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PRINCIPLES OF
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
Continued from Page 3.

ttiul dnteQutlnS MS human Dlrth (DG-
fore Abraham was, l AND, the basis of
his every thought and act was Spirit
the fact of Ono God, one Christ-Mind
the infinite loving Father, always bless
ing. feeding. clothing. sustaining His
offspring. In loving reiteration he con-
stantiy taught this simple Truth of
mans relation to God, have no anX-
ious thought" Call no man your
father upon the earth, one is your
father which is in heaven" "Conisder
the lilies how they grow, they toll not.
neither do they spin; yet Solomon in
all his glroy WAS not arrayed like one
of these"
BEHOLD the fowls of the air: they SOW
not, neither do they reap. nor gather
into barns, yet your heavenly father
feedeth them. Are ye not much better
than they? Wherefore If God so clothe
the grass of the field which to-day is
and tomorrow is cast into the oven
shall he not much more clothe YOU oh,
we of little faith?"
This entire sublime lesson is Just this
that the result from one basic thought
or premise.was and is dominion. power
harmony, immortality: from the other
or dust premise was. and is, sim eXpul-
sion from Paradise. dscord. poverty
disease. death. Jesus stated briefly his
promise, II knO,C whence | came and I
know whittier / go" | came forth from
the Father. and l 90 to the Father.
Paul states this metaphysically LAS in
the Adam Cor human conccpO all die
so in the Christ Cor spiritual immacu-
late concepO al, are made alive"
Christian Scientists have given many
proofs that this true basis from which
Jesus worked the problem of Being is
Just as potent now as then: there is
perhaps not n disease known to the
modern world from leprosy to lunacy
that has not been healed in Christian
Science. Demonstration in accord with
a divine Principle must be the eternal
heritage of man, not a phenomenal
event for n brief period. This re-dis-
covery of the method of primitive
Christianity is the Holy Comforter.
Coming through the woman, it is di-
vinely correlated with Jesus life and
works. In prophetic vision, seeing this
correlation. he said. The kingdom OF
heaven is like grain of mustard seed
which a man took and cast into his gar
den. and it grew and waxed Il great
tree. and the fowls OF the mir lodged
i'll the branches of it," THE kingdom
of heaven is like upto the lcaven which
a roman took and hid i'm three meas
ures OF meal until the mholc was leav-
ened."
The Truth which Jesus lived and
taught has been great tree in whose
branches the aspirations of the human
heart have lodged and found rest and
peace, but the same spiritual idea must
come as r universal leavcn. until the
irhofc is icdrcncd, and the Kingdom of
Good. Love. established on earth as in
heaven. and all of us become imitators
of him. Some one will say. Jesus was
Coz, we cannot expect to do what
Jesus did. but this is not in accord
with Jesus teaching. IF We believe in
me understand me), We shall do the
works that l do, and even greater
works. II Is tho l,at
the works." Jesus was the man
through whom we saw Christ DESTROY
ing the error that did not image Love
and Life and Good.
Paul says. "There is one mediator
between God and men, the man. Christ
Jesus. Without Jesus life of demon
stration there would be no true. alb
soiute Science known to mortals. for
lie was the only completely scientific
man who ever lived lie having full
iiiled every demand of the law OF / life
ana without tho inspired redscovcry of
ms ne as scientific demonstration
oi law, His method is lost, or unavaila-
Bile. 10
me same Father is here cvcr-pres-
cnt. onnipotent Mind, ready to do the
same work for us whenever the human
nina IN seiflessness, purity and humil-
ny is denied-Surrendered and we will
icl me same Mind be in us that was in
OF our mortal thought. TO sec God's
glory MI the earth. We thus see thar
10 deny the carnal mind. and nut on
the Christ Mind is the mental remedy
Tor every ill,-it is all mental meta.
pnvsicai. This denial is the reversal
%. desus' and only by reversing, or
changing our basis of thourht-our
Standpoint-can we reverse o,,, oo,,1i
tlohS. DO we not need n Comforter m
htlns1-se-ettt- -rcmcmbrancc The simnln
logic OF Jesus? He said. make IN,
.Io1 good. and the fruit good: else
mare Nc me tree evil. and the fruit evil
i =, 900 IS Good and the only Cause
ha e nopfoo ms creation and image must
pc perlect' even as He is perfect. ana
ofcdhSc lie is perfect. Perfect cod ana
perfect man must be the ONLY foct 90
loe-ihE. we have only to "Scc as wn
are %,'n. If Good is the infinite sonl
ana substance of man and the univnrso
aiicil mere is no room for evil. Iif,
CANNOT die. eternal Substance c,n,'o.
decay. Truth cannot know error I'M" r,1,
cannot produce His opposite.
centuries ago Copernicus ca,Ioa a.,
No'iu 10 reverse its sense testimonv ro
So ui,E our planetary system. This
sceli'InSiy important little planet ~
Wh p ~ t uul seaI-hood in matter). around
when 'he moon and stars seemed to
reNoiVe' was dethroned and found NO,
10 ne n centre. but a tributarv ,rhie
reversal opened to view an jniini,, ~
beauty order and grandeur WbiIc
yet we nave not the full concention ~
VIVA the stellar universe is as Cod saes
H. YET an thought is enlarged and lin.
Grated oy TINS higher sense of what il
About the same time Columbus NOV
ed pN the eternal energy with faith In
the "hSccH. left the old world and its
limitations to find across an aInosf
noundless sea new and undiscovered
continent. In this great. new world
type of Christian Science-this r,.nn1
Republic where all men are supnosrd
70 be free. nhNSically cil.nl,. ..aii@,,iY-.-