Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-12-15
TRUE MAN.

Christian Science has wrought untold
blessings in making God better known
and better loved by man. 1t has
wrought no less blessing in helping
him In better know himself and better
love his fellow man. We remember the
worlds opinion Of man. 1t aftirms that
he is not wholly bad. 1t considers that
man is the sum Of the false and true;
that he is 4 composition or chords and
discords Bt is there not a more exact
statement? The ignorant hoy umdy con-
slider his aggregation of falschond and
truth to b. mathematics, but not 50 his
teacher. The ignorant South Sea Is
lander may deem his medley Of chord
and diSchord to be music but not so the
true musician. The student Of Science
knows that mathematics is not mixture
of the true and false, but is the truth
alone; that music Is not both discord
ana harmony out harmony alone. Like
wise, though ignorance may assert that
man is a medley CT virtue and vice, of
ease and disease; yet the enlightened
student Of science knows that man, the
real man, is not mixture Of good and
evil but that he is the manifestation of
the Good and the Good alone; and the oN-
act science make plain how this is true.
The origin and source Of every num-
bcg and note is thar principle. Each
sweet note from harp or organ is the
father so is the son. For each Tilt is
like the father Of numbers, ana each note
images the father of harmony. Excellent
authority declares, God crcaJcu nitn IN
His own image, in the image of God Gre
atei he him." Meaning plainly that the
origin and source of man is God, his
Father; and as tho Father so Is the son.
The father, mans Principle, is Good.
Therefore man, the true man, is the
image of Good, and only Good.
This understanding makes plain the
words Of the Master, Il and my father
are one" But again, The father is
greater than l." Behold the fulness of
the meaning in the light of exact Science,
In numbers, the principle is greater, in
iinitely groJtcc, than any one Of the
numbers; yet each unit is one with its
principle. SO in music, the musical
principle is greater, infinitely greater,
than any one of the notes, Yet SO worthy
is each note, so truly does il reflect the
principle, that If ii may be said, the note
and its principle are one. Thu fact
which Christian Science reveals is that,
as the number is to its principle, and the
note to its musical Principle, so Is man
to his Principle. The Father Is greater
than he, and yet he and his Father, his
Principle are one Therefore spoke
Christ Jesus, The son can do nothing Of
himself, but what he seeth the father do;
for what thing socver he doeth, these al
so doeth the son likewise"
PRAYER.
Tho natural question arises for n
reconciliation between the ideal man,
the true man, and the individual we have
TO deal with seven days of the week.
And the answer is, the same roconcia-
ton that there is between the multiplied
ton table and the mistakes of ignorance.
Tho multiplication table will wait for
ignorance To open its eyes to the truth,
when reconciliation Is effected by the eX-
termination of tho mistake In other
words, the scientific method for the
elimination of all error aid discord is
the recognition of the nothngness OF
error and the understanding of the
Truth. Observe the worlds method of
dealing with sin and sickness. 1t hegins
by considering them just as real as
Truth and Life Materia melica at
tempts To heal sickness by the appplica-
tion of n drug, and scholastic theology
attempts to heal sin by the application
of dogma To cure disease the doctor
of medicine calls on a drag for help.
To cure sin the doctor of theology calls
on his God for hedp, And the general
opinion is that the doctors of medicine
are rather more successful than the
doctors Of religion.
The fact is that both doctors average
such unsatisfactory results that
neither is satisfied with his methods,
There Is little question that both dec
tors have less faith In their systems
than have their patients. The physi-
clans are in search of more successful
remedies for healing the sick, and the
clergymen are looking for new methods