or God. It can be grasped only through the spiritual or CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: A RELIGION real sense. A recent dictum of physical science holds that OF TRUTH, LOVE, AND LIFE the five physical senses are reducible to one, the sense of TRIUMPHANT touch. Thus a mortal hears, sees, tastes, and smells through the sense of feeling, or sensation in matter. In A Lecture On Christian Science Christian Science the validity of the material senses is by DR. JOHN M. TUTT, C.S.B. challenged, and these alleged senses are revealed as coun- of Kansas City, Missouri terfeits of the spiritual senses, which true senses all are Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, reducible to one - spiritual understanding And so spir- The First Church of Christ. Scientist. in Boston. Massachusetts itual power, or understanding, that is, true feelings, It is now generally known that in the year 1866 Mary stands superior to sensuousness, or sensation in matter. Baker Eddy discovered the Principle, laws and rules of When all is said, that superiority stands as the central scientific Christianity, and named her discovery Chris- point of Christian Science, and when all is done, that tian Science. This discovery, which she defined as the superiority is the demonstration of Christian Science in "divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love," (Science and human experience. Health p107) was revealed to her under divine inspiration It is literally true that we feel our way in Truth, Life, and through spiritual understanding of the ~ibg,yet and Love, and as our thought and lives become spiritual- Mrs. Eddy did not offer the world a new religion. Indeed ized we feel our way unerringly, triumphantly. That feel- the world was not asking for a new religion. It had then, ing is the sixth sense of Spirit. It cannot be described, as it has now, a surfeit of religiou.s beliefs. It is said that of defined, isolated, or located materially, but it witnesses the Christian religion alone there*have been over three the healing and saving power of God operating in human hundred variant sects. But the world did need, desper- consciousness and in human lives. The provable, and oft- ately, to be healed of disease, of sin, of poverty, and limi- times proved superiority of spiritual power over sensuous tation and of discord, -it needed the true interpretation would appear to leave evil at a disadvantage, and so it of thc re1if;iuri uC Jesus Chist. Rcsponsivc to humanity's does. But since evil is never destroyed until it acknowl- need, Mrs. Eddy wrote the Christian Science textbook, edges itself to be nothing - that is, ceases to present its Science and Health with Kzy to the Scriptures, and estab- claims to reality, to existence, to presence, and to power, lished her church on the Scriptural and spiritual founda- we are admonished by both the Bible and the Christian tion of Christ healing, and so justified in precept and Science textbook always to be alert to error's false claims practice, by healing the sick and saving the sinning, the and active against them. We must not merely assume denomination known as The Church of Christ, Scientist. error to be nothing, but must actually prove its nothing That this tree of God's planting is bearing good fruit in ness by destroying its claims with spiritual power. In the renewed health and corrected lives, no informed person same way and to the same degree that we come to know, can deny. In betterment of mind, morals, body; in to feel, the presence and power of good, we come to feel increasing spirituality; in Chrisiian character and broth- the utter absence of evil. Spirituality and sensuousness erly kindness, its beneficiaries bear witness to the restor- cannot both occupy the same ground in our conscious- ative, reformative, regenerative effect of scientific ness. Which shall it be? Christianity operating in human affairs. Christian Sci- Genuine Metaphysics ence is indeed a religion, a religion of Truth, a religion of Christian Science then, commits the student to what Love, a religion of Life, triumphant. Mrs. Eddy terms (Science andHealth p550), "the true and The Central Point of Christian Science spiritual Life," and the consciousness of which should In Science and Health (p454) Mrs. Eddy tells us: "The appear now even as it will appear hereafter. Such a com- superiority of spiritual power over sensuous is the central mission arrays one splendidly against all that is unlike point of Christian Science." Sensuous power, so-called, is Spirit. Christian Science is the only religion in the world's the supposed power of mortal mind, or mind in matter, history to reason logically that the opposite characters of and it is comprehensible only to the physical senses, in Spirit and matter, !heir completely antithetic essence and other words, to itself alone. Spiritual power, on the con- qualities, determine one to be true and the other false, trary, is that thought force emanating from the one divine one to be the real and the other the unreal. Accepting the Mind. Hence it is the expression of the only real power, declaration of the Master: "God is a Spirit," Christian CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: A RELIGION OF TRUTH, LOVE, AND LIFE TRIUMPHANT

