><a name="Pg398" id="Pg398" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">I will listen for Thy voice, [1]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Lest my footsteps stray;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">I will follow and rejoice</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">All the rugged way.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Thou wilt bind the stubborn will, [5]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Wound the callous breast,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Make self-righteousness be still,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Break earth's stupid rest.</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Strangers on a barren shore,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Lab'ring long and lone, [10]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">We would enter by the door,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">And Thou know'st Thine own;</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">So, when day grows dark and cold,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Tear or triumph harms,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Lead Thy lambkins to the fold, [15]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Take them in Thine arms;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Feed the hungry, heal the heart,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Till the morning's beam;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">White as wool, ere they depart,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Shepherd, wash them clean.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc157" id="toc157"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Communion Hymn</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Saw ye my Saviour? Heard ye the glad sound?</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Felt ye the power of the Word?</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">'T was the Truth that made us free,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And was found by you and me [25]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">In the life and the love of our Lord.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page399">[pg 399]</span><a name="Pg399" id="Pg399" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Mourner, it calls you,—</span><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">Come to my bosom,</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> [1]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Love wipes your tears all away,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And will lift the shade of gloom,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">And for you make radiant room</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Midst the glories of one endless day.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> [5]</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Sinner, it calls you,—</span><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">“</span><span style="font-size: 90%">Come to this fountain,</span></span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Cleanse the foul senses within;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">'Tis the Spirit that makes pure,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">That exalts thee, and will cure</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">All thy sorrow and sickness and sin.</span><span style="font-size: 90%">”</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> [10]</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Strongest deliverer, friend of the friendless,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Life of all being divine:</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Thou the Christ, and not the creed;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Thou the Truth in thought and deed;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Thou the water, the bread, and the wine. [15]</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc158" id="toc158"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Laus Deo!</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Written on laying the corner-stone of The Mother Church</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Laus Deo</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, it is done!</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Rolled away from loving heart</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Is a stone. [20]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Lifted higher, we depart,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Having one.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Laus Deo</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—on this rock</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">(Heaven chiselled squarely good)</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Stands His church,— [25]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">God is Love, and understood</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">By His flock.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page400">[pg 400]</span><a name="Pg400" id="Pg400" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Laus Deo</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, night star-lit [1]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Slumbers not in God's embrace;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Be awake;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Like this stone, be in thy place:</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Stand, not sit. [5]</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Grave, silent, steadfast stone,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Dirge and song and shoutings low</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">In thy heart</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Dwell serene,—and sorrow? No,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">It has none, [10]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Laus Deo!</span></span></div> +</div> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc159" id="toc159"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">A Verse</span></h2> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Mother's New Year Gift to the Little Children</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Father-Mother God,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Loving me,— [15]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Guard me when I sleep;</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Guide my little feet</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Up to Thee.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">To the Big Children</span></span></div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Father-Mother good, lovingly [20]</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Thee I seek,—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Patient, meek,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">In the way Thou hast,—</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 90%">Be it slow or fast,</span></div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 1.80em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Up to Thee. [25]</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +</div> + +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page401">[pg 401]</span><a name="Pg401" id="Pg401" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc160" id="toc160"></a> +<a name="pdf161" id="pdf161"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Chapter XII. Testimonials</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Letters From Those Healed By Reading <span class="tei tei-q">“Science +And Health With Key To The Scriptures”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Editor of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Christian Science Journal</span></span> (Falmouth and St. +Paul Streets, Boston, Mass.) holds the original of most of the letters +that authenticate these. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It is something more than a year and a half since I was +cured of a complication of diseases through reading +<span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Becoming at an early age disgusted with drugs, I learned +hygiene, and practised it faithfully for over twenty years; +then I began to lose all faith in its efficacy, became +greatly discouraged, and, as I had never been cured of +a single ailment, I rapidly grew worse in health. Hearing +of this, a dear sister brought me Science and Health. +Her admonition was, <span class="tei tei-q">“Now read it, E——; I have heard +that just the reading of that book has been known to heal +the sick.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I had read to, and through, the chapter on Healing and +Teaching,<a id="noteref_8" name="noteref_8" href="#note_8"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">8</span></span></a> +and was so deeply interested that I began +reading that blessed chapter over again,—when I found +I was cured of my dyspepsia, that I could use my strength +in lifting without feeling the old distressing pain in my +side, and also that the pain in the kidneys only came on +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page402">[pg 402]</span><a name="Pg402" id="Pg402" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +at night, waking me out of sleep. Then I began my first +conscious treatments: of course I followed no formula, +and I needed none. A cry for help, knowing it would +be answered; precious texts from the Bible, which had +already become like a new book to me; sweet assurance +of faith by the witnessing Spirit; strong logical conclusions, +learned from Science and Health: what a wealth +of material! Before finishing the book, all tendency to +my old aches and pains had left me, and I have been a +strong, healthy woman ever since. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +My first demonstration with another than myself was +also before I had finished my first reading. My husband +was cured of the belief of bilious fever by not over ten +minutes' treatment; the fever and pain in head and limbs +disappearing in that instantaneous way as soon as I +could summon sufficient courage to offer my services in +this, to us, new but glorious work. He slept soundly +that night (the treatment was given about 10 <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">a. m.</span></span>), and +ate and worked as usual the next day, with no symptoms +of a relapse then or afterward. That was in March, 1888; +in the following August I met in one of our Rocky Mountain +berry patches a lady who complained so bitterly that +I felt compelled to offer her treatment. Her words, when +I visited her at her home during Christmas week, will +give some idea of the result:— +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Yes, I am doing three women's work,—attending to +my own and my son's housework, and caring for his wife +and new-born babe; but I am equal to it, when I think +of all the Lord has done for me! Why, Mrs. S., I was +cured with that first treatment you gave me, I know; +because I went out to gather berries that day and was +caught in a drenching shower,—and for ten years before +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page403">[pg 403]</span><a name="Pg403" id="Pg403" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +I could not bear the least exposure without suffering +from those dreadful headaches I told you about, and +from dysentery,—but that day I had neither. I had +once been laid out for dead,—lying there perfectly conscious, +hearing my friends grieving over me,—but I did +not want to come to, I suffered so. No, I never have any +of those ailments. I am a well, hearty woman,—and +that is not all. I had been seeking religion for more than +twenty years, but I never knew how Christians felt till I +told you I was cured that day on the camp-ground.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +On the first of this year I was so blessed as to receive +a course of lessons from one of our teacher's students. +Now I am only trusting that the time will come when I +may be enabled to teach others the way of Truth, as well +as to add to the many demonstrations God has given +me.—E. D. S. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A student of Christian Science was employed in the +Massachusetts State Prison at Charlestown, to teach the +prisoners to make shoes. He carried his copy of <span class="tei tei-q">“Science +and Health with Key to the Scriptures”</span> and the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span> +with him, and as he had the opportunity would tell the +men what this wonderful truth could do for them, setting +them free in a larger and higher sense than they had +dreamed of. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We make extracts from a number of letters that one +of the prisoners has written to those who are interesting +themselves in this work. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Editor of The Christian Science Journal</span></span>:—At the +prison, once a week, there are Christian papers given +to the inmates. But none of those papers point out so +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page404">[pg 404]</span><a name="Pg404" id="Pg404" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +clearly the fallibility of the mortal or carnal mind, and +the infallibility of the divine Mind, as does the teaching +of Christian Science.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I was strangely blind and stupid. I loved sin, and +it seemed as though I never would be able to forsake it. +I did everything that would be expected of one entirely +ignorant of God.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I also had a complication of diseases. I could not +begin to describe the medicines I have taken.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I no longer look for material treatment, but humbly +seek for the divine assistance of Jesus, through the +way Christian Science has taught me. I am, indeed, +an altered man. I now have no more doubt of the +way of salvation than I have of the way to the prison +workshop.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I am very grateful to the students of Christian Science, +for the interest they have taken in me and my fellow-prisoners. +Their letters and books have been of great +profit, and in accordance with their wish I have done what +I could for the others.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I gave the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span> to every man who would accept +it, and related my experience to those who would listen. +I told them they need go no farther than myself to see +what the demonstration was; for not only have my eyes +been healed, but many other ailments have disappeared.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Some of the fellows told me I was becoming religiously +insane, but acting upon your advice, I did not stop +to argue with those opposed; and I am glad to be able to +tell you that those who expressed interest were more than +those who opposed.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“The chaplain told me I could keep Science and +Health until I got through with it. I never should +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page405">[pg 405]</span><a name="Pg405" id="Pg405" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +get through with that book, but, as others were waiting +for it, I did not like to keep it too long. God bless the +author!</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“I need have no fear after leaving here; I feel that +I can make an honest living. I can honestly add, that +my bad reputation is largely due to my lack of education. +What little I do know, I learned here and in the +House of Correction. I tell you this, for I feel that I +must be honest with the kind friends who have done so +much for me.</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Providing I should not be paroled, I shall remain +here until the 24th of next December. God bless you +all.—J. C.”</span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I am glad to tell how I was healed. Beliefs of consumption, +dyspepsia, neuralgia, piles, tobacco, and bad +language held me in bondage for many years. Doctors +that were consulted did nothing to relieve me, and I +constantly grew worse. Nearly two years ago a lady +told me that if I would read a book called <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and +Health with Key to the Scriptures”</span> I would be healed. +I told her I would <span class="tei tei-q">“go into it for all it is worth,”</span> and +I have found that it is worth all. I got the book, and +read day and night. I saw that it must be true, and believed +that what I could not then understand would be +made clear later. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +After some days' reading I was affected with drowsiness, +followed by vomiting. This lasted several hours; +when I fell into a sleep, and awoke healed. The good I +have received, and that I have been able to do in healing +others, has all come from Science and Health. I received +some instructions from teachers; but they did me more +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page406">[pg 406]</span><a name="Pg406" id="Pg406" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +harm than good: I asked for bread, but they gave me a +stone. I held to what I could understand of Science and +Health; and the truth does not forsake me, but enables +me to heal others. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Last February, I was called to treat a child that the +M. D.'s said was dying from lung fever; after the third +treatment the child got up and ran about, completely +healed. Another child was brought to me, with rupture; +after the second treatment the truss was thrown away. +An aged lady was healed of heart disease and chills, in +one treatment. These cases brought me many more, that +were also healed. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The husband of a lady in the State Lunatic Asylum +asked me to treat her; she had been for two years and +a half in the asylum, and though taken home in this time +once or twice, she had had to be taken back. After two +weeks of absent treatment, the husband visited her, and +the doctor reported great improvement during the preceding +two weeks. At the end of another two weeks I +went with the husband to the asylum, and the doctor told +us that she was well enough to go home. The husband +asked the doctor how it was that she had improved so +rapidly, and he said that he could not account for it. We +said nothing about the Christian Science treatment, and +took the lady home. This was about a year ago, and she +has remained perfectly well. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Many cases as striking as this can be referred to in +this town, as evidence that Truth is the healer of sickness +as well as of sin.—J. B. H. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +No. 1. A lady friend, who was found to have a severe +attack of dysentery, was assured that such attacks could +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page407">[pg 407]</span><a name="Pg407" id="Pg407" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +be cured without medicine, and advised to take no more. +She was more than astonished at the result; for in less +than an hour all pain and other symptoms of the trouble +ceased, and she felt perfectly well the next day. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +No. 2. While she was visiting relatives in the country, +an infant of theirs was attacked severely with croup, +and appeared to be on the verge of suffocation, giving +its parents much alarm. The infant was taken in +the arms of the lady, in thirty minutes was completely +relieved, went to sleep, and awoke in good health the +next morning. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +No. 3. The mother of this child was subsequently +attacked with a scrofulous swelling on the neck, just +under the ear, which was very painful and disfiguring; +the side of the face, also, being badly swollen. It was +feared that this would develop into and undergo the +usual phenomenon of abscess, as other similar swellings +had done previously. She had great faith in the metaphysical +treatment, because of the experience which she +had had with her baby, and wrote a letter describing her +case. This was immediately answered, and absent +treatment was begun. In twenty-four hours after receipt +of the letter, to the astonishment of herself and family, +the tumor had entirely disappeared: there was not a +trace of it left; although the day before it was fully as +large as a hen's egg; red, and tender to the touch. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +These instances are only a few of the many cures which +have been performed in this way, and they are mentioned +simply to show what good work may be done by any +earnest, conscientious person who has gained by reading +my works the proper understanding of the Principle of +Christian Science. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page408">[pg 408]</span><a name="Pg408" id="Pg408" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +What a wonderful field for enlightenment and profit +lies open to those who seek after Truth. Alas, that the +feet of so few enter it! +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Rev. M. B. G. Eddy</span></span>:—Will you kindly spare me a few +moments for the perusal of these lines from a stranger,— +one who feels under a debt of gratitude to you,—for, +through the divine Science brought to light by you, I have +been <span class="tei tei-q">“made whole.”</span> I have been cured of a malignant +cancer since I began to study Christian Science, and have +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">demonstrated the truth</span></em> of it in a number of cases. I have +only studied your good books, having been <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">unable</span></em> to take +the lectures for want of means. I dare not think of these, +for there is no prospect that I shall be in a position to +take the course at all. I do not allow myself to complain, +but cheerfully take up my books and study, and +feel thankful for this light. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +M. E. W., Cañon City, Col. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Dear Madam</span></span>:—May I thank you for your book, +<span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> and +say how much I owe to it—almost my very life—at a +most critical time.... +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +If it were not for the heat of your American summers +(I had nine attacks of dysentery in the last one), and the +expense, I should dearly like to learn from you personally; +but I must forego this,—at any rate, for the present. +If you would write me what the cost would be for a +course on divine metaphysics, I would try to manage it +later on. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page409">[pg 409]</span><a name="Pg409" id="Pg409" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Meanwhile, I should be grateful if you would refer me +to any one in this country who is interested similarly, +for I get more kicks than halfpence in discussing it. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Your obliged friend, +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">(Rev.) I. G. W. Bishop</span></span>,<br /> +Bovington Vicarage, Hemel Hempstead,<br /> +Herts, England +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Extract from a letter to Rev. M. B. G. Eddy +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A gentleman here had hired all the most skilled doctors +in the United States—nothing helped him. He was a +ghost to look upon. I told him just to read my copies +of your books. I talked to him, told him what he could +do for himself if he but tried. He laughed at me. I was +willing he should laugh, for it was very unusual for him +to do this. He had your books two months, and last Sunday +he returned them. I wish you could see him: <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">he is +well</span></em>. He is happy, and told me he was going to write to +you for the books for himself this week.—E. E. B. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Dear Madam</span></span>:—I have been a sickly person all my +life, until a few months ago, and was confined to my +bed every little while. It was during one of many attacks +that your book, <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the +Scriptures,”</span> was handed me. I read it only a very short +time, when I arose, well, went out into the kitchen, prepared +a large dinner, and ate heartily of it. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I have been up and well ever since,—a marvel to my +friends and family, and sometimes they can hardly believe +it is I; and feeling so grateful, I must tell you of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page410">[pg 410]</span><a name="Pg410" id="Pg410" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +it. I wish everybody in the world would read your book, +for all would be benefited by it. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Gratefully yours, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Anna M. Smith</span></span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Dear Madam</span></span>:—About seven years ago I was compelled +to go to an oculist and have an operation performed +upon my eyes. He fitted me with glasses, which I wore +for a considerable time, and then removed; but the pain +and difficulty returned, and I was obliged to go again to +the oculist, who advised me never to take my glasses off +again. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I continued wearing them for fully five years longer, +until some time in last January, when, upon reading your +book, <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> +I again took them off. Since that time, though I have been +in the courts reporting, and reading fine notes frequently, +I have experienced no difficulty with my eyes. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Very respectfully,<br /> +William A. Smith, Wilmington, Del. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Dear Mrs. Eddy</span></span>:—We have been studying <span class="tei tei-q">“Science +and Health with Key to the Scriptures”</span> for a year, and +I cannot tell you how much it has done for us; giving us +health instead of sickness, and giving us such an understanding +of God as we never had before. Christian +Science was our only help two weeks ago, when our baby +was born. My husband and myself were alone. I dressed +myself the next day; commenced doing my work the +third day, and am well and strong. It must be pleasing +to you to know how much good your work is doing. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Kittie Beck</span></span>, Elmwood, Cass Co., Neb. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page411">[pg 411]</span><a name="Pg411" id="Pg411" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I was a helpless sufferer in August, 1883, and had been +so for many years. The physicians said I had cancer +of the uterus. I heard of your book, <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health +with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> bought a copy, began reading +it, and a great light seemed to break through the +darkness. I cried aloud in joy, <span class="tei tei-q">“This is what I have +been hungering for, these many years!”</span> I studied it +closely, and healed myself and several of my friends before +I had taken instruction of any teacher. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mrs. S. A. McMahon</span></span>, Wyandotte, Kans. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I was healed thoroughly of the belief of chronic hepatitis +and kidney disease, by reading <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health +with Key to the Scriptures.”</span> I have never, to this day, +had the slightest return of it. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">J. P. Filbert</span></span>, Council Bluffs, Iowa +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +You, dear Mrs. Eddy, have saved my life, through +Science and Health; and I feel that the patients healed +through me should give the first thanks to God and to +you.—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mrs. D. S. Harriman</span></span>, Kansas City, Mo. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +How grand your book, <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key +to the Scriptures,”</span> is! It is a translation of Truth. No +amount of money could buy the book of me, if I could not +get another. No matter what suffering comes, physical +or mental, I have only to take Science and Health, and +almost invariably the first sentence brings relief. It +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page412">[pg 412]</span><a name="Pg412" id="Pg412" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +seems to steady the thought. I do not think any student +old enough to neglect reading it. When we think we are +advanced far enough to let that book alone, then are +we in danger. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mrs. Ellen P. Clark</span></span>, Dorchester, Mass. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Many thanks for the good received from your books. +When I commenced reading them, I was carrying about +a very sick body. Your books have healed me. I am +now in perfect health. People look at me with surprise, +and say they do not understand it; but when they see +the sick ones made well, they are not always willing to +believe it. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mrs. Joseph Tillson</span></span>, South Hanson, Mass. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Rev. M. B. G. Eddy:</span></span>—I add one more testimony of +a cure from reading your book, <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health +with Key to the Scriptures.”</span> Five years ago I lay prostrate +with piles and inflammation of the bowels. All +the coating came off, apparently. A stricture was formed, +beyond medical reach. I then lived in Chicago; one +of the best physicians, who made a specialty of treating +piles, attended me. The pain was relieved, but my +bowels were inactive, and remained so until New Year's +eve. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I determined to trust all to God, or die before I would +take any more medicine, as I never had an action unless +I took a free dose of some laxative. If I forgot to take +the medicine one night, or allowed myself to be without +it, I had a terrible sick headache for two or three days, +and terrible backache. I never had backache at any +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page413">[pg 413]</span><a name="Pg413" id="Pg413" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +other time, and the piles would be so much inflamed, in +two days' time, that I could hardly tell where I suffered +the worst. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Since I have learned to trust all to God, I have not +had the least trouble with the piles, nor one twinge of +the backache. I have an easy action of the bowels each +morning. It was five days after I resolved to leave medicine +alone, before a natural movement took place; and +ever since I have been perfectly regular. It was a great +effort for me to take that step, for I knew I was running +the risk of throwing myself back into all misery, and +perhaps into a worse state than before. By reading +Science and Health, I learned that God was able to save +the body as well as the soul, and I believed His promises +were for me. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mattie E. Mayfield</span></span>, Des Moines, Iowa +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +For the Cause of Truth, I submit the following testimonial +for publication; may it bring <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">one</span></em> more, at least, +into the fold of divine Science! The truth, as it is stated +in <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> +has done much towards making our home the abiding-place +of peace and harmony. I now write of the wonderful +demonstration of Truth over the birth of my baby +boy, two weeks ago. Sunday, September 23, we went +for a long drive of three hours; at night I retired at the +usual hour; toward morning I was given a little warning; +when I awoke at seven o'clock, the birth took place. +Not more than ten minutes after, I ate a hearty breakfast, +and then had a refreshing sleep; at ten o'clock +walked across the room while my bed was dressed; at +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page414">[pg 414]</span><a name="Pg414" id="Pg414" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +twelve took a substantial dinner; most of the afternoon +sat up in bed, without any support but Truth; at six +in the evening dressed myself and walked to the dining-room, +and remained up for two hours. Next morning +I arose at the usual hour, and have kept it up ever since,—was +not confined to my bed one whole day. The +second day was out walking in the yard, and the third +day went for a drive in the morning and received callers +in the afternoon. If it had not been for the presence of +my young hopeful, it would have been hard to believe +that there had so recently been a belief of a birth in the +house; but then, I was sustained by Love, and had no +belief of suffering to take my strength away. Before +baby was two weeks old, I cooked, swept, ran the sewing +machine, etc., assisting with the housework generally. +How grateful I am for the obstetrics of this +grand Science! Mothers need no longer listen to the +whispering lies of the old serpent, for the law of mortal +mind is broken by Truth. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mrs. Dora Hossick</span></span>, Carrolton, Mo. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +My wife and I have been healed by reading your book, +<span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.”</span> We +both feel very grateful to you. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Five months ago my wife gave birth to a child, without +pain or inconvenience, has done all the housework +since, and has been every minute perfectly well. Neither +she nor the child have been ill,—as was constantly the +case with former children,—so we have thought it right +to name the child Glover Eddy. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We have been reading Science and Health nearly +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page415">[pg 415]</span><a name="Pg415" id="Pg415" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +two years, and have sold several copies to others. We +are reading the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span> also this year. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Yours respectfully, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">John B. Housel</span></span>, Lincoln, Neb. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Dear Mother:</span></span>—The most blessed of women! Oh, +how I long to sit within range of your voice and hear the +truth that comes to you from on high! for none could +speak such wondrous thoughts as have come from your +pen, except it be the Spirit that speaketh in you. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Two years ago last October, while laboring under a +great strain of care and anxiety in regard to financial +affairs, I heard of Christian Science. I borrowed <span class="tei tei-q">“Science +and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> and began +to read. I bless God that I was driven to it by such an +extremity. After reading some one hundred and fifty +pages, I was convinced that it was the truth for which +I had searched during twenty years. While I was reading +the chapter on Imposition and Demonstration,<a id="noteref_9" name="noteref_9" href="#note_9"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">9</span></span></a> I +was healed of endometritis and prolapsus uteri of over +twenty years' standing, pronounced incurable by eminent +physicians. Professor Ludlam, the dean of Hahnemann +Medical College, of Chicago, Ill., was one of my +doctors. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Before I was healed, to walk seven or eight blocks +would so fatigue me that it would take me a week to +recover. I now started out and walked, and was on my +feet all day and for several succeeding days, but felt no +weariness from my labors. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I felt, after being healed, I must have a Science and +Health of my own. I had no money to buy it, so earned +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page416">[pg 416]</span><a name="Pg416" id="Pg416" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +it by getting subscribers for the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span>. It has gone +with me everywhere I have been. I have been well ever +since. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I had suffered from bodily ailments, but they were +nothing compared to my mental trials. Grief, hatred, +jealousy, and revenge had well-nigh bereft me of reason. +I had lost a home of plenty, been reduced to almost abject +poverty, and had become a cheerless woman,—could +not smile without feeling I had sinned. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +All my griefs and sorrows are now turned to joy, and +my hatred is changed to love. <span class="tei tei-q">“Glory to God in the +highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.”</span> I +read Science and Health, and all your other books, together +with the New Testament, every minute I can +get.—E. B. C., Omaha, Neb. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I must add one more to your great pile of letters, to +tell you what your book, <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key +to the Scriptures,”</span> has done for me and my family. More +than a year ago, my husband was suffering from an injury +received about a year previous, and he went to Mrs. B. for +treatment. His shoulder had been fractured, his collarbone +broken, and he had sustained internal injuries. Several +M. D.'s had attended him, but had given him very +little relief. Mrs. B. treated him a short time, and he +received much benefit. He bought Science and Health. +From reading it, I was cured of a belief of chronic liver +complaint. I suffered so much from headaches and constipation, +and other beliefs, that I seldom ever saw a well +day; but, thanks to you and divine Principle, I now +seldom ever have a belief of feeling badly. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page417">[pg 417]</span><a name="Pg417" id="Pg417" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +November 4th, last, I was confined. I was alone, +because I knew no one whose thought was in harmony +with Science. I thought I could get along without help, +and I did. My little girl was sleeping in the same room +with me, and after the birth she called a woman who +was asleep upstairs, to take care of the baby. This +woman was much frightened; but, on seeing how composed +I was, she got over her fright. I was sitting up +in bed, holding the child, and feeling as well as I ever +did in my life. I never had seen a Scientist nor been +treated, but got all my ideas from Science and Health. +My baby was born on Sunday morning, and I got up +Monday at noon, and stayed up. I never got along so +well with a baby as I did with this one. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I am very thankful for the knowledge of Science I +have gained through your book. I want so much to be +a Scientist; but we are very poor. My husband is a +brakeman on the railroad; and I have very little education. +There is comfort in the thought that, if I can't be +a Scientist, my children may be. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Yours with much love, C. A. W., Lexington, Mo. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In the February <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span> it appears there is some one +who says that <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the +Scriptures”</span> is hard to understand, and who thinks she +can explain it. Perhaps my experience with Science +and Health may help some one who might otherwise +take up this thought, and so be led away from the truth. +After reading and studying it for some time, and talking +to the Scientists I met in my travels, the thought came +to me, <span class="tei tei-q">“Why not try these truths on yourself?”</span> I did +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page418">[pg 418]</span><a name="Pg418" id="Pg418" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +so, and to my surprise and great joy I found immediate +relief. Dyspepsia (the trouble of most commercial travellers), +catarrh, and many lesser beliefs, left me, so that in +a short time I was a <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">well man</span></em>, and by no other means +than trusting to the Saviour's promises as explained in +Science and Health. This took place while I was travelling +about the country. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +On my return home, I gave my wife treatments. In +many instances the blessing came before the treatment +was finished, and often we proved that only a thought +of the power of Truth was sufficient to give relief. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +One Sunday morning, soon after my return, a friend +called and asked if I could give him anything to relieve +his wife, who, he said, had been suffering for some days +with rheumatism in her shoulder, so severely that she +could neither dress alone nor comb her hair. I told him +that the only medicine we had in the house was Christian +Science. He laughed at the idea; but before he +left, he asked if I would give his wife a treatment. I +told him I was very young in Science, but if she wished +it, I would. He went home, but returned immediately, +saying she wished me to come. Then I asked help from +the fountain of Truth, and started for my first treatment +to be given away from home. When I left their room +fifteen minutes later, she was shaking her hand high +above her head, and exclaiming, <span class="tei tei-q">“I am all right; I am +well!”</span> That was in November, 1887, and she has had +no return of the belief since. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A friend told me that his son, twelve years old, had +catarrh so badly that his breath was very offensive, his +throat troubled him all the time, and that he had been +deaf since he had the measles. In less than three weeks +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page419">[pg 419]</span><a name="Pg419" id="Pg419" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +both beliefs vanished. This was a case of absent treatment. +I could give you other cases, but I think I have +said enough to prove that Science and Health <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">is not +hard to understand</span></em>, for my work has all been done without +my ever attending class. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +H. H. B., New York City +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A lady, with no other instructor than <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and +Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> has demonstrated +beyond many who have taken numerous lessons. Persuaded, +through her reading, of the allness of God,—and +the perfectness of idea,—she would know nothing +else. A daughter, so badly affected by poison oak (ivy) +that for weeks death was feared from blood-poisoning, +had recovered with a terrible dread of that plant. As +the next season's picnic time drew near, she was regretting +that she dared not go again. The mother, with her +new-born faith in the Science of being, said, <span class="tei tei-q">“Certainly +you can go, for nothing can harm you.”</span> Assured by +these words, the daughter went, and in her rambles fell +into a mass of the dreaded plant; but trusting to the +word of Truth, she thought nothing of it till one who +knew of her previous trouble said, in her mother's presence, +<span class="tei tei-q">“See, her face is showing red already.”</span> But the +mother was prompt in denial and assurance. Next morning, +old symptoms were out in force, but they yielded +at once and finally to the positive and uncompromising +hold on Truth. Another daughter, that was thought +too delicate to raise, from bronchial and nervous troubles, +always dosed with medicine and wrapped in flannels, +now runs free and well without either of these, winter +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page420">[pg 420]</span><a name="Pg420" id="Pg420" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +and summer. The mother was recently attacked by +mesmerism from the church that believed she was influencing +her daughter to leave. She overcame by the +same unwavering trust in God, seeing Truth clearer than +ever before. Her demonstrations come through no form +of treatment, but by letting the Spirit bear witness,—by +the positive recognition and realization of no reality +but ever-present good. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The other night her husband was attacked with an +old belief, similar to one that some time before had ended +in a congestive chill which the doctor thought very serious, +and from which he had been a long time in recovering. +The wife simply recognized no reality in the belief, +and, seeing only perfect being, felt no fear. She did +nothing,—no <span class="tei tei-q">“treating”</span> in the usual sense. There is +nothing to do but to understand that all is harmony, +always. He felt the presence that destroys the sense of +evil, and next morning—there was nothing left to recover +from. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A lady, while doing some starching, thoughtlessly put +her hand into the scalding starch to wring out a collar. +Recalled to mortal sense by the stinging pain, she immediately +realized the all-power of God. At once the pain +began to subside; and as she brushed off the scalding +starch, she could see the blister-swelling go down till +there was but a little redness to show for the accident; +absorbed in her thankfulness, she mechanically wrung +out the collar with the same hand, and with no sense of +pain, thus verifying the demonstration. This woman +(not reading English) only knows Science as she has received +it from her practitioner during the treatments +received within the last month. So much has come to +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page421">[pg 421]</span><a name="Pg421" id="Pg421" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +her from Spirit through her loyalty to Christ, in so far +as she could understand. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A case of ulcerated tooth and neuralgic belief would +only partially yield after repeated treatments, till it was +discovered that the patient was antagonizing Truth by +holding the thought that her old remedy, laudanum, +would give relief; treated from this standpoint, relief was +immediate and final. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +One morning after Rev. —— had been preaching to +thousands for several days, he told them that he had +never felt such a sense of depression nor had so little +showing of results. Some Scientists hearing this, at once +saw his trouble. He had been fearlessly exposing and +denouncing evil; and it had turned on him, till the mesmerism +was likely to overcome him entirely, for he did +not understand the seeming power. The effect of the +silent word to uplift and sustain, was very manifest that +evening in his preaching, and was a beautiful demonstration +of Science. He probably only felt Spirit-inspiration +as he had not before, without a thought as to what +had broken the evil spell; but we never know the what, +or when, or where, of the harvest we can sow—<span class="tei tei-q">“God +giveth the increase.”</span>—E. H. B., Sacramento +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I had two German patients who were anxious to have +you publish <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures”</span> +in their language. I advised them to buy it and +try to read it. They commenced reading, and now can +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page422">[pg 422]</span><a name="Pg422" id="Pg422" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +read all of Science and Health, but do not read well any +other book or paper, and they do not need to. With +great love.—M. H. P. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I sold three copies of <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key +to the Scriptures”</span> to friends, not long ago. One of them, +fifty years of age, said to me, <span class="tei tei-q">“I never had one day's +sickness in my life; but after reading Science and Health +I found that I was bruised and mangled, from the crown +of my head to the soles of my feet. I have been reaching +after something that, before reading Science and +Health, seemed to me unattainable;”</span> and with tears +in her eyes, she rejoiced in the God of her salvation. +Did not Jesus say, <span class="tei tei-q">“If these should hold their peace, the +stones would immediately cry out”</span>? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +P. L., Lexington, Ky. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +For eight years I suffered terribly with my eyes; I +could not read fifteen minutes without the most agonizing +sick headache. Oculists called it a case of double +vision, and said that the only chance for a cure lay in +cutting the muscles of the eyes. This was done, but the +pain was worse than before. One of the most famous +oculists of New York said I would simply have to endure +it for life, as it was a case of severe astigmatism. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I suffered so that my health gave way. A friend spoke +to me of Christian Science, but I scoffed at the idea. +Later on, in desperation, I asked her to lend me <span class="tei tei-q">“Science +and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> thinking I might +be able to read five minutes a day in it. I opened the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page423">[pg 423]</span><a name="Pg423" id="Pg423" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +book at the chapter on Physiology, and began. Time +passed unnoticed: every page seemed illuminated. I +said, <span class="tei tei-q">“This is everything or nothing; if everything, then +you need no glasses.”</span> I took off the heavy ground glasses, +and went on. What a terrible headache I had the next +morning! but I fought it with the truth laid down in the +book. I said again, <span class="tei tei-q">“This is everything or nothing,”</span> +and the truth triumphed. The headache ceased, but I +felt miserably. I recalled what was said about chemicalization, +and persevered. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In four days my eyes were well; I read as many hours +a day as I pleased; my strength returned. I conquered +one belief after another, until now, strong and well, I +meet every belief with confidence. <span class="tei tei-q">“I will fear <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">no</span></em> evil: +for <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">Thou</span></em> art with me.”</span> For two years I have realized +the peace and confidence which the knowledge that God +is all-powerful and always present alone can give. Feeling +a great desire to spread Christian Science, that it +may do the good to others that it has to me, not only +physically but spiritually, I ask if you have any missionaries +in the work. Being a member of the Episcopal +Church, I have always sent what I could to help foreign +missions through that church. Will it do the most good +to continue so doing, as our foreign missionaries are devoted +men, or have you Christian Science missionaries +who devote their lives to the work? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +An answer addressed to me, or published in the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span>, +would help one who is seeking to do right. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Yours sincerely, K. L. T. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I do wish to add my testimony of being healed by +reading <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.”</span> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page424">[pg 424]</span><a name="Pg424" id="Pg424" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +I had been an invalid for over twenty years, +and had given up all hope of ever being well again. I +had read the book about six weeks, when it seemed +I was made all over new, and I could <span class="tei tei-q">“run, and not be +weary; and ... walk, and not faint.”</span> I did not understand +it, but it was the savior from death unto life with +me; I have remained well ever since I was healed,—more +than five years ago. I commenced to treat others +as soon as I was born anew into the kingdom of Truth. +My patients were healed right along, before I had taken +lessons in a class, and they have remained well to this day. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Christian Science has made me as young as a girl of +sixteen. If this should meet the eye of any sufferers +who may be led to go and do as I did, they will be +healed.—N. A. E. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Language is inadequate when bearing grateful testimony +to the book <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the +Scriptures.”</span> By its simple reading, I was healed of ills +which baffled the skill of specialists and all curatives +that love and money could command. After eighteen +years of invalidism, and eight years of scepticism, without +hope, with no God,—except a First Cause,—I was +given up to die. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A loving friend told me of this book, which was soon +brought; and thirty-five pages of the first chapter were +read to me that evening. The next morning I got up, +walked, and read the book for myself. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I mention the chapter, for the reason that nearly two +years have passed since those wonderful words of Life +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page425">[pg 425]</span><a name="Pg425" id="Pg425" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +were first read to me, and <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">still</span></em> their sacred sweetness is +ever the same. Now I exclaim, <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">God is</span></em> All! +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mrs. Mary A. R.</span></span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It is impossible for me to keep still any longer. In +1885, when I had not known a well day in five years, +<span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures”</span> was +placed in my hands by a dear lady who insisted upon +my reading it, saying she believed it would heal me. Like +many, I was afraid of it,—until I learned what it really +was. The friend's words were verified. I <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">was</span></em> healed +by the reading of the book, and for one year continued +to read nothing whatever but the Bible and Science +and Health. They were my constant study. Through the +understanding gained, that <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">God</span></em> is <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">All</span></em>, I came to demonstrate +with great success, and with but one thought,—for +I knew nothing about giving a <span class="tei tei-q">“treatment;”</span> I wish +I knew as little now, for I believe that healing in Christian +Science is to be done in a moment. I became anxious to +learn more, to study with the teacher, but funds would +not allow,—and I thought to substitute a course in +Chicago, perhaps. Every time I would speak of it, however, +my dear mother would say, <span class="tei tei-q">“You have Science and +Health and the Bible, and God for your teacher—what +more do you need? If I could not go to the teacher, I +would not go to any one.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +If I had only heeded the blessed counsel of Truth! +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I went to Chicago, however, so full of confidence in +Christian Science that I supposed every one who had +studied with Mrs. Eddy must be right. Unfortunately, +I took my course with a spiritualist who had been through +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page426">[pg 426]</span><a name="Pg426" id="Pg426" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +two of her classes; discovered my mistake, and went to +a mind-cure,—only to find the mistake repeated. Being +an earnest seeker for Truth, I tried again to go to the +Massachusetts Metaphysical College; but it was uncertain +when there would be a class, so I took a course +with one of Mrs. Eddy's students in Boston. The darkness +now rolled away. Science and Health once more +revealed the light to me as of old. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +All this time, the mind-curers had me in view, and +were sending me reading-matter; but, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">praise the Lord!</span></span> +Truth is victorious. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +My dear brothers and sisters, let us be safely guided +by the counsels of our Mother, in Science and Health! +I, for one, am astounded that I was so led astray; but I +did it all through ignorance,—and the <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">sincere</span></em> desire to +know the truth and to <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">do</span></em> it, saved me. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Your sister in truth, R. D. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I have been reading Science and Health for one year +and a half, and have had some wonderful demonstrations. +People here are antagonistic to the Science, and +tell me that I am a <span class="tei tei-q">“fit subject for the asylum.”</span> Physicians +threaten me with arrest, also, but I walk straight +on, knowing <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">well in whom I trust</span></em>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +E. I. R., Wauseon, Ohio +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A little over two years ago, while living in Pittsburgh, +my wife and I had Christian Science brought to our attention. +We were at once interested, and bought a copy +of <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.”</span> +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page427">[pg 427]</span><a name="Pg427" id="Pg427" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At the time, Mrs. A—— was suffering with severe belief +of astigmatism of the eyes. She had been treated by a +number of specialists, during seven years, the last being +the late Dr. Agnew of New York, who prescribed two +sets of glasses. He said that he could do nothing more +for her, as the trouble was organic; that she must wear +glasses constantly; that if she attempted to go without, +she would become either blind or insane. The glasses +were in operation, and still life had become a burden +from constant pain, when Christian Science came to our +relief. Mrs. A—— had not in years read for two consecutive +minutes, and could not use her eyes in sewing +at all. The lady that told us of the Science, insisted that +she <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">could</span></em> read Science and Health, which she actually +did,—reading it through twice, and studying it carefully +each time. After the second reading, there came the +thought that she did not need the glasses, and she at once +abandoned them, and went about her usual duties. In +about two weeks from that day the eyes were perfectly +healed, and are well and strong to-day. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +E. G. A., New York City +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">My Dear Teacher:</span></span>—Yours without date is at hand. +Could you know out of what depths of material <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">débris</span></span> +the first reading of the first volume of Science and Health, +six years ago last December, lifted me, you would believe +it had always been <span class="tei tei-q">“all I could ask.”</span> It was <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">only</span></em> +words from the pen of <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">uninspired</span></em> writers that gave me +pain. As the revelation of the All-good appeared to +me, all other books, all forms of religion, all methods +of healing, to my sense became void. Chronic beliefs of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page428">[pg 428]</span><a name="Pg428" id="Pg428" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +disease of twenty years' standing, dimness of sight from +the belief of age, all disappeared <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">instantly</span></em>; indeed, +material life seemed a blank. The <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">why?</span></em> I could not +explain, but this I did know, in this realm of the real I +found joy, peace, rest, love to all, unbounded, unspeakable. +Human language had lost its power of expression, +for no words came to me; and in all this six years of bliss +I still have found no words to tell my new-found life in +God. The most chronic forms of disease have sometimes +been healed instantly and without argument. With +great love and gratitude.—M. H. P. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I take great comfort in reading <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health +with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> and will cling firmly to +the light I have, knowing that more will be given me. +While in Salt Lake City, I met at the hotel a lady who +had been an invalid all her life. I talked with her about +Christian Science, and loaned her Science and Health, +together with the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Journals</span></span> I had with me. She had +become very much discouraged, having lost all faith +in doctors and medicine, and did not know where to +turn next. She became very much absorbed in the book, +feeling she had found salvation. She at once laid aside +the glasses she was wearing, and now reads readily without +them. She and her husband have accepted this truth +beautifully.—Mrs. G. A. G., Ogden, Utah +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +On a trip through Mexico I met a woman who told me +that, although she did not believe in Christian Science, +on her way from Wisconsin, her home, she had bought +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page429">[pg 429]</span><a name="Pg429" id="Pg429" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +a copy of Science and Health. When she reached M——, +she met a minister from the North, whom the M. D.'s +had sent there because of consumption,—they had given +him two months to live. She gave him Science and +Health, and while doing so, felt it was all absurd. The +minister read it, and was healed <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">immediately</span></em>. Was not +this a beautiful demonstration of the power of Truth, +and good evidence that Science and Health is the word +of God? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I had while in Mexico a glorious conquest over the +fear of smallpox. There were hundreds of cases in some +small towns where we were. After the fear was cast +out, never a thought of it as real came to me or my husband, +or troubled us in any way. On the street I met +three men who were being taken to the pest-house with +that loathsome disease.—F. W. C. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A lady to whom I sold <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key +to the Scriptures,”</span> writes me: <span class="tei tei-q">“My longing to know +God has been answered in this book; and with the answer +has come the healing.”</span> She is an intimate friend of +Will Carleton, the poet. This is doing much good in +the social circles. He has for a long time been interested, +but his wife has declared it could not heal, and was not +Christian. She will now be obliged to acknowledge this +healing, for the lady above referred to has been, to sense, +a great sufferer.—P. J. L. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Some of the experiences given in the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span> have +been so helpful to me, I have been moved to give to its +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page430">[pg 430]</span><a name="Pg430" id="Pg430" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +readers a little experience of my own, which occurred +when I first began the study of <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with +Key to the Scriptures.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I had already been healed of sick headache, almost +instantly, by declaring that I was God's child, and, as +God is perfect, His child must be perfect also. This had +given me great happiness, and a quiet, peaceful state of +mind I never had known before. My family did not +seem to see anything good in Christian Science, but to +me it was sacred. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +One Monday morning, I awoke feeling very ill indeed. +The morning was warm and sultry. I thought I certainly +could not wash that day; but when I went downstairs, +I found my daughter had made preparations for +such work. I thought, <span class="tei tei-q">“Well, if she feels like washing, +I will not say anything; perhaps I shall get over this.”</span> +After breakfast I went about my work, thinking I could +lean against the tub and wash with more ease than I +could do up the morning work. I tried to treat myself +as I had done before,—tried to realize that <span class="tei tei-q">“all is Mind, +there is no matter;”</span> that <span class="tei tei-q">“God is All, there is nothing +beside Him,”</span> but all to no purpose. I seemed to grow +worse all the time. I did not want my family to know +how badly I was feeling, and it was very humiliating to +think that I must give up and go to bed. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +All at once these questions came to me, as though +spoken by some one, taking me away from my line of +thought entirely: How is God an ever-present help? +How does He know our earnest desires? Then, without +waiting for me to think how, the answer came in +the same way, God is conscious Mind. Instantly the +thoughts came: Is God conscious of me? Can I be +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page431">[pg 431]</span><a name="Pg431" id="Pg431" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +conscious of Him? I was healed instantly: every bad +feeling was destroyed. I could see that the morning +had not changed a particle, but I was oblivious of the +weather. It did not seem that I had anything more to +do with that washing. It was finished in good season, +while I was <span class="tei tei-q">“absent from the body, and present with the +Lord.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +That was the beginning of the battle with sin and +self, but at the same time it was the dawning of the resurrection. +Since then (over four years) I have had many +experiences, some of which seem too sacred to give to the +world. False literature has caused me much suffering; +sorrow has visited my home; but, through all this, the +light that came to me on that Monday morning—that +new and precious sense of omnipresent Life, Truth, +and Love—has never left me one moment. It was the +light that cannot be hid. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mrs.</span></span> H. B. J., Cambridge, Ill. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Healing +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Four years ago I learned for the first time that there +was a way to be healed through Christ. I had always +been sick, but found no relief in drugs; still, I thought +that if the Bible was true, God could heal me. So, when +my attention was called to Christian Science, I at once +bought <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> +studied it, and began to improve in health. I seemed +to see God so near and so dear,—so different from +the God I had been taught to fear. I studied alone night +and day, until I found I was healed, both physically and +mentally. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page432">[pg 432]</span><a name="Pg432" id="Pg432" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Then came a desire to tell every one of this wonderful +truth. I expected all to feel just as pleased as +I did; but to my sorrow none would believe. Some, +it is true, took treatment and were helped, but went +on in the old way, without a word of thanks. But still +I could not give up. I seemed to know that this was +the way, and I had rather live it alone than to follow +the crowd the other way. But as time passed, I had +some good demonstrations of this Love that is our +Life. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I am the only Scientist in Le Roy, as yet, but the good +seed has been sown, and where the people once scoffed +at this <span class="tei tei-q">“silly new idea,”</span> they are becoming interested, +and many have been healed, and some are asking about +it. One dear old lady and I study the Bible Lessons +every Tuesday afternoon. She came to call, and as we +talked, she told me of her sickness of years' standing; +and was healed during our talk, so that she has never felt +a touch of the old trouble since. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +One lady, whom I had never seen, was healed of consumption +in six weeks' treatment. She had not left +her bed in four months, and had been given up by many +physicians. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mrs. Florence Williams</span></span>, Le Roy, Mich. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I like the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span> and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Quarterly</span></span>, and have +many of Rev. Mary B. G. Eddy's works, which make my little +world. I have a great desire to learn more of this Love +that casts out all fear, and to work in this Science. It is +the greatest pleasure I have, to talk this truth, as far as +I understand it, to any who will listen; and am waiting +for others to learn of this blessed Science. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page433">[pg 433]</span><a name="Pg433" id="Pg433" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I give my experience in reading <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health +with Key to the Scriptures”</span> aloud to a little child. A +letter published in the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span>, written by a lady who +had relieved a two-year-old child by reading to her, first +suggested this course to me. At the time, my little one +was a trifle over a year old. I was trying to overcome +for him a claim which, though not one of serious illness, +was no small trial to me, because of its frequent occurrence +and its seeming ability to baffle my efforts. One +day as I sat near and treated him, it occurred to me to +read aloud. I took up one of the older editions of Science +and Health lying near, began at the words, <span class="tei tei-q">“Brains +can give no idea of God's man,”</span> and read on for two +or three paragraphs, endeavoring—as the writer suggested—to +understand it myself; yet thinking, perchance, +the purer thought of the babe might grasp the underlying +meaning sooner than I. So it proved. Before the disturbance +felt by me had been calmed, the weary expression +on the face of the child was replaced by one of evident +relief. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When putting him to sleep, I had often repeated the +spiritual interpretation of the Lord's Prayer. One night +he was very restless, fretful, and cried a great deal, +while I seemed unable to soothe him. At last I perceived +that he was asking for something, and it dawned +upon me that the Prayer might be his desire. I began +repeating it aloud, endeavoring to <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">mean</span></em> it also. He +turned over quietly, and in a few minutes was sweetly +sleeping. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The last time my attention was specially called to +this subject, was about a year after the first experience. +Various hindrances had been allowed to keep me from +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page434">[pg 434]</span><a name="Pg434" id="Pg434" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +Science and Health all day; and it was toward evening +when I recognized that material sense had been +given predominance, and must be put down. I soon felt +drawn to read the book. The little boy had seemed +restless and somewhat disturbed all day; but without +thinking specially of him, rather to assist in holding my +own thought, I began to read aloud, <span class="tei tei-q">“Consciousness +constructs a better body, when it has conquered our +fear of matter.”</span> In a minute or two a little hand had +touched mine, and I looked down into a sweet face fairly +radiant with smiles. I read it over. The child was evidently +delighted, and was restful and happy all the rest +of the day.—A. H. W., Deland, Florida +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A week ago a friend wrote to me on business, and in +the letter stated that his wife had been very ill for six +weeks. At once the thought came, <span class="tei tei-q">“Tell her to read the +chapter on Healing, in Science and Health.”</span> In my +answer to his letter I obeyed the thought. A few days +after, I had occasion to call; found her much better, and +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">reading</span></em> Science and Health. They had done as directed, +and had received the promise.—R., New York +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The first allusion to Christian Science reached me in +an article I read on that subject. Later, a friend came +to visit me, bringing a copy of <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with +Key to the Scriptures,”</span> For two weeks I read it eagerly; +then I sent for a copy for myself. When it came, I +began to study it. The Bible, of which I had had but +a dim understanding, began to grow clearer. The light +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page435">[pg 435]</span><a name="Pg435" id="Pg435" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +grew brighter each day. Finally, I began to treat myself +against ills that had bound me for twenty-eight +years. At the end of six weeks I was <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">healed</span></em>, much to the +amazement of all who knew me. From that time, my +desire was to help others out of their suffering, and to +talk this wonderful truth. After a while I took the class +lectures, and am doing what I can to spread this healing +gospel.—A. M. G. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Rev. Mary B. G. Eddy +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">My Dear Leader:</span></span>—I will try to tell you how I was +led to Christian Science. Heretofore I have not tried to +lead a Christian life, but have always firmly believed +that if one truly desired and needed help, he would get +it from God by asking for it. I suffered, as I think but +very few have, for fourteen years; yet I did not think it +sufficient to warrant me in asking God to help me, until +I gave up all hope elsewhere,—and this occurred in the +spring of 1891. I then thought that the time had come +to commit myself to God. Being at home alone, after +going to bed I prayed God to deliver me from my torments, +this sentence being the substance of my prayer, +<span class="tei tei-q">“What shall I do to be saved?”