The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-05-20

| permitted any man to hold an ideal
too beautiful for his power to make
practicable. Uuder the impulse and
| inspiration of the statement, she went
to her home and wrote a poem, OF
which these are the first and the last
stanzas:
men take the pure ideals of their
And lock them fast away,
And never dream that things so beau
Are fit for every day.
| SO, counterfeits pass current in their
lives,
And stones they give for bread.
And starvingly and fearingly they
walk
Though never yet was pure ideal
Too fair for us to make our real.
Thine early dreams which came in
shapes of light
Came bearing prophecy,
Thy possible to thee.
Fear not to build thine eyry Ia The
heights,
Bright with celestial day,
And trust myself in simple faith
To thine inmost soul Away;
And God shall make divinely real
The highest forms of thine ideal
The Christian Scientist has adopt
ed the ideal of Jesus, an ideal that
includes all the possibilities of good
and excludes all the elements OF the
flesh and of evil; and he finds the
practical application and demonstra-
ton of this ideal in affirming the con-
slant healing, guiding, sustaining
presence of Divine Love and in deny
ing any principle, power or reality to
evil. This affirmation Of good n
denial of evil gain beneticent results
lust TO the degree of the clearness of
the understanding and the faithful
ness of the application of the ideal,
and herein is found the only needed
means and mode by which to prove
Gods love and power to be sufficient
for every need. A multitude stand
forth today and bear glad witness
that they have proven the ideal true;
that when it bids us trust God entire
", as the one "Who forgiveth all
thine iniquities and who healeth all
thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life
from destruction; who crowneth thee
with loving kindnes and tender mer-
cies; who satisfieth thy mouth with
good things; so that thy youth is re-
newed like the eagles" in all this
is not bidding us go too far.
The Bible and the Textbook.
In following this line of light, the
Christian Scientist has acknowledged
that: LAS adherents of Truth, we
take the inspired Word of the Bible
as our sufficient guide to eternal life"
(Science and Health, page 497.) Hand
in hand with the Bible-not as sup
plementing it's message, not as add
ing to or taking aught therefrom, but
as interpreting its meanings the
text : book of Christian Science,
Science and Health, with Key to the
Scriptures, whose author is the Rev.
Mary Baker Eddy. The Christian
Scientist has increasing and unre-
served confidence in these two books,
because he has thus far proven them
safe guides upon the way, and this
gives him assurance hat they will be
safe guides to the end. He believes
that the light which their message
has brought, with its witness Of I'M
folding health, holiness, harmony,
will grow brighter and brighter unto
the perfect day. He brings his SUI
preme allegiance, which is his reason
able service, to the Christ that they
reveal, and he brings an abiding and
Astounding gratitude to the ~discoverer
of Christian Science, as the one who
in our own day has helped human
thought TO find its way back to the