Milford chronicle., 1915-11-19

removing prime factor of failure.
The Christian Scientist in business
will tell you that he has reason to be
every day less afraid, because he is
learning how to think, how to discern
between the right impulse and the
wrong, how to hold in check the ag-
gressive suggestions of ruthless hu-
man will and pride and greed that
would lead to mistakes of judgment; /;
likewise how to put down the ener-
vating arguments of timidity and self
depreciation, amid whose mists oppOr-
tunity might pass by unobserved.
Discovery and Establishment.
During forty years OF almost unin-
terrupted invalidism Mrs. Eddy had
| been struggling toward the apprehen-
sion Of the scientific rule and method
that she firmly believed underlay the
healing Of the sick by purely spiritual
means at intervals throughout the re-
corded history of mankind, and espe-
cially during the first three centuries
Of the Christian era. The revelation
came to her in an hour when death
seemed almost at hand, and through
! it she was healed Of her infirmity The
fact was established in human con-
sciousness. How to make it available
to her fellow men became the imme-
diate problem. Years of concentrated
effort brought forth the Christian Sci
ence textbook, Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures" 1t was
followed by a veritable library of col
lateral writings.
~ noo-
There is no deep mystery bout Chris
tian Science, except in the mistaken
opinions of those who do not under
stand it. Consider, for instance, the
teaching as to the unreality of matter.
Be assured that to the Christian Sci
enlist the mountains are as high, the
skies as blue, and the oceans as broad
as to any one else. Christian Scient-
lists clOthe, feed, and house themselves
after the manner of their non-Scien-
tist neighbOrs. And this is not incon-
sistent with that which you will in due
time find to be the actual teaching OF
this Science as to the relative unreal
ity Of matter.
My purpose is not to imply by any /
means that Christian Science does not /
require a very radical departure from |
the old concept of material things. 1t I
does not indeed involve a wholly /
changed attitude, but this change /
comes naturally and harmoniously, /
and with no sense of loss, but rather /
a realization Of substantial gain. A |
familiar illustration may be helpful; /
A patron of a bank offers to deposit |
in good faith a coin which the expert /
banker detects to be a counterfeit. The
bogus thing never was money but II
had all the power of real money over
the unsuspecting patron. He had CIV
en- an equivalent of its supposed mon
ey value in exchange for it, and would /
have been quite capable of doing so
again but for the knowledge that had
come to him through the clearer un-
of the expert. By pur-
ly mental process, the uncovering OF
a lie, the innocent patron has been re-
leased from subjectiOn to false claim
Of material power. The metal in the
coin has undergone no change; it is
the same as before, only the truth is
out about it now and it can no longer
deceive.
Those who believe man to be ma
.erial, life to be mortal, matter to be
power. and true health to be depend
mt upon physical organisms, are IKE
he individual who mistakenly relies
lpon counterfeit money to maintain
MS credit at the bank. II the latter
we're to say to the expert, why do
,ou try to tell me this isn't real, when
clearly see a coin, and you can't de-
" that you see it too?" would not the
,xpert reply: Yes, you see a coin, and
md l see it too, but you do not actu-
lily see money any more than l do:
We both see the same thing, only l
zee it for what it is and you for what
I is not" And so, where the mater
alist thinks he sees that which is ac-
ual, the Christian Scientist, being bet
er informed, discerns a counterfeit OF
he spiritual reality. The correcting Z
,rocess is not going to involve a
,bange in anything except mental con-
.epts and their effects. b,