Science reaches the conclusion that Spirit is the real and ing of things into thoughts. Thus viewed, abnormalities matter is the unreal, and that however real to the human are seen to be primarily mental, states of consciousness sense matter may seem to be, matter, the unreal, does not externalized. Jesus indicated this necessity to resolve actually exist. things into thoughts when he said: "All these evil things The word metaphysics which, correctly defined, is come from within, and defile the man." Jesus referred all applicable to Christian Science and descriptive of its ide- material things and events first to their origin, the so- alism, means literally "beyond matter." But the processes called human mind. Thus he struck at the source of all of the so-called human mind are not beyond matter. evil. The next step in salvation may be termed rejection Material psychology, or brainology, as taught by all sys- of error. This process consists in realizing these mental tems of religion and philosophy other than Christian Sci- states to be false or supposititious - nothing masquerad- ence, deals with the human mind as resident in brain ing as something. Jesus indicated that step when he said matter, and so finds the human mind to be dependent to the seemingly convincing argument of personal sense: "Get thee behind me, Satan." To Jesus, wrong concepts upon matter for manifestation. Christian Science declares the alleged metaphysics of the human mind to be were a palpable falsity, unreal, hence nonexistent, and so to be rejected as unworthy of recognition or credence. spurious, because at no point do such so-called mental Jesus was no muckraker. He stirred up error only to systems reach beyond matter. Only that is gekuinely metaphysical which is beyond both matter and the destroy it. He knew that evil uncovered is powerless, but that evil is not uncovered till its nothingness appears to essence of matter, - beyond the so-called human mind. consciousness. The third and final step in salvation is Christian Science, truly metaphysical, recognizes the uni- replacement of error with Truth. Christ Jesus indicated versal intelligence, the infinite divine Mind and its man- this restorative ministry of Truth when he declared, "I am ifestation, ideas, to be reality, and deals with the human, not come to destroy, but to fulfill." True metaphysics thus finite mind and its manifestation, material things, as brings the Christ, the healing and saving truth of God, unreality as a misstatement or misunderstanding of the divine Mind, to bear upon the errors of belief, to the real Mind, a misunderstanding of God and His ideas, elimination of the evil and the establishment in human man and the universe. Christian Science declares that this consciousness of good. Now, what is the Christ? Indeed, deception can be corrected so that materiality will disap- what could replace a wrong thought but a right idea? pear from human consciousness, the only place it could Christ is the spiritual idea of salvation, or Truth, which appear, and the correct statement, revealing the ideas of comes to human consciousness to reverse, reject, and pure Mind, will appear in consciousness. And Christian replace whatever is wrong in human experience; indeed Science teaches and is proving that because the human eventually to replace so-called human life itself, and to body expresses human thought, correction of human reveal the Life divine. Jesus was the individual in whom thought has such an effect on the human body as to elim- the Christ, or spiritual idea of salvation, wrought the inate the abnormalities comprised in the whole catalog of complete transformation, thus furnishing the full exam- evil, disease, crime, poverty, all discord, and death. And ple for you and for me and for all. His was the one perfect Christian Science avers that it is both scientific and example of reversal, rejection, and replacement of every Christian for this brood of errors to be disposed of even evil thought and thing, the rejection of sin, disease, pain, now, in practical and proper sequence, pending the final and even the last enemy, death, and the replacement of correction of the basic error, the belief in the existence of evil with good, of matter with Spirit. Thus Christ Jesus is matter and mortal mind, and pending the recognition of the Saviour through what he was and what he did, and we the eternal spiritual facts of being. are to be saved by following him, in all he was and did. Salvation and the Saviour Christian Scientists peculiarly love and glorify and honor Salvation, then, considered as the reformation and Christ Jesus. They acknowledge his sacrifice and achieve- transformation of human life in its entirety, here or here- ment in behalf of all mankind; and they recognize the after, or considered as the correction or healing of indi- practicability of his teaching and his works, and obedi- vidual faults of body, morals, or mind, involves the ently set themselves to walk in his steps all the way he divinely metaphysical process of spiritualization of trod. Christian Science teaches that salvation is to be thought and life. This process is variously called in Chris- expected, not through Jesus' supposed death, but tian Science, prayer, treatment, and demonstration. It through the life he lived, triumphant over death. Of our involves first, a reversing, a dematerializing or mentaliz- proper relation to him, Mrs. Eddy has written (Mixella- CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: A RELIGION OF TRUTH, LOVE, AND LIFE TRIUMPHANT neous Writings p270): "Fidelity to his precepts