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I repeated that sentence, I suppose, until I fell asleep. +About twelve o'clock at night, I saw a vision in the form +of a man with wings, standing at the foot of my bed,—wings +partly spread,—one arm hanging loosely at his +side, and one extended above his head. At the same +time there was a bright light shining in my room, which +made all objects shine like fire. I knew where I was, +and was not afraid. The vision (for such it was), after +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page436">[pg 436]</span><a name="Pg436" id="Pg436" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +looking directly at me for some time, spoke this one sentence, +and then disappeared: <span class="tei tei-q">“Do right, and thou shalt +be saved.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I immediately tried to live according to that precept, +and found relief in proportion to my understanding. +I soon after learned of Christian Science. One of my +brothers in Kansas, having been healed by it, persuaded +me to buy <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> +wherein I learned that the above precept was the +key to Christian Science; that it is Christian Science to +do right, and that nothing short of right living has any +claim to the name. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I have been learning my way in Christian Science +about one year, and have been successful in healing. I +have all of your books, and am a subscriber for the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span> +and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Quarterly Bible Lessons</span></span>. Some of the cases +I have treated have yielded almost instantly. I am a +stranger to you, but I have told you the truth, just as it +occurred. Yours in truth, +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Sam Schroyer</span></span>, Oklahoma City, Okla. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I desire to make known the great good I have received +by reading the blessed book <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health +with Key to the Scriptures.”</span> Four years have now +passed since I began to read it. It has been my only +healer and teacher, as I never have had an opportunity +to go through a class; but I find that the <span class="tei tei-q">“Spirit of truth”</span> +will teach us all things if we will but practise well what +we know. After two years and a half of study, I thought, +as many beginners think, that I had travelled over the +worst part of this narrow path. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page437">[pg 437]</span><a name="Pg437" id="Pg437" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Soon after, it came about that I was separated from +every one who had ever heard of Christian Science; and, +as I lived in the country, no one came to visit me for +about eight months. At first, I thought the Lord had +wrought a great evil. I had no one to talk to, but would +take my Science and Health every morning, before going +about my work, and read; yet mortal mind would +say, <span class="tei tei-q">“You can do no good, with no one to talk with.”</span> +At last, one morning after listening to the serpent's voice, +I looked out at the little wild flowers as they waved to +and fro; they seemed to be a living voice, and this is what +they said: <span class="tei tei-q">“On earth peace, good will toward men.”</span> +There was also a mocking-bird that would sit on the +house and sing. For the first time, I realized that divine +Love was the only friend I needed. Soon after, I sent +the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span> to my nearest neighbor, by her little son +who came to play with my children. Afterward she +told me that when she began to read it she said to the +family, <span class="tei tei-q">“God has sent this book to me.”</span> Calling to see +her one evening, I found her suffering from heart disease. +I began talking to her about Christian Science, +and in less than an hour she declared herself healed. +She is to-day a happy woman. I would say to all suffering +ones, that if you will buy a copy of this wonderful +book, <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> +by the Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, and study it, and +practise its teachings, you will find it a pearl of great +price. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mrs. Fannie Meeks</span></span>, Bells, Grayson Co., Texas +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +On my arrival in New York, last July, my brother +spoke to me of <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page438">[pg 438]</span><a name="Pg438" id="Pg438" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +Scriptures;”</span> and, coming in contact with a number of +Scientists, all wishing me to procure the book, I did so. +I read it through in the same manner in which I would +read any other book, to find out the contents. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Before I got to the end, having partly understood its +meaning, I began to demonstrate over old physical troubles, +and they disappeared. A belt that I had worn for +over twelve years, I took off, and threw overboard (being +a seafaring man). +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Up to that time I had been a constant smoker, and +chewed tobacco; but I gradually lost all pleasure in it, +and now look upon it with disgust. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I was brought up in the Lutheran doctrine, and when +a boy received a good knowledge of Scripture; but I +never understood it until explained to me in Science and +Health. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">H. F. Witkov</span></span>,<br /> +27 Needham Road, Liverpool, England +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In a letter received a few days ago from one of my +absent patients, there was such a glorious testimonial +for Science and Health that I feel as if I ought to send +it in for the pages of our <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span>, trusting it may be the +means of helping many others to turn for help and comfort, +in every emergency, to this book. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In her letter, this lady says: <span class="tei tei-q">“A few days since, I had +quite a serious claim attack me. I left my mending, took +Science and Health and read all the afternoon and evening; +when all trace of the claim was gone, and I have +felt nothing of it since.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When this dear woman applied to Truth, she was a +great sufferer. Her gratitude knows no bounds. Many +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page439">[pg 439]</span><a name="Pg439" id="Pg439" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +chronic ailments, which have bound her with heavy +chains for many years, are being removed one by one. +It is such a sweet privilege to lead her out of this bondage +of flesh, for she turns with such childlike trust and +obedience to the book, and looks to that for aid in every +trial and affliction. It is beautiful to see, and is a rebuke +to some of us older in the thought, who depend so much +on personality. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +She is far away, in a little country town where Science +has hardly been heard of; but she is so happy with her +book that she has no desire for other reading. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I have always tried to show her that God was with her +there as well as with us here; that in Him she possesses +all; and that with her Bible and Science and Health no +harm can befall her, for the remedy for every ill she has +at hand.—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mrs. C. H. S.</span></span>, Woburn, Mass. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I have been an interested reader of the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span> for +some time, and thought I would contribute my mite by +giving one of my latest demonstrations in Christian +Science. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +An accident occurred as follows: Officers, while hunting +for a criminal in thick underbrush, fired upon each +other through mistake, and it was found that one was +shot six times; two of the bullets passing through the +abdomen, and one through the hips. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Two physicians who examined him had no hope. He +asked me to help him. I took the case. Relief came +almost instantly. I treated him for eight days; the +fifth, I heard one of three physicians, who held a private +consultation over my patient, ask him this question: +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page440">[pg 440]</span><a name="Pg440" id="Pg440" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Mr. F——, have you not got one bit of pain?”</span> I was +rewarded by hearing him answer, <span class="tei tei-q">“No, sir; not the least +bit.”</span> No one else seemed to have any hope for him; but +I held firmly to the thought that God is an ever-present +help, never doubting, and Christian Science has again +won a victory. Many people call it a miracle, and it +has set them to thinking. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The harvest is now ripe and ready for the reaper. I +wish some good Christian Science teacher would come +and help us. I can help in my own way, but am not +advanced enough to lead and teach others. I have only +studied Science and Health a little over a year, and have +not been through a class yet. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">S. G. Schroyer</span></span>, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I became interested in Christian Science through being +healed. I had no faith in doctors, therefore would +not consult any; but felt that something must be done, +or I would soon follow a brother and sister who had +passed on with the same claim. In my extremity I thought +of the <span class="tei tei-q">“great Physician,”</span> and took my case to Him, and +realized that He alone could help me. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A relative, finding I would not consult a doctor or +take any drug, gave me <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key +to the Scriptures”</span> to read; saying that, although a dear +friend thought she was greatly helped by a Christian +Scientist, he himself had no faith in that kind of treatment, +and had no use for the book. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I had heard of the people called Christian Scientists, +and of their textbook, Science and Health, but knew +nothing about either; yet I wanted to know, and took +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page441">[pg 441]</span><a name="Pg441" id="Pg441" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +the book gladly, and was soon deeply interested in it. +It was a revelation to me. Although I could only understand +it in part, I knew it was the truth, and the truth +was making me free. I felt that I had been bound and +in prison; and that now, one after another, the bonds +were being broken, and I was lifted into the pure air +and light of heaven. I was healed before I had read +half-way through the precious volume; for I was obliged +to read slowly, and some passages over and over again. +When I came to page 304, line 10 (47th edition), I then +and there felt that I must add my testimony, though +already there were "heaps upon heaps;" but since then, +I have tried to put the thought of those dark days away +from me, and only refer to them now in the hope that +some one who is bound may be released and brought +into the light of divine Love, which alone can heal, and +make us <span class="tei tei-q">“every whit whole.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +L. M. C., Brooklyn, N.Y. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I have been thinking for a long time that I would give +my experience in coming out of sickness into the knowledge +of health by reading <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key +to the Scriptures.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I was sixty years old (as we mortals count time) before +I ever read one word of Christian Science. On July +2, 1890, I met a Scientist who gave me a pamphlet called +<span class="tei tei-q">“Christian Healing,”</span> by the Rev. Mary B. G. Eddy. +At that time I was almost helpless. This lady advised +me to buy Science and Health. I did so, and tried to +read it; but my hands were so lame I could not hold it, +and I let it fall to the floor so often that it became unbound, +and I laid it away and resumed my medicine. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page442">[pg 442]</span><a name="Pg442" id="Pg442" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The following May, the Scientist visited in this city +again. She advised me to burn all my medicines and to +lean unreservedly on the promises of God. I took her +advice; had my book rebound in three volumes, so I +could hold it more easily, and now read it constantly, +reading nothing else. Sometimes I would suffer intensely, +then I would get a little better; then more suffering, and +so on, until August, 1891, when all pain left me. I have +had no return of it, and no disagreeable sensations of any +kind, and am perfectly well in all respects. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Surely, if we will but trust our heavenly Father, He is +sufficient for us. I hope some one of, or near, my age, +who is afflicted, may read this and take courage; for I +have <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">demonstrated</span></em> the fact that, by reading Science and +Health, in connection with the Bible, and trying to follow +the teaching therein, one in the autumn of life may be +made over new. I am so thankful to God for my great +recovery! +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +That remark of Sojourner Truth helps me to a better +understanding of Life in God: <span class="tei tei-q">“God is the great house +that holds all His children; we dwell in Him as the fishes +dwell in the seas.”</span>—P. T. P. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Until about one year ago, I had no thought of investigating +Christian Science. Previous to that time it had +been presented to me in such a way that I condemned it +as unreasonable and absurd. At that time it was presented +to me in a more reasonable light. I determined +to divest myself of prejudice (as far as was possible) +and investigate it, thinking that if there was anything +in it, it was for me as well as others; that I surely needed +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page443">[pg 443]</span><a name="Pg443" id="Pg443" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +it, and if I found no good in it, I could then with some +show of reason condemn it. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I had been reading Science and Health about two +weeks, when one morning I wanted my cane. It had +been misplaced; and while looking for it the thought +came to me, If all is Mind, I need no cane. I went out +without it, have not used it at all since, and do not need +it as a support; but for a time I did miss it from my +hand. I had used it for years as a support to a very +lame back. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I before went much stooped, because it pained me to +straighten up; but from the time I laid my cane aside I +straightened up, free from pain. Occasionally I have a +slight pain in my back, but it is nothing to compare with +what it had been. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In a short time after laying my cane aside, my pipe +and tobacco went out into the street and have not returned. +I had smoked for sixty-five years, and chewed +for fifty. I have no desire for either of them; in fact, +the smoke is offensive to me. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Many times before I had tried to quit, but the desire +for it was so strong that I would go back to it; and when +I tried to <span class="tei tei-q">“taper off,”</span> I would make the taper end the +longest. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Many other physical claims have disappeared, and it +is a common thing for acquaintances to say when they +meet me, <span class="tei tei-q">“You look better than I have seen you for +years; what have you been doing?”</span> My reply is, I not +only look better, but feel better, and am better; and +Christian Science has done it. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +With all this, I seem to have very little spiritual understanding +of the truth; am endeavoring to get more, but +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page444">[pg 444]</span><a name="Pg444" id="Pg444" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +it seems slow. If there is a shorter road to it than I have +found, I should like to be directed to it. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +J. S. M., Joplin, Mo. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Four years ago I was healed by reading <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and +Health with Key to the Scriptures.”</span> The third day, +one of my worst claims gave way. The book was full of +light, and disease vanished as naturally as darkness gives +place to light, although it was about six months before +I was entirely healed. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Seeing this truth in its purity, showed me where to +take my stand; and in defending it I have the prince of +this world to meet. Mortal mind has even called me +crazy; but what a blessing to know the nothingness of +that mind, and that divine Principle governs all its ideas, +and will place each where it belongs! +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +If our Master was persecuted, can his servants hope to +escape? I know in some degree what Paul meant when +he said he rejoiced in tribulations, <span class="tei tei-q">“for when I am weak, +then am I strong.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Many claims that have baffled the skill of the physicians +have disappeared through my understanding of +Truth. What a blessing that we can break the bread of +Life to others, and so add to our crown of rejoicing! +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +S. E. R., Kansas City, Mo. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A dear little six-year old boy of my acquaintance was +invited by his teacher, with the rest of his class in kindergarten +school, to attend a picnic one afternoon. He did +not feel that he wanted to go; seemed dumpish, and +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page445">[pg 445]</span><a name="Pg445" id="Pg445" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +according to mortal belief was not well; at noon, he said +he wanted to go to sleep. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +His mother took him in her lap and began to read to +him from <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.”</span> +Very soon he expressed a wish to go to the +picnic, and did go. His father, happening to pass the +place where the little ones were spending the afternoon, +and somewhat surprised to see him playing, as happy +and active as any there, called to him and asked, <span class="tei tei-q">“How +long did you sleep?”</span> The little fellow replied, <span class="tei tei-q">“I did +not sleep at all; mamma read to me from Science and +Health, and I was well in a minute.”</span>—K. L. H. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +One evening I was calling on a neighbor, and somehow +the subject of Christian Science came up. I asked +her what it was, and what they believed. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +She then told me of a friend of hers who had become +a Christian Scientist. This friend had passed through +great sorrow and disappointment; her health had failed +her, and her cheerful disposition had entirely changed; +she could talk of nothing but her troubles, and was a +most unhappy woman. A few years ago she visited my +neighbor, who, greatly surprised at her changed appearance,—for +she was happy and well,—asked where her +troubles were. The reply was, <span class="tei tei-q">“I have no troubles. I +have found true happiness; for I have become a Christian +Scientist.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I became deeply interested, and asked if the students +in Clinton had public meetings on Sundays. She replied +that they had, and told me where they were. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The next Sunday, I went. All was quiet when I entered, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page446">[pg 446]</span><a name="Pg446" id="Pg446" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +for they were engaged in silent prayer. Soon they +repeated the spiritual interpretation of the Lord's Prayer. +I shall never forget the impression that made on me; all +the next week I heard the leader's voice repeating the +first sentence. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I was invited to come again, and did so. One of the +ladies loaned me <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the +Scriptures,”</span> and offered to get me one; which she did +the next week. I have studied it in connection with the +Bible. I have greatly improved in health, having had +only one attack of a physical trouble which caused great +suffering, since that time, and that was a year ago. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At first, I did not think anything about being healed, +or of my physical infirmity. I only loved the sacred teaching. +How true, that God's word does not return unto +Him void! The words of truth that my neighbor's +friend spoke to her, were what first awakened me. If +the one who first hears it does not receive it, it goes to +some one who is ready, and it takes root and bears fruit. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mrs. G. H. I.</span></span>, Clinton, N.Y. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +About three years ago I was near death's door with +various troubles; also, was seventy years old. I had a +desire to know something of Christian Science. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I procured the textbook, and studied it with a desire +to know the truth. At first all was dark; but light began +slowly to come, and at the end of three months I found +my physical claims all gone and my eyesight restored. +At the end of three months more, I had gained thirty-five +pounds in weight. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I had been an infidel, and the change from that came +more slowly; but now I know that my Redeemer lives, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page447">[pg 447]</span><a name="Pg447" id="Pg447" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +and I am able by divine grace to make very convincing +demonstrations.—J. S., Rudd, Iowa +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +For a long time I have felt that I must in some way +express my great debt of gratitude for Christian Science. +I know no better way to do so than to give an account, +through the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span>, of some of the many blessings I +have received as a result of our Leader's untiring toil +and self-sacrificing love for suffering mortals, in giving +to us the wonderful book, <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with +Key to the Scriptures.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When I first heard of Christian Science, about six +years ago, I was satisfied that it was the religion of Christ +Jesus, because Jesus had so plainly said, <span class="tei tei-q">“And these +signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall +they cast out devils;... they shall lay hands on the +sick, and they shall recover.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I had been a church-member since my girlhood, but +was not satisfied that my belief would take me to +heaven, as I did not have these <span class="tei tei-q">“signs following”</span>—and +this had always troubled me; so, when I heard that an +old acquaintance living at a distance had not only been +raised from a dying condition to health, but her life had +been changed and purified through Christian Science, I +could hardly wait to know more of this Christlike religion +which was casting out evils and healing the sick. I +searched every bookstore in the city for Science and +Health, at last found a copy, and was delighted to get hold +of it, but little realized what a treasure it was to be to me +and my household. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +At first it was like Greek to me, and I could not understand +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page448">[pg 448]</span><a name="Pg448" id="Pg448" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +much of it, but gleaned enough to keep on +reading, and longed for some one to talk to me of it. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +After I had been reading it about a year's time, I +suddenly became almost blind. I knew no Scientist to go +to, so went to physicians; they told me that my case was +hopeless, that it was certain my sight never could be +restored, and the probabilities were that I would soon be +totally blind. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I felt sure that Christian Science would help me if I +could only fully understand it; but there was no one +from whom I could ask help, that I knew of. I gave all +the time that I could use my eyes to studying Science +and Health,—which at first was not more than five +minutes two, and sometimes three, times a day; gradually +my sight returned, until it was fully restored. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +During this time God and the <span class="tei tei-q">“little book”</span> were my +only help. My understanding was very limited; but like +the prodigal son, I had turned away from the husks, +towards my Father's house, and while I <span class="tei tei-q">“was yet a great +way off”</span> my Father came to meet me. When this great +cloud of darkness was banished by the light of Truth, +could I doubt that Christian Science was indeed the +<span class="tei tei-q">“Comforter”</span> that would lead us <span class="tei tei-q">“into all truth”</span>? +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Again I lay at the point of death; but holding steadfastly +to the truth, knowing, from the teaching of this +precious book, that God is Life and there is no death, I +was raised up to health,—restored to my husband and +little children, all of whom I am thankful to say are now +with me in Science. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I had no one to talk with on this subject, knew no one +of whose understanding I felt sure enough to ask for +help; but I was careful from the first not to read or +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page449">[pg 449]</span><a name="Pg449" id="Pg449" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +inquire into anything except genuine Christian Science, +and how thankful I am for it! Since then, I have been +through a class. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I cannot express in words what Christian Science has +done for my children, or my gratitude that the light of +Truth has come to them in their innocent childhood,—healing +all claims of sickness, and showing us how to overcome +the more stubborn claims of sin.—L. F. B. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It is a little over one year since a very esteemed friend, +of this city, invited me to partake of the heavenly manna +contained in the revelation of <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with +Key to the Scriptures.”</span> I had, up to that time, been +for fifteen years a victim of hip-joint disease; this eventually +confining me to my bed, where I had been ten +months when the <span class="tei tei-q">“book of prophecy”</span> was opened for +me. I was not long in finding the light I needed,—that +gave <span class="tei tei-q">“feet to the lame,”</span> enabling me now to go, move, +and walk, where I will, without crutch or support of any +description, save the staff of divine Science. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In proportion as my thoughts are occupied with the +work in Science, does the peace and joy come inwardly +that transforms the blight of error externally. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +T. G. K, Tacoma, Wash. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I wish to acknowledge the blessings which Christian +Science has brought to me through reading <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and +Health with Key to the Scriptures.”</span> My first demonstration +was over the tobacco habit; I had smoked for +at least fifteen years: I have now no desire for tobacco. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page450">[pg 450]</span><a name="Pg450" id="Pg450" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I was then healed of two claims which had bound me +for ten years. My prayer is that I may be so filled with the +truth that I can carry the message to my brother man. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +F. W. K, Angelica, N.Y. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I take advantage of the great privilege granted us, +to give my testimony for Christian Science through the +pages of our much loved <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Journal</span></span>. The blessing has +been so bountiful that words can but poorly express my +gratitude. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +A little over six years ago, a relative came from Denver, +Colorado, to visit us. She was a Christian Scientist, +having herself been healed of a severe claim that M. D.'s, +drugs, and climate could not relieve; and her husband +having been in the drug business, she had had a chance +to give them a fair trial. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +My sister-in-law did not talk much on the subject, as +I remember; but what was better, lived the truth before +us as she realized it. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +One day (a blessed day to me), I ventured to open +Science and Health, and read the first sentence in the +Preface. I closed the book, wondering what more it could +contain, this seeming to cover the whole ground. When +my sister-in-law returned to the room, I asked her if I +might read it. Her reply was, <span class="tei tei-q">“Yes; but begin at the +first.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +That night, after all had retired, I began to read; +within forty-eight hours I destroyed all drugs, applications, +etc., notwithstanding the fact that my husband +had just paid fifty dollars to a travelling specialist for +part of a treatment. With the drugs disappeared ailments +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page451">[pg 451]</span><a name="Pg451" id="Pg451" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +of nine years' standing, which M. D.'s had failed +to relieve. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I now understand that my sudden healing was due to +my turning completely away from material methods; +for I was convinced I should never use them again. I +realized that God was my health, my strength, my Life, +therefore All. As I read Science and Health, I wondered +why others had not discerned this truth,—physicians, +ministers, and others who had devoted their lives +to benefit mankind. Yes! why? Because they had +been seeking in the opposite direction to Truth, namely, +for cause and effect in matter, when all cause and effect +are mental. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I mention physicians and ministers, because one class +claims to heal disease, the other claims to heal sin; but +Christian Science heals physically and morally,—it contains +all; <span class="tei tei-q">“its leaves are for the healing of the nations.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +L. B. A., Memphis, Tenn. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I was for years a great sufferer. I called doctor after +doctor, getting no help. The last one, after treating me +for one year, told me he would give me one year more +to live. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +One evening a near neighbor came in and asked me +to go home with her; and as it was only a few steps, I +did so. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +She took up a new book, Science and Health, read me +a few chapters, and then gave me some Christian Science +tracts, which I read, and one of them I almost committed +to memory. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I bought a copy of <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page452">[pg 452]</span><a name="Pg452" id="Pg452" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +the Scriptures,”</span> and studied it carefully. I am healed +of all those claims which troubled me so long. I was +lifted out of darkness into light. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +M. J. P., Burns, Oregon +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Chicago, March 19, 1894 +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Rev. Mary B. G. Eddy, Boston, Mass.:</span></span>—I wish to +thank you for the true light that was revealed to me by +reading your book, <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the +Scriptures,”</span> and at once adopting its teaching. It was +one year ago to-day that I put on the armor, determined +never to surrender to the enemy; and you may know I +have looked forward to this day with a great deal of +pleasure, to show my friends that the Lord is constantly +with me to help overcome all evil. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Some said, when I first started in this new path, <span class="tei tei-q">“Wait +until you get one of your stomach attacks, and you will +change your mind.”</span> For months they have waited, and +are beginning to see the truth in my actions, that speak +for themselves, and show that all is <em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">Mind</span></em>. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +For nearly thirty years I had been a sufferer from +throat and stomach troubles; bronchitis, dyspepsia, gastralgia, +and gastritis, etc., were the terms applied by +my physicians. About eighteen years of that time I was +engaged in the drug business, had constant opportunities +for consulting the best physicians, and took such medicine +as I felt assured would cure me; but only to be disappointed +each time. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The last few years I had been living on oatmeal crackers +and hot water; suffering more or less all the time, and +could not eat anything else without suffering intense +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page453">[pg 453]</span><a name="Pg453" id="Pg453" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +pain. I felt as though I could not live many months +more, and was getting ready to give up the fight +when a dear friend and neighbor, Mrs. Corning, left +a copy of Science and Health at our home. At first I +did not care to read it; having been educated, for many +years, in the belief that medicine can cure all diseases, I +could not conceive of anything else to cure the sick. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +One Sunday I had the curiosity to know something +about this Christian Science, and read Science and Health. +The more I read, the more interested I became, and +finally said to myself, <span class="tei tei-q">“I will try it.”</span> I took a large +porous plaster and four thicknesses of flannel off my +stomach, and threw them in the corner, saying, <span class="tei tei-q">“Now +it shall be Mind over matter; no more matter over Mind.”</span> +I filled a large basket full of bottles containing medicine, +and put it in the shed (where all medicine should be). +From that day I have eaten of everything on the table, +and all I wished. Coffee was my worst enemy, and I +had not tasted it for years without suffering untold agony. +Several days passed before I cared to drink it; then, one +morning, I told my family I would commence to use it; +I did, and have used it every day since, and don't know +that I have a stomach, as it never has caused me any +trouble since that morning. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I am happy to say I have not used a drop of any kind +of medicine, internally or externally, from that day, and +<em class="tei tei-emph"><span style="font-style: italic">I know that all is Mind</span></em>. I read the Bible and Science +and Health nearly every day, thanking the Lord for the +years of suffering which have led me to the truth as taught +by our Saviour; for I feel it was only through its victory +over the suffering that the truth could have been revealed +in my case. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page454">[pg 454]</span><a name="Pg454" id="Pg454" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I have had some demonstrations to make over error, +but each time it becomes easier. God is ever present +and ready to help me, and I trust in Him; my faith is +planted on a rock that is immovable. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Yours truly, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Frank S. Eberhart</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +P. S. If you think this letter, or any part of it, will +help some one out of darkness into the light of Truth, you +are at liberty to have it published. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Having so many occupations and interruptions, I have +not found time to read <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to +the Scriptures”</span> sufficiently, but will not on that account +delay thanking you for its excellence. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Henry W. Longfellow</span></span>, Cambridge, Mass. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I am an old-school practitioner; have served as surgeon +in two European wars; practised medicine for about +ten years in New York city and Brooklyn, until my health +compelled me to relinquish my profession. I became +a victim of the morphia habit, taking daily thirty grains +of that drug. My physicians declared me consumptive, +and abandoned all hopes of recovery. Shortly after +this I made the acquaintance of a student of the author +of <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> +who presented me with her works; and as drugs did me +no good, I stopped taking any whatever, save morphia, +without which I thought it impossible to get along, and +to my astonishment began to gain in flesh, and my ambition +returning in proportion. I finally felt that I would +stop my loathsome habit of morphia-eating, and did so +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page455">[pg 455]</span><a name="Pg455" id="Pg455" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +in one week, without any discomfort worth mentioning. +For a test I administered one fourth of a grain of morphia +to the aforesaid Scientist, hypodermically, without the +slightest physiological effect, clearly proving the existence +of metaphysical laws. I have read Science and Health +carefully, and consider my present improved health solely +due to mental influence. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Otto Anderson</span></span>, M.D., Cincinnati, Ohio +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The profound truths which you announce, sustained +by facts of the immortal life, give to your work the seal +of inspiration—reaffirm in modern phrase the Christian +revelations. In times like these, so sunk in sensualism, +I hail with joy your voice, speaking an assured word for +God and immortality, and my joy is heightened that these +words are of woman's divinings. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">A. Bronson Alcott</span></span>, Concord, Mass. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I was sick six years; tried many physicians and remedies, +but received no lasting benefit from any of them, +and concluded I must remain sick the rest of my life. +In this condition, I purchased the book <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and +Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> read it, was deeply +interested, and noticed that my health began to improve; +and the more I read the book, the better I became in +health. This I can say truly: it did more for my health +than all the physicians and remedies that I had ever +tried.—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Dr. S. G. Todd</span></span>, 11 School St., Newburyport +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I had been a nervous sufferer for nine years; had a +belief of incurable disease of the heart, and was subject +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page456">[pg 456]</span><a name="Pg456" id="Pg456" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +to severe nervous prostration if I became the least weary. +I was told that if I should read your books they would +cure me. I commenced reading them: in ten days I was +surprised to find myself overcoming my nervous spasms +without the aid of medicine; and ever since then I have +been improving, and I now can walk twenty miles without +fatigue, and have been able to rise above all ailments. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Mrs. Julia A. B. Davis</span></span>,<br /> +Central Village, Westport, Mass. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I would inform my friends and the public, that after +twelve years of sickness I am restored to health; and, +with renewed vigor and keen enjoyment, take up the +pleasures and duties of life once more; all labor now +seems less arduous, and all happiness more perfect. To +Christian Science, as taught in <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with +Key to the Scriptures,”</span> I am indebted for my restoration. +I can cordially recommend this book to all. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Rose A. Wigglesworth</span></span>, Lowell, Mass. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +When I commenced reading <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with +Key to the Scriptures,”</span> I could sit up but a very short +time, and could not eat the most simple food without +great distress. In a few days there was a great change, +and I have been growing better ever since. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">E. D. Richardson</span></span>, Merrimac, Mass. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I have not been as well for years as I have been since +reading <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> +all of which I impute to its teaching. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">(Mrs.) Mary A. Williams</span></span>, Freeport, Ill. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page457">[pg 457]</span><a name="Pg457" id="Pg457" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Had been in ill-health for several years; had been +confined to my bed three months, when I got your book +and read it. At first I was unable to read it myself, and +others read it to me, and the truth revealed in your book +restored me to health. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">(Col.) E. J. Smith</span></span>, Washington, D.C. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I have been perusing with great interest your work +on metaphysical Science, for the last four months, and +to great advantage; you make the path to health so plain, +that a wayfaring man, though a fool, cannot err therein. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">R. I. Barker</span></span>, Bethel, Me. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures”</span> <span class="tei tei-q">“is +a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path;”</span> your +missiles of Mind have battered down the illusions of sense, +allowing Life to appear an eternal monument, whose +spirited hieroglyphics, Truth and Love, unlike those cut +in marble, shall grow more luminous to consciousness as +sickness, sin and death fade out of belief. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Arthur T. Buswell</span></span>,<br /> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Office of Associated Charities</span></span>, Cincinnati, O. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures”</span> is +beautiful in its form of thought and expression. I have +perused it with interest. Your book tends to lead us to +new thoughts and practices in the healing art, and for +many maladies I have no doubt the treatment your excellent +work introduces will be the only remedy. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">(Col.) Rob't B. Caverly</span></span>, Centralville, Mass. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page458">[pg 458]</span><a name="Pg458" id="Pg458" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Undoubtedly <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the +Scriptures”</span> is the greatest and grandest book ever published; +and that by pulpit and press it will be so acknowledged, +is only a question of time. Yours has, +indeed, been a pioneer work, and will be; and I believe +that you, of all the millions, are selected and chosen because +of your peculiar fitness for this great work—this +grand work of opening the gates and leading the way, +that fallen humanity may follow step by step; reach up +to Christ, and be made whole! That all this should be +systematized and proven with mathematical precision,—that +there can be no guesswork or quackery,—is simply +astounding. Science and Health has given me a new +impetus heavenward. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">M. A. Hinkley</span></span>, Williamsport, Pa. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The book <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures”</span> +is the most wonderful work that has been written +in the past five thousand years. I wish you could get +ten dollars per copy. I am of the opinion that I can heal +the sick on its basis, from reading the work. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">H. D. Dexter</span></span>, M. D., Dundee, N.Y. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Rev. Mary B. G. Eddy's book, <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health +with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> has been duly catalogued +and placed on our shelves for use. In behalf of the trustees, +let me convey cordial thanks to the earnest-minded +author for this interesting contribution. My own idea +is, that the power of Mind or Spirit is supreme in character, +and destined to supremacy over all that is adverse +to divine order. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">William H. Kimball</span></span>,<br /> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Librarian New Hampshire State Library</span></span> +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page459">[pg 459]</span><a name="Pg459" id="Pg459" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I am reading the work, <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with +Key to the Scriptures,”</span> for the third time; and I am +convinced of the truth of the Science of which it treats,—instructing +us how to attain holiness of heart, purity +of life, and the sublime ascendency of soul over body. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">C. Clement</span></span>, McMinnville, Warren Co., Tenn. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I was sick for a number of years with what some of +the most skilful physicians pronounced an incurable +disease. The more I tried to get help, the worse I became, +until a life of pain and helplessness seemed unavoidable. +Two years ago I heard of <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and +Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> began reading it +and trying to live up to its teachings. At first, my beliefs +were so strong I made but little progress; but gradually +my disease gave way, and finally disappeared, and +to-day I am a well woman. I cannot express the gratitude +I feel for what the light shining through the teachings +of that book did for me. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">(Mrs.) Emily T. Howe</span></span>, Norway, Me. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I have been reading <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key +to the Scriptures,”</span> and feasting—like a starving, ship-wrecked +mariner, on the food that was to sustain him—on +truths which ages to come will appreciate, understand, +and accept. Many of the theories which at first +appear abstruse and obscure, at length become clear and +lucid. The candle of intellect requires occasional snuffing +to throw the clear light of penetration on the page. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">(Mrs.) S. A. Orne</span></span>, Malden, Mass. +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page460">[pg 460]</span><a name="Pg460" id="Pg460" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The mother of a little girl about eight years old told +me her child was having a severe attack of cold, and +was delicate and easy to take cold. I told her the little +girl would be all right; not to give her any medicine, but +read Science and Health to her. When I next saw the +mother, she told me the little girl was entirely well; that +the cold had all disappeared, and with it a claim of night-sweats +that the child had been under for more than a +year. The little girl had been out sliding down-hill in +the snow a number of times; had her feet very wet, but +it did not affect her at all. They were all pleased,—especially +the child; her face was beaming with happiness +and smiles. This is just one little instance of the +good that comes from reading Science and Health. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +T. W. H. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Opinions Of The Press +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +This is, perhaps, the most remarkable book on health, +in some respects, which has appeared in this country. +The author evidently discards physiology, hygiene, mesmerism, +magnetism, and every form of medication, bathing, +dieting, etc.,—all go by the board; no medicine, +manipulation, or external applications are permitted; +everything is done through the mind. Applied to certain +conditions, this method has great value: even the +reading of the author's book has cured hopeless cases. +The author claims that her methods are those used by +Christ and his apostles, and she has established a church +and school to propagate them.—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Herald of Health</span></span>, N. Y. +(<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">M. L. Holbrook</span></span>, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Publisher</span></span>) +</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page461">[pg 461]</span><a name="Pg461" id="Pg461" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The Christian Scientists claim that the power of healing +is not lost, and have supported that claim by inducing +cures astonishingly like those quoted from the New +Testament. And even more good they hope to achieve, +as this power which they possess is better understood +and the new light gains strength in the world. Experience +has taught us that the nearer we approach to the +source of a report of miraculous power, the smaller does +the wonder grow. In the instance of the Christian Scientists, +the result has been rather the reverse; if third +parties have related a remarkable circumstance, the person +of whom the fact was alleged has been found to make +the assertion still stronger.—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Boston Sunday Globe</span></span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> by +Mary Baker G. Eddy, President of the Massachusetts +Metaphysical College, is a remarkable publication, +claiming to elucidate the influence of mentality over +matter. Mrs. Eddy announces herself as the discoverer +of this metaphysical Science, and receives students, to +whom she imparts so much of her metaphysics as their +minds are capable of receiving. The volumes are a +vigorous protest against the materialism of our modern +scientists, Darwin, Huxley, Tyndall, etc. Her Science +of Mind was first self-applied: having been ill and treated +by doctors of the various schools without benefit, she +discovered the grand Principle of all healing to be God, +or Mind. Relying on this Principle alone, she regained +her health, and for the last sixteen years has taught +this theory to others, and has healed the sick in all cases +where the patient's mentality was sufficiently strong to +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page462">[pg 462]</span><a name="Pg462" id="Pg462" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +understand her teachings and act upon them.—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Brooklyn +Eagle</span></span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The book <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures”</span> +is certainly original, and contains much that +will do good. The reader will find this work not influenced +by superstition or pride, but striking out boldly,—full +of self-sacrifice and love towards God and man.—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Christian +Advocate</span></span>, Buffalo, N. Y. +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The doctrines of <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to +the Scriptures”</span> are high and pure, wholly free from +those vile theories about love and marriage which have +been so prevalent among the spiritualists. This new +sect devotes itself to a study of the Bible, and a practice +of curing disease without mesmerism or spiritualism. It +treats Darwin and materialists with a lofty scorn.—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Springfield +Republican</span></span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures”</span> is +indisputably a wonderful work. It has no equal. No +one can read the book and not be benefited by it in mind +and body. The work is endorsed by some of the best +men of the age.—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Star-Spangled Banner</span></span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +We shall watch with keen interest the promised results +of <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.”</span> +The work shows how the body can be cured, and how +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page463">[pg 463]</span><a name="Pg463" id="Pg463" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +a better state of Christianity can be introduced (which +is certainly very desirable). It likewise has a hard thrust +at spiritualism; and, taken altogether, it is a very rare +book.—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Boston Investigator</span></span> +</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"><hr style="width: 50%" /></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +The author of <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with Key to the +Scriptures,”</span> which is attracting much attention, shows +her ability to defend her cause with vigor.—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Boston +Weekly Journal</span></span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +(<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission</span></span>) +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +How To Understand Science And Health +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">My Dear Friend H.:</span></span>—Your good letter of the 26th +ult. came duly to hand several days ago, and I am not +greatly surprised at its contents. You say, in substance, +that you procured the book, <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health with +Key to the Scriptures,”</span> which I recommended, and +that to your surprise and disgust you found it to be a +work on faith-cure, and ask by what process of reasoning +I could possibly bring myself to adopt or accept +such visionary theories. In answer to your very natural +question, I will try, in my own way, to give you +what appears to me to be a reason for the hope that is +in me. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +My religious views of fifteen years ago are too familiar +to you to need any exposition at my hands at this +time. Suffice it to say that the religion of the Bible, +as taught by the churches, to my mind appeared to be +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page464">[pg 464]</span><a name="Pg464" id="Pg464" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +self-contradictory and confusing, and their explanations +failed to explain. During the next eleven years my +convictions underwent little change. I read everything +that came in my way that had any bearing upon, or +pretended in any degree to explain, the problem of life; +and while I gained some knowledge of a general nature, +I was no nearer the solution of life's problem than when +I began my investigations years ago, and I had given +up all hope of ever being able to come to a knowledge +of the truth, or a satisfactory explanation of the enigma +of life. