The Washington herald., 1912-04-29

onstrating the divine Principle and RUE
of universal harmony (p. y. As the
student learns more about God through
spiritual sense and more about man in
Gods image and likeness, the beneh-
cent law Of God grows in clearness and
he is able TO reject the testimony of
material sense. Then comes the DEM
onstration or proof of harmony as nor
NAL and natural. He who follows the
leading of Christian Science not only
learns the letter of its teachings, but
also proves their correctness by saw
ing the sinner. comforting the sorrow
ing. and healing the sick. Christian
Science thus becomes a daily help for
daily needs, the Comforter which lead
eth into all truth, available at all times
and under all circumstances.
But there is a curious tendency in the
human mind to expect evil rather than
good; to look upon evil as natural and
normal and to be surprised at good.
There is common saying to the effect
that such and such an occurrence is
too good to be true" Nothing is too
good to be true in Gods universe, for
the good is the natural and the normal
The good is, in reality. the only true,
and, conversely, the true is invariably
good
The attempt to, overcome evil by
magnifying it has not succeeded-and it
has not deserved to succeed. Christian
Science shows the way Of overcoming
evil by magnifying good. by establish
ing the law of God in human conscious
ness. To hold up evil as terrible
reality. with power TO defy God, to set
in operation laws of its own designed
to nullffy the eternal law of God, is to
admit at once all the claims of evil and
to invest it with the only power it can
pretend to possess in human affairs.
But to understand God as the only real
power enables mankind to annul the
claims Of evil and so to reduce il, first
to insignihcance in human thought and
then to final nothingness.
What would be thought Of a general
who. on the eve of battle, turned over
all the points of strategic importance
TO the enemy, and then expected to
win, by an assault against such over
whelming odds? Yet this is precisely
what is being done BY those who are
surrendering to all the pretensions OF
evil before engaging in hand-to-hand
conflict with it.
Christian Science summons mankind
to battle against false foes, discredited
from the very start, and assures victory
over sin, sickness, and death. to those
who WELD the sword of Spirit-the
spiritual understanding of God, Spirit
Life eternal, and Love infinite and in
exhaustible.
In all portions of the globe the needy
are turning with rejoicing to Christian
Science, because it proves that God is
available in all times of trouble; be-
cause it is the fulfilling of the law
handed down from of old; because it
teaches US how to pray Alright, as Jesus
taught his disciples to do, so as to bring
about good results. If Christian Science
only stemmed the ravages of fear and
only to that extent diminished sin and
sickness. it would earn the gratitude of
mankind But when this Science is
found destroying every form of sin
and sickness known to man, then it is
justly considered as an inestimable boon
to mankind, literally without price.
am sure if any here present are in need
of help, they will be glad to know of
such science and will wish to acquire
it for themselves, since it is free to all.
There is hardly a town or village
where the good news of this healing by
Christian Science has not been heard.
A multitude of people have been healed
of all manner of diseases, organic or
inorganic, functional, acute, and chronic.
Cases which have been pronounced in
curable by any known method of ma
terial medicine have yielded to Chris
tian Science treatment. Consumption,
cancer. and other dread diseases have
been destroyed. The lame, the blind,
and the halt have been restored whole.
1t is not too much to say that during
the past forty years and more Christian
Science has run its hand along the
gamut of human woe and proved its
ability to still every kind of note in
human suffering.
DISCoVERER AND FOUNDER.
Those who have experienced in per-
son the benefits conferred by Christian
Science are well aware of the gratitude
which wells up in their hearts when
they contemplate the heroic life strug-
gle and victory of the good woman
through whom it has been given to
mankind. For the sake of those who
do not know of Christian Science from
personal experience let me say that
neither Mrs. Eddy nor Christian Sci
entists claim anything more for her
than what is her due as the Disooverer
and Founder of Christian Science.
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy was born in
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