and prac- Mind - potency, attraction, adhesion and cohesion - tice is the only passport to his power; and the pathway of are manifested in the so-called material gases and forces goodness and greatness runs through the modes and and which being the opposite of God's good qualities, are methods of God." the procurers of the world's evil? According to divine The Reign of Divine Truth, Love, and Life metaphysics and Scriptural authority, and in the light of human experience, we may determine ignorance to be a The religion of Christian Science teaches men to live negation of the potency of divine Truth; sin to be a rever- normal, simple, and wholesome lives, - indeed to live sal of the attraction of divine Love; and fear to be an much as other people do. Nevertheless, Christian Science opposite of the adhesion and cohesion of divine Life. makes practical a high idealism, a conception of limitless Ignorance, sin, and fear; what a malevolent triad, these Life; a conception of Truth all powerful; and a spiritual synonyms of evil! How inevitable they have seemed to be conception of Love triumphant. In The Manual of The in the experience of all of us! But Christian Science offers Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in the way of escape. This is the blessed assurance: The Boston, Mrs. Eddy has directed all Christian Scientists to divine trinity, Truth, Love, and Life, constitutes one uni- pray each day: "'Thy kingdom come;' let the reign of versal remedy, which understood, corrects all error, heal- divine Trwh, Life, and Love be established in me, and ing sickness, sin, and discord of every sort. Let us rule out of me all sin; and may Thy Word enricL the consider then, first, the power of divine Truth over ignor- affections of all mankind, and govern them!" Christian ance; secondly, the attraction of divine Love versus sin; Scientists are not taught to view this beautiful prayer in and lastly the adhesion and cohesion of divine Life trium- any superstitious attitude. They do not in praying forfeit phant over fear. spontaneity by vain repetitions. They know that the mere repeating of words, however fervently, never alone could The Potency of Truth versus Ignorance be effective prayer. But they endeavor unceasingly Surely the power of divine Mind finds expression in through prayer to become conscious of the presence and truth. Mrs. Eddy calls Christ the idea of Truth, because power of Christ these words express; to establish in Christ expresses God's nature and power through His thought and living the reign and rule of universal har- son, acting to heal and to save, to destroy error's false mony. Thus in Christian Science even human life and claims to activity, and to save mortals from the dire effects human love become radiant with divine qualities of belief in such claims. The healing and saving power of reflected from Him, God, who, the Bible teaches, is infi- Truth operates through understanding. Ignorance is lack nite Life, Truth, and Love, God whose essence or sub- of, or departure from, understanding. Now just as matter stance is Spirit, divine Mind, not matter; whose qualities and mortal mind are the supposed opposites of divine are spiritual, or divinely mental, not material; whose cre- Mind and its creation, so the alleged power of matter and ations partake of the nature of Mind, that is, are ideas and mortal mind is the opposite of Truth, that is, error. Hence not material things. The purpose of Christian Science is error has no power. Everything that really exists is power- to bring into human understanding the true sense of ful, full of power, full of truth. There is no real power in being. This spiritual achievement involves the reversal, a lie, in error, because there is no truth in it. Thus Chris- rejection, and replacement of the sense-evident, untrue tian Science views all evil as powerless; and thus it saps presentation of materiality in all its phases. Human life is the foundations of sickness and sin. All evil disappears as founded on the alleged power, attraction, adhesion and ignorance is displaced in human consciousness by knowl- cohesion of matter. In Science and Health (p293) Mrs. edge of the facts of being. Eddy has written: "The material so-called gases and One of the material forces counterfeiting spiritual forces are counterfeits of the spiritual forces of divine Truth is electricity. Is it not significant that despite an Mind, whose potency is Truth, whose attraction is Love, extensive and practical working knowledge of electricity, whose adhesion and cohesion are Life, perpetuating the physical science remains ignorant ofwhat that force actu- eternal facts of being." Christian Science teaches that ally is? Christian Science discloses that since electricity is material forces are not actual, but are the supposed rever- material, its essence must be mortal mind, because matter sals or negations of the real spiritual forces of divine is the expression of mortal mind. And Christian Science Mind, counterfeits of that thought-force which, in Bible further declares that whatever the employment of elec- language, "spake, and it was done." Now what are the tricity has done to advance the human race, is but the opposites, which, denying the spiritual truths of divine counterfeit of the genuine unfoldment of spiritual Truth CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: A RELIGION OF TRUTH, LOVE, AND LIFE TRIUMPHANT in