The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-14

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 God-like man really came. the Son of l God, and the Son of the Virgin. the Mediator between flesh and Spirit. be- tween God and men, as the apostle de- eares there Is "One Mediator between God and men, the maa Christ Jesus" Jesus left the rich legacy of his trans eendent life an example for mortals to follow-"deny self and follow me" In his short ministry he transcended all hu- man limitations, he healed all manner of I sickness. the naked lunatic was "clothed and in his right mind" he cast out sin and disease by t-e power of Spirit, he fed the multitude, the 5000 and the 7O00 he stilled the tempest. he walked over the waves and reproached Peter because ] he had not sufficient faith to do so like wise; He really transcended matter and l space He raised the dead ana spirit ualized humanity, He made the blind to see, the deaf to hear the dumb to speak, l the lame to walk-the repentant Mazda lena became a deeply spiritual woman, the tribute money was found in the fishs mouth, and all this without material means as aid, as not only the Scripture i teaches. but as even the historian, Glib bons, declares was the accepted belief about the early Christians
 How Did Jesus Heal.
 Mrs Eddy has awakened the Christian 1 church to recognize that healing is an l essential element of Christianity. The human mind usually meets an advancing thought first with antagonism, and then with the compliment of imitaton-and 1 here I will pause to say that the heal ing of Christian Science has no affiliation whatever with suggestion auto-sugges- tion, mesmerism, hypnolsm nor material medicine, on the contrary 1t is directly op- posed to each of these methods as being un-Christian, opposed to spirit. and ln- furious to humanity. Jesus metaphysical healing necessitated the regenerating of mind and body, and the therapeutics of Christian Science is purely spiritual cast ing out disease by casting out sin.
 Correct View of Man.
 Mrs. Eddy tells us very simply how Jesus healed Science and Health, page 47e-23): Jesus beheld in science the per feet man, who appeared to Him where sinning, mortal man appears to mortals In this perfect man the Savior saw Gods own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick Thus Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God is intact, uni versal and that man is ure and holy.
 Standpoint of Spirit.
 Jesus viewed man from the standpoint of spirit not matter; soul, not sense; and that is the secret of Jesus and of Chris tian Science. He came, as we are told in the scriptures, to judge not after the seeing of the eye, nor the hearing of the ear, but to judge righteous judgment. The very basis of Christianity is faith, which the apostle describes as "the substance of things hoped for" Now, faith is a mental condition, yet 1t Is substance, cause, causatlon; 1t is the evidence of things not seen, or, better, the convic- ton of unseen realities. Paul tells us of the wonders wrought by this mental con dition. The dead were raised, the lame, the maimed were restored the mouths of lions were stopped, fire was quenched, victories were won, the walls of Jericho fell down, Elijah was translated that he should not sec death.
 Now, remember that you can have this mental condition as well as Jesus Peter and Paul, and the ancient worthies, and 1t should an1 will bring about the same re- suits; 1t Is a universal law of cause and effect. But in order to do this you must deny the physical or visible evidence, and steadfastly, consistently hold on to what you do not see
 This is Christianity in it's eternal, prim- itive purity, perfection and power. This Is what Jesus and Peter and Paul and the ancient prophets did-they held on in thought to the unseen, eternal verities of being, in spite of, and in reversal of, ma terial evidence, and in that consists the sublimity and simplicity of their methods and works.
 Jesus came rebuking the universal sin of the world, which is seeing after the flesh instead of after the Spirit" He came reversing the prevailing theory that man is mortal and material or the worm in the dust theory" as absolutely as Caper- picus reversed, repudiated and ignored the Ptolemaic theory, and every conclusion derived therefrcm. Now the earth looks just as flat and stationary as 1t ever did and the stars and moon and sun seem just as suoeervient to the earth as when the human mind for centuries accepted that absurd and limited theory. Astron- onlical education and research nave re- leased us from that limited and false sense of the stellar universe, and have opened to our vision the splendors of a llmitless conception of central suns and systems, moving in the majesty of law, unerring law. Even that brilliant knight errant of the skies, the wandering comet, is seen to be subservient to this law. Christian Science reveals Jesus work as equally revolutionary. He repudlates tne Adam dream theory, the worm In the 6ust' view Of man, with its illusions or sin, disease and death.
 Mrs. Eddy is the God-appointed reVe-
 
 elator and dscoverer, because she could not help It. The infinite, all-encompass- ing eternal truth-that Is God-is also the infinite wisdom that is the infinite light CT being This light reaches human ex- perience through that consciousness which offers the dearest transparency for its ex- rression Because Mrs. Eddy's conscious ness was frcer from the dross of matter tran any other on earth, because she was diyinely qualified, this food-tide of truth has shone through her and is crystalized m her book. "Science and Health, With Key to the Scriptures
 This light is irradiating consciousness with its unspeakable brightness, and Is rooding the universe with Gods only glory.
 In this light the evil human mind is analvzed to it's deepest depths and is ,berefore ready for destruction. Its fruits ara seen to be the dead sea fruits or inc tree of tie knowledge of good and evil: eating which brought death in the world.
 While in Christian Science the Christ mind is enthroned bringing to light life and immortality.
 More an1 more as we see the tireless light of this beloved woman, as she lovingly 'xeeps watch over world that is even now budding and burgeoning into the flowers and fruitage of spiritual and rractical Christianity, as we see the matchlegs wisdom that guides the great Christian Scerce movement we recognize that prophecy and poetry have foretold ,bis marvellous hour, when in the grand aerai, of Goethe's "Woman-Soul Lead