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PRINCIPLES OF
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE,
Continued from Page s.

harmony superior to earth's discords,
Life and destroyer of death, Love and
It's aff1uence more than meeting hui
man needs. When he fed the multi
tude the fragments that remained
proved that Mind was truly a multi
plier that no magic deluded those
whom he fed from the hand of Love.
Jesus viewed man from the stand
point OF Soul, not sense; of Spirit. not
matter, and that is the secret OF Jesus
ana or Christian Science. He was the
faithful and true witness OF Good
In absolute metaphysics the Jesus
consciousness Is that which recognize
ing the Fatherhood of Spirit and the
divine Sonship, denies the human self
mood, matter and it's conditions, as the
temporal falsitieS of the human mind.
which vanish before the enliChtened
understanding.
Christian Science to-day In Science
ana Health with Key to the Scrip
lures gives to us the absolute Science
Oh Being as Jesus lived and demon
strated 1t; for the first time the hui
man or mortal mind, in it's full antf
iinal analysis, is given to humanity.
ana Its illusions are seen TO be the
dead sea fruit of the tree of tho
knowledge of Good and evir'-thc
pantheism that would dethrone Diety:
~ meets from Christian Science the
~ oNSuS, II IS Il lie. and n
mar from the beginning, and the Truth
never was in it, Good and evil were
never In partnership. Good is tho
only law of Being. Being ALWAYS
was perfect and harmonious. and man
never fell from Omnipotence. John
sad No'o are we the sons of Cod
Good "ou
Some one will say. some one oJ,roys
docs say, If man was always perfoct
IN God, how did he ever fall into this
oiscordant material condition? IT
would be as If some one would ask
an astronomer, If the earth now re-
Volves in her orbit around the sun
now ala 1t ever happen that she used
10 De fiat and stationary? The as
ti .oi'olher VIII say. 1t was never so.
tnat was only false sense of II In
the same way we have indgad nv,
Iishteous judgment of man. because
we nave judged from the seeing NJ
me eye instead of seeing mot
el.er the flesh but after the
I'LL, 10 reverse this false es-
enn.' OIL man, and see with the
Vi oiVine Love. that Love and
n-oNc image ana likeness is the only
reality of existence to see as GonS
sees 10 Love as Love loves. is 10 rnl
oeeH1 the world and fill it with tho ro
u t,,sl OF Life, for Love is Life. 1t was
1 I unSeited sense of Love that gave
IL Ion Ia.
ana TINS reflection OF Love will give il
10 us. This Law of Love is Gods law
Oh LIE and health to His children for
lie is our health. 1.-THE health of ON.
countenance, and our God." He is near
every one of us. for He is our Life o,,,
Mind. Paul said. I'VE have the Chris
Mind there is no other real Mind TO
nave. lie is our Substance, our Intelll-
gence and when we accept it fully. sin
ana hr, death VIII be unknown. Sin alone
orings death and disease. the Bible
teaches; so the destruction of sin means
Life and dness-immortality.
we speak with pride and great salts
faction of the wonders of the closing
Century and the beginning of the new.
Each day new marves greet us, as we
see physics rising out of the material
to the immdteridl; the Y ray. the wire
less telegraphy, the constantly ascend
ing evolution of mortal mind out of its
old boundaries reaching out toward the
scientific declaration that There is no
Life, Truth, Substance or Intelligence
in matter. All is infinite Mind and its
infinite manifestation. Science and
Health, p. 463. This declaration Jesus
prorcd. Prof Langley, the distinguish
ed Scientist. now tells us that the color
Is not in the rose, but in lis. in our
thought. But the real glory that has
made all the others possible is this.
that in this age has been found one
consciousness so clean. co pure from the
dross of mnterialism that the infinite
Science of Soul. which is. and always
was the AllScience OF celestial Being
has been revealed to us.
Even Mrs. IIddy's students, who low
ingly follow her leadership. can only
family grasp the fullness of her sub
lime mission,-but each day unfolds to
us more and more the inestimable value
of her discovery and her work. a
watchful Shepherd over nearly 500
Christian Science churches and four
thousand students she stands, a faith
full and patient sentinel, keeping guard
over n world. Two million people heal
ed through the sweet ministry of her
work, and this healing is not only ply
steal. but it is the beginning OF that
spiritual regeneration that ultimates in
the freedom of the sons of Cod Can
words compass the extent OF her bcnefi-
cence, or the farreachiug influence OF
SO subleme and selfless q life.
AS we see this we feel that we owe no
apology to the world for tho tender love,
gratitude, and cver-increasng admira-
ton that we feel for her. for such lofty
and spiritual attainments as she has
Christian poet. Tcnnyson. I'VE needs
must love the highest best"
The worlds greatest huma nitarian
movement. and its greatest moral re-
form movement are organized and led
by noble, consecrated Christian women.
IL WOuld seem strange IL lillS VAST SplT-
itual movement. which really includes
them all, should not be also led by n
woman. None other than the one
through whom 1t came could lead it
with that matchess wisdom that char
acteriZes it.
How long has the hope OF Christian
unity been deferred? Yet in the Chris
tian Science organization each Sunday
every Christian Science congregation
in the world. from Australia to Nor
way, California to Japan. unites In the
same lesson sermon. with the same
words from the Bible and tho same
correlated selections from Science and
Health. This absolute unity Of thonChf