consciousness. Thus considered, all material progress, power of Love produces God's knowledge, or conception, in reversal, reveals spiritual unfoldment. So in human of Himself - man, who is the offspring of Love's attrac- consciousness, electricity, radioactivity, and the more tion. Divine Love is thus wisdom; and the nearest recent theories and developments and prospects of inter- approach to divine Love in human life is witnessed in our atomic force, are typical of the evolution of human most intelligent acts. One cannot divide between love thought out of itself. The more matter is displaced in and wisdom, between the attraction of divine Love and favor of its essence, mortal mind, the thinner mortal the conception 'of divine Truth. The wise thing to do is mind's mask becomes, for remember, mortal mind can- always the loving act. In our relations with our fellowmen not express itself save as matter. Thus, in the words of the way of wisdom is always the way of lovingkindness. Mrs. Eddy, material inventions "light the way to the Sometimes the wise course is the ~athof expediency of Church of Christ." (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, human proprieties, but always it is the way of divine Prin- andMiscellany p345) Eventually the whole paraphernalia ciple. Our love for our fellowmen is wholesome, and our of matter will vanish, only to be replaced by spiritual fellowman is safe in our love, if we are held in that truth and the eternal facts of being. But Christian Sci- spiritual-mindedness, the power of which is divine Truth ence, while fostering and utilizing all that is beneficial in and the attraction of which is divine Love. material progress, recognizes and employs now what The attraction of divine Love, then is creative; it con- physical science ultimately will attain only at the end of ceives, brings out or produces Love's qualities, namely, its rainbow of hopes and labors, the working knowledge right ideas, the offspring of Mind's intelligence. This of the all-power of pure Mind. That power is established attraction is reflection, or divine Mind's knowing, and now in human experience in the least demonstration of the result is man including the universe, or the offspring Christian Science. Hear the prophetic wisdom of Isaiah: of creative Love. "Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay." Always the so-called gases Now by the supposed law of opposites, the so-called and forces of matter are ignorant counterfeits of the spir- carnal mind claims a power to create materially. Mrs. itual potency which is Truth. Knowledge is power, and, Eddy called the falsely creative and destructive counter- said the Psalmist, "power belongeth unto God," which is feit of divine attraction, animal magnetism, or the sup- to say, understanding belongs to divine Mind. Christian posed power of attraction resident in mortal mind and Science equips the earnest student with Truth and with matter. This animal magnetism, mesmerism, or hypno- the truth about error, namely, that error is untrue and tism, she denounced as synonymous with evil. Here we hence nonexistent. This knowledge both of good and also find another of the malevolent triad, sin, falsely claiming of the false claims of evil, gives one power over evil to Love's power of attraction. Sin represents itself to be lov- reverse and destroy its false claims in every phase of ing, lovely, and lovable, but we learn in Christian Science, human life. The Christian Scientist rightly should possess or else we learn through bitter experience, that sin affords a large measure of scientific understanding of Christ, no true pleasure, that its promised joys are but Dead Sea Truth, and of how to utilize the power of Truth trium- apples turning to dust in our grasp. Sin, including all evil, phant over error. is the progenitor of animal qualities, the opposite of real Love. Hence, divine Love is the antidote for sin; and The Attraction of Love versus Sin applied to human problems, divine Love eliminates that The attraction of divine Spirit, God, is Love. Love is source of mortal man's enslavement. the power that gently and irresistibly impels all ideas, all "Love's Essential Qualities" God's children, towards the heavenly Father-Mother, the divine Mind. This divine influence is illustrated in pure What distinguishes true Christians if not their under- human affection, for there love is the attraction impelling standing and demonstration of divine Love's qualities?St. towards the qualities of good in the object of affection. Paul in the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians enumer- This attraction of good brings out such qualities in man ates certain of these attributes, qualities which Jesus extended and amplified in the Sermon on the Mount. and things.