The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-10-19

sands have been planted upon the rock
Of the proved truth Of Gods promises,
and against that rock. IN the words OF
the Master. @the gates Of hell shall not
prevail" We do love our leader,
and we give her the allegiance and de-
Yotion to which her tireless labor in
mankind's behalf is entitled
As a boy and young man ! heard
continually that God was responsible for
All things that suffering and sickness
and misery and wfetehedness were in
some way associated with His great plan
81 salvation, and IN nv hours 81 agony
and helplessness MAS 80 overwhelmed
with fear of God that I reached a point
where | had no belief III Him, and my
Rhele desire wasito get away from Him
If It were possible, to find something
that would shield me from the sickness
and misery that | was continually called
upon to suffer. had no God, had
nothing 10 trust. nothing to love- nothing
TO look forward 10. and ! had come to
feel that | did not care to bear about
God and church going bad become d bur-
den to me.
Then Christian Science came, with the
assurance that God Is Love; that He has
nothing to do with evil. and this teach
ing took away my disease and my suf-
fering. and took with it NIX fear, my
dread Of God Christian Science came
to me, and gave me God. and when I tell
you this as my experience, | am telling
YOU the experience Of countless thou
sands all over the globe. Is Il any won
der that we love the one who has been
SO seldess and so faithful IN her en-
deavor that through it God has come
to us, that salvation has been brought
within our apprehension? We are win
ingly, ioyfully obcdicnt 10 Ter every
teaching. because il is through her con.
tinued labors for over forty years that
the mystery Of the way Of salvation
has been removed and the glory 0f God
again been made apparent to mankind.
Christian Science Is the demonstration
Of that great, tender, compassionate love
which Jesus Christ manifested to the
world not only in his word but IN his
demonstrations Of power. Christian Sci
euee Is the revelation to mankind to-day
that only as we live the religion Of love,
making its demonstration that Of doing
unto others as we would he done by,
are we showing any conception of that
religion. pure and undeliled, which the
Bible commands us to demonstrate. Love
Love brings no evil; Love brings no
suffering 20 man: and the understanding
Of Love, as it is demonstrated in Chris
tian Science, enables man to reach
out to his brother with tenderness,
3 sweetness, sense Of consideration
which the world, otherwise, knows
not Of
Christian Science i the manifestation |
of that love which respects no person,
that knows no relationship save the uni.
versal brotherhood. and which brings to |
mankind the satisfying consciousness
that God is Love. In this knowledge |
Of demonstrate religion, Christian Sci
entists have their satisfaction. their joy. |
sense Of harmony that can never be .
disturbed, consciousness that Love in |
cludes all its omnisoienee, and leads us. 7
weary and heavy laden, to Calvary. to |
the cross where we are freed from our /
burden IN fulfiliment Of the promise Of I
Him whose word never faileth Here we I
find relife from our pain, escape from (
our sorrow and tearsj spiritual reqen-
Grafton, emergenee from self, from the /
world, the flesh and the devil, into that
everlasting peace which God gveth His I
beloved children, and toward which Mrs
Eddy, Gods messenger to this age, is 4
leading Us.
We ask you to investigate, not Chris
tian Scientists. but Christian Science
and see how absolutely ii reveals the I
Cody standard wherein what bosses one
blesseg all Every nroifisn SINH Ia ft,l
Hlled, and the grand work of Christ
as exemplitied n Christian Science. be
universally accepted Then shall His
will be done in earth as IL IS IN heaven; Z
then shall we realize that His ~ Tia (
kingdom, and the power, and the glory
forever see the full fruition al Love.
have no other God than eour Father
which art IN heaven who is everlasting
Life. Truth and Love.