The Glenwood post., 1915-11-06
4 LECTURE ON
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
By William D. me1,ek1a, n.AcS B
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certainties that are universally admit
ted by humanity itself are its own woes
and miseries, its suGerings and disas-
tiers, and its own final collapse. Ac-
cording to the testimony of the phys-
ieal senses uncorrected by spiritual un-
derstanding, humanity seems justified
in this desperate point of view. Ac.
cording to this same testimony it has
every reason to remain in q state Of
perplexity. 1t has . good excuse for
being incapable of deciding which way
to turn for safety and what measures
. to take in the attempt to avert the in.
evitable doom Of mortality. Accord
ing to this same testimony the child 10
NO sooner born into this world than It
prepares to leave it. 1t 10 precipitated
into . career Of adventure among hid
den foes, which appear from time to
tine ss bad habits, diseases, losses, in.
capacities, and mental, moral, or phys.
iesl peculiarities, variously ascribed %
Inheritance, environment, accident, and
ths like.
At every stage in material growth,
nsterial testimony stands ready to pre-,
diet further dangers, and if by the
grace Of God the individual should es.
cape the grasp of these OBTAINING fears
and reach his full powers, this same
material testimony provides for q
steady decline into helpless and per.
haps graceless old age. All that the
physical sciences may appear to do for
the slleviation of human misery is null
lifted by the belief they inculcated that
nan is mortal, material being, Whose
inevitable end can only be postponed,
never altogether put OF. Nor is prevs.
leat theology any less merciless toward
man, because it teaches that he is
. miserable sinner, and holds out no
hope of salvation in the present, but
only points to . future state of exist
enee in which man may perhaps find
bis real nature in the course of eternity.
From many . stricken heart and mind
goes up the cry for an explanation of
ultimate certainty. Those hungering
and thirsting after righteousness ask to
be instructed how they may distinguish
that which is true from that which is
false, that which is essential from tina.
which is non-essential, that which IS
real from that which is unreal. They
ask for the understanding which will
enable them to sort out from their lives
that which is genuine and truly worth
while, in order to abide by it and make
it permanent. In other words, humani-
ty cries out for an absolute standard by
which it shall be able to recognize the
immutable, the unvarying, the eternal
and indestructable facts of existence.
1t demands the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth, and Chris
tian Science is in 4 position to Offer
this truth which makes free, whicn
saves, heals, regenerates, and redeems
THE REAL AND EfK1NAL
Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Found-
or of Christian Science, and the author
Of its textbook, "Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures,' offers the
following explanation of the real and
eternal on page II of that book:
"Nothing is real and eternal, nothing
is Spirit,-but God and His idea." It
follows that the sick and SHINING need
only apply this test to their own eases
in order to find out what pertains to
Truth, what is necessary, lawful, and
abiding, and ON the other hand what is
false, hence unnecessary, illegitimate,
and transitory in their experiences.
In other words, their help aad euro
will arise from the spiritual understand
ing Of the fact that nothing is real ex.
eept that which is Of divine origin.
That which is nero human belief, sap
position, or superstition, is unreal, un-
true, and non-essential. BY means Of
this test it is possible to separate the
chan from the wheat simply by ask
ing ones self Of any given condition,
theasht, q act, Il it like "God asd
His idea, or ID it unlike Him and His
ersatisaf The answer will determine
vAsther tie particular eosditiss,
thought, " act ;s real Or unreal, true
q untrue, essential or noa-essential
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