- The sun's brightness- is reflected in the flower which turns its smiling face to the sun. In the attraction What says St. Paul? Love "suffereth long, and is kind." of divine Love, there is creative power, for divine Love Jesus, when he dipped the sop for Judas, the one to whom alone is the Father-Mother, or self-complete Creator he alluded when he said: "Have not I chosen you twelve, which, as divine Mind, conceives all things. Thus the and one of you is a devil?" showed in true oriental fashion 4 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: A RELIGION OF TRUTH, LOVE, AND LIFE TRIUMPHANT the highest possible mark of consideration and loyalty for Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany p2 5 8) "Ah, a friend. Do we love even when our affections are not Lord, so often as I go, I blunder all unthinkingly into a reciprocated? Do we return good for evil, love for hate? If chilling thought that shrivels dawning joy, as frost will a man compel us to go a mile with him, do we gladly go blacken tiny tender buds - or just the slightest careless with him twain? Do we indeed go all the way with our touch will mar the feathered wings of gorgeous butter- fellowman in sincere love? Do we even lay down our lives flies." for our friends and for our foes also? Let us consider seri- ously whether our persistent problems may not need just "Teach me to love - that little children's eyes may light with confidence and joy when they meet mine. the solvent of love. Should we not truly love much, since much has been forgiven us? The forgiving of wrongs, "Teach me to love - that neither look, nor act, nor whether actual or fancied, makes one strong in Truth. attitude of mine may take from those I meet one Love "beareth all things, believeth all things,-hopeth all single bit of peace, one particle of joy. things, endureth all things." Do we in the spirit of "Teach me to be so radiant with love that I may pass Christ's love, turn the other cheek? That is going all the in safety to and fro, nor leave one wistful thought in way for there are only two cheeks to turn. Are we destroy- hearts I leave behind. ing our enemies by making them our friends?Are yg eas- "Teach me to love - that saddened eyes may smile ily provoked? Do we think evil of others or of our;elves? - that weary backs may straighten from the touch Do we rejoice in iniquity, or in truth? Do we envy, covet? of sympathy. Let us resolve that the practice of divine Love's qualities "And so, dear Lord, that I may be a blessing shall determine us truly disciplessf Christ. Such qualities wheresoe'er I go -nor hinder any slightest thought are the sterling mark of a Christian.'Love "seeketh not her from finding Thee - teach me to love!" own." Any human love that is selfish is unprincipled. It is (The Christian Science Sentineb not of God, and hence is of mortal mind, mesmeric, versus Fear deceptive, and therefore harmful. Unselfed love gives the The Adhesion and Cohesion of Life lie to the basis and structure of material psychology, Again Mrs. Eddy tells us that the adhesion and cohe- which declares for a selfish motive in every human sion of the spiritual forces of divine Mind are Life. Thus thought and act. Unselfishness sustains the idealism and Life perpetuates the eternal facts of being. Life is that life of Christ Jesus and holds scientific Christianity, or which enables anything to endure. Cohesion and adhe- Christian Science, aloft as God's refutation of mortal sion imply cooperation. These qualities also imply conti- mind's psychology. Do we seek wealth, place, power, and nuity, which is an elemental attribute of Life, God. happiness unworthily, from selfish motives? Do we seek Continuous unfoldment and permanence without limi- Truth for the loaves and fishes? Then our demonstration tation is the very substance of the Life which is God. Such is halting and protracted, or impossible, and even our tri- endurance without beginning and ending must be infi- umphs are failures. Do we, on the contrary, include all nite, hence spiritual, not material. Adhesion and cohe- mankind in our affections and aims? Unselfed love is sion are comprised in spiritual Life, and hence mortal radiant, not absorptive; it is the reflection of the divine mind's claims of adhesion and cohesion in matter are Love expressed naturally by all the good God so impar- spurious, limited, and not permanent. The belief that the tially bestows. Love "never faileth." The patient servant of adhesion and cohesion of Life can be disrupted and Life's humanity finds full compensation in divine Love's quali- opposite, death, result, this belief may be termed the ties, rather than in any human expectation of reward. negation or opposite of Life, indeed death itself. Now The conscious possession of these attributes is Love's rec- ompense of love, and is enough, for sin, all evil, cannot what is the opposite of Life's adhesion and cohesion? May stand before Love's qualities. "Many waters (much evil) we not locate a negation of Life in the final one of the cannot quench love." Love's essential qualities, realized malevolent triad, fear, one of the procuring causes of all and practiced will be a divine attraction, potent and sickness, abnormality, all evil, fear, a general term for active to lead us away from the deceitfulness of sin, dis- Life's opposite? St. Paul speaks of those who "through fear ease, death, all evil, into the safety and joy and peace of of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." Fear His marvelous light. Mrs. Eddy has epitomized Christian of death induces the condition of death, or the false belief Science in these words: "Nothing is worthy the name of of the termination of Life. Limited life is equivalent to religion save one lowly offering - love." (The First death, and fear is a belief in limited life. 5 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: A RELIGION OF TRUTH, LOVE, AND LIFE TRIUMPHANT

