The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-07

ALUM Ih. 1O V HhDlLlO i, For one thing, it takes fear out o1 business, thereby removing a prime factor of failure. The Christian Scientist in business will tell you that he has reason to be every day less afraid for his business, and this is because he is learning how to think how to discern between the right i'm pulse and the wrong, how to hold III check the aggressive suggestions ot ruthless human will and pride and greed that would lead to mistakes of judgment; likewise how to put down the enervating arguments of timidity and self-depreciation, amid whose mists opportunity might pass by un- observed.
 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 meth cd that she firmly believed underlay the healing of the sick by purely spiritual means at intervals through out the recorded history of mankind, and especially 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 lnfirmity. The great fact was estab- hshed in human consciousness. How Ito make it available to her fellow men became the immediate problem. Years df consecrated effort brought forth the Christian Science text book, 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" It was followed by a veritable library of collateral writings.
 No Deep Mystery About It.
 And now, my friends, if there be any here who for the first time are possessed of a desire to share in the healing and regenerating influences of Christian Science, may I, for your benefit, offer a few words of advice. which I am sure if needed will bring you the more quickly to the desired goal In the first place, avoid be- coming unduly concerned regarding what might seem to be the technical ities of the subject. Christian Science is simplicity itself. There is no deep mystery about it, except in the mis- taken opinions of some who do not understand it. Consider for instance, the teaching as to the unreality of matter. Be assured that to the Christian Scientist the mountains are as high, the skies as blue, and the oceans as broad as to any one else. Christian Scientists clothe, feed, and house themselves after the manner of ciy Co;1 this is entirely consistent with that which you will in due time find to be the actual teaching of this Science as regards the relative unreality of matter.
 My purpose is not to imply that Christian Science does not require a very radical departure from the old concept of material things. It does indeed involve wholly changed at- titude, but this change comes natural ly and harmoniously, and with no sense of loss. but rather a Realization of substantial gain. A familiar illus tration may be helpful: A patron of a bank offers in good faith to de- posit a coin which the expert banker detects to, be counterfeit. The bogus thing never was money, but it had all the power of real money over the unsuspecting patron. He had given an equivalent of it's supposed money 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 under standing of the expert By a purely mental process, the uncovering of a lie, the innocent patron has been re- leased from subiection to false claim to material power. The metal in the coin has undergone no change; it is out about it now, and it can no longer deceive.
 Those who believe man to be ma- teria1, life to be mortal, matter to be bower, and true health to be pri- marily dependent upon physical or- ganisms, are like the individual who mistakenly relies upon counterfeit money to maintain his credit at the bank. If the latter were to say to the expert. "Why do you try to tell me this isn't real, when I clearly see a coin, and you can't deny that you see it too?' might mot the expert naturally reply: "Yes, you see coin, and I see it too, but do not see money any more than I do. We both see the same thing, only I see it for what it is, while you see it for what it is not.'' And so, where the gross ma terialist thinks he sees that which is actual, the Christian Scientist, being better informed, discerns @ counter felt of the spiritual reality. The cor recting process is not going to involve a change in anything except mental concepts and their effects.
 limitations Fall Short.
 Especially be careful to seek cor rect sources of information on this subject. Like all things that have succeeded, Christian Science has it's imitators. We need not discuss them further than to say that some of them arrived early and have faded away, and that some others came along later and are still with us, and that one and all they have consistently main- tained the chief characteristic of the imitator species; that is, they have failed to catch the true and vital quality of the object of their mis- guided attentions. If you need Chris tian Science at all, you need real Christian Science, and you need it from the very beginning of your