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In all my intellectual wanderings I had never lost my +belief in a great First Cause, which I was as well satisfied +to call God as anything else; but the orthodox explanations +of His or its nature and power were to my +mind such a mixture of truth and error, that I could not +tell where fact left off and fancy began. The whole effort +of the pulpit being put forth, seemed directed to the impossible +task of harmonizing the teachings of Jesus Christ +with the wisdom of the world; and the whole tendency +of our religious education was to befog the intellect and +produce scepticism in a mind that presumed to think +for itself and to inquire into the why and the wherefore. +I fully believe that the agnosticism of yourself and myself +was produced by the futile attempt to mix and harmonize +the wisdom of the world with the philosophy of +the Christ. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In my investigations into the researches of the savants +and philosophers I found neither any satisfactory explanation +of things as they seemed to exist, nor any solution +of the great and all-absorbing question, <span class="tei tei-q">“What is +Truth?”</span> Their premises appeared to be sound, and +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page465">[pg 465]</span><a name="Pg465" id="Pg465" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +their reasonings faultless; but in the nature of things, +no final conclusion of the whole matter could be reached +from premises based wholly on material knowledge. +They could explain <span class="tei tei-q">“matter”</span> and its properties to their +own satisfaction, but the intelligence that lay behind or +beyond it, and which was manifested in and through it, +was to them as much of a mystery as it was to the humblest +of God's creatures. They could prove pretty conclusively +that many of the generally accepted theories +had no basis in fact; but they left us as much in the +dark regarding Life and its governing Principle as had +the divines before them. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +About four years ago, while still in the mental condition +above indicated, my attention was called to what at +that time appeared to me to be a new phase of spiritism, +and which was called by those who professed to believe +in it, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Christian Science</span></span>. I thought that I had given some +attention to about all the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">isms</span></span> that ever existed, and that +this was only another phantasm of some religionist lost +in the labyrinths of mental hallucination. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +In my reflections at that time it seemed to me that +life was an incomprehensible enigma; that the creator +had placed us on this earth, and left us entirely in the +dark as to His purpose in so doing. We seemed to be +cast upon the ocean of time, and left to drift aimlessly +about, with no exact knowledge of what was required of +us or how to attain unto the truth, which must certainly +have an existence somewhere. It seemed to me that in +the very nature of things there must be a great error +somewhere in our understanding, or that the creator +Himself had slipped a cog when He fitted all things into +their proper spheres. That there had been a grand mistake +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page466">[pg 466]</span><a name="Pg466" id="Pg466" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +somewhere I had no doubt; but I still had doubt +enough of my own capabilities and understanding to believe +that the mistake, whatever it was, was in me and +not in the creator. I knew that, in a fair measure at +least, I had an honest desire to live aright, as it was given +me to see the right, and to strive to some extent to do the +will of God, if I could only know certainly just what it +was. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +While in this frame of mind, I inwardly appealed to +the great unseen power to enlighten my understanding, +and to lead me into a knowledge of the truth, promising +mentally to follow wherever it might lead, if I could only +do so understandingly. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +My wife had been investigating Christian Science to +some extent, but knowing my natural antipathy to such +vagaries, as I then thought them, had said very little to +me about it; but one day, while discussing the mysteries +of life with a judge of one of our courts, he asked me +whether I had ever looked into the teachings of the Christian +Scientists. I told him that I had not, and he urged +me very strongly to do so. He claimed to have investigated +their teachings, and said that he had become a +thorough believer in them. This aroused my curiosity, +and I procured the book called <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and Health +with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> and read it. Before reading +very far in it, I became pretty thoroughly nauseated +with what I thought the chimerical ideas of the author, +but kept on reading,—more because I had promised to +read the book than because of interest in its teachings; +but before I had gotten through with it, I did become +interested in the Principle that I thought I discovered +the author was striving to elucidate; and when I got +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page467">[pg 467]</span><a name="Pg467" id="Pg467" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +through it, I began again and reread it very carefully. +When I had finished reading this book the second time, +I had become thoroughly convinced that her explanation +of the religion taught by Jesus Christ, and what +he did teach, afforded the only explanation which, to +my mind, came anywhere near harmonizing and making +cohesive what had always seemed contradictory and +inexplicable in the Bible. I became satisfied that I had +found the truth for which I had long been seeking, and +I arose from the reading of the book a changed man; +doubt and uncertainty had fled, and my mind has never +been troubled with a serious doubt upon the subject from +that day to this. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I do not pretend to have acquired the power it is claimed +we may attain to; but I am satisfied that the fault is in +me, and not in the Principle. I think I can almost hear +you ask, What! do you believe in miracles? I answer +unhesitatingly, Yes; I believe in the manifestations of +the power of Mind which the world calls miraculous; +but which those who claim to understand the Principle +through which the works are done, seem to think not +unnatural, but only the logical result of the application +of a known Principle. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It always did seem to me that Truth should be self-evident, +or at least susceptible of unmistakable proof,—which +all religions seemed to lack, at least in so far as I +had known them. I now remember that Jesus furnished +unmistakable proofs of the truth of his teachings, by his +manifestations of the power of Mind, or, as some might +call it, Spirit; which power he plainly taught would be +acquired by those who believed in the Principle which he +taught, and which manifestations would follow as signs +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page468">[pg 468]</span><a name="Pg468" id="Pg468" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +that an understanding of his philosophy had been reached. +It does seem to me, that where the signs do not follow +professing Christians which Christ said should follow +them, there must be something wrong, either in his teachings +or their understanding of them; and to say the +least, the foundations of their faith require a careful re-examination, +with a view to harmonizing them with the +plain teachings of the Christ in whose footsteps they +profess to follow. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I never could understand how God could be ever-present +as a personal Being, but I think I can and do understand +how divine Principle can pervade every thing and +place. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I never could understand how heaven could be a place +with gorgeous fittings, but I think I can and do understand +how it might be a spiritual (or if you please mental) +condition. Jesus said, <span class="tei tei-q">“The kingdom of God cometh +not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! +or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within +you.”</span> +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-q">“Knowledge (or understanding) is power.”</span> Since +adopting the views of life as set forth in <span class="tei tei-q">“Science and +Health with Key to the Scriptures,”</span> I have seen proofs +of what can be accomplished through a knowledge of the +truth, which to my mind amount to demonstrations, and +which no longer seem incredible, but which I do not ask +another to accept upon my statements. Every one must +see or feel for himself in order to be convinced; but I +am satisfied that any who will lay aside their preconceived +notions, and deal honestly with themselves and the light +they have, will come to a knowledge of the truth as illustrated +in the teachings and life of Jesus Christ; that is, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page469">[pg 469]</span><a name="Pg469" id="Pg469" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +that Mind, or Soul, or whatever you may be pleased to +call it, is the real Ego, or self, and that mortal mind with +its body is the unreal and vanishing, and eventually goes +back to its native nothingness. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Truth is, and ever has been, simple; and because of +its utter simplicity, we in our pride and selfishness have +been looking right over it. We have been keeping our +eyes turned toward the sky, scanning the heavens with +a far-off gaze in search of light, expecting to see the +truth blaze forth like some great comet, or in some extraordinary +manner; and when, instead of coming in +great pomp and splendor, it appears in the simpleness +of demonstration, we are staggered at it, and refuse to +accept it; our intellectual pride is shocked, and we are +sure that there has been some mistake. Human nature +is ever the same. The Jews were looking for something +transcendently wonderful, and the absence of it made +the Christ, Truth, to them a stumbling-block. It was +foolishness to the Greeks, who excelled in the worldly +wisdom of that day; but in all ages of the world it has +ever been the power of God to them that believe, not +blindly, but because of an enlightened understanding. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I always did think that there was something beautiful +in the philosophy of life as taught by Jesus Christ, but +that it was impracticable and not susceptible of application +to the affairs of life in a world constituted as this +appeared to be. As I now view it, that belief was the +result of ignorance of the real power that <span class="tei tei-q">“moves the +universe,”</span>—too much faith in matter or effect, and not +enough in Mind or cause, which is God. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +To one who can accept the truth that all causation is +in Mind, and who therefore begins to look away from +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page470">[pg 470]</span><a name="Pg470" id="Pg470" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +matter and into Mind, or Spirit, for all that is real and +eternal, and for all that produces anything that is lasting, +the doubts and petty annoyances of life become +dissolved in the light of a better understanding, which +has been refined in the crucible of charity and love; and +they fade away into the nothingness from whence they +came, never having had any existence in fact, being only +the inventions of erring human belief. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +Read the teachings of the Christ from a Christian Science +standpoint, and they no longer appear vague and mystical, +but become luminous and powerful,—and, let me +say, intelligible. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +It is true, as you intimate, that this theory of life is +much more generally accepted by women than by men, +and it may be true that as a rule their reasoning is much +less rigid in its nature than that of the sterner sex, and +that they may be liable to scan their premises less keenly; +but may it not also be true, that they are of finer texture +and more spiritual in their natures, and that they may +be just as likely to arrive at the truth through their intuitions, +in connection with their logic, as we are through +the more rugged courses? If it be true that man is the +more logical, the fallibility of our own reasonings very +frequently becomes painfully apparent even to ourselves, +and they are therefore not the safest gauge by which to +judge others. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I believe, myself, that when it comes to standing up +for Truth in the face of the world, and possibly at the +sacrifice of position and popularity, women possess the +necessary courage in a much greater degree than do +men. +</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +I had not intended to weary you with such a long +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page471">[pg 471]</span><a name="Pg471" id="Pg471" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +letter, but after getting into the subject, I hardly knew +where to stop. As an old and loved friend, I have given +you a glimpse of my inner life, because I hardly knew +how to explain my mental condition to you in any other +way.... +</p> + +</div> + +</div> +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-back" style="margin-bottom: 2.00em; margin-top: 6.00em"> + <div id="footnotes" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + <a name="toc162" id="toc162"></a> + <a name="pdf163" id="pdf163"></a> + <h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Footnotes</span></h1> + <dl class="tei tei-list-footnotes"><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_1" name="note_1" href="#noteref_1">1.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext">The +order of this sentence has been conformed to the text of +the 1908 edition of Science and Health. [24]</dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_2" name="note_2" href="#noteref_2">2.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext">Quoted +from the sixth edition. [30]</dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_3" name="note_3" href="#noteref_3">3.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext">Quoted +from the sixteenth edition.</dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_4" name="note_4" href="#noteref_4">4.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext">A copy +of the Bible was included among the books placed in the corner-stone.</dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_5" name="note_5" href="#noteref_5">5.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext">See +the revised edition of 1890, or page 334 in editions subsequent +to 1902.</dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_6" name="note_6" href="#noteref_6">6.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext">See +edition of 1909.</dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_7" name="note_7" href="#noteref_7">7.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext">See Science +and Health, p. 47, revised edition of 1890, and +pp. 152, 153 in late editions.</dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_8" name="note_8" href="#noteref_8">8.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext">Page 292 of the revised edition of 1890.</dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_9" name="note_9" href="#noteref_9">9.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext">Page 234, +revised edition of 1890.</dd></dl> + </div> + <hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + <div id="pgfooter" class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"><pre class="pre tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 3.00em; margin-top: 3.00em">***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS, 1883-1896*** +</pre><hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 3.00em; margin-top: 3.00em"><a name="rightpageheader164" id="rightpageheader164"></a><a name="pgtoc165" id="pgtoc165"></a><a name="pdf166" id="pdf166"></a><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Credits</span></h1><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr><th class="tei tei-label tei-label-gloss">February 27, 2010 </th></tr><tr><td class="tei tei-item tei-item-gloss"><table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"><tbody><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item">Project Gutenberg TEI edition 1</td></tr><tr class="tei tei-labelitem"><th class="tei tei-label"></th><td class="tei tei-item"><span class="tei tei-respStmt"> + <span class="tei tei-name"> + Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David King, and the Online + Distributed Proofreading Team at <http://www.pgdp.net/>. + </span> + </span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 3.00em; margin-top: 3.00em"><a name="rightpageheader167" id="rightpageheader167"></a><a name="pgtoc168" id="pgtoc168"></a><a name="pdf169" id="pdf169"></a><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">A Word from Project Gutenberg</span></h1><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This file should be named + 31427-h.html or + 31427-h.zip.</p><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This and all associated files of various formats will be found + in: + + <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/1/4/2/31427/" class="block tei tei-xref" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"><span style="font-size: 90%">http://www.gutenberg.org</span><span style="font-size: 90%">/dirs/3/1/4/2/31427/</span></a></p><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Updated editions will replace the previous one — the old + editions will be renamed.</p><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Creating the works from public domain print editions means that + no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the + Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United + States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. + Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this + license, apply to copying and distributing Project Gutenberg™ electronic works + to protect the Project Gutenberg™ concept and trademark. 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