There is in human experience but one channel is happier, and lives a fuller and more wholesome and through which evil can come to pass, and that is the way useful life. He comes thus into greater joy and peace, of fear. Such a statement, including as it does the entire health, and activity for good and against error. He fears catalog of evil, requires the broadest definition of fear, a less, and to that extent becomes immune from evil's definition comprehensive enough to cover such phases of attacks. Evil, whether sin, disease, or other discord, has evil as seem to place mortal man in the role of victim or no power or seeming reality until given both in the indi- innocent bystander; such phases of evil as circumstances vidual's conscious or unconscious thought. With con- over which the individual appears to have no control, - cepts of good adhering and cohering in consciousness, accidents, contagion, heredity, in short the category of the entrance of fear is precluded. To repeat, then, fear is ignorant and malicious evil beliefs. Thus fear is primarily broadly a belief or an acquiescence in, and consequent a belief in those qualities of mortal thought which pro- expectation of, evil; a belief that good, Life, is not all, or duce death, including all sense of limitation or disrup- is absent; that one can be separated from Life, Truth, and tion, all the opposite of adhesion and cohesion. The Love; it is belief in the general so-called laws of matter, belief in such eventualities may be held consciously or psychology, pathology, and what not. False belief is pri- tacitly, but always it includes the expectation that they marily, of course, in general mortal mind, but it seeks to may come to pass. And so fear is the expectationabf evil find expression in individual human thought. And if one in all its sin, disease, discord and death-procuring phases. makes too much of evil by giving it reality, place, person- Is it any wonder the Apostle exclaimed: "Fear hath tor- ality, and power, or makes too little of it by ignoring its ment"? Well might he have added: Fear hath all the tor- false claims, one may hardly hope to escape the dire ment there could be! results of such folly. Obviously to the one who sees evil as Fear is the great enemy of health, well-being and something, evil becomes at that point to him a reality, do~ng,happiness, and even of human life itself. Christian and he concedes, thereby, all its claims as to origin, exist- Science diminishes and eliminates fear. It does not ence, and effects; and conceding it, he fears it and expects increase and perpetuate it. Christian Science prolongs its effects to appear soon or late. But how reassuring it is human life, yet it is not the object of Christian Science to to know that anything one is afraid of is unreal. Those prolong human life. That is its effect, ~roducedby the who recognize evil's claims know them for their falsity elimination from human consciousness of fear that the and are unafraid, immune. Fear lost, all evil is lost. Chris- adhesion and cohesion of Life can be disrupted. But tian Scientists are learning to be unafraid of disease, acci- human life will thus be purified, elevated, and prolonged dents, lust, poverty, and death itself, just as they are even to that happy day when every false, limited concept of now unafraid they will commit murder, theft, and other Life shall have been replaced by right ideas of the eternal more common offenses. Such fearlessness is not animal facts of being - those facts which Mrs. Eddy insists courage which drives ahead, even though afraid. It is the should appear now and which are appearing increasingly unafraidness born of conscious knowledge of God's all- to many day by day. ness, His presence and power, and the consequent impo- tence, the nothingness of evil. In the utter absence from The effect of Christian Science then, is to make one consciousness of fear, an aviator may fly over the ocean in unafraid. Christian Science increases confidence in good; certainty immune from disaster. He knows to do what he it gives assurance of the presence and power and perma- achieves; but he could as surely walk across the sea did he nence of good, and the consequent absence of evil, and but believe, so conceive, or know. Each of us may be daily the alleged power of evil. Such confidence and assurance performing some such miracle of life over fear. We see are not human hope. The Christian Scientist's confidence what we believe. Human limitations comprise human is born of his vision and grasp of the illimitable adhesion life, but many are learning to abide in the consciousness and cohesion of the facts of being here and now. He is of limitless Life, in existence as the reflection, the con- entering into Life, and fear is vanishing. With Job he scious thought, of divine Mind. We may recognize that cries: "I know that my redeemer liveth," and in Jesus' we are, in Truth, that very conscious activity, idea, and so promise he rejoices, - "Because I live, ye shall live also." The student of Christian Science has a greater knowledge inspired we, considered humanly, will live more and fear of the claims of evil and of their spurious nature, and con- less. sequently less fear of evil in all its aspects. He is, therefore, Perhaps the most tormenting fear to which humanity tormented less on all accounts by evil. Consequently he is subjected, more tormenting even than the fear of death 6 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: A RELIGION OF TRUTH, LOVE, AND LIFE TRIUMPHANT itself, and indeed a phase of that basic fear, is the dread of