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sagacity, Of her courage and stead.
fastness, OF her wit and humor, of
her love for little children and her
delight in the beautiful. Of the mex.
:. pressibfe charm Of her manner and
the eloquence Of her voice, but it is
not of these things that she would
T have me speak.
II was her desire-almost daily ex.
,pressed-that her followers should dis
regard her personality and address
their. thought to the things OF God
which she has disclosed to them. She
would have US study her books and not
her personality. She would have us
know her by what she wrote and not
by how she looked. Years ago she
instructed her students to follow her
only as she followed Christ, and
, though she was rare Leader she was
an ideal follower of all that Is truly
good ~~.%.~ ...~''t..-. ..-~. -.
!, -. = GoDeAS PRINCIPLE. @.--r
Mans comprehension of the prob
lens Of life Is to be measured by his
understanding Of God. He holds. to
contrary and widely divergent beliefs
about God and hence his interpreta,
lions OF life are conflicting and dis
cordant II he comedies to God. the
primal cause OF all being, illimitable
poYer-O mnipo tence-and illimitable
knowledge Omniscience, and in the
next breath attributes to Him the at.
f1ietions and disasters of human ex-
perience. he Ia setting up a god of
good and evil, OF benevolence and
cruelty, whom he may try to love but
Is bound to fear. b. -s59. ~. + ~.
The anthropomorphic idea of God az
manlike being Of human attributes
and qualities enormously magnified.
Ia heritage OF mythology, handed
down to US through generations OF
Orthodoxy, is repudiatedSin Christian
Science. For its definition of God,
Christian Science consistently turns
| to the Scriptures.
In cur contempl OF Deity, we
are thus led TO lift our thought from
effect to Cause; from the thing Gre.
ated TO the creator; from idea to
Principle Thus we come to under.
stand God to be the Infinite PERSONAL
| ity without corporeality. the Principle
of all true being. the supreme good,
| the same yesterday, today and for.
ever, In whom there Is no variable
ness, neither shadow of turning
In cOntemplaH God as Infinite
Principle. we find our life. problems
must be worked out according to this
unerring Principle Of Being, or they
will be failures. precisely as failure
follows the work Of the student in al.
zebra, who ignores the principles of
mathematics The mistakes we make.
in life and their afflictiye results are
due to our ignorance OF Principle, or
to bur disregard of the laws express
ing Principle. and in all cases are
assignable to our own shortcomings
and never to Principle itself. The de-
plorabie mistakes in mans history
which he designates as sickness and
suffering and failure and disaster,
VIII diminish IN frequency and Eiru-
lence as he applies himself to gain q
better understanding Of divine Prin-
sciple. and persists IN using that I'M
derstanding IN the aifairs of his
everyday life. He must give IL ex-
precision to the limit of his cognition,
for a principle unexpressed is as fu-
tile as theory untried.
Christian Science stands before the
world as q demonstrabie religion, one
that Is to be lived, not merely be-
lieyed. The standard of proficiency
for the Christian Scientist is not how
much he believes but how much of
that belief he is using in his daily
life. in his dealings with his fellow
men and In the sanctity Of his inner.
most thoughts.
Hence it is that there is no such
thing as purely theoretical Chris |
tian Scientist. No man can become
Christian Scientist by merely : be- |
book without practising them We
are Christian Scientists only as we
put into constant practise our knowI-
edge of our religion, be that knowI-
edge great or small. We are Chris /
tan Scientists only as we are kind |
and helpful in thought and deed; only
as we think health and talk health I
instead of disease and disaster We
are Christian Scientists only as we
say to eyii mental suggestion. Peace,
be still" Only as We are loving and
courageous and resolute : and un-
swervlng In our warfare against sin,
sickness and sdeath. :..ssrc.~W CO !
e
BoDY'S RESPONSE TO MIND.
1t is often charged against Chris
tan Scientists because they rely
wholly upon Mind that they do not
do anything" for the sick When
the average man considers the needs
OF SICK person, his thought al once
turns to the medicine bottle and he
believes there Is nothing being done !;
tor the sick man unless he is made
to swallow something. According to
his peremptory opinions, the sick
man should be treated with some
thing that he can taste or smell or
feet, something that the senses can
perceive. Otherwise Nothing is be-
ing done for him" He may tell you
that attempting to change the con-
dition of a mans body through mind
alone is foolshness. And yet-this
same intelligent citizen will readily
admit that hoffxy