Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-05
FIND BROTHERS
ON EVERY HAND
SPIRITUAL FATHERH00D is
URGED BY SCIENTISTS
CHANGING HABITS OF MoRTALs
POINTED OUT
Struggle Hard at First, but Strength
Comes to Those Who Keep
Up a Valiant
Fight


another nation. The Jews had no
dealings with the Samaritans. 1t is a
ChristOn concept to see in the once
named alien peoples neighbors, friends,
brothers. Lowell said that the true
mans fatherland is wherever a heart
beats for freedom, or striving needs a
brothers help The familiar German
poem afirms that the "Naterland muss
grosser sein." must be greater than the
bounds of time or place. Modern
thought accepts this a not merely an
IDEAL but realty, and teaches world
wide brotherhood. Schiller voiced this
in his "Ode to JOY which Beethoven
included in his last and greatest sym
phony, where the singing voices rise
over the orchestra proclaiming All
mankind are friends and brothers"
Jesus said. "Whosoevcr shall do the
will of my Father which is in heaven,
the same is my brother and sister and
mother" He included in the family,
the basis of the nation, all who obey
the divine Fatherhood. Lowell saw
that true patriotism acknowledges "A
worldwide fatherand," but Christian
ity shows that the Fatherland is the
land or home God-givon, the new heav-
en- and earth whereupon the kingdom of
heaven is come to pass.
Must Set Aside Local Sense
/ mere - dilOllllI say IilB 'll btSuS
even more directly TO the point: call
no man your father upon the earth, for
one is your Father which is in
heaven In this saying may be seen
the basis of Christian Science. The
human and personal the local sense
of the individuals origin and sonship
must be set aside and the spiritual
Fathcrhood be claimed for man. even
as the broader fathcrland and broth
erhood of the true patriot have been
claimed and accepted. 'Fe acknowledge /
that a sense of a world fathcrland de /
pends on the Fatherhood Of God. /
Christian Science demands of us TO /
take the next logical step and see all |
relationship as existent solely in this /
divine fact OF Gods Fatherhood.
What follows from obedience To this I.
demand of Jesus that we shall call 10 /
man father. for God is Father? Logi- /
caily and exactly this: That man AS
the child Of God partakcs of the nature /.
of Cod is as Genesis also states, made .
i'm the image and likeness of God. The /
travesty Of man which We apprchend |
through the material senses does not /
bear out the statement of Genesis, nor /
does the human sense Of mans origin /
coincide with Jesus version of Father I
hood. Christian Science reminds Us
that as we do not apprehond God /
through the material sense so we can /
through material sense. We shall |
never see the divine image ana like |
ness by looking into mortality Mrs. /
Eddy says: MAN is the idea of Cod /
So ii follows that just SO much idea |
of God as We have just SO much are /
we manor better, Just so much is our
manhood or womanhood consciously !
awake for us This idea Of Cod is |
all that is true or powerful or real /
within us. Whatever is not definitely .
referablc to God is the mortal, tenn .
poraI consciousness that is passing |
away.
Mortals Are Chaneeable
1t is easy to see that the mortal self
hood is not permanent and is not there
fore the divine sonship. Mortals change
their notions from year to year, from
day to day. from hour to hour. What
was "A beautiful ana artistic fashion two
years ago today looks like a traVestg
on grace and beauty Fashions i'm other
things, If not quite so ileeting, because /
deeper seated, are nevertheless to be .
traced to their climax and their fail.
In these lines hygicnic fads and notions
are often held at the same period by
people of equally high consideration in
the world. Fashions in art, in politics,
in most everything, change and fade
and are replaced by other things.
These are not ideas of God, and do not
inhere in the true child of God. What
ever is of God persists. 1t is too good .
to be destroyed. So amid the HuCtuat- (
ing changes of the human conscious
ness Christian Scientists rejoice to see
the ideal of good slowly unfolding its I
imperishablc beauties They are happy /
in discerning, each day little clearer
little more defined, the divine idea i'm .
their own consciousness. This is the .
process which Mrs Eddy names in /
Science and Health page 54>, as the .
new birth going ON hourly /
A Christian Sermon
In Miscellaneous Writings" 10y Mary
Baker Eddy is Christmas sermon /
taking for text For unto us a child is /
born" etc, and showing how the COM /
ing of the Christ To human conscious |
ness is at first like the birth Of an iu- /
fant. This son of God born to earth /
is manifest at first i'm the humility and
love and good deeds I'm which the Mas /
ter set so shining example, then by the |
more wonderful works of healing ana .
il shall bo developed step by step 10
the consciousness of mankind ON earth /
till all that is unlike the divine idea
has disappeared, and "he whose right .
it is shall reign
Christian Scientists are Fastening Gel
time of this final realization by learn /.
ing daily how 10 lot TINS tnuSt cnnI |
rule within them, overcoming tie
endcaVor to suppImt tIe
divine rule, which l. always the part
Of mortal man, tho offspring Adam. in |
when, as Paul said, AN die. 1t is i'm the
Christ alone that AN shall bo made F.
not chosen few. but all |
the children of God. It is by believing .
in this divine souShin and admitting its |
presence and ruio that little by little |
the carnal. earthly government is over |
thrown. It is done hy "briugiug into |
captivity every thought to the obedience !.
of Christ" This is to jet tine idea of |
God rule in us.
Struggle Hard al First
At first it is a struggle to think al
ways of God, TO keep the heart an1
mind and soul and strength always
turning toward Him, but it is tho
struggle that Of all carth's many on,
know God and 10 have the divine Mind
reflected i'm us is to reach purity, peace.
and poWer-to cXemplify our sonship.
If the meditatious of the heart arc
watched for one single hour one is
to find how far they veer
away from the lines laid down here.
The petty concerns Of the day lntrudo
themselves and assume proportions.
that crowd out consciousness of spirit
uaI things or we seek 10 dwell i'm
good merely because We thus hope to
bring about i'm our experience some
worldly result But when TO know
God has once become the whole sweet
ness of life. because we have tasted
and touched and seen spiritual joy