now, because of what Mrs. Eddy lived to do, known of loss or lack of material substance. St. Paul, using as a type them as the healing and saving Christ. of material existence, the simile of money, declares that What it meant to Mary Baker Eddy to be the Founder "the love of money is the root of all evil." In the light of of Christian Science no man may know, but she herself Christian Science, money, and all it stands for, in human has said: "The lame, the deaf, the dumb, the blind, the thought, may be regarded as the counterfeit of substance, sick, the sensual, the sinner, I wished to save from the sla- of God, that is, of Life. The love of money is indeed the very of their own beliefs and from the educational sys- root of all evil, but the understanding of what lies back of tems of the Pharaohs, who to-day, as of yore, hold the and in reverse of money, constitutes our hold on Life. children of Israel in bondage. I saw before me the awful Hence, one needs to have a proper concept of and regard conflict, the Red Sea and the wilderness; but I pressed on of money as typifying substance and supply - the eter- through faith in God, trusting Truth, the strong deliverer, nal adherence and coherence of Life. A recent highly satirical play touches upon a great metaphysical fact, a to guide me into the land of Christian Science, where fet- fact which rightly interpreted, goes far beyond the mate- ters fall and the rights of man are fully known and rial psychology of achievement and possession, when acknowledged." (Science and Health p226) All the world after coking suddenly into great wealth through an may know that for forty-five years Mrs. Eddy faced a life unexpected turn in the tide of his fortunes, the hero of semi-invalidism; that from the buffetings of the world, declares with great assurance: "I could have been rich harsh without a cause to this refined and gentle woman, before if I had thought of it." Even in this world's posses- she turned, because of her deeply religious and spiritual sions we are as rich as we think ourselves to be. But Chris- nature, naturally to God. Forty-five years of preparation, tian Science is teaching men to idehtify themselves with years in which spiritual-mindedness and faith in God car- the illimitable substance which is true Mind, whose sup- ried her through, despite ill health and the unapprecia- ply is adherent and coherent in Life itself; pure Mind, the tion, even cruelty, of a world too materially-minded to presence and permanence of whose ideas ensure wealth, understand that she looked for the land of Christian Sci- health, and usefulness, and exclude the fear of lack or loss. ence, the consciousness of divine Truth and Love and Such riches transcend human understanding of substance Life. The world may know that at an age when humanity and supply; but such spiritual possessions reveal Lllness is prone to look upon life in retrospect, Mrs. Eddy, receiv- of Life, in which poverty and want are unknown. ing the reward of her earnest search for relief from the ills God's Messenger: Her Leadership that had so long beset her, and looking not backward but eagerly forward, followed in the way God had for her, a A wise man has said: "If a man live a lifetime and have path of nearly another half-century of service and sacri- one friend, his life is justified." Then what of the life of fice, of toil which was in itself triumph. These two almost Mary Baker Eddy, beloved and revered by multiplying equal divisions of Mrs. Eddy's life furnish the strongest millions of grateful hearts, lives redeemed through her ministrations from the bondage of sin, ignorance, and possible evidence of the efficacy of Christian Science to fear, a people brought "out of darkness into His marvel- bind up broken bodies and to spiritualize human exist- ous light." Mrs. Eddy once wrote to the Christian Science ence, for be it known, Mrs. Eddy took her own medicine. Board of Lectureship: "Millions may know that I am the During the first half of her life while constantly searching Founder of Christian Science. I alone know what that the Bible for the deep things of God, she nevertheless means." (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscel- gave material systems of treatment exhaustive study, and lany p249) But these millions may know that, as the Dis- even for a time practiced material medicine. She also coverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy was studied and applied the various mental medical methods, divinely given a peculiar work to do; and they also may and abandoned them all because they failed to heal her or know her as their Leader and friend. They loyally may to satisfy her longing for Truth. Then she found Chris- follow her footsteps even as she followed Christ. They tian Science and health, and entered upon that glorious may acknowledge her leadership in the government, half-century of healing, preaching teaching, writing - pidance, and pardianship of her words and works. ceaseless activity, building, and shaping, piding and They may recognize the spiritual idea of Truth, Life, and guarding the mighty movement she established. Her Love, present today as it was when she walked among body no longer incapacitated, Mrs. Eddy's busy selfless men; the spiritual idea of God present indeed always, but life was itself convincing witness to the efficacy of Chris- CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: A RELIGION OF TRUTH, LOVE, AND LIFE TRIUMPHANT tian Science to heal and to prevent the ills to which upon Mrs. Eddy, his teacher and Leader, but just grati- humanity has always been subjected. tude and love, gratitude for her divinely bestowed mis- To that witness, I myself, as one of her grateful bene- sion and leadership, love for a gracious woman whose ficiaries, would add the testimony of a life almost equally intellect, great though it was, never overshadowed her divided between twenty-five years of materialism with its heart; whose life justified and fulfilled her own words: attendant liability to disease and discord of body, mind "Love for mankind is the elevator of the human race; it and morals, its heartaches, depression, and hopeless hori- demonstrates Truth and reflects divine Love." (The First zon, the joylessness of a life without God in the world, Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany p288) and a quarter-century of emergence out of that blackness His Marvelous Light into that marvelous light of Christian Science. A quarter- Mortal mind's counterfeiting of spiritual Truth in century of comparative freedom and fearlessness, with atomic force, or the alleged power and evolution of mat- the shadows of misspent years blotted out in the ter; its counterfeiting of spiritual Love in the attraction of effulgence on the forward path. I would imply no disre- matter, or animal magnetism, mesmerism, hypnotism; its spect of the medical faculty who, as a class are unremit- counterfeiting of spiritual Life in the alleged adhesion ting in &eir labor for humanity, but my own experience and cohesion of matter, or the lie of life in matter - all including the study and practice of material medlane in that array of falsity affords mankind an opportunity to what is known as the regular school of medicine, con- rejoice that the same law of divine Principle, God, which trasted with nearly twenty-five years of the study and holds all real things as ideas of pure Mind, is a law of practice of Christian Science, compels me to testify to the annihilation to the supposed reverse of those ideas. And superiority of Christian Science Mind-healing over the so, in ruling out ignorance, Christian Science restores to material methods of medicine and so-called mental sci- humanity the consciousness of the potency of Truth over cncc. I havc seen, indeed I have experienced through error. In destroying sin, Christian Science restores the Christian Science the healing of the most inveterate cases, sense of pure love, Love which begets good. Thus Chris- cases hopeless in medical practice and prognosis. The tian Science enriches "the affections of all mankind," practice of Christian Science today is recruited largely malung men better morally, physically, and mentally. In from the so-called incurables, and any advertised practi- overcoming fear, Christian Science restores the true sense tioner of Christian Science could tell of sufferers coming of existence, of Life untouched by evil and its torments. for help at the instance of their former medical consult- Humanity's need, then, is to possess and manifest those ants. Christian Science meets and masters on the basis of qualities which, acting on human belief, reverse, reject, the one Mind, God, the power of Truth over error, all and replace the abnormalities of mortal existence. Those human ills, whether acute or chronic, whether of body, or qualities are spiritual potency expressing Truth, spiritual of mind, or of heart; but the triumphs of Christian Sci- attraction expressing Love, and spiritual adhesion and ence are even greater in the realm of prevention. The evil cohesion expressing Life. Those attributes are vastly one experiences is not more real than the evil one pre- important, because just as interpreted by divine intelli- vents. The Christian Scientist daily experiences the truth gence in human lives, they will bring forth "a peculiar of the adage: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound people;" a people possessing and reflecting power, of cure," and he gratefully counts his highest blessings in attraction, adhesion and cohesion. A people having the errors he avoids. Thus his recurring sense of exalta- knowledge of both the reality of Truth and the unreality tion at the coming of Christ with the healing touch of of error, therewith routing ignorance; a people under- Truth, becomes increasingly an abiding consciousness of standing and practicing unselfed LOVE, and so destroying immunity from error, a sense of the ever-presence of sin, all evil; a people conscious of perpetual Life, and so Truth, Life, and Love, of health and well-being, and the fearless, unbelieving in mortality's today, unterrified by proportionate disappearance of ignorance, fear and sin. its claims of an unknowable tomorrow. A people upon And he rejoices openly in the gatitude he feels towards whose dauntless faith and glorified achievement St. that noble woman, God's messenger, who brought to Peter's admonition will fall as a benediction: "But ye are humanity the curative and preventive power of divine a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a Mind acting on human beliefs, establishing the kingdom peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of within, "The reign of divine Truth, Life, and Love." him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvel- (Church Manual p4l) No fulsome praise does he bestow ous light."